What is the most wasted feature of your home?

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Bath tub only the shower part

Mine is …topical. Our solar panels on our roof. House was newly built 7 years ago

Never had them connected as we assumed the saving in electricity would’ve been much less than the cost to connect them!! Guess who’s madly trying to find someone to help with this

I moved into a new build 9 years ago that has solar panels, I’ve never had to heat my hot water in the summer. I have a low fuel bill despite a high electricity use and an EV.

How is someone with a cluttered room any different from you 'bursting at the seems'.

There point is they are too and you have no idea how big their space is just that its so full they cant fuction properly in it JUST LIKE YOU.

There is nowhere to keep an upright hoover. It has to lurk somewhere. No cupboard tall enough without shelves in the way. I'm thinking to make a cutout from a shelf in one cupboard so I can do this. It's too much faff/messy to take the handle off the Shark as that's the cord winder gone as well.

Imitation log gas fire in sitting room. Far too expensive to use!

We also never used the Burglar Alarm in our current property and eventually had it taken out. Not fitted a new one yet, although we have used them in previous properties.

The attic rooms. DH has one as his 'study/den' (but uses another ground floor small room mainly as a study) another is a spare bedroom and the 3rd a big bathroom.They are big, proper rooms, part of the original build back in Edwardian times. Did come in useful when DH had covid- he was banished up there.

We don't have many visitors these days.

@viques you have to monitor the water temperature of all taps and do legionella testing in a healthcare setting yes. dental nurses do it as part of our job

prolly the bath too. In the main bathroom we did it up about 12 years ago so kids still young enough for a bath but old enough to bathe themselves. In hindsight we should have put up a big shower cubicle which would have also let us chop off about 3ft from the bathroom to make DD's small room bigger.

Pot bellied stove in kitchen. It was installed when the house was built 28 years ago. We have never used it. It's very attractive to look at and in keeping with the house, which is basically an Irish cottage look with beams etc. But all we do is trip over it. I even broke my toe on the plinth it sits on a few years ago! It is finally being moved into the living room this week.

Indeed. Mumsnet seems to be full of loaded people with huge houses with crazy features!

We put in a big, expensive stand alone bath which we never use. I expect this winter we’ll have to turn off the Aga as it wil probably be cheaper to burn fivers than buy the oil needed to run it. Best buy was solar panels.

My bath and my spare room.
I never take a bath, it's always showers.
My friends all live very close and I tend to visit my relatives rather than the other way round and I have not found a use for it.
I guess the cats like sleeping in there.

DH’s office. It is a shit pit of stuff he has dumped in there and he rarely works from home (probably because it is such a tip)
Also our sun terrace. It is such a faff getting all the cushions, bean bags etc out to use it as our shed is tiny that I only use it if we are going to have several days of good weather at a time. So it only gets used a week or so every year. When we do use it however, it is bliss.

Lovely front room to some extent - it was really nice, DH was using it to work for a while, then stopped, then it became a dumping ground for his post and stuff again, but he is about to tidy it and start using it again!

The dining room.I use it when wfh, Christmas and family dinners in winter. We eat in the kitchen which is lighter and view onto garden.

the front garden was just lawn when we moved in. Got a bit paved for a seat. Planted it all up with trees, flowers etc to screen from road. It’s lovely in the morning for a cup of tea, it’s my space.

The previous owner's wine fridge in the utility room. It's a fridge. With some white wine and tonic water in. I honestly think it's the reason DH bought the house and it does nothing that an hour in the actual fridge wouldn't do, while taking up space that could be used for more kitchen appliances storage.

We also have a downstairs shower that's used almost exclusively for washing the dog, but anything that saves me hauling 37kg of stinky mutt up the stairs and into our bath, then cleaning the bath, then picking dog hair out of the plug hole for weeks, is probably worth it. And I do love our bath. Nothing like a good long soak when you've got achey muscles or period pain.

Bath here too. Had it fitted about 6 years ago as the bathroom is big enough to have both a bath and freestanding shower. I've used it once. DH has never used it. The only time it really gets used is when I have my hair dyed and I need to rinse it off. Otherwise, it's just an expensive and large clothes horse for all the partially worn clothes and pyjamas.

Our garage was converted before we moved in here, but it wasn't done well, so it's a cold and dark room. The previous owners used it as a teenage den, but ours has now reverted back to what most people's garages are used for - junk! But it does keep the cold drinks nice and chilled in winter!

Conservatory - too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. Waste of money.

The door from the conservatory to the garden.

It hasn't been opened for 3 years, I have a desk in front of it. Our conservatory is right next to the living room which has double doors to the garden that are well used - it just isn't needed.

Nothing.

We live in an apartment which we renovated for our needs and we use absolutely everything.

I forgot we have a burglar alarm so I suppose that's wasted!

A wall mounted breakfast bar in the kitchen is kind of wasted for me as i envisage a better use of the space. Whilst the kids use it daily to eat breakfast, I want to remove it and put a long table and chairs there so it's a more social space to sit and eat/play board games. Trying to work out if it will be an easy diy job that i could tackle

I don't use my bath tub either, but as it's the 'family' bathroom for resale purposes I kept it when I remodelled. I also put one in the loft en suite - that's my daughter's bedroom and she does have baths.

I have a bath every single night as does DD (Uni aged) when she is home so that is def not a waste-she even had a preference for Uni houses with a bath.

I really don't think we have any wasted space we have a Victorian semi.

Everyone has their own bedrooms, the small one is DH office and the two sitting rooms are used equally as one has non stop sport on the telly and the other one does not.

I can see ppl preferring showers but seems a shame to have rooms you are unhappy with-maybe this will inspire ppl to re-purpose or sort out unloved spaces!

Not just healthcare - we do it in residential management; dead ends such as garden taps need running too. It is an absolutely essential part of risk control.

Our attic - nothing in it.