That's rubbish! It just needs a lick of paint.

Sometimes we need to touch up our living rooms. Or, perhaps simply get our car washed. Bish bash bosh. But it’s not always that simple when it comes to more upscale residences. Take, for example, Buckingham Palace. It’s a royal residence in London, and the administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom. If you haven’t already walked beside it when you’re in London, then you may need new glasses. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is often at the centre of state occasions and royal hospitality. It’s unmissable.

But, even sturdy edifices such as the palace need periodic maintenance, and that is no simple task, especially since it has been open since 1705. So what needs to happen to keep up appearances? It’s been a while: the last major structural additions were made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the East Front, which contains the balcony on which the royal family traditionally appears to greet crowds. A German bomb destroyed the palace chapel during the Second World War; the King’s Gallery was built on the site and opened to the public in 1962 to exhibit works of art from the Royal Collection. Watch the video below.

The principal rooms are contained on the first-floor piano nobile behind the west-facing garden façade at the rear of the palace. The centre of this ornate suite of state rooms is the Music Room, its large bow the dominant feature of the façade. Flanking the Music Room are the Blue and the White Drawing Rooms. At the centre of the suite, serving as a corridor to link the state rooms, is the Picture Gallery, which is top-lit and 55 yards (50 m) long.[83] The Gallery is hung with numerous works including some by Rembrandt, van Dyck, Rubens and Vermeer;[84] other rooms leading from the Picture Gallery are the Throne Room and the Green Drawing Room. The Green Drawing Room serves as a huge anteroom to the Throne Room, and is part of the ceremonial route to the throne from the Guard Room at the top of the Grand Staircase.[83] The Guard Room contains white marble statues of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, in Roman costume, set in a tribune lined with tapestries. These very formal rooms are used only for ceremonial and official entertaining but are open to the public every summer. Read more here, courtesy of Wikipedia.org.