Happy Christmas!




I was pleased to see a story in the Daily Telegraph comparing various home improvements, and estimating the added value each of them puts on your property. Yes, it’s official – decorating is one of the most cost-efficient ways of adding property value. The online tool takes your property value, the amount you might spend…
Feel a touch of Spring in the air? Just the tiniest whiff? As we move ever closer to Spring-cleaning time, a fresh crop of Dulux and Farrow & Ball colour charts have started to poke their heads though the snow. But since most of us spend our lives entirely surrounded by paint (yes, it’s everywhere…
I’ve so far turned down all invitations from across the political spectrum to stand for the job of Prime Minister. It just seems to be too much of a reduction in status, though I understand my customers would love it. Better, I say, to brighten people’s lives with a fresh coat of paint. Red, Blue,…
It seems a lot of London get the summer bug. Now you may be asking yourself, what is the summer bug? The summer bug is where it seems that everyone decides to get painting and decorating works done in the summer. Now you can ask any painter or decorator this and they will confirm it….
If you want to get creative, read this first I read two stories about Star Trek themed houses this week. Both of them (surprise!) in the USA. One fan spent $300,000 on converting his New York basement into the bridge of the USS Enterprise. The other did an entire house in Florida. Surprisingly, at least one of…
Like most Londoners I sometimes wish we could go back to Dickens’ time. Particularly when all the talk is about tax rises. “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery”. Just think what you buy with nineteen shillings and sixpence…