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if you could be granted 3 home improvement wishes to your home what would they be?

73 replies

meseehe · 16/10/2023 23:36

for me
new carpets
bigger bathroom
a better view

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MicrowaveRice · 16/10/2023 23:38

Garden tidy
Full redecoration
Squeeze another bathroom in somewhere

SheilaFentiman · 16/10/2023 23:41

exterior wall insulation
new and insulated roof
underfloor heating

TicTac80 · 16/10/2023 23:44

Larger bedrooms for the kids (they’re in box rooms, so if their friends stay over, they all camp out in the living room), a dining room and a second toilet :)

Jelllytot · 16/10/2023 23:44

Front garden gates (we currently have none as the old one broke..)
Tidy and redesigned front garden (it's just a giant patch of mud right now)
Blinds for my kitchen

Pepperama · 16/10/2023 23:44

Refurb to Passive House standards. And paint all the interior walls and doors. That’ll do for now :)

mamakoukla · 16/10/2023 23:46

Leakproof 😁 there’s a long story there…

Major garden overhaul
New kitchen
New downstairs toilet and sink

Commencethedancing · 16/10/2023 23:46

New kitchen
New bathroom
Fireplace in sitting room

FannyFifer · 16/10/2023 23:48

New windows & doors
Whole house plastered
New skirtings & doors

DontLeanOnTheKeyboard · 16/10/2023 23:55

Aircon
swimming pool
garden and patio revamp

SecondClassReturnToDottinghamPlease · 16/10/2023 23:57

New kitchen including a cooker that bloody works.
Get rid of the damp including in the wardrobe.
A dog.

KeeefBurtain · 16/10/2023 23:57

kitchen extension
loft conversion
decorate throughout

MintyCedric · 16/10/2023 23:58

New kitchen
Bifolds into the garden
Garden sorted out and made low maintenance

minipie · 16/10/2023 23:59

Bigger garden
Not terraced
quieter neighbours

Karmatime · 17/10/2023 00:00

Refurbish all the sash windows.
Turn the small patio area into an oasis with established plants in beautiful pots and troughs.
Magically enlarge my utility cupboard that is just big enough to house a washing machine and dryer into a vast laundry room with pulley dryers and heaps of storage.

VineRipened · 17/10/2023 00:00

New bathroom
Repaint the whole of downstairs
Soundproofing from neighbours

clopper · 17/10/2023 00:01

Move the downstairs loo
Extend and renew the kitchen
Get an electric gate for the off road area to make it more useable.

oh and get rid of the damp…but I feel that’s not possible

wildwestpioneer · 17/10/2023 00:03

New bathroom
New kitchen
The garden finished

SD1978 · 17/10/2023 00:05

Double glazing, new heating/ cooling, garden completely remodelled/ relandscaped (and I'd throw in a pool cause I'm in Australia and would love one 😆)

Saschka · 17/10/2023 00:06

Buying a new house now, and we have a long list! (Can’t afford any of it for a while)

Kitchen extension
Full replaster and paint
Garden office

It also needs a new boiler, the roof needs a clean (full of moss), and the soffits/gutters need replacing. And the garden looks like a jungle. Will probably take us ten years to get it exactly how we want it.

Alissia · 17/10/2023 00:07

New kitchen
en suite
bigger bathroom
(1970s house)

SugarMiceInTheRain · 17/10/2023 00:19

I have far more than 3 issues but the main ones are:
New kitchen
Sort out the many plumbing problems
Windows replaced with less draughty ones.

The whole house needs recarpeting too as the existing carpets are the ones that were put in when the house was built 30 odd years ago!

echt · 17/10/2023 03:32

Sand and varnish all the timber floors
Re-paint all the walls

That's it.

frenchiemummy92 · 17/10/2023 04:01

Back and front garden completely remodelling.
New flooring throughout downstairs
New bathroom

Pjmaskmummy · 17/10/2023 04:22

Convert garage to get larger breakfast kitchen and turn kitchen in to dining room.
Convert loft to master bedroom with en-suite and lots of storage.
The third would be a toss up between a garden room/gym or re doing the drive.

Will probably never have the money to do most of that but if money was no object that's what I'd do.

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 17/10/2023 04:28

Ooooo, a nice new wooden front door painted a nice shade of purple with a lovely knocker.

(Currently have a wood effect uPVC nightmare.)

A new bathroom. Bigger bath, sexy rain shower, lovely tiles.

A self-weeding garden. Weeds are cunts. I cannot get along with them.