How to save time and money on your decorating project

As a homeowner, I’ve been through quite a few rounds of decorating in various houses I’ve lived in. It usually involves a lots of legwork – from trawling the internet for hours looking for inspiration, to spending a small fortune on match pots. We’ve also made the odd expensive mistake along the way when a colour that looked good on a 1 inch square on a paint chart didn’t look quite as good on the walls!

Not so this time because we found Philip Martyn Design and their fabulous colour consultancy service.

The whole experience from start to finish was fantastic. After an initial ‘fact finding’ phone call, a specialist colour consultant, Dan, visited us at home. He came well prepared with mood boards of different looks, and I was surprised at how quickly he got to grips with what we liked and what we were trying to achieve with our decorating refresh.

Dan brought a whole new dimension to choosing paint colours. He looked at the flow of the house, considered our furniture, curtains, carpets and so on, before making suggestions that we loved, using colour combinations that we would never have thought to use. We agreed the colours there and then.

By the time Dan left we couldn’t wait for the decorating to begin. He followed up quickly with a full written specification of which colours to use on each of the walls in each of the rooms he had colour designed for us.

And just like that, we were ready to go. No stress, no hassle, no trial and error with pricey paint pots, no trailing around DIY shops or trawling the internet for ideas.

We had already booked our decorator through Philip Martyn Design so the decorating began a week later and the whole project finished within two weeks. We are delighted with the end result – it is truly transformational.

Alison Grady