What that you had in your childhood home do you wish you had in your current home?

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a computer room

4 bedrooms

My mum ❤️

Argh nostalgia. A big bungalow with room to roam and no stairs

A fully boarded loft with a robust drop down ladder that even 8 year old me could operate. Plus light and power in the loft so we could play Scalextric.
An oak panelled entrance hall

A walled garden
A morning room
A boot room
A stream
Labradors
An Aga
A view

Blimey.

A walk-in larder, high ceilings and fantastic water pressure.

Buckingham Palace?

My old pets 💖

An huge open fire.

An old aga, mum heated our school uniform in it on cold mornings.

Those 2 things were the only heat in the house.

We used to have a huge clothes maiden in the bathroom.

We also had a huge cellar.

A blowey hot air system central heating. We had a huge sort of ‘chimney’ - for want of a better word - through the centre of the house, that had outlets for the hot blowey air on both floors and in every room. It was a council house and we were on benefits at the time (early 80s) so for all I know it was possibly insanely expensive but bloody hell it was sooooo cosy. I was only little and in cold weather I’d often lay down in front of one of the outlets (as would my siblings) and he told to move cos we we’re blocking the heat, but, by God, it was good while it lasted

Coal fire

Peat fire
Gas lamps (They were leftover from the conversion to electricity but still working)
Soil composting toilet (likewise)
Huge chest freezer
Freestanding claw footed bath tub
The Outhouse (where the washing got done and the freezer lived. Which meant the kitchen was always warm and cosy and tidy.

Hot food almost every day.

I wish I had a home I didn't have to houseshare with strangers.

A wood
huge mature garden and lawns
flint garden walls
aga
cellar
attics
huge front door with a lion head knocker
stained glass
oak floors and doors
huge airing cupboard

My own bathroom.

Eight bedrooms. My parents’ dressing room. A massive garden. Just all the space, really. And staff.

We have none of those things. 😂

Big open fire and a seemingly limitless supply of proper dried hardwood and turf to burn, my df was a forester and we had our own turf bank. I loved sitting on the floor in front of the fire, my back leaning against my mother's armchair (she always sat with her feet tucked up) watching telly. Also there seemed to be a constant stream of people eating dinner with us, you never knew who'd be at the table with you, it was so naturally sociable, I miss that easiness of people calling.

Warm air central heating. Which would be even better now than it was then, because it would be really easy to convert to a heat pump system.

I also shared with strangers until I was about 8. Solidarity to you

Staff??? Seriously oh my goodness. What was that like?

Space
A beautiful view
Access to open fields
A storage room
A cloakroom (really)
Quietish location
A room all to myself

A large boiler room. Never knew how lucky I was until I realised how hard it is to do laundry in the winter without one (or a tumble dryer which I also don't have), there was room in my mam's for 3 loads of washing and it dried so fast. Plus it was a lovely warm place to hide away from the world when I just wanted to sit in the towel basket behind the boiler and read a book!

Goodness! Many of these descriptions make it sound as if you grew up either in Downtown Abbey or Dubai !