However, you can get similar colours and/or textures by using paint effects, very often at less of a financial outlay than papers.

Paint effects can add that individual look and feel to a room when applied to walls, whatever you want its almost always possible.

Give furniture a new lease of life. Think about that old table you put in your garage, it could be made to look like Burr walnut, mahogany or oak. Alternatively alter your existing old furniture and make it look modern or contemporary.

Imagine bathrooms with walls in sandstone or marble.

Kitchens with worktops which look like marble, old kitchen doors revived with a cracked paint effect or a distressed finish making them look aged.

Floor broads sanded and limed showing of the beautiful grain and texture of natural wood.