What work do you need/want done to your home?

[Spicykitten]

We moved in a year ago, and we need the following done:

Essential:

Wall ties
New front door
New staircase

Wants:

New bath/shower
Hardwood floor in lounge
Two bedrooms plastered and decorated
Parquet floor in the hallway to be restored/treated (it’s an original feature of our Victorian home)

Cleeeeeeeen. I want it cleeeeeeen! (and decluttered)

Needing loads of DIY too but no cash or time atm with toddler and older sib, so will settle for clean and tidy pls! 😁 ( obvs that I haven’t had to do. Every. Single. Day)

Needs. Everything.

Apart from the kitchen, the bathroom and the patio doors.... everything. 😂

Urgent - New kitchen and garden completly redone. (Just trying to find decent professional to do them)
Non urgent - main bedroom decorated and new flooring.

Plastering, decorating and new flooring throughout. New bannister as mine is really bulky and ugly. Back garden needs doing too.

Hate having anything done though. Can’t deal with the faff. Am halfway through having my windows done but waiting now as the door failed QC, the bathroom window was missed off the order and a pane broke on my bedroom window during installation. The fitter has thrown his back out and the bank holidays mean my replacements are all taking ages to be made. Wish I’d never started.

Need:

A space to work - currently having a garden office built which is a bit of a luxury/want, but cheaper than having an extension
New patio, path, possibly more garden work once office is built
New kitchen as mine is falling apart
Tiling work done in bathroom
Third bedroom decorated for when DS2 moves in (currently sharing with ds1)
Fresh paint throughout, 8 years of 2 kids have taken their toll
Carpets cleaned
Landing wall needs patching up as still has walls in from old baby gates

Want:

New downstairs cloakroom
New hallway flooring
Decoration of my bedroom and DS1’s
New stair banisters and under stair storage
Patio doors
New radiator in what will be DS2’s bedroom

We bought a fixer upper 3 years ago and have done loads to it but it still needs several things doing.

Needs:
New windows
Repointing
Driveway repaved
Garden overhaul
New flooring downstairs
New WC downstairs

Wants:
New front door
Decorate guest room
Relocate boiler
Replace decking in garden
Replaster and decorate kids’ BRs

Got a quote for replacing 4 normal sized PVC windows and the front door the other day - £8k for the windows, £4.5k for a standard composite door and side panel 🤯

I want the ventilation system thoroughly cleaned or redone - there's no window in the upstairs loo and the air gets bad there if the door is kept shut.

We’re mid redecoration our new build.

Since Feb we’ve done the bedrooms and living room. This weekend it’s the kitchen and then we only have the hallway and bathrooms to give a fresh coat of paint.

It’s all very minor freshening up.

Ooh - want to install new radiators in the living room and the front bedroom, then new carpets in the living room. Move back into the front bedroom and change back bedroom into an office. New kitchen, new roof. Get garden sorted out.

It needs decorating

New worktop and sink.

We’ve done so much and we’re nearly finished! The one thing that’s pressing left to do is sort out our old mouldy side return “utility room “ - it’s gross. My sister is giving us all her old kitchen units and I plan to somehow fit them and get a new worktop but I’m not entirely sure how

I need a new roof and the old extension rebuilt. It was built in the 70s and probably goes against every building regulation.

My little cottage is in very good nick and I really shouldn't 'want' anything done. But I'd love to have the roof lifted in the kitchen/bathroom (which is a built on extension to a 250 year old building), to add some roof lights. But it's not essential and there's always something that you'd like to do, isn't there? I'm just really grateful to have a house at all, honestly!

Need:
Roof has started to leak into the loft when the wind is in a certain direction, so that has to be sorted soon

Want:
Bathrooms desperately need updating which is more than a ‘want’ really, but they are just about functional.

I dislike the lounge and would redecorate that tomorrow if I could decide what I wanted!

After hating the bodge job done 15yrs ahi, and being plagued with leaks and wobbles ever since, booked for next month 🎉- bathroom.

Needed - French doors which have dropped too much to be fixed. Still work but have to bang harder each time.

One day soon - bedrooms look tired but I'll do them as the teens leave, as I think rooms will be repurposed.

I'm happy with everything else at the moment, but I do love getting my paintbrushes out anytime...

My house is rented, but if I could choose anything:

-an extension to make the two upstairs kids rooms a little bigger than a box room each, and to allow room for a small WC room upstairs. Extension would also give a bit more room/space downstairs!
-getting the quarry tiles in bathroom, hallway and kitchen restored and sealed. I found them after removing the rotting Lino that had been out down and was allowed to keep them (original feature of the 1930s house).

things I CAN do myself (but am normally too knackered to do much after working shifts):
-giant declutter.
-painting inside walls/ceilings and skirtings to give them a refresh.
-repainting radiators as some look a bit knackered
-restraining and varnishing the wooden floorboards
-replacing the interior bedroom doors

I might look at doing some of these things in the next year. Start declutter sooner, look at doing other stuff bit later - probably in the summer as I would have to move furniture out of rooms to actually do stuff!!

Post large extension I am agog at how much stuff still to do as it feels like we have done so much but yet not finished

Tiling in utility
drying racks in utility
curtains/blinds
decorating touch ups where it has been damaged
declutter
Declutter decorate and furnish garden room
Several rooms just don’t feel ‘done’ they need the last finishing touches pictures etc

I will live in this house until I die - I’m never doing any big work again so part of the outstanding jobs is agonising over making good choices