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Today's open thread prompt came to me as I contemplated renovations. When Matthias and I bought our house a few years ago, one main reason why we chose it was because it was essentially livable as it was: the bathrooms and kitchens were in good working order, it had double-glazed windows, the wall between what had originally been two dark, tiny, boxy little living rooms had been knocked down to make a single, larger, lighter living room, etc. I was not prepared to live in a renovation site for months or years on end, and this was a major factor in our decision-making.
All that being said, there are lots of things I would renovate, time and funds and energy allowing. There's a long list of things, in fact. But today's prompt is a bit less specific than that:
If budget, time, circumstances and capacity were no limit, what is one thing you would change about your living space? ('One thing' can be as small or as massive, and as realistic or ridiculous as you choose. 'I'd replace the carpets' is one thing. 'I'd pick it up and move it from a tropical climate to a frozen mountain range' is also one thing. Go wild!)
For me, if I had to pick one thing, I'd make the house as a whole just slightly wider, and the ceilings just slightly higher. Like many British houses, ours is narrow and boxy (it's a middle terrace house) — only four metres wide. It has a massive, long, narrow back garden, and the actual number of rooms is ample for a two-person household, but I'd love to extend it a metre wider on each side, and make all the ceilings just a little bit higher. (Anything bigger than that, and cleaning would become frustrating. The benefits of a smaller-sized house are that things like cleaning the floor take very little time.) Obviously this is impossible due to it being a terrace house, but that would be the dream.
What about you?
All that being said, there are lots of things I would renovate, time and funds and energy allowing. There's a long list of things, in fact. But today's prompt is a bit less specific than that:
If budget, time, circumstances and capacity were no limit, what is one thing you would change about your living space? ('One thing' can be as small or as massive, and as realistic or ridiculous as you choose. 'I'd replace the carpets' is one thing. 'I'd pick it up and move it from a tropical climate to a frozen mountain range' is also one thing. Go wild!)
For me, if I had to pick one thing, I'd make the house as a whole just slightly wider, and the ceilings just slightly higher. Like many British houses, ours is narrow and boxy (it's a middle terrace house) — only four metres wide. It has a massive, long, narrow back garden, and the actual number of rooms is ample for a two-person household, but I'd love to extend it a metre wider on each side, and make all the ceilings just a little bit higher. (Anything bigger than that, and cleaning would become frustrating. The benefits of a smaller-sized house are that things like cleaning the floor take very little time.) Obviously this is impossible due to it being a terrace house, but that would be the dream.
What about you?