The house spirits have spoken.

When Baggy came down this morning, Calum was already hard at it, roller in hand!

Clever Bird can take a hint, so Baggy was soon at it too, brush in hand!

As the room got whiter and brighter Creative Clara decided that it was all looking a little bit too, well, white. Too boring for Clara without all Baggy's pictures up, so they wondered whether to have a bit of colour.

Piece of paper painted, they tried to see what Rectory Red might look like. Calum and Clara both loved the colour so decided to just go for it. Clara started painting. When Calum took the photo, the weirdest thing happened! The house obviously approves of colour! Look closely at the photo bloggees!

Now look at the second of the three photos above - spot anything? No yellow paint has been used today! The wall to the right of the section Clara is painting was pure white when this photo was taken - NOT yellow! (And no she has not photo-shopped it, she wouldn't know how; this is how it came out).

So Psychic Ploppo had a quick chat with the house spirits to ask whether they wanted more colour - they did. Clara was tempted to do some yellow next to the red, as she has done previously in the kitchen but decided it might be an acquired taste for a holiday cottage. So instead they decided that they would move on from Plan A, of just painting four "panels" red, and move to Plan B, to paint a whole wall of the sitting room red.

And very red it is too. It will darken with the next coat and this photo doesn't really do it justice, but in the flesh it looks amazing - very Tudor!

There's still a long way to go in this room, but they're getting there. It might even be finished by the end of next week..........