Home owners - your wish list

DH and I watch homesick now all the time. Watching it just adds to my growing wish list for our house.

Whats on your wish list of things you would love/need to do to your home? And do you think you will ever get them done?

I'm kinda hoping by writing it down it will make me do more of them (probably wishful thinking lol)

- finish pink batts in the ceiling (we have done half the house almost so far)
- get a new heating system thats not on gas so we can ditch the gas
- paint bedroom #3, kitchen and living room
- new hot water cylinder
- new hrv (we have the first ever model of this type of thing and its useless)
- loads of plants cause I've gone and ripped out all the ugly stuff
- paint the garage
- expol insulation
- new vanity cabinet in the bathroom
- new front door

my wish list is that 'homesick' programme was around 12mths ago!!!
the only heating we had in our house was a gas heater and had no insulation and no closed in foundation around the bottom of our house (relocated)
because of charli's health problems we were eligible for a subsidised heatpump and insulation in roof and underfloor.....costing us $2000 all up

now don't get me wrong, i'm SOOOOOOO grateful that we got that and it's made a big difference, but when i watch homesick, i'm so jealous of all the extra stuff they do for these people.

we would've definately applied for the show, our house was the same as last nights one...no ventilation in kitchen or bathroom, mould in nearly all the rooms except the lounge, very cold and damp. we did have an abestos roof but that had to be removed when we shifted the house

i'd love
bathroom ventilation/fan heater thingee
extracter fan in kitchen
HRV (mmmmmmmmmm)
thermal drapes throughout house
heatpump in hallway to heat the bedrooms

of course, a driveway would be nice and a front of house that doesn't resemble a dump station

We renovated before we moved in so there isn't heaps to do, but I'd like to think we will get around to it all one day if we end up being here for as long as we think we will..

Finish landscaping.
External painting.
A couple of skylights would be awesome.
Make additional concreted parking areas.
Re-wallpaper/paint various internal rooms.

Funny that I get home and find this thread - was having a discussion with DH in car on the commute and had come to the conclusion we need to write down our wish list... but oh, where do I start!! (I also watch Homesick every week and it has grown this list quite a bit of late)... not any any definite priority order though:

*Insulation (the pump in foam kind most likely and expol underfloor)
*Extractor fan/heat light in bathroom
*New vanity and general pretty up of bathroom
*Installation of a pellet fire
*Completion of painting/redocration throughout house (have done small spare room, started on hallway, other bedrooms and living area to follow)
*Proper drainage on down-pipes and guttering (currently drains onto lawn and no doubt under house, eek!)
*New flooring in Kitchen, bathroom and laundry (got tears in vinyl at the mo')
*Rangehood or somekind of extraction system in kitchen
*Knock down internal wall to incorporate backdoor into laundry area and create more storage space
*Overhaul or replacement of kitchen cabinets
*Renew decking on front porch
*New boundary fences around property

Phew... I think that's it! Guess we really need to win lotto

Edited by AngieBabe

New Garage, and the kitchen are to be gutted and fixed up. That is to start with...

Ok here goes :
Put in the new windows sitting in our garage.
Replace the 3 entry doors.
Paint window frames.
Re-plaster and paint the whole exterior.
Paint roof.
Replace backyard fences and fence the frontyard.
Re-lay concrete driveway and garage floor.
Line the garage walls.
Connect the new spouting downpipes to the drains so they dont just go on the lawn like they do now.
Relay drainage pipes so they are underground properly.
Landscaping- so lawn is level and plant some fruit trees and other plants.
Build raised vege garden and plant it.

Re-jib the lounge ceilings.
Repair earthquake damage to ceilings.
Paint all the internal walls of every room and the ceilings.
Replace all door handles.
Paint all doors.
Rewire the whole electrics.
Move the power metre box to outside so we no longer need the meter reader to come inside the house!
Remove hotwater cylinder and install gas for hot water heating.
Bathroom- re line walls. Replace vanity unit.
Replace flooring in bathroom, toilet and kitchen.
Replace carpet.
New kitchen including a dishwasher,..woo hoo!
Replace floorboards in laundry.
Replace all the plumbing.

I think thats about it!

Now that's an impressive list Kellz!!!

I'm hoping that we can get a bale of pink batts every 2-3 weeks. So that job should be done in the next couple of months.

I'm also hoping that I'll find the money somewhere to pay for paint for the kitchen/dining room over the next couple of weeks.

Fleur - how far does a bundle of expol go?

Finish bathroom (paint and tile)
Paint laundry
Paint over wallpaper in lounge
Do a themem in kids rooms
new curtains in our room
new kitchen
Pool and deck extension (we are doing that this summer)

Hmmm - well we are about to start building our house so will basically be getting everything we want    But the things we will need to do (that isn't included in the package) are carpet (DH is a carpet layer), fences, drapes and planting gardens (they are laying grass). Oh and we will put in a heatpump sometime after we move in but before next winter

kebakat wrote: Fleur - how far does a bundle of expol go?

Not very far, its taken 2 and 1/2 for our bedroom alone.
DH tells me its not as easy to put up as they make it on tele.

Will probably take 3 or 4 for the living areas.