Wallpaper Installation in Wilmette, IL

Wallpaper is back, and in Wilmette it's being used the way it deserves — as a statement, not an afterthought. Wilmette is known for a lakefront village known for its historic east-side homes, tree-lined streets near the Baháʼí Temple, and homeowners who care deeply about preserving architectural character, and the homes here feature classic North Shore housing stock — center-entrance colonials, Tudors, and stucco four-squares from the 1910s–1930s with original millwork, plaster, and layers of older paint that require careful, lead-safe preparation. That kind of housing stock is a wallpaper installer's dream and a novice's nightmare: plaster walls, uneven older surfaces, and detailed trim all demand a hanger who knows how to prep, plumb, and pattern-match by hand.

Betitos Painting, led by Magdiel Rivera, installs everything from delicate grasscloth and designer wallpaper to full-wall murals throughout the east-side lakefront blocks, Kenilworth Gardens, and the Village Center area. We size and skim walls first, book the paper properly, keep seams tight and patterns aligned across corners, and treat expensive rolls like the investment they are. Grasscloth in a Wilmette dining room or a bold mural in a powder room only looks right when the substrate underneath was done right.

We also handle the job most homeowners dread: wallpaper removal. Peeling back decades of old paper off Wilmette plaster without gouging the wall takes patience and the right technique — and when we're done, we leave a smooth, primed surface ready for new paper or paint.