“There is no need to do any house­work at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse”

I cleaned and reor­gan­ised one shelf that I’d never been happy with, and before I knew it, I’d spent pretty much most of the day clean­ing and rearran­ging stuff. When you’re home all the time everything seems to get dirty so much quick­er. Before this shelf just had a lamp on (a differ­ent lamp, and it didn’t look right.

The windows desper­ately need strip­ping, repair­ing and repaint­ing and servi­cing, but it’s not some­thing I can do myself. I guess they’re not doing bad for windows from the 1880s which the previ­ous owner totally neglected.I’d also like to get frames to put up prints on these blank walls, but that will have to wait. The blue sofa really is ridicu­lously long. The build­ing has stairs that go round multiple tight corners. The stand­ard sofa wouldn’t go up the stairs, so the company offered me a large discount on some section­al pieces minus the corner unit. When the pieces were fitted togeth­er they turned out to be ridicu­lous. Not only is this the first new sofa I’ve ever owned, but also the only one I’ve ever had that you can lie full length on with room to spare.