aaah ! makes sense now - hey any one can grow parsley, basil or thyme ! you can buy them in pots in the supermarket when (and if) you kill them !!! my husband thinks I have green fingers because our herbs always look great !!! little does he know I replace them monthly !!! lol !! and a sprig looks great on tinned soup, that you can then claim you cooked from scratch too !!!

This might sound a bit like being on the fence given the advice you've had already... How about a mid to dark grey ( less contrast than black), RAL 7022 is a favourite of mine (warmer grey), or look at a green grey, as something that will have the colour of the olive, with a good amount of contrast against the white render, (you won't have the warm rich colours of the brickwork as in the photos above (which the olive looks good against)). If you are painting the timber windows you would do well to look at microporous opaque stains to reduce your on-going maintenance. A benefit of aluclad composite windows is colour outside can be factory supplied different to the interior finish. Hope this might help. Regards, Nick

I want to lift my kitchen roof and add roof windows to let more light into our kitchen. I plan to do this job before I renovate the kitchen. our home is an old house that we added on to. Has anybody experience in this ? Thank you Nora

Hi, My kitchen installer made this bench. Unfortunately the filler on the right hand side is very wide and the whole thing looks wrong. He says the wall isn’t square and there’s nothing he can do to make both sides of the bench the same. Has anyone any solutions? Thanks!