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How can deciding on wallpaper and paint be so difficult!!
Especially when it is me who will do the job, suddenly everybody has an oppinion.

nessa

nessa wrote:How can deciding on wallpaper and paint be so difficult!!
Especially when it is me who will do the job, suddenly everybody has an oppinion.

nessa

Paint everything magnolia

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Paperhanging?!!! I'm a master of that!! I've just done my oldest daughter's house,well i say house i mean my granddaughters bedroom.It looks really good.
My mother in law taught me.I started by just holding the(the not her) bottom while she was measuring up and i'd put the paste on the paper and the wall.After a while i took over from my father in law and was allowed to mix the paste.
Now i'm trying to pass this expertise on to my daughters or their boyfriends but they're not that interested!!
Is,and this is the key question, paperhanging becoming a dying art?

Rob wrote:Paperhanging?!!! I'm a master of that!! I've just done my oldest daughter's house,well i say house i mean my granddaughters bedroom.It looks really good.
My mother in law taught me.I started by just holding the(the not her) bottom while she was measuring up and i'd put the paste on the paper and the wall.After a while i took over from my father in law and was allowed to mix the paste.
Now i'm trying to pass this expertise on to my daughters or their boyfriends but they're not that interested!!
Is,and this is the key question, paperhanging becoming a dying art?

While you are on why not teach them to hold an iron too

Rob wrote:Paperhanging?!!! I'm a master of that!! I've just done my oldest daughter's house,well i say house i mean my granddaughters bedroom.It looks really good.
My mother in law taught me.I started by just holding the(the not her) bottom while she was measuring up and i'd put the paste on the paper and the wall.After a while i took over from my father in law and was allowed to mix the paste.
Now i'm trying to pass this expertise on to my daughters or their boyfriends but they're not that interested!!
Is,and this is the key question, paperhanging becoming a dying art?

My sister's learnt the art......
.......of getting my Dad to do it for her!

I on the other hand have mastered the art of getting my husband to do it, only trouble is I get to do the painting! His decorating skills are good, but he is a bit longwinded about it, only second to waiting for him to sort the electrics out ( did I mention he's an electrician - need I say more). I've tried threatening with getting someone else in, but he's got a system so complicated that I wouldn't be able to explain what needs to be done! Needless to say that apart from the lights running off extension cables, all the rest are turned off by remote control as the wiring to the switches hasn't been put in yet - and we've run out of buttons!

I learnt the art of getting the walls plastered, so i can paint them

I've mastered the art of getting plastered too,Pete.

I don't think that is a colloquialism commonly used in Britian so they are probably wondering what getting plastered involves and are clothes optional

dianel wrote:I've mastered the art of getting plastered too,Pete.

I get it di
and I too have got it off to a tee!

MarkCDodd wrote:I don't think that is a colloquialism commonly used in Britian so they are probably wondering what getting plastered involves and are clothes optional

I know exactly what getting plastered means! Just as you're not putting the wall paper up at the same time!

Northern Lass wrote:

dianel wrote:I've mastered the art of getting plastered too,Pete.

I get it di
and I too have got it off to a tee!

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