Painting and decorating, done with a film-set eye
I'm Darren Fitzgerald. I've been a painter and decorator for 30 years, and spent 25 of them painting sets for major films. Now I'm taking on homes and businesses across Hertfordshire.
Interiors, exteriors, wallpaper, kitchen cupboards, and the specialist finishes most decorators won't touch, like marbling and wood graining.
What I paint
No job is too small, from a single front door to a whole house.
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Kitchen cupboard painting
Kitchen cupboards hand-painted or sprayed in Hertfordshire. Proper degreasing, keying and priming so the new colour lasts, on wood, MDF and many laminate doors.
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Interior decorating
Walls, ceilings, woodwork and whole-house redecoration across Hertfordshire, with careful preparation, protected floors and furniture, and a clean finish.
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Exterior painting
Exterior painting across Hertfordshire: render, masonry, windows, fascias, soffits and front doors, prepared properly to stand up to the British weather.
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Wallpaper hanging
Wallpaper hanging across Hertfordshire: lining paper, patterned and designer papers, feature walls, murals, paste-the-wall papers and stripping old paper.
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Doors and staircases
Front doors, internal doors, staircases, spindles and handrails painted properly in Hertfordshire, with a hard-wearing finish for the most-used woodwork.
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Faux marbling
Hand-painted faux marble for fireplaces, columns, skirting, panels and furniture in Hertfordshire, from a decorator who marbled film sets for 25 years.
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Wood graining
Traditional hand-painted wood graining in Hertfordshire: oak, mahogany, walnut and pine effects on doors, panelling and joinery, matched to original timber.
Recent work
Marbling, graining and everyday decorating, photographed on the job.
From film sets to front rooms
For 25 years I painted sets for some of the biggest productions shot in Britain. On a film set every surface has to look real on camera, so I learned to make plaster look like stone and new timber look a hundred years old.
- Productions includeCasino Royale
- Quantum of Solace
- Skyfall
- Batman
- Wonder Woman
- Mission: Impossible
- Fury
Why people use me
You deal with me from the first call to the last coat. I turn up when I say I will, protect your floors and furniture, and leave the place clean.
- 30 years as a painter and decorator
- City & Guilds qualified in painting and decorating
- 25 years painting sets for the film industry
- Limited company registered in England and Wales
Get a price
Tell me what needs doing and where you are. Photos of the room or the job help me give you a price quickly.