Who is gonna be decorating inside their house next year?

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and what room(s) are you gonna be doing?

as for me it be the master bedroom, spare bedroom, defo bathroom as that be my first priority! and also the 2nd lounge, and dining room

id hope to get it finished this year just done bathroom, need to do living room/dining area, bedroom, finish or re-do nursery, hallways, and spare room...phew!

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I'm going to do the master bedroom, kitchen and the bathroom i think.

Dreading doing the master bedroom as we have very heavy furniture in there and not really much room though.

It's not been done for 8 years and needs doing, we've been concentrating on the other rooms in the house first.

we've done our entire house (just finishing off, need doors to all the rooms )

it's taken us three years... what a nightmare it has been BUT is looking good and worth it (i think )

Missy tip: do ONE room at a time. Do NOT be tempted to do bits of each. I have learned the hard way...!

We've just had one sitting room done, and the other is being done next week.

After Christmas: cloakroom, bedrooms, hall/stairs/landing (dreading that one). Doing building work in attic so decorating in there. Hopefully we'll get to the bathroom as well.

Each room is getting a new radiator, plastering and stripped floor as well.

It's going to be an expensive and messy year, I think

We need to, have been here for 2 years and still only just about finishing the living room.

We too started to do bits in each room - yes I agree with missybabee. It is depressing to have partly done rooms!

We moved into our house at the end of Feb; so far have done main bedroom, boys' bedroom, through lounge/diner.

Works in progress - bathroom - dp has knocked down the wall between bathroom and loo, we need new suite, tiles, floor, door, everything basically! Hoping to have that finished by Christmas. Hall, stairs and landing - have stripped wallpaper - need new bannisters, new walls and pull up carpet in hall (to reveal the parquet beneath!) - hoping to have that done by Feb.

blimey toothy - well done!!

ive been living at mine nearly 4 yrs now and it was already decorated and the taste isnt bad but time for a change for our own style and taste. i agree it will be a messy and expensive year too

We are hoping to do the lounge first thing in the new year... (desperately needs new carpet, strip, plaster, paint walls, and install new victorian style radiators we bought last year)

Am also hoping to do master bedroom (strip, plaster, paint walls, install victorian style radiators)

And am hunkering after a new kitchen, but don't have the money, so that will have to wait another year I fear....

I have an entire, neglected house to do. Add in to the mix a complete lack of funds, paid employment, husband who doesn't help, two children..... Oh, and did I mention the house was previously lived in by three stable girls (who apparently liked to bring their work home with them) is rotten and doesn't even belong to us (goes with H's job). Motivation is in as short supply as money, but I can't live in it as it is, so sleeves rolled up and some long, hard days (and nights) ahead of me for goodness knows how long. Any tips on complete refurbishment on a budget on tuppence ha'penny?

all of them - we are in the middle of a big extension - which involves gutting all the original house too. It has slowly dawned on me just how much decorating we are going to have to do in the next year.

All the decorating we want is complicated wallpaper and fiddly sash windows. Desperately looking for a painter but can barely even get someone to come and quote.
(complete exasperated emoticon)

peegee - where did you get your Victorian rads from? We have recently bought a few but I'm thinking of changing supplier for the rest. Are they original or reproduction?

Mrs Darcy - we have bought reproduction ones from B&Q. Would have loved original ones, but that was not in the budget..

We did buy one original one off eBay (for a small fortune) and then paid for it to be restored (another small fortune) and it has pride of place in the bathroom and looks great...

Am currently checking out salvage yards for more orininals as they look nicer than the repro ones, and am looking for victorian fireplaces too (all but one have been ripped out of our house by previous owners...)

mrs darcy - do you know of a good place to get reclaimed victorian floorboards from? The downstairs of our house is missing these and would love to have an original floor in place...

We're having an extension done at the moment for a new kitchen. Yippee. We're having some other bits painted at the same time, but I'll be doing dd's room and the kids' bathroom myself next year. And I'll need to make curtains, cushions etc for living room to go with new paint job. So technically, the builders will be finished in January, maybe, but the rooms won't be properly done until I get my act in gear.

I think we will be doing the en-suite and DD's bedroom. And possibly the kitchen - but just a quick, cover over the mess job in there.

peegee, I haven't bought Victorian floorboards as we are using our existing ones. I would try a salvage yard or the salvo website.

We have bought some lovely Victorian fireplaces which look brilliant. We've got a mixture of open fires, and a couple of multi-fuel stoves.

We bought some reproduction rads from a specialist company, on the basis that they are made to the same design as the originals but are ready to use -ie don't need sandblasting etc. They look great but we haven't actually used them yet! Also, one of them has been a complete nightmare but I think that is a problem with the supplier and a bit of bad luck.

we just started the nursery and DS's room, will be doing the whole house after christmas hopefully! It needs alot of work

we are, we're plannign to sell next year and after 8 years of building work we need a redecorate!

So;
living room decorate
Hall and stairs carpet and decorate
study decorate and fix heating
nursery block up old fireplace and redecorate
bed 1 redecorate, reline ceiling
bed 2 nothing! yayay
bathroom finish instlalign new suite, tile, paint,
utility room, paint
kitchen, shelves, cooker hood and oven installed and repaint

All has to be done by may with an 18mo and DH working 60 hr weeks

my best tip after developing 3 properties:

plan very carefully, we've lived with no carpet on the stairs for ages because until the last bits of messy work are done EVERYWHERE in the house it would just get wrecked.

Paint everything white, don't waste money on the hint of a tint colours, the best way to make the white look slightly off white is ismply to hang coloured voiles and use large coloured canvases on the walls. (buy cheap canvas from an art shop and paint in a single colour)

Don't pay out for expensive bathrooms or kitchens, get ikea or B&Q standard stuff really nuetral and non offensive. Jazz up with wooden blinds, decent quality flooring and coll accesories.

Ikea curtains, absolutly huge, very cheap, decent cotton, hem to the length you want and they dye brilliantly.

Look out for special deals and local shops, we got a 3 piece rich brown leather suite in a local 'end of line' sofa discount place for 1/3 of what it would be in the shops