A lived-in house, not a show home
This site is a register of work done to rooms people actually live in: the kitchen that has to function at seven in the morning, the hallway that takes the brunt of everything, the spare room that has been four things in five years.
Every entry answers the same three questions before it offers an opinion. How much effort did it take, measured for one adult working alone. Can it be undone, and at what cost. How much of the room had to be emptied and covered before the work could start. Those three answers sit at the top of every page and in every row of the register, because they are what decides whether a job actually gets done on a Saturday.
What is out of scope, permanently
Nothing structural and nothing dangerous. No electrics, no gas, no plumbing beyond a tap washer, no roofs, no ladders above single-storey, no load-bearing walls, no damp-proofing, no asbestos. Where a job crosses that line the entry says so and stops. This is not caution for its own sake: the work that changes how a room is used is almost never the work that needs a trade.
There is nothing for sale here and nothing recommended by name. No paint ranges, no retailers, no prices, no quotes. What a material has to survive is a question worth several hundred words; which tin to buy is not a question this site answers.
How the entries are chosen
By where the mess already is. A shelf goes up where bags are already being dropped, storage goes in the place things are already put down, and a room gets rearranged around the light before anything is bought. Jobs that only improve a photograph do not make the register.
The photographs
Rooms mid-change, with adults working in them and the dust left in shot. Credits sit under each picture. Where a caption states a dimension or a height, it is the one used in the job being described.