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If walls could talk! I’ll swear that one of my walls mutters and curses under its breath, and keeps threatening to sue me for negligence. Nobody likes a whinger, so not even the other walls like that one. I just hope it can’t talk english. The remedy of course is a new coat of paint. Unemployed government scientists now think that…
Lining paper or plaster? That is the question. A lot of customers do not know what to do when it comes to this. And I have to say, with all my years of experience. It is totally a preference. If you buy a house, and want to go to the extent of having it re-decorated…
The quotation above is one of my favourites from Mark Twain. Working in the decorating industry, I see a lot of men with hammers. They’ll hit anything. So when salesmen urged half of London to replace old wooden doors with UPVC, they weren’t necessarily just thinking about the commission. I’m sure many of them genuinely believed in…
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…
It used to be said of our late Queen that she thought fresh paint was the natural smell of factories and office blocks. That’s just one more thing I have in common with her, as I fill my idle hours with inspections of our workmen’s labours. I even find myself politely asking them “And what…
Everyone knows the story about painting the Forth Road Bridge (by the time the painters reach one end they have to start again at the beginning). Here’s something I didn’t know: the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is painted in ‘International Orange’, but the US Navy originally wanted it in yellow and black stripes,…