4 easy ways to acquire kerb appeal

Paint is an easy way to smarten your property’s facade, but work with the building’s style, its neighbours and with the landscape, advises Kya de Longchamps.

The paint job on the outside of a house is something we notice largely when it’s gone rudely off-piste — like the row of period terraces with the clown house shrieking at its centre — the striped house in Kensington, below, being a case in point.

Dramatically glossy finishes in poster paint choices seem disconnected from the render — flagging a brutal Teflon overcoat can be offensive.