No limits! If you could change one thing about your house

I would like a front porch. Right now we just have a small "stoop" type thing. It is covered so it's like a mini-porch, but I'd like one that I could put a couple chairs on and sit and wave to the neighbors. lol

My fireplace. It's in the corner. It has some cheapily made shelving that won't hold our TV (too big). I've debated removing the shelving snd framing it so its all flush from floor to ceiling.

just like this:
Fireplace blog

A bigger backyard, a better entryway into our master bath (the door going into the bathroom opens up into our shower door.), bigger closets and a 3 car garage.

I'd love a front, or wrap around porch, but as much as I have always wanted one, I don't think it would ever get used. I don't care to sit outside and watch people drive by. It would be much better for a house out in the country or by a lake.

I would like a water hookup in my kitchen so I can use my refrigerator's ice maker. I would also like a storm door.

Oh, I'm sure that mauve will be in fashion again someday. I just want ours sold. That's the only change.

I would have deeper countertops in my kitchen and a wall of storage on one side of our breakfast nook.

I love kitchen gadgets but I don't use them very often. I had a kithenaid mixer, but I passed it on because I hated having it on the counter and it was hard to get out from the bottom of the cabinet.

Now I want another kitchenaid mixer but I still don't have an easy place for it.

Jennifer

I would like a walk in closet in the master bedroom. I don't like that I only get four feet of bar space and I have to dig behind my clothes to reach the shoes I've had to stash back there.

I'd also like to change the layout of my kitchen cabinets. It's laid out to have a small eat in area, but with four kids, it's really not usable. I would like to put in more storage instead.

I would move the kitchen to where the back bedroom is and have two single bedrooms where the kitchen now is, turn the utility into a 2nd bathroom, the middle bedroom into a dining room and because the new kitchen would be next to the garage, I could have a door between the two so we don't have to go outside every time we need something from the garage andI'd be able to have a conservatory off the 'new' kitchen.

There. That's my one thing.

Only one?

i would make a larger laundry/mud room. The one we have is too small to fit a standard size washer and dryer side by side (we checked the blueprints filed with the city, there was a construction issue with the original house, the house is smaller than it was supposed to be). It is next to impossible to keep the shoes and coats and backpacks organized in such a small space. Oh and the basement door opens into the space too.

kitchen. I guess that is ok.  Would like a panty though.

 Living room and dining. Wish it was big enough that we could arrange the furniture so that the house is not a giant hallway. 

Master closet (layout sacrificed in the house size) would be nice if walk in did not really have to mean "walk in sideways"

I wish I had heated floors in the bathrooms. The tile is really cold on my feet in the middle of the night, and when I wake up in the morning.

Janell

The payment? LOL

First and foremost, and this is an attainable goal I am working towards in 2015, is to rip out the builder beige, shitty grade carpet that is stained and ripped and install hardwood floors. 

I would love for my kitchen to be opened up to the living room and I would love to add a little more cabinet/counter space. Although in fairness, I do have a nice sized kitchen, but as I get older and more mature in my cooking skills, I do wish for more room as I spend more and more time in there.

My laundry room is off of the kitchen - nowhere near a bedroom or bathroom where all the dirty clothes are shed. I would love to add a laundry room to that end of the house (and a BIG one) so I didn't have to lug the laundry so far and turn the current laundry room into a half bath for guests to use instead of the hall bath that is DD's.

Oh and I wish I could hire an interior decorator to come and redo everything around the pieces I already have that I love. I just don't have the eye for it.

Oh and I wish I had more natural light!!

Ok I'm done. I really do love my house, but if I won the lottery…it would get paid off first, and remodeled next!

A level back yard.

Yes, I know I live in Hillsville, so a level lot is a toughie, but I'd be perfectly fine with a level front yard, sloped side yards, and then a level back yard. But my current yard is almost entirely sloped from the road right down to the wooded drop-off that dumps you in the creek.


I'd also like a linen closet in the bathroom instead of outside of it. And a bigger pantry. And a bigger kitchen. And I wouldn't want sliding doors in my living room. It's pretty and it allows a ton of light in, but it creates a virtual hallway through the room that I don't like.

Oh, and a level driveway!

And one extra room to use as a "whatever" room. A room that could be a formal room if we wanted it, or an office or den, or a playroom, etc.