Foreign Perspectives

Although everyone uses their outdoor space quite a bit in the summer, once the cooler weather kicks in that usage drops very quickly indeed.

It doesn’t need to be like that though. There are an increasing number of ways in which you can extend the period of the year through which you can use all that outdoor space. Conservatories are an obvious addition which can be seen sprouting up at what sometimes seems an alarming rate in some areas. They essentially bring the outdoors inside for you and are usable throughout the year whatever the weather.

It’s also possible to look at the range of outdoor fireplaces which are a little bit more limited in terms of year-round use but let you use the outdoor spaces well into the Autumn months. They’re also different in nature to the conservatories as they’re taking the indoors outside rather than bringing the outdoors inside. Essentially they let you use your garden directly over a much longer time of year.

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It’s been a long time coming but we seem to be on the final stages of designing our new bathroom.

Funnily enough it’s the seemingly trivial items that are taking up most of the time at the moment. You wouldn’t think that porcelain sinks would take a whole lot of time to choose but the problem is that we want the whole ensemble to go together rather than look like we’ve chosen a porcelain sink at random as seems the case in some bathrooms.

The problem of course is that once you’ve settled on, say, the WC then you need the sink to go along with that, the bath and indeed the rest of the room. Our problem is that the people that design baths don’t seem to bother with the rest of the bathroom so you’re left to find matching items largely by yourself.

Oh well, at least it’ll be getting installed soon-ish!

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We’re just at the start of what will become quite a major renovation of our house at the moment.

In principle, we’re trying to do things in a logical order but that’s not always possible when you’ve a house that’s become a little run down. Thus we found ourselves having to install an American Standard toilet just as a temporary measure when the last one gave up the ghost. However, we’re back on track at the moment with the roof getting a refurbishment over the coming week before we start properly on the bathroom about a week after that. Next up is the kitchen or rather the kitchen and living room as they’ll become one as part of the kitchen upgrade all being well.

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