The cottage is not short on living space. The ground floor has a living room, study, dining room and a fourth room variously referred to as the internal hall, inner lobby, office or snug.
The living room is basically L shaped, with further space nibbled out by the stairs, which occasion much swearing from taller visitors. That overhang is begging for a piece of feature art, but at present it just has the world's naffest bunting - Valspar paint samples.
The snug has doors on three sides as well as the stairs going up to the right of the radiator. Like the rest of the ground floor, it still has the original parquet, but years of leaky gutters, a breached DPC and pet accidents mean it is rotten and stinks. No wonder the previous owners chose to hide it under the (horrible) carpet. I'm looking forward to ripping it out and putting tiles down.
The 'dance room' runs the length of the house. The parquet flooring is in much better nick than elsewhere, and the ceiling is high enough for all the posing one could desire. It's currently in that half and half state that all new home owners will recognise - business at the back, and absolute piles of boxes at the front - despite my best efforts it's become a stashing point for all the things with no home.
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