Anonymous1 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 (edited) 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. Edited January 26 by Anonymous1 More info added Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymous1 Posted January 26 Author Share Posted January 26 This is the step from the hallway side looking into the porch, you can see it's raised up higher than the hallway flooring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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crispy_wafer Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Get rid of door and frame, cut the concrete out, make surface good then clad the step down in same material as the flooring. Only worry would be, opening the door and falling down the step. You'd be ok as you'll know about it, but visitors might get caught out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 15 minutes ago, crispy_wafer said: Get rid of door and frame, cut the concrete out, make surface good then clad the step down in same material as the flooring +1, yes you will have a step but a smaller one that at present and look far better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymous1 Posted January 26 Author Share Posted January 26 If we cut the step away to make it flush with the floor, then the door opening will be too tall for a door! We would have a gap at the bottom of the door. Unless I can find a tall door to go here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Drop the frame down and Infill the top. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymous1 Posted January 26 Author Share Posted January 26 How would you go about infilling the top? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 UPVC to match the door and frame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymous1 Posted January 27 Author Share Posted January 27 I'm going to take out the external door and put an internal door there so no option of upvc infills Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 8 hours ago, Anonymous1 said: I'm going to take out the external door and put an internal door there so no option of upvc infills So stud the wall above down to meet the new wooden door frame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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