£2000

sparklygrandma mmmm a green velvet sofa!
No room for a separate tumble dryer, unless I take the bath out of the guest bathroom.

Big sliding glass doors (not bifold) are much cheaper than you think. We’ve had huge ones put in our kitchen for around £4K. Fantastic- best thing we’ve ever done.

labassi - have you thought of asking your landlord if you could paint the. cupboards a lighter colour?
annarami - if you practically have to sell everything it is worth it for a Nile cruise. Imagine what it is like moving slowly past the odd felucca (Nile sailboat), looking out at rich green banks covered with palm trees and papyrus shrubs, watching people walking along with a donkey covered with bundles of sugar cane, and sweet little children laughing, playing in the glorious sunshine and waving at us? All this while lying on the floor of our cabin wearing very little, sunbathing and toasting each other with some splendid Egyptian wine (Cru des Ptolemies). Oh yes.

I would install CCTV as I live in a house set back from the rest of the row at the end of a cul-de-sac with no house opposite houses, only a hedge and field with a next door neighbour whose damage and trespass on my property gets worse each year and the police say I have to have proof!

Would CCTV help though? Perhaps, when he came up behind me last year while I was in the garden so silently I did not realise he was there and he refused to move, he was testing to see if I had cameras installed. I had a new outside light fitted which doesn't work again. I am afraid of him. Would CCTV help or would he just cover his face?

llizzie2 How scarey!!!!

I wouldnt do anything as my house has a utiilty room so could either leave washing on a clothes airer or put it on the washing line

I also would have the end wall of my kitchen removed and some double doors put in, but that would also require a radiator to be moved, so not cheap I suspect!

inishowen, oooh put some piccies up, I am sure between us we could come up with something? That is something I wish I had done actually, property renovation and interior design as I do tend to have some quirky ideas of things to do! (although don't have the skills myself for the DIY stuff, sadly ...) Can be very cheaply made over using Facebook by swapping your bits for updated but second hand pieces - do you know there are folk out there that actually change their sofas etc every year for new colours etc and their old ones they sell on for just a couple of hundred quid? Even painting your older pieces can give them a huge lift .... I have stack load of 'projects' I would like to do in my house when I feel well enough, one of which is doing something with my stairs as they are very boring!