One Sheffield steel worker has seen his face all over the national newspapers after deciding to convert his garage into a living room so he can spend the evenings next to his beloved Ferrari.
Jon Ryder, 28, loves looking at his yellow car so much he couldn’t bare to be parted from it. He has spent £900 converting the garage into a room he can share with the car. Curtains hide the garage door at the end of the room and the Ferrari gets parked right next to the sofa.
He explains: “I’ve owned the Ferrari for more than three years and the novelty still hasn’t worn off.
“I still smile every day at owning my ultimate dream car. It’s my favourite piece of Italian art and it takes pride of place in the house.
“When we decided to move house last year I instantly saw the potential to convert it.
“I furnished the room with items we’d not used after moving house – the TV cabinet was a towel box, the curtains and matching cushions came from our last living room.
“I tried to keep everything to a reasonable budget since my wife did keep reminding me, ‘it is just a garage.’
“She now admits it’s a very nice comfortable lounging room and garage!”
His wife, Catherine, 29, works for the local council. She says: “Jon always gets these mad ideas which I tend to think, ‘oh god, here we go again.’
“But they always seem to work out well in the end….. sort of!” n Aus�Di �8��4ing exhibits from the Saffron Walden Museum, after they were shipped out on loan.
Four clubs and shields made by Aborigines in the 1830s have been borrowed by the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.
The objects were given to the museum by 19th century surveyor John Helder Wedge.