Soggy run

[Omletina Kyckling]

I'm really trying to psyche myself up to decorate my staircase/landing and hallway.....started by doing my hallway months ago before I bought my bookshelves etc. but have been putting off the rest, mainly because it means I have to go high up a ladder to paint the bit above the stairs and I'm not a fan of ladders! It's taken me all afternoon to put masking tape up the side of the stairs and put the dustsheets over the stairs and I've just done a bit of filling in holes, but the next bit i.e. getting up the ladder and painting seems far away! It's so much more difficult doing stuff when you're on your own!!

Encouraging words (or even "get off your fat ****") would be appreciated!!

PS in case any of you ask, I'm painting it my usual pale cream, which the whole house is painted in, picked a very light colour so I could paint the walls and ceiling the same and won't need to worry about getting the edges perfect!!

[Goosey Lucy]

You've done the worst bit, the preparation! You'll be fine! What can you promise yourself as a reward (beside the satisfaction of a job well done)?

 

Failing that, why don't you ask your Omletstock visitors to get crafty with a brush and tin

[lillybettybabs]

I need to do mine too,

The people before us must have got a deal on lime green paint as the whole house was painted in it!

Just the hall left but i keep finding other things to do.

[The Dogmother]

It's so much more difficult doing stuff when you're on your own!!

 

I know what you mean, and I hate ladders too.

 

'Come on Omletina.... get off yer bum and get it done!'

[Omletina Kyckling]

.........hmmm.........probably too late to start painting today and I'm at Mostin's tomorrow hahahahaha.....

[Sageandonion]

We need to do ours too, we've had the paint in the garage for over two years now, I bet by the time I get round to opening it, it will be one congealed (sp?) mess and if by some miracle it isn't I'll have gone off the colour

[C&T]

I would say just think how fantastic it will look when you have done it? Especially knowing that YOU have done it, and it's all YOUR own work!

 

Or alternatively, I would go the bribary route with Goosey Lucy, and promise yourself a treat for when it is done!

 

And agree with others - the prep is the hard work - the rest will be a doddle!!!!

[Omletina Kyckling]

Well I've made a start. I've painted all the walls and ceiling on the landing area where the bedroom and bathrooms doors go off from, so done things accessible from my stepladder. Will attempt the high stuff up a full height ladder during a day time when light is better and I'm more with it. May ask mum if she'll come over so she can reload my roller etc......

It's soooo much brighter already....it was such a dull dark colour (think she was a smoker at some point as everything seems to be nicotine coloured! All of the gloss work is a peach colour! Gross....it'll look much better once I've done the gloss a nice satin white....and when I can get my chicken quilt and chicken picture back up there too of course!

[JillM]

The gloss paint may improve if you just clean it down with a bleach cloth! And as for the high stuff why don't you do what I'm going to do and get one of those rollers with a reallly long handle? Good luck with your decorating - my hall and stairs will be (bright) yellow once it's done!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I can't really say "get off your bum and get on with it" as I'm currently waiting for a decorator to start work on painting my bathroom .

[Omletina Kyckling]

The gloss paint may improve if you just clean it down with a bleach cloth!

 

I don't think it'll do much as it's actually painted a nasty peach colour, I want it really white. I'd never paint the walls without doing the woodwork anyway. Think freshly painted satin white looks so lovely!

 

Couldn't get over how much brighter it was on my landing this morning! Off out for the day now but may have a go at the rest either tonight or tomorrow morning.....

[Tiggy]

oooh it will look so lovely once you've done it

[chickenNutter]

In an attempt to paint our landing hall and stairs terracotta (don't laugh it was fashionable in the '90s) I ended up painting it twice back to back! Despite numerous test pots, I got the colour completely wrong and it ended up Tango orange. I kept painting thinking 'it'll be ok when it dries' but when I reached the bottom with the second coat, I had to admit it was god-awful, and I couldn't bear to live one night with it, so I went straight out and bought some cheap magnolia paint and did the whole lot all over again!

 

Felt a right pratt!

[ClaireG]

Just think how much better it will look when you've finished The rollers with the long handles are a great idea. Reward yourself with a big pat on the back and a large G&T when you've finished

[freddie]

I've just done mine Only got three doors left to go, and I'm done. It looks so much better, and so much brighter, and I'm glad I did it!

Walls are now a buttery clotted cream colour, with a very pale cream/white gloss on the woodwork.

[lillybettybabs]

I've just done mine Only got three doors left to go, and I'm done. It looks so much better, and so much brighter, and I'm glad I did it!

Walls are now a buttery clotted cream colour, with a very pale cream/white gloss on the woodwork.

ooo thats the colour i'm looking for, I have 6 test square on my wall and none of them nice.

Whats the name and make?

[The Dogmother]

I've just done my downstairs walls in Dulux's White Cotton, Karen - it looks great - pop over and have a look if you like. I still have some left in the pot if you want to try it out.

[freddie]

mine is a dulux colour not the scrubbable one(have you seen the price ), but very wipeable, the colour is golden rambler, 25YY79240

we used glidden trade paint acrylic eggshell. Recommended by the paint man, who I see far more of than I should!!

[Goosey Lucy]

How's it going today? It sounds lovely, we need to see *cough cough* photos to really appreciate your hard work.

[Omletina Kyckling]

It's going well, I've done most of the emulsion work, now comes the mammoth job of the wood work!! I will take some photos once I've got all my pictures back up so it looks more homely!! At least this time I've had no help from my two brazen boys.....a few years ago I was decorating and had the roller tray on the kitchen worktop to refill it with paint and Ludwig jumped up on the worktop and straight in the roller tray (I should explain that my cats are very well trained and would never normally do this, this was a one off ) and then ran around the kitchen and around the dining room in a panic spreading white paw prints throughout!!

[Snowy]

I think naughty Ludwig needs his naughty paws tying together during decorating Diane!

[ClaireG]

You don't fancy a cat paw print feature wall then

[Omletina Kyckling]

I think naughty Ludwig needs his naughty paws tying together during decorating Diane!

 

Ludwig is 3 years older and lazier than back in those days....this is the closest he's got to any of my painting equipment since I started, he's looking most put out because my flash woke him up

 

[Omletina Kyckling]

Woooo finished! I'm really pleased with it, it's so much brighter and looks bigger too. Here's a photo I took this afternoon with no lights on and no flash, so shows how light it is!

 

[Yorkshire Pudding]

Looks beautiful !