HERITAGE INTERIORS
Period interior decoration
Period cornicing repair, ceiling-rose restoration, hand-cut lines for listed and Conservation Area properties across EH10.
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EDINBURGH · COMISTON
Award-Winning Painters and Decorators in Comiston
Post-war family residential along Comiston Road and Comiston Drive, Hillpark detached homes off Caiystane Avenue, Buckstone family-housing belt. Borthwick has worked Comiston for decades — family-home decoration, period-correct paint specification for post-war.
4.9 / 5average rating
175+verified reviews
1959est. — 65 years of craft
£10 millionpublic liability cover
Welcome to Borthwick Decorators Comiston
Borthwick Decorators works on post-war family homes, Hillpark Conservation-Area villas and Pentland-edge residential across Comiston EH10. Six decades of Edinburgh experience. 175+ verified reviews at 4.9/5 rating.
Pentland-fringe family belt.
Comiston is the outer-south Morningside fringe — the post-war family-housing expansion along Comiston Road and Comiston Drive, with the Hillpark Conservation-Area detached belt around Caiystane Avenue and the Buckstone family-residential expansion toward the Pentland edge. Property stock is dominantly post-war detached and semi-detached family homes in generous plots.
AWARD WINNING
2025 Cultural Renovation Project of the Year
2025 Residential Category
2024 Private Domestic (Pre-1919) Project of the Year — Contract Manager 2024
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WHAT WE DO IN COMISTON
Our painting and decorating services in Comiston
WALLPAPER
Wallpaper hanging
Feature walls to whole rooms — walls lined first, patterns matched, seams tight. Designer papers and wide-width vinyls hung properly.
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KITCHENS
Hand-painted kitchen cabinet
In-situ cabinetry painting using Farrow & Ball Estate Eggshell or Little Greene Intelligent Eggshell. Brush and roller on-site, no spraying.
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STONE & EXTERIOR
Sandstone & masonry coatings
Lime washes, mineral paint and breathable systems for Edinburgh sandstone elevations. Scaffold or tower hire coordinated.
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DESIGNER-LED
Designer or architect-specified
Sample boards in Farrow & Ball, Little Greene and Paint & Paper Library. Site meetings as part of the design team. RIBA briefs executed.
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Recent work in and around Comiston
ABOUT COMISTON
Outer-south family residential.
Comiston anchors the outer-south Edinburgh family-housing belt — the post-war detached-housing expansion that built out the Pentland edge from the 1950s onward, with substantial layers of Hillpark Conservation-Area villas and modern executive infill. Property stock is dominantly post-war family residential.
For us that means period-correct paint specification for family-home, hand-painted kitchen specification, and the operational care appropriate to occupied family homes with garden settings.
EDINBURGH CLIENT FEEDBACK
A small sample from our Edinburgh portfolio.
Thank you to David and the team for a wonderful job our our new home! Couldn’t ask for better!
Just had several jobs done to my buisness by Borthwick and Son very reliable and very impressed with the attention to detail by David himself. Highly recommend especially for bigger high end jobs.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Working with us in Comiston.
Do you take on listed and Conservation Area work in Comiston?
Yes. Parts of Comiston sit in City of Edinburgh Council Conservation Areas. We hold the heritage finishes specialism and documentation discipline conservation officers expect.
Which streets do you cover?
All of EH10. Strongest concentration of recent work on Comiston Road, Comiston Drive and Pentland View.
How do you handle occupied family homes?
Most Comiston work is occupied. We agree daily start and finish times, dust-protect the working zone, and walk the family through the plan each morning. Daily clean-up is non-negotiable.
What is your lead time for residential work?
Four to six weeks typically. Listed-building consents add six to twelve weeks of pre-work paperwork; we handle that liaison.
Do you work with interior designers and architects?
Regularly. We support sample boards in Farrow & Ball, Little Greene and Paint & Paper Library, attend site meetings as part of the design team, and execute to RIBA briefs.
NEARBY AREAS
Areas near Comiston we work in.
Accreditations & memberships
Public liability insurance to £10 million.
PDA
Painting & Decorating Association
SDF
Scottish Decorators Federation
SSIP
Safety Schemes in Procurement
Trusted Trader
Edinburgh — Trading Standards Vetted
SafeContractor
Independent H&S Verification
CHAS
Contractors Health & Safety
SMAS
Safety Management Advisory
PASMA
Mobile Access Towers
IPAF
Powered Access (PAL)
CONTACT — EDINBURGH
Speak to our Edinburgh team.
Borthwick Decorators Ltd93 George Street
Edinburgh EH2 3ES