£2000

I would have all the grass in the front garden dug up, then pave the garden leaving a couple of small flowerbeds for spring flowers and plant two or three different flowering bushes or trees.

We have a large back garden, so we never use the front garden and it is a pain having to keep it tidy.

The French often have their washing machine in the bathroom. Could you replace the bath with a shower and have space for the washing machine too?

I'd lock the front door of my house and go on holiday! Could probably spend the whole summer in Greece, island hopping, as I have many friends there who I could stay with.

Get a stylish modern gas fire fitted to replace our old black & chrome one. Have lived with the latter for nearly 20 years and still hate the look of it.

I would have the chimney in the living room opened up and a small log burner installed.
If I had £20,000 I would move the kitchen to where the living room is, and put French doors to the garden and install a small log burner in what is now the kitchen and would then be the living room.

Artificial grass can be good in certain circs. A dd's friend laid some good quality stuff in a small and very narrow city garden - grass would never have done well there, not enough sun. She could have paved or gravelled it, but she wanted a kinder surface for two very little ones to play on.

My house needs re-decorating and the external sills must be re-painted soon.

phillipa I live in an apartment, so can’t dry outdoors. If fine, I open the balcony doors and put a wooden dryer there. As for noise, the building is so well insulated I don’t hear any noise from other apartments- I know the family next door have a little boy, but I never hear them.
Esmerelda, I would too -in fact the desire to take a holiday always trumps practical things!
I’m enjoying reading about others’ pipe dreams!

I’d change my en-suite shower room into a wet room to future proof us I’d we suffer from disability later on. I’d also love to get rid of my bedroom carpet as it’s horrible.

I'd spend it on the garden - am already thinking about having a small "wildlife friendly" pond installed, plus insect, hedgehog, and frog "housing". And some really good bird feeders which will thwart the pigeons!

I've got a long, corridor type ground floor, with a conservatory tacked onto the back.

I'd put a velux in the kitchen roof and extend sideways by a couple of feet. It may cost a bit more than £2k, though.

It would make the conservatory less of a glass box at the end of the house and be less like living in a bloody train?

annep1, shutters are not as expensive as you might think. I compared the cost of curtains and poles, weighed up the cost of cleaning curtains and went for the dust free, easy clean option. 10 large Georgian windows cost just under £3000 with a local blinds and shutters company. They're mdf but you wouldn't know. If I had a sudden £2000 windfall I'd put up a nice new greenhouse.

A quieter tumble dryer on its own, in a space somewhere, DoraMarr ?

If I had £2k, it would be a new grey or dark green velvet sofa for me.

Ok, I booked it. Going to Egypt at the end of the month! Have no money left now. Might have to live on bread and water for 2 weeks!

Peardrop50 they look lovely and it's definately what I need, but if I had £2000 to spend on the house I'd have to get new carpets. It's good seeing the other wish lists and I'd be very very tempted to have a holiday which is as overdue as the carpets.

Now £20,000 is more like it.
I would have my warehouses dining room knocked through into the kitche.
Get rid of the mahogany furniture and make a lovely family room with a sofa under the window which I would have made into a bay.
As there is only me this is a bit (no, totally ) unnecessary but it would make a good selling point if I ever decide to move.
Not much change I think.

I really don't know where the warehouses came from!!!!

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My garden with artificial grass. My husband had wanted it for ages, I didn’t especially for environmental reasons. However it was the best decision, we still have lots of wildlife visiting and there’s very little maintenance.

Greytin, what a lovely garden you have! And a beautiful dog too,

£2000 would just about cover re-doing the cloakroom. New loo and washbasin, carpet up and floor tiled, then redecorated. Just seems too much to organise on my own at the moment.

I'd have my downstairs loo revamped with some gorgeous outRAGEously expensive sparkly tiles I have my eye on. It's a tiny room, but the tiles would take up most of the budget!

I would spend it on my garden ... not house. I do my own DIY ... as hubby never would/did/could!! It’s not that these men are content... it’s that theyre bone idle,

I think I would like a new shed in the back garden and replace the radiator in the bedroom.

new kitchen, definately!!!

a lot wrong in our home but it is private rented. however id be prepared to spend 2 thousand on the kitchen which drives me barmy on a regular basis. a very 80s kitchen with little cupboard space and worst of all a carousel cupboard which i thought at first was posh but after trapping my fingers in it daily (not just me dp too) id give anything to rip that out for a proper cupboard. dark wood makes the kitchen depressingly dark too