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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: MrBump on January 18, 2009, 08:15:41 PM
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Decorating sucks.
Decorating is the curse of being a home owner.
Just spent today painting the walls in my "spare" room - I say "spare" as this is what my wife calls it. Spare? How can it be spare, when it's crammed full of guitar and computer bits and bobs? Women! No sense of perspective.
Anyway, £300 in B&Q yesterday and I have laminate flooring to be laid tomorrow. And wife is choosing desks, cabinets and wardrobes etc for me to assemble and install.
I could be playing my guitar...
Incidentally, that £300 was the money that I was going to put to a far better use in another post earlier. Obviously, that idea has now gone tits up.
In the words of Johnny Ramone, "I Don't Want To Grow Up..."
Mark.
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Mate, that all sounds like no fun at all. I sometimes think it'd be nice to own my own place, but tales like that quickly convince me otherwise. Of course in my case, there's no wife...
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my parents own our home... we just don't bother decorating. :lol:
there's no rule that says you have to do it...
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my parents own our home... we just don't bother decorating. :lol:
there's no rule that says you have to do it...
There is no rule.
But there is a wife.
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I sometimes think it'd be nice to own my own place, but tales like that quickly convince me otherwise. Of course in my case, there's no wife...
If you own your own place (or live in Dave's house) there is no need to decorate. :)
Although I sometimes look round my flat at the vast piles of paper, CDs, DVDs, books, magazines and guitars (not to mention dust)............. it's like some kind of badly-designed obstacle course with the odd bit of furniture scattered about. :(
It might be quite nice to have someone to force me to make it less squalid...
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Yeah - being forced to be less squalid is a necessary evil, I guess.
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nah, i'm happy as it is. i'd need some kind of UN disaster relief task force to help tidy out my room for a start...
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Fairly major jobs in our house, too. Since we moved in in 2006, we've done the kitchen, bathroom (knocking together toilet and bathroom to create a reasonable sized room, re-plumbing, moving soil stack, etc etc), main bedroom, heating and electrics. While I've not done all of that myself, I'm still doing the majority of it. Before a family visit from Canada in May, we have to put a fireplace and new floor downstairs and redecorate the two remaining bedrooms. Shame that all the floor levels downstairs are at different heights - no job in this house has been straightforward!!
I have to say though, I do find pleasure in the finished product - it really feels as though you've achieved something, and I've learned a lot along the way (and have so much more to learn, too). The fact that I can now do the electrics and plastering is going to save us a fortune in the long-term!
Roo
PS but yeah, it's a crock not having time to play guitar!
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no job in this house has been straightforward!!
they never are...
i have a nice kitchen with no skirting board and a decent front room wsith no boxing in around the meters. I always get a room so far and then loose interest at the final stage. infact i think the bedroom is the only finished room we have and that needs a new blind and the ceiling repainting after we had a slight roof leak just after i finished it. Bathrooms the next major job and i am hoping my dining room and spare bedroom will be easy but i know as soon as i start i will find something that needs fixing ::)
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Philly, man. The words "careful what you wish for" spring to mind.
Mrs. headtheball is properly OCD. Ridiculously so. By contrast, i work on a system that if it's not presenting an imminent danger to life and limb, It'll be grand. Back when we first met as students and there was the obligatory sleeping at others' houses and such, It wouldn't be rare to, say, go to the bathroom and come back to find my clothes hung up neatly on a hanger. I've gone to the shop and returned to find her busily "sorting out" various odds and ends that are really doing no harm to anyone. All of a sudden, your CD's are alphabetised, your socks arranged in a drawer by colour and age. Once, I met her on the stairs with my mouse and keyboard in hand, taking them for "a good wash". All them great old t-shirts and jeans are gone now, lost to such vague complaints as being "full of holes" or "a bit scruffy". That's as may be, darling, but I got that shirt at a 'tallica gig in 1992, and it's impossible to get a new one. And why in the name of all that's good and holy are you hoovering my comic collection?
It's a good thing I love her to bits, because if I didn't, I would probably end up strangling her.
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All of a sudden, your CD's are alphabetised
Now that would be really handy. Not sure about the rest of it....
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I have an entire bathroom to stick in a skip!
Need to rip down 2 of the old internal walls, as the old lathe and plaster is parting company, and I don't want to stick big tiles onto it incase it simply just falls off!
I guess that's the joy of having a house built in 1929. You find cracks everywhere, the original internal walls are in need of TLC at every stage of renovation, and nothing is prefectly square and level!
Will be nice to bin the old avocado green bath suite though! :D
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Will be nice to bin the old avocado green bath suite though! :D
That's what I've got! :lol:
It's amazing, tell someone you've got an avocado bath suite and there's a deathly silence like you've just admitted to being a serial killer.
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Men would never touch a paintbrush or a roll of wallpaper if it werent for women.
Or at least I wouldnt.
Poor fella, you have my sympathies.
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My old man was a master carpenter so I've grown up helping him either renovate houses, or build new ones, so I'm fairly handy with all manner of powertools and hand-tools.
The wife has already lined up the sledgehammer for as soon as the water is turned off to the loo and sink! Those are going to be turned into Avocado Green dust before they leave the house! No point trying to sell those on to someone on eBay! As you say you're probably better off admitting to enjoying someones liver with some fava beans and chianti rather than admit to a 70's throwback of a bath-suite!
