We call this room the red room because it has the original Red tiled floor (now unfortunately, covered with some particularly persistent glue with which they stuck down a hideous carpet)
This room has the worst walls so far, covered in cracks like a spiders web, it is going to need tons of spackle to give it back its school girl complexion.
However it does have one HUGE advantage over the last two bedrooms which we have decorated.
Cast your eyes up.
There you will see a modern clean recently decorated ceiling.
No plaster columns, no intricate Italianate mouldings, I don’t think I’ll even have to paint it, just dust off the heavier cobwebs.

I know, I know. This is evidence of the philistine former owners, the Catholic Bishopric of Montpellier, they very likely removed beams and mouldings to produce this bland dull ceiling.
A travesty, but, having broken my heart repairing and painting two of them I am, for once, suitably grateful.

This anyway is the “before.”
One hopes that the “after” will be an improvement