Happy Christmas!




I may or may not be still in the running for Parvin Household Husband of the Year. but if you like to follow the annual awards, this one’s for you. Colour of the Year is always a controversial contest, with rival awards from Crown and other paint-makers. But, like McVities and the Digestive Biscuit, there…
The great comedian Tommy Cooper once said: “I painted my wife in oils. Now she looks like a sardine”. But that’s not why I’m writing to you. The clever people at Dulux have come up with a new version of their Tablet app to see how your room would look with a new coat of…
Dulux have had a tablet or phone-based colour-picking app, aimed at home users, for some time. It’s quite handy – some people love it, others find it a bit gimmicky – but it does tend to make you think about diffferent colour combinations. Now they have a comparable app for professionals. Architects, designers and specifiers…
You might have noticed that we like to stress traditional workmanship in our decorating. I decided to take it one step further, so I did some extensive research on Google and I came up with the answer. Morris Dancing! What better way to get old-school values and quality into our work? It’s so obvious I…
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…
We were shocked to learn about items from the British Museum going missing last week. But just in case you’ve been offered some old marble statues for your garden, we thought we would suggest a better way to bring timeless classical beauty to your humble home. I refer, of course, to the classical exterior painting…