Why Real Men Don't Do Curtains (Gentlemen Prefer Blinds)
I recently decided to get a bit of decorating done at home, to freshen my bedroom up a little. Now I'm not the most handy of chaps so this was never going to be a full scale remodelling of the place, with laminate flooring, MDF partitioning or crafted drilled in shelving units. However, I did fancy a new lick of paint and wanted to get the place looking a little more modern. Armed with a couple of pots of Cornflour White paint and some old sheets I set to work on clearing the room out so that I could get underway on my modernising project. Slapping the paint up and down the walls was fun for about ten minutes, but soon got tiring. I was also somewhat unprepared for quite how much effort is involved. I mean it looks so easy on TV... In the end, I was pretty shattered, but it did leave me feeling emasculated and with a satisfying glow of achievement. The room certainly looked fresher and I was already visualising the wall art and rearranged furniture to help make it feel the way ...