
It’s all doom and financial gloom in the news lately, and I gotta say, it doesn’t help my dream of one day renovating, a dream I forever hold close to my heart.

My family is currently making do in a 100-year old house (NOT the one pictured above), that, don’t get me wrong, we are VERY happy to have, but it hasn’t exactly materialized into that dream home I saw before me when I stood on the threshold, ready to sign back the final offer.
We painted, changed the hardware on the 60s kitchen cupboards and refinished the paper-thin hardwood one final time, and thought, hey, we only need this place to hold up for a year or so, until we rip it all out. Well, that was three years ago, and it's not looking good.

I’m feeling that renovation dream slip further and further away from me, and to bring it back, I’d like to take this moment to speak as if money were no object. So here goes; if money were no object, I would dig out the basement, blow out the back of the first floor to make a nice, large family kitchen, I would put in a powder room on the first floor, make a nice family bathroom out of our second-floor depression loo, turn the attic into a master suite with a spacious ensuite bath and finally, if money really were no object, I would install reclaimed oak hardwood flooring, in a French chevron pattern – I have always wanted those gorgeous Parisian floors…
Let's dream a little -- what would you change in your home if money were no object?