Texture Coating — An Alternative to Paint
When the home starts to look a bit jaded, and you are thinking about a repaint, stop for a second and consider an alternative. Texture coating offers all the benefits that paint does, plus a few more. So before calling in the painters, let’s look in more detail at the growing popularity of texture coating. […]
A Guide to Painting Your Home
Decorating a property can be lots of fun but it can also be quite stressful. You will need to think about what colours you use in each room by working out what hues will work well with your décor and furniture. If you are redecorating an existing space, you might want to buy new furniture […]
Repainting the Interior of Your Home
Interior design has always been important for homeowners; after all, this is where we spend most of our time. However nice the interior might look, it tends to become dull and worn looking after a few years, and this is the time to think about a repaint job, especially before a major spring clean. Professional […]
Bone, Cream, Ivory: Why Different Shades of the Same Colour Matter
To many, the shade of a colour doesn’t matter too much. Sure, it is easy to tell apart sky blue from navy blue, but what about colours that are too similar? How can you tell apart ivory from cream, or from bone? To the casual viewer, these colours have negligible differences. Many will exasperatedly claim […]
Create a Colour Palette for Your Home
The colour you use for your house and each of its rooms will affect ambiance, mood and other emotions. If you think choosing one colour is difficult, how do you choose a certain theme for your entire home? A colour palette provides you with a guideline as to which combinations are suitable for the interior […]
Mixing Paint, New & Old: House Colours You Would Want to Consider
Artists are in the habit of announcing popular colours on a near-monthly basis. We prefer not to participate, but we do observe — religiously. If you have a painting project that has left you overwhelmed, let us here at Barker-Whittle narrow your options down with both unusual and undying colours to pique your contemporary tastes. Clean Mixing […]
Colour Me Comfortable: Which Shades Go with Which Rooms?
For most people, home décor is simply a matter of aesthetics. It is all about what looks attractive for their humble abode. Proponents of colour psychology, on the other hand, believe that the shades you use for your home can have a profound effect on your emotional health. If you like the idea of using […]
Interior Painting: Make Your Room Warm or Cool with the Right Colour
Choosing the most appealing colour scheme for any room in your home is very difficult, and not just because of the near-limitless selection you can choose from. It’s a little known fact that the right colour scheme can actually influence whether the room feels cool or warm, and figuring out which ones actually exude these temperatures is […]
Painting Your House Goodnight: Examining Unpopularity of Black Paint
Would you paint your house black? For most people, the answer would be no. The colour and its meaning are transcendent of culture and time. Homes are rarely painted black due to our deep-seated psychological reaction to it. We here at Barker-Whittle admit that black is not a top paint choice for houses, regardless of […]
Over & Unmoved: A Tribute to the Brick Wall
Brick is one of the most iconic building materials out there. It works on almost any structure, be it homes, hotels or restaurants. They provide a look that instils a sense of hard work and painstaking craft unlike any other building material can. Sadly, it is time to say goodbye. The End of an Era […]
