Maybe tonight will be our lucky night????

BTW, never bother buying anything from that Meditteranian site. Mostly just junk from China.

I bought a cannister set, from Horchow, that was identical to one shown there (a while back). Paid 1/3 of the price and Horchow ain't cheap.

1) Finish our DIY kitchen
2) Rip out the funky 1950s Hollywood bath and make it into two separate baths.
3) Install a new roof and skylights.
4) Landscape, to include drainage changes, an electric gate and nice lighting up the drive.

Oh, and an Audi TT for DH. He has wanted one for years.

I'd buy one of the few privately owned Adirondack great camps, like maybe Camp Uncas. I used to clean this camp when I was in college for the people that owned it, made great money cleaning these huge beautiful old camps in the summers! It's an awe inspiring place. It's so hard to tell scale in the pictures .. I could stand inside that fireplace fully erect, stretch out my arms and not touch the sides. It's hard to see in the pics .. but that one wall is floor to very high ceiling french doors in the great room over looking the lake.

I even have a neighbor who says if she wins the lottery she's buying it for us. :)

If my hubby did win the lottery we'd pay off the house if we had enough. If he won real big we'd buy the kids each a house. We're very practical people.

My Lottery House Pick

If I won the lottery, I'd finish the remodel on my current house - redo the kitchen and downstairs bath, redo the awkward entryway, semi-finish the basement. Then I'd furnish the place with a combination of antiques and modern, sit on it until the real-estate market picks up, sell and buy the house I really want. I'd stay in the same neighborhood but would love one of the grand old stone mansions in the area.

And for my summer house on Long Island, I'd get the beauty linked below. That tile work......

Then I would refinish all the hardwood floors and replace the deck with whatever materials need the least maintenance.

Trex deck works well. My mom used that for her deck and she loves it :)

I'd also tear down the disintegrating and essentially unsellable doublewide my mother is currently cursed with and build her a cute little cottage with subtle use of Universal Design principles so she can "age in place". She's extremely stubborn about where she wants to live and what she needs simply doesn't exist there.

BTW, we used Azek for our exterior stairs - decking for the treads and trimboards for the risers, and are really happy with it. (We also used an Azek knockoff for all the trim on the porch and it looks sharp. Except where we haven't caulked any of the nails... LOL) Azek has far less organic material in it than Trex and other composites and so is less prone to mold, which is why we chose it over the others.