---
title: "Guides by room"
url: https://our-gaff.com/rooms
description: "The Our Gaff room directory: every project guide filed to the room the work happens in, from kitchen splashbacks to hallway floorboards."
published: 2026-09-12
updated: 2026-09-12
---

# Guides by room

Published 2026-09-12

ROOM DIRECTORY

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.

- [Tile a kitchen splashback](https://our-gaff.com/guide-tile-a-kitchen-splashback)

### Bathroom

1 guide

Wet joints, movement between materials, and the jobs that must be left alone overnight.

- [Seal a bath neatly](https://our-gaff.com/guide-seal-a-bath-neatly)

### Living room

2 guides

The largest wall areas in the house, where preparation shows and shortcuts show more.

- [Paint a room in a weekend](https://our-gaff.com/guide-paint-a-room-in-a-weekend)
- [Fill and sand before painting](https://our-gaff.com/guide-fill-and-sand-before-painting)

### Hallway and stairs

2 guides

Traffic, scuffs, awkward heights and floors that announce every footstep.

- [Hang a shelf that holds](https://our-gaff.com/guide-hang-a-shelf-that-holds)
- [Quiet a squeaking floorboard](https://our-gaff.com/guide-quiet-a-squeaking-floorboard)

### Garden and outdoors

1 guide

Work that runs on the weather rather than the calendar, and on water having somewhere to go.

- [Treat a timber fence panel](https://our-gaff.com/guide-treat-a-timber-fence-panel)

## All guides on the bench

### [Paint a room in a weekend](https://our-gaff.com/guide-paint-a-room-in-a-weekend)

PAINTING AND DECORATING — LIVING ROOM

Two days, one room, and the order that makes it possible.

### [Fill and sand before painting](https://our-gaff.com/guide-fill-and-sand-before-painting)

PAINTING AND DECORATING — LIVING ROOM

The stage that decides the finish, done properly.

### [Tile a kitchen splashback](https://our-gaff.com/guide-tile-a-kitchen-splashback)

TILING AND SPLASHBACKS — KITCHEN

Set out from the centre, and the far ends look deliberate.

### [Hang a shelf that holds](https://our-gaff.com/guide-hang-a-shelf-that-holds)

STORAGE AND SHELVING — HALLWAY AND STAIRS

The wall decides the fixing. Everything else follows.

### [Quiet a squeaking floorboard](https://our-gaff.com/guide-quiet-a-squeaking-floorboard)

FLOORING — HALLWAY AND STAIRS

Find which two parts are rubbing before you reach for a screw.

### [Seal a bath neatly](https://our-gaff.com/guide-seal-a-bath-neatly)

TILING AND SPLASHBACKS — BATHROOM

One bead, applied to a dry joint, tooled once.

### [Treat a timber fence panel](https://our-gaff.com/guide-treat-a-timber-fence-panel)

GARDEN AND OUTDOORS — GARDEN AND OUTDOORS

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](https://our-gaff.com/schedule).