When we started making money When we started making friends We found a home as soon as we were able to We bought this bijou residence for about a thousand more Than the house our little house was once the stable to With charm, and colour values, wit, and structural alteration Now designed for graceful living, it has quite a reputation We're terribly House and Garden At Number Seven B We live in a most amusing mews Ever so very Contemporary! We're terribly House and Garden; The money that one spends To make a place that won't disgrace Our House and Garden friends! We planned an uninhibited interior decor Curtains made of straw We've wall-papered the floor! We don't know if we like it, but at least we can be sure There's no place like home sweet home It's fearfully Maison Jardin At Number Seven B We've rediscovered the Chandelier Très très very Contemporary! We're terribly House and Garden Now at last we've got the chance The garden's full of furniture And the house is full of plants! It doesn't make for comfort But it simply has to be; 'Cos we're ever so terribly up to date Contemporary- ry! (spoken) Have you a home that cries out to your every visitor: 'Here lives somebody who is Exciting to Know!' No? Well… Why not ... Collect those little metal bottle-tops and nail them upside down to the floor? This will give a sensation of walking on little metal bottle-tops, turned upside down Why not ... Get hold of an ordinary Northumbrian spokeshaver's coracle, paint it in contrasting stripes of say Telephone Black and White-White, and hang it up in the hall for a guitar-tidy for parties? (Why not ... Keep, on some convenient shelving, a little cluster of clocks; one for each member of the family, each an individual colour? I like to keep mine twenty minutes fast, don't you?) Why not ... Drop in one evening for a mess of pottage? Our speciality Just aubergine and carnation petals, with a six-shilling bottle of Mule du Pape, a feast fit for a king! I'm delirious about our new cooker fitment with the eye-level grill. This means without my having to bend down the hot fat can squirt straight into my eye! We're frightfully House and Garden At Number Seven B The walls are patterned with shrunken heads Ever so very Contemporary! Our boudoir on the open plan Has been a huge success Now everywhere’s so open there’s nowhere safe to dress (Our search for self-expression Leaves us barely time for meals; One day we're taking Liberty's in The next we're down at Heal’s!) With little screens and bottle lamps and motifs here and there Mobiles in the air, Ivy everywhere You mustn't be surprised to meet a cactus in the stair But we call it home sweet home We're terribly House and Garden As I think we said before But though Seven B is madly gay - It wouldn't do for every day - We actually live in Seven A In the house next door!
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