What is the most wasted feature of your home?

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Bath tub only the shower part

We're on page 4 and no-one has said DP yet! 😂

Wow, if we had one of those, I'd be taking it over for my personal library/craft room/chill out room.

Double-length tandem garage. Too narrow to get DH's car in (his is 2-door, so needs more opening room), I have crap spatial-awareness, so won't use it for my smaller car. It is just a dumping ground for every bike we've ever owned, all our old baby equipment (pushchairs, stair-gates etc....youngest is now 14), broken toys, trashed trainers, etc etc. Complete waste of space imo.

Fireplace complete with faux chimney breast and one of those gas fires that looks real, but the chimney stack sucks room heat straight out and lighting the gas is like burning £10 notes. (Must stuff something up the chimney now the nights are drawing in to stop the drought)

The electric underfloor heating we had installed in our bathrooms when we renovated. We've had it 5 years and husband has always said it was too expensive to run. Why did we even bother!?!

All other rooms, fittings and appliances we use almost daily. Our two children love a bath, so we use it almost every day. I also love a bath but only get to use it once every few months now

Is it just me who finds that video clear as mud? I have absolutely no idea what is happening there.

Conservatory. South facing. Too hot in the summer, cold in the winter.

Gas fire in the living room. It’s too drying and smells funny.

Study. Full of DH’s shit. He works in the kitchen and me in a tiny bedroom full of furniture.

Dining room

Used only for family visits (kids now adults and not at home.)

We eat in the kitchen. I wish the kitchen and dining room could be refigured into 1 room but the hall and stairs are in the way.

I now (after reading posts) have unused rooms / shed / cellar etc envy.. I have NO storage in my smallish house. The tumble dryer is the most wasted thing in the house as there's no room for it, it lives in the shed, I drag it in the house a couple of winter days per year.
I did have the bath taken out when we moved in, neither the kids nor I like them, we now have a big shower, lovely, & thanks to PP's who have said it didn't devalue their home, I DID wonder if I'd shot myself in the foot!

Bath here too. We recently redid the bathroom and couldn’t agree on this, eventually I relented, as I didn’t want one, and we put a lovely claw foot free standing bath in. It’s an expensive ornament. Never used. Pretty to look at but that’s it.

Fireplaces, we have 2 they are gas but fancy ones that look like coal fires.

Zero idea how to work them and actually think the gas man mentioned that he switched of the supply for safety 10 years ago.

Every so often a bird falls down them and we get a fun day of trying to shoo a bird out of the house, birds also drop bits of bread and stuff down which attracts maggots which is so gross and especially in summer we have to be on fly watch.

Here it's the side return patio. Our neighbours who have similar layout have all extended their kitchen/diner out over the patio but when we had ours done we weighed it up and decided it was a nice suntrap area for breakfast and lunch. It catches the sun until about 1pm. Had it replaced, lovely table and benches set, new cushions etc Never sit there. Not a single meal has been eaten there. Looks lovely but I now wish I'd opted for the massive kitchen!

Until covid we also had an almost unused formal dining room but that's now H's office and used almost every day. I have one upstairs. Apart from our guest room (which is occasionally used and handy for storage) we use all the rooms every day which we didn't at first.

Unlike most others on this thread our bath gets daily use and we'd hate not to have one. When we moved in there was a bath in both bathrooms and we did baulk at the idea of getting rid of one (though we did in the end).

H was adamant that we did not need a tumble drier so we got rid when we redid the kitchen. He is in charge of laundry to be fair. I wasn't so sure and bought a small black one which sits on a shelf in the kids TV room and blends in next to the stereo. It does get used now and again for small items and emergency washed school uniform so I made the right call!

I have no idea either!

Drive - previous owner turned entire front into a drive.

We don't drive - and one of the few houses with parking on entire estate - it's a pain as it's block paving and weed heaven.

As PP said with baths - they are useful with young children and when we were first house buying not having one did put us off the house - the drive here will probably be popular if we sell - two /three car parking space.

We also have bathrooms with underfloor heating that we've never used (installed by previous owners though). Just don't see the point, not in there long enough to justify the electricity use.

Manky shed at the bottom of the garden. The floor has rat holes, the door is rotting, and it has millions of spiders. I pretend it isn't there. We have another nice new shed.

The bath, I only ever use the shower. In the next few years I will have to get the bath taken out and a walk in shower put in, I'm getting older and I do worry about what if I slipped getting in or out, I live alone so no one would be able to help me.

Due to surgery on my face and head, I did have to use the bath several times, it was a nightmare, I created a tsunami getting in and another one when I eventually had to get on my knees to get out of the bath. Horrible!

The aga. I don’t know how to use it so it’s permanently turned off and we have a single oven and hob fitted in.

To those with redundant burglar alarms and pets, you can have them adjusted for weight - we had ours adjusted to take into account our hefty Labrador.

Our is our third bedroom - contains a cross trainer, a rowing machine and the ironing board 😄

Been in this house 17 years, we moved in with 2 late primary kids. All of us only liked showers so the bath literally gathered dust and we talked about ripping it out.
Then I was diagnosed with renal failure, all sorts of side effects including itchiness and insomnia, so often only 2-3 hours sleep. For about a year I got into the bath for 3 or 4 hours after dinner topping it up when it got cold, and would have little naps in there. Haven't used it much after kidney transplant but so grateful for it at the time.

Conservatory. Beautiful room taken over one end by husbands gym equipment and the other by trapped insects.

Utility room

If you do get a walk-in shower do what we did with ours, we asked for a low threshold one which means we don’t have to negotiate a big step to get into it. We also had a non slip finish applied to the shower base. Slipping and falling is my biggest fear, I can trip over a matchstick so it was good move.

Garage, even though parking is a nightmare around here and lots of double yellow lines. It’s too small for a modern car, plus we can’t open the garage door, aspestos roof, anything that gets puts in it goes either mouldy or rusts because it’s so damp. We’ve thrown away so many bikes & scooters. It mainly gets used as a skip until we get around to taking things to the tip.

I'm quite encouraged by the number of people who (like us) never use their bath. I've been campaigning with DH to get it changed for a nice big walk-in shower, but he's resisting it because he thinks every house must have a bath.