How often do you redecorate?

[wendy46001]

We are supposed to decorate???

it took me four years to pick a color for the office walls...
DH says by the time i finish decorating the rooms in the house its time to move.

 

[DeaverTex]

We are supposed to decorate???

Precisely!!

We've been in this house for about 21 years, and we've painted the living room / dining room area (it's huge, with a cathedral ceiling) the kitchen, and the hallway. All fairly bright colors, thank you. The rest of the place still has the same white paint it had when we bought it, and it really looks just fine. Complete with the little paper borders in the bedrooms. I guess we just have other things we'd rather do than change wall colors.

 

[SC Minnie]

it took me four years to pick a color for the office walls...
DH says by the time i finish decorating the rooms in the house its time to move.

It took me 14 years to decide what color to paint our spare bedroom. It was builder white until last year. We were having company in for DD's graduation so I stepped it up and chose a color.

 

[Southernmiss]

We have been in our house for almost 10 years. Painted it completely, minus baseboards and doors and closets about 4 years ago. It had been builder's grade white before then and with 3 boys and a young daughter was looking pretty rough. Painted everyting a Valspar semigloss warm buff. I have liked the color. It hasn't shown dirt and wear hardly at all. Would love to redo the floors and buy some furniture and redo the kitchen, but it's not in the budget yet.

We lived in our other house for 11 years and painted twice. Once after the kids came and messed up the builder's grade paint and again just before we moved.

Add me to those who feel interior decorating challenged.

 

[powellrj]

I still have a goose boarder up in my kitchen, need I say anymore?

 

[Meriweather]

other .....depends. We repaint when it needs it, changing colors if we are in the mood to.

 

[Colleen27]

It depends on the room. The kids change interests/themes so theirs get repainted more often. The rest, not nearly so much... not until I start noticing that the paint has started to fade or doesn't wash up as well as it used to. I don't really get the "redecorating" bug very often, though. I'm going room by room and putting a lot of time and energy into period-inspired decor somewhat in keeping with the age of our house, and once every room is done all I intend to do is freshen up finishes as needed.

 

[Nolcrest]

Paint? I'm a wallpaper person & still love it. Wallpaper & tongue & groove wood planking. I think DH is happy I still like it.

 

[PizzieDuster]

I still have a goose boarder up in my kitchen, need I say anymore?

Now I feel bad. My teen daughter wanted to redo her room and take out all the pink little girl stuff in her room, on her walls. I did. I put them in bins for a grand daughter. It's all plain. Just a bed and her furniture.

Still haven't gotten around to paining it. It's going on a year. I keep telling myself, she'll want to change it again once in high school. I have until September for that You know what? Yup, she changes her mind constantly whenever the "painting" topic comes up.

 

[StephMK]

I said 5-10. We've been here for 6.5 and it probably took me a year after moving in to get all the rooms finished.

DD13's room was repainted last year and I repainted the dining room a few months ago. I still like the kitchen & family room colors. DD19 wants to paint hers & I'd like to re-do our bathroom paint and the main hallway. DS will probably get his painted next summer and I'll re-paint the master bedroom then also if I get really motivated.

 

[akcire]

Been in my house 30 years, every room has been painted once, most within a year of moving in, the people we bought our house from actually had an orange wall!
Family room and Living room painted once in 30 years
Kitchen painted twice
Master bath painted 3 times
Kids bath painted once
Guest bath painted once
Bedrooms painted once

Now, I am in the process of selling my parents house, none of the three bedrooms has been painted in the 53 years since the house was built.
Every realtor, and the inspectors who have gone through all agree, they still don't need to be painted. Gentle use I guess

I hesitate to mention....since I got flamed in another thread about this...it still has the original 53 year old wall to wall carpet, and the inspector pulled corners up during his look at the house and he says it too, is in perfect shape, clean, no infestations, good for many many more decades of use.

The house you are selling definitely should be painted. 50 year old paint was most likely lead based, and should be sealed away.

 

[smitch425]

We built our house almost 10 years ago and I have painted the front room 5 different times, the first level bathroom twice, the great room twice, DD's room twice and DS's room three times and the stairway/halls twice. My dad jokes all the time that I'm losing square footage every time I paint. The next room I repaint will be the master bedroom, but not until I find a bedspread that I love. If I see a fabric that I am drawn to, I build a room around it. The front room won't be changed for awhile. I found the greatest print ever, and I don't see me finding another one any time soon. I did discover (earlier today!) that they make a wide ribbon of the same print, so I may start a new project as soon as I get our MNSSHP costumes finished.

