Farrow & Ball’s roll and paste
Arriving here sets the wallpaper calculator to Farrow & Ball’s 53 cm by 10 m roll, Bumble Bee’s 16 cm repeat and the brand’s own paste, good for five rolls a tube. Put in the repeat of your design instead: every product page gives it in centimetres and inches.
Since the roll is 10 m rather than 10.05, tall rooms lose a length a little sooner than with other brands. At 2.4 m with 10 cm of trim, a small repeat like Bumble Bee’s or Achard’s 7.6 cm cuts to about 2.5 m and still yields three per roll, not four: four at 2.56 m would need 10.24 m. A plain design with nothing to match, cut at exactly 2.5 m, just squeezes in four.
Reading the table
Three Farrow & Ball designs in the same bedroom. Atacama’s 62.3 cm repeat stretches every length to 3.12 m, yet at three per roll it still totals 10, like the small prints. Its repeat only bites in a tall room: past roughly 3 m of wall each cut becomes six repeats, 3.74 m, and only two fit per roll. Buy everything at once, as the brand advises, and hang on to the labels until the last length is up.
Farrow & Ball papers in the calculator
A 4 × 3.5 m room with 2.4 m walls, one 762 × 1981 mm door and one 1.2 × 1.2 m window, 10 cm trim a drop, each paper on its own roll. The first one is what the calculator above starts with.
| Paper | Roll | Drop | Drops a roll | Rolls | Area method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bumble Beepattern repeat is 16cm/6 1/4" | 53 cm × 10 m | 2.56 m | 3 | 10 | 7 |
| Achardpattern repeat 7.6cm / 3" | 53 cm × 10 m | 2.51 m | 3 | 10 | 7 |
| Atacamapattern repeat is 62.3cm/24 9/16" | 53 cm × 10 m | 3.12 m | 3 | 10 | 7 |
Roll sizes, repeats and matches as Farrow & Ball states them on the pages linked above, checked September 2026. Farrow & Ball and its product names are its owner's trademarks, used only to describe the products; Meadow Tools is not affiliated with or endorsed by Farrow & Ball.