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An in-between phase
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Mine is a cut fence. It’s a fence. My gate is not too match as it’s shorter and a different wood. Painted a blueish grey. My garage door is a custom blue I really like.
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Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger.
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan. 20 months left.1 -
You should be able to have standard panels and then just one bespoke panel in one corner - it won't look odd.
KK
As at 15.02.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £220,873
- OPs to mortgage = £12,881 Estd. interest saved = £6,203 to date
c. 16 months reduction in term
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 20 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 7th March.
Produce tracker: £44 of £400 in 2026
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Hoping the link works
You probably already have this answered - but we have this one - bought a few months ago. Has options for just dusk to dawn, or for dusk to dawn with a "power-down" and motion sensor and I think various other things. we liked the fact that it has a replaceable bulb - although with the way LED bulbs last, the bulb might outlast the lamp anyway! Looks nice and does the job.
🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25
Balance as at 31/08/25 = £ 95,450.00. Balance as at 31/12/25 = £ 91,100.00
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Could you have a smaller trellis panel as a 'feature' and then grow something evergreen through it? Maybe a winter flowering honeysuckle for the glorious scent when everything else is dull.
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Ooh I like Redo's idea - you could add in a couple of clematis for summer colour as well!
🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25
Balance as at 31/08/25 = £ 95,450.00. Balance as at 31/12/25 = £ 91,100.00
SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her4 -
Cheers chapesses, much appreciated. Will mull all that over 🥂
We had that brand on our shortlist @EssexHebridean so good to know it's decent, thank you
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https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase/p1
'self-blame can be as egotistical as self-praise... any work worth doing is greater than we are... we must not overrate our importance to it, either for good or ill' Margaret Kennedy Lucy Carmichael6 -
Guys, I forgot to tell you, Mr PIP went to the site at the weekend and took pics, and you know how we wanted pinkish terracotta for the bedroom? And it came out yellow? So we sucked up paying for more paint, because it's our bedroom, and ordered a kinda mauve colour, which was a bit sad and dark but we couldn't find the colour we wanted.
Well we got the pink I guess. This mauve has come out lurid bright pink. Like, pepto bismal pink. The sort of pink that's so pink even Barbie would be like 'not being rude but that's a bit much'.
We don't have money left to paint it again and we'll barely be able to fit in the room if we put more layers of paint on, so 'gives you diabetes and cavities just looking at it pink' it is.
Fortunately it is so bad that we are finding it hilarious.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase/p1
'self-blame can be as egotistical as self-praise... any work worth doing is greater than we are... we must not overrate our importance to it, either for good or ill' Margaret Kennedy Lucy Carmichael5 -
Jeez. You could not make it up.
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Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger.
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan. 20 months left.1 -
Yee Gods!! 😂 Admiring of your fortitude …
To be fair, it should calm down with soft lighting and some big calming blue canvases …
KK
As at 15.02.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £220,873
- OPs to mortgage = £12,881 Estd. interest saved = £6,203 to date
c. 16 months reduction in term
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 20 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 7th March.
Produce tracker: £44 of £400 in 2026
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.1
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