Gone through my album of our very own decorating therapy journey and found these. I hope you can see the roller black-out in the first photo, it's tucked inside the recess of the window. The Duette is a peachy colour which looks a lot lighter colour in the north-facing sun. The one in the five panel window is the room below, it does not have the roller blind but the curtains are black out. They are not as efficient in blocking out light as the roller in recess though. the curtains are from Hamilton McBride, only reason i got them were because not many wide (350cm) curtains are cheaply available on Amazon... If your room is not too cold, you can also consider wooden venetian, mine is in white colour as you can see from the 'blue room' (it's F&B's new Vardo btw), which is on the ground floor of the north facing side. 247 does oak colour too. Many neighbours asked us where we got those from!! They look great at a good price - those two windows cost me just under a £100 - but they are not the most energy efficient. They are okay blocking out light but if you have it in the south-facing room, it might not be quite enough. Do go to 247blinds and request some free samples, it's worth a try. Hope this helps! ;)

Thank you for your suggestions, I appreciate your advice. I am going to switch the sitting/dining areas around and I like the idea of having the end wall as the feature wall, with either wallpaper or artwork. I hadn't considered arm chairs facing each other at the far end, I like that idea - there is no TV, to be honest the sofa was initially something just to fill the space but because of that, it looks out of place. I love the idea of the colours being greys, duck egg blue or sage - if I could do my kitchen again, I would change the black granite worktops to wood and change the tiles to white or at least something much more calming than red. I think this is where my dilemma stems from - the colours in the kitchen are too dark and I'm trying to counter that by making a calmer space at the other end of the room but then I'm concerned that it won't all work together!

I might try farrow and ball Cromarty for the walls, you can colour match to Johnstone’s to keep the budget down. It’s hard to know what styles you like from the photos. Are you also talking modern geometric, lines or circles etc as you don’t have any idea books setup? That particular wall Is also a little tricky with a big radiator. Another idea is colour blocking, you’d need to incorporate the radiator within the design as they’ve done with the door

Hi. The magnet design looks almost identical to what you have now apart from the sink being moved is that correct? Can the nib of wall on the left with the radiator on it be removed completely as this along with the massive fridge and breakfast bar is what is making the kitchen feel very separate from dining area. I would lose the massive fridge and get something integrated and full height like the current tall cupboard you have to left of garden door. If you can remove the bib then you can either extend the units out along the stove side to provide more cupboard space or you could put a built in banquette there for people to perch on and chat to you whilst you are cooking? It depends what you really need, more storage, more work surface or more options for seating? Personally I’m not sure the sink would work well shoved under the window I know it’s the fantasy but really how much time do you spend washing up and staring dreamily at the back garden? It looks a bit cramped to me. Try and imagine yourself in the space using it and how practical it would be. Assess exactly how many units you need to store your stuff and don’t have more cupboards for the sake of it. If you have a banquette you can have lift up seats for storing little used items which can be very useful. Anyway hope that’s some food for thought :)