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Home > Search for DIY Projects by Trade Type > The Ultimate DIY Project Guides to Painting, Decorating and Finishing

The Ultimate DIY Project Guides to Painting, Decorating and Finishing

This page includes links to all of our Decorating DIY how to projects. In this section we cover all the common painting and decorating jobs including how to hang wallpaper on walls, around light switches and around window reveals, how to prepare surfaces for any and all decorating jobs, how to fill holes and cracks, what different types of paint, varnish and stain there are, how to tile and grout walls and floors and also tips on interior design. Browse through the below list and click on your chosen link to view the project information.

  • Decopage towel rail

    Interior Design - Interior Design DIY how to projects help, tips and information covering colour theory, decoupage, fabric wall coverings, feature walls and all related topics


  • Painting a house

    Painting - Painting DIY how to projects help, tips and information covering painting windows, painting doors, painting mdf, paint brush cleaning and all other related areas


  • DIY Doctor decorators tool kit

    Painting tools and Products - Learn about the various different painting products and tools including the different paint brushes and how to clean them and also the different types of stain, varnish and paint


  • Cleaning down walls before decorating

    Preperation for Painting - Find out how to correctly prepare walls, timber and brickwork for painting including how to mask up and prime surfaces and block strains to get a great finish


  • Paint, wallpaper and other coverings stripping tool kit

    Paint Stripping and Removing Other Decorations - Find information on stripping and removing a variety of decorations including paint, lead paint, wallpaper and graffiti before decorating and painting


  • Applying wallpaper paste to a piece of wallpaper on a pasting table

    Wallpapering - Wallpapering DIY how to projects help, tips and information covering wallpaper stripping, how to wallpaper, wallpapering stairs and all other related topics


Decorating ideas abound in the next few pages. From decorating a small bedroom or spare room to painting or wallpapering the entire house you will feel like tackling the lot once your interior design brain cells start to work.

Decorators colour wheel

Decorators colour wheel

We help you with your choice of paint brushes, we show you how to use a paint roller and cut in over skirting board and round doorways. We show you where to start with your first drop of wallpaper and how to prepare a newly plastered wall for painting.

Decorating plasterboard can now be clearly understood as can decoupage. In fact all your decorating ideas for the living room will leap out at you once you start flicking through the site.

You will be able to choose your colour scheme on a colour wheel to make sure everything matches. We can show you how to recognise primary colours from tertiary colours and when to use tints and shades.

The mood of the room can be set by some careful research and planning and by dropping into our Toolstore you will be able to but all the tools you need.

There are hints and tips about using masking tape and keeping your brushes clean. There is even a section where we show you how to stop your roller tray needing a clean every time you use it.

We show you where to use emulsion paint, where to use gloss paint and for the adventurous, how to mix paints and use eggshell to the best effect. We deal with glazing, cracking, shrinkage and other paint defects while telling you how to prepare your timber properly to avoid them.

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