Dillon Warren, Wallpaper Expert

Dillon Warren is the Founder and Director of Wallpaper Online South Africa, the country’s top-rated wallpaper and wall mural e-commerce store, proudly manufactured in Johannesburg. He started the business in 2020 with one stubborn idea: that South Africans shouldn’t have to import overpriced wallpaper from overseas to get something they actually love on their walls. Six years later, Wallpaper Online has helped over 35,000 customers — homeowners, interior designers, hotels and restaurants — bring serious design to their spaces.

Building Wallpaper Online into one of SA’s most-loved design brands eventually opened the door to launching Wallpaper Online Canada in 2023, where the same locally-manufactured, design-led, customer-obsessed model now serves the Canadian market. Dillon is a partner in four interior and design-adjacent businesses across two continents and is currently mid-renovation on his own home in Bryanston — which means most of what he writes here comes from one of four places: researching wallpaper trends, manufacturing wallpaper, helping clients pick wallpaper, or living with it on his own walls.

His work has been featured in Garden & Home, SA Decor & Design, and Entrepreneur Magazine. On this site he writes about wallpaper trends, pattern and colour selection, installation realities, and the design decisions that actually matter once you stop scrolling Pinterest and start picking a roll. When he isn’t writing, he’s deep in spreadsheets, SEO reports, or arguing that grasscloth is timeless, not a phase. (It’s timeless.)