Living in privately rented accommodation, there is so little that you can do to actually make your house seem like yours. I’ve mentioned before that we are considering putting in an offer should the owners ever decide to sell – when we moved in almost five years ago, we were made aware that they may want to but it hasn’t happened yet. However, just because we are privately rented, it doesn’t mean we haven’t got a whole host of ideas about what we’d do to the place.
We’d take up the carpets on the downstairs level – carpets and young children are never very practical and we’ve always preferred hardwood flooring instead like many of our friends have. We would completely redo the garden – our garden is on a slant and one of the walls is crumbling so we’d repair the wall or build a new one and level the garden out entirely somehow. It’s just not somewhere I am happy for Jack and any future children to play outside right now – but we are lucky to have a large green just behind our back gate.
Other things are those that are more aesthetically pleasing than what I’ve mentioned above. Skylights have always been a favourite of both mine and Steve’s so a good quality and affordable roof lantern would always be an option if we came to own this house. We are lucky enough (although not lucky when you consider the lack of storage it thus brings) to live in a flat roofed property so the installation of such a thing would be pretty simple.
Obviously we would be looking to keep renovations as affordable as possible if we had just bought the property as everyone knows that isn’t cheap to do but I’m sure we could manage it and have what we want for our own property. We also know that renovations with children in the house can be quite tricky and certain steps would need to be taken to keep them from danger but this is obviously a bridge we will only cross when we come to it.
Right now though, a girl can only dream. Everyone has their perfect house, their perfect garden, their perfect life in mind, don’t they? I’m just lucky that my fiancé has very similar tastes to me and that means should we buy this house – or even another house – in the future, I know that we will be together every step on the way of turning our house into the perfect one for us.
What renovations would you choose to have if you could?
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