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.
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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. 
I must remember that one.