Decorating, how does he manage to............

When my youngest was little I bought this beautiful Osborne and Little wallpaper for her bedroom, and left my husband home to hang it. On returning, I found that he’d failed to match the pattern, just hung it as it came! It all had to be stripped of course, and was quite a costly mistake, the most annoying thing, was that he couldn’t see anything wrong with it! From then on, I got in decorators!

Tee hee hee

About 2 years ago I was going away to visit family abroad and two nephews kindly offered to move in, do some odd jobs and decorate the hall and kitchen. Apart from paint on drawer handles, door handles and inside the under stairs cupboard I am still coming across tiny paint spots in other places - the back of the wall clock in the sitting room, inside my bookcase (not to mention on the books) amongst others.

I have this problem, not with paint but with marmalade!

I find it all over the house - kitchen handles, front door, you name it. Can't recall the number of times I've had to wipe it from the keyboard. I even found some on the steering wheel of our car.

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I loved my dear late husband but he wasn't so likeable when he was decorating. One year he decided to wallpaper the bedroom with 'Novamura' which was incredibly stretchy. Trying to match the edges was more than a bit tricky. Up it went by the electric socket, down he pulled it, up again and so on. Up and down more times than a whore's drawers.
After several attempts he got so mad with it he ripped it off, screwed it up into a ball and jumped up and down on it! Arrrrggghhh!
"Never mind, stop now, it'll all look better in the morning," I tried to soothe, to no avail. He was determined, I'll say that for him. "You'll laugh about this tomorrow."

Haha. I feel your pain. My hubby is exactly the same. Makes a brilliant job of it in the end, but takes soooooooo long, and is so fussy about things. Last week he decided to begin to gut the utulity room and decorate, and replace the shower room. In spite of the fact we have my niece and her three children arriving to stay next week! Aaaaaaaggggghhh.

I think that would be a great idea to order a wall picture printed on canvas. texelprintstore.com/collections/world-maps-wall-art/1-panel service makes perfect art works!

He has finished!, well nearly.....the squeaky floorboard, has been drilled and screwed and various other things, I have just walked in to inspect, yes, you guessed it......and the floorboard squeaked, a little worse than it did before his repair.....any fixes for squeaky floorboards anyone?

The only way to get DH to do any decorating was for me to start paper-stripping.....
In the present house DD and I did it together as if we waited for DH it would never get done.
These days I get a man in now, as DH passed away last year, and DD is now married and has her own house to worry about.

We now have paint on the steps outside the house
It's very difficult not to get paint on your shoes …..

DH does the decorating under duress and I am a very messy decorator.
One way to get him to do it is to start and make a mess of it.

Well some of these made me chuckle!, I had even taken some advice from you lot when I posed a question on my decorating thread, but realise that perhaps ‘some’ of you are as bad as he is! We now have paint on the steps outside the house and it is day 4 since he started (he likes to mask up!!) and he has painted the interior of the dusty fitted wardrobes so far.........this may take a while ?

I am only allowed to do the sanding down as, if I am allowed to paint, it dribbles along the handle of the brush, up my arm and somehow gets anywhere it shouldn't.

If you dislike painting, it's quite a good trick to use

I am the family decorator and I can get paint anywhere, including on clothes that are packed away in a wardrobe in a room I did not go into. There is nothing in the house (and garden) that is too small for me to some how to get paint on, even if all I am doing is painting the bathroom.

This thread has reminded me of the time we lived in small Shropshire village and DH was wiring in some wall mounted bedside lights. He still maintains that the whole village suffering a power cut was a coincidence!

Well at least he hasn't done what my DH did, when decorating the bedroom some years ago - climbed up the step ladder and promptly knocked over the paint tin that was sitting on the top. A full 2.5l tin of paint all over the carpet ?

That is to say, at least your DH hasn't done that yet

katey what a hard taskmaster you are!
The reason there is wet paint in the kitchen cupboard is that he went in there looking for a KitKat mid morning.

Well, at least he started kateyk!!