Does anyone want to talk about their home and their decorating/interior style?

[Wendyer]

I’m in the middle of getting my house ready for sale. It’s potentially a lovely house but, after 22 years and 4 dc, it’s tired and dated and I’ve lost the love.

I’m getting it painted throughout in white but I don’t really know how to stage it. I seem to have lost any vestige of interior decorating flair I never, um, I mean I once had!

Would be great to hear about other people’s style and taste etc. Pics welcome too!

I just picked colours I liked. Have never considered if the rooms go with each other. I just liked duck egg blue in one room and yellow in another another bottle green in another.

I just know I hate white walls with a passion so I have to find colours I like. That's about it really.

For selling, it’s not so much about style and taste as just: clean, uncluttered, dressing rooms in an obvious way (a dining table in a dining space, even if your family used it for a giant fish tank) and selling a lifestyle. So vases of flowers on tables and mantelpieces, no laundry piles, beds made, surfaces clear.

Painting it white is a good start! Dare you to post pics, people usually have good ideas on furniture arrangement and things that stick out like sore thumbs.

Here’s a couple of rooms that were my oldest dc’s bedrooms. They’re both oddly shaped which you can’t really tell from my incredible photography!

Oh I like rooms like that, quirky shaped and not just a square box. Although not easy to put furniture in.

I have also realised I have no interior decorating style as I need new curtains and have no idea what's "in" or at the very least doesn't looked dated!!

As PP said, if getting ready to sell then plain walls, decluttered, clean, put personal belongings and nik naks away, fresh flowers. Sell the size and space of your home, sell the dream.

Straight away with those rooms my brain went “Ooh! Sanded and varnished floorboards, column radiators, oatmeal blinds.” Lean into the white, bright neutrals – the goal is to make it obvious to buyers how to use a room, with a neutral palette so no one weighs up the time/cost of redecorating (unless they’d actively want to like me), and show it’s well-maintained (right no with costs of materials and labour people are steering clear of “projects”).

@hotmeatymilk thank you :).

@GingerFigs - calling them quirky is much kinder than the descriptions I use! There are sloping bits and deep sills and odd alcoves etc. I’m definitely going for modern and straight walls next time.