A Facelift for the Home
You Already Love.
- Kitchen doors
- Wardrobe fronts
- Walk-in cupboards
- Wall panelling
- Feature walls
- Headboard walls
- Entrance halls
- Counters & worktops
- Internal doors & frames
- Built-in shelving
- Media & console walls
- Vanities & bathroom joinery
- Dining tables
- Desks & dressing tables
Wardrobes, kitchens, wall panelling, feature walls, doors and entrance halls all take the same premium architectural film — so one material and one craft can run through the whole house.
It is residential interior work done in situ, in days rather than the weeks a renovation takes, for up to 70% less than replacing the same joinery. Nothing is ripped out, nothing goes to the rubbish dump, and you carry on living in the house while we work.
The places in a house where a finish changes everything.
Take one room now and another next year — the film reference is named on your quote, so a later stage matches the first.
Kitchens
A new kitchen, without a new kitchen. The room most people start with. Cupboard doors, drawer fronts, carcasses, counters, splashbacks, end panels and plinths re-skinned in situ — large appliances too — with your layout, hinges and handles left exactly where they are.
Read the kitchen page →Wardrobes & Walk-in Cupboards
Re-skinned in situ, on the hinges they already hang on. The second-largest run of joinery in most homes. Fronts, drawer faces, visible end panels and shelving fronts are wrapped face and edge, and the internal fittings and storage you are used to stay untouched.
Read the wardrobe page →Wall Panelling & Feature Walls
One wall can carry the whole room. Panelling, framed wall panels and feature walls finished in timber grain, stone effect, linen weave or a deep solid — specified panel by panel, and wipe-clean where a painted wall is not.
See panelling ideas →Entrance Halls & Home Receptions
The first impression, made deliberately. The one room every guest sees and the one that usually gets the least thought. Console walls, framed panels, the front door leaf and its frame, and the doors leading off the hall, brought onto a single considered finish.
Hallway & entryway ideas →Bedrooms
Texture on the wall you wake up to. Headboard walls, built-in cupboards and dressing-room joinery in the softer end of the library — linen and leather effects, pale oaks, warm neutrals — with the grain direction agreed per element before anything is cut.
See bedroom ideas →Living & Dining Rooms
The biggest surfaces do the design work. Media walls, framed feature panels, built-in shelving and dining-room joinery pulled onto one palette. The room changes character completely, and not a single unit is replaced to do it.
Living room ideas →Furniture & Appliances
A dining table that feels dated, renewed rather than replaced. Freestanding pieces take architectural film too — dining tables, consoles, desks and dressing tables re-skinned in timber grain, stone effect or a deep solid. Every piece is assessed on its own at the measure-up, because what it is made of and the state it is in decide what its surfaces can take.
See furniture & appliance wrapping →New wardrobe fronts, while the wardrobe stays where it is.
Fitted wardrobes are the joinery people give up on first, because replacing them means dismantling a bedroom. Wrapping does not. Doors and drawer fronts come off, are wrapped face and edge, and go straight back on their existing hinges and runners. Visible end panels, plinths and shelving fronts are wrapped in place. The layout, the internal fittings and the storage you are used to stay exactly as they are.
The library gives a wardrobe more range than a spray booth ever will. Pale oaks and limed ashes lighten a dark bedroom; a deep walnut makes a dressing area feel weightier; linen weaves and leather effects give a soft-looking front that still wipes clean; matte solids in charcoal, off-white or a warm cream carry a handleless run in a single uninterrupted tone.
A walk-in cupboard is where this gets enjoyable. It is a small room, it is almost entirely joinery, and it is seen by nobody but you — which makes it the easiest place in the house to be bold. Door fronts, island drawers, shelving fronts and the back wall can all take one considered finish, so the space reads as a boutique rather than as storage.
One wall, framed and finished, changes the whole room.
Wall panelling is having a moment for a straightforward reason: it gives a flat room depth without moving a single wall. Film is what makes it worth doing properly. A panel of architectural film inside a moulded frame puts timber grain, stone, linen or a deep solid exactly where the eye lands — and it wipes clean, which matters most in a hallway or behind a sofa.
The four ideas below are the ones we are asked for most. Each can be film alone, or film working with paint on the surrounding wall: the frame in one tone, the panel inside it in another.
Accent Frames
One bold panel, framed. A single textured or strongly grained film panel set inside moulding on a feature wall — behind the sofa, above the TV console, at the head of the bed. The frame gives the film a clean edge to end against, so the panel reads as intentional joinery rather than as a change of colour.
Two-Tone Frames
The frame one tone, the panel another. The outer wall stays a soft neutral and the recessed panel takes something deeper — a warm caramel-toned wood, a leather or linen effect, a charcoal matte. It is the quietest way to add richness to a room without committing every wall to a strong colour.
