Dear Fiona: how do I cope with my husband's hideous heirlooms?

Dear Fiona, My husband has just inherited several pieces of squat, bulbous, Victorian furniture and some dark and depressing oil paintings, which he wants us to incorporate into our house. The selection consists of a huge dining room table with some very unwieldy chairs (fortunately, not enough to have to use as dining room chairs), an elaborately carved behemoth of a sideboard, an also elaborately carved four-poster bed which sounds romantic but really isn’t (it’s massive, and his grandmother died in it – do I need to find someone to do a cleansing ceremony?), various other odd bits of furniture – and of course the oils.

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