what do you want in your current home that you dont already have?

[LauraSmeth]

a pool table

An airing cupboard
A utility room

Decent double glazing. We've had two rooms done and it's cost a fortune.
A secret room. We used to rent a flat that had one - it was a room with no windows and shelves all round. It was brilliant, like an accessible attic - could see all your stuff on the shelves and there was room for the hoover and ironing board. It was surrounded by a long corridor with the other rooms off it (bedroom, lounge etc).

Downstairs loo, and a utility room, but mainly a downstairs loo.

An unlimited supply of free gas 🔥

some period features/character

A pantry and a boot room/gear store for camping/surf/snow gear. A snug (where I can hide or deposit the children).
just for balance, no damp, heating that works, windows that don’t leak and someone to clear up after our hairy beast dog.

Triple glazing and whole house MVHR.

Barnowlsandblubells - you do realise that peacocks are the devil incarnate? We had a peacock, it would wake us up at sunrise with it's incredibly loud cawing. It would follow me around like a puppy. Then when it got to be a teenage peacock it started attacking me, flipping terrifying! I've still got the scars. Never again.

Space!

Ryan Gosling

In order of priority -

An upstairs bathroom, or at very least a toilet (we have no where we can put one in). Yet downstairs we have a bathroom (with toilet) and a separate WC. Had no idea how annoying this would be...

Utility room

Proper hallway with space for lots of boots/shoes and coats.

Driveway and garage.

@bridgetjonesmassivepants did you have the peacock on its own? If you did it sounds like it just wanted hens. The only time our called was when the fox killed the hens.....

@Pinkpinkpink15 ultimately nothing, but the position of other doors in the hallway and radiator make it a bit trickier.

I am in the lucky position of owning my home.

I'm just gradually updating/ fixing things.

Next job is new microchipped cat flap for DCats.

What about you?

A dishwasher
Utility room
More sockets
Sound proofing

I want a decorated bedroom and I want to repaint the hallway because it looks dingy.

I also would love automatic better heating. We have a very leaky kitchen window and no door on the kitchen so we just heat rooms we can close the doors on!

This is exactly what I want, although all the open plan means the heat disappears upstairs and it never gets warm

Conservatory - I love light - it lifts my mood.

Central heating please.

Countrycob - we did have a hen but she flew off one day and never came back. £250 just flying off into the distance. Think she found the peacock annoying as well!

Harrison Ford

Walk in wardrobe
utility room
study
bigger bathroom
Bigger guest room (now guest in a box room)
and an insulated basement to put all my crap there

A dishwasher
Outside space

A futility room.

@Cornflowers35

if I started making a list, we'd still be here next year!!!

this place was supposed to be a flip, but life happened & happened & happened ... then Covid happened & life happened... & on it goes.

i was doing well with the renovations, doing them myself, but one if the life events was me losing a lot of the use of one arm, a lack of balance, strength and having vertigo. Independently my knees have decided to give up on me & I can't kneel anymore, or get on/off the floor, so it's put an end to me doing the work myself and now trades are SO expensive & hard to book in....

lots of other issues too, but hoping to get a decorator in the New Year to get a few rooms finished. A new front door and the kitchen done.

• Insulation
• Windows which aren’t broken & let in drafts.
• My bedroom to have a window I can see out of.
• Underlay under the thin cheap carpet.
• Underpinning so the huge cracks stop getting bigger.
• Laminate ripped up in dining room.
• Somewhere for me to sit down when the kids are dominating the living room.
• Sun in my little garden rather than shadow.
• Somewhere to park my car.
• A deep clean.
• Fewer slugs in kitchen.
• A comfy chair so I don’t have to sit on a deckchair in the evenings.
• A non-broken coffee table.
• New bathroom without broken shower & mould.

That said, my home might be awful and poor, but I’m surrounded by lovely neighbours who have become good friends, so I try to count my blessings each day.