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That was your mistake...painting it so well...if it had looked sloppy, she wouldn't have asked you to do the rest of the house....you learn these little tricks as the years go by...

Ah but isn't the lesson in that such that she'll either make you do it again until its right or make you pay through the nose for someone else to do it.

At this point tt's a situation with no happy ending.

The prim and proper approach would have to crushed the idea that it needed painting in the first place .

We need to marry off C:Amie, only then will he see that of course, there's a happy ending, literally Make a husband paint a room, he'll do it. *Boink* a husband to paint a room, he'll do the house. As, I believe, we have already seen in the land called Yoldering

Jake

You enjoy being married off and I'll enjoy not painting

I concur with that Amie:C... :P

I didn't want to paint at first and put it off for the last 3 and a half years. The house needed to be painted when we first bought it. We picked a great color and it has not been all that bad.

Cool! :) What colour, if I might ask?

I'm pretty sure it is this one.

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It's the same colour as my carpet, give or take

Yoldering, that's a nice colour. I like it--assuming you're pretty sure it's that one...

C:Amie, as of this year, I officially hate carpet now. It's so disgustibly nastily gross. No offence. I have a newfound appreciation for tile after living with terrazzo floors haha.. Plus carpet--you never know how clean it is...

Torch, we will be laying down tile some day, however, we have a 17 month old who trips and falls a lot so for the time being that is not an option. For now, we clean the carpet on a regular basis.

Edited by Yoldering 2011-11-29 4:24 AM

I just replaced most of my carpet with tile. (I'm lazy and it's lower-maintenance. )

I personally prefer a hard floor to a carpeted one. It is so easy to clean with a dustmop, and the computer chair rolls on it so much easier as well.

For people like Scott who have babies that don't bounce well...carpet is the way to go. How many of us have seen some little man-ape running across a hardwood floor to trip and fall flat on their face. That resounding "THUD" that you hear just before the screaming starts will make your stomach turn inside out.

I must have sutured 10,000 facial and scalp lacerations in my time, either from the floor or the coffee table.

I'm not averse to hard flooring, I have it downstairs for the obvious cleaning benefits. In the absence of under floor heating thoguh I find that it is far nicer to get up in the morning onto carpet than onto cold tiles.

I had the carpets VAX'd last year and very little came out of them, so I think I'll be safe against the bed bugs for the time being Torch

I split the difference and go hard wood with a semi-gloss finish and a boatload of carpets I've picked up living abroad (including 3 trips to Istanbul). If we ever get back to the States for good, I'll have the kitchen floor re-laid in real tile. The kitchen's small, but there's so much different tile available these days, that I don't believe it'll look silly, the way it might've twenty years ago.

As for painting, I did it professionally a long time ago (a miserable job), so I won't let anybody else do it but moi. On the other hand, I've been renting out my place since 2001 (painted in 1998), and I've yet to have a tenant who wanted it repainted. Of course, I've had tenants who didn't pay the rent, but that's another matter...

Jake