Plea to all Vendors with Children

lessonlearned

When my boys were teenagers I allowed them to decorate their rooms - any colour they chose on the following two conditions.

1. No wallpaper - only emulsion paint on the walls.
2. They were to repaint it to something more neutral should we need to move.

DS2 chose a dark vivd blue/purple on all four walls. Actually it was rather nice although as you can imagine it did make the room dark. We offset it with stainless steel and silver coloured accessories and it look quite good.

When it was time to redecorate it took 5 coats of white of emulsion to act as a primer, before we could give it 2 coats of a final colour. We all took pity on him and helped him out in the end.

That was a few years ago. Nowadays I have seen special primer emulsions designed to cover dark or bright colours. Not tried them though so cannot comment on whether or not they are any good.

Re small garages - DS2 is a bit of a petrol head and he explained it to me. He had a mini and I was astonished when he said that it would not fit into our garage. My car definitely wouldn't because it's a huge wheel chair accessible vehicle.

It turns out that all modern cars are now much wider - even than their original counterparts - even minis.

The only cars that seem to fit into older single garages are the little "smart" type cars like the Fiat 500 etc. You live and learn;).

StevenMarks

alta wrote: »

...Very few people who buy a property don't change the decor with-in a few months, your buying bricks and mortar, not other people decor.

I'm one of the very few. Last house I bought I painted master bedroom the day I moved in because it was pink.

Didn't paint anywhere else for three years. Took another two after that to paint everywhere and then 6 months later put house up for sale.

conradmum

lessonlearned wrote: »

When my boys were teenagers I allowed them to decorate their rooms - any colour they chose on the following two conditions.

1. No wallpaper - only emulsion paint on the walls.
2. They were to repaint it to something more neutral should we need to move.

DS2 chose a dark vivd blue/purple on all four walls. Actually it was rather nice although as you can imagine it did make the room dark. We offset it with stainless steel and silver coloured accessories and it look quite good.

When it was time to redecorate it took 5 coats of white of emulsion to act as a primer, before we could give it 2 coats of a final colour. We all took pity on him and helped him out in the end.

That was a few years ago. Nowadays I have seen special primer emulsions designed to cover dark or bright colours. Not tried them though so cannot comment on whether or not they are any good.

We had the same problem but papered instead and then painted the paper with just one coat.

sheilaluc

I went to see a house last week. I was in there 5 mins. The stair carpet was beige with multitude of muddy footprints over it. The second bedroom had a body in the bed ( it was breathing I hope). When I go to the bathroom, I was told we are doing it up. They are replacing the stair carpet. I thought they should have done it first before showing people around.

cr1mson

My parent's house had black skirting boards and doors where the vendor had painted them after her husband had died as a mark of respect. It took ages to get them back to white and no-one was allowed to tell her we had done it!

Ames

Niv wrote: »

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

Am I really sad for quite liking the idea of glittery bedroom ceilings :rotfl:

Being a grownup's so boring!

moneyistooshorttomention

AlexMac wrote: »

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)...


Mea culpa- what's my penance?

:rotfl::rotfl: Had to laugh - whilst thinking "Same as mine mate...". Well, I didn't actually break in to my house when I bought it - but I was all geared-up ready to do so if need be. Reason - the vendors had moved out weeks beforehand and my house-to-be was sitting there empty whilst I had to keep on throwing rent away during the buying process finishing off.

So - I'd spotted the fact that the windows were single-glazed and I could readily walk in the back gate and lob a brick right through the kitchen window if need be (having found out that sometimes solicitors don't do their work smoothly and efficiently to finish the process on time). As far as I was concerned the house was officially mine at the exact time I'd been told it would be and that was the basis I was working on.:)

In the event - a solicitor got despatched to literally run round and physically deal with things on the morning of completion to make sure that monies got handed over and I didn't even know they had until they mentioned on handing over the keys to me at lunchtime as per plan:rotfl: