Artist takes 13 years to turn flat into sci-fi shrine

An amateur artist in London has reportedly spent 10,000 hours or you could say 13 years to transform his two-bed flat into a sci-fi shrine.

One bedroom has been turned into a Flash Gordon shrine, the second is underwater themed complete with sharks and starfish, while the hallway looks like a tomb, the Daily Star reported.

43-year-old business analyst Simon Edwards said that it was a very unusual flat, not to everybody's taste but he loves it.

He said that paint did not cost much, and painting costs only time and it's been a fantastic journey for him.

He's moving to a four-bedroom house a mile down the road for an even bigger project.

But he has promised his wife Jo, 42, a physiotherapist, that this time he'll decorate the house without the alien life forms and comic book characters.