My favorite spot to hide myself and get some moment of peace is my balcony. I get cut off from the members around and lock me in balcony seat on my arm chair and relieve myself from the extra burden, or tensed situation. Come alive in an hr or 2 and get mixed with the people around.

Thank you Monty. The tiles I have are actually across multiple areas aside from the kitchen, so am erring on not going with another set. Additionally the current tiles are the right style for the house and kitchen options I'm going with. A conundrum, but will continue scouring the options. Cheers

Hi Louise, would your U shaped lounge fit with it's back towards the bar but still allowing access between it and the bar. The previous owners had too much furniture, perhaps if they had removed the cabinet opposite the bar the yellow chair could had been placed in that corner on an angle facing back into the room, there's plenty of space to put cabinets etc, ie: on the wall next to the bar where the guitars currently stand Any photo of your lounge. What a great room with beautiful timber floors and views..

a bathroom is a very challenging place to learn about renovating and needs a range of qualified trades people to do the skilled work in a complex sequence and is very difficult for a homeowner to organise unless you can wait many months for a completed job so it's much easier to employ a builder or specialist bathroom company to organise all the work for you and well worth the extra cost to save your sanity but, before looking for a bathroom builder, i would start by 1. as already suggested.. first learn about the existing spaces ie make a rough hand drawn plan of the existing spaces including all adjoining rooms including lengths of all walls, location of windows and doors and any existing builts ins (measure distance from corners of the room to the outside edge of the architraves around window and doors from both sides and up from the floor, include location of existing bathrooms fixtures and any restrictions like a brick chimney etc.. and what are the walls floors and ceilings built out of? 2. start a HOUZZ ideas book of suitable bathrooms and wiw and visit display homes for ideas ...especially useful to help understand what size spaces feel comfortable and to see the latest ideas for taps, screens etc 3. post your plan on HOUZZ and ask for ideas then 4. once you have an idea of how you want to arrange the spaces contact all the local bathroom renovating companies for a consultation and they will help guide you to find suitable tiles, taps etc...and keep in mind that a builder/bathroom company can easily do the measurements and suggest a floorplan but it's useful for you to first collect ideas so that you have a better idea of what to expect and what you would like to achieve.....