There are two things we wanted that we didn't get in this house... a nice main entrance, and an ensuite bathroom.
Our front door opens directly into our dining room. We have a little bench at the door but there is nowhere to hang coats so they just lay on the bench, and when we have company there are shoes everywhere, right beside the dining room table. BUT, we don't have company very often and we rarely use the front door ourselves - we always use the back door to the garage.
The ensuite bathroom isn't a big deal right now because it's just the two of us living here, but I think it would be nice in the future instead of sharing a bathroom with children too. If we ever transform our top half-story into a master suite, I would like to put in a small bathroom with a toilet, sink, and clawfoot bathtub
Since we've moved in, there are tons of things I want to change! First- the kitchen. We have FOUR SINKS AND THAT IS RIDICULOUS. I want to put in new countertops - maybe granite or quartz, and take out the little bar sink and the stainless steel sink beside the double bowl kitchen sink (really, are three full sized sinks in a row needed???) I want to replace our current kitchen sink with a white double bowl farmhouse sink.
The other thing I want to do, which is started, is build a laundry room. We sold our indoor hot tub last week so we are going to build a laundry room in its place. We will have the washer, dryer, and wash basin down one wall, and some rods for hanging clothes to dry down the other wall. There will also be storage for the ironing board, iron, and laundry supplies. I am so excited for it! Then where the laundry is currently at the garage door, Scott is going to build a bench with storage and some hooks to hang things on.
With all these changes in the back of the house, we also want to change the flooring, doors, and trim to look more like the rest of the house. It was a new addition built on in the 90's and it is so obvious. It does not seem like the same house at all. We go from beautiful old hardwood floors to cold white tile... from beautiful solid wood doors to white doors. I have heard dozens of times that if you can't match hardwood exactly, go completely opposite. We obviously can't match these 100 year old floors. The colors are already different in every room and even in parts of the same room! They are worn and discolored and stained and honestly, to me, just perfect. There is so much character. So in this case, I don't know if it would make a huge difference if we did a wood or wood-look floor and it didn't look exactly the same. The house is old!