Bringing a 1970s Charlestown home up to date
A lot of the work here is not repair, it is modernisation. The bones are sound, but the colours date the house badly: dark stained timber trim, cream or apricot walls, and a feature brick wall that the rest of the room now fights with. Painting is the cheapest lever you have on that. Taking trim to a clean modern white and pulling the wall colour back to a warm neutral changes the whole feel of a room without touching the layout or the budget a renovation would need.
Painting interior brick
Interior feature brick can be painted, and it usually transforms the room. It needs the right sealer-primer for masonry and it is a one-way decision, so we make sure you are certain before we start.
Choosing colours that will not date again
We will bring samples and look at them in your actual light, at the time of day you use the room most. North-facing rooms in Charlestown take a cooler white well. South-facing rooms usually need some warmth or they read grey and cold.
