Perfect Trims First Time

The devil, as they say, is in the detail, and nowhere is this more true than for the home DIYer. But when it comes to modern day DIY painting the average Joe (or Josephine) needn’t feel like they ...

5 Tips for Kids' Rooms

From baby nursery to teen retreat, there’s now a bevy of decorating options when it comes to painting your child’s room. Here are five tips to create a bedroom to delight your little (or not so ...

Our whole hallway is covered in wallpaper from the seventies and we keep putting off removing because of the thought of the back-breaking work involved. What’s the easiest way to tackle it?

We are making our spare room a baby’s room and I want to change the feature wall from a suede effects back to a flat finish. What do I need to do to get it back to flat?

I am planning on painting a red feature wall in our rumpus room and have heard that you should use a grey undercoat under red paint. Is this true?

Do I need to use a prepcoat?

Prepcoat, undercoat, primer? What’s the difference?

The walls are in great condition. It hasn’t been that long since they were last painted. Can I just get started with the paintbrush?

We’re renovating a house that’s in pretty bad shape and it looks like the walls haven’t been touched in decades. Where do we start?

Our laundry is quite damp and there is some mould in one corner. What do I need to do before painting and how can I avoid the mould coming back?

We had an extension added on a couple of months ago. We were going to paint it straight away but we ran out of time. The extension is new timber but as the weatherboards have been exposed to the elements for a while now is there any special preparation we should do?

Our kitchen is still serviceable but the cupboard doors are a very 80s apricot colour. Is there any way to paint them so I can avoid replacing them?