Dake A Raking
Feb. 27th, 2010 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbhe(Decorating, as Linnea said it, years ago).
One day, I will strip the woodchip from the walls, re-skim (actually, going on prior experience, re-plaster) what's underneath, and paint them up properly, basecoat, undercoat, topcoat and all. I'll choose colours for each room and buy the appropriate paint. There's a faint, faint possiblity that I'll even pay a professional to do the ceilings, which are... not aesthetically great.
But meanwhile I'll go on slapping paint on and brightening rooms up considerably using leftover paint from other people's decorating projects, and gluing dinosaurs over the top. I can make fairly large changes that way, even if it's not exactly what I would like.
And over time, Rob is less reluctant to view any decorating project as a precursor to months or years of living in half-done mess, worse than the original version, followed by days and days of fiddly boring painstaking labour, followed by not being supposed to touch or use the freshly fixed up area.
He's kind of right about it when it involves plastering, though. But I do wish we didn't have woodchip...
One day, I will strip the woodchip from the walls, re-skim (actually, going on prior experience, re-plaster) what's underneath, and paint them up properly, basecoat, undercoat, topcoat and all. I'll choose colours for each room and buy the appropriate paint. There's a faint, faint possiblity that I'll even pay a professional to do the ceilings, which are... not aesthetically great.
But meanwhile I'll go on slapping paint on and brightening rooms up considerably using leftover paint from other people's decorating projects, and gluing dinosaurs over the top. I can make fairly large changes that way, even if it's not exactly what I would like.
And over time, Rob is less reluctant to view any decorating project as a precursor to months or years of living in half-done mess, worse than the original version, followed by days and days of fiddly boring painstaking labour, followed by not being supposed to touch or use the freshly fixed up area.
He's kind of right about it when it involves plastering, though. But I do wish we didn't have woodchip...
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Date: 2010-02-27 06:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-27 06:04 pm (UTC)I would love to get it out of the very darkest rooms. So much. It just swallows the light whole.
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Date: 2010-02-27 06:13 pm (UTC)Reminds me of the first house we rented in Wells in Somerset, where some bright spark had Artexed the walls of the staircase... It wasn't a very wide staircase either, so every time you carried stuff up or down the stairs you were in peril of losing skin from your hands. Bah!