This hand painted kitchen restoration is one that I am very proud of and one that brought this beautifully made ‘pippy’ oak kitchen back to the 21st century. It was a real labour of love with the project having many a stage and a lot of prep and intricacies. The original cost of this kitchen would have been many 10’s […]

This particular project was primarily a kitchen repainting commission, with the clients having contacted me wanting to update the look of their kitchen by repainting the cabinets in a more contemporary colour. Over the years I have written various pieces about repainting kitchens – the do’s, the don’ts, the stages and the best materials, so for this Blog I thought […]

This kitchen island painting project was a real pleasure to do and something very unique. The clients wanted to make it a real feature and create an effect that would compliment an old Chesterfield sofa that sat in the corner of the room. They were in the throws of renovating their old lakeside house and were doing everything as sympathetically […]

I painted these faux stone walls on the exterior of a conservatory in a home in West Yorkshire. The clients contacted me as the original stone effect, which had been done some 15yrs previously, was now looking very faded and had worn badly in places (see photo below). As with most of my faux work some sort of preparatory base […]

This fabulous hand painted kitchen project was undertaken for a lovely couple living in the picturesque town of Skipton in the Yorkshire Dales. The Yorkshire Dales is one of my favourite places to go walking and compared to battling through the normal commuter traffic the journey to work was a joy! Aside from the commute and the lovely location this […]

This Smallbone kitchen repainting project was in a beautifully restored house on the outskirts of Wakefield, West Yorkshire. As a specialist kitchen painter I travel throughout most of Yorkshire, with a base and workrooms in Harrogate. The clients initially contacted me by phone, after having done a lot of research, they had been waiting for some time to find the […]

This hand painted kitchen project was undertaken in Bramhope, Leeds. When I paint any wooden or laminate kitchen the transformation is always great, but sometimes the results are extra special, this was one such project. The clients had inherited this hand made kitchen when they moved into the house and although high quality, it was perhaps ‘of a time’ and […]

For this specialist decorating project I travelled to the lovely village of Thorner, near Leeds. The commission came about during a conversation with one of the clients friends, whose roll top bath I had faux marbled a few years previously. The client had been looking for a decorative solution for his archway for some time, and whilst talking to his […]

I undertook this kitchen painting project in Rawdon, Leeds. This house was truly unique, a converted chapel that retained many of its original features, among which were stone archways, wooden ceilings, corbels and hidden niches. Client Testimonial   When we bought our house 6 years ago the kitchen was key to our decision to buy. The design, layout and worktops […]

For this project the clients had bought a ‘British Standard’ kitchen and had delivered in box form ready to be fitted and tweaked on site by their joiner. They wanted the units to be hand painted in brilliant white and for the finish to be top notch. Alongside the kitchen they also wanted me to paint the main door, the […]

Painted faux marble is a great way to change the look your cast iron, slate or wooden fireplace. By faux marbling a fireplace you can create a hand painted feature that is unique and a great focal point of any room. Faux marbling is also a much used technique in the restoration of Victorian fire surrounds, which have often been […]

For this hand painted kitchen I travelled to the lovely hamlet of Thorpe Audlin near Pontefract. The house was a converted barn and dovecot and had lots of fabulous original features and character. The kitchen had originally been hand installed around 20 years ago and the the clients were now looking to bring things a bit more up to date. […]

This hand painted laminate kitchen was a great transformation and had an added bonus of being only a few hundred yards from my home in Harrogate. A 3 minute morning commute is a nice way to start your day. The clients had some pretty big changes in mind for the re-vamp and contacted me for to look at the painting […]

For this Blog I thought I’d do a case study of a kitchen repaint I completed towards the end of last year. As it’s a kitchen repaint I thought I’d focus mainly on close ups to show the difference between my finish and the one achieved by the other kitchen painter. Not all kitchen painters are the same and this […]

First Published on Traditional Painter For this project I was contacted by a lady in Halifax, West Yorkshire, who had inherited this lovely table and chairs and wanted to have it repaired and updated. The style she had decided upon was for the chairs and table base to be painted with the table top being left wood. A lovely choice […]