Feature Walls in Sydney's inner city, inner west & eastern suburbs

A single well-chosen wall can reset a whole room. We help land the colour, prep the surface so deep tones sit flat and even, and cut dead-straight edges against ceilings, cornices and adjoining walls. The result reads as a deliberate design choice, not an afterthought.

Watch a feature wall go up

1. 1

   Work out which wall

   Not every wall is the feature. We look at where the light falls through the day, what the room is used for, and which wall the eye actually lands on when you walk in.

2. 2

   Land the colour on the wall

   Test patches go on the actual wall, not a chip held up against it, and you look at them in daylight and under the lamps you use at night before anything is committed to.

3. 3

   Prepare harder than usual

   Deep colour is unforgiving, so the filling and sanding go further than they would under a mid-tone. Every dent a lighter colour would have hidden gets dealt with first.

4. 4

   Prime to suit the colour

   A primer tinted toward the topcoat gives a truer final shade and usually saves a coat, particularly under reds, deep blues and blacks.

5. 5

   Cut the edges

   The line where the feature meets the ceiling, cornice and adjoining walls is the whole effect. On older walls that line often has to be cut by hand rather than trusted to tape.

6. 6

   Build the coats

   Two coats minimum, three where the pigment needs it, checked in raking light before the last one goes on.