What is "redecorate"

Usage examples of "redecorate".

Augusta knew well, the look he wore when he refused to move house or forbade her to redecorate his bedroom.

No doubt he would tear down the curtains and the wallpaper and redecorate, probably in the currently fashionable arts-and-crafts style, with oak paneling and hard rustic chairs.

Remington here just sold me on a whole new wallpaper pattern, and I may let him redecorate the whole house!

Feel free to take over all management of the household, to redecorate the entire house instead of just your room, whatever you like.

I would want to be able to completely redecorate it before we moved in had met with resistance from Alex.

All the Japanese furniture and fabrics had gone, and the room had been redecorated in a profusion of bold, richly colored patterns.

April Tilsley had redecorated the whole place, and this room had fashionable William Morris fabrics and a set of framed drawings of people performing sexual acts with a variety of fruits and vegetables.

Hugh had not been inside the house for a year or two, and since his last visit it had been redecorated yet again, this time in the newly fashionable Arab style.

Leaving it to his fellow lawmen to tidy up, Longarm sent a night letter to Billy Vail in Denver, and headed back to his redecorated front room at the MacUlric boardinghouse to catch up on some well-earned rest.

The late Pamela Harriman, while ambassador to France, the story went, turned off the heat in the American embassy in Paris so the pipes in the attic would freeze, thereby causing a flood that damaged furniture and artwork so that she could have the place redecorated to her taste.

And besides, the major knew exactly what he was doing as he stood in the middle of the redecorated room and told his officers not to bother setting up charts.

Within a few days Fee regained most of her energy, and her interest in redecorating the big house kept her occupied.

He would have liked to stop her redecorating the house so often, but she did it without asking him: if he had his way they might live no better than his clerks.

Encouraging Zoe to pay her bill by redecorating a room in his house had struck him as a particularly crafty maneuver that would allow him to continue some kind of relationship.

He means to take his own sweet time on all that repairing and redecorating, and then he means to come at her with flowers, candy, and a proposal of marriage!