Decorating
Decorating is where a house truly becomes a home. It’s the final layer that transforms bare plastered walls and functional spaces into rooms that express your personality, match your style, and feel genuinely yours. While painting is often the core of decorating work, the discipline encompasses much more: wallpapering, feature walls, colour coordination, texture, pattern, and all the finishing details that bring interiors together. Good decorating turns a building project into a completed home, a renovation into a transformation, and tired rooms into spaces you love spending time in.
At Klassic GS, we offer comprehensive decorating services that go beyond simply applying paint. We approach decorating as an art form — one that requires not just technical skill but also an understanding of colour, proportion, light, and style. Our decorators have years of experience creating beautiful interiors, and they bring genuine care and attention to every project. Whether you have a complete vision you want executed precisely or you need guidance developing ideas, we’re here to help bring your interiors to life.
Wallpapering is one of our particular strengths. In skilled hands, wallpaper creates effects that paint simply cannot achieve. Bold patterns that make dramatic statements. Subtle textures that add depth and interest. Metallic finishes that catch the light. Murals that transform entire walls into works of art. Grasscloth and natural fibres that bring organic warmth. The variety available today is extraordinary, from traditional designs to cutting-edge contemporary patterns. Hanging wallpaper properly requires precision and patience — matching patterns across joins, handling corners and obstacles, ensuring bubbles and wrinkles don’t appear, and achieving seams that virtually disappear. Our decorators have the expertise to hang any wallpaper beautifully, including challenging materials and complex patterns.
Feature walls deserve special mention as a powerful decorating tool. A single wall treated differently can transform an entire room, creating a focal point that anchors the space and adds visual interest without overwhelming. Feature walls might showcase bold wallpaper in an otherwise neutral room, a dramatic paint colour that ties together other elements, decorative panelling that adds architectural interest, or textured finishes that create subtle depth. We help you identify where feature walls will have maximum impact and execute them to perfection.
Colour is fundamental to decorating, and choosing the right colours can feel overwhelming given the thousands of options available. Colours affect mood, perceived space, and how rooms connect with each other. Warm tones create cosy, inviting atmospheres. Cool shades feel calm and spacious. Dark colours add drama and intimacy. Light colours maximise brightness and openness. Colours also interact with natural and artificial light, looking different at various times of day and under different bulbs. We offer colour consultation if you’d like guidance, helping you select palettes that work for your spaces, your lifestyle, and your existing furnishings. Alternatively, if you know exactly what you want, we execute your specifications precisely.
Beyond painting walls, decorating encompasses all the finishing elements that complete a room. Woodwork needs appropriate treatment — primer, undercoat, and topcoat applied correctly for durable, attractive finishes. Ceilings deserve attention too, often benefiting from lighter colours that maximise light and create a sense of height. Radiators, pipes, and other fixtures should be finished to complement rather than detract from the overall scheme. We attend to all these details, ensuring nothing is overlooked.
Preparation remains crucial in decorating, perhaps even more so than in straightforward painting. Wallpaper requires properly prepared surfaces — clean, smooth, and appropriately sealed. Any imperfections show through wallpaper just as they do through paint. Walls must be assessed for condition, with repairs made, old paper removed, and surfaces prepared before new covering can be applied. This prep work takes time but makes all the difference to the finished result. We never rush preparation because we know shortcuts inevitably show in the final outcome.
Special finishes and techniques expand decorating possibilities further. Colour washing, rag rolling, and sponging create subtle texture and depth. Stencilling adds pattern without the commitment of wallpaper. Metallic and pearlescent paints produce surfaces that shimmer and shift. Chalk paints enable distressed, vintage effects. Each technique has its place, and we have experience across the range, able to execute specialist finishes when they’re right for a particular project.
We work in occupied homes and understand the need to minimise disruption. Furniture is moved and protected, floors covered, adjacent surfaces masked. Dust and debris are contained and cleared. We work methodically through properties, completing rooms fully before moving on so you can return to normal use as quickly as possible. At the end of the project, we leave spaces clean and ready to enjoy — nothing remaining but beautifully finished rooms.
Decorating is often the final step in a larger project, and timing matters. We coordinate with other trades to ensure decorating happens at the right stage — after plastering has dried, after carpentry is complete, after electrics are tested. When we’re part of a larger Klassic GS project, this coordination is seamless. When we’re working with other contractors, we communicate clearly to ensure smooth scheduling.
Your home is a reflection of who you are. The colours you choose, the patterns that appeal to you, the textures you’re drawn to — they all express something personal. Good decorating honours that expression, turning your vision into reality with skill, care, and attention to detail. At Klassic GS, we’re here to help you create interiors you’ll love for years to come.