Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

lostinrates

Aye, that's nice I think. How old is the cottage CTC, would Victorian windows be appropriatish? They sit well. In the cottage IMO.

Nice blind too davesnave!

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

could you add a white stable door as well, or even a sage green one please?? LOL

[STRIKE]Aaarrggghhh!:eek: [/STRIKE]Just spotted this!

Err... on which side would madame like the door?

alfie_1

i am so waiting for a rumlett update !!!!

alfie_1

Davesnave wrote: »

Here you go. Coldn't find one that fitted really well, but this will give an idea....hopefully:

i prefer the smaller panes.... for the ranch anyway !

COOLTRIKERCHICK

on both...lol..


Yes LIR the second sash window is well suited.. they were built in approx. 1830..


I been on tender hooks most of the day LIR waiting for news... BUT we are the 'distant' relatives.. so we will know any news later... Hope everything is ok...As little rumlet is rather early..

Davesnave

Hmmm, we are very short of doors and I only have half a door frame to work with anyway.



What's more, someone's left a ladder in the way.

You can't get the staff! :rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

LOL... Hubby is asking can you put 4 windows in and the other door, he said never mind about the ladder...lol..


I really do appreciate this Davesnave... If you were here now I would share my biscwits with you...

alfie_1

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

LOL... Hubby is asking can you put 4 windows in and the other door, he said never mind about the ladder...lol..


I really do appreciate this Davesnave... If you were here now I would share my biscwits with you...

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

LOL... Hubby is asking can you put 4 windows in and the other door, he said never mind about the ladder...lol..

I really do appreciate this Davesnave... If you were here now I would share my biscwits with you...

I am off real biscwits now, as I have much weight to lose following Christmas & New Year , but a virtual one will be OK.

Which windows do you want, Victorian or Georgian?

Or two of each?

I will try to clone that ladder out of the picture, before it falls on someone..... You do realise I've been drinking? I can't see much in the way of safety rails either.

phoebe1989seb

Better_Days wrote: »

phoebe1989seb - so is that an increase of £2,000 per month you are expected to find for the care fees? :eek::eek::eek: Surely people just don't have that sort of money. It must be so stressful without 'leaning tower of pisa' chimneys next door to boot.

Yep, BD, that's how their letter reads - although DH is convinced it's a clerical error If not, I think we'll be having to find an alternative place for them......originally, before my dad developed Dementia (as well as mum ), we had hoped to move them into the *leaning tower of pisa* next door, having renovated it first of course.......

CTC - the ranch is really starting to take shape - externally at least - and new windows will look fab. I guess it does depend on the age of the place, but either style of windows look good to me, although I'm leaning more towards the Victorian four-pane ones

We've had a quote - just the one, hoping to get more this month - for our front elevation to be done in DG wood (softwood, to be painted) and iirc it came in at around £1500 (possibly a bit more) per window but that didn't include new sash boxes as some of ours are perfectly ok still.

Trouble is we have seven windows at the front - or nine if you include the two that were filled in during WW2 (plus the two attic ones, but PO replaced these) - so it's a bit pricey when you add it up, especially with everything we've already spent

Our house is Georgian and quite formal at the front with Ashlar blocks rather than random stone (although that's what the less *posh* rear elevation is, lol!) and currently we have a mix of original multi-pane Georgian sashes and some four-pane Victorians (painted F&B *Green Smoke*) at the front.

We're not listed - not sure if you are? - so we don't have those constraints, but personally we'd rather have painted timber......although in a previous Victorian house we had dark wood look UPVC at the back which was fine, but as the rooms were large and bright the dark frames didn't have a detrimental impact