Yes, it’s lovely, but all that symmetry makes me very nervous. One piece of furniture, set at an angle, and your house falls down.

Gothic Revival is my guilty pleasure — I love it. It’s a pointless mish-mash of the Gothic architectural vocabulary (plus a few other styles), garishly painted like a happy harlot, tall, pointy, shiny, gloomy, morose, confusing... It all makes me insanely happy to walk through these great Victorian fantasies, almost…