Rooms I still need to decorate

[Bunny]

Box room (should be easy, and should only take a weekend) TO BE DONE W/C 12/3/07
Spare bedroom (built in cupboards need to be painted ~ another Carol Smiley job)
Our bedroom (strip walls and paint)
Living room/Dining room (can only be done once new french door has been fitted ~ possible Easter weekend job) FRENCH DOOR TO BE FITTED 12/3/07
Bathroom (needs ripped out and a new suite fitted ~ ask George the plumber for advice)

Okay ladies, which room should be my next challenge ?

[Patti odoors]

My living room perhaps?????:cheesy: :cheesy: :cheesy: Go for the bedroom - you deserve it after all your hard work.

[storm]

Your bedroom i think!

[sal1]

Go for your bedroom, thats my next job lol just finished ds's room and now its our rooms turn!!!

[Bunny]

i think it will probably be our bedroon, right now it is painted a darkish blue and i hate blue !! it's such a sunny room so i'm think cream with a nice accent colour one one wall

[sadierhianne]

Oh i am so jealous, i wish i only had that much decorating to do.

Most newly plastered rooms are now painted white but there's still bad bad wallpaper on in places.

Utility needs painting a colour.

Kitchen needs a kitchen fitting and then a colour.

hall needs completely stripping right up three floors - it is currently woodchip and i am dreading it.

Lounge needs fully stripping, plastering and painting - you can see where the previous occupants painted around their furniture:hysterica

The front room has just been semi plastered and walloped in cream just so i can stand to go in that room until we get round to stripping the rest of the skirting board which can't be dipped 'cause it is far too long.

bathroom needs a colour on it.

Ensuite needs a loo and a shower then plastering, tiles and floor.

Our room needs stripping, coving repairing and decorating.

Small front bedroom needs re plastering and a colour.

One of top bedrooms which was decorated beautifully with an undersea mermaid mural needs completely stripping - grrrrrrrrrr and redecorating after 8 year old skid peeled all the paint off - grrrrrrr. It cost almost 1K to do that room out after spending a fortune having a closet fitted, carpets, decorater to do the base coat, mural paints etc, i am gutted to have to start again on it - more so because dh and i still don't have a decent bedroom and dd didn't have a pretty bedroom at that time either.

And then when we have finished those rooms it will be time to start on the rooms that we have decorated already which is only 6 rooms.

Oh and we have the vestibule thingy - bit where you come in at fromt of house before you get into the hall to plaster and do, oh and then there's the whole of the cellar to do - aghhhhhhhhhhhh aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

aghhhhhhh some more.

I hope to get my cellars, utility and kitchen and ensuite done this year but i doubt that we will get it all done in that time.

Never ever buy a derelict house when you husband is a perfectionist DIY er.

[Bunny]

sounds like you're going to be busy, and yes woodchip is a bugger to get off but if you can get hold of a wallpaper steamer it does help, we stripped it off our hall/stairs and it took a while

[sadierhianne]

we have a few strippers, i estimate that it could take about two weeks to strip the stairs - a lot less if it wasn't woodchip - thankfully it is only half woodchip, the bottom half is the original victorian stuff, unfrotunately i know from previous rooms that there may be about 14 other layers of wallpaper underneath.

I have a love hate relationship with my house right now - i am sure it will be lovely one day but that day seems such a long way away.

I have stopped him starting any major work becaus the mess it makes throughout the house is too much to cope with - it's been nice since xmas, no muck and dust flying about. Got to get back to it soon though.

Good luck with yours - i'd do your bedroom first too.

[Bunny]

LOL I know what you mean about the mess, how come one rooms mess ends up all over the house ?

[sadierhianne]

its the mess that really puts me off starting anythin - living in a slum right now is far more appealing than the mess generated by getting it looking nice.