Brewers Decorators Merchants

Useful shop that sells decorating material, such as paint, wallpaper and the like. It’s not quite a DIY store, as it doesn’t seem to have power drills and the like, but if you’re simply decorating a room in your house, you’ll probably find what you need here. The shop has the feel of a cross between a hardware store and a soft furnishings shop.
I actually stumbled across Brewers via Google, after a fruitless search for a shade of white paint that only seemed to be available to the trade.
Homebase completely failed me, since the barely pubescent Saturday staff weren’t exactly the most knowledgeable, but Brewers was listed as a place that dealt in trade colours.
After about 30 seconds of looking at paint on the shelves in Brewers, someone spotted my cluelessness and rescued me. He quickly found out what exactly I wanted, despite my vagueness, and gave great advice on what I needed to buy. There was a clear focus on what the customer wants, rather than trying to sell me more than I needed.
A nice touch is that while I was waiting for my paint to be mixed up, I was offered a free drink from the vending machine. Ok, it’s hardly fresh filter coffee, but it’s still much more than you could reasonably expect from a DIY shop.
I’m definitely shopping here for my decorating needs from now on, and avoiding Homebase like the plague.