Home, sweet Rome: Painter and decorator recreates Sistine Chapel in EVERY room of his council house | Mail Online

Home, sweet Rome: Painter and decorator recreates Sistine Chapel in EVERY room of his council house | Mail Online

From the outside it looks like a normal, drab sixties house like any other on the terraced street.
But inside, tenant Robert Burns has transformed his rented council home in Brighton into a stunning lookalike of the world-famous Sistine Chapel.
Drawing on his skills as a retired decorator he has spent the past eight years turning his £86-a-week property on the outskirts of the East Sussex town into an astonishing Renaissance-style masterpiece.
Every inch of the walls and ceilings is covered with elaborate frescoes inspired by 15th century works by famous Italian painters, complete with gilt-edged nativity scenes and portraits of the Virgin Mary.