Timeline for AmEng equivalent for BrEng "decorator"
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| Mar 24, 2016 at 16:14 | comment | added | Peter Shor | There are enough businesses in the U.S. called painting and wallpapering (or something similar) that I don't think we have a single word for it. | |
| Mar 21, 2016 at 14:36 | comment | added | Laconic Droid | It may not be so common now, but when I was a kid in the UK, people who painted walls and hung wallpaper advertised themselves in the Yellow Pages and on the side of their (white) vans as "Painter & Decorator". | |
| Mar 21, 2016 at 10:07 | comment | added | Roaring Fish | To me, as a Brit, that is really weird. A painter paints but he doesn't do anything else, at least in vocational terms. | |
| Mar 21, 2016 at 10:01 | comment | added | jejorda2 | @RoaringFish That is exactly what I would do, and have done. Wallpaper and hanging supplies are sold in paint stores. | |
| Mar 21, 2016 at 3:23 | comment | added | Jim | I don’t see how the second definition covers it. It says, “covering surfaces ... with paint” | |
| Mar 21, 2016 at 1:54 | comment | added | Roaring Fish | So, if you wanted somebody to paper your walls, you would ask your friends and colleagues if they knew of a good painter? That seems a bit counterintuitive. | |
| Mar 21, 2016 at 0:56 | comment | added | Hot Licks | I have also seen painters described (in the US) as "decorators", apparently depending on the lack of the "interior" qualification to differentiate them from "real" interior decorators. | |
| Mar 21, 2016 at 0:40 | history | answered | jejorda2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |