Thanks. I'm going to get recovering costed. Including refilling the feather cushions which are actually the best part of the lounge. Just not great fans if that solid rubbery cushioning. The $'s will decide as we're now retired.

bigreader I'm okie..thanks for caring ..just need time to readjust kind of walked out on my job..so looking for stuff to fill in my time ..I hate being bored and sitting sround fiddling my thumb been looking for courses to do and taking my camera out.. these I took yesterday in Warrandyte..

I guess I'd be asking, how do you plan to live in this house? As it currently is, there seem to be three separate apartments, each with its own kitchen, on each of the three floors. Do you plan to keep it that way, or incorporate the whole house into a single living area, or something in between? How many bedrooms do you need/want? You have five at the moment, not counting the studio. Do you want to keep them all, or scupper a few of them in exchange for large spaces? It's hard to give advice without knowing a bit more about how you envisage living in this house. If you're a multigenerational family, or plan on renting out the bottom suite, you'd need different advice than if you were looking at incorporating the whole place into a single family home with, say, a hideout for the kids downstairs.

The extra info and the pictures have gotten me even more confused -- normally I can work out why things are done as they are , but this almost does my head in . For example , if it was designed and built as a brothel , the master almost looks like it would have been a strip club with a bar , the study an entry foyer , and maybe a door to seperate the 'strip' side from the 'brothel' side , but then you wouldn't have had the master ensuite where it is -- it would have been more likely a changing room , and the bathroom would have been where the WIR is . I don't want to sound like I spend too much time studying brothels haha , but I would also imagine they are generally 'warmer' with wallpapered walls and less open spaces where clients could bump into others . So many possibilities , and I guess a reasonably long list to work through , but here's what I'd suggest to start -- -- what do you WANT upstairs ? For example , are the views good -- is it worth considering it as a main kitchen / dining / lounge / Family rooms , with a bathroom ? A bit unconventional , but if the views are there , why not ? -- if upstairs is 'the kids bedrooms' , do you keep a kitchen there , or go rumpus or study or try for a bit of them all ? -- would it work better moving Master and say a guest bedroom up there , then maybe split the downstairs Master and Bed 2 and that sliding door to nowhere , into 3 'kids' bedrooms ? -- the existing dining and lounge are effectively in the middle of our downstairs with very few windows -- generally that is better suited to bedrooms , so do you swap rooms ( and then try and work out how to make the kitchen relevant ? ) , or go for longer rooms with windows , or leave as it is . Not easy .