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Adding a splash of colour
Posted by Adrian
January 27th, 2025
Adding a splash of colour
Adding some colour to a room can transform the look and feel of a room, don’t be afraid to experiment with colours. It doesn’t have to be a whole room, it could simply be a panel or colour, or a feature wall.
Also, it doesn’t just have to be paint you use to add colour, wallpaper is also a good option, and if you use wallpaper as a feature wall, it will add colour and the desired effect, without braking the bank with a large expense of wallpapering an entire room.
Wallpaper to add some colour
I recently was asked to wallpaper for a client, when I spoke to them on my initial visit, the said that they had lived with plain walls for a long time and wanted to add some colour. They had already decided on the wallpaper, and had decided to have a fire breast, and one wall in one room, and one wall in the hallway, all with the same wallpaper.
By adding some feature walls added colour and also tied in the areas together well, the final result was a striking geometric wallpaper that added colour to the plain walls.
The result
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Painting And Decorating in Southend For 30 Years
Posted by Adrian
March 26th, 2023
Painting And Decorating in and around Southend For 30 Years
March 2023 sees the 30th year of my decorating career. It was thirty years ago this month that I first picked up my paint brushes and rollers and started painting and decorating. I have worked in a few places around the UK during this time, but I prefer to stay close to home, here in Southend on Sea and the surrounding areas.
Over the past 30 years of painting and decorating I have seen a lot of changes, not only in the painting industry but the economy also, as we all worry about the current living costs here in the UK, and further afield the war in Ukraine. And of course how the pandemic, Covid-19, changed many things for us, including work practises and day to day living. We have all had uncertain and hard times, but I’m still here and ready to decorate your property. So if you would like some work done, contact me for an estimate.
I have undertaken commercial work as well as residential work in my career and painted properties from warehouses to high street shops, to mansion houses, but most commonly I decorate residential properties, just like yours.
Styles and fashions continually change, and over the past 30 years there has been styles come and go, and come around again. Colours change as fashion does, and if you want to know the colours for 2023 have a look at my colour trends for 2023 post .
Painting And Decorating Website And Blog
Over the past eighteen years or so my website has had many designs, and my blog has grown and grown with many posts explaining how to decorate, how things are done and product reviews, with now in excess of 120 posts.
I also created and written the code for four materials calculators, a wallpaper calculator, a ceiling paper calculator, a tile calculator and a paint calculator, these have proved to be very popular with lots of hits per day with people working out their materials. These are used not only by DIYer’s but tradesmen also.
I enjoy writing blog post’s, although I don’t blog as much as I did for several reasons, but I like helping people who want to do painting and decorating or DIY jobs around the house but are not sure how to go about it. I find this very rewarding.
New Media
I continue to use social media, you can find me on Facebook, I also have a LinkedIn page, also a YouTube channel.

I can’t believe it has been 30 years, I would like to thank my past, present and future clients for their custom and continued support.
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Some recent Painting and Decorating work
Posted by Adrian
December 21st, 2020
Below are some photos of recently completed work. They include a home office, and two lounges.
A Bedroom/office
This Home office is in a listed building, hence the exposed beams. It was a challenge to wallpaper as there are no straight walls or corners. The ceiling was painted in brilliant white emulsion,the window, sill and door frame was painted in white satinwood. I was very pleased with the end result, as was the client.
Lounge
In this lounge the client wanted to change the appearance of two plain walls, this brick effect wallpaper was chosen and is very effective and lifelike. Only the wallpapering was done for this client. An effective way to dramatically change plain walls.
Lounge
In this lounge I wallpapered two walls, either side of a firebreast in the alcoves, and also the opposite wall. Both above a dado rail. A good way to give the room a new look without the expense of major decorating.
Tags: bedroom, beroom office, brick, brick effect, Feature, Feature Wall, home office, Listed Building, lounge, office, Wallpaper
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