Decorating family houses across the parish
Bigger homes mean more doors, skirtings and window boards, and the woodwork usually decides how long a room takes. We sand it, fill dents and splits, prime any bare timber, then undercoat and finish in gloss, satin or eggshell.
Colour is easier to judge on the wall than on a chart, so we paint tester pots in a few places and you see each shade in morning and evening light. Part of a house in the village was decorated by us in Farrow & Ball before its floors were restored, and our Farrow & Ball decorator page explains how we work with those paints.
Old cottages and later houses need different prep
Council Tax records date about 240 homes in the parish to before 1919. Their walls can be soft and patched, so we often hang lining paper before painting. The much larger group built between 1965 and 1999 tends to have truer walls but cracked joints and knocked softwood, which we fill and sand with Mirka dust-free sanders.
Around 360 households rent, privately or from a social landlord. Rented rooms get a hard-wearing emulsion that can be touched in neatly when the tenancy changes.
Haddenham at a glance
- 10 milesby road from our Landbeach base, about 16 minutesOSRM routing
- 1,457householdsCensus 2021
- 74%of homes are owner-occupiedCensus 2021
- 13%of homes are privately rentedCensus 2021
- 16%of properties were built before 1919VOA Council Tax stock
- 4%are flatsCensus 2021
How we approach interior decorating
In an older Haddenham cottage we check how sound the plaster is, fill cracks, and line walls that are too uneven for paint alone. In later houses we fill joints and dents, spot-prime, and sand with Mirka extraction. Ceilings are painted first, walls next and woodwork last, and we clear up every evening so the house stays usable. The full method, products and FAQs are on our interior decorating page.