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What immediate changes would you make to your home with unlimited budget?

67 replies

SecondUsername4me · 21/11/2023 15:41

Aside from moving it / moving to a new one. Stuff that improves what you have.

Id:-
Knock through the lounge to a small room off it to make a lounge/diner.
Add a small shower room in the attic
Snazzy up the utility room
New kitchen (with wine fridge)

It's all generally in our plan (we can't decide if we would rather move instead) but it's all such a faff and an expense and it's really boring planning it all - so if I could just click my fingers and it be done, I'm in!

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Bluevelvetsofa · 21/11/2023 17:58

New kitchen., including opening up the whole back of the house.
Replace the family bathroom
Extend the garage at the back to make a big utility room and a shower room.
Replace the wardrobes in the main bedroom.

None of it will happen though.

Littlebitofacold · 21/11/2023 17:58

Extension for second sitting room, extra bedroom and maybe another extension for a bigger kitchen and utility.

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 21/11/2023 18:02

I love my little house pretty much as it is. But I'd put a glass roof (or large velux) in the roof of the middle room which has no window, and across the downstairs bathroom which currently has a light well. I'd just like some more daylight in there! Plus I'm sick of seeing all those magazines stuffed with 'you could do this to your bathroom' when mine has nearly no natural light, and is like a tiled bucket.

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Kerantli · 21/11/2023 18:50

Buy out the shitty landlord for all the flats in the building, gut out all the electrics and plumbing and redo it all (as I'm typing this I can hear water dripping in the walls from upstairs)
Knock through the wall between our kitchen and living room to make it more open plan so I could actually cook again.
Replace everything in the bathroom
Redecorate throughout our flat - replacing carpets and repainting walls.
Fix the ceiling in the box room from upstairs flats shitty plumbing flooding it (see point 1 about shitty landlord)
Get all the broken windows in the building fixed, strengthen the communial stairs, replace the main doors so they close and lock properly as well as not slam closed if someone has both open at the same time.
And last but not least - order a shed for each flat for the back garden.

RufustheFactualReindeer · 21/11/2023 19:36

We would render the house

do the downstairs loo and the en suites

new flooring throughout

put a small balcony into the roof of the house…just a small one mind

might redo the utility room 🤔

RufustheFactualReindeer · 21/11/2023 19:38

Bifold doors!!!

i can’t get the fuckers shut so either mend them or new ones

and redo the bannisters

evryevrytime · 21/11/2023 19:43

New windows
A new stained glass front door
Move the kitchen to the back of the house
Fit underfloor heating throughout the downstairs
New wood flooring
Redecorate every single room
Reinstall the cornicing and ceiling roses that the previous owners removed
New bathrooms
A woodburner for the sitting room
Extend the loft conversion into a dormer window to create more headspace
Refresh the outside paintwork
Retile the front steps

It would probably cost as much as the house is worth!

HeidiWhole · 21/11/2023 19:55

New windows
New roof
New bathroom
New kitchen
Insulation
Utility room

Would probably be cheaper to move Grin

JuJuHeyHey · 21/11/2023 22:14

Omg this is my kind of thread.

New windows and fascias to stop the leaks/draughts.
New roof tiles.
Replacement front door set which encapsulates the existing stained glass.
Re plaster and decorate hall, stairs and landing.
Redecorate my bedroom.
Remove the old trampoline and landscape the garden.
Paint the fence and shed.
New paving on drive and down side of the house.
Paint all the exterior pipe work and window sills.

Hoping my lottery numbers come up this week! 🤞

Smartiepants79 · 21/11/2023 22:17

New carpets.
new bathrooms.
new windows and front door.

Pallisers · 21/11/2023 22:22

We did over our house a few years ago (after years of living here) so it is pretty much the way I want. But if I won the lottery I'd buy the house directly behind us (although I do like that neighbour), knock down the house and extend the garden, build a 3-car garage and a workshop for DH. I often look out my kitchen window and imagine it.

notahincheratall · 21/11/2023 22:22

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toomanykittensnow · 21/11/2023 22:24

Hire a skip to get rid of stuff.
Change our carpets and put tiles in bathroom and kitchen
Do up my daughters bedroom
Update my kitchen
Buy furniture that was "new"
Put a bath instead of my old person wetroom thing
Make my shitty front yard and back yard into an accessible place to chill out
Get a mattress for me that doesn't hurt to sleep on

LoopyGremlin · 21/11/2023 22:26

New windows and back and side door
New driveway
Fully landscaped gardens front and back

Happy with inside of house as extensions done and fairly new kitchen and bathrooms.

PermanentTemporary · 21/11/2023 22:27

I adore my house. But still... these are our plans over the next X years.

  1. Solar panels, battery, ground source heat pump, car charger.
  2. Fix and insulate the pitched roof on the family room.
  3. Redo the bathroom with a walk in shower - and I'm still hoping that one of the firms quoting will tell me we can keep a bath in there as well.
ThatDreamSheep · 21/11/2023 22:28

Extension out the back to create a lovely kitchen diner, then turn the old kitchen into a utility/downstairs shower. Other than that we've done everything we want to. Ohh...replace the front door actually!

ProvisionsOnTheDock · 21/11/2023 22:33

I would knock the bloody conservatory down and build a proper extension to create a large kitchen/diner.

Saz12 · 21/11/2023 22:34

New roof (not all of it)
Solar panels & batteries
Wall insulation (internal)
Floor insulation & ufh
New render
New windows
Replace ch pipes & radiators
ASHP
Loft hatches to older part of roof
Rewire

After that, we'd probably need to redecorate, too!

Whoknowswhatanymore · 21/11/2023 22:39

Gutted my house 20 years ago and have extended twice since. Love the layout but feel I need to gut it again now, re-skim, paint, new flooring, new bathroom, new kitchen, new windows and doors, etc etc! You can go on forever though and I think I want to live my life more with experiences to be honest.

SixPastTheHour · 21/11/2023 22:55

I'd magic away several neighbours!

MarleyandMarleyWoo · 21/11/2023 23:02

Oh now we’re talking!!
replace the heating system, ours is inefficient, old and frankly useless
Renovate (essentially rebuild) our ‘conservatory’ into useable rooms (a farm office/utility and a playroom) and add another bedroom and en suite above it
Restore two windows that are in need
Replace allllll the insulation
redecorate throughout
change the upstairs carpets

old farmhouses need a lot of upkeep but all our time and money is always better placed elsewhere 🚜 🐮 🐑

TragicMuse · 21/11/2023 23:12

Oh I have a list!

Kitchen and utility knocked into one, French windows on the back. Also downstairs loo wall moved and made into a laundry room.

Moving neighbour's access path so that our garden is completely enclosed.

Convert loft into a room which would need a new access hatch and a staircase.

New bathroom.

Some work on the roof.

Exterior painted.

Replastering one of the bedrooms.

Under stairs cupboard totally reconfigured.

Recarpeting.

A lot of bespoke shelving.

We need to do the roof and exterior repainting now really. Can't afford it.

GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal · 21/11/2023 23:17
  • replace the windows and frames. We did the ones in the kids rooms earlier this year, and it made a massive difference, but couldn't afford to do them all.
  • add some fitted wardrobes to our bedrooms
  • new bathroom
  • new carpets/flooring throughout
  • concert the loft into a home office/slash teen hang-out/occasional bedroom.
  • fit a water softener.
GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal · 21/11/2023 23:17

Oh, and redecorate throughout.

Octavia64 · 21/11/2023 23:18

Sort the garden.

It's all block paving at the moment and I 'd like some plants

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