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Recent decorating by Martin Kelly. Before and after photographs are first. None of these pictures are labelled with a town.

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Before and after of a kitchen corner. The upper photo shows oak units, a dark worktop and a multicoloured tile splashback, with dust sheets over the counters. The lower photo shows the same kitchen with the walls painted and a white tiled splashback. — Kitchen before and afterA kitchen Martin redecorated. The finished photograph shows painted walls and a white tiled splashback where the multicoloured tiles had been. The oak units stayed as they were.

Before and after collage of a loft bedroom. The top photos show grey prepared walls, an oak slat panel around a fireplace opening, and the room mid-decoration. The large lower photo shows black wallpaper with gold markings, a recessed shelf and the slatted panel. — Loft bedroom before and afterLoft bedroom. The earlier photos show the grey prepared walls. The finished room has black and gold wallpaper, with the oak slat panel kept as a feature.

Before and after of a loft bedroom wall. The top photo shows a grey filled wall, a chest of drawers and oak slats fixed on the right. The bottom photo shows black and gold wallpaper, a slatted shelf niche over the radiator, and a full-height oak slat wall beside a white door. — Loft wall with oak slats, before and afterThe other end of the same loft bedroom. Wallpaper is cut around the slope, with oak slat panelling beside the bed wall.

Before and after of a small downstairs toilet. The left photo shows plain cream walls, a wooden window and a white toilet. The right photo shows the same room papered in a dark floral design with large pink and burgundy flowers. — Downstairs toilet before and afterDownstairs toilet. Plain painted walls on the left, dark floral paper across the room on the right.

Before and after of a living room with a white fireplace. The top photo shows peach walls with filler spots and a strip of old brown floral wallpaper on the chimney breast. The bottom photo shows fern-pattern wallpaper on both side walls and the chimney breast painted a plain light grey. — Living room before and afterLiving room. The first photo still has filler on the walls and a strip of old paper on the chimney. The second has fern wallpaper either side of a plain painted chimney breast.

Split photograph of a dining room. The upper half shows a finished wall of green wallpaper patterned with framed animal portraits, beside a dining table. The lower half shows that wall earlier, pale and unpapered, with chairs under plastic and a stepladder. — Dining room feature wall, before and afterDining-room feature wall. One wall is hung with a busy animal-portrait paper. The return wall, shown in the next photograph, is painted a dusky pink.

Hallway with cream floral stripe wallpaper above grey panelled wainscot, a wooden front door and a side window. An inset photo shows the same hallway earlier, with plain cream walls and the panelling already in place. — Entrance hall before and afterEntrance hall. Floral paper hung above the panels. The inset is the hall before the paper went on.

Hallway with cream floral stripe wallpaper above grey panelling and two oak doors. An inset shows the hallway earlier, painted a plain warm yellow, with tools on the floor. — Panelled hallway before and afterA panelled hallway after floral paper was hung above the dado. The inset shows it painted a plain yellow beforehand.

Kitchen and dining wall finished with leaf-pattern wallpaper above a grey painted dado. An inset photo shows the same wall earlier, with damaged plaster above a pink dado. — Leaf wallpaper above a painted dadoLeaf-pattern paper above a painted dado. The inset is the wall before it was made good and papered.

Collage of a timber fireplace surround being painted. Smaller photos show the surround in its wood finish and then in white in the room. The large photo shows the surround and the mirror frame above it painted a warm off-white, with the black electric fire still in place. — Fireplace surround paintedFireplace surround and the mirror frame above it, painted from bare timber to a warm white.

Living room wall with metallic gold art-deco fan wallpaper above a beige painted dado and a reddish wooden door with a floral wreath. An inset photo shows the room earlier, with different paper still on the wall and furniture pushed together. — Art-deco wallpaper in a living roomArt-deco fan paper above a painted dado. The inset shows the room earlier, before that paper was finished around the door.

Downstairs toilet doorway with dark floral wallpaper on the left, a deep burgundy painted wall on the right, and a small inset photo of the same space when the walls were plain. — Cloakroom in floral paper and burgundy paintThe cloakroom from the doorway: floral paper on the walls you see first, burgundy paint on the return, and the plain room inset as it was.

Hall stairs being painted. White spindles and a handrail are finished, and the lower wall has beige raised panels. A paint-splattered stepladder and open paint tins stand in the hall. A small inset shows the stairs earlier, with blue walls and an unpainted timber handrail. — Stair panelling part-way throughPanelling on a stairs, part-way through. The inset is the earlier blue wall and bare timber rail.

Finished kitchen with oak units, a dark worktop, a white tiled splashback, a sink under the window and a black dishwasher. — Kitchen after the walls were finishedThe same kitchen after the walls and splashback were finished, looking along the sink run.

Dining room with green animal-portrait wallpaper on the left wall and a dusky pink painted wall on the right, with a wooden door, a large station clock and a dining table. — Dining room with paper and pink paintThe dining room finished: paper on one wall, dusky pink paint on the other.

Finished loft bedroom with black and gold wallpaper, a timber shelf niche above a radiator, an oak slat wall to the right and a bed in the foreground. — Finished loft bedroomThe loft bedroom made up, with the feature paper stopped at the slope of the ceiling.

Loft bedroom wall of vertical oak slats behind a dark slatted headboard, with black and gold wallpaper on the sloping ceiling edges and white doors either side. — Oak slat wall behind the bedOak slat wall behind the bed, with the dark paper kept to the slopes above it.

Bedroom with one sloped wall covered in brown and cream willow-leaf wallpaper, the other walls painted white, a black metal bed, matching curtains at the window, and two rolls of the same paper lying on the bed. — Willow-leaf feature wallOne feature wall of willow-leaf paper. The other walls are left painted so the pattern does the work.

Hallway with a grey carpeted staircase and white spindles on the left, and a wall of beige and grey marble-effect wallpaper on the right. White marble-pattern floor tiles run down the hall. — Marble-effect hallway and stairsStaircase and hall. Marble-effect paper on the long wall, woodwork painted white.

Hallway with large cream floral wallpaper above grey-blue panelling, oak doors and a tiled floor. — Floral wallpaper above hallway panellingFloral paper kept above the dado, with the panels and doors as the quieter half of the hall.

Staircase with cream raised-panel walls, a black handrail and black spindles, grey carpet, and a small wooden door under the stairs. — Panelled stairs with a black railPanelled stairwell painted in cream and stone, with the handrail and spindles finished in black.

Turn of a stairs with mottled grey and blush wallpaper above navy blue raised panelling, a wooden handrail on the left and a white glazed door on the right. — Mottled paper above navy panellingMottled paper above navy panelling at the turn of a stairs.

Looking along a hallway with white stair spindles, grey carpet and pale marble-effect wallpaper on the right wall. The far wall is papered in a shimmering cream and gold stripe. — Hallway end wall in shimmering paperThe end of a marble-effect hallway, closed with a shimmering stripe paper.

Staircase during decoration. The walls are finished with sage green panelling below and a dense botanical wallpaper above. The stair treads are bare timber with carpet gripper rods still showing. — Botanical paper on a stairsBotanical paper and sage panelling on a stairs. The treads were still bare when this was taken, so it shows the walls rather than a finished carpet.

Dining room before decoration, with filler patches across the ceiling, pale walls, furniture wrapped in plastic and a large station clock. — Ceiling filled before paintingCeiling filled and left to dry before paint. This photograph is the preparation, not the finished room.

More finishes go up on Facebook as they are photographed. Exterior jobs are not in this set yet.