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Painting and decorating is so much easier if you have the right gear on hand. Check our set list, and you will avoid last minute dashes to the construction market.

Paint Roller

Buy short-and telescopic handles for reaching up walls. The best-value rollers have synthetic heads, which are ideal for painting smooth surfaces with emulsions and water-based paints.

Brushes

Buy the best quality brushes you can afford, look after them well and theywould take years. You need a 50mm for doors and 100mm for walls, floors and ceilings. Smaller brush, 2.5cm, belts and brushes (used for cutting) are tricky to work is essential.

Wire brush

To remove flaking paint and rust.

Wallpapering Scissors

Extra long blades, you just make lines.

Masking tape

Do not rely on your image that exactly – always with tape on sockets and window frames for a coverprofessional finish.

Sponge

Keep clutter to a minimum: a good sponge mop paint and paste leaks quickly and easily.

Scraper

Removes old paint and paper.

Sandpaper

You need to smooth out fine and coarse and finish wood and plaster.

Chalk line

Ideal for simple, accurate drawing of straight lines.

Soundings

A simple device to ensure that you can hang paper vertically.

Wallpaper orHang brushes

The soft bristles smooth wallpaper by squeezing of air bubbles and extra paste.

Paint Pad

An alternative to brushes and rollers, pillows can make a large area of wall coverage quickly.

Paint Shield

Often described as 'George' this, keep your windows, baseboards or moldings splash-free, if the painting.

Storage Buckets

£ 12.99, Ikea. All other items in our rate is the home base. Enchant 60,483 wallpaper£29 per roll, Indulgence Collection, Harlequin

Steamer

This is the fastest way to strip wallpaper without damaging the plaster. Buy one for around £25 or hire for around £18 for a weekend. Steamer, £25, Earlex.

Dustsheet

Spills do happen so use a dustsheet to cover and protect walls and furniture.

Paste brush

Specialist wallpaper paste brushes have softer bristles, so they’re easier to use, though you can use a large Brush instead.

Paint Tray

Make sure it's wide enough to fit around the rollers and pillows. A deep end section will hold more color, so you need so that you fill it less often.

Wallpaper Table

A W-Leg-Insert table is very sturdy and folds flat for easy storage bag. Plastic models are easier to keep clean than wood