Clean up and decorate pic as always

[Shithole101]

Doing a bit more decorating. I have already messed it up a bit . But I don't care 🤣 wanted a bit of a break from the cleaning etc . But its not to bad now . Comes under the normal bracket. Have some wardrobes etc coming on Saturday. So want to try get the painting done by then if I can .

Yeah eventually 😅. My furniture just arrived . So I'm gonna start painting again in 10 mins or so.

I love the green colour. Which paint company makes it?

A little off topic,but on the subject of curtains, I recently found out that you can make curtains look so much nicer and fuller and hang way better, by adding an extra lining inside.

I bought some brand new beautiful Voyage Maison ones from eBay for peanuts, which although should have been really expensive originally were really thin and just hung like limp rags. So I bought some thermal linings from Dunelm (think about £15/pair if not less) and hung them on the inside of curtains, took 5mins, and the curtains look miles better.

I've now done the kids bedroom curtains too and can't believe what a visual difference it's made for very little cost. Plus rooms are warmer which is a bonus.

Your panelling looks great and I love the colour you've chosen

I bought new curtains. I don't think they will be that great to be honest they won't reach the floor it seems harder to buy longer than 90 inch when on a budget . I will look at extra lining when I can , thank you 😊

Hi its b&q own brand colour is limerick

This looks amazing op. Well done doing all this on your own. I love the colour as well. Hopefully it'll be a nice calming place to retreat to! What colour curtains have you chosen to go with it? 😄
Did you manage to get your Hippo bags picked up in the end by the way?I remember them not giving you an actual day they were going to do it. I'm thinking about ordering one, but don't want to have to wait in for days waiting for them to collect.

Thank you. Feels like its taking ages , the curtains are cream.

Yeah the hippo bag got collected. I still have a smaller one that needs collecting but I have not booked that in yet. You don't have to be in during collection.

Wow, that panelling looks amazing!

Oh I missed the hippo bag update! Well done.

There’s an old question about big tasks- how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

I could eat an elephant I'm starving. I have just started on furniture. Its probably meant to take 40 mins , probably take me 4hrs.

It's taken me 4hrs to put 2 bedside drawers together ffs . I still have chest of drawers and wardrobe to put together.

I have a pain kind of behinde my ribs , I thought it was a pulled muscle. Same thing happen yesterday when I was doing stuff . It's pissing me of because it's stopping me doing things .

Maybe you need a walk and an evening off. It might freshen your brain for tomorrow and give you a chance to recover.

I get pain along the back of my bra when I’ve been stressed and busy. Maybe from poor posture when I’m concentrating. Could it be something like that?

Yeah maybe it is. There's lots of bending stretching etc . I Nedd tk try my best to finish today . I have GS tomorrow.

Well then, good luck! But don’t overdo it. You need to be fit for another day!

I just had to get a small arm chair down the stairs on my own. It was an arse. I was really hoping to finish tonight. But I don't think I will. 8 is not even that late.

Kids have spent the day raiding the cupboards.

It’s not that late, but you have been working hard

I’m in bed! I have been trying to get back into reading, knitting, gardening and other things which were easy a few years ago. I’m on about my fifth attempt to do 5 rows of rib at the start of a jumper. I’ve unpicked it for the 6th time and will start again tomorrow.
some things are hard. That’s ok.

My oldest teen is pissing me off. Because I have been busy with the bedroom it means that the cleaning is not 100% so it might mean the younger ones have got a snack and left a wrapper or tub on the side or crumbs here and there also I had to stick a few boxes in the kitchen because they were blocking the front door. So it does not look great.

Ds cooked for himself hes left a frying pan out with stuff stuck to it , about 4 spices couldn't be bothered to even close the lids , a couple of dishes with dried on food . He's 16 his old enough not be saying well the boys left their stuff on the side.

I'm.honestly sick of it. I know it sounds petty and it would take me 2 mins to sort out. That's not the point though.

It’s not the point, you’re right. On the other hand it might not be what you want to spend your energy on right now.

I used to leave stuff like that, then at the next meal just mention in passing that he’s not got round to sorting it out yet. That way I wasn’t telling him off, just reminding him.

And if he points out something the littles have forgotten say ‘oh no, have they? Be a love and sort it out for me, I’m up to my eyes in flat pack furniture.’

I found mine accepted correction much better if it was a request or a favour, or a reminder, rather than me pointing out they’d failed somehow.

How did you do the panelling? Love that! Also taking inspiration from your dc bedroom and showed it to my dc so am doing similar next weekend 😱🤣

Sadly it does not work that here. Ds makes it quite clear. He will only clear his own mess , although it seems OK for him to leave his mess for me to clean. Ds cooks for himself 80% of the time he's just meant ti clear uo after himself. Oh well its done now

You can’t win ‘em all. Save your energy for the ones you can!

Ah that's fantastic glad you like it . Younger ds are arses 🤣. They have decided they want their own rooms so ds has moved himself into the spare room. So now I have to do similar in that room. The paneling is a panel kit.

I know you probably don't mind, but this is creating extra work for you when you don't need it and have lots going on. Remember that YOU are the parent here. Your ds doesn't get to decide to just move himself into another room. Also if he does you don't HAVE to decorate it to his wishes. You technically just did his room so he can learn if he wants his own different room he'll have to wait a little bit for it to be decorated.

I don't want this to sound really harsh and I know there's special needs involved and it's bloody hard. Maybe explaining that rooms don't just magically get decorated. It costs you time, and it also costs a lot of money! Kids often don't get this though I know.

It's just that knowing they can't rule the roost over you like they are is really important. Yes, their feelings and opinions matter. But yours do as well and they need to see you as a real person with feelings or you could be setting yourself up for lots of future problems and you don't deserve that.

Concentrate for now on your own room and getting it right for you. You're doing a great job there. ❤

To be honest he's not asked. It's just something I feel I want to do it because I don't want to do it one without the other . I won't do it yet. He might decide to swap back. But I have all the paint etc so it's not going to cost anything. It also feels like something positive to do. But im not rushing to do it .

With my room that's been a pain 🤣. I spent the weekend putting a bedroom furniture set together. Decided I hated it. Swapped with teen ds. So I now have his old drawers and he has the new set. I just need to get bedside drawers now.

This is ds again . No one else has had chicken shop. Hes chosen to throw it out of the window into the skip bag . And the foxes have dragged it out. I'm honestly sick and tired of it. Will he admit it no, will he blame someone else yes. Will he got am awful aggressive additude yes... honestly sick of it