'oh ffs why did they do that?' What in your house is going to make a future buyer swear? of your house go '

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Just bumped my head on the cabinet above our loo, the door opens at head height, and nearly got trapped in the utility due to poor placing of door handles where 2 doors knock into each other.

There's also a random door - that we ran out of steam with builders to work out what to do with...so it needs to come off - but we find it handy to corral the cats for the vets so it hasn't yet...

5 years? How big was her kitchen that she didn't notice.

I love the idea of a bring back drawers campaign. I'd be very happy to help spearhead such a thing to save other families from cluttered sides containing tubs holding cutlery or it just languishing unloved in the drying rack until needed.

The bath, it is beautiful, it is however absolutely huge so it takes about 40 minutes to fill, oh and we’re on a water meter.

The bedroom door, an original door has a catflap in it.

Previous owners of our house fixed parts of the kitchen units on with Velcro. Actually sticky self adhesive velcro. Not the sort of thing that you notice when viewing. Various other strange things including wallpaper straight onto bare plasterboard. And painting around a wardrobe, so left a huge rectangle of floral wallpaper when taken down 😂

The door handles have been placed incorrectly. It a 4 panel door and handle should be middle bit is, but they are above it. Not major, but slightly irritating.

Mine is too because the bloody bathroom fitter thought he would ignore me. Git. Wasn't my only issue with him & didn't want him back in the house. He took all the cut tiles as he didn't think I'd want them. WTAF??

We did a kitchen extension, but only put plug sockets on one wall. I curse myself for this, never mind future owners!

It’s a long narrow room with the units and worktops along one long wall, with windows and the back door in the wall opposite. The underfloor heating controls are on the wall with the windows, and we were asked if we wanted a couple of plug sockets on that wall as well. No, we said, there’s plenty of sockets on the other wall. Of course, a few days into using the lovely new kitchen and I realised it would be handy to have a couple of sockets there so I could put a radio on the windowsill, or leave phones on there to charge. Regretted it ever since.

Our rented 4 bed 80s house is lovely , posh road, double fronted, double garage, big front to back lounge, big front to back dining kitchen, - the works!! Why oh why is the boiler at the back of the loft - requiring the hatch and a total squeeze (it's not high) that a 6 year old would struggle with. The guy doing the gas safety check was absolutely baffled!!

I'm renting at the moment and there's carpet in the bathroom. WHY?

Previous owner removed the ceiling lights in the sitting room and both bedrooms, and added special dimmable sockets where you can plug in a lamp and turn them off & on from the light switch.

However said lamps must be rewired with a special plug, to be purchased & fitted every time you buy a new lamp , and also require (more expensive) dimmable bulbs or it will blow quickly. Floor lamps are needed for enough light coverage, but then take up space and make the room look cluttered, and in the evening rooms still feel a bit gloomy even with uplighters and multiple side lamps.

What the hell was wrong with normal overhead lights ffs?

Not my house but MIL's. In her small and narrow downstairs loo, she has one of those slide on/off toilet roll holders. It faces backwards towards the toilet. I've lost count of the times someone (me included) has pushed the loo roll off the holder as they turn round to sit down, and it has fallen down the toilet.

I have an old terrace with awkward switches too. A testament to the local habit of never using your front doors, there are actually no light switches in the living room whatsoever. The living room switch is out in the hallway - useful presuming you've just come in through the kitchen, annoying when you're already sat on the sofa.

I'm a very lazy practical person so I got some smart bulbs and can turn on/off with my phone now 😄

We bought a holiday home which has a jacuzzi bathtub. it takes the whole tank of hot water to fill it above the nozzles (needed to turn the jets on). So no one can have a shower before or after filling it and it doesn’t have a heater so it only stays warm for as long as a regular bath.

we also had (until yesterday) an enormous rectangular extractor fan unit which had its corners at temple height, leading to much pain and swearing. The oven is also on the peninsular which leads to the lounge so it was really an eyesore from whichever side you looked at it. Thankfully DH pulled it down yesterday but we need to get up onto the roof to figure out how to remove the remaining bit, no visible screws from inside!

