Sorry, home decorating novice here!
What order do I redecorate my sitting room? It is a blank canvas at the moment - magnolia walls, wooden floors etc. We live in a Victorian tenement flat.
I would like to
- have the fireplace retiled
- paint wooden mantlepiece
- paint the walls
- paint built in wooden bookcase
- perhaps refresh skirting boards and ceiling (white paint looks a bit mucky)
- carpet the floor
- replace ceiling light fitting
- replace plastic plug sockets and light switch with metal
- hang curtain rail
Please can anyone advise what I should do first? One of my friends said I shouldn't carpet before painting the walls but then Google says to paint afterwards so that carpet fitters don't mark the walls...
Any advice gratefully received!!