Making a room "bearable" whilst waiting to make it "yours"

phoebe1989seb

tBagpuss wrote: »

I haer you! I could only do it in my living room as that was one room the people I bought from hadn't got to, so it still had the good quality, professionally applied stuff the little old lady before them had had.

The bits they'd done were cheap and very poorly done - their idea of painting was to paint *everything* - light switches, power sockets, walls, skirtings etc with horrible cheap paint and no prep work. And truly terrible taste.

Not related to our sellers were they? :rotfl:

Ours had owned the house for twenty years and brought up their kids here, yet goodness only knows how they lived in such squalor! DH insists that it must have been liveable up to a certain time (when the kids left to go to uni?), at which point they gutted it, got so far and ran out of dosh - borne out by the fact they'd recently had it re-thatched - but how they survived with the bathroom for instance (and we're quite used to *slumming it* for lengthy periods, lol!) beats me.....

Apart from the aforementioned *carpet gripper as curtain rail* issue and weird loo cistern set-up, Mr PO also built doors (and their frames) from bits of old packing cases - not painted so the stamped wording was clearly visible! Now I'm all for recycling and picking up a bargain - have been known to take things out of skips for example - but that takes some beating, especially in what could with a bit of work be a gorgeous period house