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Jobs we have finished around Derby and Derbyshire. Have a look at the detail, because that is where the difference is.

Edwardian red brick house with freshly painted soft white sash windows and stone lintels, box hedge garden in front

Edwardian sash windows

Nine sash windows across three storeys, every one brought back by hand. The stone lintels and cills were picked out in the same soft white, so the whole front reads as one clean grid against old brick.

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Edwardian red brick house with freshly painted soft white sash windows and stone lintels, box hedge garden in front

Edwardian sash windows

Nine sash windows across three storeys, every one brought back by hand. The stone lintels and cills were picked out in the same soft white, so the whole front reads as one clean grid against old brick.

Exterior
Bright white vaulted kitchen extension with rooflight, French doors to the garden and gloss white units

Vaulted kitchen extension

A narrow galley that feels twice the size once the vaulted ceiling goes flat brilliant white. Light comes in from the rooflight and the garden doors, and nothing on the walls gets in its way.

Kitchen
Victorian living room painted deep blue with ornate white cornice, timber fireplace and oak floor

Victorian reception room

Deep smoky blue on the walls, cut in tight against the original dentil cornice. The period detail stays white and sharp, which is the whole reason the colour works.

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Brick cottage gable painted brilliant white with a black plinth, clay tile roof and blue sky

Painted brick gable

One full gable end in white masonry paint, cut clean into the pantiles at the top and finished with a black plinth at the bottom. Most of the week went on washing down and filling before any paint came out.

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Bespoke white media wall with floating shelves, an inset electric fire and a recessed TV

Bespoke media wall

The joinery, the walls and the ceiling all read as one surface here. That only happens if you fill, sand and prime the new woodwork properly before a topcoat goes anywhere near it.

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Dark green shaker kitchen with brass handles, blush pink walls and white quartz worktops

Forest green shaker kitchen

Forest green units against blush pink walls. It sounds bold written down, and it is, but the white quartz and the brass handles keep the room calm.

Kitchen
Stone house with slate dormers and freshly painted white timber windows and French doors

Stone house joinery

Every timber window and door on this stone house went back to bright white. Against honey coloured stone there is nowhere to hide a wobbly line, so each one was cut in by brush.

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Large sitting room painted warm greige with white coving, ceiling rose and glazed French doors

Greige sitting room

A soft warm grey across the walls, with the coving, ceiling rose and skirtings left white. Quiet colour and sharp edges. The room does the rest on its own.

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Hallway and staircase painted olive green with white spindles, panelling and an oak handrail

Olive hallway and stairs

Olive green on the walls, white on the spindles, panelling and newel posts, and the oak handrail left well alone. A staircase is almost entirely edges, which is why it takes so long to do properly.

Hallway
Bathroom painted eucalyptus green above dark blue metro tiles, with a freestanding bath and black taps

Family bathroom

Soft eucalyptus green above blue metro tiles, in a paint that takes steam every morning without blistering. A family bathroom is the hardest room in the house on paint, so the spec matters more than the colour.

Bathroom
Large community hall two storeys high with a white vaulted ceiling and pale grey walls

Community hall

A hall that runs two storeys up to the ridge, painted out in white with pale grey below. Almost everything here sits above head height, so access equipment was most of the job.

Commercial
White painted timber framed cottage with black beams and window frames, named The Black and White Cottage

The Black and White Cottage

Brilliant white on the brickwork, deep black on the timbers, frames and plinth. Old buildings move, so those black lines were cut freehand to follow the timber rather than a straight edge.

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Study bedroom with fitted birch ply furniture, cream walls and a mint green feature wall

Fitted study bedroom

Cream walls with one soft mint wall behind the bed. Rooms like this change hands every year, so the finish was chosen for how it washes down rather than how it photographs.

Commercial
Open plan dining area painted taupe with a navy feature wall around the patio doors

Navy dining room wall

Warm taupe through the room and a deep navy wall wrapped around the patio doors. One wall of colour, put where the light hits hardest.

Living Room
Period sash window with a panelled reveal and architrave painted white against warm grey walls

Sash window and reveal

A tall sash, a panelled reveal and a moulded architrave, all cut in by brush. There is no roller shortcut for any of it. That is an afternoon on one window, and you can see where it went.

Detail
Scaffolding on a three storey Georgian brick building with freshly painted cream sash windows

Georgian elevation

Three storeys of sash windows and stone lintels, worked from the top lift down. Full scaffold means every window gets reached properly instead of stretched at off a ladder.

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Period living room painted sage green with a white marble fireplace and panelled door

Sage period room

Soft sage on the walls with the picture rail, fire surround and door all finished to match. Getting four different timber profiles to read as one colour is most of the skill in a room like this.

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Blue grey shaker kitchen with a belfast sink opening into a rooflit extension with bifold doors

Belfast sink kitchen

Blue grey units and a belfast sink, opening through into a bright rear extension. Caught here part way through, before the floor went down and the dust sheets came up.

Kitchen
Bedroom painted warm mushroom with a white ceiling, coving and door, and a bay window

Mushroom bedroom

Warm mushroom on the walls, white on the ceiling, coving and joinery. A bay window like this one holds more cutting in than the rest of the room put together.

Bedroom
Upstairs landing painted soft yellow with a white dado rail and staircase spindles

Buttermilk landing

Soft buttermilk above and below the dado rail, with the balustrade in white. Photographed before the carpet went down, which is how a landing looks for about a week.

Hallway
Open plan commercial hall painted soft grey green with a white ceiling and oak fire doors

Open plan hall

A long hall in soft grey green under a flat white ceiling. A room that takes this much traffic gets a hard wearing finish, or you are back doing it again inside two years.

Commercial
Living room painted warm caramel with a white dado rail and skirting, and a wall mounted TV

Caramel lounge

Warm caramel above and below the dado rail, and the textured ceiling brought back to clean white. Textured ceilings drink paint. This one got the extra coat it was always going to need.

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Commercial corridor and hall with warm white walls, oak fire doors and vinyl flooring

Corridor to the hall

The corridor carries the same scheme straight through to the main hall. On a building this size you keep one batch of paint running, or the colour shifts from room to room and everybody notices.

Commercial
Study painted near black with a white bookcase, skirting and picture rail

Study in near black

Walls and ceiling in near black, with the bookcase, skirtings and picture rail left brilliant white. Dark colours show up every flaw underneath, so the filling took longer than the painting did.

Bedroom
Cottage living room with a white painted beamed ceiling and pale grey walls

White beamed ceiling

Beams and textured plaster overhead, all taken back to flat brilliant white with soft grey on the walls. Beamed ceilings are slow. There is not a straight run anywhere in them.

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