Painter & Decorator in East Dulwich (SE22)

Your local decorator, based five minutes from Lordship Lane.

Most of the homes I paint in East Dulwich are Victorian or Edwardian terraces. Three or four bedrooms, high ceilings, picture rails and sash windows that have been over-painted so many times they barely slide. I know these houses well because I live round the corner from most of my jobs. If you're on one of the streets off Lordship Lane, between Goose Green and Peckham Rye, anywhere on the residential side of East Dulwich Grove near the station, or on the slightly quieter roads north towards Peckham, you're well inside my patch.

Why my East Dulwich clients book me

I'm five minutes away. No two-hour commute eating into your day, no surprise delays, no rushed finish at 6pm because I've got to drive across London. I can usually pop round the same week for a site visit.

I know the property stock. Most East Dulwich houses follow the same rough template. Late-Victorian terrace, original cornice in the front rooms, picture rail at about 8 feet, sash windows at the front, a kitchen-extension at the back that's been rebuilt at some point in the last twenty years. I know where the filler cracks are going to show up, which walls have been skimmed over artex, and which ceilings will need a mist coat even though they look fine.

I work at Dulwich pace. Careful, not rushed. Most of my clients are still living in the house while I'm painting it, often working from home. The job gets done to a standard that matches the houses round here.

I keep the site tidy, because I'll be back on your road. A lot of my work in East Dulwich comes from neighbours of previous clients. I'm not going to be the decorator whose van blocks the street and whose skip is still outside two weeks after the job finished.

Services I offer in East Dulwich

• Interior painting — rooms, hallways, whole-house repaints
• Exterior painting — masonry, render, window frames, front doors
• Woodwork & sash windows — skirting, architrave, doors, sashes
• Wallpaper hanging & removal — strip-outs and fresh hangs
• Kitchen cabinet spraying — tired kitchens brought back
• Period & listed property decorating — careful work on older houses

A recent East Dulwich job

Last spring I repainted a whole four-bed Victorian terrace off Barry Road. The clients had moved in six months earlier and hadn't touched a thing. Magnolia throughout, filler from a 1990s refurb that had started to crack and show through the emulsion, a hallway ceiling that had gone grey from candles and ten years of London air.

We spent three weeks on it. Most of the first week was prep. Mirka LEROS on every wall and ceiling, filling picture-hook holes, caulking every skirting and architrave, stain-blocking the hallway ceiling. The owner was working from home through the whole job and later told me the dust level genuinely wasn't a problem, which is the point of the kit.

Walls finished in Farrow & Ball Skimming Stone, ceilings in their All White, woodwork in Mylands Stone Castle Grey No. 155 eggshell for a slight sheen. The job came in £180 under the quote because the plaster was in better shape than I'd estimated, and that money came off the final invoice. That's how it should work.

Coverage in and around East Dulwich

I cover all of SE22, plus the adjacent bits of SE15 (Peckham Rye side) and SE23 (Honor Oak side). The streets I'm on most often are around Lordship Lane, North Cross Road, Barry Road, Friern Road, Goose Green, East Dulwich Grove, Crystal Palace Road, and the roads running down towards Peckham Rye Park.

If you're just outside the patch, ask me anyway. I'll usually still come.