We've a handmade product that isn't too disimilar to this called london weathered yellow - It's a slightly more textured finished however the feartured colours are relatively close to that of the above. If you message me direct I will give you a voucher for a free sample. I hope that helps. Kindest regards, Dan - brickslips.co.uk

Hi there! I’d love to hear what you are using the under the stair spaces for. It looks like the bike could fit under the stairs near main entrance comfortably. You then could use the current bike area for the utility i.e. muddy stuff mops and sports equipment. As such you would need to install shelves to add on the storage space. I’d like to agree with Minipie that, if you really love for the bike area to remain as is, as I feel you might, the next best position for the utility is in the basement. The basement offers several advantages as compared to hiving off a space on G.F, especially when you consider the available space which you’d require to store all the stuff you said. I imagine sports equipment for example would need quite a generous area. I like the idea of a cosier retiring area for the library and I would really recommend an alterations for that. As for a pantry usable from the kitchen, options look really limited but I’d know what you think about moving the toilet across to the opposite void area, and then converting the new space to a pantry. It’s both proximal to the kitchen island, and will also not complicate the plumbing process, since you also want to introduce a sink in there. Hope this is useful! If you need more guidance, feel free to drop me a line or check out our site: www.betterspace.co

Wow what an improvement, you must be delighted (I've answered on here so you don't get loads of suggestions on the, old kitchen. From those who don't read the chain of posts) If this was mine I'd pick out the plain (dark) blue of the swimming pool in your lovely artwork for the bench cushions and use some coloured/patterned scatter cushions, to pick out some of the, other colours (deep red, buttermmilk yellow I think?) including some containing the duck egg blue to match the paint work. that means of you want an update you've only got to replace the scatter cushions. Howong are you like lily to be sitting, at th is table? It's just that I think the chairs look a little to heavy for the space and perhaps, some stools that push under might be ok for kids and potentially open the table area up a bit. Looking lovely so far.

I have a 1930s house, and when we refurbished I looked at changing all the light switches to bakelite. However, once I looked at them closely I had a wobble. Did I really like them? In the end I decided I didn’t! I’m just not sure........