To ask your home must haves?

[Fishface77]

Aibu to ask that If you could design your own home what would you class as essential?
I have the opportunity to extend our current house. I would like

1. A pantry
   
2. An ensuite bedroom
   
3. Walk in wardrobe
   

We are having a bigger kitchen with a conservatory attached but DH thinks a walk in wardrobe and en suite are unnecessary and we should make an extra bedroom which would be for guests.

[araiwa]

None of your choices are must haves.

Nice to have certainly but hardly essential

[junebirthdaygirl]

Could livewithout those my one essiential is light. Plan everything around light .

[HaudYerWheeshtBawbag]

An ensuite for us out of those choices.

[GinUser]

Warmth
Functioning bathroom
Storage space that is functional

[fishonabicycle]

I'd love a utility room.

[echt]

I have the ensuite, spare room, WIW, light, but this is Australia.

I would love a hall so I could put shoes somewhere, but having said that, being obliged to put them in a cloakroom out of sight is probably better then the array of coats and boots of our old UK hall that greeted us.

[flownthecoopkiwi]

Think about what would also appeal to buyers if you ever decide to sell so perhaps ensuite and pantry?

[Riderontheswarm]

For me it would depend on how many bedrooms and bathrooms you already had. If you only have one bathroom I'd go for an ensuite. If only 2 or 3 bedrooms I'd go for another. But there is no point in having more than you would use of either.

[ailleach]

Running water.
Electricity
Non leaking roof.
Warmth.

Even these are not actually essential.

[CBC1644346]

The only must have for me is a coffee machine.

[Craftylittlething]

I'm the same with light, must have natural light. a decent bathroom, storage, enough space for the people who live in my house. A guest bedroom would be lovely but it's not essential.

[ailleach]

echt- shoes in the hall?

I hate that. Horrible stinking way to greet guests.

I have a huge hall. No shoes.

Shoes belong in the bedroom. Everyone has sufficient storage.

[MrsCharlieD]

Personally I would want a utility room, somewhere to put the hoover and mop bucket etc. Ours are currently in the downstairs loo and it drives me nuts! I'd also put coats and the shoe cabinet in there to get them out of the porch. We already have an en suite which is nice but I wouldn't say essential at this stage as we could easily use the main bathroom but once our dc's are older I'll probably be grateful of having a kids bathroom and an adult one.

[echt]

echt- shoes in the hall?

Yes, that's where you kick off the outdoor shoes and get into your indoor ones.

[Cocklodger]

For me personally.
Walk in wardrobe
Air conditioning and heating (not in the uk)
A double kitchen sink.
Whirlpool bath.
Ceiling fan in bedrooms.
Pantry.
Ensuite.

[erinaceus]

A space that is just mine. I don't mind sharing a bedroom with my DH but I need a bolthole in addition. You could call it an office or studio or whatever but it needs to be mine. Conceptually a bit like a shed I suppose, but indoors.

[erinaceus]

Beyond that, space to hang the laundry up indoors.

[Cailleach666]

Yes, that's where you kick off the outdoor shoes and get into your indoor ones.

But we wear a variety of footwear. The shoes I come in with are often not the same pair I will next leave with. May be gym shoes/work shoes/casual shoes/ wet weather shoes. All family members are the same.
We take off shoes, carry them upstairs and put on indoor shoes.

No shoes in the hall.

[Fishface77]

Yeah I know none of these are essential but we have the opportunity to make some modifications so if you could design your own home and had all that we (in our worlds) consider essential what else would you have?
So you have a solid standing building with heating, double glazing, rooms. But how would you modify it to suit your needs better?

[Bluntness100]

How many bedrooms do you currently have? Do you have a spare room for guests?

[Fishface77]

Maybe a shoe pantry of the gall where all shoes live so you walk in, put outdoor shoes in there and put indoor shoes on?

[erinaceus]

Is technology important to you? You can wire in all sorts of fancy technology solutions and do things like control your central heating remotely. This does not appeal to me, but each to their own.

[Fishface77]

4 bedrooms 1 of which is a guest room but my son wants the bigger room and wants to move out of the small room (which has a single bed and fitted wardrobes).

[FakePlasticTeaLeaves]

Heated floors, tennis court, heated swimming pool, seven bathrooms, walk in wardrobe the size of a main bedroom. Love my essentials

[user1492287253]

it depends how often you have or want or want to have guests.
we are in the process of moving to the coast. we decided against a 5 bed 4 bath house on the basis that it would turn into an unpaid bed and breakfast.