There is always an area of a house that throws up a tricky, seemingly unresolvable problem. I lived with mine for years before, Eureka! I saw the light, or more to the point, the solution, in someone ...

Oh, here they come. The people who paid more than half-a-million pounds for a house (we checked on Zoopla). So they gutted the place. Fine. We're all glad to see the back of that white plastic front ...