Chair project
Here is a satisfying home project — a long time in the works — but now brought to a pleasing conclusion by Fiona (my sister): an old rocking chair, originally coated in many knobbly layers of red gloss, stripped back and repainted.
Redecorating a sitting room and kitchen in southwest London
The team recently completed the redecoration of a living room, dining area and kitchen for Gemma and Henry in Earlsfield, southwest London.
The colours used in the sitting room, shown below, were from Farrow & Ball:
Cornforth White no.228 on the walls;
Purbeck Stone no.228 on the fitted base units;
Strong White no.2001 on the fireplace.
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Lighting in Leicester Square
Leicester Square is still a tacky, jarring place. It harbours a tourist restaurant named SCOFF & BANTER, after all, and no resident Londoner ever chooses to eat or drink there.
Some aspects of the square have improved in recent years though. The metalwork shown in the photo below is probably a misjudgement, as it’s probably going to date quite quickly — but the long, low, curving stone bench is appealingly solid, and the lighting spec is a definite success, both well designed and well executed.
Trim colour series, no.1: Oval Room Blue
We’ll now be writing once every week or two on colour: looking at ideas, sources of inspiration and recent notable examples of where we or our clients have used colour successfully.
Our eye was caught by a recent post at The Chromologist, covering 10 living rooms.
This room uses Plummett from Farrow and Ball…
And here is an example of another Farrow & Ball colour, Oval Room Blue…
Oval Room Blue was also used with success by the Trim crew on the exterior redecoration of the Myla and Davis hairdressing salon in Herne Hill, in south London…
In praise of Mirka: dust-free decorating
Our thanks to Vince at Mirka UK for supplying us with the full Deros system: sander, Abranet abrasives, 5m hose and extraction unit.
The full system isn’t cheap but we’re delighted with its capability, especially in being able to sand larger areas of fine filler with little or no dust created.
We’ll write more in the coming months about our experience…
