Richard’sDecorating & Maintenance

Brighton & East Sussex · Interior · Exterior · Maintenance

Brighton walls, painted properly — and your house handed back clean.

Interior and exterior decorating across Brighton and East Sussex, plus the small maintenance jobs other painters won’t touch. Dust sheets down, edges sharp, the place tidier than we found it.

5.0

19 Google reviews · “the quality really speaks for itself”

A floral feature wall hung and finished by Richard in a Brighton bedroom
What we do

Painting and decorating, inside and out, plus the maintenance bits most painters skip.

One decorator, doing the lot properly: walls and woodwork inside, render and masonry outside, plus the filling and small repairs that make the difference.

Inside

Walls, ceilings, woodwork and paper

A stairwell repainted in a soft sage green with crisp white trim by Richard in Brighton
Stairwell · interior repaint

Rooms repainted, woodwork brought back, feature walls papered. We work clean around your furniture and your routine, so the house stays lived-in while it’s being decorated, not turned into a building site.

  • Whole rooms or a single tired wall
  • Woodwork, doors, skirting and frames
  • Feature walls and wallpaper

Outside

Render, masonry and weather-proof coatings

A freshly rendered and painted house exterior in Brighton with scaffolding still up
Exterior render · in progress

Brighton homes take the weather: sun, salt air and damp. We prep and paint render, masonry and woodwork with coatings built to hold, including silicone systems on newly-rendered walls.

  • Rendered and masonry walls
  • Silicone and weather-proof coatings
  • Fascias, soffits and exterior woodwork

The maintenance most decorators leave behind

Decorating is only as good as the prep underneath it. Here’s the work that happens before and around the paint.

Cut-in lines, by hand

The edge where wall meets ceiling, trim and frame, done with a brush and a steady hand. Not masking-taped and hoped for.

Filling, sanding & making good

Cracks raked out, holes filled, surfaces sanded flat. The boring prep that decides how the finish actually looks.

Small fixes, while we’re here

A sticking door, tired skirting, a windowsill that’s seen better days. The odd jobs most decorators leave for someone else.

Wallpaper, hung straight

Pattern matched, seams tight, bubbles out. Papers and feature walls put up so they stay up.

The handover

Sheets down, masked off, and the place handed back clean.

Your home stays livable while we work: floors covered, edges masked, dust kept down. Scroll to pull the sheet back on two real Brighton jobs.

A palm-leaf feature wall papered by Richard in a Brighton living roomA rendered and repainted house exterior with a spiral staircase in Brighton
Real Brighton jobs: interior wallpaper & exterior render
What Brighton says

Five stars, nineteen times over.

INTERIOR · EXTERIOR · MAINTENANCE ·BRIGHTON
5.0

19 Google reviews

Every job rated five stars. No padding, no buying reviews. Just nineteen Brighton homeowners who’d have Richard back.

Read all the reviews on Google
Richard recently painted the newly rendered exterior walls of my house using Weber Silicone paint, and the finished result is truly incredible. He is a first class craftsman, hard working and highly professional.
Gill Tait· Brighton
Richard has done an amazing job painting my flat and fixing the ceiling and windowsill. The quality of his work really speaks for itself. Would 100% use his services again.
Kristina Saba
The two wallpapering jobs I gave him certainly weren’t the easiest and he made an excellent job of them both. A highly experienced craftsman, friendly, with a wealth of experience.
Guy Warzee
He painted both the exterior of our house and the kitchen. Professional, very conscientious and very fairly priced. The quality of the work done is superb. Thank you.
Jon Attfield
Richard cares not only about his craft, but also about YOU, his client. The quality of his work is excellent and without fault.
Karla Ford
No vague “we’ll fit you in”

How a quote works, and a date you can actually plan around.

We come and look, free

Tell us roughly what you need and we’ll come round, no charge and no hard sell, to see the actual job.

A straight written quote

One fair price in writing for the work we agreed. No day-rate creep, no “we’ll see how it goes”.

A date you can hold us to

We book a start date and turn up on it. Sheets down, the work done properly, the place left clean.

Richard's Decorating and Maintenance business card: Richard Longman, Decorator, Brighton
Richard Longman, decorator. “A friendly and reliable service”, on Brighton fridges and in Brighton hallways for years.
Tell us about the job, 30 seconds

Tell us about the job and we’ll call you back.

Answer four quick questions about what you need and we’ll get back to you. There are no prices online — every quote is free and done properly on-site, once we’ve seen the actual job.

  • No email wall, just the questions
  • A clear picture of the job before we visit
  • Ends with a free callback, not a hard sell

Rather just talk? Call Richard on 07707 558099.

What needs doing?

Pick the closest. We cover the rest on the day.

Interior painting & decoratingExterior painting & renderWallpaperingFilling, sanding & repairsA mix of jobs
Roughly how big is the job?
A single roomA few roomsWhole house, insideWhole house, outsideJust the small bits
When do you need it done?
It’s urgent — an emergencySoon, in the next few weeksJust planning ahead for now
Whereabouts are you?

So we know it’s on our patch in Brighton and East Sussex.

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Local, not passing through

Brighton and East Sussex, salt air and period houses included.

Where we work

Born-and-bred local work across Brighton and East Sussex: the city terraces, Hove, Kemptown and the villages out east. We know how the sea air chews through exterior paint and how a Victorian house wants treating, because we work on them every week.

BrightonHoveKemptownEast Sussex

When you’ll find us

Monday – Friday
7:30am – 5:30pm
Saturday
8:30am – 1:00pm
Sunday
Closed
5.0 from 19 Google reviews

Sharp lines, a fair price, and your house handed back clean.

Tell Richard what you need doing in Brighton or East Sussex. The survey and the quote are free, and the date is one you can hold us to.