The Top 7 Wallpaper Companies in South Africa
Feature walls behind headboards, murals in nurseries, textured panels in entrance halls — wallpaper is everywhere in South African homes right now.
20/08/2026
Wallpaper has gone from something your gran
had in the passage to the single fastest way to
change a room. Feature walls behind headboards,
murals in nurseries, textured panels in entrance
halls — it's everywhere in South African homes
right now.
The tricky part is working out
where to buy. Some suppliers sell to the public
online with a price on every product. Others
work through showrooms and quotes. Some print
here in South Africa; others import to order,
which changes both your lead time and your
budget. And the price difference between the two
ends of this market is enormous — we found
designs from under R300 and rolls over R9,000,
often for a similar-sized wall.
So we've
listed the eight companies most South Africans
will realistically encounter, and put indicative
pricing under each one so you can see where your
budget lands before you fall in love with
something. All figures are as displayed to the
public in August 2026 — treat them as a guide
rather than a quote, since ranges shift and
made-to-measure pricing depends on your wall.
Here's the list.
1. Wallpaper Online
wallpaperonline.co.za —
Bryanston Shopping Centre, Sandton, Johannesburg
Indicative pricing: designs from R289/m2
incl. VAT. Free delivery on orders over R1,000.
Every design priced online.
Wallpaper
Online takes the top spot for being the most
straightforward company here to buy good
wallpaper from — no showroom appointment, no
designer, no quote request, and no minimum
budget.
Designed and printed in
Johannesburg. Everything is made locally, which
means short turnaround rather than an import
wait, and materials chosen for local conditions
— fade-resistant, low-VOC inks that hold up in a
north-facing Highveld room, and substrates that
cope with both dry winters and coastal humidity.
Made-to-measure panels. Wallpaper Online
prints panels sized to your actual wall rather
than supplying fixed-length rolls, which means
less waste, fewer offcuts, and patterns that
land cleanly at the edges.
A free room
visualiser. You photograph your own wall on your
phone and see the design rendered onto it in a
before-and-after view. It runs in any browser,
needs no app and no account, and works straight
from the product page — find a design, tap
visualise, snap or upload a photo. You can test
as many designs as you like at no cost. This
matters more than it sounds: nearly every
wallpaper regret — too dark, too busy, clashes
with the floor — comes down to not having seen
it in the room first.
4.9 out of 5 from
around 400 Google reviews. That's the largest
published body of customer feedback of any
dedicated wallpaper specialist here, which is
worth having when you're buying something you
can't touch first.
Four finishes to match
your wall. Renter-friendly Peel & Stick; tactile
KOZO or Canvas Textured Peel & Stick;
hard-wearing Traditional Non-Woven; and soft
DuraMatte Fabric, a heavier finish that sits
more forgivingly on the lightly textured plaster
walls found in most pre-2000s South African
homes.
Breadth and freshness. More than
900 wallpaper designs plus a separate mural
catalogue, across florals, geometrics,
abstracts, botanicals, damask, kids' designs,
African prints and realistic textures. New
designs land monthly, and there's a custom
option if you want your own image printed.
Samples are available before you commit, and
there's a list of installers if you'd rather not
do it yourself.
Best for: interior
decorators, hotels, renters, DIYers, nurseries,
first-time wallpaper buyers, and anyone who
wants to see a design on their own wall before
committing.
2. Sasi Wallpaper
sasiwallpaper.co.za — Kramerville, Sandton and
Claremont, Cape Town
Indicative pricing:
rolls R950 – R9,500 (median around R1,900).
Custom printing at R598 per m². Free nationwide
delivery.
Sasi has spent over fifteen
years building one of the better-curated
designer selections in the country, growing from
a single Kramerville showroom to a second in
Cape Town. The range runs to roughly 2,500
products across rolls, murals and seamless
murals, with a genuine Afrocentric streak and
collaborations with local artists including
Bevlee Michel — worth a look if you want a South
African design point of view rather than a
European one. Prices are published, and there's
a free 15-minute online consultation if you want
a second opinion.
Best for: curated,
artist-led and Afrocentric designer wallpaper,
with showrooms in both major cities.
3. Wallpaper Inn
wallpaperinn.co.za — Kyalami,
Paarden Eiland, Beacon Bay and Overbaakens
Indicative pricing: rolls R300 – R4,400.
Free shipping over R2,500. Up to five A4
samples.
If you want the widest choice of
conventional imported wallpaper and the option
of walking into a branch, Wallpaper Inn is the
strongest bet. It runs four branches across
Johannesburg, Cape Town, East London and
Gqeberha — the best regional coverage of any
dedicated wallpaper retailer here — and says it
brings six decades of experience to the local
trade. Set murals aside and it has the deepest
pure wallpaper catalogue on this list at over
2,150 designs, drawing on European agency brands
including Graham & Brown, Holden, Galerie,
Emiliana Parati and Arthouse, plus licensed
ranges from Laura Ashley, Cath Kidston and
William Morris at Home. Pricing is fully public
across an unusually broad span.
Best for:
traditional paste-up wallpaper, recognisable
British and European brands, and buyers outside
Gauteng who want a branch to visit.
