More progress.
The vertical blinds will be going to be replaced by venetian blinds with oak slats. This will carry across to the oak cabinets at the front of the room.
The room acoustic is getting better and better all the time. I think without the fabric and just the rockwool it was perhaps too dead. Certainly when it was without fabric and you entered the room then it felt odd compared to the rest of the house. The slight amount of reflectivity in the higher frequencies given by the fabric is now lending a fresh sound to the room. By that I mean there's no disturbing reverb, echo, flutter or whatever else and it simply feels open and somewhat like behing outdoors at night when there's minimal ambient noise.
Pretty cool. Still not got any speakers in yet to test it out and have decided to leave this now until its finished.


Finally the 2 seater recliner arrived from DFS. Still plenty to do and in particular the cabinet at the front of the room will take awhile but its coming together.
