To decorate or not to decorate – that is the question

Mrs Sparkle is guest posting today.

Local Traders they’ve recently published a free eBook entitled ’28 tips on how to decorate’ which is available to download from their homepage, let me tell you how I feel about decorating………..I HATE decorating but I need to decorate my hallway, stairs and landing-a huge undertaking for me as we have lived in our mansion (3 bed semi) for 13 years and in those years I have decorated every room in the house at least twice, my husband however has managed a measly once, the kitchen (easy, no furniture to move and very little actual wall to paint) and a couple of doors (still 6 upstairs to be done, 3 years after they were put in), but the stairwell is a tricky job.

I refuse to balance on a plank of wood on one leg above a drop to certain death down the stairs, this is man’s work!  The last time this area was painted (by my in-laws) was 11 years ago so it’s now desperate, I took the bull by the horns and approached a local ‘painter and decorator’ who happened to be passing, strange but true, he was happy to arrange a date in the following days to come and price up my job so I spent some hard earned cash on those overpriced tester pots so I would be prepared. Two week’s have past and P & D man still has not appeared so every night I trudge up the stairs with the random splodges of tester paint slapped on my wall looking even worse than before.

“Don’t worry” says hubby, “we will do it ourselves……….together”, not music to my ears, “OK”, I say “but you can do the balancing bit” (he’s got life insurance).  Three more days of the splodges go by and hubby comes in from work with the exciting news that he’s found a new P & D to come and price up, he’s coming in the morning……..still waiting, so, unless one of the ’28 tips’ is ‘get someone in to paint your hallway, stairs and landing, who turns up when they say they’re going to, does the job etc etc’, I think I’ll give it a miss and get used to the splodges!.

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