When we bought our house in 2006 we resolved to do absolutely nothing to the house for a year until we had experienced living in it it for ourselves. When we bought there was a loo, probably from the 1900’s, inserted in the end of our long front hall.We soon realised that, as most of our daily living was done on the terrace where the window of the loo opened, that all us Irish people were ashamed to tinkle within earshot of other people. So we took the loo out and restored the original back porte fenetre on to the terrace. The added bonus was this lovely internal vista in the house.