Every year it happens. Once Winter recedes to nothing but a mildly wet and not too cold epoch in the distant memory, Spring brings with it an upsurge in demand for our talents. It is a lie to say this often happens - it is an absolute truth, as strong a law of nature as are our beloved thermodynamics. Around this time, enquiries pick up, meetings are...

It's official. The 1970s are back. I'm not referring to the 3 day week or energy shortages, but glitter! According to Simon Livesey, Director of Home Flair Decor, 7 out of 10 of their top selling brands were for glitter textured wallpapers in 2014.

This week, the Malvern Gazette is urging gardeners to take pictures of their favourite spring floral displays for the Malvern in Bloom photo competition. As a decorator, I like to think I have an eye (or two) for appreciating colour and spring is my favourite time...

Last week we helped out on a job from a friend of ours in Worcester. Worcester Decorators needed some help due to a last minute job that was an urgent client demand and so we stepped in to fill out the 'thin red line' so to speak. It was an old Worcester townhouse and the job took three days in total, decorating a stairwell and hallway and painting several good sized rooms. And the owner was an art lover who had several prints and paintings on display.

For the first time this winter, we in Malvern went to bed with icy snowflakes falling to a wet earth an hour before midnight. I was convinced it wouldn't settle amongst the...

A friend of mine who has been in the building trade for sometime has decided to join me in the move to the digital world. As a local decorator in Malvern I have often talked to him about our work and what it entails, and he, as a local builder in Malvern often reciprocates. I have offered him what advice I could about the online world: how it is changing so fast you don't know whether to...

I've written about this before with scowling disapproval (see my two pence worth on 23rd October 2014 when the Toposcope atop the Malvern Hills was spray painted). Still, it hasn't stopped at all. Reading the Malvern Gazette, it seems like there has been a rise in anti-social behaviour and low level crime: from a Santa Klaus being assaulted to a home being pelted with eggs and the continuing...

With the 05th January only a week away, we have only a few days left to enjoy the glittering decorations that have (hopefully!) given our families and visitors alike an aesthetically pleasing break. After all the hard work of decorating home and hearth and tree, I always experience a pang of regret in taking all me decorations down. The one major consolation I have is that I have...

Our previous blog update was filled with complex (simple) calculations on the number of coins it would take to make a mile. It was inspired by Malvern Rotary's annual charity collection with its aim "to raise a mile of coins." We were feeling quite happy with that, as we thought it was an interesting titbit, until we had an email off a friend of ours at Malvern Solicitors. This bright spark wanted to know how much a mile of coins would weigh...

Outside Wilkinson's on Friday afternoon, I was amused to see long lines of coppers (of the coin kind!) lined up under the watchful eye of Malvern's Rotary Society. The aim is to gather one mile of coins in total for local charities.

But how much would that actually be?

On my meanderings throughout Malvern town this afternoon, I left the post office (after perusing their Christmas Cards - I've yet to send one!) and then headed up to the Iapetus Gallery to have a look at theirs (some very nice prints and decorations to be fair - particularly ones by Morna Rhys "May Blossom Sunrise" and Carry Akroyd's "Bright Night").

But in the interim, I went to pay my respects to...

Malvern Decorators readily admits to being out-decorated on Saturday, 29th November, by the fantastic Christmas do that Malvern offered up. Thousands packed along Church Street and thronged around Belle Vue to watch the famous Parade of Lanterns and the Christmas Lights being switched on. Even Sir Edward Elgar, who has stood silently watching many a Christmas Light switched on over the years, couldn't have failed to be impressed. I do believe that my favourite element of it all was...

Malvern Decorators are hoping for a dryish winter!

Malvern Decorators thinks back to last winter, one of the wettest on record, with a veritable shudder. We are not alone amongst the many forms of tradesmen (and women!), who can be frustrated by...

Malvern is a great place to live. It has lots to offer: Elgar, Malvern Theatre, great rail connections, a Waitrose, and, of course, the Malvern Hills.  Who hasn't felt that elation on gaining the summit of the Malverns' highest point, the Beacon? Who hasn't been aroused with some other-worldy sense of history when viewing The British Camp over one's shoulder from Pinnacle Hill as you make your way toward the Wyche...

Malvern Decorators has just unveiled our new website. It's a streamlined affair, and focused so that people don't get too lost in the world of painting and decorating. In the future, I might also include a ...