Guides
Practical advice for Sandwich homeowners on prep, technique and period-property specific painting problems. New guides added regularly.
Sash windows are one of the easiest things to get wrong on a period property, paint them in the wrong order or the wrong places and they stop sliding within a season. Here's the sequence that keeps them working.
Read the guide Interior decoratingThe gap between a DIY paint job and a professional one is rarely the paint itself, it's the order of operations. Here's the sequence that gets an even, lap-mark-free finish.
Read the guide WallpaperingA single feature wall is the most forgiving wallpapering job there is, but pattern matching and a clean starting point still make the difference between a sharp result and an obvious DIY seam.
Read the guide Interior decoratingPaint doesn't hide a badly filled crack, it usually makes it more obvious under the sheen. Filling properly the first time is what actually saves work later.
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