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8 Tips for Home Office Decorating (Make it a Space You Love!) Home office decorating has grown this past year with more and more working from home. The pandemic has forced most of us to try the much-coveted work-from-home lifestyle. It's challenging for...
Why use Lining Paper on Walls? Cross or Double?
Use Lining Paper On Your Walls! Why use lining and paper? Lining Paper can be used behind both wallpaper and paint. The wallpaper label may say, “before hanging this wallpaper, the walls will need cross lining paper first.” If not, perhaps double lining....
Should I Wallpaper Myself? Pros and Cons of DIY Wallpapering!
Pros and Cons of DIY Wallpapering! Should I wallpaper myself? Here’s what you need to know before attempting to hang wallpaper yourself, from equipment, budget, pros and cons - what to expect with a DIY Wallpapering project! Whether you’ve just moved into your...
How Long Does Wallpaper Last? How Many Years and Why guide
How Long Does Wallpaper Last?How Long Does Wallpaper Last? The wallpaper you choose instantly becomes the canvas of the room: a backdrop to how you live, work and play. We are now blessed with such a huge choice of wallpapers, in fact, more than ever before. We have...
What Wallpaper Designs were typically seen in Art Nouveau?
Textiles and wallpaper were an essential element of Art Nouveau interior design. Wallpaper design had its beginnings in the Arts and Crafts movement when William Morris produced woodblock-printed wallpaper designs that were revolutionary for their time.Why you should...
Why I Love Upcycling
Why I Love UpcyclingI love upcyling in bringing old things up to date – whether that’s a piece of furniture or renovating a client’s home or workplace. It allows me to be creative and add a little piece of history to my home, and be part of my clients’ history and, of...
Why Customer Service is Important | Why It’s Paramount in My Business
After almost two decades in the painting and decorating industry, I’ve learned that there’s nothing more important in business than customer service. When you manage your customer service properly and guide them through the process of working with you, you’ll develop...
Redecorate | New Year, New Goals: Why a New Year is the Perfect Time to Redecorate
When is the Best Time of Year to Redecorate? New Year's, of course! When the end of year festivities are over, the champagne bottles are dry, the tinsel and fairy lights are back in the box ready to go into storage, we sometimes look around our homes in January and...
Why OLFA Knives are Essential to My Professional Toolkit
In 2000, when I started my career in the painting and decorating trade, I decided to retrain from being a City & Guilds qualified Manufacturing Mechanical Engineer (Toolmaker) to become a qualified City & Guilds Painter & Decorator.Thanks to my previous...
5 Steps to Set Personal Goals (and Actually Achieve Them!)
Many of us feel like we are drifting through life, doing the same thing day-in, day-out, with little changing. Even those of us who set new year’s resolutions often forget about them after just a few weeks. It’s not that you don’t work hard or want to achieve the...
Volunteering and Giving back
Our homes are at the centres of our worlds; it’s the place we feel most comfortable, where we can relax and fully be ourselves, and spend time with those we love. After many years in construction, I’ve learned exactly what homes mean to their inhabitants. When the...
10 Expert Tips for Choosing the Right Wallpaper for Your Living Room
Since you’re here reading this, we don’t need to tell you that wallpaper – once something to be avoided lest you want your home to look like something from the '70s – is back with better textures, colours, and design more than ever before. Wallpaper completely...
5 Steps to Choosing the Right Wallpaper for Your Dining Room
Wallpaper has come flying back into fashion and your dining room is the perfect place to experiment with a new look. Wallpaper can completely transform a room, even if you plan to keep the same flooring and furniture. There are so many designs, textures, and colours...
The Importance of Quality Materials for Wall Finishes
It should go without saying that quality materials lead to a quality finish - but even when that advice is given, people will cut corners to save money. Sometimes a budget finish is all you have to work with, but if you’re looking for an optimum, luxury finish, budget...
How to Choose the Right Wallpaper for Redecorating Your Luxury Bedroom
Wallpaper can make a room look like the most luxurious place in the world, but we also all know that – if chosen badly – it can also look cheap, or even tacky. When chosen well, wallpaper can make you feel like you are staying in an expensive hotel every night when...
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