You have to laugh

The Home & Garden section of the local weekend paper often has before & after photos of rooms, showing the changes undergone.

Quite often I have preferred the 'before' photo, thinking that all that was needed was removing the clutter that's always present, a lick of paint, a different lampshade and perhaps a rug, to transform the room rather than the major cost of changing the ceiling, adding completely new lighting, adding or changing a dividing wall, making a new floor, splashing out on a new suite, opening up the fireplace, enclosing the fireplace opening up the stairs, enclosing the stairs etc etc. You might as well move - it's cheaper.

But Saturday was funny.

They were featuring the "retro" look.

So the 'after' photos were more " before" than the "before" ones.