Aargh - The Maintenance Costs of Someone else's Taste

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Previous owners had the house built to their specifications and included some bespoke and expensive fittings. Now they are proving either really hard to get parts for and replace, or only at a cost. This week's is a side mounted brass toilet flush handle - £45 for a replacement in chrome, apparently not avaiable in brass and gold would be £75+ to order . As it is for the ensuite I guess we'll put up with it not matching the brass taps, door handle etc but if the one in the main bathroom goes it'll be cheaper to replace the whole toilet !

Problem we find is that we want to 'get in there and start again' with decor but everything is currently more or less 'liveable with' so the motivation isn't there to actually DO something urgently so we end up replacing stuff we don't really like with stuff that still isn't to our taste!

We're getting a larder cupboard built into the kitchen- but obviously it'd make more sense to have it just how we want it- BUT it's completely out of synch with the 'country cott' look of the rest of the kitchen! SO the end result will look daft before we get motivated to go to all the hassle of redesigning a new kitchen...