If your house was fully renovated, wiring, plumbing, new kitchen, fully painted, new carpets etc etc etc

[PrincessPeaHead]

How long do you think it takes before it needs doing again?
Not the electrics etc but
How long before you repaint everything inside?
How long do you reckon carpets should last?
How long before the kitchen needs replacing?

Assuming it was all done to a v good standard in the first place - wool carpets, expensive wooden kitchen, Farrow & Ball paints etc etc.

Just canvassing opinions - then I'll tell you how long everything has been done in my house and how it is looking now.

ok my new bit was added when pg with dd3 so 2 years ago

it already needs repainting in places (also f and b), the one piece of carpet we had in it looks decidedly ropey (and it was fab woollen carpet)

all the sisal and slate we had done still looks great though

my kitchen is shite but is old old old, it will be the next thing to do hurrah

We did a complete renovation here, to the kind of spec you refer to, when we moved in almost 6 years ago, and have just completed a full repainting job. Curtains were replaced in some rooms - but that was as much due to changing colour schemes. Carpets/kitchen/bathrooms still look good though.

Ahh really?
This place was painted carpeted and new kitchen in umm 2000. So I shouldn't be surprised that is is suddenly looking a bit tired?
It is the wool carpets that look awful (not helped by the F***ING moths), the sisal ones have stood up quite well
Kitchen is just a bit knocked about, needs the paint retouching.

Hmmm

8 years for a full repaint and carpet. I sort of expected longer, I don't know why.
hmmm

oh god now I feel like a slattern soapy

hmmm

oh christ the hell of choosing paint colours

yes some of the curtains have faded a lot (children's mostly)

aurghghgh

woollen carpets are shitey

we had a gorgeous one downstairs -after 6 months it looked crap (lots of children running in and out, can't be a complete nazi about boots off)

sisal sisal sisal

I suspect that our carpets will still be going strong for another few years. Only upstairs is carpeted in a pale, wool carpet. We don't have any animals, so that might make a difference.

There are a few tiny grubby spots on the stairs which bother me a little - but not enough to spend a fortune replacing them!

we only have carpet in bedrooms and up the back stairs
downstairs all stone or sisal/coir/whatever
back stairs look like a disaster, carpet just look squashed and tired

dogs don't go upstairs so I can't blame them soapy

but 4 children and 2 slightly slovenly adults together with the sea of mud that surrounds this place 4 months a year has taken its toll

I have to get my hall & staircase repainted every two years. There are only threee of us, how can it look like a very muddy rugby team tap dance down the walls all day????

Every where else is repainted every 5 years.

Carpets should last about 10 years ime

Here are my guesses:

new kitchen - appliances every 8-10 years, with perhaps a redo needed every 15 (just guessing)

repaint - every 3 years for heavy traffic areas, maybe 5-7 years for areas of house used less

carpet - 10 - 12 years if treated with stain protection upfront and cleaned regularly

I imagine you are going to tell us a scarily short time frame, but if ircc, you have a large family/dogs etc so imagine your house is 'used hard' which could lead to shorter lifespan for wear and tear.

god this is interesting

where does one learn this stuff? nobody tells you that everyone else paints their houses regularly, you just assume that they are clean and tidy and you aren't!!!

Hmmmm

Also it would depend on how large your house (how often all the rooms get used, our formal dining room only gets used once or twice a week) how many people live in it (traffic/footfalls), what type of lifestyle you have and if you are careful with your things.

iirc you live in rural?

My DH travels loads, but is not very careful taking his suitcase up the stairs despite my nagging polite requests. so always marks on the walls.

Everyone (bar me) 'forgets' to use the back door/boot room when they come in from the ponies etc, so my front hall walls are often covered in muddy smears = have to wash them more = not going to use such delicate paint next time we have it done (industrial coating anyone?).

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We kept the same colour in most of the main rooms, partly because I didn't have time to rethink all of the rooms but also because I liked the colours we already had.

I did take the opportunity to completely revamp the children's rooms though, much to DS's delight - as he was fed up of the babyish decor in his room!

we had sisal on our stairs despite it not being recommended

its great

mind you all my furniture is looking shocking so dont really feel able to comment on thread

marmaduke get the decorators to paint matt varnish thing over paint in high traffic areas

donest show and makes them easy to clean (heartfelt advice from rural mudstained mum)

I moved into a brand new house in July 2006. All the paintwork needs redoing. Especially the hallway and around doors and lightswitches.

Don't forget to have the outside paintwork redone too - we didn't even think about it when we had the inside done and have only recently noticed how bad it is!

I have solid wood and stone downstairs, wooden stairs and only carpets in 3 bedrooms and landing the other 3 beds have wood.

We also have a blardy moth invasion, there was a woolen carpet in the loft which was infested - we didn't notince when we moved in. Holes in DH's wool suits, loads of my jumpers - AAAHHHH.

Oh Enid that is such a good idea. I might do that in the kitchen when I decorate, espcially around the bits where coffee and tea get splashed.

Main formal rooms and formal guest rooms are wood panelled (unpainted) and sisal/coir (what's the difference?!) underfoot and are fine. Ditto guest bathrooms - not heavily used.

Like many country houses front door barely ever used so main hall looks fine.

Kitchen/breakfast room is stone floored and the walls/curtains look knocked about and a bit faded and tired.

Bedrooms are either wood panelled or wallpapered (kids). Carpets look like they've had a hard life. Corridors and back stairs really look tired. Kids bathroom looks bad as well.

Look like I need to paint bedroom corridors, kitchen and assorted downstairs rooms (loos etc), back stairs, mine and kids bathrooms and recarpet anything with wool on it.... and replace kitchen/breakfast room and maybe upstairs corridor and kids bathroom curtains...

well it depends.

if you had my incompetent builder/project manager and if they hadnt fleeced you for 3 times the original budget already, you might be advised to rip it all most of it out and start again right away

i did get oak flooring throughout most of the house tho, and i expect that to look better as it ages. and the parts that havnt been totally incompetently laid are doing just that nicely, ta.

Vaguely remember being told to use an oil based interior paint as it can be 'wiped down' if needed.

House maintenance is a pain. I got top-of-the-line stuff for my house because I liked it, but also because I hoped/believed it would last much longer. Will see if that ends up being true, but for now, will confess to being paranoid about house being treated well as it was such a big investment to redo.

oh dear boysontoast

sounds stressful

nah... not any more

oh yes, go for oil based paint.
and if anyone tried to seel you dulux scrubbable emulsion, tell them to stick it. it is indeed scrubbable, but the scrubbing does absoluyelt nothing to release any marks.

sigh.

panelling sounds good...

I put lovely wooden blinds on bedroom windows, with curtains over. The blinds are fully up during the day, and lowered at night. Saves hands pulling at curtains daily, which hopefully means curtains will look nice/last longer.