Decorating

[WezV]

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 :)   

[Roobubba]

  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...

[Will]

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!

[AndyR]

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:

[Philly Q]

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.

[Will]

The matching green toilet roll however was awful. Thank god they stopped selling that stuff, more lime green than avacado though

[AndyR]

^ 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)

[dave_mc]

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.

[Philly Q]

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.  :?

[MrBump]

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.

[38thBeatle]

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.

[Will]

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

[Elliot]

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!

[ToneMonkey]

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.

[Philly Q]

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.  :(