Well, if you travel to the UK and want to come stay a few nights you'd be welcome (the both of you, I feel a decade of internet familiarity is enough to assure me you and Wax are not axe murderers). I have guest rooms and Shetland sheep =) And for fanfic purposes, I live basically at ground zero for the Dark is Rising books ;)

That Norwegian house is gorgeous. I am a big fan of dusty, heathery colours. I will look forward to seeing pics of your painting experiments if you post them!

I've been painting mostly pure white on the walls because I finally dodged the cabinet paint question by having plain oil finished wood, with Welsh slate on top, and nothing looks quite as good with that as pure white does. I am resigned to regularly touching it up, but that's not really a burden with the claypaint.