shall i redecorate my living room this weekend? how long does it take (small room)?

Answer 1

Minimum 2 days. Good luck.

Answer 2

Don't be fooled. This will take AT LEAST the entire weekend.
1. Empty room or move everything into middle.
2. Cover carpet and furniture in dust sheets (cheap, 99p for large roll in wilkinsons).
3. Strip all walls, polyfill any holes.
4. Sand walls and all woodwork.
5. Pime walls and woodwork.
6. Gloss woodwork. (choose a satin finish gloss, easier to work with, less drip marks, no shiny finish, easier to get off hands, brushes etc).
7. Paint walls or wallpaper. (when gloss is totally dry) Wall papering is difficult and time consuming if never done before.
8. Give walls second coat of paint (if painted).
9. Replace furniture and clean room.
10. Finished!!! Doesn't sound a lot but I have done my whole house from top to bottom, it took 1month non stop and I lost over a stone!!!!

Answer 3

It depends on what sort of job you want, if you want a tosh job tthen you can do it in 2 days, but to to do the job properely and I agree with justme that there is a lot in it.
First, 2 coats on the ceiling, you cant do walls till ceilings finished, then 2-3 coats on walls, not including filling/prep of all ceiling walls and woodwork.
Then you have two coats on your woodwork, in between rubbing down between coats, then there is the cutting in on the walls, for a diyer it can be very time consuming.

if you are applying finish paper instead of painting, then you need to have ceiling, woodwork bone dry and complete before you apply the paper, as finish paper goes last, then you need to measure walls, get straight line, cut the lengths,paste the paper, wipe the paper and your table after every length, if you have a dropped pattern paper then you have to place the roll on the wall against the length you have previously hung to get the right pattern match, and papering round a window is and putting in false bits is a nightmare, and all this takes time.

Then there is the moving furniture, removing rails curtains, pictures, sheeting up etc.

I do decoratating for a living, and even I would be pushed to do a really good job in 2 days.

Answer 4

You didn't say what size or the height your room was, so how can anyone tell how long it will take you'
It will depend on how good a worker you are, how many cups of tea you have if you have all the paint etc. on hand and is the room clear of furniture or not.
But it will take me 4hours to emulsion ceiling and walls of a 10ft by 16ft room probably 4to 6hours to rub down and paint wood work. one and a half days to paper depending on the quality of the paper. So the easy est way is to give it a coat of emulsion and wash down the paint work then have your cup of tea or coffee.probably a day in all. happy painting
Wine fly

Answer 5

Hi it depend what you mean, if you are strippping wallpaper then putting new up ten paniting about a 1 day maybe pushing to 2 days if you wait for the paint to fully dry, but if you are just paining then it will only take a could of hours. Use one coat emulsion and use a sponge pad to put the piant on, if you use a brush or roller it will take you hours, we just recently painted our living room and it only took an hour to do both, and yesterday i did my bed room and it only took about 4 hours for 3 coats of paint. The sponge pads are great. You could just by one to try if your used to using brush or roller, is then you can see for you self.

Answer 6

I love decorating, however I am not too keen on having to pack everything away in preparation. I would think you could easily decorate a small living room in a weekend, that's assuming that you're not sanding all your wood and having to strip wallpaper and size walls etc. Good luck.

Answer 7

this is a hard one like most of the answers it depends on how far u want to go with it and how hard you work just checked justme x's answer and seh obviously isnt in the trade as her advise is very unprofesional u dont paint wood work 1st unless your hanging a finished paper even then its after you paint the ceiling and you most certainly dont prime woodwork thats allready painted just spot prime bare areas no need to prime walls that aside technically yes you can do it in a weekend

Answer 8

Go for it! You clearly want to. Just take deep breath, clear the room out and get on with it. Make sure you are equipped first. It will take you all weekend but you will feel so goood about it in the end. You have inspired me. I'm going to decorate this weekend too. Thanks.

Answer 9

if your only painting walls and woodwork you could get it done in a day, rub down all your walls and woodwork get a quick drying filler fill all your walls and woodwork when dry rub down, paint the ceiling ,paint your doors, cut your walls in around sockets, plugs along the skirting's around frames along the ceiling roll out the walls, get crown solo paint the rest of your woodwork job done just make sure you have sheets to cover the floors and anything else in the room good luck

Answer 10

I have easily painted a large living room in one day using a paint roller and tray with a good quality one coat paint.