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Becca3451 · 18/11/2025 19:12

So we are currently living in our house renovation ( hoping will be much better in 1-2 weeks), but currently working and coming back to a half building site with a little one it's so hard ( no functioning kitchen and only half rooms available).

The only room in the whole house which is finished and homely is the bathroom, beautiful and chosen by us. However today my husband he decided we needed our old massive storage unit in the tiny space between the bath and the shower ( it would literally no space and be touching both the bath and shower and we don't truly need it). The storage unit is sliver and our whole bathroom is gold. I know it's just the cherry of the cake of stress, but he has already drilled the nails into the tiles so ruined them, and how I feel right now, my bathroom and only room in the whole house which is nice and done.

It's says he realises his error having not consulting him but I am so so mad. Any amount of money to fix will obviously come out of our ever small budget and I just can't believe he did.

AIBU? He was just trying to help and is saying sorry or
No, that such a stupid thing to do.

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SunMoonandChocolate · 18/11/2025 19:31

It sounds like a really stupid thing to have done without discussing it with you OP. Is he any good at removing and replacing tiles, it's not actually that difficult if you know what you're doing, and have a couple of spares? Otherwise, I'd be telling him that the cost of getting it done falls to him personally, and not the decorating pot as a whole. Let him go without some of his treats, ie, coffees on the way to work, lunches if they're bought out, a few pints down the pub, whatever he spends his own money on, and tell him in future to run ALL decorating decisions by you first!

Pixiedust1234 · 18/11/2025 20:34

Sorry OP, I feel your pain. It was an absolutely stupid thing to do, with or without prior discussion. What went through his brain in putting something oversized into a small space? And why didn't his brain turn to something more productive in one of the other rooms to move them forward instead? Hopefully this is just a one off but I spent too long married to someone who sabotaged and bodged everything. It nearly broke me.

NotableI · 18/11/2025 20:38

I am not handy at all but I have successfully ripped out (individual) old tiles and replaced them. It will be fixable! And your house will be beautiful eventually!

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