| Comment | > But painting over bog standard plain magnolia and putting it back the way it was is unlikely to be a problem.
We had an absolute bawbag of a landlord years ago. Magnolia walls and biscuit carpets. Every single room the same. It was just too much. We decided to add a bit of warmth and painted the living room. Nothing gaudy, nothing distasteful, just a nice mauve colour to get a break from living in constant creamy beige. We knew we would have to put it back before ever moving out, but a tin of magnolia isn't expensive, so whatever.
Anyway he came round a while later for an inspection, as they sometimes do, and he blew his fucking stack at it. Completely unreasonable and over the top response.
We responded by being equally as unreasonable and gave our notice then fucked off. Can't be paying hard earned money to total dickheads just on principle.
Left him with the mauve walls. He tried to keep the full deposit, but I contested it for receipts because I had a funny feeling the prick was just going to keep the living room mauve and walk away with a full deposit. He got to keep £40 and we got ourselves a better landlord who didn't have a problem with us doing whatever we liked. |
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