 

[aprilgail2]

Depends on the room- the living room, kitchen and dining room every 5 years or so. The bathroom I usually do every 12-18 months---I get bored with the color and am always changing it. Its a small room so its easy to paint. My daughters room has 12 foot ceilings so I am not doing that as much, just had it done a few months ago and that should carry her to college (she is in 9th in Sept)- plus just got her all adult furniture, rich, dark wood, desk, vanity etc - her room is the best one in the house! I may redo my room this year, really needs to be re-sheetrocked though.

 

[alex9179]

I love painting, so I'll do it whenever. Either a complete color change or a refresh. The lower 3 ft of my walls really take a beating.

I also move art and accessories seasonally-or more often if I get the urge. I come from a decorating family. When we get together, we end up moving furniture and stuff around for fun!

 

[North of Mouse]

Other....when it becomes absolutely necessary.

My issue in this house is the 20 FOOT ceiling in the family room. We are going to have to hire it out, ugh.

I am in process of cleaning and changing things around at the moment. I am trying to "clean sweep" each room and get rid of STUFF!

BAHAHAHA!

So if you had 20ft ceilings would you DIY? I would have to rent scaffolding. I don't think I could do it.

I do feel your pain! We, too, have 20' ceilings in family room, foyer, stairs, master bath, and master sitting area. My dh was determined to paint them. He did the family room with a tall ladder (I had to leave I was so scared), then decided we could have the rest done by a painter

Anyway I voted 'other' as I have no set amount of time between decorating. We have been transferred several times, so no need to re decorate then. We built our home now 12 years ago. I had so many things to pick out, just told the builder to paint everything neutral until I could decide.

Well, it took 8 years, then we started painting. Have gone with lots of bright colors and we love it so much that we have no desire any time soon to change anything. As a pp said, I picked out my ideal window and bed dressings for our master, then coordinated my paint colors around them.

 

[tvguy]

The house you are selling definitely should be painted. 50 year old paint was most likely lead based, and should be sealed away.

No lead thankfully, that's one of the first things the inspector checked.

 

[Laura66]

Not as often as I like! We need to update the upstairs bathrooms and kitchen floor but we are paying for college for two! The house is paid off - but if we can't pay cash for it we don't do it! Da Hubs remodeled the downstairs powder room and we got new family room furniture this year so I'm happy! It was vacation or kitchen floor this summer - we went with a vacation!

 

[Laura66]

We have a two story family room as well. No way do we paint that ourselves!

 

[smitch425]

We have a two story family room as well. No way do we paint that ourselves!

I painted our two story stairwell--TWICE. Talk about scary! Our stairs have a 180° turn half way up and they are very hard to paint even with an extension ladder. I put 3 coats of Behr premium ultra paint on the walls the last time. Hopefully it will last a long time. Next time I may have to hire someone. It's a looonnnggg way up!

Forgot to mention earlier that my house is VERY colorful. The downstairs consists of a red great room, a yellow kitchen, a purple bathroom and a turquoise front room. The hall and stairs are chocolate. It sounds like an odd combination of colors, but somehow it works. The upstairs is chocolate in the hall, DD's room is hot pink, DS's room is navy, the kids' bathroom is red (it is Mickey themed) and our master bedroom is light green with a light yellow master bath. Can't wait to redo those last two rooms. They are too drab compared to the rest of the house.

 

[beaucoup]

Lived here 20 yrs. We painted when we moved in. Painted everything a porcelain color. We hate to paint. And it doesn't help that with all the stairs in 3 story townhouse, all the stairwells are extra tall ceilings. One is 2 stories. Hard to get at with ladders on stairs, etc.

In that time, we have painted a couple of accent walls, which I quickly grew to hate. Have painted the 2 bathrooms colors that I like much longer. I think its been 7 yrs on the bathrooms.

I would rather change up stuff in the room than paint. In our house, if you paint one room, it runs into other rooms then the open stairs, etc. So it was just easier to keep it all a sort of whitish color. We have natural woodwork & a blue wall to wall that gets lots of complements. Honestly, its the carpeting I would like to change.