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 07:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-01 11:07 am (UTC)The bedroom I had from the age of 7 contained woodchip, which we picked off bit by bit over the next 7 years before it was fully stripped. (Do your children do this? Ali and I appeared to find it irresistible.) Since then the room has been unpapered except for one corner, and the walls are definitely cold.
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Date: 2010-03-01 12:21 pm (UTC)I shouldn't have read the suggestion that your house would end up feeling clinical and cold while drinking tea.
Dear me.
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Date: 2010-03-01 01:02 pm (UTC)(OH GOD today it was AWFUL and the cleaning lady showed up an hour early so it wasn't tidy enough for her to clean properly so I will have to do it all myself ANYWAY and the skin is flaking off my hands and I didn't get a cup of tea or any food until TWO MINUTES ago.)