Decorating house

[ShaunaghB]

Hi,
I have a bit of a question looking for some advice. So I have a budget of around £10,000.
I would like my whole house redecorated, not including bathroom or kitchen.
Do you think this will be possible? It's an average sized 3 bed house for information so I would want 3 bedrooms, hall stairs landing (tiny hall) living room and dining room.
Do you think I would be able to hire someone to do this with this budget?
Thanks

I think it will really depend on the size of the house, what paint you use, the area and how well off you are for decent decorators. I think it should be possible but definitely you need to get some quotes. If it comes in more expensive you could consider getting the hall and stairs doing professionally and then working through the other rooms yourself? Also think about whether you’re going to get the ceilings and woodwork (doors, skirting etc) done as this will obviously add to the price.

If you DIY it will be miles cheaper.....we had a quote for 3.5 k for our hall, stairs and landing ( Victorian semi)....we did it ourselves £200

Where are you? Our quote for hall stairs landing was £5k, each other room about £1k on top. This is for a house which needs wallpaper stripping, some paint stripped from fire places etc, some repairs to plaster so yours will be lower. Plus we’re in london. Plus the ceilings are high… so it’s dependent on a lot of factors

Needless to say we’ve decided to DIY what we can at those prices…

Yes I think that should be possible, assuming you’re not in SW London and wanting designer wallpaper throughout etc. It’s 5 rooms plus the hall and stairs, so 1,500 per room and 2,500 for the hall and stairs. Even near me I think people pay more like £1k per room for walls and woodwork painted.

What do you actually want doing though? Just a refresh of the paintwork, on walls and doors, or is there bigger stuff to do? My budget would always first go to tackling the bigger impact stuff - like skimming artex, replacing unattractive doors and windows, changing socket/switch covers (and adding more sockets), pretty radiators, feature light fittings etc. If you get these things right then a room will always look 10 times better, regardless of what colour it is.

10K is a lot to spend on paint, which will never transform a room if the rest of it isn’t right.

So,
Just to clarify a bit we have an extra 5k to do like new doors throughout ect. We aren't in London no, Derbyshire. All wallpaper is already stripped, plaster is done ect so it really is just painting and wallpapering and making it look nice, as I am absolutely shockingly bad at DIY as is hubby lol

How about, go for dulux, they do have good colours. Ask local art students to paint it in their summer hols? Pay them about 80 per day?

Um , in Derbyshire you should be fine. I just got three big rooms done including woodwork for £900. I thought that was quite steep! We are in South East Wales.

You can paint! It’s not that difficult. Leave the decorator to the wall paper part it’ll save you ££££

I’m not sure I’d classify painting as diy to be fair, not in the typical sense, it’s not like using a drill or sawing stuff. It’s very easy. I’d give it a go in one small room, if you really both can’t paint a wall then little lost apart from a few quid on paint, and you can get someone in

Honestly, I’d DIY it. If the walls are well-prepared already and you’re replacing woodwork, then it really wont need much work. Start with an easy room.

I’d not be spending several months worth of mortgage payments on something I could do myself, but if you hate the thought of decorating then fair enough.

We have just had 2 bedrooms, dining room, front room and hallway painted. Painting plastered walls and all woodwork.

Bedrooms, front room and dining took about 2.5days each. Hall and stairs 4 days. Total 14 days @ £200/day £2800, we brought dulux paint ourselves.

East London.

Nowt wrong with paying someone op, I for one most certainly do not find decorating easy to DIY. Plus a whole house is a big project- decorators will be efficient at it.

I'd say that should be ok but get recommendations and quotes.

@NeilBuchananisBanksy

Nowt wrong with paying someone op, I for one most certainly do not find decorating easy to DIY. Plus a whole house is a big project- decorators will be efficient at it.

I'd say that should be ok but get recommendations and quotes.

Not sure anyone is saying do the whole house. More usually there is a couple of rooms or more which are really easy and she could save 1000- 1500 per room if she can do it. Then get the harder parts, stairs, landing, high ceiling areas, wallpaper done by a proffessional.

We pay someone - so much faster and looks far better than me doing it. I did do the study because it’s tiny but by the second coat I was so bored.

We pay:
300 for small room
500 big room
1250 hall, stairs landing including 12 doors (done last week)