s/o: New home wish list

My wish list:
- Huge walk-in shower. Maybe even a “wet” area where the shower and tub are contained together and the floor has a drain.
- Walk-in pantry. Our house before this one had one and I loved it.
- A big room for me - craft, art, computer, books, etc. But I don’t want it too isolated from the rest of the house.
- 3 car garage. 2 cars plus SO’s gym. Or, I’ve seen those garages that have a back bay and the door can open to the backyard. That would be perfect for SO’s gym. He can fully open the doors and have backyard privacy.
- Main floor bedroom and full bathroom.
- If the house is 2-storied, dual A/C and heater.
- Don’t really need a formal living room.
- Pool. Now, this has been my dream like forever! I know it will probably never happen, but I can dream. 😁
- One bedroom for an office.
- One bedroom for guest.

As soon as I bought my condo, I had a list if I ever bought again.

* Drive way (I don't need a garage, but I want my own drive way to park)
* Lots of windows and natural light
* Laundry (I currently have to pay a bajillion dollars to do laundry down the hall)
* 1.5 + bathrooms
* 2-3 bedrooms (spare room plus scrapbook studio)
* No one above or below me

1. Large kitchen with ample storage, including walk-in pantry with adequate light and shallow shelving. I want a large island with a prep sink. 2 full size ovens in the wall. A large gas stovetop with a real vent above it. The hanging thing for pots and pans above my island. In the island I want storage for my appliances. I want a window above the sink looking into the back yard. I want a breakfast nook adjacent to the kitchen. I also want a sunroom off the kitchen where I can have all my plants and a place to read. I would like this area to not be open to the great room.
2. A mudroom that connects from the garage. Area will have a powder room, space for my freezer, and my laundry room. Laundry room must include a sink and a place to hang clothes.
3. Garage behind the main house, not visible from the street.

4. Either another garage space or a shed so dh can do wood working.
5. No formal living or dining. 
6. Large great room not open to the kitchen.
7. Two offices, one each for me and DH.
8. Large linen closet near the bedrooms.

9. Three bedrooms that are not offices - one primary and two guest, each with their own bathroom attached.

10. Large walk in closet for the main bedroom. Large walk in shower. No tub. Double vanities.
11. Covered patio area with outdoor kitchen and TV.

12. Walk out ranch. Covered deck. Large patio with seating and a firepit.
13. Wet bar in the basement.

I'm never going to build a new house, because that is not my thing; and I highly doubt I'll even move from my current one unless it's to downsize, so my wish list is strictly for my current house--some are very plausible, and we will definitely do at some point, while some more pie in the sky.

One thing I won't ever have that does bum me out is a fireplace. The house never had one thanks to being built in the midst of coal country. It was built with a coal furnace instead. I don't even have the top of my chimney anymore, since the last owners had it taken down & the roof closed over.

You may notice a theme at first.

1. Replace the wall to have a front hallway back.
2. Replace the wall (& put up the original French doors again) to have a separate study back.
3. Replace the wall to recreate the hallway that kept the basement door out of the formal dining room.

4. Create an office/craft room from the currently empty walk-through bedroom attached to the primary bedroom.
5. Built-in bookcases it the study and the office, once the other work is done.

6. Possibly rework the powder room, laundry room, mud room areas to revert the original walk-in pantry back.
7. If number 6 is done, possibly create a small addition to increase the space in the laundry & mudroom and allow the first floor bath to be a full bath.

8. Restore all of the remaining original cylinder glass windows.
9. Hopefully rescue 1-3 original windows that we either know or believe have been covered over.
10. Remove the 1940s siding and go back to clapboard on the house exterior.

11. Re-plaster the dining room & living room ceilings.
12. Replace the floor patches with floor grates.

13. Re-roof and repair the small A-frame building in our yard.
14. And my personal pie-in-the-sky, mostly because it's a lot of work, and we have enough work to do--replace the in-ground pool. There used to be one, but it was removed by the prior owners. They were big on removing things.
15. Even is 14 doesn't happen, we'd still love an outdoor shower.

Here's my wish list for our next home:

One story - lots of natural light and high ceilings.
Primary suite with 2 walk in closets, bathroom with ample storage, a linen closet, large walk in shower & no tub.
Kitchen with an island that has seating - plenty of counter space, dual wall ovens, gas stove top. A cabinet with the kitchen aid mixer lift feature.
Walk in pantry with cabinets and shelves.
Large family room.
2 bedrooms with a jack & jill bath. One would be my craft room with a walk in closet. The other would be a guest room.
A space for DH to watch tv and whatever else he wants to do.
Covered outdoor kitchen and living space plus a grassy area.
3 Car garage with area for storage.
I kinda want a pool but I don't think DH would be into it.

