Live in own place? do you have it decorated

I live in my mums house. I guess it is mine now but it'll always be mum's to me - it could do with redecorating, the walls needs new paint and the carpets need redoing. But I don't really want to change it.

Mum was really into art so a lot of the rooms have paintings in them, some I think were really expensive, my mum knew all painting's and art. I don't sadly.

Maybe I'll look at doing some redecorating this year, during the summer ^^

That’s really beautiful that it will always be your mum’s house to you. I understand wanting to keep the house decorated as she’d remember it. Nothing wrong with a bit of slowly fading grandeur anyway. I think it can be quite special. Though there’s also the question of general upkeep that your mum may have wanted you to invest in it too? Perhaps one room per year, or when able, and leave one or two little discrete time capsules of happiest times entirely untouched for all time. 

I have a relative who’s wife died unexpectedly and young. He has never redecorated in 20 years, and the decor itself was maybe last updated early 90s. On my occasional visits, the fact that the place is exactly the same - and in decent if gracefully fading condition - is something that I really appreciate and find touching. The unbroken continuum, tangible echoes of childhood visits, etc. 

I have an aunt who’s house is similarly unchanged since the 1980s. Same carpet, paint (or at least colour scheme), furniture and orientation of the room’s contents. And the old piano where it always was. I love continuity. My parents were more into changing things up every few years. 

I have a relative who’s wife died unexpectedly and young. He has never redecorated in 20 years, and the decor itself was maybe last updated early 90s. On my occasional visits, the fact that the place is exactly the same - and in decent if gracefully fading condition - is something that I really appreciate and find touching. The unbroken continuum, tangible echoes of childhood visits, etc. 

I have an aunt who’s house is similarly unchanged since the 1980s. Same carpet, paint (or at least colour scheme), furniture and orientation of the room’s contents. And the old piano where it always was. I love continuity. My parents were more into changing things up every few years.