Re: How often do you Decorate?

All our rooms are the same: cream walls, white woodwork and ceilings. Never get bored with it so never needs decorating. It says clean: I haven't smoked in 20 years and haven't smoked in doors in 30 years.

I've moved home quite a bit in my time, always decorated after buying and before selling. Been in our current property 14 years, that's the longest I've ever stayed in the same place.

Re: How often do you Decorate?

Just finished decorating the kitchen. I only installed it a couple of years ago but it was looking a bit tatty. Not sure which room is next. It takes me longer to get motivated these days. I can only put it down to the fact that I have done so much decorating and DIY over the years that the novelty has worn off. I'm dreading re-doing the hall and landing which involves getting the big ladders out.

Re: How often do you Decorate?

Our way of decorating has changed over the years. I've done wood panelling, ceiling tiles, cork tiles and heavily patterned wallpaper in the years when those styles were all the rage.

In this house, I've gone more for just painting everywhere but not before papering the walls with lightly-contoured lining paper. The ceilings are Artexed in a random pattern (done by the last owners) but I quite like that and so have left them as they are.

My theory now is that if I paint the walls and ceiling too often, the rooms will get slightly smaller each time because of the thickness of paint building up. I don't want the rooms to get smaller and that's a good reason not to keep painting them.

Re: How often do you Decorate?

I must remember that one.