Plea to all Vendors with Children

hazyjo

Just to add to my earlier post - the kids I mentioned are 11 and 14! Not toddlers. It's the way some people live!

Jx

notanewuser

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

That said, I'm not a fan of people that let their kids scribble on walls/generally trash the place and equally could never understand the idea of putting your *valuables* out of reach of your kids whilst they're small and in the *into everything* phase - we just taught ours to respect our stuff and I can honestly say nothing came to any harm......

It's not about 'letting them' draw on the walls though. DD (27 months) has a chalkboard and chalks. While I was cooking dinner the other night she snuck a piece of chalk into the hallway and drew a line on the wall. I told her clearly that walks are not for drawing on, only the chalkboard, which she now understands (she did similar when she found an eyeliner at about 14 months, but back them she didn't understand). Anyway, the house is still 100% magnolia downstairs as it was when we bought it. As there's only one coat on the walls washing it will leave bare plaster. I've zero chance of matching the magnolia shade. I'm planning to reprint the whole house this year (not in magnolia) and we're not going anywhere so the chalk line is staying, for now. It also gives me a handy visual reminder for DD that walls are not for drawing on (I reinforce the message every couple of days).

DD started climbing at 9 months and now there's nowhere she can't get to, so we've never hidden valuables etc away either.

Niv

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think it's worse that they've decorated one of the bedrooms in Barbie pink .... that way it's the whole room, probably 3 coats, to get rid of the muck.... at least with scribbles you might be able to get away with painting just a bit.

I had that plus much worse! Not only barbie pink but it was embossed heart wall paper, deep purple skirtings and coving and lighter purple ceiling with glitter stuck in it!

Also kid 2's bedroom was navy blue walls with even darker skirting and dark blue ceiling with gliiter in it. Dark Blue carpet also so you walked in the room and it got darker! lol

Too ages to sort it out... didnt make me react like the OP though I just took those rooms as needing complete re-decorating when i viewed and knocked a bit off.

Niv

Better_Days

shegirl wrote: »

What's wrong with giving a kid the biggest bedroom?

There is nothing wrong with it per se, but if you are trying to sell your house it doesn't show it to the best advantage if a double/king bed, two wardrobes, cod, etc are crammed into the second bedroom and a child has a larger bedroom. Not everyone has the imagination to work out what furniture will fit in which room. We looked at a house like this last year. You had to turn sideways to get past the furniture in the parents room (and I am slim), yet one of the children had the biggest room with a single bed and a wardrobe in.

It helps to sell your house if buyers can imagine themselves in the property. It is harder for them to do this if the bedrooms are arranged as above.

Callie22

Better_Days wrote: »

There is nothing wrong with it per se, but if you are trying to sell your house it doesn't show it to the best advantage if a double/king bed, two wardrobes, cod, etc are crammed into the second bedroom and a child has a larger bedroom.

I agree, I've always felt that having a fish in the bedroom doesn't help

daviesalie_2

jellie wrote: »

You ok with the stink of fag ash then?

No, forgot about that one lol

AlexMac

OK so- some vendors are weird, but aren't some buyers just as bad?

When we sold once, we were really nice to the buyer and let them in early on the day of the sale. I.e. we ignored the convention that 'thou shalt not let the new owner into the house until the solicitors confirm the cash has transferred' - which means removal vans sitting on the doorstep til the solicitors come out of a meeting/stagger back from a long lunch - sometimes well into the afternoon of the day of exchange.

Buyer swanned in, and her 1st action was to run gloved finger disdainfully along mantlepiece to inpect our cleaning efforts- and look down her nose at me like the help as I was still hoovering!

But then, as a buyer- I've done worse;

-breaking in to the house I'd just bought so that we'd finished moving in by the time the solicitors and agent staggered back from said long lunch and rang to offer the keys at 3pm. And, worse (in the light of posts above)...
-letting grand daughter paint her room electric bubble-gum pink.

Mea culpa- what's my penance?

grifferz

This thread reminded me of a link posted in the other "look at this!" thread:

Check out picture #8:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/new-homes-for-sale/property-26998867.html

Will need a bit more work than painting over some scribbles I imagine..

phoebe1989seb

grifferz wrote: »

This thread reminded me of a link posted in the other "look at this!" thread:

Check out picture #8:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/new-homes-for-sale/property-26998867.html

Will need a bit more work than painting over some scribbles I imagine..

Yeah, but that's *art*

I remember painting the design off my favourite album cover which took up one wall in my old bedroom in my parents' house when I was a fashion student - it was on lining paper though, not directly onto the plaster. I was not a happy bunny when I left home and they stripped off the wallpaper complete with all my hard work only to replace it with anaglypta

dizziblonde

I've got one girl, and another one on the way - and there is no way on this universe that I am EVER conceeding to bedroom walls being painted pink - I HATE the colour, so as long as they're under my roof, no way will I tolerate it on the walls... I may conceed one of those "hints of dewblossom and baby's bottom" whites with pink accessories - but there's no way I'm having a kids' room that will give me a migraine if I cross the threshold.

I have, however got painted over woodchip in there at the moment (very pale yellow if you must) - purely because I know that if I strip it off it'll be a replastering job (there's some old damage from a shower leak in the adjoining bathroom) which I don't have the time, money or mess-tolerance threshold to put up with the repair job for at the present - so it's load-bearing woodchip and on the list of jobs to do that is so long it puts Santa's naughty and nice lists to shame.

(I also deliberately haven't spent a fortune on furniture since I know the second they hit school age and stickers get given out they'll plaster the infernal things everywhere - over my freecycle job drawers - fine, I think I'd be flipping out if it was over a £1000 co-ordinated Mamas+Papas bedroom set)