I can't pretend that our new front door is a style statement - we couldn't decide what we wanted. There seems to be lots of choice for front doors for older properties - but not much in our preferred price bracket for a 1970s house. So we went for no frills, basic uPVC.
More importantly than the style (or lack of!), we have a much warmer lobby & hall area. Phil kept on ringing & ringing the doorbell for me to let home back in the house the other day because he couldn't hear it ringing inside anymore - so definitely better insulated.
It's also much more secure with better locks than its predecessor - and by moving the letter box to the door rather than the sidelight, I no longer have to retrieve the post from our shoe rack!
Back door was also replaced - similar, simple uPVC glazed job.
John the Builder finished his first stint with us yesterday - so we now have an unfinished en suite, unfinished bedroom, unfinished lobby & an unfinished utility room - note the theme....
The lobby & utility are waiting for new exterior doors (John's sourcing). Everything else is now at the level where we need to get the paint brushes out & ask Tony to start the flooring.
The main priority is to get the utility room finished as much as poss before John comes back in a couple of weeks as that will be our mini kitchen whilst proper kitchen is destroyed & replaced.
However, I think we're going to focus on getting out for a day this weekend - and then maybe some gardening. Even I have to accept we've been jamming too much into weekends recently.
We spent most of last weekend shuttling green wardrobe doors, old bathroom & utility units to the household recycling centre (aka tip).
Really appreciated Sunday's lunch guests taking the corner bath there for us in their estate car as I don't think it would have fitted into the Panda even after husband sawed it in two...
