ROOM DIRECTORY
Guides by room
Every guide on the bench, filed to the room the work actually happens in.
Rooms are a more useful index than categories when the question is what to do this weekend. A kitchen job and a bathroom job share almost nothing beyond a screwdriver, while two jobs in the same room usually share a surface, a mess and an afternoon.
Kitchen
1 guide
Splashbacks, worktop junctions and the surfaces that carry a film of cooking before they carry paint.
Bathroom
1 guide
Wet joints, movement between materials, and the jobs that must be left alone overnight.
Living room
2 guides
The largest wall areas in the house, where preparation shows and shortcuts show more.
Hallway and stairs
2 guides
Traffic, scuffs, awkward heights and floors that announce every footstep.
Garden and outdoors
1 guide
Work that runs on the weather rather than the calendar, and on water having somewhere to go.
All guides on the bench
Paint a room in a weekend
Two days, one room, and the order that makes it possible.
Fill and sand before painting
The stage that decides the finish, done properly.
Tile a kitchen splashback
Set out from the centre, and the far ends look deliberate.
Hang a shelf that holds
The wall decides the fixing. Everything else follows.
Quiet a squeaking floorboard
Find which two parts are rubbing before you reach for a screw.
Seal a bath neatly
One bead, applied to a dry joint, tooled once.
Treat a timber fence panel
A dry week, a clean panel, and a finish that soaks in rather than sits on top.
See how a room is paced across two days on the weekend schedule.