For how long could you live with the decor?

SallyDucati

My current house is a new build so quite plain just how I like it.
My last flat wasn't to bad either.  Apart from the stained brown flotex carpet in the kitchen, which was hideous and really horrible by the cooker.  That didn't last long and got replaced with vinyl flooring within the week.

AdrianC

When we moved in here, pretty much job 1 was the spare bedroom.

The darkest room in the house anyway, it was salmon pink (walls and ceiling), with several walls painted over octopus-tentacle-textured wallpaper.

Bonniepurple

We tend to live with the decor until we want to sell, then we sort it!  6 months ago, our house was yellow paint (circa early 90s) with patches of bare plaster. The carpets were various 60s/70s patterns- my childhood home has similar (bought 1977).  We now have magnolia walls and a grey carpet.  Given what our budget is, what we are looking for and what houses are coming up, I suspect that we will end up with another 60s horror or at least “older person style”!

If something’s functional, I tend not to care what it looks like.  Does the toilet flush?  If yes, I don’t care what colour it is!

swingaloo2

My last house which we moved from was, Im sorry to say, fully inline with the grey/yellow theme that seemed to be n every house I looked at when we decided to move.
I made the decision that even though my favourite colour has always been yellow there would be none at all in this house. I decided I would go pastel instead of primary as I had always seemed to do. 
The kitchen was pale green so I left that and added pink and grey accesories and carried on through the house with pinks, pale blues and greys.  2 months later and I hate it and am now looking for wallpaper again and still keep being drawn back to yellows.

My first house when I married in the early 70's was a mis match of what we were given and what Im ashamed to say we actually picked ourselves. It would definately make the 'Have a look at this thread' if it were still around. 
Yellow gloss painted by myself! kitchen units, a blue bathroom with a turquoise shaggy carpet, a lilac floral bedroom, an orange and red polka dot carpet on the hall stairs and landing (a surprise present which was laid without me seeing it as a gift!!!!), a purple and black front room complete with ultra violet lights (for the parties we would have now we were grown up!), but best of all the living room- a dark brown carpet, green floral wallpaper on the chimney breast and plain lime green paper in the alcoves. Although we had to get creative in the alcoves as we only had one roll of the lime so we cut the last length into 2 curved strips and made a semi arch in each alcove mixed with the floral from the chimney breast. Team that with a very large settee, black fake leather with bright gold fuffy seating and the result was um, different!

Rambosmum

For as long as it takes us to get it sorted - which will depend on what needs doing. For example, last house we only lived with it a few months as all that was needed was a lick of paint and a bit of wallpaper. This house needed rewiring and new central heating system so until we could do those it was pointless doing any work. What I would say though is that I find it much easier to live with décor that it not my taste rather than partly decorated rooms which we had after the rewire and new central heating. 

pbhb

I’m buying a 200 year old cottage, hopefully completing on Monday. I’m extremely impatient and redecorating the kitchen in the first week and have booked in kitchen fitters to replace the worktops in early March. Carpet fitters are booked in for March throughout the house which means I want to get all the painting done before then (I don’t want to get paint on the new carpet). 

After that’s done, I’m happy to take things slower, would like to put up some shelves and create a reading nook in the office.

the reason I’m so impatient is because I’ve lived the last 5 years in my (soon to ex) husbands house and he wouldn’t let me do anything in there, not even choosing a set of bed sheets and none of my belongings were allowed in our bedroom. Some might think it silly but this house I’m buying is my fresh start and it will be the first time I’ve ever made anything to my choices 

pbhb

couriervanman said:

ProDave said:

People today seem less willing to "put up" with hardship.

My second house was a doerupper, bought because it was far more appealing than tiny developer boxes on tiny plots on large estates.  It had no central heating, lousy single glazed draughty windows, a pathetic tired excuse for a kitchen, a downstairs bathroom direct from the kitchen, tired decor and manky carpets.

I moved in and lived with it as I slowly renovated it as i could afford it.  I doubt many would do that today.

Typical with most young kids of today they want a perfect house with all brand new stuff

If they can afford it and not get into debt over it I don’t see the issue with having what you want. You only get one life

Ditzy_Mitzy

I did a little bit of painting when I bought a flat, however it was essential.  The kitchen walls were painted in a most unsuitable shade of deep plummy purple, made darker by the fact the room does not have a window.  The shade was only really suitable for a brothel, so it had to go.  I repainted the walls sky blue, to give an outdoorsy feel.  I also painted one of the walls in the living room green, just for variety's sake as the whole room was beige and boring when I moved in.  I put some new lino in the kitchen for reasons I can't now remember and that's about it!  The rest, carpets and bedroom etc., was left alone.  

Silvertabby

Mum and dad bought a 1930s semi in the early 1970s.  It had been owned by the same elderly lady (and her late husband) since new, and hadn't really been updated decor wise in all that time.

When they first viewed the house, it still had dark wood doors, skirting board, etc throughout, and mum immediately dreamed of fresh white woodwork....  Then the old lady's son thought he might get a better price if he 'freshened it up'  and (presumably) bought a job lot of the cheapest gloss paint he could find.  Which just happened to be peach.

Not surprisingly, this didn't generate a bidding war, so he eventually accepted mum and dad's offer.
 
After they had moved in, mum asked dad when he was going to start decorating... and he said that he didn't need to, as it had all been done.  We lived with that awful peach for over 3 years.

caprikid1

"which had an avocado suite" had a house with one for years.
Just remember what you put in today is tomorrow's avocado.