Hi If you are not looking to replace the units or worktop you could paint the units a cream colour to lighten up the kitchen, and change the cabinet handles. Also you seem to have lots of wire baskets, is this because you don't have enough storage? Your fridge is far too close to your oven, I would move this further to the side away from the built in units if possible. Maybe update the tap You could also add a glass splash back that is in one piece, this will instantly update the look. Take a look at a few ideas to play with. Look forward to seeing the finished look! Shannon

I suggest finding a nice local carpenter to help with cabinets etc. They will be able to come up with imaginative ways of upgrading and using as much of your own things as possible. I had an ok but boring Magnet kitchen with laminate doors. I wanted new doors and after spending an entire morning in the local franchise of Dream Doors, they eventually refused to come out and look at my kitchen when I said that my budget was under £5k. I priced up new doors online and then found a local carpenter. When he came round, I explained what I wanted and that my real dream was to have an “in-frame” look. He laughed, told me to scrap my ideas of buying new doors and instead he made entire new fronts that look a million times better than anything I could get off the shelf. It was also a fraction of the price!! My kitchen isn’t perfect (i find it too dark. - but that’s another story and not to do with the carpenter!!) - however it’s high quality, completely bespoke and an absolute bargain! Here’s my before and after....

The green does look nice, it seems a bit lighter in the photoshop although painted wood is generally lighter anyway. You could always test it directly as you’re painting anyway! Again personal opinion but I’d do the doors in the sams colour and would probably paint that internal door in either white to go with the tiles or the wall colour. Your photoshop skills are so much better than mine lol!

Hi Houzzers I'm hoping you can help with some some ideas to spruce up our garden. I’m hoping you can help with some ideas to spruce up our garden. It’s a fairly small area and we’re trying to achieve a few different things – a nice place to sit out and enjoy the sun etc as well as providing space for the kids. It also needs to be easy maintenance! We don’t have a huge budget, added to which we are hoping to move in a few years so don’t want to sink a lot of money into it that we won’t get back. I’m attaching some pictures of how it looks at the moment, including some fence damage from the recent storms which we’ll need to sort as part of this. We’d welcome any suggestions to improve and soften the boundaries, currently there’s a lot of mismatched fencing going on. We’ve found it difficult to grow much at the back where it’s very shady and competing with some flourishing laurel the other side of the fence! The other side obviously needs its fence sorting out. We don't know whether to bite the bullet and replace all of it so that it matches. The patio is a bit old and some of the pointing has come out which makes it a bit unattractive but we can't really afford to replace the whole thing just at the moment. We'd be very grateful for any ideas on the following: 1) how best to cover the mismatched panels on the right (we don't own this fence) 2) how to soften the look of the back fence 3) best solutions for replacing the left (part missing) fence 4) cost effective upgrades for the patio/seating area. Thanks in advance for reading and any suggestions you might have!