Anyone else at that 'Shit, what have I started?' point in decorating and/or decluttering?

[DrMadelineMaxwell]

Cos I'm in it up to my neck! :)

It's summer hols and I'm off with the DC, but they are teens. DD1 is busy several days a week volunteering and DD2 is v chilled and likes reading and netflix.

So, a list was made of neglected rooms. On the list is...

My bedroom...
Paint woodwork (pic rails/door) in bedroom.

In bathroom and the next door loo.
Strip paper from walls
Paint ceilings in b/r and loo
Prep surfaces.
Sand woodwork
Buy new paper.

All above done in the last 2 days.

Tomorrow is...
Paint woodwork in bathroom and loo
Paint all doors that face onto the upstairs landing

Everywhere is a mess! The bathroom was emptied of everything and therefore my house looks like a bomb has hit it.

Is there anyone who can decorate a room without decimating other rooms in the process?

In the same situation OP! Trying to decorate and sort out while dropping off and picking up children from their social engagements. Had unexpected guests this morning who took ages to leave and now run out of sandpaper and filler!!
Wish I had a spare room to put all the stuff I've removed from the rooms I'm decorating and the decorating stuff instead of feeling even more cluttered !

I've been painting my sitting room since June It looks like a bombsite and the rest of my flat is full of displaced stuff. Only a bit of woodwork to finish off now...

Oh, a spare room would be excellent.
I'm waiting for another year for DD1 to pop off to uni so we can use her room as a dumping ground when we recarpet our bedroom. I managed to paint the ceilings, woodwork and walls around ALL our stuff and dh loves clutter so his side of the room is a bombsite all year round but I can't face it for the recarpeting. I can't imagine where we'll put everything!

DD2 would also like her walls painting and her feature wall repapering as it's a bit too pink and girly for her. She wants something more grown up now. So, if I manage to get everything done this week, then I might move on to doing that with her the week after.

But changing the walls also means painting the paintwork too as she's got dusky pink carpet at the moment, with the same colour on her walls and the same colour gloss. Not many rooms in our house with white gloss!

She wants off white gloss (of pale grey), grey paint on the textured walls and a fake whitewashed brick wall paper on her feature wall to replace all the pink.

It might have to wait, or we might do it.

I love you all. For years I thought it was only me who put the whole house in uproar to decorate one room
you all deserve it.

Errm try 3 years and counting. Had to do things like rewire which ripped the entire place upside down. I have three young very needy kids and no time off so very little gets done in a week. I tore out my wardrobes in the master bedroom in January and Will think it will be January 2019 before the bedroom is finished. It's depressing.

I have a list as long as my arm of decorating, sorting, decluttering, selling etc to do. DH and I have started but have made the mistake of doing a (very) little in each room rather than a room and finish. My mind is in a complete muddle and I feel so frustrated. The lists seem endless and this makes me lose motivation. Today was very wet so we were indoors, and this left no excuse to crack on, but I just felt so defeated.

Oh well. Every little helps I suppose!

Good luck all.

I started my kitchen last weekend , but due to work am unable to do anything during the week so it's going to take forever . All the worktop stuff is I the living room on coffee table/ floor / mantel piece .
I took all the cupboard doors off so I could paint them but I have got no space to paint them ( was going to do it outside but summer ended last week ).
I am driving my self mad trying to shut non-existent cupboard doors too .

I've been thinking about decorating. But the fear has set in. So now putting off until September. As long as I don't delay until Christmas should be ok.

We (I) have been trying to declutter and decorate our house since this time last year. Last year we had time. We did one room.

This year we've done 6 days a week since January with no time off.

DH has also been decluttering work and more than 20 years of paperwork has been brought home to be sorted and burned. It is in every room in the house. Boxes and boxes. (He won't get it shredded.)

I've given up hope and now have contructed a fantastic imaginary house in my mind that I may have at some point in the next 20 years. One day...

We got a rewire in April and decided to redecorate following that. Moved everything out of the lounge and dining room and sanded the floors and got them replastered. We STILL haven't chosen paint! I'm now so done with decorating!

It is depressing, isn't it?

Angie, it's kitchen cupboard doors next if I have summer holiday time left at the end of this current job. I'm teaching and going back to a new year group, new topics and being waaay out of my comfort zone - so I doubt I'll have it in me to do much decorating on an evening for a while.

So far I have (been to an exercise class this morning then) painted the 2nd coat on the ceilings, painted all the gloss in the bathroom and loo and then painted all the other doors upstairs with their first coat while the paint is drying where I want to wallpaper.

The question is just whether to crack on and wallpaper tomorrow or wait til Monday. I generally prefer to decorate while DH is at work and out of the way, but I will probably just try and get it done.

Yep. Here too - in it higher than the neck - probably nudging the earlobes.

We've got so much stuff everywhere it is unreal and next week the new shed arrives to replace the knackered leaky one. We have nowhere to put the contents while the old one is dismantled and the new one erected, because they will need the only available space left in the garden to manhandle the thing into place. There's also a ton of stuff that has been damaged by wet in the last week, so it all has to be dried out before it can go back in the new shed. Things like folding garden chairs, the barbecue, garden toys, you name it. And the whole lot is covered in snails, mouse droppings and cobwebs. Ugh.

I also have to dig out and change the shape of a flower bed, get rid of two enormous shrubs and lay a new path to where the door will be. Along with moving dozens of other plants out of harm's way.

Dreading it. Once I have finished the cup of tea I have here, I have to go and get on with it.