We're trying to decorate our hall. I optimistically thought hey, it's just the hallway, it won't take too long, not that much upheveal. What the hell did I know?! It's got 5 doors in it - that's 5 doors to paint 3 times, 5 door frames to paint 3 times, and 5 doorways to cut it around 3 times. It also has a wooden staircase that needs painting. There is now nowhere for our shoes, coats, hats, double and single buggy etc. so these things are now strewn about the rest of the house. Going for a walk or a day out involves madly scrabbling around the house piecing together mismatched shoes and whatever coats we can find. Doesn't matter if it's wet and warm, if all we can find is DS's padded snowsuit, that's what he'll be wearing.
The DCs are two and one so there is no chance we could do it when they are awake. Painting for two hours every evening once they're in bed means it's taking fucking forever. We shatter ourselves on Monday and Tuesday then can't face painting again until the weekend. We stupidly started this when DH has resumed his summer hobby of cricket and we both had work commitments.
Also, DH is so slap dash, I went to my mum's for the day with the kids, he did two final coats on the woodwork and there were still, after three coats of paint, parts of the wood that had never been touched by a brush! Aargh!
How do other people manage this? Please tell me AIBU and there is something glaringly obvious that we're missing.