Topic: Decorating

[snowcat]

:/ So im currently in the process of painting my bedroom red.... I hate decorating.... so, I bought my paint... which is ridiculously expensive! and now it needs another coat  so thats like £50 on paint!

now I have to buy new curtains, bed sheets, a tv bracket and make new shelves.... :/ why is it so expensive to decorate!

...Oh... and time consuming :/

...Anyone else hate decorating?

[Rogmeister]

Hmmm...I thought this thread was going to be about Christmas decorating! 

I rent an apartment...so I'm not allowed to do anything like that anyway...

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Painted my house on the outside last year.
Next year I'll have to do the inside again. I'm really looking forward to furniture shifting ... NOT

[Kathy]

I don't mind - I'm usually the person my friend's call when they need help.

I wish you had freecycle by you. I recently picked up around 75 gallons of high quality paint from a store that was going out of business after over a hundred years.

They had hundreds of rolls of wall paper but when I first bought my house I spent hundreds of hours removing over a half inch build up of who knows how many decades of wall paper. I swore I never wanted to see the stuff the rest of my life!

You should try and start something like that in your area. Its environmentally friendly and saves money too.

[snowcat]

Yeah Freecycle always sounds like a great idea!

...I hate wall paper to! ... im painting the walls, haha.

[Dragonfire]

Redecorating does take time...and money unfortunately.

I've helped my mom and step dad do a lot...my mom did use wallpaper in some rooms.  I like what she has.  I've also helped remove it and know that is a pain in the ass.
I was still in high school when they got married and it wasn't long after that before step dad started doing stuff around the house.  Redid the bathroom - the only one at the time.  He eventually build on a master bedroom for them and bathroom.  He built on to the back of the house and made a family room and moved the utility room...he built my mom a sewing room.  He's also replaced all the floors and the support beams.  He's done a lot.  I usually helped with moving stuff..then with painting later or hanging wallpaper when we did that. 
I even helped my step dad a bit when he put the new cabinets in the kitchen.  That was not easy.

[Critter]

When I painted my room a couple of years back we just hired a professional to do it. He brought his dog with him, she was adorable!

[Blair]

I hate it. Period.

I would be perfectly happy not caring at all what anything looks like so long as I have the pieces of furniture and bare essentials that I want.

Basic cream-white paint everywhere, no pictures, no useless nicknacks covering furniture or taking of floor space, and no extra furniture to hold the nicknacks that I don't want in the first place much less it sitting on the furniture that I want.  Apparently, though, other people don't like that. Maybe that's why i don't get visitors

[Critter]

I hate it. Period.

I would be perfectly happy not caring at all what anything looks like so long as I have the pieces of furniture and bare essentials that I want.

Basic cream-white paint everywhere, no pictures, no useless nicknacks covering furniture or taking of floor space, and no extra furniture to hold the nicknacks that I don't want in the first place much less it sitting on the furniture that I want.  Apparently, though, other people don't like that. Maybe that's why i don't get visitors

That would certainly not be my style. I've always been slightly turned off by those simplistic style of houses when I go to them I get this creepy feeling the whole time as if I'm in a place where no one actually lives. Because of that I seem to overcompensate and my room is pretty much clutter central. My shelves are full of little statues and knick knacks I have collected over the years and almost every single space of wall is covered with a poster or something. Of course many people are turned off by that overly cluttered appearance as well.

[snowcat]

...I think hiring a professional is a little bit out of my budget... renting and decorating myself at the same time is hard enough.

[DJ Doena]

I'm not into decorating. Give me four white walls and I'm perfectly happy. I have a few "knick knack" items but you can count them on one hand. I don't get why people would fill their shelves with this rather useless stuff, I'm probably too rational for it.

[kahless]

I don't get why people would fill their shelves with this rather useless stuff, I'm probably too rational for it.

Me too, but my wife and my daughter have a completly other point of view! They say a home looks uninhabitated without this stuff.   

[snowcat]

To be honest my shelves are filled with DVDs, Books, Games and a couple of movie items such as Jurassic Park figures and a couple of other film figures...

I would paint my room white... but it makes me feel like im in a hospital... so im going for some colour, I chose red because its my favourite colour... but, all of the basic paints are the same price.... so that doesn't really effect it.

[Critter]

I don't get why people would fill their shelves with this rather useless stuff, I'm probably too rational for it.

Me too, but my wife and my daughter have a completly other point of view! They say a home looks uninhabitated without this stuff.   

I like thier thinking!