"When we got married I had no idea he would do something like this, he just said he was going to do some decorating."

From – embarrasingly enough – the Daily Mail website.

“With Its ceiling frescos, gilded cherubs, marble pillars and chandelier, it has drawn admiring comparisons with the Palace of Versailles. Only the widescreen TV in the corner betrays the fact that this is no stately home or museum, but Dennis and Norma Nelems’s two-bedroom retirement flat. Mr Nelems, 65, a former cabinet maker, has spent six years and ???30,000 lovingly transforming the lounge of the apartment in Cleveleys, near Blackpool.”

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