Decorating.

staffordjas

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My name’s (not) Bob …..and I’m an addict.

I woke up this morning and before I went to work ordered £100 of wallpaper for the home office that I decorated 18 months ago 🙈 redecorating hadn't even crossed my mind until I’m finding myself with 15 tabs open on the laptop with various wallpaper patterns.

I’m my defence I do spend a LOT of time in that room and it’s not quite how I’d wanted it, the curtains get in my way and the lighting isn’t adequate so it started with necessity 😅😬

Kitchen got an overhaul between Christmas and new year and dining room was done early December. Since Christmas I’ve done the spare room that’s now the kids ‘den’ with a sofa bed in, and my bedroom but it was only refreshing the current decor and some new accessories so I’m not sure it counts 🤷🏻‍♀️
Your home office wallpapering on the other thread looks lovely .

I wish I was like you and enjoyed decorating. Used to try my best in the old house for 40 years (hubby's never decorated, I've had to do it) , but never looked professionally done. Lots of bits stuck on the tops and bottoms where I cut the paper short and around the light switches where I just papered around them and filled in the wonky missing bits like a jigsaw puzzle 😂 Joins vastly overlapping , paint everywhere except where it should be and had to wear hotel shower caps as I splashed it about. (Being a short @rse , had a brush tied to a stick to reach high parts)

When some paper peeled off whilst removing a mirror the night before moving, had a quick dash to the Co-op and it got stuck back on with pritt-stick .

This new house was decorated perfectly when we moved in 7 months ago ....when it finally gets to needing doing we're going to have to splash out on a decorator to keep it looking 'proper' !
 
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Bob

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I don’t really like decorating, sometimes I hate it, small projects aren’t too bad though……..make the decision and be all done in less than 48 hours, without even disrupting my working day 💪

We moved into a grubby magnolia house and first tried to brighten it up with white, moving onto various shades of grey, quickly realising that I’m not a shades of grey kinda girl (if you can’t tell from the wallpaper 🤷🏻‍♀️) so we decorated and redecorated in quick succession and it’s spiralled from there.

I think I just get bored and like to mix things up a bit.
 

Alee

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Feel like there needs to be a before and after thread. Has to be your own work though ! No cheating 😂
Could be anything from decorating , gardening , small diy projects , crafts .
 
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