How often do you redecorate or refurbish?

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I'm wondering how often you redecorate your rooms, replace flooring, replace bathroom and kitchen fittings...

A few years after they wear out.

Room decor every 3-4 years

Kitchen bathroom every 6 years

When we absolutely can't avoid replacing things that have deteriorated or broken. We never redecorate for fun or just for a change, it's a waste of resources.

I think you appreciate it a lot more when everything is totally worn out too.

Recent thread on a similar subject might also be of interest.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/home_decoration_pictures/4003143-How-often-do-you-paint

Hardly ever. I've been on my house 11 years and the kitchen, living room, bathroom and the DC's bedrooms have only been redecorated once. My bedroom and the hallway not at all. None of the carpets have been replaced and none of the flooring. The bathroom has been refurbished once. My house is shabby and worn but I can't afford to redecorate anything right now.

I start considering it after ten years, apparently! Moved in here ten years ago as a total refurb (it was covered in mould, no heating, needed re-wiring, the lot). Did the important bits of gas, wiring, kitchen, bathroom, floors - and then just painted everything white as was too exhausted and out of budget to do more.

I've just re-painted the spare room/study, and I can see I need to work my way through the other rooms as the paint now looks a bit dingy in comparison. I wouldn't even think about replacing the major bits like kitchen / bathroom unless something was broken beyond repair. Kitchen is white and looks pretty much as it did when installed. Bathroom is tiled throughout and I still love the tiles.

Kitchens and bathroom - once in the 12 years we have lived in our house.

Furniture - probably when it falls apart. We can't afford to replace on a whim, so we buy items that aren't high fashion.

Painting - every 4-6 years, which is the length of time it takes for the paint to look grubby. Although, I did refresh a few rooms during lockdown, which were painted 2-3 years ago, only because I had the time to do so.

Flooring - the oldest flooring we have is 12 years old, which we put in, when we moved in. Haven't replaced any flooring yet.

We haven't redone anything here yet, only moved in 4 years ago. And we didn't redo anything in our old house either I don't think.

My mum has lived in her house since 2000 and every room is still how she decorated it 20 years ago She still has the same kitchen and bathroom suite that were there when we moved in. For some reason she refuses to ask her landlord or letting agency to sort new ones out even though the kitchen has been falling to bits for years and everything in the bathroom leaks.

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Room decor every 3-4 years

Kitchen bathroom every 6 years

Do you mean you totally re-do your kitchen and bathroom that often?!?

We've been in our house 15ish years. All bathrooms and kitchen still the same. All rooms have been repainted once. Kitchen needs painted again. Two rooms have been totally redo ie new curtains and furniture. Curtains were ££££ so not a cheap option.

I would expect kitchens and bathrooms to last 20 years

Hallway repainted every year or two, but it's tiny and high traffic so it gets grubby fast/battered by the buggy. Other rooms whenever they look tired or there's some kind of issue like a water leak or whatever could be a year could be 10.

Not something I do for fun.
If things are still functional then lucky to get a quick lick of paint.
In recent years we have had to replace and relocate boiler, meaning walls and floors ripped up, a recent sewage leak meant hallway and toilet ripped up, flooring, woodwork, plasterwork, redecoration.
Kitchen is 15 years old, but still going strong, but will need replaced in a few years.

I put so much effort in to painting and decorating I can't stand the thought of doing it all again and ruining all my hard work from the first time

Thank you everyone.

I probably repaint easy rooms every 4ish years (with the same colour in every room, every time). Put new bathroom and kitchen in about 10 years ago and they're showing little bits of wear now. I can't face the thought of replacing them, and I'm wondering how long I can eek them out.

I paint a room every year, so each room probably gets done ever 3-4 years.

Furniture is until it needs replacing, or if i'm painting a room a different colour then i may change some other parts.

Carpets is normally a good 5 years in bedrooms, but hallway is more frequent because its heavily trafficked so wears quicker

Our kitchen is over 20 years old and could do with replacing but isn't that bad. We replaced the bathroom when we moved in as it was a brown suite and the tiles were hanging off the walls. We moved in 20 years ago and have only painted each room once so far, spread out over the whole 20 years. In fact we still haven't done the hall. We have very small rooms so repainting is a major logistical exercise in working around the furniture, shoving it into the middle doesn't work.

As for carpets, we changed most when we moved in and they have all lasted 20 years no problem.

We did the kitchen when we moved in so over 10 years ago - it needs redoing but we've done lots to the house and garden through lockdown so I can't be bothered to sort the kitchen til next year. It'll be structural this time, though, so I need to brace myself for it. The bathrooms we did a few years after the kitchen so they should be fine (although sods law we have a leak coming from the less-than-two-years-old bathroom above the hall and only realised when it poured through a light fitting and DS2 asked "what's that fizzing noise").

The painting and decorating I do whenever it needs doing. I might touch up areas that need it every so often, and the most frequently-painted part of the house is the entrance because we have dogs and rugby-playing DC.