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Johnstone Takes Wood Market By Storm

Suppliers of painting and decorating products to professional decorating contractors, Johnstone’s Paints, roll out new specialist products on a regular basis. They offer a wide range of wood care coatings, along with high quality timber protection products, giving any wooden product a very high quality finish to protect it and increase surfaces’ lifespans increasing durability. Johnstones are widely known to be the market leaders and the most advanced within the UK for all paints and finishes.

Johnstones have a massive range of wood finishes ensuring perfect colour matches for any ongoing or planned task. They also have a range of opaque wood finishes with added tints giving different colour options with inspired primary and secondary colours. Johnstones technology is that well advanced in regards to their tinting system, it means that it’s possible to tint the woodwork to any colour or shade on request.

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Filed under: Carpenters and Joiners,Fencing,Painters and Decorators - posted by Danny on July 7, 2010

Spring Breeze is this Season’s Colour According to Dulux

If you’re planning on redecorating your bedroom, bathroom or dining room and want to go with the latest trend in colour schemes and are looking for inspiration for a new interior decor style, paint manufacturers, Dulux, have designed three interior looks that can help you.

The key colour identified by Dulux as the season’s must have colour for interior decorating in spring/summer 2010 is Spring Breeze. The bright sunshine yellow colour is great for brightening up any room and with a varying depth of tones available as indicated on the Spring Breeze paint card available alongside the custom mix paint machines in most large DIY superstores, such as Homebase and B&Q, choosing the exact shade of colour to suit your taste is easy.

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Filed under: Painters and Decorators - posted by Sarah on May 6, 2010

Decorating Children’s and Teenager’s Bedrooms

When it comes to decorating the bedrooms of youngsters and teenagers, as we all know, if there’s one thing they do constantly it’s change their minds. Whether it be the shade or colour of paint they like or how many cuddly toys they have on their bed, kids always seem to know best which is why parents are advised that taking a practical approach to decorating their kids’ beloved rooms can help save money, make cleaning the room easier and receive design approval from their occupants in one go.

Parents are recommended to choose hard wearing products such as textured carpets that can easily cope with things such as spilt paint, dropped food and stains from muddy football boots. Another consideration when choosing carpetting would be picking one that is hardwearing and easy to keep clean. Darker coloured carpets are often most effective at hiding general dirt, but it is certainly a good idea to avoid light coloured carpets such as beige and cream. Choosing thick carpets, especially for teenager’s rooms, can also provide good sound insulation to reduce the amount of noise escaping from the room. If you’re still unsure of the best flooring material to choose, speaking to a reputable carpet fitter to get expert advice can often be the best approach.

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Filed under: Flooring & Carpet Fitters,Painters and Decorators - posted by Sarah on March 11, 2010

Greener Decorating – Eco Paint and Clay Paint

Painting your home can be a long and laborious task, often putting rooms out of action while furniture is piled up under dust sheets and relocated to different rooms of the house to give space to paint. Applying multiple coats of paint can often be a pain too, because the job takes even longer, but if an even paint finish is desired, or if a bright coloured paint was used for a previous coat, you can’t always avoid second or even third coats of paint.

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Filed under: Greening Your Home,Painters and Decorators - posted by Sarah on February 9, 2010

An Alternative Interior Design and Decoration Solution To Save You Money

People have been cutting back on interior design recently in an effort to save money on their redecorating which is having an impact on the amount of business interior design consultants are receiving. An American decorator could have the solution to boosting demand for decorating however.

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Filed under: Painters and Decorators - posted by Sarah on November 19, 2009