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Posted by Beezer on 9 October 2009 - 8:55pm.
Have spent this afternoon beginning the job of wallpapering my daughters bedroom. Will spend all day tomorrow finishing that and then painting the whole bloody thing pink.
I've had the ipod on shuffle to help me get the joins straight and, happily, Albert Lee's 'Pink Bedroom' duly popped up.
Naturally I now need help from anyone willing to give it in putting together a 'Decorators' playlist on Spotify.
Any thoughts, Good People?
Paint it Black - The Stones
Painter Man - Boney M
Magnolia - JJ Cale
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Roll With It
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You'll also need your 'Cutting Crew'
ready to go ...
Nights in White Satin?
(I'll stop now)
No you don't
Keep going! You've taken this in the white spirit. (Oh God...)
Come on, Andy.
You only started this thread so you could get that gag in, didn't you?
Try ...
'When I Paint My Masterpiece' - Bob Dylan
'Old Master Painter / You Are My Sunshine' - Brian Wilson
'Off The Wall' - MJ
'Roll Um Easy' or 'Hi Roller' - Little Feat
And, although maybe not for your daughter's bedroom - The Smiths 'Paint A Vulgar Picture'.
how about
ebony & Ivory
yellow
or maybe a different cornice, the coat is the deepest,
Just put
Do It Yourself by Ian Dury on.
Paul Weller & Steve Windwood
Doesn’t really live up to the billing though.
Paul Weller – Pink on White Walls: http://open.spotify.com/track/6PUih1bvP0f5VIjOedua4k
Oddly enough I’m down for doing the opposite tomorrow. Painting over a pink wall. She’s 15 and has just discovered The Smiths. Lord help us.
DIY tip
My daughter's pink bedroom took me all of Easter to paint over. Belatedly, after a couple of coats of white & no colour change, I tried Polycell Problem Wall Paint which obliterated the Jordanesque scheme in very short order; it fills hairline cracks & flaky bits into the bargain. Is the theme from Brush Strokes on Spotify?
Don't forget to add
Matt Bianco
Matt Monro
Steve 'Silk' Hurley
Red House Painters
and for that special touch of class...
Dado
As you put on the next coat.
I Second That Emulsion.
Or there's another.
Anything by BeBop Dulux
I need to go to bed.
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As the only bona fidi painter /decorator on this site, may I
recommend not painting your childrens rooms and instead get me to do it instead. I need the work as mines is drying up fast.
Why are you papering and then painting after ,AQndy? is it lining paper? I strongly recommend that if you are painting over newly hung wallpaper that you leave it a few days days as the paste will not be fully dry yet. If you paint it now , it will bubble and the joins will split and it will look shit in a weeks time.
If I could ask you to do it I would!
My Dad was a painter and decorator and I know just how recessionary times affect the idea of 'getting a man in'
Indeed when we bought this house in 2002 we paid for decorators to sort it out - top to toe. This despite my having enough rudimentary skills learnt from Pater to make a decent fist of most decorating jobs myself.
It's a bit a different now. For one, it's only one room and it's only a lining-paper paint over job. And second, we've got the socially inclusive middle class overdraft to whittle down like a lot of others.
So my little girl and her Mum are elsewhere (at her sister's) to give me the time and space to clatter about and swear for a weekend.
You know your stuff, Paintyface. I do need to give the paper as long as possible to dry so I am taking a minor risk in doing it all in one weekend. But, I have a lot of furniture to move back which will cover the bulk of wall space and therefore hopefully hide any potential bubble or peel that may arise from the haste.
Also, as the love of pink will no doubt fade as soon as she sees it so I'll be doing the bloody lot again in about a years time.
Keep yourself free for then and good luck to you my friend!
Leave it to paintyface.
Seriously.
After twatting about for a while, I paid some professionals to do my house inside and out.
Blimey. They're a bit good. I just can't understand how such an apparently simple thing as sticking a bit of paint on something can be so difficult for we the unwashed and so simple for those who know how to wave a brush about in the correct fashion.
Paintyface will do the job so much better than you can, so much more quickly and to a standard which will outlast your pitiful daubing by many years. Your investment in his time will be repaid manyfold.
absolutely agree
I got the professionals in for the first time ever - fed up with my own botched efforts in the past. I was utterly amazed how quickly and how well they did the job. If left to my own devices I would still be finishing missed bits years later.
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Lennylaw ,I offer up my heartfelt thanks for your kind words to me and my profession. People think our trade is easy and your testament does all us decoaraors a good turn,so nice one .
Bish Bash Bosh!
LOADSAMONEY! :-)
The Day the World Turned Day-Glo?
Put on your X-Ray Spex for proper viewing, natch.
paintyface is right
I've been let down by decorators before, so I've had to do it myself and it ain't easy. Also, you really will struggle to paint wallpaper that hasn't had a couple of days to dry out.
For the playlist (based on my "painter man playlist") can I suggest that the Creation's original version of "Painter Man" is better ? Also, you might find the theme from "Brushstrokes" helpful :
Southside Johnny's cover of Tom Waits "New Coat Of Paint" is also good.
The main thing I listen to when I'm painting is reggae - nothing too fast, nothing to angry up the blood, grooves like Dr Alimantado's "Born For A Purpose". (can't wind that up into a pun, too early).
Good luck with it and watch out for leaving brushes and paint on top of ladders!
Anything by the Wallflowers
A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procul Harum
Paper & Glue - Emma Pollock which is on the Word CD Nov 07
Good luck with the decorating - something I never quite get around to doing, even after buying the paint
Cover me - I'm going in
Thanks to all so far.
I have the old clothes on and the pasting table is up.
May God protect us all and I'll see you on the beach...
So today is
Decoration Day (Cowboy Junkies)
You could do worse than listen to
'Vincent' by Don McLean.
Just avoid the blue and grey.
And don't cut your ear off.
(Beautiful song, undermined by my crass comments.)
didn't Kevin Rowlands
write the theme tune to "Brush strokes"?
yes, he did
*points up to my post*
*inserts great big happy smiley*