On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:28:32 GMT, (Anna Kettle)
wrote:

This is a designer feature of your house which you are wilfully
covering up having spent good money for a house with character.

Anna
You have a good point, but in my defence it was covered up (with very
stripey paper) when I bought the place. And I must admit it's about
the only touch of whimsy in an otherwise very square 1930s house.
Ken