The account George Austen had with the local furnishing frim in Basingstoke, John Ring and Co, shows that the "cheap" wall paper was blue , the curtains blue striped and the press with its bookshelves was painted a chocoalte colour to match the carpet.

Interestingly, this part of the house now became,according to Le Faye,JAs " study" : she wrote at a greater speed,and she finished writing The History of England on 26th November 1791.