How often do you redecorate your home?

[No17CherryTreeLane]

The hallway, stairs and landing over 3 floors needs a refresh but we've just finished a large extension last summer, and I'm a bit over having more work done at the moment.
The problem is, the new areas of the house has made everywhere else look worn in and I keep looking at paint colour charts...

I hear you, we're coming to the end of a big kitchen renovation and I'm thinking the hallway needs redoing 🤦‍♂️

Oh my god - DH is that you?! 😳

I know someone who has their whole house repainted every two years, but it's the same colour - so it's a fresh rather than a redecoration. I think tweaks can be good to keep an interior feeling fresh - but I mean tweaks rather than a complete redo. Replacing tired lampshades, or having a worn out chair reupholstered, or rehanging paintings so that there's movement.

It seems to take me a gazillion years to get round the whole house so by the time I do the last room, the first room needs doing again. So it’s just one big continuous cycle.

Or having the hall repainted when you can face doing it....

Seriously though, what are you going to do @RIPVPROG ?
The sensible part of me is saying just get it done, it'll be over quicker.
BUT I know, it will be like painting the Forth Bridge.
Once one part of the house is done, the next room will look decidedly shabby, and so on, ad infinitum...

Following. Currently my house looks BEAUTIFUL (recently bought it and just finished decorating to my taste) ~ wondering how long it'll be til I want to do bits over again!

We'll get it done once the weather is a bit warmer, that's my compromise! I've had enough of a houseful of workmen for a while. Also the painter we've used before is usually booked up so wouldn't be free to do it immediately. The spare room/office needs freshening up but we will do that ourselves one weekend. The hallway needs someone in because we have high ceilings and when DH previously did the bit above the stairs I nearly had a heart attack the way he was balancing

I last redecorated during COVID in 2020. I'm currently replacing furniture and putting in wardrobes. Kitchen will be repainted as well.

I'm not looking at repainting for a few years.

In an ideal world I would redecorate every 3 years but it's more 5-7 years! When we had our extension we then needed to redecorate the hall/stairs/landing as it looked terrible but think it still took us years to get round to it!

What exactly is it about extensions that make us all rethink our hallways, stairs and landings lol?
That makes three of us @sunshineandshowers40 😄

Yes, the smaller rooms we are happy to do ourselves but the hallways, stairs and landing just seem never-ending.
There's a lot of it, and very high walls/ceilings.

What colours are all your hallways/stairs/landings please?

Hallway, stairs, landing: painted 2002 when I was pg with ds. Refreshed (same paint, stairway only as far up as I could reach) 2010 - really needs redoing now.

Lounge & playroom: 2010 - looks fine, but I'm fancying a change.

Kitchen & utility: 2019 - still consider it as new.

Conservatory: 2022

Bedroom: 2001 - needs redoing.
Spare room: 2020
Ds1 room: 2021 when he went to uni.
Ds2 room: 2023
Main bathroom: 1998 when house built - needs redoing.
Ensuite: I've repainted a few times but currently doing a refit.

so far - when moving house. so 8-10 years or so.

I never stop, but that’s because I love painting. Fortunately I’m retired so I can just do a bit whenever I feel like it, I don’t have to fit it in around real life. I like doing complicated things like false masonry and marbling, I suppose it’s a hobby really.

Luckily I think that by the time I have covered every surface in this house I will be too old and infirm to start again.

My hall will be hated. All white including landing. Black and white tiles, black accents. Sisal rug in hall. Grey carpet throughout.

We've lived in our house about 17/18 years. It was decorated when we moved in (new build) and then:

Kitchen repainted once (same colour) and redecorated once (new colour)

Hall: redecorated twice

Family room: redecorated once (needs repainted now)

Sitting room: repainted once (needs redecorated)

Our room: redecorated once

Study: redecorated once

Kids rooms: redecorated once

We’ve just had our kitchen, sitting room and hallways painted. I’d guess it’s 2 or 3 years since the last time. It’s all Farrow and Ball - not known for being hard wearing.

About every 5 years.

It’s been nearly eight years. I don’t think I’m going to bother now until it goes on the market, which will be another couple of years probably. Then it will need a complete redecoration.

I’ve painted or wallpapered almost the whole (small) house since moving in three years ago. The kids room is the one room left to do. I’m going to keep the same colours as I like them all but am constantly going over bits when I find stains or bits that could do with another coat. The cat has decided to scratch up the one room I paid a pro painter to do!

My neighbour, very sprightly but in her 90's, has one room of her house redecorated every year. So in our 1930's 3 bed houses, that equates to each room being done once every 7 or 8 years.

Her decorator is booked in automatically every Feb and every time I see him park up I think how clever her system is. She does seem to be a woman of routine though, she leaves the house at the same time every day, cleans her front door brass at the same time every week etc. Given her age, I think she's had long enough to figure out an effective system for these things.

Every Feb, I have a word with myself and think I'm going to do one room every year but then take too long make decisions and organise myself, and end up doing 3 rooms over the course of 5weeks which is such a mammoth task it puts me off for a few years again.

@TemporaryCarer -that’s a brilliant idea! I need to nick it, but I’m more like you 😅

I have a cousin who decorates one room each year,it's like the forth bridge. They even managed to have a white (material,) set of sofas, with small kids and 2 cats!

@Nannyfannybanny I think that’s definitely the way to go, but it’s just that once one room is done, everywhere else looks so scruffy!