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I have a 1970s house with a small internal porch with patio doors. The door leading to the hallway is an external door and there's a concrete step up into the hallway. The step is even raised up from the hallway flooring by about 2 inches. I'm renovating the whole house and I need to find a way to make this step area look nice. I plan to do the following: -Remove porch patio doors -Add external door and long pane side window instead -replace external door into hallway for an internal door (we won't need 2 external doors) -porch plastered -tall skirting boards in porch -fit new herringbone flooring in hallway (Planning to keep existing porch flooring) The only thing I can think of to fix this step is to remove the top section of the concrete step so it's level with the hallway floor, so the new herringbone flooring can run right to the end of the step. Then possibly use skirting to cover the front of the step in the porch under the door? Either that or just plaster and paint that section? I feel this would very quickly become dirty though as it looks now. My husband is reluctant to remove the top half of the step and has suggested an easier option to just putting some beading along the raised step in the hallway side, and putting pvc plastic like a sill on the raised step. I feel this would look terrible !! There has to be a way to make this look nice, surely thousands of people has fitted wooden flooring around door steps? Please help, any ideas or photos of similar situations would be most appreciated!! I want to transform this entrance area to make it look new and modern.

I do not think we have a thread about how to display house numbers and names. This is an idea from a blog called The House that Black Built. It could also be done outside the gate in the paving. I like that as our numbers here are very confused. Ferdinand