Homes, designers and venues
Upholstered wall panelling
Upholstered wall panels and padded feature walls made to measure in Stalybridge. Headboard walls, panelled feature walls, golf-simulator impact panels and acoustic panels, built on your boards or ours and fitted or handed to your joiner.
Your boards or ours
Kitchen fitters and joiners bring us cut MDF; we wrap it and you collect it. Or we cut the boards ourselves.
Drawn before it is cut
Panel grid drawn to the wall and the fabric width, so joins land where they should and the pattern reads straight.
Fit-ready
Hidden fixings, and a marked-up layout if your own trades are fitting.
Working with us
How it works.
Strip to the frame 
Check the springs 
New webbing 
Chalk and cut 
Hand-finish 
Finished
- 01
Wall sizes and a sketch
Send the wall width and height, a photo of the room, and the panel layout you have in mind, or a reference photo of the look you want.
- 02
Panel layout and fabric
We draw the panel grid to suit the wall and the fabric width, and fabric samples can be sent to you direct from the supplier. Deep pile fabrics hide joins; flat weaves show the layout.
- 03
Boards and foam
Cut on our boards or yours, foam to the depth the room needs, fabric wrapped and fixed on the back so the face is clean.
- 04
Fit or supply
We fit with hidden fixings, or supply the panels loose with the fixing positions marked for your joiner.
In scope
What we cover.
- Padded headboard walls and bedroom feature walls, full width or framed
- Panelled and fluted feature walls for lounges, bars and restaurants
- Impact panels for golf simulators, games rooms and sports halls
- Acoustic panels and jackets for noisy bars, offices and studios
- Customer-supplied MDF or ply boards wrapped and returned to your joiner
- Velvet, wool, linen-look, contract fabric or wipe-clean vinyl
- Crib 5 fabric and combustion-modified foam for commercial walls
- Fitted by us, or supplied loose with fixings marked
The detail
Questions people ask about upholstered wall panelling.
An upholstered wall is a headboard that has grown to fill the room: boards, foam and fabric, built to the wall dimensions and fixed so the face is clean. We make upholstered wall panels and padded feature walls in our Stalybridge workshop for homes, interior designers, kitchen and bedroom fitters, bars, restaurants and sports venues across Greater Manchester and the North-West. Recent work includes a set of customer-supplied MDF panels wrapped in a wicker-look fabric for a Cheshire kitchen fitter, cushioned impact panels for a golf simulator room and acoustic jackets trimmed to size. Send the wall sizes and a photo via a quote and we will draw the panel layout with the price.
Headboard walls and bedroom feature walls
A padded headboard wall runs full width behind the bed, or is framed between two boards, and can be a single deep-buttoned panel or a grid of flat panels. We build the panels to the wall, in velvet, wool, linen-look or a contract fabric, and fit them with hidden fixings so the wall reads as one piece. This is the natural next step from a headboard, and the two can be made to match.
Feature walls for bars, restaurants and lounges
Panelled and fluted walls behind a bar, along a banquette or across a lounge give a room the same finish as the seating. We make them in Crib 5 contract fabric or wipe-clean vinyl, in panel sizes that match the seating and the fabric width, and fit them around the banquette run or hand them to your fit-out contractor. Designers and specifiers can send a drawing and a fabric schedule; see interior designers and specifiers for how we work to a brief.
Impact panels for golf simulators and games rooms
Golf simulator rooms, indoor nets and games rooms need panels that take a ball or a body without marking. We build cushioned impact panels on a firm board with a foam depth chosen for the room, covered in a hard-wearing contract fabric, and fit them to the walls around the screen. See sports clubs and venues for the clubhouse side of that work.
Acoustic panels and jackets
Fabric-wrapped acoustic panels take the ring out of a noisy bar, a boardroom or a small studio. We wrap acoustic board or foam in an acoustically open fabric, trim acoustic jackets to size, and fit or supply them. Where the room also needs divider screens we build the two to match.
Your boards or ours
Kitchen fitters, bedroom fitters and joiners often have the boards cut already, sometimes in awkward handed shapes. Bring them to us and we wrap them: foam to the face, fabric pulled and fixed on the back, ready for you to collect and fit. If you would rather we cut the boards, we do that from your wall sizes. Either way the fabric layout is drawn first so the joins and any pattern land where they should.
Fabric and fire safety
Deep-pile fabrics such as velvet hide panel joins and forgive a wall that is not quite square; flat weaves and linen-looks show the grid, which is the point on a panelled wall. For any commercial room the fabric is Crib 5 and the foam is combustion-modified, with certificates supplied. For homes the choice is open; we will still steer you away from a fabric that will not take a vacuum.
Related pages
- Headboard upholstery: the single-panel version
- Custom divider screens: free-standing fabric-wrapped screens
- Interior designers and specifiers: working from a drawing and fabric schedule
- Sports clubs and venues: impact panels for simulators and games rooms
- Get a panelling quote
Nearby towns we cover. Our workshop is in Stalybridge, and we quote upholstered wall panelling from photos for customers in Wigan, Stockport, Bolton, Rochdale, Oldham and Manchester.
Frequently asked
Common questions about this service.
- How long does reupholstery take?
- Most domestic projects take two to four weeks from collection to delivery. Caravans usually run two to three weeks. Single dining chairs are often back within a week. We agree the timeline up front and stick to it.
- Can I choose any fabric or leather?
- You can choose from hundreds of fabrics and leathers in our Stalybridge showroom: Cristina Marrone, Rosemount Fabrics, Ross Fabrics, Sunbury Designs, Warwick, Wemyss, Agua, Futura Leathers, Crest Leather, Nene Valley Leathers and more. Prices run from about £15 per metre to around £120 per metre.
- Our joiner has already cut the boards. Can you just wrap them?
- Yes, and it is a common way to do it. Drop off the cut MDF or ply, tell us the foam depth and the fabric, and we wrap each board with the fabric pulled and fixed on the back so the face is clean. Handed and shaped panels are fine. They are ready for you to collect and fit, with the fabric layout drawn first so the joins and any pattern land where they should across the wall.
- Do you supply Crib 5 fire-rated foam and fabric for pubs, restaurants and venues?
- Yes. All hospitality, commercial and public-sector work uses combustion-modified foam and fabrics tested to BS 5852 Crib 5 (and Crib 7 where the spec requires it). We provide the test certificates with every quote and again when the job is signed off.
- Do you offer free quotes?
- Yes. Free, no-obligation quotes by phone, email, WhatsApp, in shop or, for larger jobs, on site. Unsure how it will look? Send photos of the piece, rough sizes, and the style or fabric you have in mind. We will send a written quote with example looks so you can decide with confidence. Looks are a guide (not a guarantee of exact fabric match); final finish is confirmed in the quote.
Planning a padded wall?
Send the wall sizes, a photo of the room and the look you are after. Free quote with a panel layout drawn to your wall.