2021 renovations

[nineseven]

Someone I follow on Instagram was quote £10,000 for a front door

[viggy]

I really want a new front door because mine is getting draughty, but if its going to cost me £10k I'll just stick up a curtain.

[Cosmopolitan]

Front doors are ridiculously expensive and difficult to fit and a right pain. As a result, I'm still living with this retro monger. Complete with reeded glass and aluminium.

[Derek Nimmo]

I have SUCH a soft spot for all the stuff you want to get rid of Cos

Blimey, quite glad I no longer have a back door!

[Cosmopolitan]

I have SUCH a soft spot for all the stuff you want to get rid of Cos

You are such a weirdo. Gonna save you some bathroom tiles though. And maybe some textured wall.

[nineseven]

That's SO my grandma's bungalow

[Derek Nimmo]

Thank you for the kind offer, but they're not the lovely green trees* of your kitchen

*of blessed memory.

[emma_p]

Tell me you're keeping the pink bath!!!!!

[Shoe]

I got a quote for the door I liked and it was £1700. The one I'm getting is far cheaper.

[F'Artiste]

We had something similar when we replaced our front door Shoe . A local glazing company (with showroom etc) wanted to charge over £2k to replace our bog standard sized door with a composite one. A local one man band charged a third of that.

We’ve appointed an architect. Once the drawings are with Planning I’ll start to contact landscapers as I’d like the garden done at the same time as the extension (assuming planning permission is given).

[Cosmopolitan]

Tell me you're keeping the pink bath!!!!!

There is nothing redeeming about the pink bath. It's too small, is stained, is really uncomfortable and is ludicrously pink. The only thing that likes it is the cat and she has no taste.

I fear you are remembering my tree tiles with a slightly hazy clouded view Derek.

[Derek Nimmo]

I'm not, I them. RIP.

[Livilla]

We had an (80s?) aluminium front door just like that in our old house Cos, and yeah, it cost us £1800 to replace it with a composite/steel door and side panel. We were selling the house though, and changing it made such a difference to the kerb appeal!

[Cosmopolitan]

It's in the hitlist but I need to steel myself to spend that amount of money on something! Might wait until I actually leave the house and come back into it more often.

Still worried about you Derek

[speedy gonzalez]

I've given our central heating guys a reminder as they said to contact them in the Spring to get our central heating system replaced. Once that's done we can look at new carpets in a couple of the rooms and decorating.

[Kenickie]

I love those tree tiles too!

I idly think that maybe I should have kept my pink bathroom suite, but in reality it was a bit hideous and I love my massive bath now.

[Princess Morripov]

One little job done for now! Our new house is very pelmety and beige and it turns out the curtains in Tupac’s room didn’t even function so he’s had a sheet up in the window the last couple of days.

The living room has the same window and some slightly less offensive blinds so we’ve (well, A has) put them in that window instead. I think eventually we’ll get shutters at the window and some nice floor length curtains but a marked improvement for now!

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[Ella77]

Oh my god, I thought the first picture was the After shot for a second there .

[Marth]

Omg the sway and pelmets. Please do share any other horrors as you go.

[smalex]

Beautiful bay!

(Was anyone else trying to work out who Revilo was ? )