Home owners - your wish list

finish off the deck - only 1 step to go
new bathroom - really just new frameless shower (can get through work) just need to do the new tiling first.
new bench top in kitchen
finish stones outside in gardens
re sow a little of the lawn
new out door furniture for new deck and out door heater
heat pump
oooohhhh this list could go on and on.. that all at moment

Um how do you say EVERYTHING!! By the time we've finished renovating our house will be unrecognisable.

New ranch slider in bedroom
ventilation in bathroom
New downstairs bathroom
Put in ensuite and walk in wardrobe
New kitchen
Move upstairs toilet and bedroom around
Get a new door on our bedroom
Re-gib entire inside of house
New lighting through-out house
Carpet downstairs
Polish floors upstairs
Move fireplace in our bedroom
Heat pump
Security bars etc to be installed
Get a longer beam in the lounge and have it lifted into the ceiling
Remove the bump in the lounge floor
Fill the gap in the lounge floor

DH has just this very second sent me an email about doors. That's great because half the rooms in our house don't have any!!

There's more, so much more. It's like making cheese, good things take time.

Oh and the most important thing is to get my wine rack built!!

I've copied and pasted part of your list Kellz...just amended some relevant bits

Raise the house approx. 1/2 metre so that you can actually get under it and air will circulate
Rip down all the current wall linings and put gib up.
Replace the current ceilings with gib (currently textured plasterboard)
Put in the sliding door between conservatory and master bedroom.
Change the hallway to a wardrobe for the master bedroom, and a linen closet and another cupboard
Take out the front door and make it a wall to extend the conservatory
Take out corner wardrobes in both bedrooms
Paint all the internal walls of every room and the ceilings after the gib has been done.
Rewire the house.
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 cylinders for hot water heating.
Put up a wall to separate the toilet from the rest of the bathroom.
Extend new bathroom into where current kitchen is and put in the new shub/shower and vanity
Replace carpet and put in new carpet in the rooms which currently have grotty polished floors.
Change existing laundry into the kitchen, including a dishwasher
Change the end of the kitchen into the laundry
Replace all the plumbing (we don't have any hot water to parts of the house at the moment because the galvanised pipes are rusting from the inside out).
Put insulation in all the walls and fix the stuff in the ceiling
If we raise the house, put in underfloor insulation
Knock down the wall between the dining room and lounge, and take out the fireplace and coal range
Put in an HRV system and heat pump
Reroof (and remove the pohutukawa which is currently growing out of the chimney)
Fix the flashing on the side of the house which has been pulled out by the telephone wire to the pole
Paint the exterior of the house
Level the back yard (currently sloping and a mess)
Put in new retaining walls
Remove existing garage and put in a weatherproof one that isn't growing trees, and put in a concrete floor and driveway

Ummmm, I don't want to think about what else
We need to get rid of all the wild ginger growing around the boundary, which is a noxious weed and slightly illegal We're starting on the work after the wedding.

ETA: OMG it's HUGE!!!

Edited by minik8e

DH figured out where it was but I don't remember. It was over near fitzroy street area.

Yeah they do spend a lot of money on that program.. but I do think they do some unnecessary things like painting the outside of the house etc that didn't really need to be done at all and some of the landscaping things. If they got rid of that kind of thing it would be cheaper.

I read everyone else's lists and keep wanting to add more to mine as I'm reminded of stuff

As much as I'm kinda excited about doing the renovations and we could only afford a house that needed them done, it's a bit daunting all the same!

Well we've already done heaps to this house, but still heaps more to do including:

New logburner and underfloor insulation (which we are getting for free through the council's scheme yay)
Finish off painting interiors in general
new curtains and blinds for dining room and our bedroom
sand and wax/oil/polyurethane all indoor window frames and wooden pannelling
new guttering
repaint exterior
create deck
major garden landscaping of the whole section
get the driveway concreted or paved or ashphalted
Plus we need new lounge and dining suites (which is not really renovations but hey)