How long did it take to decorate new home?

verulamium

8 months since moving in. Haven't done a thing! Having said that our friend who also moved to their new home 7 months ago, are redecorating room by room. It takes a couple of weekend to finish up a room.

Paully232000

moved in in October 13, and barring a few weeks off at christmas finished painting every room, door, skirting board, ceiling by about May. In that time also from the stairs upwards, painted the outside of the house, and did other jobs like new taps, bath sides, fitted various cupboards, new curtains, sorted the garden.

That was for a 4 bed house about 1700sq ft, and working at the same time apart from the first 2 weeks of moving.

I guess you could do it in 3-4 days, solid 12+ hour days but I would think a week more realistic. I was amazed how much we got done in that first few weeks.

makeyourdaddyproud

Try converting a 7 bed period house to single dwelling. Costed us £63k so far inc building works, sash windows and roof and I'm 3/4 of the way through.

DigForVictory

There's right, & there's quick (& there's get it done before the State Visit which is neither but shows An Effort Has Been Made.)

Time spent on prep is never wasted, but rarely counted when the paintbrushes come out...

And do all you can while you're keen & get a revised estimate when your enthusiasm burns out - wonderful how the sucked teeth & the stil four figure estimate reignites your enthusiasm.

(Although our bathroom & kitchen remain unpainted, ahem, a decade plus on. It's the emptying it out, scrubbing & preparing and then painting that leaves us wilting.)

Best of luck! You may find laying about you with sugar soap restores the original paint to a colour you can live with...

sterl1ng

Ha thanks! I've ordered all the kit and OH will be helping me paint the place so he'll paint whilst I cut or we will do wall each....its just prepping I guess...been watching a lot of youtube b&q DIY videos-sad really I know but quite excited

System

When I was selling my flat my ex and I lived in. My ex did sod all to the flat even though he lived 3 miles away and I moved back to my parents 85 miles away! On the completion of the sale, I put the costs of the mortgage, paint, fuel etc into his side of the money. Never raised this.

Back to the decorating of the 1 bed flat. As furniture and pictures left marks on the walls, my parents and I painted the lounge, bedroom and kitchen plus outside doors to flat and outhouse between the 3 of us in 25 hours - 8am-8pm over the weekend - allowing 1.5 hours of breaks plus 4 hours on Monday morning. We were knackered. MSE for sleeping in the flat. Then Dad came back the following Saturday to do the glossing.

sterl1ng

was that with prepping too Scarlet? That's very fast! I'd be happy to put on some tunes whilst prepping/painting and hopefuly be chilled whilst doing....we have barely any furniture so will do when move in and can then get new carpet fitted then start freecycling/ebaying for furniture. I'm just glad I got the paint in mind as it took me ages to figure out what I wanted.

onlyroz

We hired a pro to do four bedrooms, two landings and the stair-well from top to bottom. He charged £110 a day plus materials and he took about two weeks. I didn't fancy doing it myself because the stair-well involved ladders and platforms etc, and I've never painted a ceiling in my life. Our ground-floor needs refreshing and I'll do that myself - I expect it to take a week or so, working in the evenings.