Film Inserts Instead of Wallpaper
Pattern you can actually wipe. A patterned or textured film panel set inside a painted frame does what wallpaper does, in a material engineered to be touched and cleaned. In a hallway, a dining room or behind a console, that difference starts showing within the first year.
Wainscoting Boxes
Classic below, considered above. Box moulding across the lower third of the wall, with a richer film inside each box and a plainer treatment above. It is the most traditional of the four and the most forgiving in a busy room — the detail sits below eye level and grounds everything above it.
Worth saying plainly: the wrapping is ours, and where a scheme wants new moulding built first, that work is carried out by trusted partners we work with. At the survey we agree what needs to exist and how it should be set out so the film sits on it properly — our partners build it, and we finish it beautifully once it is there.
The first ten seconds of every visit happen here.
A business spends heavily on its reception because it knows the first ninety seconds decide something. A home works the same way and almost never gets the same attention. The entrance hall is the one room every guest sees, usually the room with the least furniture in it, and therefore the room where a surface finish does the most work per square metre.
It is also a small brief. A console wall in a stone or timber effect, a framed panel or two, the front door leaf and its frame, the doors leading off the hall, and the visible faces of any built-in cupboard — that is usually the whole scope. Done in one palette, an entrance hall stops being a corridor and starts being an arrival.
Oak in the bedroom, marble in the hall, one palette throughout.
Over 1,500 architectural film finishes from Cover Styl’, Bodaq, 3M DI-NOC and LX Hausys — browsed here, or held against your own walls in your own light at the measure-up visit.
The same house, in a different material.
The units, the panelling and the plan stay exactly as they are. Only the surface changes.
Wrapping the room
In situ · days · warrantied- CostUp to 70% less than replacing the same surfaces
- TimeTypically 2–4 days, in situ
- Living with itClean and quiet — you stay in the house
- LayoutUnchanged — same units, same plan
- In stagesOne room now, another later — matched by film reference
- WasteNothing goes to the rubbish dump
Renovating the room
Strip-out & rebuild · weeks · full price- CostNew joinery, new panelling, new fitting — full price
- TimeWeeks of trades, room after room
- Living with itDemolition, dust, and rooms you cannot use
- LayoutCan be re-planned, at a price
- In stagesEach stage a fresh project, priced from scratch
- WasteThe old joinery goes to the rubbish dump
What homeowners ask about the rest of the house.
Can the inside of a wardrobe be wrapped as well as the fronts?
Fronts, visible panels and the surfaces you actually see are where the craft lives — doors, drawer faces, end panels, plinths, shelving fronts and the exposed faces of a carcass all take film well. Behind a closed door the answer changes element by element, depending on what the surface is, how it is fixed and whether it can be reached and prepared properly. So we advise per element at the survey rather than in advance, and where wrapping is not the right answer we say so before you spend.
Can you wrap wall panelling that has already been painted?
Usually, yes — painted board and timber panelling are common substrates for architectural film. What decides it is the state of the paint rather than the paint itself: film bonds to a sound, clean, well-adhered surface, and it will not rescue one that is flaking, blown or damp. Preparation — cleaning, degreasing, repairs, edge priming — is part of every job, because prep is where a wrap's life is decided. Where a wall should not be wrapped at all, we tell you at the survey.
Can one wall take a different finish from the rest of the room?
Yes — and in a home it is usually the whole point. The wall behind the bed, the panel behind the sofa or the run in the entrance hall can take something deeper or more textured than everything around it, because each element on your written, itemised quote carries its own named film reference. Nothing forces a room onto a single finish. We will tell you plainly, at the survey, how a combination is going to read once it is up — before it is committed, rather than after.
Do you build the wall moulding, or only wrap it?
The wrapping is ours; the building of new moulding, frames or panelling is carried out by trusted partners we work with. Where a scheme needs them, we bring the two together as one programme: at the survey we agree what needs to exist and how it should be set out so the film sits on it properly, our partners build it, and we finish it once it is there — one plan, in writing, rather than two trades for you to manage.
How long does a feature wall or a run of panelling take?
It depends on the element count, the condition of the surfaces and how much preparation the walls honestly need, so we confirm the programme in writing after the survey rather than guessing before it. Most projects install in two to four days, in situ, with your floors and furniture protected before a blade comes out. The films carry their manufacturers' warranties against cracking, peeling and fade for up to 10 years, and those documents are in your hand at completion.
See it on your
own surfaces.
Tell us which rooms you are thinking about — a wardrobe run, a feature wall, the entrance hall, or the whole house in stages.
We arrange a visit, measure every element and bring the film brands’ sample books to you, then prepare a written, itemised estimate.
Wrapt Interiors™ works across Johannesburg and Gauteng, and nationwide by arrangement — call +27 74 906 5616 or email hello@wraptinteriors.co.za.