Isn’t water awful? Disaster. Ruins Six Nations rugby matches (I wish the Aviva had a roof) and is a demon for kitchens. If it were up to me, I wouldn’t let the stuff anywhere near a kitchen. Far too much chance of damage, if you ask me.
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While most of the kitchens I paint are in houses in Munster, I do travel all over Ireland. In fact, I’ll be in Ennis painting a kitchen when this post appears. And I have several Dublin kitchens booked this year already.
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I don’t know who gets busier around now, Santa’s elves or me.
On the one hand you have the elves. They are finishing billions of presents and putting the final touches to a logistics plan that needs to guarantee overnight deliveries to half a billion children worldwide by Christmas morning.
On the other hand, there is me. Racing to hand paint kitchens before Christmas.
I couldn’t live without my hairdryer. I take it everywhere I go. My wife gets quite jealous. Partly because of the close bond I have with my hairdryer. Partly because mine cost more than hers.
I tell my wife she has nothing to worry about. It’s not like I keep track of when I first met my current hairdryer. (3rd February, 2018.)
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Let’s talk about tanning bleed.
You might think that’s what happens when you stay out in the sun too long. It’s not. At least, I don’t think so. I’m from Wales. I don’t know very much about the sun. (Mostly, we get our warmth from world-class harmony singing and a fine national rugby team.)
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THE greatest honour in life is when someone names something after you. I don’t mean when your kids name things after you. Like 'Daddy’s chair'. Or 'Daddy’s no', which is a firm no that is easily overturned by a 'Mummy’s yes'. (By the way, a Lee Reeve 'Daddy’s yes' is equally brittle.)
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I know two things about reputations.
One, they take a lifetime to build, but only a second to ruin.
Two, your reputation is what other people say about you behind your back.
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I couldn’t believe it. There was dust everywhere—spewed about the place by the heavy-duty sander that was being used to prep the kitchen.
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Have you heard of the lac bug? It lives in India and parts of southeast Asia. As a larva, it crawls along branches, excreting a waxy substance. If you paint your nails, you might be wearing some lac bug excretion on your hands right now. It’s the main ingredient in shellac nail polish.
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You might think that watching paint dry is boring. For me, it’s the opposite. Sometimes paint can dry too quickly for my liking.
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There are several things a kitchen painter doesn’t want to hear after they’ve started work.
“Was that scratch always there?” is one.
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I’m quite well respected. Outside my own home, anyway. But that doesn’t mean that I simply stroll into jobs. Nor would I expect to. People entrust me with their dream kitchens. They are right to ask a few questions before hiring me.
I must tell you about one job that I didn’t land easily.
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The story of how a 24-year-old kitchen in Youghal, Co. Cork, was transformed by a lot of love and some gorgeous paint.
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Anyone can hand paint a kitchen cabinet. But not everyone can do it properly. Even people who say they are professional kitchen painters. Here’s a story about how I was able to rescue a kitchen in Cork after the original painter did a terrible job.
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It’s important to know for sure that once your kitchen is painted it is the colour you were expecting. Here is a story about how I made sure a client in Cork got the colour kitchen she wanted.
Read MoreWorking in someone else’s house brings with it a lot of care. Quite often, the kitchen floor will be new. The last thing I want to do is leave behind paint drops on a freshly laid tile or wooden floor. Here is how I protect my clients’ floors when I paint their kitchens.
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The story of a hand-painted kitchen in Cork and how I went about the job from start to finish, making sure all of my client’s requests were met.
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