How often do you Decorate?

Really? I am surprised at that.

I am only going on people I see in the street who blow it up in the air Percy, in fact they blow it up, down, and sideways too, so the poor beggar walking behind them gets a faceful! :lol:

It does depend on how you exhale, obviously, but, looking into the physical chemistry of the liquids used, the vapour is, basically, heavier than air so it tends to sink more quickly. Which ciggy smoke, that’s about the same density as fresh air so it mixes far more easily and stays up in the air for longer.

Hi

The house was freshly decorated when I moved in, various shades of grey and white woodwork.

It looked great, but sadly did not last.

Now redoing it in Wickes Ghost White, washable and scrubbable and a water based acrylic white polyurethane for the woodwork.
Neither are cheap but should last me out.

At home we decorate only when it begins to look tatty, we did the bedroom over Easter and then the kitchen was done prior to our new kitchen being installed.
At work however it’s a different story, in the year since I’ve been there I’ve done 13 bedrooms, most of the downstairs and upstairs corridors, the visitor w/c and two residents W/c,s, an upstairs shower room, and have just finished touching up one of the dining rooms which involved painting the bottom and top half of the room, on Monday I’m about to start the staff room, oh, I nearly forgot the garden table and six chairs plus two benches and some railings I did in the summer, funny thing is though, it’s just had planning permission approved so it’ll get extended and knocked about a bit, although,when that is no one knows yet…good job I like painting though,

I can relate to that Primus, I used to maintain a care home and the jobs never stopped… :slight_smile:

We decorated our dining room, wallpapering and painting, last July during the lockdown period. It wasn’t planned, we wanted to do something and I suggested decorating, much to Mr Mag’s dismay he agreed with me! :lol: We couldn’t have picked a hotter time to do it, the temperatures were over 30ºC and it was hard going.

I learnt one lesson though, that will be my last decorating! :lol:

Yes Barry, and that’s on top of all the other things I have to do

This house is stuck in the 80’s, probably longer. Not been decorated for years. Though I do have a new shower.

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I am not expected to last long, the Docs have been wrong before.

\i am decorating to leave the house in the best possible condition for my son.

It is also cheering me up, it looks much better.

we haven’t decorated our living room for about 4 years and it still looks really clean. Come to think of it I fancy a change, I’m getting bored of it now and I fancy grey/silver in my living room.

I love decorating the kids laugh at me every time I start saying the rooms in the house were much larger before I got at them with all the layers of paint …I enjoy updating though and experimenting

My son painted his lounge in light grey … it looks lovely

we had our bedroom done in silver grey and darker grey on opposite ways, it looks really nice, you can get some really nice wallpaper for a feature wall too. I can’t decorate we have to get someone in so no chance of it doing just now.

I am however going to tackle our computer room week after next, we’ve just decluttered it so it just needs new decor now and then I’ll be happy.

Happy weekend Summer x

I used to do all the decorating myself…loved doing it , the last time the living room was painted was 2 years ago when we had a new carpet fitted, can’t do it now , I’m 75 , would love to be able to but …the time has come to get someone else …

I have lived in my house 40 years and I have painted the inside twice and the outside three times (its a wooden house)

At the moment I have thinking of painting the inside white but there is usally a long time between the thinking and doing. Decorating and lawn mowing are two jobs I hate.

Hi

there is something special about a freshly decorated house.

Well worth it.

All our rooms are the same: cream walls, white woodwork and ceilings. Never get bored with it so never needs decorating. It says clean: I haven’t smoked in 20 years and haven’t smoked in doors in 30 years.

I’ve moved home quite a bit in my time, always decorated after buying and before selling. Been in our current property 14 years, that’s the longest I’ve ever stayed in the same place.

Just finished decorating the kitchen. I only installed it a couple of years ago but it was looking a bit tatty. Not sure which room is next. It takes me longer to get motivated these days. I can only put it down to the fact that I have done so much decorating and DIY over the years that the novelty has worn off. I’m dreading re-doing the hall and landing which involves getting the big ladders out.

Our way of decorating has changed over the years. I’ve done wood panelling, ceiling tiles, cork tiles and heavily patterned wallpaper in the years when those styles were all the rage.

In this house, I’ve gone more for just painting everywhere but not before papering the walls with lightly-contoured lining paper. The ceilings are Artexed in a random pattern (done by the last owners) but I quite like that and so have left them as they are.

My theory now is that if I paint the walls and ceiling too often, the rooms will get slightly smaller each time because of the thickness of paint building up. I don’t want the rooms to get smaller and that’s a good reason not to keep painting them. :smiley:

I must remember that one.