Hey Liornoli, sorry I have been busy helping with our driveway extension this weekend and was too pooped at night to surf the net. I think your black bed would work well with the orange AND the TEAL. But I would keep the teal to a minimum, cushions and maybe a little dish on the bedside to keep your rings bracelets etc, or a small vase/plant pot. As for curtains where do you live? I could link to a few here in the UK but not sure that would help you. Love Fizz's advice on tap lamps but make sure they are not gigantic in proportions. Could you not add some taller legs to your current ones to raise them a little?

Hi Jen! Ah thank you. Well we haven't actually exchanged on our own sale yet (3 months!) and we gave up waiting so completed early on our purchase so we can get in and make it a bit more homely before we move in, ha ha. Fingers crossed for yours - it's awful at this time. No one wants to move just before Xmas Not thought about those temporary ones. We aren't living there for a few weeks luckily so thought if I get the sorted asap, I wouldn't need anything up. Worst case I will just get some cheap curtains and a pole if I have to, ha ha

Hi again & thanks for all the advice/opinions so far. We are thinking of all vertical lines with the windows now, mainly because it appears easier on the eye. Hopefully we won’t miss the small openers too much. Downstairs will be sliders for the window & doors. Can anyone help with frame colour? If we stick with the brown brick (which I find dreary/dark tbh & is very marked/damaged) then we’d go with light window frames. My preference would be off white or a similar pale neutral. However, the front windows aren’t being replaced so will stay pure white for now. The soffits & fascias are white. The other half of our semi next door is white. How would this work - would we need to change fascias to a different colour so as to link the white & off white? The other option is to paint or render or clad the rear of the existing house to disguise the old brick. This could possibly allow us to venture into a different colour for the windows & doors at the back, maybe pale olive green or similar. Is this a no no when part of a semi detached building? Should we retain the same look as our other half, even if it is dated? Any advice much appreciated. Really want to brighten the house up but without making it stick out like a sore thumb as it’s semi rural here with a lot of mixed housing stock (mostly character builds). Attaching an attempt at a mock up if that helps…

You poor thing. Seems weird that installation was spread over so much time. Unfortunately a mistake needs to be rectified by the installers. Nobody wants stick on bits on what look like expensive windows! Write to the boss (CEO) by email explaining the errors that have been made and that you want them rectified. Be polite but firm. This usually does the trick. If it doesn’t then contact Trading Standards via The citizens Advice Bureau, and report them. Hopefully the first email will resolve it. Good luck.