Our conservatory that isn't straight meaning there are gaps in the hound covered with tape 🙀
The wording which is in trunking on the outside of the walls because when the hamster chewed it and BBqd himself we couldn't afford a proper rewire. This also means we have no electric sockets in dining room or conservatory and rely on extensions in rest of house.
The bathroom that's only half refurbed (bath and shower with panels over tiles) as we couldn't afford to do it all.
The doors that need replacing front and back.
The carpets in the bedrooms that are over 20 years old.
The floor boards upstairs that need fixing.
The radiator in the main bedroom that has never worked.
The complete lack of care and attention and energy saving things.

@PuttingDownRoots it definitely wouldn't stop me buying it!

it shouldn't stop anyone as long as there's enough space to swap it out with a bath if they want to!

I hesitated when I did my bathroom as so many people said the same AND I was thinking I might have to rent it out. But in the end decided I was living there, I was paying for it & I wanted a walk in shower, but it turned out because the floor was concrete I couldn't have a low level
walk in shower, & I couldn't take out the old airing cupboard I had planned to, so couldn't fit a separate bath & shower I'd have to have quite a high base, so decided I might as well have a shower over the bath.

But I'm still not happy about it

It appears I live in a shit hole held together by tape and glue and smoke and mirrors.

When my kitchen was being done, the electrician & the guy managing the whole job asked if I'd like a socket at both ends of a worktop, not just at one end as we'd planned. I said no, I thought one end was enough. They tried to convince me with examples of what i'd use it for & I resisted; but we ended up with the extra socket there.

They were right.

I haven't got a cutlery drawer in the kitchen either! There was one when we moved in, but we hadn't realised that the drawer unit was the only 60cm base unit in the whole (tiny) kitchen, so we sacrificed it to plumb the dishwasher in. Keeping the dishwasher was the right choice, but the cutlery now lives in the dining room in a sideboard at the furthest possible point from the kitchen door. This is because close to the kitchen door there is a radiator on one wall and French doors to the right so that was the only place the sideboard could go. One day we will turn the dining room into a decent sized kitchen and it will be designed around the cutlery drawer.

@TheCanyon
I had that wallpaper too😐

@WhereDoesThisToiletGo

I'd just assume that whoever did it was tall!!

im a short arsed & don't like them hung too low, but it also means I can't reach higher than the bottom shelf! (Base of the cabinet!!)

One day we will turn the dining room into a decent sized kitchen and it will be designed around the cutlery drawer.

I love the mental image this brings to mind. What a lucky cutlery drawer it will be being the centre of attention.

We did exactly the same thing after a flood meant we had to redo the whole bathroom. For us it's so much more practical, I hated baths anyways- always too hot or too cold!

@squashyhat why didn't you move the bathroom upstairs and have the 3rd bedroom (multi use room) downstairs?

Our lounge-diner. In the living room end, one wall has the door to the hall and a large window, the next wall has a large chimney breast, the third wall has the staircase, and the fourth wall has the archway to the dining area. Not one single unfettered wall. The two alcoves either side of the chimney have either a sticky-out gas pipe in the way, or a double socket, so you can't put anything in either of them. The dining room has one full-width patio door, the next has a radiator, the airing cupboard and the door to the kitchen, the third has the door to the under-stairs cupboard and the fourth is the archway to the lounge.

There is literally nowhere to put furniture that doesn't either block something up or make it look hopelessly cluttered.

When I had my shower room installed, I decided to put down a lovely rubberised floor, with a sort of knobbly/post industrial look to it. Future buyers will wonder why I deliberately chose a surface that picks up every bit of dirt, dust or hair in its vicinity. Or maybe they won't, because I'll rip it up in irritation before much longer.

I know someone whose house will be sworn at by future buyers - there is no loft hatch! Apparently they didn’t like the look of it, so had it covered with plasterboard. People have mentioned that they will have problems if they ever need to access the water tank in the loft.