Seriously, this is getting out of hand.
I'm assuming there are magazines that actually recommend painting, papering and draping everything in only grey and white.
I thought hard about whether to bother about this. But it's just incredible. That poor fruit bowl, fighting hard but thoroughly losing the battle to brighten the place up.
If there is hope, it doesn't lie in the bedrooms.
The usual spare room, where you fling the stuff you don't want visitors to see. Like things that aren't grey. And colours.
If you get tired of sitting infront of the big screen telly in either of the two downstairs sitting rooms for being too grey, or not grey enough, you can always retreat to your upstairs grey sitting room with a big telly
Or go for a nice relaxing bath or shower to wash the blandness away.
If the grey bathroom is busy, you can always use the other grey bathroom instead.
One assumes that grey varnish has been ordered for that ridiculously loud and brash pine bannister.
It's a relief to step back outside to the riot of colour that is brown brick and pebbledash, brown tiles, brown window frames, brown fencing and shed and brown monoblock.

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