A bit about us …….

Diversify : Portfolio Careers / Businesses

In the year 2010 it is not uncommon for people and businesses to diversify?

Adrian and Hazel Rayfield (us) have been doing this for many years and have a small portfolio of careers / businesses.

Web Design and Development : www.breakofday.co.uk
Web Graphics and Website Concept Design : www.webchicboutique.co.uk
Professional Painting and Decorating : www.propertydecorating.co.uk

Plus Blogging :
DIY and Decorating Tips and Tricks of the Trade Blog :
www.propertydecorating.co.uk/blog
DIY By Design : www.diybydesign.co.uk this blog of web design and our news and events.

Continue reading Our Portfolio Careers / Businesses

A Summer Time Website Refresh!

I have just added some deck chairs to the DIY BY Design Theme banner. It is good to update websites and blogs from time to time, and a new graphic or banner can add just enough of change to keep things new and interesting.

Continuity and keeping a theme running

To keep with the scheme of DIY By Design and its beach hut design …. who can resist an ice cream!

Custom graphics and images add a unique feel to a website and can be colour co-ordinated to match you company branding. Great for promoting products and services.

If you would like a new website banner or seasonal graphics for your website visit our websites @ www.breakofday.co.uk or www.webchicboutique.co.uk

Interior Styles and Tips : Wallpapers – calculating what you need for that special job!

Today Adrian was featured on the website of Interior designer Françoise Murat as a guest in her Wallpaper feature in the Interior Design, Styles and Tips section talking about how and why he developed the www.propertydecorating.co.uk Wallpaper calculator.

Read the full article here on the Françoise Murat website : Wallpapers – calculating what you need for that special job! >>

The www.propertydecorating.co.uk website designed, built and coded by Adrian for our family decorating business as gone from strength to strength over the past two years.

The website includes many resources including a series of DIY / decorating calculators which allow people to imput measurements and calculate the amount of wallpaper, paint or tiles they may need for a job. These calculators have been designed and coded by Adrian.

Tips and Tricks of the Trade

The www.propertydecorating.co.uk blog now has over 50 posts, and features a series of articles on DIY and Decorating Tips and Tricks of the Trade. The blogs gets a lot of hits daily and comments on the articles are all favourable.

Bee Photo’d!

One of our photos, taken by Adrian has appeared in a blog today by Interior Designer and Landscape Garden Designer, Francoise Murat in her post as the guest blogger at Tepilo, the article “Attracting wildlife to your garden” has a lot of information on how we can attract wildlife and is an interesting read.

Read the blog at http://www.tepilo.com/blog/310/attracting_wildlife_to_your_garden/

It is great to see the photograph of a bee just landing on a flower which was taken by Adrian in May last year in North Essex used for the blog.