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my girlfriend is off work this week so since i have just bordered out and insulated the new workshop i have left her with the job of painting it :)
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As you say you're probably better off admitting to enjoying someones liver with some fava beans and chianti rather than admit to a 70's throwback of a bath-suite!
I think cannibalism is pretty tame in comparison to purchasing an avocado bathroom suite...
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Will be nice to bin the old avocado green bath suite though! :D
That's what I've got! :lol:
It's amazing, tell someone you've got an avocado bath suite and there's a deathly silence like you've just admitted to being a serial killer.
I like mine!
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Will be nice to bin the old avocado green bath suite though! :D
That's what I've got! :lol:
It's amazing, tell someone you've got an avocado bath suite and there's a deathly silence like you've just admitted to being a serial killer.
I like mine!
:lol:
Not got one anymore, but when I did, I too liked the avocado look in the bathroom... is it out of fashion now?!
Be proud Philly, don't take no sh1t from the fashion gestapo :lol:
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Be proud Philly, don't take no sh1t from the fashion gestapo :lol:
I do take no sh1t from the fashion gestapo.... by sh1tting in an avocado toilet. :?
And I agree Will and Andy, I don't see what's supposed to be so terrible about it. Looks OK to me.
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The matching green toilet roll however was awful. Thank god they stopped selling that stuff, more lime green than avacado though
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^ But that's what happens when there's a woman in the house - they seem to think the paper ought to match the suite...
I got mine trained now - white, no arguments over matching (or trauma while using it :lol:)
BTW, mean to say earlier HTB - your post was killer, had me in stitches at lunch time :D
And Mr Bump - we all feel your pain (although some of us are vaguely sniggering behind our hands because we're not stuck doing something of this nature at present - sorry :D)
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I guess that's the joy of having a house built in 1929. You find cracks everywhere, the original internal walls are in need of TLC at every stage of renovation, and nothing is prefectly square and level!
ours was built in 1998, i think, and it's falling apart too... well, not falling apart, but the fitting the builders used were total trash. like, some of the windows don't close properly etc.
bunch of cowboys... :lol: i imagine a house built in 1929 would have been built better.
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Mine was built somewhere between 1900 and 1910. Although the avocado bathroom suite is of more recent vintage, I imagine....
It's not too bad, but the window frames are starting to fall apart (and there's a big hole in the kitchen window where a bird decided to end it all a few months ago).
And I suspect if I removed the woodchip wallpaper the plaster would fall off the walls. :?
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Well, a pretty decent day at it today.
More painting - wife pointed out that the celling needed doing, so I grumbled for a bit then did what I was told. Rushed off the Ikea this afternoon to get some furniture, computer workstation, keyboard desk etc.
Tomorrow I'll lay the laminate.
Thanks for the words of support, sympathy and sniggering, guys.
Mark.
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Now I am constantly moaning to Mrs 38th that she is a hoarder and clutterer and until she does something about it, I cannot decorate. It would take me half a day, for instance, to clear our the spare room before I could even start stripping wallpaper. I cannot bare it but it does mean that she is in no position to nag me. The joke is I have a blitz every now and again and I chuck out things, usually mine and Mrs 38th then fills the gaps with more cr*p.
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My house started in the 1500's - messy goes with the age of the house ;)
My room has a plate and bolt that holds the front of the house extension (1700's) on to the older part. No foundations and lively tree roots you see
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Been assembling furniture from flat pack over the weeked - I have 3 broken blisters on my hand and can't open doors. I wouldn't have minded if it was cheapo IKEA stuff, but it was expensive 'delivered furniture' that turned out to be delivered unassembled in a flat pack, thus saving the supplier 4 hours labour costs (no doubt small print would have told my wife this if she had bothered to read it).
Given I charge £150 per hour for my professional services (little of which goes into my pocket), I want a credit!
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We've only got liitle jobs left in this house (silicone around stuff and neaten up a bit hear and there) and now that we've nearly done it, we've found a complete heap up the road from here. Needs completely gutting and starting again, new elctrics, plumbing and heating as well as some new floors by the looks of things. Giving it some serious thought.
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We've only got liitle jobs left in this house (silicone around stuff and neaten up a bit hear and there) and now that we've nearly done it, we've found a complete heap up the road from here. Needs completely gutting and starting again, new elctrics, plumbing and heating as well as some new floors by the looks of things. Giving it some serious thought.
Good luck! I'm amazed that people take those kinds of projects on. It's not so much the idea of it, it's the fact that once you've started you've really got to see it through, or you're left with something totally useless. I know it would drive me insane. :(
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I'm the adventurous type :D The house looks like it was built around 1900, so at least the plaster will be easy to get off.
The house I'm currently in was built in 1875 and when it was rewired in the summer, the sparky was working under the floor boards in the top bedroom (the house is three stories) and touched the main bedroom ceiling with his foot. Because all the ceilings (and a lot of the walls) are really old birch lath with really old plaster on, nearly half the ceiling caved in. I love old houses :lol:
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Pics - Or It Didn't Happen...
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Quite pleased with the result - although the bare cleanness of the room does't exactly do wonders for your tone... I'm sure I'll cack it up soon enough.
Now just the garden to do and a pedal board to build...
Mark.
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I quite like the idea of decorating. The sense of accomplishment afterwards, etc. etc.
It looks nice, however I reckon some imagery or two would suit it. Plus I hate small workstations. Who the $%&# invented them, it's like they were built for midgets.
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oh wow, nice job.