Interior Painting in Hampstead & North London

A standard three-bedroom property in Hampstead typically takes two to three weeks for a full interior repaint, including thorough preparation and two to three coats to full opacity on all surfaces. A larger four-bedroom period house, with detailed cornicing, dado rails and panelling to cut in by hand, runs to three to four weeks.

No. We work room by room and most of our Hampstead clients stay at home throughout. Please remove small, fragile and valuable items from the rooms being decorated; we move larger furniture to the centre of the room, shroud it, and protect floors and fixtures. Preparation runs through Mirka CEROS orbital sanders connected to HEPA extraction, capturing 99.97% of airborne particulate at source. We plan the work sequence to minimise disruption to your daily routine.

For Hampstead period homes, we most often specify Farrow & Ball, Little Greene, and Mylands. These brands offer exceptional depth of colour, heritage-authentic palettes, and superior coverage on older plaster surfaces. We also work with Paint & Paper Library and Benjamin Moore for contemporary schemes. Premium brands such as Farrow & Ball or Little Greene add approximately 15–30% to material costs.

Preparation is the foundation of a lasting finish. We fill all cracks and imperfections, sand surfaces smooth with dust-free equipment, treat any damp patches, apply appropriate primers, and ensure every surface is clean and sound before any topcoat is applied. On period plaster, we test for distemper and treat accordingly.

We work across Hampstead Village, Hampstead Heath, Belsize Park, Swiss Cottage, Frognal, Primrose Hill from our Finchley Road base. If your street is not listed, call us — we cover most of NW and N London and will tell you honestly if a job is outside our patch.

Mostly Victorian and Edwardian houses and period conversion flats across NW3 and the neighbouring postcodes, where the plaster is old and the cornicing, dado rails and panelling have to be cut in by hand. We test period plaster for distemper before we specify anything, and we work the same way in newer flats where the surfaces are simply flatter.