Friend of a friend - Flat/pet sitting for me while I was away for a couple of months for work. They were between uni terms and and I was panicking because my work had dropped the whole thing on me at short notice - so it worked out well for both of us.
Got back very late at night from traveling and just fell into bed. Woke up in the morning totally confused as they had redecorated the whole flat.
Fully redecorated.
Painted walls, ceilings and front door done beautifully. Did a brilliant job.....
If you liked ice cream pastels with contrasting gloss work. Bedroom was pale purple, pink and yellow. Hall was a pale pistachio green with royal blue trim, living room was baby blue and frosted raspberry. Hot pink in the bathroom. Deep olive in the kitchen. All wonderful for a large victorian manor maybe - but looked awful in a very tired pokey one bed ex council flat, designed in a brutalist style.
They had moved all the furniture around, put up artwork and changed the doors on my cupboards in my tiny kitchen and re covered my worksurfaces in a vinyl top. (which stayed - did a brilliant job)
It was so bizarre.
Apparently, they were grateful they had got to stay somewhere free for a few months and wanted to say thank you with a 'makeover'
It took me months and months to paint it back.