I don't want any of those options, I would like beautiful sitting room with plush furniture, classical French inspired (not baroque), I would like a climate controlled glass house to match with orchids and all other exotic plants. A beautiful garden with flowers and fruit trees and a cleaner and a handyman to help me with it.

Hi Complete Kitchens....Yes, I realise that 20k could get a good standard kitchen (our own one recently done was about 26k including scullery), I'm more talking about the ones that talk about doing kitchen, bathroom, painting and even moving some walls on 20k. What my point was, is its great when people like you actually give an idea of a cost of a project - it's easy to get fired up with inspiration and then get thoroughly dissapointed when reality hits! Things are expensive these days and I think for some who may not have done any renovations to their house for years, they don't really have a lot of idea of the costs involved.

Hi @Robandlyn new designs can take some getting used to. However, the Houzz team is confident that these changes will help Houzzers find relevant questions and answers more quickly. We do not have a 'photo questions' topic however, we'll take this onboard as a suggestion. However, you are still able to post photo questions directly on the photo – As for your concern regarding the leaderboard, it rewards our most active users – as most forums do.

Amanda, the trouble with photoshopped images is that you can't accurately match them with paint colours. Dulux alone has about 4800 colours, (with dozens of warm-whites, off-whites, cool-whites and neutrals) and only about 10% are available as sample chips from Bunnings. Buying external paint, and then paying for the labour to paint is expensive, so you really want it to be right the first time. If you pay for the services of a Dulux colour consultant, which is less than $200, then some of the cost is reimbursed when you purchase Dulux paint, so it is actually quite cost effective in getting an accurate solution fairly quickly. Here is a link: https://www.dulux.com.au/services/colour-design-service/overview?gclid=CjwKCAjwgabeBRBuEiwACD4R5vKWdh-RSrdkRLhPtmGUl2AKMjXNFbbNwjrZhvTTsJz2zz2X2lhyTBoC4LUQAvD_BwE&cid=ppc|google|dulux.com.au_main||||||||||Brand+-+Service+-+DCDS+-+Other+States|||Brand+-+Colour+Consultant+EM|&s_kwcid=AL!4713!3!275304467169!e!!g!!dulux%20colour%20consultant&ef_id=W7YMIgAABpIMDufW:20181019073616:s Playing around with photoshop colours, and trying to match them with paint colours will only work if you have "a close enough is a good enough" attitude. But I suppose if you don't value your own time in mucking around trying to match colours on your screen (which will look different when you print them out), and you want to save less than two hundred dollars then go for it. Best of luck, Dr Retro of Dr Retro House Calls