The next time I decorate by a colour of the year will be the first time. Don't hold your breath. I have nothing against this particular colour but it doesn't work with all the things I've collected over the years, and I am not about to discard carpets bought after hard bargaining with dubious merchants in Istanbul or Islamabad because they don't "go" with a paint colour that someone voted "colour of the year." In its place, I think the colour would be quite nice (better than this years choices, certainly). It's just that my place isn't the right place for it.

We did the entire rear of a house on a cliff overlooking a river, and did the whole frameless / framed dance. No one would guarantee the long term noise and weather resistance. In the end, we opted to go with electric operated framed panels from Kaba Auto doors for both waterproofing and noise. If I recall correctly, because they were top hung and motorised, we were able to get up to 1.5m sliding panels with a 2m fixed panel across the rear of the house. We then built a drainage channel under the floor guide which drained into a channel grate installed just outside the door within the stone. The frame widths were only 40 ish mm from memory. Doors were awesome. You could run at them and they would be open before you got to them....

Hi there, I think that the skylight would definitely be the way to go, if your budget runs to it. It will really lift the whole stairwell and make it much lighter and brighter. Full height frosted doors may be OK on the laundry, but I wouldn't recommend it for the bathroom as when lights are on in the room, you may be able to see more than you bargained for, from the corridor. The occupants of the house may feel comfortable with it, but any guests or visitors may not. A frosted panel at the top of the door would be as far as I'd go. Bear in mind too, that glass lets more sound through than timber, and in a situation like yours, I'd recommend a solid core door, for that reason. I hope this helps!

These period arch features are mid-passage details that need to be managed carefully. Any introduced doors should ideally positioned away for the archways and allow them to breathe appropriately in order to best preserve the effect of the original character detail and vibe. You have to make a decision one way or the other. Either new doors are positioned and articulated independently/separated reasonably from the arch, or if the doors need to be where the archway is currently, then arguably they need to replace the archway and be articulated as the end of the passage with the apporpriate cornice and architraving detail to tie apporpriately