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Painters & decoratorsin Camden.
From period terraces to modern apartments, we deliver clean lines, durable finishes, and tidy sites in Camden.
Where we work
Neighbourhoods we cover.
- Camden Town
- Kentish Town
- Belsize Park
- Primrose Hill
- Kings Cross
Postcode districts
NW1NW5
Based at Royal Docks, E16 — travel, parking, and ULEZ are sorted before we arrive.
5.0★
Google Rating
£700
Starting Price Per Room
£2m
Public Liability Cover
1 Year
Workmanship Guarantee
Local knowledge
Why Prime Coat London
in Camden.
Camden decorating is rarely just a repaint. From the pastel stucco terraces of Chalcot Square and Primrose Hill to solid-wall Victorian houses off Kentish Town Road and red-brick Edwardian mansion flats around Belsize Park, much of the borough's stock is ageing, period and often listed or in a conservation area. We restore as much as we refresh — breathable, lime-compatible coatings on stucco, proper damp and salting prep in lower-ground garden flats, and tidy, low-VOC turnarounds for creative and retail units near Camden Market and the canal. Fully insured, with a 1-year workmanship guarantee on every NW1, NW3 and NW5 project.
- 01Trained on Camden's painted stucco: we spec breathable, lime-compatible coatings for the Italianate terraces of Chalcot Square, Regent's Park Road and Alexandra Road, not films that blow the render
- 02Most NW1 and NW3 addresses are leasehold conversions, so we prepare the colour spec, method statement and insurance certificates your managing agent or freeholder needs to sign off communal and exterior work — Section 20 timelines included
- 03We handle the logistics Camden throws up: CPZ bay suspensions, scaffold licences and loading windows around the Market, the High Street and one-car-wide Victorian streets
- 04Genuine damp experience in lower-ground and basement garden flats, with breathable reinstatement rather than a coat of paint over the salts
What we do here
Our services
in Camden.
The same six services we run across London, adapted to how Camden is actually built — its housing stock, access rules, and quirks.
01
Interior Painting for Camden Homes
Most interior jobs in NW1 and NW5 sit in carved-up Victorian houses now split into three or four flats, so the work is making good a century of movement — cracked ceilings, lifted cornice off Haverstock Hill, skirting parted from settled walls. We stabilise original lime plaster before painting, hand-finish ceiling roses up to crisp moulding lines, and box off our zone so neighbours sharing the stair aren't in our dust. In the modern King's Cross blocks the plaster is flat, so there colour and sheen do the talking.
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Exterior & Stucco Painting
Camden's signature elevation is painted Italianate stucco — the cream and pastel fronts of Chalcot Square, Regent's Park Road and the Eton estate. That render is lime-based and must be left to breathe; cheap plastic masonry paint sweats underneath and lifts in sheets within a couple of winters. We use flexible, vapour-open systems, cut out and rebuild cracked stucco and pointing first, treat the timber sashes and consoles, and arrange scaffold and CPZ suspensions on streets too narrow to park a van. Prepped that way a frontage holds five to ten years.
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Wallpaper Removal & Plaster Prep
Strip a wall in an older Kentish Town or Primrose Hill conversion and you rarely find one clean layer — usually woodchip over lining over Victorian distemper, all on lath-and-plaster that flexes if you lean on it. We work with low steam and a patient hand instead of heavy scraping, because gouging that backing turns into a re-skim nobody budgeted for. Once the face is sound we kill any distemper bleed, seal old water tide-marks and flat-fill ready for paint or fresh paper. Modern plasterboard flats just get a quick skim and seal.
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Kitchen Cabinet Spraying
A respray brings a tired Camden kitchen back for roughly a third of a replacement — often close to a 70% saving. We take doors and drawer fronts off to our spray room, lay down a 2K finish that cures hard enough for daily family use, and rehang them on carcasses that never leave the wall. Off Primrose Hill that usually means in-frame and Shaker cabinetry in a heritage colour; in the Camden Town and Kentish Town flats it is more often handleless laminate. New handles and soft-close adjustment are included.
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MDF & Joinery Spraying
Camden's tall, narrow Victorian rooms nearly all share one feature: a chimney breast with an awkward alcove either side crying out for storage. We build and spray bespoke MDF — alcove bookcases, full-height wardrobes, window seats and panelling — so the new joinery reads as part of the room, matching the existing skirting and architrave profiles. Doors and frames are sprayed dead-flat off the wall, and in occupied mews houses we mask and extract carefully so the rest of the room, the radiators and the floor stay clean.
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Mould & Damp Treatment
The damp we meet most in Camden sits in lower-ground and garden flats — the old servant floors of solid-brick terraces around Belsize Park and Kentish Town, where outside ground levels have crept up and salts are drawing through the wall. A coat of paint just feeds the next bloom. We open up the affected plaster, let the wall dry properly, then reinstate with a breathable, salt-tolerant build-up so moisture can move through and evaporate. Where it is condensation in a poorly-vented basement, we tackle the ventilation and cold surfaces, not only the black spots.
View the serviceRecent work
Recent projects
nearby.
A few jobs from around Camden — the kind of work we're quoting for in the area right now.
- 01
Stucco frontage repaint, Chalcot Square
Recoated a four-storey Italianate terrace in the conservation area with a vapour-open system, cutting out and rebuilding cracked render and consoles before a freeholder-signed pastel match.
- 02
Garden-flat damp reinstatement, Kentish Town
Hacked off blown, salted plaster in a lower-ground rear room, let the solid wall dry and rebuilt it breathable after addressing the raised external ground that caused it.
- 03
Alcove joinery and through-lounge repaint, Primrose Hill
Built and sprayed twin full-height alcove wardrobes to sit flush with restored cornicing, then redecorated the room with the owners staying put throughout.
Pricing
Painting prices
in Camden.
From£700per room
Every project in Camden is quoted as a fixed, itemised price after a no-obligation site survey — so you can compare line by line, and the number doesn't change halfway through.
What every quote includes
- Surface repair, filling, and sanding included
- Masking and protection for high-traffic areas
- Low-VOC paint options
- Clear timelines and daily communication
Planning a budget?
Start with real numbers.
The £700 starting price is indicative. The pricing guide breaks costs down room by room — or get a ballpark for your project in Camden in about two minutes with the calculator.
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