Apart from actually OWNING a house?

DH and I have talked about this, and we'd love to have:
* An office for each of us (mine would also serve as my craft room)
* A spare bedroom wouldn't be a bad idea if we ever hosted overnight guests
* Our own washer and dryer (I hate sharing washers and dryers)
* I forget exactly what they're called, but a big wash basin/sink thing in the laundry room area so I can clean a litter box more than just swapping litter out (I do this in the bathtub right now)
* A DarkAcademia-inspired library room
* A finished basement would be nice - but we'd also settle for a media room (his sister had one of the rooms in their house painted completely black and had a pull-down screen on it that they used to watch movies, play video games, etc.)

Oooh, yeah---if I ever put in a shower, I absolutely want a bench seat! More practical for shaving legs, and just nice to sit there when you're sore, or sick, or anything like that.

The first two things that come to mind:
~ Butler's Pantry where I can keep all of my big appliances out on the bench but out of sight
~ Spice storage for at least 60-70 jars. Ideally I would like a floor to ceiling skinny pull out section of the cabinetry, similar to THIS

There are lots of other things on my wish-list, but those are the two most important.

No stairs

2 piece = powder room = toilet + sink

3 piece = toilet + sink + shower or tub

4 piece = toilet +  2 sinks + combined bath/shower 

5 piece = toilet +  2 sinks + bath + shower 

We are in the middle of building what I hope will be our last home ,so first we looked for a lot that was facing south with a view .
We are building a modern house , the bedrooms and the bathrooms are small, but the kitchen ,living room and entertainment room are pretty large and it has big windows , I wanted a lot of light , downstairs we will have a entertainment room with a bourbon wet bar and a golf simulator and tv my two sons and husband are very excited about it.
We will also have a swimming pool .

Lots of great ideas posted here.

~ I want a sauna
~ space in just the right spot for a small garden
~ overhead structure on the patio where I can sit and hear the rain come down
~ a built out craft room
~ a guest room or two, both en suite
~ a laundry room where I can hang clothes to dry, have a table to fold clothes on, have a utility sink, ample storage for cleaning supplies, to include the vacuum and the mopping gear, and space for seasonal ware like dishes, vases, oversized trays, and holiday pans.
~ separate closets tricked out
~ a garage space that doubles as a bike garage, workout space and coffee roasting spot
~ walk in shower with built in bench
~ a kitchen full of drawers, an appliance/food pantry behind a door, a gas range and an electric wall oven, a microwave drawer,
~ a living room large enough for two seating areas
~ a powder room
~ an ADU for when someone stays longish term, or is a family and needs more space, that also has a room for a pool table and ping pong set up
~ ample storage everywhere
~ something mid century modern

I'm sure there is more I "need" so maybe I'll add on to this later.

We looked for a very long time to find the house we’re in right now. My current house has *almost* everything we were looking for. The only things missing from our previous wish list are:

- zero entry, no door or curtain and a seat in the master ensuite shower
- powder room/ bathroom in the basement (I mainly want a toilet and a sink down there)
- walkout basement
- gas cooktop (can’t do it because the microwave is above it and it would be a code violation)

Now that we’ve lived here for a dozen years, I would:

- convert the first floor office into a space that could be used as a bedroom and expanding it by moving the front wall into the space that is currently an unused formal livingroom and adding a closet.

- convert the current formal livingroom into a front office in the now smaller (but brighter and more open) room at the front of the house.

- add a large three season enclosed porch or sunroom in the back off of the eat in kitchen/ dining area. Our house really doesn’t have a nice space to host a bigger gathering of people (and by bigger I mean more than 2-3 people besides us). Right now there is seating for three people (us) in our family room where the TV is. If we had our livingroom set up as a livingroom, it’s about the same size as the family room so it would only seat five people at most if there wasn’t a TV in there. It’s separated from the family room by the foyer/entryway so it’s not all one space and there’s no way to open it up because the stairs to the second floor is in the center of the entryway right as you come in.

- add a large shed or pole barn behind the garage to hold all of DH’s power equipment (riding lawn mower, side by side ATV with a plow, bigger plow for the pickup truck, assorted sprayers for fertilizer or weed killer) plus storage space for the seasonal outdoor décor.

- oh, and I’d rip out every inch of carpet and replace it all with hard surfaced flooring. Carpet sucks.

DH and I plan to age in place in our current house, so we are renovating as we go. We recently enlarged our kitchen island, and I love it. However, I wish I had included at least one pop-up outlet so I could use my mixer on it. Two pop-ups would give me an awesome space for entertaining bc I could put all of my crockpots there for serving—it’s easier for people to serve themselves by just walking around the island if all food (both hot and cold) is in one location.