4. Robin Sprong
robinsprong.com — Milnerton,
Cape Town (studio visits by appointment)
Indicative pricing: custom wallpaper R530 –
R1,200 per m² ex VAT, by the studio's own
published guide. Wallpaper by the roll and other
lines are priced separately.
The most
design-led operation on the list. Robin Sprong
is a Cape Town surface-design studio that prints
locally and works through collaborations with
artists including Este MacLeod, Jimmy Law, Paul
Senyol and Skinny laMinx, alongside the
Tretchikoff estate. If you want a wall that
reads as art rather than décor, start here. It's
made-to-measure and priced per square metre,
with a wall-area calculator on each product. The
environmental credentials are the best
documented of the group: fire-retardant
substrates, Greenguard Gold and UL ECOLOGO
certification, and PVC-free latex inks. There
are fabric collections, wall panels and decals
too.
Best for: statement walls,
artist-designed prints, and projects that need
certified low-emission materials.
5. Dreamweaver Studios
dreamweaverstudios.co.za
— Kramerville Design District, Johannesburg
Indicative pricing: rolls R1,935 – R9,620.
Imported murals R3,865 – R24,720. Free shipping
nationwide. Locally printed 'Into the Light'
murals are quoted on request.
Founded in
2013 as a trade-only supplier and now selling
direct to the public as well, Dreamweaver is the
country's luxury import specialist. Its 100-plus
collections include Armani Casa, Missoni,
Marimekko, Eijffinger, Scalamandré and Jannelli
& Volpi — names you won't find elsewhere on this
list — alongside natural and grasscloth
wallcoverings and its own locally printed mural
brand. It's 100% female-owned, prices its
imported ranges publicly, offers free online
consultations, and the Kramerville showroom has
an espresso bar. Stock is brought in to order,
so allow for import lead times.
Best for:
high-end residential and hospitality projects
where a specific European brand is the brief.
6. Hertex
hertex.co.za — 17 South African
showrooms plus Windhoek
Indicative
pricing: not published to the public. Wallpaper
is showroom-and-quote only, with a separate
trade portal. Expect designer-tier pricing.
Hertex is the biggest name and the biggest
footprint here. Founded in 1987 as a single Cape
Town showroom, it now runs seventeen showrooms
across South Africa — from Bellville, Gardens,
Wynberg, Somerset West and Paarl through
Kramerville, Fourways, Parkhurst and Brooklyn to
Umhlanga, Mbombela, Gqeberha and Bloemfontein —
plus one in Windhoek. The wallcovering catalogue
runs to roughly 1,900 products across its own
labels, including Hertex, Hertex Editeur,
Stonehaus and Studio H, plus imported York,
Masureel, Harlequin, Sanderson and Morris & Co.
If you want to handle the product and compare it
against fabric, rugs and furniture in the same
room, nobody else here comes close on access.
Best for: shopping in person, coordinating
wallpaper with fabric and furniture, and buyers
working with an interior designer.
7. St Leger & Viney
stleger.co.za — Kramerville,
Wynberg, Rosenpark, Umhlanga and Waterkloof
Indicative pricing: not published to the
public. Browse and order cuttings freely; a
trade account is required to see costs. Expect
the top of the market.
Founded in 1989,
St Leger & Viney is the specifier's supplier —
it represents around 40 international fabric and
wallcovering manufacturers, including Cole &
Son, de Gournay, Élitis, GP&J Baker, Mind the
Gap, Ralph Lauren, Schumacher, Thibaut, Zoffany,
Dedar Milano and Rebel Walls. Five showrooms
across Johannesburg, Cape Town, Bellville,
Durban and Pretoria, all open to the public, and
you can order cuttings or build a swatch book
without an account. For heritage papers,
hand-painted panels and the names that turn up
in international shelter magazines, this is the
source.
Best for: designer-led projects,
heritage and archive prints, and specification
work.
Three things are worth taking away
The price spread is bigger than most people
expect. For a single feature wall you could
spend under R1,000 or well over R10,000
depending purely on where you shop. Six of these
eight publish prices you can compare from your
couch — Wallpaper Online, Wallpaper Inn, Sasi,
Robin Sprong, Dreamweaver. Hertex and St Leger &
Viney work through showrooms and quotes. Neither
model is wrong, but it's worth knowing which
you're walking into.
Locally printed and
imported are different purchases. Wallpaper
Online and Robin Sprong print their own ranges
here, which means shorter lead times and
made-to-measure sizing; Sasi and Dreamweaver
offer custom or locally printed murals alongside
imported stock. Wallpaper Inn, Hertex and St
Leger are importers, often bringing stock in to
order — which buys you specific international
brands at the cost of some time.
Match
the material to your wall, not just the design.
Smooth painted walls give you the run of the
market, and peel-and-stick is the easy win for
renters. Lightly textured plaster — which
describes most South African homes built before
the 2000s — is much happier under a heavier
fabric-based paper. Heavily textured walls are
worth skimming smooth before you paper at all.
Whichever way you go: photograph your wall,
preview your shortlist if the retailer lets you,
order a sample of your final one or two, then
measure twice and order once.