Living Walls Joinery & Decor

Wainscoting & Wall Panelling Specialist Carpenter - Sydney, NSW

Hello, I’m Jason Alexander. I established Living Walls Joinery in 2018 specifically to design and install wainscoting, continuing to build on over 25 years as a qualified carpenter and joiner. My career began with an apprenticeship working on period properties and listed public houses in the UK.

Over the years, I’ve developed my own designs, styles and installation methods, continually refining the process to make quality wainscoting simpler and more affordable for customers.

Every installation shown on this website is genuinely my own work, with photographs of projects I’ve personally completed. When you book Living Walls Joinery, you’re dealing directly with me, from design and supply through to installation.

Chair Rail with Wainscoting Below

Style A - $125+GST per metre of wall length

Our most popular wainscoting style. Subtle, gentle accents that make a house feel like a home.

Contemporary Full-Height Wainscoting

Style B - $195+GST per metre of wall length

Clean, modern lines that make a strong statement.

Classic Full-Height with Chair Rail

Style C - $215+GST per metre of wall length

Elegant traditional detailing with all the trimmings.

Stairs & Variations

Stair wall sections x2 the applicable metre rate

Ceiling heights above 3m add 10% per 0.3m of additional height

Double wainscoting x1.5 the applicable metre rate (secondary wainscoting panel inside of each panel)

How It Works – Simple & Transparent Process

1. Choose Your Style - Pick from our most popular styles - all designs are fully customised to your preference of height, layout and spacing for a truly bespoke installation.

2. Price Your Walls - Download my home measuring guide & booking form and use this to determine wall measurements and pricing to complete your wainscoting, inclusive of all materials and labour.

3. Pre-installation Design - Before anything is cut we work through each area together, discussing the various layout options that will result in a fantastic result sympathetic to the home and your design direction (this is done the morning of installation).

4. Professional Installation -
I personally prepare and install the wainscoting, using my premium grade genuine pine mouldings.  All cutting is done inside of my mobile workshop, keeping your home free from dust, driveway clean, with minimal noise for you and your neighbours!

It’s That Simple. No hidden costs - just transparent upfront pricing and a professional, friendly service to create beautiful interior accents for your home.   

Please feel free to email, call, text or use the contact form if you have any questions.

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Download Measuring Guide & Booking Form

No need to ask, simply download my measuring guide here and you'll be all set to book your installation! If you have any questions you can always call, text or email me directly - my contact details are at the bottom of the page.

Click Here to Download Measuring Guide PDF 2026/27

Image Gallery

Browse some images from other genuine Living Walls Joinery installations. Sydney's most experienced and longest running wainscoting specialist!

Why Choose Living Walls Joinery?

Although I've had many messages of thanks over the years, I don't have many Google reviews as I would never ask or send a follow up link to a QR - I simply leave you in peace. Every review I do get is by complete unsolicited choice and for those, I say a big thank you for taking the time to write.

I didn’t establish Living Walls Joinery to follow a trend. I built it on over 25 years of carpentry experience, an understanding of architectural detailing and a genuine passion for beautifully designed and installed wainscoting.

Long before wainscoting became a popular side offering among Sydney carpentry businesses, I was developing my own styles, refining installation methods and establishing a straightforward approach to fixed per-metre pricing, measuring guides and booking processes. These weren’t ideas put together overnight. They took years of practical experience, investment and continuous improvement.

Over the years, I’ve watched elements of my approach appear elsewhere, sometimes extending well beyond wainscoting itself to replicating the way services are presented, priced, explained and marketed. These original ideas took time, knowledge and effort to develop. Imitating them may look the part but the substance behind simply isn't there.

I welcome genuine competition. It gives customers more choice and encourages higher standards. But there’s a clear difference between developing your own expertise and repeatedly reproducing the appearance, ideas and business approach of someone who has already done the groundwork.

Having worked with architects, luxury builders, fashion houses, interior designers and hundreds of homeowners, I know there’s a genuine art to getting wainscoting right. Understanding proportion, balance, architectural style and how a design works within a particular space comes from years of hands-on experience, not simply learning how to cut and install rudimentary patterns.

A similar-looking website doesn’t establish equivalent experience. Matching pricing structures and service descriptions doesn’t demonstrate matching expertise. And adopting someone else’s approach doesn’t recreate the knowledge behind it.

There’s a considerable difference between being able to install wainscoting and knowing how to design it properly. Poor proportions, awkward layouts and basic detailing mistakes can be surprisingly obvious to an experienced eye.

Your home shouldn’t be where the finer points of wainscoting design and installation are learned. Genuine expertise is passed down from older hands, earned over years and not simply acquired by studying a competitor’s website.