Hiya, are you talking interior or exterior? If you're talking exterior From experience definitely leave it 9-12 months before you paint or add a final coat because the boards will expand. If you mean interior we painted pretty much as soon as we moved back in and I can see hairline cracks in the ceiling where the house has settled, but it wouldn't stop me from doing it that way again. Personally the hassle of touching up cracks outweighs repainting rooms with furniture in!

Drying room with retractable clothes line, floor to ceiling cupboards on one side, low line shelves for shoes underneath and a place for kids sports bags on top, a window for ventilation, and double cavity slider doors to close it all off - BLISS!!!

There is no gift I’m secretly sick of getting. I am happy to receive anything coming my way. Although the year of the ironing board was a tense one between my husband and I, and one that was never to be repeated!

I must be getting really old - it is interesting where technology is taking us but there is nothing there that I could not live without.