The order rooms are decorated in is rarely random. It follows how the family actually uses the house, where the mess will travel, and which rooms need to dry before the next one starts. Getting the order wrong causes far more disruption than getting the finish wrong.
Spare rooms, studies and rarely used spaces usually go first, because losing access to them for a few days barely registers. Bedrooms in regular use and the kitchen are held until later in the sequence, once the routine of the work is established.
In a house with more than one storey, ceilings and upper rooms are usually finished before ground floor rooms, so dust and drips have nowhere further to fall. Within a floor, we work through rooms in a fixed order agreed with the household, not whichever door happens to be open.
Kitchens and the household's main bathroom are usually scheduled with the shortest possible loss of use, sometimes split into halves so a working sink or hob is always available. We agree this specifically rather than treating every room the same.
Yes — we suggest a sensible sequence but will fit it around your household's needs, particularly for the kitchen and bathroom.
Usually, yes, so you get rooms back one at a time rather than the whole house being unusable at once.
Tell us at the outset and we will sequence around that date rather than treating every room as equal priority.
Tell us which rooms you can least afford to lose and we will build the sequence around them.
A sensible room order protects daily life far more than trying to work every room at once.
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