Snug and blue

The house has its new shutters, of a lovely cobalt, and looks beautiful from the outside. Inside is coated in stone dust and chippings and will take a few days to get clean, after which I shall take the camera round.

Silly me, it was only on seeing the shutters from the inside that I realised that the colour plan for the living-room won't work. I so much wanted the pale turquoise of the friezes from the palace of Darius. but it won't go with cobalt.

The shutter upstairs enhances the character of the window: you can see its odd shape more clearly now, and it looks like the window of a medieval castle.