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Bit of a long shot, but I wonder if anyone would like to lend me a hand with decorating at my place this weekend, and/or in the evenings next week? J started in on it this week but then he got a lot of other commitments over the next few weeks, so now I have stripped-bare walls in shitty condition, furniture and belongings piled up in a non-ideal fashion, and no idea how long it's going to stay that way. I was thinking maybe I could try to at least get the second chunk of work in the living room done so that I could get some stuff moved back into there and make everything else a bit easier to put up with. Also, having the option of working from home while the weather is this bad would make my leg happy - which requires the living room (which contains my PC) to not be 'under construction'.

So, I need to check with J, but I think what will need doing to make the living room sensibly usable again is:
* Destruction! Rip off skirting boards (and roll carpet edges out of the way ready for filling and painting right down to the floor)
* More destruction! Rip down the coving (so we can fill and paint right up to the ceiling)
* Filler! Repair damage from removal of skirting boards, coving, dado rails, random rawplugs, picture hooks, nails, etc
* Smoothing! Finish preparing walls for paint (probably involving some magic roll-on plaster-skim polyfilla type stuff that J was telling me about)
* Getting covered in paint! AKA paint the walls

Plus attendant moving around of furniture before/during/after.

(For bonus points, I might try to buy and put up some shelving once the paint has dried.)

J will probably have done a lot of the preparation work today and tomorrow, but I doubt he's going to get as far as paint, and he may not get half that far (the walls are in a depressingly (if unsurprisingly) poor condition under the wallpaper). After tomorrow he's not free again until the end of next week, and his time is similarly constrained from there to the end of the month - so whatever point he reaches tomorrow, I'd like to push on if at all possible.


I know this doesn't sound like much fun, and I'm not particularly expecting anyone to offer to help, but if you do have the time and energy it'd be much appreciated... I imagine I'll be incompetently taking a swing at it regardless of who else is or isn't helping, because I know that I'm not going to be happy in my home until it's at least vaguely sorted out again.

ETA: I will of course furnish anyone who does come round with pizza, access to my giant stock of xmas chocolate, etc.