'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...

Oh gosh Teardroprain that’s made me well up.

Not long ago I sold my house and occasionally when you turn on the lights, the spotlights turn off and on, off and on and then stay on. Not always, mind. Just sometimes. And never the wall lights or uplights. Think it’s transformer related but it never bothered us.
When they viewed the house I turned all the lights on to avoid them or any other viewers noticing. The buyers paid a good 7 figures and they have my email address. Waiting for the email..
Still, caveat emptor and all that.

Amongst other things, it’s the gap between the top of our high kitchen cupboards and the ceiling. The tops are made of some kind of plywood or composite board, and completely impossible to clean. Mind you I think whoever buys our house will be ripping all this out, unless we manage to get enough funding together to do it first (kids to get through uni, inflation, bills…dream on).

I also pity the person who replaces our main bathroom. Knowing how the builders messed up the bath installation and surrounding tiling, I think they’ll have to demolish and rebuild a couple of internal walls.

JimTheShit mine do the exact same thing! Do you have V pro dimmer modules inside your switches - this is their “reset” mode. But it happens at random

Our house is a work in progress. We have a very thick wall into the kitchen and the door was in a very strange place.
Dh (builder) was moving it a few years after we moved in, couldn't get a section of frame out so grabbed his saw.
The next thing that happened was a hiss, the smell of gas and a very worried dh thanking everybody that we hadn't gone bang.

The previous owners had hidden the gas pipe in the door frame.
We've spent the last 20+ years finding and fixing things.

@Crikeyalmighty

Yeah, with that I'd have chosen the garage. We don't have an internal access garage here. Nor a utility room. I seriously miss both!!!

We have been in our new house two months. Yesterday the whole blind system in the living room came crashing down . The original owners had stuck the wooden Venetian blinds on to a wooden plinth . The plinth was stuck onto the plaster above the window .
Yesterday the blinds fell down taking the wooden plinth and half the plaster from the wall with them. You can see the supporting wood was glued to the wall . Can’t believe it We paid her for the blinds as well !

our whole house is wired for telly in every room. So there’s wires all over the front of the house too. We’ve just cut them inside….oops.

We bought our first flat 3 years ago, viewed it 3 times not once noticing that there were no kitchen drawers.

Yep, I was also that person standing in the middle of the kitchen non-plussed thinking "crap...we have no drawers". Cutlery is currently housed in a wire holder which is infuriating because random sharp objects regularly try to escape. Not sure when or if we will ever have the money for a beautiful new kitchen but if we do, I'm going to have the best drawers of all time!

Just to add, we are spoilt for cupboard space, so I can't complain too much 😁

I can only apologise for the kitchen wall unit door that is hung from the wrong side and to compensate for this was hung with a swing hinge so that it now swings out and hits you in the face. I had a full time job, 3yo twins and a long commute and we lived half an hour away so I didn't get any say in the small decisions and so the house is a bit sort of renovated by committee. If I get to live in another house once I'm retired I'm going to buy something "in need of modernisation" (in other words, everything works fine, it's just not very fashionable) and I will live in it and update it slowly one room at a time, taking care over every decision. Maybe I will never finish it, maybe I will get the decorating bug and strip and paint the rooms all in one go. Maybe I will get distracted by a book and spend all my days reading it among my boxes while eating breakfast cereal for dinner. And nobody will be able to give me any grief for it.
I realise that as someone who is married, this picture is not quite complete... but honestly, he is shaping up to be a right grumpy old man, and once the kids are out of the house I don't think my I'm going to have much appetite for listening to whingeing.

Yep, I was also that person standing in the middle of the kitchen non-plussed thinking "crap...we have no drawers".

It's oddly comforting to know this appears to be a much more common occurance than I thought and its quite nice to know others have found themselves standing there like a lemon mid way through unpacking thinking shit where do we put the spoons.

