If you could build a new house. ..

DigForVictory

A room where you abandon all filthy, wet, not wanted right now items (excluding family & guests) so you do not track mud into the rest of the house. Rarely to the front of the house (show-off area) but more commonly between attached garage and main house &/or to one side. Can also be location where dogs (& other grubby pets) are rubbed down &/or penned til they have dried off somewhat.

Wikipedia defines it "a casual, generally secondary entryway intended as an area to remove and store footwear, outerwear, and wet clothing before entering the main house. As well as providing storage space, a mud room serves to increase the cleanliness of a house proper."

Fraise

Sounds ideal.....especially brilliant for those in the country or with pets

PasturesNew

I'm a fan of larders so everything can go in there and be arranged so all similar items are kept together, unlike stupid wall cabinets that you can't use as they're too high up and you can't keep things together as they're so tiny.

I'd like ceiling to floor, wall to wall built in cupboard in the bedroom and another elsewhere in the house for "everything else".

Breakfast bar, patio doors, small conservatory. Sunrise to shine through bedroom window, garden/house/conservatory to get sun all day long.

Good utility room that's a good size, that can double up as a hobby workshop.

En-suite and a proper bath, not bothered if the en-suite is bath or shower, but if a shower it should be a corner unit.

Front porch would be good - keep draughts out.

Must have a garage, a good sized one. With electrics and be pretty water-tight/tidy so things could be stored there without them being eaten or going rusty.... not sure what things, just things.... e.g. bike ... decorating bits/bobs, few tools, broom.

That's it really.

flea72

Built-in hoover

Fraise

flea72 wrote: »

Built-in hoover

I saw one of those in a house in Sydney Australia back in the 1980s.

I would like an upstairs laundry room too. It seems silly having to take your dirty washing down and bring it all back up again. A nice large laundry room with washing machine, tumble dryer, sink, clothes line pully thing for delicates. Ironing board with fab iron plus a steam thing to do sheets And a huge airing cupboard to hang all your ironed clothes on hangers with shelves for linens and towels.

buzzyzoe

If money was no object...
- Dressing room and ensuite to every bedroom
- Kitchen with room for a large island and dining area
- Indoor barbecue in kitchen with proper ventilation so that it wouldn't kill everyone
- Walk in pantry
- Swimming pool, sauna and jacuzzi
- Games room with pool table
- Huge open plan living space with balcony
- Roof terrace
- Underfloor heating throughout

As it is, I'm buying a one bedroom flat in London, so my requirements were pretty much
- Bedroom
- Bathroom
- Living room
- Kitchen
- Not a complete dump
- Larger than a wardrobe

I dream big though.

shegar

When we moved here 7 years ago the kitchen was very small, so it had to be made bigger, and I said I never want a washing machine and dryer in a kitchen again because they drive you mad when your eating whining away , so we had a small washroom put on the end of the kitchen............

So having 2 doors on the kitchen we dont get any draughts at all and no noise, plus somewhere to leave your dirty boots before you go into the kitchen........

Then we had a porch built on the front , so again 2 doors before you get into the hall, so again no draughts.....Had no end of double sockets put all around the place and everyday use everyone of them , then we had a garden room put on the back , so again 2 doors to get in, result a lovely cosy comfortable forever home............