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Which extra room would you like in your house?

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Menopaws Sun 04-Feb-18 19:01:00

I've always wanted a utility/boot/dog room but have never had a house big enough. I've worked in many farms, country houses that had so many facilities and I was always jealous of their rooms, far more than the fancy bedrooms etc.What one room would you like if you could stick it onto where you live now?

whitewave Sun 04-Feb-18 20:49:23

tegan sell it!! More rooms =more cleaning. Bum to that.

Christinefrance Sun 04-Feb-18 21:08:14

What Menopaws said. Just what I want too.

mollie Sun 04-Feb-18 21:11:16

An office in the garden please...

GrandmaMoira Sun 04-Feb-18 21:14:42

A downstairs loo.

Menopaws Sun 04-Feb-18 21:14:57

Christine, u have horses I believe, so you would totally get it!

tanith Sun 04-Feb-18 21:16:44

A downstairs toilet and shower in case I can no longer get upstairs ?

Maggiemaybe Sun 04-Feb-18 21:32:51

I've got the big utility room/laundry room/junk room some of you want, the glory hole I can just shut the door on. It's our cellar. We have the washing machine, tumble dryer, big freezer down there, plus a sink, the ironing board, coat rack, shoe storage, vacs and lawnmowers and more plastic boxes and shelves full of junk than you could shake a stick at. And of course my wine rack. smile My long term project is to clear it out to be the playroom it was when our DC were young. At the current rate of progress, the DGS will be at Uni by the time it's ready for them (the eldest has just turned 5).

Smithy Sun 04-Feb-18 21:42:06

I wanted a dining room for a few years, when I downsized to my present house. Now though, I would prefer a little multi purpose downstairs room which would house small desk and printer, but I'd also put a fridge freezer and washing machine in and have a lovely smart streamlined kitchen. I would also iron in it.

rubysong Sun 04-Feb-18 22:42:36

I would love a sewing and craft room so that I could tidy up the dining room and we could actually eat in it.

Mamissimo Sun 04-Feb-18 23:07:58

Rubysong I am totally in agreement. I have a lovely large sewing room but everyone else thinks it’s the kitchen smile

callgirl1 Mon 05-Feb-18 00:05:25

An upstairs toilet please. My bathroom/toilet is downstairs, in the middle of the night it`s like a safari trek, out of the bedroom, down the stairs, through the living room, then the kitchen and the back lobby, finally, the bathroom, doesn`t do to be desperate!

Kittye Mon 05-Feb-18 00:20:36

Ooh got to be utility room.

WilmaKnickersfit Mon 05-Feb-18 01:16:48

A second loo. I would also like another bedroom. A single would be fine.

FarNorth Mon 05-Feb-18 02:43:32

A room with large windows and a beautiful wooden floor, to dance in.

BBbevan Mon 05-Feb-18 02:52:32

We have three bedrooms all en suite. I would like a separate toilet for visitors, workmen etc. Also a real walk in pantry. But I do not know where we could put that.

appygran Mon 05-Feb-18 06:33:17

A summer house at the bottom of the garden to use as a craft room. Insulated and heated so I can use it all year.

NanKate Mon 05-Feb-18 06:56:51

A downstairs loo, we have two upstairs but of course that means trekking upstairs when we need the facilities. Our 5 year old GS said we could have one installed in the cupboard under the stairs but where would we put the coats, ironing board, clothes horse and bottles which fill up that space ? ?

OldMeg Mon 05-Feb-18 07:54:49

I’m with Merlotgran a boot cum ‘cloak’ room. Not that we have many cloaks but we do have lots of muddy boots, shoes and soggy coats especially in this weather.

annsixty Mon 05-Feb-18 08:06:59

We really are never happy with what we have.
I have a decent sized dining room but would have loved it knocking through into the kitchen making a really good sized living area to both cook eat and relax. It will never happen. The dining room has a comfortable leather chair and a tv so I can get away to read or watch on my own.
We do eat in there at the weekend though.

vampirequeen Mon 05-Feb-18 08:11:21

A utility/laundry room complete with a lady who comes in a couple of times a week to do the ironing.

jusnoneed Mon 05-Feb-18 08:28:14

An upstairs loo or even better an upstairs bathroom. I have a very small downstairs room with a shower (in what was a walk in larder), small hand basin in similar sized area next to it and then loo in small separate area next to that. While it's perfectly fine I sometimes wish I had more room to move about.

Bathsheba Mon 05-Feb-18 08:35:57

I would love a sewing and craft room so that I could tidy up the dining room and we could actually eat in it.
I could have written that post rubysong. Word for word it is exactly what I want and why grin
And when I've got that, can I please have a utility room with a downstairs shower room and loo? (Greedy? moi?)

Welshwife Mon 05-Feb-18 08:38:56

I have enough rooms including a sort of utility but I would love a bigger sitting room - the one we have is easy to warm up in the winter so I keep telling myself it is fine but I really would like it a few square metres bigger!

Auntieflo Mon 05-Feb-18 08:47:22

I've got enough rooms, but I would like an architect, (or Kirsty Allsopp), to come and re-jig them. ?

travelsafar Mon 05-Feb-18 08:52:16

I would love a room for thatI could use to do the ironing in and store the board and iron and baskets of clean laundry. It would also double as a room I could set up my sewing machine in with a big table for cutting out material on or sitting at and writing letters etc. I would have a big cupboard to store all my sewing equipment plus my knitting yarns, sewing patterns, books and other like minded equipment. It would be heaven just to walk out and shut the door when i have finished.