Building new house - what are your must haves?

olias

wallbash wrote: »

you can run around in a wet room :j

I used to have a shower where you had to run around to get wet!:rotfl:

Olias

silvercar

A friend has a laundry chute, not all its cracked upto be.

Everyone throws their clothes into the chute and someone has to sort it at the other end, generally her. So instead of laundry neatly placed in the laundry bin there is a constant heap in the utility room.

Canucklehead

Good evening: a mechanical ventilation and heat recovery system will be a must in our self build.

HTH

Canucklehead

McAzrael

Abbafan1972 wrote: »

I am with you on that one. All 3 of our bedrooms just have one double socket for the whole room which can cause problems.

I've got a fairly new house with loads of sockets, and they're all in the wrong places.

For me I'd think carefully about the room layout. It is frightening how many architects don't feel the need to put the dining room near the kitchen, or greet visitors with a bathroom by the front door. Depending on how many floors/wings you have then you want a part of the house which is just for you - guests and kids have no reason to go there.

I want a library at the top of a tower too, but that's just me.

Becles

It depends on who is in your family.

I've got children and I've found our large porch is invaluable for dumping muddy wellies, football boots, wet pushchairs, etc. until they dry off.

We've got a sort of canopy over the front of the garage. In wet weather I leave an old washing up bowl of water under there before we go for a walk and can rinse the mud off the dog before he's allowed into the house on our return. Ideally I would love it if there was a water point there so I could just hose him down.

I'd love a garden room, so you can still get the pleasure of sitting in the garden in colder weather but be nice and warm inside.

Slothy

Sorry to revive an old thread, just stumbled across this one. What I'd love in my new house is a Mainline power track around every room - solves all the issues with poorly located power points. It's from a company called Steljes, more information here: http://www.mainlinepower.co.uk

savingmummy

I wonder how OP is getting on?? What a fab thing to be able to do!

I`d like walk in wardrobes - my big dream i`ll never get

aa4466

Slightly off topic but we are just about to start our build and one of the things that I found really useful was a bit of software that allowed us to place all of the furniture in the new house and check how we would actually live in it. For example, where is the TV going to go (so where are all the power points needed), where are we going to do the ironing, which way will the bed face etc.? We used a tool called Room Arranger (basic version free, I think) and it certainly helped to work out where we needed extra space.

Essentials for our new house:

Lots of network cabling (wireless does not cater for things like Sky signal to multiple rooms - possible over Cat5 / Cat 6)
Lots of power points
Lots of bathrooms
Mains pressure hot water
Pantry
Lots of cupboards
Solid feeling walls
Lots of insulation (will affect your external wall thickness)

paddy's_mum

Storage, storage ... and more storage!

(Does away with dust-trap wardrobes, piles of finished ironing stacked wherever you can find a little space to plonk it down, large or odd-sized items tucked away into corners ... )

Gloomendoom

morg_monster wrote: »

also, garbage disposal unit in the kitchen sink. no more scraping crap out into the bin, it can all wash down the sink!

Alternatively, you could just use the lavatory like everybody else.