Seagulls: A Beginners Guide to Painting & Decorating

Venue:  Seagulls Reuse, 103 Kirkstall Road Aire Place Mills Leeds LS3 1JL

This course is a mix of demonstrations and practical, hands on experience to give you the confidence needed to decorate a room.

3 hour crash course in decorating will equip you with all the basic techniques and skills needed to tackle a room from preparation to finish (focussing on the walls and ceiling). The workshop will take place in our pods. The pods have been built to emulate a real room setting to give you the best experience possible for learning decorating techniques. Ruksar, our in house decorator will guide you through the process from start to finish:

1. Preparation; learning how to get rid of pesky stains, the best types of fillers for different jobs.

2. Ceilings

3. Cutting in- perhaps the most important aspect of decorating to get that all important professional finish. We will spend a reasonable amount of concentrating on this technique as it’s so easy once you know how and have had some practice and you’ll never need to use masking tape again!

4. Rolling off the walls

5. Woodwork; skirting boards, windows and doors ( there won’t be time for any practical practice of woodwork. More a chat and demo)

Ruksar is a professionally trained decorator with years of experience under his belt. He is an engaging facilitator and the course will be very much hands on and full of practical tips. He loves to talk and share his knowledge so expect to come away brimming with painty solutions to your decorating woes!