Tell Direct Line what you would do to your home to create your ultimate Home Plus. Three lucky Mumsnetters will be given £1,000 to fulfil their creative urges. NOW CLOSED

[MichelleMumsnet]

Direct Line have asked us to find out what Mumsnetters would do to their homes to go the extra mile to make it a "Home Plus". What would you do with £1,000 if you had the choice?

Here's what Direct Line say, "We know that a home is more than just a house, that’s why our Home Insurance Plus policy has additional benefits to cover more of the things you love. And right now there’s 20% off when you buy online!

(Discount applies when you buy buildings and contents together. Minimum premiums apply. New customers only. Underwritten by U K Insurance Limited)

We want to hear what your ultimate Home Plus ideas are – what would you love to do to your home to go that extra mile and make it a Home Plus Home?"

So, what is the craziest idea you've had about renovating your home, but just haven’t been able to justify the cost for? Perhaps you have always wanted to have a jungle themed bedroom? Or mimic the beach complete with beach hut, sand, 'sea' and palm trees in your back garden? Whatever it is, we'd love to hear it.

Three lucky Mumsnetters will be selected to carry out their idea and will be given the £1,000 they need to do so! The winners who are selected must be willing to provide before and after pictures of the area of their homes they choose to renovate with the £1,000 prize. The renovation work must be done and the pictures must be provided by Monday 11th August. Photos will be posted on Direct Line's hub on Mumsnet and may be used in further marketing material by them.

Thanks and good luck,

MNHQ

Having a kitchen that's looked like something out of DIY SOS for several years(!) I would love to recreate the paintwork in a vintage style. Sort out the ceiling with leak stain and create a calm family environment that we could sit in and enjoy. Preferably with cake from a vintage cake stand!

There's lots that I should do with £1000 if I won - the bathroom is an avocado nightmare, the carpet is a swirly, flowery 70's monstrosity and I really want to do up my bedroom to make it mine since I've split from my husband but actually if I won I'd do the garden.

It's really awful - we've never had the money to do anything with it. The house was a doer upper and doing the inside seemed more important and the garden (which was ridiculously overgrown when we moved in) got overlooked, then I went back to University and money was too tight to do anything with it.

I've lots of plans for what I'd do with the garden. A lovely sunken trampoline for the children, a pretty little shed in a nice colour, a vegetable patch and decking/patio area for relaxing meals.

If I'm not lucky enough to win, I'm already planning on sorting the garden next year - I've discussed it with the children and we're going without a holiday next year to fund it. I'm determined we'll have a holiday this year - we never had one as a family before now and I want them to have something to look forward to after the rubbish year we've had so far. I'm so excited already.

PS - the overgrown garden isn't mine, but it's not far off it . Does have the potential for dramatic before and after photos though

I would like a downstairs toilet as since breaking my hip I have to go up on my bum. Oh and it hurts.

My two youngest don't have carpet in their bedrooms. We have 4 children and live in a big draughty Victorian house. The floorboards have been sanded and polished in their bedrooms by my fair hands but to give them their wish would be a dream come true! Unfortunately every time we save a bit of money - it is prioritised for new tyres for the car, replacing the broken washing machine etc... PS We are already insured with Direct Line not sure if that helps!!

We are at the stage of considering bunk beds for our girls. Rather than bog-standard ones I'd love to get them something more exciting with stairs rather than a ladder, a theme, somewhere that will inspire them and make them want to go to bed. I've seen some great images on the net and £1000 would allow us to go all out and create a magical space for 2 little girls to sleep in with fairy lights, clever built in storage and maybe a slide to get down from the top bunk!

my alternative to my bathroom plan would be to sort out the little outhouses attached to my house.

i put electricity into them when i moved in but have never had the money and focus to go further. i would plasterboard the walls and ceiling and put down flooring and turn the larger one into a library, come office, come smoking den. not sure how far £1000 goes but if it went far enough i'd put french doors onto the garden and have a little lean to there where i could have a comfy chair and read and smoke outside with a glass of wine beside me of an evening. currently the only access to the garden is round the side of the house which is a pain.

i'd go with an american dad's den of the tv show type theme and it would be my little woman cave of peace away from ds on his pc in the lounge yelling at his minecraft teammates.

oh i really want that! it would be my own little room that i could do my work from home in and relax and read in with a little outdoor space attached. scrap the bathroom that sounds totally more appealing.

My bathroom is quite literally a building site. We've had a new boiler put in and in the bathroom the airing cupboard has been taken out - leaving a hole in the flooring where the bare boards are on show. There's no bath panel and it needs a bit of plastering on the ceiling. I'm not sure how I'm managing to live with it but to get it spruced up would be just lovely.

One of the neighbours walls bordering my garden looks like and old pig hut. I would erect high quality trellis to mask it.

It would look fricking amazing and genuinely improve the value of my flat.

I would loooooooooooove to do it, pick me pick me!

I would love to re-do my bathroom and add a bath with hydro massage and decorate the whole house with some pastel colours.

