Let this be the sole thread for any and all ideas related to the construction and improvement of houses, or POLs as they are sometimes known.
I got the idea to start a thread for them when I saw this post in the General forum: http://www.glitch.com/forum/general/9413/.
It details all the reasons an Alakol home is not quite to the OP's taste, and I agreed with a lot of their points.
Now that the post exists I'll add my two currants worth and perhaps edit this post as other ideas come to mind. :)
First, I think the idea of house customization is already too advanced. Before we glitchen are capable of customizing housing we should first have to learn how to BUILD our housing. Instead of neat little blocks full of prefab houses we could just sell varying sized plots of land. The land could be much more expensive and expansive than what we have now. Perhaps the cheapest would be ludicrously tiny and have only enough space for a room even smaller than an apartment while the largest would have tracks of land maybe even a bit bigger than today's mansions.
And what would out glitches do with these empty lands you ask? Why, build of course! We could choose from all the styles of rooms available for the area we chose to buy our plot (IE Alakol can only have modern style housing) and build the first level of housing. This could be tied into level one of a skill set called Construction, as many have already put forth. The first level would simply allow the construction of one small room in your house's style ala the smallest meadow cottage.
The next level would give the ability to make furniture and basic decorations, like cabinets and trophy cases. Level three would offer the ability to construct a second room and offer more decor ect.
Even higher levels would provide the ability to make many of the wonderful ideas that have been discussed over time like basements for egg trees and herbs, as well as pens for animals.
Different skills would also contribute, like say having SA3 would allow you to make patches and SA5 would let you make plots (maximum amount based on the size of the plot of land you bought) while Mining or Alchemy might let you put in rocks of your own to mine.
That's all I got for now. :)