I was just thinking it would be nice if some of the Lodgings other than the 3 top-tier ones were upgradable.
I’ve gotten rather attached to my Lair in the Marshes, for instance, and I don’t think the advantages of an extra card or two to turn is necessarily worth the grind, especially because I don’t necessarily like the flavor of living in one of the same three locations as any one else of higher levels. But on the other hand, the flavor text for the Lair makes it pretty clear that it is, definitively, a run-down dump. Other than the Townhouse, there’s really no 3-card lodging that a person of means would want to call home or invite friends back to. The truth is I would much rather do the grind to "renovate" the Heron Tower into a more comfortable 4-card lair than to move into one of the existing 4 card dwellings.
The mechanic is already in place with the upgrade from 4 → 5, and while not all the lower-tier dwellings are suitable for it, I think several of them would be. Maybe you could buy the Bookshop and continue living over it as the proprietor, or repair the Steamer enough to get it floating again and live on it as a Houseboat? (There’s already a mechanic in place to resurrect it on the card…) A Suite over a Secret Casino?
Any thoughts? Has this been brought up/shot down before? Anybody get any further imaginative ideas of how Lodgings could be upgraded?