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!
