We have been in our home for coming up to 15 years. Although I absolutely love my house, 5 years ago we had new neighbours move in next door to us. At first they seemed okay, but as the months have gone on they seem to have started trying to compete with everything we do. It doesn’t matter what we do, they always have to do the same and try and do it better.

As an example, last year we had to urgently have some new double glazed windows fitted on the windows to the front of our house. They had to beat us, so they had their entire house double glazed!

Recently my other half has purchased a new car, it’s not brand new, but new enough for him. What do they plough ahead and do, buy a brand new car. I say more fool them though as its value would have dropped as soon as they drove it out of the showroom.

I think this year though I am definitely going to get the better of them. On the back of their house they have this really old conservatory that to be totally honest doesn’t fit in at all with the surrey conservatories theme.

I am going to be a little cheeky though and I am out to win the game hands down. Currently I am researching which conservatory would best suit our style of house.

I am probably the same as pretty much everybody else and have started my search using the internet. So far I have researched Victorian Conservatories Surrey as well as Edwardian Conservatories Surrey. Some of the results I have found are absolutely brilliant and I am confident that whichever style I decide to go with, it is going to look so much better than next doors decrepit piece of glass.

Mind you, they are the type who will destroy their conservatory and then get the builders in to build they a super duper new extension!!