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Nine parts preparation, one part paint.
Anyone can make a wall look good on the day the dust sheets come up. The test is what it looks like two winters later. That is decided long before the first coat: in the filling, the sanding, the caulking and the priming that nobody ever sees.
Decorating, inside and out
- Rooms painted properly: walls, ceilings, woodwork
- Hallways, stairs and landings, including the awkward heights
- Interior woodwork: skirting, architrave, doors and frames
- External joinery repainted before the weather gets in
- Front doors given the finish they deserve
- Small plaster repairs and making good before painting
- Sealant and caulking, neatly cut in
- Feature walls, colour changes and freshening for sale or let
Why our decorating lasts
Preparation first
Surfaces filled, sanded and primed properly. Paint hides nothing for long; preparation is the job, the painting is the reward.
Materials that repay care
Good paint protects as well as decorates. We advise honestly on where quality genuinely matters and where it is marketing. Everyday sundries are included in our prices; paint chosen for your job is itemised at cost with a small handling charge, shown plainly in the quote.
Patience where it counts
Paint must dry. Caulk must cure. If the proper result needs another day, we say so up front and price accordingly. Rushed finishing is just slow failure.
The underside deserves the same care as the top
There is an old saying among cabinet makers that the underside deserves the same care as the top, whether or not anyone will ever see it. We decorate the same way. The painted edge nobody will inspect. The cutting-in behind the radiator. The line where wall meets ceiling, straight enough that your eye never snags on it.
These details are not about showing off. They are habits. Habits become standards, and standards become reputation. When we leave, the room should feel as though it has simply always been that way.
And if the room deserves more than paint, decorating is the finishing move of our Room Refresh: the whole space taken from tired to finished, every trade it needs, one written price.
A typical bedroom, walls and ceiling, is around £700 to £1,100; add woodwork for roughly £400. Hall, stairs and landing generally lands near £1,700 because of the heights involved. A front door done properly is around £375. All quoted in writing after we have seen the space.
The services on this site are starting points rather than a menu. They can be combined, taken apart, or reduced to the single job you actually want doing. If all you need is a curtain pole hung, a patch of damaged wall made good or a sticking door eased, ring and ask for exactly that.
Thinking about a room, or the whole house?
Send us a photo and rough sizes, and we will come back with a fixed written price and an honest view on what the job really needs.