Truly Professional Decorating Is An Art

I’ve been trying desperately to get some inspiration for having my house redecorated.  It’s jolly hard as the job won’t be started until at leastMarch, a good 5 months away.  The decorator lives abroad but he comes back to UK every winter to volunteer his decorating and restoration skills  at various heritage properties and he’s allocating an additional 2 weeks of his valuable time to be available to help me.  One job that desperately needs seeing to is the bannister and stair rails – they are now a mixture of coffee and cream colour because the top coat has started wearing off and I don’t have the strength in my hands to rub down the gloss work – a professional does that sort of thing in a trice.  When he decorated the rest of my house a few years ago, I was amazed at how quickly the preparations were carried out – all the doors off and rubbed down in the time it would take me to find the sand paper!