The front door is around the other side by the way! The windows are aluminium so cannot be changed. It is all rather ugly at the moment.

Our new holiday home has dated green aluminium windows, with magnolia walls and golden varnished wooden floors. Suggestions on how we might use colour and furnishings to give it now impact welcome.

I have recently upgraded my kitchen keeping original layout but now have a very tired original cork floor. I love cork tiles, but the discoloured tan/orange just doesn’t fit the colour scheme, would the new painted ones wear as well? I enjoy the warmth and the quietness of the cork, would the expense be warranted, or should I simply opt for a vinyl planking look.

For the Australians , Trade Me is NZ's biggest auction website -- our equivalent of Gumtree / EBay haha . As an aside , 30 years ago I worked with this guy we called Frank -- he looked and acted much like Frank Spencer from Some Mothers Do Have Them . He literally went to a garage sale , and bought the garage ! I would say there is no correct answer , as there are lots of variables . The main ones would be your skills , the distance , the materials used , labour at each end , and so on . Something 500kms away , which needs dismantling , and which you need to hire say a truck and HiAb and driver , get a concrete pad laid , permits , and pay to get it put up , then to find the colour isn't right or one window is in the wrong place or similar compromises would be expensive . Galv Steel ones can get creases in the corners , even if moved across town using a trailer , but maybe that is worth taking a risk . I don't want to sound too snobby , but I doubt I'd do a secondhand garage for myself ( I once did move a double carport 30kms , but that was a roof and 6 steel poles , and I have mates with trucks ! ) , my preference is to spend more and end up with something designed to suit the house in as many respects as I can ( i.e. brick if a brick house , tiles if tiled , etc ) . With a rental property , as long as it suits the style of the house , and is better than not having a garage , I would consider it and paint to suit , but even then things like brick would sway my choice .