We have mostly sorted our house out but when we moved in pretty much all of the window casements were siliconed shut. None of the windows downstairs opened at all. It’s been a real piece of work to get them all working, and very expensive. Also every surface of the house (walls/floors/ceiling) was some shade of pink, and there was the most hideous carpet covering tons and tons of original parquet floor. Inexplicably sealed up back door.

our contribution: we have a pantry that is a nifty solution to a structural engineering issue, we have a freestanding bath that looks beautiful but is incredibly uncomfortable.

We moved in to a house where the back patio light was controlled from the master bedroom upstairs.

Oh an in a previous house - someone had done a DIY job on all of the internal doors and none of them closed, didn’t come anywhere close to fitting into the frames, hadn’t even had the hinges recessed into the door itself. Found that out on moving in day so I now check the doors when viewing houses.

Slightly different angle.

Our house was built for a family and they lived here 40 years, we are the second owners. The guy moved to the flat in town he owned because he was starting to get dementia and this place was too big.

As his illness progressed he would go walkabouts and often end up at our place. We would call his family and make him a cup of tea.

He then used to walk around saying "there used to be a lovely x here", "what have they done with x this is awful"."where's the x gone? Where have you put it?"

Then when his family arrived he complained to them!

He was such a lovely guy, it was so sad to see his deterioration - we simply agreed with him that our taste and choices were terrible. Often when we make mistakes my husband will say "there was a lovely x here" in his memory. RIP Jack. x

We have a faintly annoying weird door set up in the hallway. There are 3 door which all open into a small space (front door, utility room door, door between porch and inner hall) and if they are all open there is hardly anywhere to stand. However it is very rare that the utility door is open and the inner door is great for keeping the heat in. And as said - our utility room (which is also a shower room) is at the front of the house. It was the only place we could build an extension, and I wanted a downstairs loo. We have a 4 bed house... It seemed sensible to put an extra shower in as well. Also - we have underfloor heating in almost every downstairs room EXCEPT the sitting room. Doesn't seem logical - unless you consider that the sitting room floor is almost completely covered by big rugs and underfloor heating doesn't work well if it is covered.

Several of our light switches are upside down, so off is on and vice versa. Obviously a mistake but we can't be bothered to fix it!

@Porridgeislife"Expensive Miele dishwasher with racks too small to accommodate standard size dinner plates. We either use side plates or hand wash."
We had a Miele dishwasher in the past and the upper shelf basket could be lowered and lifted again by handles at the sides. It allows you to wash lots of pans at once on the top and bottom at once when on one setting, or dinner plates when in the upper setting.
Just checked their website. They describe it as a Height-adjustable upper basket of you want to look up instructions!

@Headbandheart and @Beees - plus all the other kitchen drawer fans. I recently had my kitchen redone and apart from the sink - every single bottom 'cupboard' is drawers! I think I have 18 drawers (including pan drawers - and they are all 90cm wide). I love it so much!
Another thing about my house - in order to get planning permission for my front extension I had to put in a window to match the one on the other side. So my small utility/shower room has a bloody HUGE window in it! And it would have looked deal with frosted glass so it is clear glass with a Venetian blind for privacy.

Aren’t you meant to have two doors between a kitchen and a toilet?

every single bottom 'cupboard' is drawers! I think I have 18 drawers (including pan drawers - and they are all 90cm wide). I love it so much!

18 drawers! That sounds idyllic you could put spoons, forks, knives etc in their own drawer. I can see why you love it!

White worktops! Why? Hopefully rectifying this year

My engineer husband can't drill a hole to save his life so ended up chem fixing everything in our old house. The new owners will have a big mess when they try and take the loo roll holder off the wall!

In my house it'll be the colours of the walls, unless I'm efficient enough to paint them magnolia/grey/beige/whatever colour is deemed acceptable then.

Vibrant blue in ds2's room. Purple in mine. Bright yellow in the hall, stairs and landing, muted yellow in the kitchen-and I haven't decided on the yet-to-be-built-if-the-builders-ever-turn-up extension. Possibly more yellow.

I care not one jot. I don't like bland -all-through-the-house colour schemes. 😃

I have a recurring nightmare about having to use a loo like this. 😂