How much decorating did you do once you moved in?

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DKLS wrote: »

Last place I bought, it was ready to move into without work and was to "our tastes".

Despite that I started decorating within a week and decorated all rooms within three months.

Can you see the clouds of envy heading skywards now?:p:p:(

I have recently moved into a place that wasn't even habitable (not a Huge Project like Phoebe takes on...but certainly not habitable) and hence felt the need to "get on with it" very fast indeed.

Even if the place had actually been habitable to start with...the fact that the previous owner was both a smoker and an old person meant the house would have had to have the d!cor changed instantly. This, in order to be clean and modern.

So, I'm going through the place and gutting each room pretty much as I go and doing it in neutral colours (because that's what I like anyway personally) and part of the reason for those neutral colours is the place was so dirty and "old-personish" that it was impossible for me to see whats what until its clean and modern.

I will decide later whether to "put my stamp" on the place but, for right now, its just got to be clean/modern/functional for me to even be able to "see the wood for the trees", as to start with it didn't look anything remotely like a home in my book.

If the house had been normal/modern standard and it was just a question of "What is my taste on decorating?" then I might have thought differently, but I was shocked by just how old-fashioned/difficult to live in it was to start with. Hence, first I am having to make it livable-in and clean and then I can think more about "my taste" later on.