is the room extra hot or cold as well as wet? start with asking the Council about building approval for the original sun room then a building inspection to identify the source of the leaks..there are Building Inspectors (check local services) who can give you a basic condition report for a fee..if the building was never a legal living room and has major problems with the structure it may be better to KDR but if the concrete floor and the roof structure are legal and in good fixable order then you might rethink all the windows, have the roof and guttering checked and repaired, lose some of the windows, reclad outside walls, insulate and line the inside walls to cover over the brick columns and make a more traditional looking lounge but, if you're not happy with the floor height, size shape or location of the room it may be time to consider a whole house rethink....to repair and redecorate the existing room and raise the floor (an extra slab or a timber framed higher floor to match the original house as long as the ceiling height will still be legal) but, without any major structural problems and very good luck with trades and materials) i'd start with at least $30,000 but to replace the whole building around $100,000 probably more but if you plan to spend that amount it might be time to rethink the whole house to make sure that you get the best value from a big renovation... there's a lot of different skills and tradespeople needed so the easiest (not cheapest) would be to employ a builder who takes control of the whole project, organises all the materials and different workers in the correct order and then you pay the builder for their services and they pay for everything but usually better to ask a builder for a fixed price contract so you know what to expect

Somehow, I do not think this is an Aussie Local kitchen. The power points are not Australian.

Hi, this is like asking "how long is a piece of string". Porcelain tops are not priced by the square meter but instead on how much material is required, which type of Vasari you select and how much labour is involved in the fabrication and installation. Every kitchen benchtop is different and needs to be priced accordingly. I would suggest you talk to your local Cabinetmaker experienced in Porcelain tops or your local specialist Stone Fabricator for a quote. Hope this helps, Malcolm.

At one stage , this almost morphed into a car thread -- I just thought I'd put up some pics of quite a nice car With the sloping grille , that windscreen , etc , you'd wonder if it is a custom , but believe it or not , it is a 1925 Rolls Royce Phantom 1 coupe ! I just googled , and between 1925 and 1931 , 3512 sedans were sold , and 18 -- yes 18 -- of the coupes ! I'd say that 97 years ago , this would have been extremely radical . The sedan wasn't too bad and I'd be interested in the prices of the 2 at the time ( I can only assume the coupe was SOOOO expensive that not many people could afford them ? ) . Or maybe the coupe was considered ugly ? Who knows . As far as current values go , with only 18 coupes they are worth what someone will pay , but the last publicly reported sale was The Peterson Musuem in the US paid $1.5million for one . In 1991 . 31 years ago . No idea of its condition at the time , and it is on display now . At a guess though , I'd be surprised if you could get one now for under $40 million , and if someone sold one for $100 million it wouldn't even surprise me . Certainly one of my dream cars .