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Born in a paint company, for the walls paint can't do.

SwiftHand Wallpaper & Design is the wallpaper arm of SwiftHand Painting, a family-owned, licensed Utah painting and drywall contractor. We started it because the calls kept coming — and because the people answering them were already the ones prepping the walls.

The story

Wallpaper kept showing up on painting jobs. So we got serious about it.

For years, wallpaper was the thing homeowners asked SwiftHand Painting about at the end of a walk-through: could we hang the powder-room paper they'd already bought, or take down the 1990s border before the repaint. We said yes, learned the trade properly, and found that the part most installers struggle with — fixing the wall first — was the part we already did every day.

Wallpaper is back in a big way, and the best of it is unforgiving: grasscloth, murals, scenic panels, papers that cost more per roll than a gallon of the best paint. It deserves its own company, its own crew and its own name. So here we are.

The same owner, Spencer Heyward, signs the same written guarantee on both companies' work.

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How we work

Five habits

Prices in public

The only published wallpaper price sheet in Utah, and a written number from photos in one business day.

The wall first

Skim coats, repairs and the right primer before a single strip, by a licensed drywall and paint contractor.

The manufacturer's way

Every product's hanging instructions on the job and followed, so the warranty stands and the room looks like the sample.

Swift with your time

Route-friendly booking, most rooms papered in a day, and a crew that shows up when it said it would.

Honest about materials

We'll talk you out of peel-and-stick on a textured wall or grasscloth in a shower, even when it costs us the job.

Credentials, in plain words

SwiftHand Painting holds a Utah S270 contractor license (drywall, paint and plastering), which covers the wall repair and skim coating most wallpaper installers can't legally or practically do. Wallpaper hanging itself is exempt from Utah contractor licensing under Utah Admin. Code R156-55a-301(7)(k); the drywall work above the small-project threshold is not, and we're licensed for it. We carry general liability insurance and provide certificates on request.

The company is family-owned and based in Salt Lake County, serving sixty cities from Provo to Ogden, Park City to Tooele. Sister companies: SwiftHand Painting, SwiftHand Concrete Coatings, and SwiftHand Cabinet Painting.

PLACEHOLDER: add years in business, number of crews, WIA membership and installer-school certificates as they are secured, and a short bio for the wallpaper lead.

The SwiftHand Guarantee3-YEAR · in writing
Risk reversal, in plain words

Unconditional protection against peeling, bubbling, lifting seams or poor workmanship.

“We are confident our Guarantee will never have to be used because our Workmanship & Quality is that good. If for any reason you feel there is a Guarantee issue, just call and we will take care of it quickly. That's it. Short & sweet.” — Spencer Heyward, Owner

Read the full guarantee
Proof

What clients say

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Ready when you are

Walls worth staring at start with a five-minute booking.

Pick a route-friendly time online, send us three photos and your wall dimensions for a written price in one business day, or call and talk to a person who hangs wallpaper for a living.