To think no one ever 'finishes' doing 'up' their house?

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Boring thread alert but...

I don't think ive ever met anyone (thats not renting), that's ever finished decorating/renovating their home. Theres always a new carpet that needs fitted, a wall that needs painting or extension building.

Has anyone on here actually fully finished their house and fully satisfied with it?

I'm in the process of decorating but once the spare rooms done then thats it. I hope to not have to do a thing for a good few years. Or is this a pipe dream?

Bluntness100
Completely agree with you.
We’ve lived in our house for 6 years
We’ve rearranged the top floor, first floor and the ground floor, added an extension, a new roof and redecorated throughout, I can’t see me changing anything at the moment.
We’re now converting a barn in our garden.
We’re on first name terms with the skip providers and the local builders merchants. I’m happy with the end result though

I think it depends how quickly/intensively you do your house up. We moved into ours 3 years ago and still haven’t done the bathroom or kitchen. By the time we get those done the decor in the first rooms we did will probably be ten years old.

We self-built ours over 15 years ago & it still isn't finished. Though it's been unfinished so long I mostly don't notice the things that still need doing anymore

There's always something, even if you move into a brand new or completely refitted house with ALL brand new furnishings and floors, which no one really does, things deteriorate and wear out at different rates. After a few years you might be bored with the wall colour or there are stains and worn patches on heavily trafficked parts of the floorings, or the springs have gone on the sofa or you bought cheap curtains in order to save up until you can afford custom blinds. Having a home is having a lifelong work in progress, the domestic equivalent of maintaining the Forth Bridge as in no sooner have they finished painting at one end, it's time to start repainting at the other.

I think some people focus on fixing things like a house because they're incapable of fixing their lives in general
What?

And here was me thinking people take pride in their house and want it to be nice.

And here was me thinking people take pride in their house and want it to be nice

No Maisy, it's cause we are all deeply unhappy people who have unsolvable life problems 🤣

I think some people focus on fixing things like a house because they're incapable of fixing their lives in general

What a sad view of life this comment reflects

A few friends who moved out or had a house totally guttted and refurbed before they move in. Their houses are completed for now. Most of my friends houses are pretty sorted in my mind but they’d say they have stuff to do.

Bluntness100
So true. Now I've come to think of it I did spend more time today browsing for new curtains than thinking about what to cook for tea. Clearly there's an issue in my marriage I'm avoiding thinking about.

Bunch of unhappy buggers. Just keep your manky old carpet and be thankful you have carpet...etc etc

Only time ours will be temporarily finished is when we put it on the market!!

I can’t speak for people in general, but we bought this house, gutted and redid the bathroom, replaced the kitchen worktops, floor and lighting, put in as many bookshelves as we could fit, put coir matting wherever wasn’t tiled or floorboards, and painted all the walls white, and won’t be doing anything else to it unless repairs are needed.

Ha!

Rightmove is full of houses where the owners have fully renovated and decorated, then decided no further work is needed.

Swirly carpets, dark oak kitchen, shitty bathroom tiles, 90s decor, single glazed conservatory anyone?

On the plus side, if you live in the same house for long enough you pretty much stop caring after a while. That manky carpet on the stairs and landing? It's fine really. That brick chimney feature you wanted to get rid of? Actually it's pretty inoffensive - you can cope with it for a few more years.

Yes I am doing mine up to sell but honestly just feel like letting it go as is. So much of my time and energy goes on it. I'm not a fan of new builds but god they're starting to appeal now.

We're hoping to have a whole house finished in a couple of months. We've done it before, twice.
It's the keeping on top of it that we seem to struggle with. We usually end up moving rather than starting again!

Really 'smart' houses are so over rated. Drop the expectation of 'perfection' and enjoy your life.

I've always had to learn to live without what needs doing, because of a lack of money, or rather what I prioritise.

Likewise my DD has been in her house a year and hasn't done anything to it, again she prioritised really good furniture.

I spent a fortune on my garden this year, but I've got a list for next year, which will be at least £500.

What AliceLuther said on P1

Mine is done, or it was until the firework through living room window incident
The carpet was 11 years old but would have had a good few years left in it, except now it's melted and black so I am having a new one!
New build when I moved in 11 years ago. I have redecorated the hall, bathrooms and bedrooms this year, bathrooms had new flooring, living room and kitchen repainted after a giant leak
So the only possible thing that could be done is a whole new kitchen or bathroom but it still looks fine to me!

Totally agree - and I’m glad I’ve found my people!

Couple of years in and only less than half done
Nope. Will never "finish". In few years I will get bored of the paint or smth😂

Yes. I was very lucky and did everything before I moved in. Not touched anything for 2 years.

We only have 1 room in the entire house that we haven't ripped out and started again. We've also built a large extension and landscaped front & back.

There are a few bits that need touching up here & there where there are scuff marks, but basically we're done.

I don't count the garden in that as it's obviously seasonal & always requires something doing!

We've been here nearly twenty years. We've done a room every 2-3 years, so it's not so much "not finished" just come round to the start again. Entropy, innit.

DP also just this evening had a clumsy moment and sprayed a large glass of port over about three square meters of the (old enough to vote) cream carpet in the lounge that was scheduled for replacement next summer... might have to bring that forward a bit!