"Any time you're ready," he says with a smile. "The extension is finished and although it's empty inside, it's still ready. I think all I have left to do is find something that I can use as curtains in that awful box." Besides the fact that the box is awful, he doesn't exactly have a decorator's eye and trying to find something that wouldn't be completely hideous is a challenge at the best of times.

"Or maybe I should leave that to you," he decides.