DH and I have been in our house for about 4 years now. It is a great house: end of the street, four bedrooms, 2.5 baths, PLENTY of space.

The problem is the downstairs. There is a tiny kitchen with zero counter space, totally closed first floor. Ideally, I would open up a wall between the front room and back room, and the back part of the house I would rearrange to create a larger kitchen and small "mud room" type area after coming in from the garage.

DH thinks I am crazy and would rather just move (when asked when this move would happen he said 20 years!!) I said forget moving then! We will just slowly do things to the house.

So what would you do? Would you stay and go all out with what you want to make it a perfect house? Or would you do bare minimum to get the house updated to sell (in 20 yrs....)?