decorator

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When the boys were young, they remember their dad as a full-time painter and decorator, who also did DIY for neighbours, which is when they first knew how generous he could be with his time.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026

"I feel the safest I've ever been," said Liberty Mini, a 33-year-old interior decorator originally from Burundi, who has lived in Lagos for three years.

From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025

Growing up in Roslyn, N.Y., where his mother was an interior decorator and his father ran a small business selling restaurant supplies, Gary had admired the “Great Gatsby”-style estates along Long Island’s Gold Coast.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

The set decorator, the painter, the greens person that puts the moss in is like, “Do you see where I put the moss right there? You see the moss right there?”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

Mr. Glass’s perhaps most inspired coup as a decorator was manifest just behind and above the couch where young Franny Glass was now sleeping.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger