Wallpaper Installation in Wilmette, IL

Designers across the North Shore are putting wallpaper back on the walls, and Wilmette homeowners are leading the way. The catch: the same features that make Wilmette homes special — 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 — make them demanding canvases. Older surfaces and detailed trim call for a hanger who preps, plumbs, and pattern-matches 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.