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Re-painting house time scales

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Paintinmyhair · 09/03/2011 16:00

I'm currently re-decorating our house. I started a month ago, and have so far managed dd's room, hall landing and stairs walls and bathroom suite and walls. There is a lot of wood and all the doors to do on HL&S, but am getting a bit defeatist, as cannot spend as much time on it now, and it has taken so much longer than I thought possible! Am stripping wallpaper, sanding woodwork, lining walls with warmaline, lining walls with lining paper and then painting. I just feel sad as some bits look really bad, where the satinwood has dripped, or the lining paper was slightly wonky on the stairs, but I've put my heart and soul into it.

Still have dining room, lounge, our room, study to go once I have done picture rails, ceilings (with wooden detailing) and all doors. I just want to know how people kept going once they got to the point of 'oh no, not more painting!!'.

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lalalonglegs · 09/03/2011 20:10

You sound like you have done an amazing job. Perhaps the trick is to do it a little bit slower so you can take your time and avoid drips and so on - is there a deadline you are trying to meet? Take a bit of time, maybe do one room a month or something?

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