By law the organisation of your childhood home has to be your current home , what would be the main changes you would have to make?

[OliveCrab]

Move the shoes to the stairs
Knock down the shed and move it 3m

I’m not sure how I am going to renovate this three storey terraced house into a larger two storey detached on a big garden plot, but I am sure our neighbours will be interested.

But first, just nipping to John Lewis. We are going to need a LOT more tablecloths.

Er, I'd have to flip this old victorian upside and renovate it as a cool 1970s barn conversion. Easy.

So much white paint, refreshed every year.

Generally it would be cleaner, tidier and involve so much less stuff.

id Need to turn the heating off and open the windows really wide and stop cleaning - the garden would be fabulous though

Add a conservatory.
That's it really.
(my mum is literally just having a new bathroom put in)
Edit: I think I have miss read. Do you mean what would I have to do to turn my current home like my childhood home?
That would be turn it from a flat to a house.

Empty the content of the bin on the floor. Repeat with the litter tray contents, because a rub with a bit of dry kitchen roll and a spray of Sarsons renders it completely invisible and inert.

Start an extensive collection of cheap furniture and stack it three deep amongst huge piles of more things, leaving just a tiny path from the middle of the front door. Block the kitchen entrance with non functional appliances. Put flammable items on and around the hob. Block the back door/fire exit from both sides. Two foot high precarious stack of plates, bowls and cutlery balanced on the draining board at all times.

Each stair needs to have its own pile of stuff and that landing needs to be halved in width by more things. The sofa needs two out of three seats covered, the remaining one needs three old bowls of cat food and there's an entire back of it waiting for 27 different boxes of foil, cling film, greaseproof paper and plastic sandwich bags that aren't there to be used.

Oh, and we need to remove all the curtains and blinds to replace them with non-functioning 22 inch wide bits of curtain on a wire so that there is a gap all round to make sure the drafts have full freedom of movement. And take the lampshades down, remove the flooring and replace with a 53 year old carpet offcut for the centre of the room.

An awful lot more stripped wood. And everything painted ‘buttermilk’ on slightly textured wallpaper.

Are you my sister 😂

My bedroom would be at the back of the house. At the bottom of the garden is the railway line. Loved hearing the steam trains chuff-chuff-chuffing as they passed by... My bedroom also got the evening sun.... Streets were clean, there was woodland across the other side of the railway track but that was turned into a new housing development within a short while... I'm defo showing my age here!

There aren't enough acres to contemplate. Nowhere to put the stables! I'd also never have a chicken on the kitchen table - not whilst clucking and leaving small gifts at least!

My Nana would need to pop by every day to drop off the ironing, sort that day’s washing, do a tidy round while we’re at work and the kids are at school, and my Grandad would need to come and take the dog out.

It would be a great improvement tbh.

Have no central heating, mains water, sewage or gas and no proper tv reception. I will also remove all the family photos, paint everything off white, coverup the cracks in the wall with wood chip, and keep a steady supply of wine in the cellar.

I'd have to turn my tiny 3 bed Georgian semi-detached cottage with a mad sloping garden into a 1970s detached self-build with an integral garage and painstakingly flat garden which is beautifully tended. All my antiques and old stuff would have to go, and everything would need to be painted pale blue or pale grey. Pets would need to be banished and bathrooms refitted to look like operating theatres. I'd need to give up work smartish to keep up the level of cleanliness and organisation, and would have plenty of spare bedrooms to fill with Stuff, including an apocalypse's worth of non-perishable food!

I'd move my DM out. I love her dearly but we would drive each other insane.
Then I would remove all DDads dodgy DIY.

I grew up on a large farm, so I wouldn't know where to start, maybe by putting a large rug in front of the aga and placing 2 collies on it. Piles of clothes everywhere (I'm one of six). Then replace my 2 living room sofas with a pink velour 3 piece suite, with tassles on the skirt. Several half full ashtrays in the kitchen. That should do it.

Bit difficult to turn two bedroom cottage with patio garden into ten bedroom house with lawn, fruit garden, vegetable garden an d paddock!

I’m looking forward to having a back kitchen and a scullery again but do the ghosts have to come too?

Take our the central heating and have only a Rayburn to heat the entire house do that when it's time to get up for school and there is ICE on the inside of your windows you have to run wrapped up in your duvet (a new fangled thing I asked for for Christmas) to get dressed in front of the open raeburn door - rendering legs covered in heat rash and arse blue with cold ..

I'm pretty sure the kids would LOVE THAT

In the other hand .. transforming a 3 bed bungalow with about 1/16 of an acre into a 4 bed bungalow with 17 acres and a stream running through it to out own magical woodland will be slightly more difficult..

I'd need to get my hands on some VERY swirly carpets... 🤔

Rip up the bedroom floors and redo them to match the old parquet in the living areas. Fresh paint on walls, new curtains. Try to encourage snakes to visit elsewhere..?
Nothing else, lol. It was amazing; a sprawling colonial bungalow surrounded by a garden full of jasmine and hibiscus. Cried when we moved.

Totally did not understand the question.
New answer: move the house across the world, then tear it down and rebuild into a traditional red brick terraced! No need to shoo away snakes.

I would need to make very similar adjustments.....

house was fine in principle but doors would be nice and doors and locks for the bathroom.

Take out the central heating, add a coal fire and add another storey to my bungalow. Take out fitted carpets, add lino and a central square of carpet. Build an outside toilet. Grow potatoes and peas in the garden. Put a yale lock on the front door.

Largely unkempt and retro 70s furniture. Actually my house now!!