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.

When we move next I would like -

4 bedrooms
A 2nd lounge/playroom for kids
Large kitchen
Ensuite

Simple really!

En suite
Powerful shower and a bath in each bathroom
Utility room
Oodles of storage space
Good lighting and task lighting
Windows/ patio doors/ bifold doors that let in lots of light. Even a light well if necessary
Spacious hall with somewhere to put coats
Cloakroom
Open plan kitchen dining room and separate living room or two
Study
Kitchen cupboards to the ceiling for aesthetics, ease of cleaning and storage

I have an upstairs laundry room and absolutely love it.
It has a clothes airer and tumble drier, so in winter my washing stays upstairs and I just put the clean laundry in each room when it's dry.

Also don't understand the ensuite haters! Mine has a door on so no smells wafting in! Love my ensuite, my own private space where no one is using all my products.

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I have never found the idea of an en suite remotely appealing. Mainly the toilet - who wants poo stink in their bedroom when it could be kept down the hallway? (Which is hardly a trek for most of us)

Just makes me think of staying in faceless hotels and I do enough of that for work.

Not to mention all those MN who are instantly woken forr the night by a sparrow lightly burping 6 miles away. How would they cope with a flushing toilet right near their slumbering head?

I'd have a bike ironing area that is all laid out ready to go as I just hate the faff and noise the board makes when OH does his shirts.

Also a bike store with its own external access.

And a walk in shower with massive heated towel rail.

I'm lucky to already live in my dream home, I love my ensuite, double built in fridge (one side food, the other drinks - makes it easier when entertaining and having large parties because you can just say to people to help themselves to anything from the drinks fridge).

My utility room is on the middle floor, which is great because no noise from washing machine when watching tv.

Under floor heating is great as the temp is better regulated and so energy costs lower.

Only thing I would change is that id install air con in my roof bedroom as its so hot in there in the summer and if you leave windows open at night it lets the sun in in the morning.

A gin tap attached to the mains connected to the sipsmith distillery?

But if you're asking what I would love ?
Walk in wardrobe
Stationary swimming pool and a balcony x

My dream list of 'must haves':

5 beds
one bed to be master suite with a bathroom and a dressing area separated by doors from the bedroom.
2 more bathrooms
Downstairs toilet.
utility room.
Big kitchen diner
At least 2 more receptions rooms
Study
South west facing garden that gets the evening sun
Also an east facing spot to have my morning coffee in the sunshine

Pantry can be created using tall larder cupboard, even have two side by side with doors to open left/right. It doesn't need to be cold (as such) these days that's what the fridge is for.

I got my carpenter to fit the shelves in the tall larder cupboards to suit what I wanted stored. Godsend having all foodstuff in one place, easier for others to find "it's in the pantry"

I already have a small utility room (I took the sink out to have more surface for baskets/iron press), it holds the washer, tumbler and a tall cupboard with baskets for everyone's ironing.

Got WIW (converted a bedroom) and a recently updated en-suite. Best thing we did was to fit a shower over the bath in the family bathroom for my adult kids to use, they are banned from my en-suite which they are good with cos they love their new shower. We are blessed with good water pressure so they have no complaints.

To future proof the house my essential would be a wet room downstairs. This will be nye on impossible though without a major extension.

I'd like a sun room, there are plans to do it but atm other things have taken over so we're holding back on that for the moment.

My must haves when looking for a house were: enough space for fridge freezer, washing machine tumble drier and dishwasher.

A downstairs loo.

A kitchen large enough for the family to eat in as well as a deprecate dining room.

Also a garage I can walk straight in to the house, although I never ever park in the garage because it's full of crap

I would now add two showers. I regret taking out the shower room the day we moved in, to make the kitchen bigger. Three older DC spend a long time in the shower!

fishface - my brother has washing machine and tumble drier upstairs in a bathroom, and once they fixed some initial problems with rattling, it's worked well.

They installed the washing machine at chest level rather than on the floor, to make it easier to load/unload. (Like people often do with cookers). AND, they've installed large pull out laundry basket drawers underneath (one for each colour) so instead of having to bring the basket to the machine to load, it's right there. It's all quite close to the bedrooms, so works fine as a laundry basket location. Absolute genius.

All wants not essentials.....

Downstairs loo
En suite
Utility room
Play room/2nd lounge

That's a fab idea Nordic!

I'm a lazy ass so everything has to be convenient!