Is 6k a ridiculous amount to spend on a front door? Make me feel better with your stories of house extravagance...

[Wokeuptwirly]

We aren’t loaded, but have a decent amount of savings and are undertaking a huge renovation project. We are having the whole of front of the house ripped off and remodelled as it is hideous. We have budgeted hard to make our money go a long way, but feel that the front door is the first thing you see and has to have an impact. We can’t find anything we want ‘off the peg’ so have had a local company design us something bespoke. I love it, but feel incredibly guilty about spending so much on a door (even though we have haggled them down from over 7k). Please can someone come along and tell me some items they have splurged on which have improves their home to make me feel more at ease with parting with such a huge lump of cash (for us)...

For those looking for something similar... I used these people

www.decoline.co.uk/

My doors are fabulous, quality amazing.

@mrsfeatherbottom

Okay - here is a pic of the tiles as requested.

We also had door extravagance - the house had beautiful 1940s stained glass French doors but the wood was rotting and needed replaced. We managed to keep them in for 6 years (skirting boards nailed to the inside) while we saved up the thousands of pounds needed to restore them and get new doors custom made. We also got a new front door to match (they are beside each other) and two port holes made in stained glass to match as well. We could have got PVC doors for a fraction of the price but I couldn't do it. The door we got made, we got the joiner to copy the design from a picture off Pinterest. Was nowhere near £6k but was wood, not steel! Here is the door, which I love.

Oooh lovely...and very unique 😍. I love the door too and was looking at similar before DH got Grand Design ideas! - unfortunately he is right and that style wouldn’t have worked with our house, but the colour you have is exactly what we are after 😁. Gorgeous!

@BlackAmericanoNoSugar

I paid about €20k for a bathroom (yes, just one bathroom). There was a lot of bespoke joinery in walnut, a special build shower and deep, Japanese style, soaking tub. I still feel much happier in there than anywhere else in the house. The downside is that if you have two bathrooms upstairs, one which is a perfectly nice but boring family bathroom and the ensuite which is beautiful and perfect then the entire family will want to trapse through the master bedroom to use the beautiful ensuite. We might as well not have two bathrooms.

We have the opposite problem - our en-suite is nice, but the kids’ bathroom actually turned out far nicer than we’d planned (once you rinse the toothpaste off the sink and pick their towels up!) so I always end up in there and rarely use ours...

@BlackAmericanoNoSugar

I paid about €20k for a bathroom (yes, just one bathroom). There was a lot of bespoke joinery in walnut, a special build shower and deep, Japanese style, soaking tub. I still feel much happier in there than anywhere else in the house. The downside is that if you have two bathrooms upstairs, one which is a perfectly nice but boring family bathroom and the ensuite which is beautiful and perfect then the entire family will want to trapse through the master bedroom to use the beautiful ensuite. We might as well not have two bathrooms.

BTW it sounds amazing. Pics??

I need a new front door for my Victorian cottage.
I’m scared after reading how much a new front door is on here.
I thought it would be about a £1K

What's the house worth (ballpark) op? It's all relative.

I think it depend upon what type of house you have personally and whether it would add value if you decided to sell. Also if you have a grand enterance I would expect the interior to match in standard.

I'm just about to spend about £20k on replacing the roof. Its got a couple of leaks and is sagging in places!!
We have spent quite a bit of money on bathrooms and the kitchen, but not a front door (yet.)

As a %age of your house it's fine. Not an overspend.

The only question is have right now is HOW secure are your jobs? & Will you still have a good savings pot?

@ihatethecold

I need a new front door for my Victorian cottage. I’m scared after reading how much a new front door is on here. I thought it would be about a £1K

Perfectly possible to get a composite door for that. I'd prefer wood, but a good wood door is £££ and then there's the maintenance.

Shop around re composite doors! Make sure you know how they're made - some are utter shite

What's the house worth (ballpark) op

She’s already said, if the door is 6k and it’s one percent of thr vslue then it’s 600k.

I think the door is lovely but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a steel front door in real life.

My extravagance,,,I did a whole room in this paper,,at over a hundred pounds a roll, but god I love it. The total price would make you squirm. I’m not sure any one else likes it as much though. The decorator hated it. It’s from little Greene and has a lustre to it.

I spent £30k on a bathroom and kitchen in a flat worth £180k. They are beautiful. We had the flat valued shortly after and the estate agent said we were mad to spend so much as the flat has hit the ceiling price for our road. But we have no plans to move so I don't care for the ceiling price. And we love spending time in our home. Especially during lockdown it is a real luxury.

I spent £15k importing handmade tiles from Morocco for our house. My DH hasn’t noticed we have beautiful tiles on the steps in the garden, our kitchen, our bathroom. I also put £600 worth of Middle Eastern coins in resin for our walk in shower. I also have an art piece that was gifted to me by a former employer, which costs in the tens of thousands to ensure each year. I don’t even like it and it’s professionally stored in a cupboard but he’d hear about it if we sold it or loaned it to a museum and I would feel rude.

Really, I’m not sure if I should be allowed access to money, but our house is what I’ve always dreamed of and I’m never, ever getting rid of it.

I spent £1700 quid on a bloody radiator.
Actually , that's a lie.
We bought 2 of them, at £1700 each.

They are effing gorgeous / incredibly vulgar (delete as required)

I think you’d get a quality steel door and side light panels for cheaper than £6k.

@SerenityNowwwww

I need to see this door. Is this it?

Still chuckling over this one.

Though I don't think you get Brunelleschi for a mere 6K.

I have the most fabulous pair of curtains inherited from my mum - I'd love to get a matching pair for the window at the back of the sitting room, but when I looked up the fabric (Wm. Morris) it was £100 a metre!

What else does it do? It must do something for that amount of money.

@mrsfeatherbottom - those tiles are WILD !!!!

@Bluntness100 - that wallpaper is AMAZING !

I've recently spent £30k on glazing for a 6mx5m extension. Well, glazing and the steel structure needed purely to support the glazing. It's beautiful and I love it, but it does feel like a HUGE extravagance as it became a self build project so we could afford the glass

I've also been known to spend £100 on a sofa at auction and then 10x that figured getting it reupholstered. Not quite such a bargain then....

@Bluntness100

My extravagance,,,I did a whole room in this paper,,at over a hundred pounds a roll, but god I love it. The total price would make you squirm. I’m not sure any one else likes it as much though. The decorator hated it. It’s from little Greene and has a lustre to it.

That is totally ‘wow’ and the sort of thing I would love to be able to have...but DH would veto as he is v much a boring ‘fresh plaster and paint’ person

Yup, it’s ridiculous. but it’s your money

@sergeilavrov how much is the art piece worth if it's tens of thousand just to insure it?

About 15 years ago I stupidly left my husband to decide on flooring for the loft extension with the builder. I said get laminate flooring, something that looks like wood, anything like that...came home and he had committed us to buying some vintage French oak floorboards for the bastard room, at a cost that was always fudged in the overall total of work done but which I suspect was around 3k. It was a room where most of the floor was covered by furniture and although it looked beautiful, I would have chosen to have it downstairs where I could really admire it. So extravagant when we were actually trying to do it on the cheap and not even my choice!