To hate people going on about how beautiful my house is

[DyslexicScientist]

When its absolutely freezing inside, costs a fortune to heat and its still not particularly warm or comfortable! This is for about half the year. I've done lots that I can do but it is listed.

I dream of building a modern but boring house. I've packed my suitcase and am staying in my friends modern house this weekend and I'm really looking forward to it.

Anyone else suffering in an old house and having to deal with people just commenting on how nice it looks despite bing very impractical?

Damn! Others beat me to it

oh how my heart bleeds for you - how terrible to have such a lovely house and to have people comment on how beautiful it is.

Ever thought about people living in truly awful places in terrible conditions? The sheer self-centredness of this post is just .

I grew up in old houses - I live in a 1960s build now. It's so much easier. But not beautiful at all. I occasionally miss the beauty of where I grew up so threads like this help me get over myself!

Better then living in a shitty non bautifull flat that is freezing. Even with heating in it escapes.
Sometimes I think it's warmer outside then in my flat. Sliver long iv built up a resiliant for the cold.

Think of the summer.... It'll be lovely

Croquette, I was responding more to Sparklingbrook who said that she OP should say x because that would shut them up. I found the idea of having to shut guests up for complimenting your home to be beyond odd.

Swap with me?
I will pick cold and charector over mundane efficiency any day.

but if it's causing upset Morris they need to be told.

I've lived in Edinburgh tenement flats. They are gorgeous and not cold despite being old, BUT what put me off was neighbour issues. People refusing to pay for the shared repairs, damaging the communal area, and one who would repeatedly forget his key and break the door down, and leave bags of used cat litter in the stair.

If you get good neighbours it's lovely, but the shared responsibility for the stair can be a terrible PITA if not.

If people are shut down for saying anything negative about anything they are fortunate to own

Owning a house which is neither warm nor comfortable for half of the year doesn't sound 'fortunate' to me - it sounds utterly grim, and rather than moaning about it I'd be selling it and moving to something better.

That sounds terrible OP.
If I were you I'd move to a nice warm tent somewhere and let a few homeless people have the house.
HTH.

I thought Sparkling's "That will shut them up" was tongue in cheek.

I'm really sorry if I've upset people by describing my cold 'like a caravan' toilet seat :(

Your friends are insensitive bastards. Imagine giving someone a compliment on their lovely home! Bloody nerve.

sparkling your sad face on this thread is just too seriously! Sad faces because someone compliments OP on her house and it 'upsets' her because the house is cold.

Here's what needs to happen
Friend: "your house is gorgeous"
OP: "thanks, its a bugger to heat though"

No daily mail sad faces required.

Owllady, you know the moment I read that, I thought "HMMM! So you have a caravan too, do you? Don't know you're born!"

:o

But the OP is sad. Sad enough to start a thread in AIBU about it Rude. She hates it.

*OP: Shall I buy this dress for a wedding?
Preachy MNers: Our family could live for 4 and a half years on lentils for the cost of that dress.

OP: Argh I just stood on sharp lego!
Preachy MNers: Some families can't afford lego, you insensitive cow

OP: I'm upset that neighbour has thrown rubbish into my garden.
Preachy MNers: You have a GARDEN!? You snooty bitch. I live in a 340-storey high rise and I'd give my right arm for a garden, rubbish or no rubbish. We grew up in a shoebox on the motorway blah blah di blah...*

Hilarious, bit sadly very true!

I didn't say I was sad or wanted to shut anyone up, that was others.

Tbf when I watch Homes Under the whatsit and they rave on about sash windows and tiled floors my first thought is always how bloody cold they look. Maybe this is why houses sell most in summer? When you can pretend it will never ever be cold and oh, how lovely having cool tiles on the floor, just like in Italy :)

Yes the neighbour factor is ongoing for us tenement dwellers. We've had all kinds of problems in the past but luckily now have lovely neighbours, which could of course change. When the nice ones sell up to go and live in Siberia :)

Ha!

We lived in an old Victorian , very beautiful ,detached in a conservation area.

Fuck me, it was freezing; so cold in the winter you could see your own breath as you breathed out before the heating came on.

We moved after 18 months as the winter bills were through the roof.

Op your house sounds shit (is that more acceptable to you? ).

I hate the cold so I really do sympathise and hope you have a lovely time at your friends warm house. I currently rent a house built in the 60's, it's not much to look at but it's lovely and warm!
Are you able to sell it and buy a modern house? Sounds like it would be worth quite a bit.

I think you are being a little unreasonable as people are just being nice and there are many in much worse housing situations than you but I do understand how shit it is to be constantly cold.

You might just have to spend winter in a fleecy onesie.

If people were saying something I hated I would want them to shut up.

Oh homes under this hammer!

omg have you seen this house ffestiniog WALES. Omg omg look at the price. Let's move to Wales. Let's move to Wales!

That's my husband that is ^^

I sometimes reminisce about that house then slap myself with a wet fish when I remember blow drying cling film into the sash Windows to block he draughts.

Good grief...

Sparkling - are you being serious?