£2000

I also would have the end wall of my kitchen removed and some double doors put in, but that would also require a radiator to be moved, so not cheap I suspect!

inishowen, oooh put some piccies up, I am sure between us we could come up with something? That is something I wish I had done actually, property renovation and interior design as I do tend to have some quirky ideas of things to do! (although don't have the skills myself for the DIY stuff, sadly ...) Can be very cheaply made over using Facebook by swapping your bits for updated but second hand pieces - do you know there are folk out there that actually change their sofas etc every year for new colours etc and their old ones they sell on for just a couple of hundred quid? Even painting your older pieces can give them a huge lift .... I have stack load of 'projects' I would like to do in my house when I feel well enough, one of which is doing something with my stairs as they are very boring!

I wouldnt do anything as my house has a utiilty room so could either leave washing on a clothes airer or put it on the washing line

llizzie2 How scarey!!!!

I would install CCTV as I live in a house set back from the rest of the row at the end of a cul-de-sac with no house opposite houses, only a hedge and field with a next door neighbour whose damage and trespass on my property gets worse each year and the police say I have to have proof!

Would CCTV help though? Perhaps, when he came up behind me last year while I was in the garden so silently I did not realise he was there and he refused to move, he was testing to see if I had cameras installed. I had a new outside light fitted which doesn't work again. I am afraid of him. Would CCTV help or would he just cover his face?

labassi - have you thought of asking your landlord if you could paint the. cupboards a lighter colour?
annarami - if you practically have to sell everything it is worth it for a Nile cruise. Imagine what it is like moving slowly past the odd felucca (Nile sailboat), looking out at rich green banks covered with palm trees and papyrus shrubs, watching people walking along with a donkey covered with bundles of sugar cane, and sweet little children laughing, playing in the glorious sunshine and waving at us? All this while lying on the floor of our cabin wearing very little, sunbathing and toasting each other with some splendid Egyptian wine (Cru des Ptolemies). Oh yes.

Big sliding glass doors (not bifold) are much cheaper than you think. We’ve had huge ones put in our kitchen for around £4K. Fantastic- best thing we’ve ever done.

sparklygrandma mmmm a green velvet sofa!
No room for a separate tumble dryer, unless I take the bath out of the guest bathroom.

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

new kitchen, definately!!!

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

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'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!

£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.

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

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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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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?

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’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.

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!