Painting & Decorating · London
Single-room repaints in a freshly-bought flat, full Farrow & Ball schemes in a Notting Hill terrace, sash window restoration on a Hampstead Edwardian, external doors on a Belgravia Georgian. We tape, fill, sand and prime before we open the topcoat — that's the part that decides whether your walls still look right in three years.
Painting & decorating we do
Fixed pricing per room for standard jobs. Day rate per painter for whole flats and period work where every room is different.
Living room, bedroom or kitchen repaint — walls and ceiling, two coats, prep included (taping, filling minor holes, sanding back to a clean surface, undercoat where needed).
From £320 per room
Book single room1-bed flat in 3 days with one painter, 2 days with two. Quoted by day rate so we can flex around tougher prep, wallpaper strips and a stubborn ceiling crack we didn't know about on day one.
From £220/day per painter
Book whole flatSash window restoration, picture rails and Lincrusta dado refresh, cornice cutting-in, external doors and railings. Heritage-friendly products on listed buildings (linseed putty, oil eggshell on woodwork).
From £85 per sash side
Book period workPainter vs handyman — when to call who
A handyman can touch up scuffs and repaint a single wall. For whole rooms, full flats and any period property work, you want a painter.
Taping, filling, sanding, priming. If a painter shows up and starts rolling on day one, hire someone else — that finish will be flaking by the second winter.
A new white ceiling won't hide a slow leak from the flat upstairs. We'll flag it before we paint, and you'll want a plumber to sort the source before we coat over.
External facade colours in Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea, Camden CAs need Listed Building Consent or planning sign-off. We won't touch a facade colour-change without it.
Dulux Trade for landlord-spec, Crown for mid-range, Farrow & Ball or Little Greene where the spec calls for it. Receipts come with the invoice. No markup on paint.
London paint jobs we do every week
Notting Hill, Bayswater, Hampstead — full F&B Modern Emulsion schemes, period property, picture rail in deeper trim colour.
Islington, Stoke Newington, Camden — ease the sashes, scrape back, linseed putty, oil eggshell on the runners.
Georgian front doors — full strip, primer, two coats of oil eggshell, brass furniture polished and refitted.
Canary Wharf, Stratford, Bermondsey — developer-spec magnolia gone, full flat in a darker, warmer palette over 3 days.
Battersea, Wandsworth, Clapham — landlord-spec Dulux Trade, fill 200 picture hooks, two coats, ready for the next viewing.
Kids' bedrooms, hallways, kitchen ceilings — wipeable matts, durable trim, weekend turnarounds where possible.
Areas we cover
Every London borough. Click a name to see the borough page.
Painting & decorating FAQ
Either way. Bring your own colours (Farrow & Ball, Little Greene, whatever) and we work from it; or we buy at trade cost, no markup — Dulux Trade for landlord-spec, Crown for mid-range, F&B where called for. Receipts come with the invoice.
~3 days with one painter, ~2 days with two. Walls in reasonable condition. Strip wallpaper, woodchip removal or heavy filling adds a day. Prep is 70% of the job — anyone skipping it is selling you a finish that won't last.
Sometimes. Well-stuck, smooth (non-textured) paper can be primed and painted — fine for a quick pre-let refresh. Bubbled, peeling, woodchip or embossed paper needs to come off (or be skimmed over) first. We tell you straight on viewing.
Send room photos and the colour spec. We'll quote a fixed price.
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