So sorry I did not update this sooner. Strangely, I have turned into more of a shower than a bath person since the rain head went in the ceiling. After a solid month of use, we did have one leak behind the shower (just to the left of controls) which the water ran under the bath, through the radiator boxing that you cannot see on the right of the photos, and drenched the hallway. I cut a tile section out, husband fixed his leak, and I made a removable panel in the wall, but not so bad, you would only see it if you knew to look. I still have a little tiling to do around the radiator boxing, but it has kind of turned into a case of manyana now it is like this! It was proven that 3 women can get ready in here over Christmas, and now have a laundry basket behind the door. HOWEVER... I will have dark grout everywhere from now on unfortunately haha Main lights off: Main lights on:

I’m struggling to decide what colour aluminium windows to choose. We plan to replace all our windows and doors with aluminium flush casement ones (veering towards either Origin or Stellar windows at the moment), but can only afford to replace the rear of the house for time being. The style of each window would be similar to now with a top opener/skylight, but below that a 50/50 split casement window (since we're replacing, we now have to have an opening that meets fire safety requirements). Our house is pebble dash and currently painted magnolia which I hate. The plan is to repaint the render white as that is in keeping with the rest of the street and my other half is not keen on a coloured render. I think however that white windows with white render would just “disappear” and as our house has little in the way of architectural features back or front, the window style is the only way we can add any character. We've rejected modern grey windows as we think they may date, but have looked at both black frames, black frames with a white opening casement (window) and less dramatically white windows and frames with a black sill. The house is 1920s so incorporating black into the look would be in keeping. I’ve attached photos of the rear of our house, plus examples of all the ideas above that I’ve found online. (ignore the window features like leaded lights etc, these examples are just for the colours of the frames/window and sills). Any suggestions/advice would be appreciated. I've attached a photo of the front of our house as well for info, although we don't plan to replace these windows for a year or so. On a separate note, we plan to enlarge the window in the single storey rear extension on the bottom right of the photo, by dropping the sill down so that we can have a window seat inside overlooking our garden as it's a lovely spot for reading/relaxing. I’d like it to be a fixed frame window without any openers (we have French doors on the side of the extension and we never use the current top openers in the window anyway) but I wonder if it would look odd given the rest of the windows will have top openers or dummy ones. Or is it better to just go for it and make a statement with a large fixed frame feature window? Would welcome some advice on this too. Thanks

If you love marble, you could try a porcelain marble in Calacatta Gold. It has a brown/gold vein. For example: https://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Boutique-Calacatta-Gold-Lux-Glazed-Porcelain-Wall+Floor-Tile---600-x-600mm/p/191545 or https://totaltiles.co.uk/calacatta-gold-gloss-marble-effect-porcelain-floor-tile.html

Thank you for your comment. That was the closest colour I could find unfortunately. I’ve seen there are Trim paints so maybe if it doesn’t look right I could always paint over it 🤔