Decorating

[MrBump]

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.

[Simon D]

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...

[dave_mc]

my parents own our home... we just don't bother decorating. :lol:

there's no rule that says you have to do it...

[MrBump]

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.

[Philly Q]

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...

[MrBump]

Yeah - being forced to be less squalid is a necessary evil, I guess.

[dave_mc]

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...

[Roobubba]

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!

[WezV]

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 ::)

[headtheball]

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.

[Philly Q]

All of a sudden, your CD's are alphabetised

Now that would be really handy.  Not sure about the rest of it....

[Jonesy76]

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

[Philly Q]

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.

[MDV]

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.

[Jonesy76]

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!