I also would like a built in wardrobe, I planned for it but never got enough money to pay.

My daughter went away with her school recently for seven days. So that gave me time to paint her room and put in some nicer furniture and a book shelf for ever growing book collection!

However now I would love to do something great for my teenage sons room as well - But his room is so small you would not believe.

So I would love to have the money to give him a room to :
A) Be proud of
B) Some where he can study.( He is doing A Levels)
C) Somewhere he can put ALL his stuff (junk).

His room seems worse now I have done my daughters bedroom.

So if I could do some cool alterations to his box that would cheer us all up.
As now the whole upstairs looks well, bad because of his untidy room.

Them my home would be complete.

Got to be the Bathroom. Bath being the word. We've had no shower for 2 years and it's driving us potty. Can't wait to get the plumbing fixed, new bath in a most importantly a proper working shower. Bliss!

im moving house soon so would use this to do it all as l want it it would be great just to have the money to get it all done would be a wonderful treat for me for once

I would love to have a little art studio at the bottom of the garden our garden has a lovely sea view and it would so relaxing.
I have problems with my hip and back and this would be a nice escape. I love being creative but dont have the space in the house.
My daughter also loves art and we could create together

For years, I've coveted a porch. Just a small canopied brick-build with nice simple glazed door. It's all I've ever wanted. 2 reasons: firstly, the hall is a permanent dumping ground of shoes, bags, coats, umbrellas, post and other random obstacles. Secondly, it's an ex -LA house, identical to 100s of others in neighbouring streets so I'd love it to look a little different.
Been dreaming of it since we moved in 9 years ago.

I would love to have our bathroom done. It's still the original bathroom from when the house was built with peach fittings, patterned tiles and a floor that no amount of polishing will revive. Really, really not my cup of tea! I would love to make it modern with crisp white fittings and beautiful mosaic tiles in ocean shades of blue, aquamarine and sea green.

There are so many things! But the main 3 are...

We would repaint the living room;
Put a canopy over the garden so I can hang out washing in the winter (we have a mold problem!);
Finish off the kitchen, as my husband has spent 2.5 years dithering over it!

But because we have a little one... I'd probably cheekily get someone in to do it with £1,000!

Put in a stairlift, then repairs and storage (both inside and in the garden) with anything left over.

For me, it would have to be getting rid off the 1970s woodchip wallpaper that is on the walls of every room of our house except the bathroom and kitchen! It looks terrible and dated, plus the shadows from the woodchips make every room look dark and gloomy. So I'd love to get the woodchip wallpaper removed and then have all of the walls replastered and painted to make the house look clean and fresh.

We live in a big draught Victorian house too. Bought as a doer-uper and still doing-up several years on unfortuantely!

I would love to improve the front of my house. When we moved in, we repaired and painted the falling down wooden garden gate as a short-term measure. Seven years on, it is still there. The front garden was just rough concrete, and so we put down some cobbles to hide it, but it still doesn't look that great. You can probably see where I am going with this. If I was lucky enough (please, please, please) to win the £1000 to improve our house, I would spend it on making my ugly duckling of a house into the swan that it so deserves to be.

I would love to be able to turn our downstairs "junk" room into a proper teen hideout for our eldest child. We just use the room to bung all our old stuff in at the moment but I'd love to strip it all out, really go to town decorating it with bright comic strip wall stuff and comfy bean bag chairs etc. Somewhere really amazing for the teens to come into after school and hang out together, complete with tv, games console and music system....

I'm decorating right now and I'm discovering that want more home 'things' as I go through the house with a paintbrush. In dining room which is almost finished I really want some photographs of dc on the beach simply because the sand is a similar colour to the wall the picture will go on (b&q's bumble, the room has raspberry accents). I really don't like mainstream pictures either that you find on the high street, for me, it has to be pictures of my family on the walls. It's been six years since my wedding, I'd love to ask my photographer if she still had my wedding pictures so I could get my 3 absolute favourite ones on canvas.

Oh, and I want the lights swapping. I need new lights. They are inherited from the previous owners and are so tidy, practical and bland. There's certain parts of my house where I would love to let my playfulness show and not have to be grown up. Lighting can be fun and add playfulness to my new grown up decor.

Craziest idea? We would like to build a wall from reclaimed bricks around the garden but in folly style. The local reclamation yard has some amazing stone windows. Also we fell in love with the secret garden rooms at bolsover castle and we'd love to try and recreate something similarly adventurous as a hideout/play den for our dc.

I don't know if £1000 would be enough to cover someone into do the garden wall though- although the deadline is my ds' 5th birthday.

I would love, very much, to turn a somewhat sad space into a happy one. When my dd's dad left, the little spare room he used for the last few months was left empty and has yet to be bought back to life. My dd (10) would dearly love to turn this into a Jungle Room or Underwater room, with bean bags, curtains, stencilled walls and storage for her toys...a place to retreat to to read or escape to with her friends, to play, chat and create new memories.