Happy Christmas!




Hello again. So it seems that Twilight isn’t only taking over the silver screens… it is also taking over our homes. No, Robert the vampire wolf guy – or whatever he is, isn’t going to be showing up, so keep your knickers on. The Autumn trends are here, and twilight colours are the new thing….
For a while there it seemed like summer would go on for ever, just like an old Beach Boys record. But here we are, back to earth again, and Christmas heading straight for us like a drunken reindeer. Wherever Christmas cards go, relatives are never far behind. Relatives, it must be said, who will be sure…
You heard it here first. Before even the first sighting of a Santa, before a single sparkle of tinsel in a shop window, I can reveal next year’s Colour of the Year. Akzo Nobel – Dulux to you and me – must have their colour elves on piece-work, because according to my watch it’s only just…
Well, it seems that even with the run up to Christmas people are still busy trying to get their homes in order for the family arriving. I have had quite a few phone calls in the past week for people who need ’emergency decorating’. This is basically, people needing the house painted before christmas, which…
Paul Simon got all the news he needed on the weather report, and he has a point. If too much Carbon Dioxide wasn’t bad enough, not enough of it seems to be even worse. Armageddon! And Estate Agents were reporting a few months ago that Londoners were in mass flight to the country, heading out…
It isn’t only your home that likes to get a fresh look every now and then. Shops and Restaurants also do. Last week I went to do a free estimate for a company in Knightsbridge. This was a very large, 5 floored shop, which during the day, is one of the busiest places I’ve ever…