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Decorating with cork
• Cork tiles • Cork sheeting • Colours and finishes • Preparing surfaces for cork • Working with cork • Tiling walls and floors • Hanging sheeting • Protective finishes for cork • Finishing the surface...
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Alcoves and Decorative effects
It is worth taking extra trouble when you have an alcove with a window. Many people simply curtain off the whole area by running a rail or rod across the front of the alcove, thus cutting it off from...
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Interior Design for Living Rooms
Planning a living-dining area is easy. Once you have fitted the dining table into the most obvious nook, and bunged in the sofa opposite the television set, everything else just clicks into place. But...
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Studio Flats in London
‘Bed-sitter’ is almost a dirty word, conjuring up visions of dingy, badly decorated rooms in converted Victorian mansions, each with old-fashioned furniture and minimal cooking and heating facilities....
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Wall coverings
Walls account for the largest surface area of a room, making the choice of a decorative finish very significant. Whether it be mosaic tiles, flock wallpaper or vinyl paint, the finish will influence...
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Types of paint
Emulsion paint is, in some cases, an adequate alternative to gloss paint. Apart from its tendency to induce condensation, a gloss paint finish is often unsuitable for walls because of its shiny...
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Wallpapers
If a texture or a pattern is preferred to a flat colour, some form of sheet wall covering is indicated. The cheapest material of this type is wallpaper. There are several different kinds of paper...
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Vinyl wallcoverings
In kitchens, laundry rooms and bathrooms, where water may splash on walls, or where walls will need frequent cleaning as in playrooms, a surface which can withstand regular wiping down is needed. The...
View ArticlePainting dark rooms
Dark, dreary rooms need not be a problem if you decorate them with imagination. Use colour as your main ally, together with well planned lighting and mirrors, to conjure up a feeling of more light....
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South Kensington
Painting and Decorating Company House and Flats Refurbishments,Offices, Shops, General Painters & Decorators, Interior and Exterior Painting – Decorating, Wallpapering. We cover South Kensington...
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Walls Painting & Decorating
There is, really, not much to choose between the prices of the different makes of paint apart from the fact that beautiful, original decorator colours often cost more than the ordinary standard ones,...
View ArticleColour schemes
Colour can play an enormous part in ‘pulling together’ or enhancing the cheapest decorative scheme.Some colours always look ‘expensive’, some look cheap in the wrong material or texture. If in doubt,...
View ArticleThe use of colour in the home
A good sense of colour is essential if your interior decor is to be a success. Apart from the technical skills involved in painting and paper hanging, you need to be able to combine colours and...
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Paint rollers
These really come into their own on large areas of wall and ceiling. Provided you use the correct type for the job you will get as good a finish as with brushes or pads. Although better suited to...
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Painting pads
Pads are becoming increasingly popular, especially for use on walls and ceilings, because they are simpler, quicker and less tiring to use than brushes. The basic pad is a foam rectangle fixed to a...
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Stripping paint
A new coat of paint can transform a room. But you’ll be wasting your time if you don’t make sure the surface is properly prepared. A sound paint film, even if it is several layers thick is a perfectly...
View ArticlePainting faults
Pimples Particularly noticeable in shiny, gloss surfaces, these are caused by specks of dust which may have been on the surface, on the brush or in the paint itself. Or a very fine skin on the surface...
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Painting doors, walls & windows
General preparation For general woodwork wash down the surface with sugar soap, washing soda or a proprietary paint cleaner, rinse off with plenty of clean water and allow to dry thoroughly. Fill in...
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Painting doors
First remove handles, keyhole plates, finger plates and coat hooks to give yourself an uninterrupted surface. If you try to paint round these they will cause a build-up of paint, leading to unsightly...
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Painting window frames
Pay particular attention to preparing the bottom of the frame to ensure the finished surface is as good as the rest. Clear away all flaking paintwork and dirt, right back to bare wood if necessary....
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