Hi all, Thank you so much for all the helpful comments and suggestions, and sorry that it's taken me so long to respond - house renovation and work have been keeping us on our toes! This has become a long post, so a quick reminder - we were looking to renovate and rewire our 60s house to update it and also make it more wheelchair friendly downstairs for when my mother-in-law comes to visit. We employed an architect and came up with what turned out to be an 'aspirational' design (much more than the budget!) so we ended up deciding to split things into two stages: Stage One to add a downstairs wetroom for accessibility, remove chimney throughout and add a porch Stage Two to do the extension across the rear, removing the conservatory to open out a large kitchen/diner and add a utility room The layout below shows both Stages One and Two as complete. Bits shown in red are existing walls which have been/will be removed (apart from the wall in red in the seating area below which is between the existing kitchen and dining room - that's a mistake). So.....the building work is now done - hurray! Stage One is complete, we are much poorer, and we now need to decorate the whole house :-) Some before and after photos below - please bear with the terrible photography skills. The rooms aren't big enough to allow for expansive photos!: We've re-plastered throughout, apart from in the kitchen and upstairs bathroom, as we'll deal with those later. Current challenge is deciding how on earth to pick paint colours and flooring throughout.... Anyway - hopefully that gives you a sense of where we've got to. Best wishes

Hi Shauna, This looks very similar to the bungalow we are exchanging on tomorrow..... exciting times. Be interested to see what you are doing, heating, insulating etc wise. We plan to go into the roof, although we may run out of money before then! Heres the link to ours. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-69155132.html Dont be too jealous of the kitchen! And no we plan to stay in the rental house for the next 3 months, while we do the majority of the work. Take care Julie

Hi there. Anybody got any good ideas how I could make this ugly porch look better without having to knock it down and start again! Thanks

Yes i t does.The thing is, we do need a porch to create space, muddy shoes, no place put our delivery items. Etc, etc. I look around the other houses' porcheporches and they completely omitted the design of the house, starting from the window. But can't find any that I like honouring the house's design 😕. BTW, is it me or this website is having problems? It takes me ages type! Thanks