To ask for another annoying things about other peoples homes thread?

[balihai550]

This one two years ago made my christmas... can we have another? 🎄 🙏

Also agree with the no lights . As soon as it's going dark lights on . I hate it if I go somewhere and nobody put a light on so sat there in the dark . I usually say shall I put a light on and the host will go ok then like it's not occurred that it's dark . Also with the opening and closing curtains too . My in-laws will sit with curtains open in dark and closed in the day sometimes until the remember to open / close

An elderly friend had the loft in her bungalow converted & put in a tiny, enclosed & precipitously steep staircase. She'd always wanted polished wood stairs, so that's what she put in.

Anyone padding around, having taken off their shoes, would dice with death walking down these insanely slippery steps in stockinged feet, with no hand rail AND A WINDOW AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STAIRCASE just to induce more terror at the thought of being swooshed straight out through it.

Recognising the danger, she would shout at anyone using the stairs to be careful. But she refused point blank to carpet the stairs.

SimpleLife003

You got me. I'm lazy & I don't care who knows it.

PILs keep their heating almost always off, even when it's freezing. If we stop over, they'll put the radiator on in the guest room, but that's it. General visiting, I wrap me and the kids up warm, or my toes go numb with cold. When BIL visits from a hot country, he's always in layers, scarves, fluffy hats etc.

SILs is all very sleek, grey, shiny and minimalist, even with two small children. I always feel like I'm cluttering the place up when I sit down.

DM has no lock on her bathroom door - doesn't bother me usually. She lives there alone and during visiting, it's a case of if the door is closed, it's occupied. I do get a bit twitchy at family celebrations though when there are more people there.

Get a bathroom lock that can be opened from inside, if you're worried about DC locking themselves in.

I leave the lounge curtains closed when I go out, it keeps the heat in the house. We used to visit a relative who would have cereal for breakfast and then the evening meal at 6pm, at the time I had 3 small children. No lunch was offered and they would actually say that nobody needs to eat lunch. Well that's fine for them but when you have a 2, 3 and 5 year old then the level of hungry moaning has to be seen to be believed.

Mine has to be ancient forks where the tines are out of alignment - more especially when 'best cutlery' is never used! It ruins a lovely meal when the fork feels weird. I have done a quick change around of cutlery before now......

...the pillows could double as pitta breads.

Too hot or too cold
Dirty loo
Manky hand towel
No soap in loo or a yucky old tiny piece of crumbling bar soap
Pubes in shower/bath
Towels that smell damp
Texting in advance to remind me to bring my slippers
No side lights' just garish overhead lighting
Massively oversized tv on at a deafening volume
Radio on loud in the background the entire time
Cats on surfaces
Dog hair all over sofa
No hand towel or guest towels given
No spare loo roll available without declaring mid way through that you need more
Sings on doors in bathroom telling you not to flush a wee
Air plug ins
Thats about it!!

@jambeforeclottedcream we have spotlights everywhere and half don't work, the ones that are here are halogens and if we made them all work the electricity bill would shoot up and to replace with LEDs would cost an arm and leg so they say like it. (We rent, reluctant to shell out replacing light fixtures if we're not going to be here long term)

Most of you would hate my house!

Don't use hand towels, downstairs loo and bathroom have a bath towel on the back of door for drying hands - these aren't used for showering etc

I have dogs, they're hairy, don't like it then don't come here 🤷🏻‍♀️

No tea towels, or one that's been there, unwashed, since Thatcher resigned.

I don't mind some dog or cat smells - only natural - but I very much object to dog or cat fur on every available surface where I might sit or eat.

Too many people invited to a house that can only accommodate half that number.

@jelly79

Tester paints on the walls for months with no decision made

Bad wine glasses

Bad wine's worse than bad wine glasses though! And small wine glasses are worse, too. Imo, it's always the houses that have tiny glasses that are occupied by people who regard having a second glass of wine with dinner as tantamount to dipsomania, despite the fact that each glass is barely half the size of a normal one.

They also often have teeny tiny mugs that hold about a thimbleful of tea. What's the point of that?

No bathroom bin people - don't you floss your teeth?

@Chickenwing

Im confused about the people with no toilet bin... where do you put the cardboard bit of the toilet roll? Or empty shampoo/conditioner? Face wipes, sanity products, cotton pads????

I dislike when people make me take my shoes off. Or if there's nowhere to sit.

Cardboard inner, along with Shampoo & conditioner bottles, should be in the recycling surely.

We went to visit old friends who had moved to another country. The moment we walked through the front door the smell of damp hit us. The whole house reeked of it and they mentioned all the colds and sore throats they’d had since moving in. Err... HELLO! At one point the husband mentioned they had a de-humidifier running in the guest room as it “could get a bit damp”. Oh great. Looks like we were expected to sleep at the source. I was kind of appalled this was being inflicted on us and we couldn’t exactly go home. We stayed up long into the night drinking and trying to put off the inevitable. We finally went to bed. I remember waking in the night and could feel the cold and wet from the solid stone wall seeping into the bedding. I tried to sleep and woke again with my body having some bizarre hot-sweat episode! The friends seemed completely oblivious to the inappropriate sleeping conditions. Weird. We were also told not to drink the well water from any taps in the house as we’d definitely get the shits. On the last evening of a long weekend we were ushered into a closed-off room they kept for best and sat by a roaring fire for a few hours like it was a special treat before once again enduring the torture room. We’ve never been back.

Piles of grubby shoes by the front door or on the stairs; just get a shoe cabinet?

Smelly pets that sit on the sofa.

Hosts who make you wait until 10am for breakfast instead of ‘help yourself’.

Lack of hot water or low pressure.

Bedding that smells damp or overpoweringly of fabric conditioner!

People who insist on coasters.

Lack of plug sockets in the guestroom, how hard is it to provide an extension cable if the socket’s behind the bed?

It’s everything to do with toilets for me.

The glass-panelled doors - eek. The lack of locks - eek. Weak or temperamental flush -eek. And if you need to visit the loo in the night, as a pp mentioned, a fan which sounds like a helicopter convention. And a loud squeaky door and ferocious flush. Then you have to weigh up whether it’s worse to leave a wee I flushed or wake the entire household...

Dsis has a flat with the bathroom directly off the living room. Nightmare. It is embarrassing enough with relatives, but when she has other guests over it sends me into paroxysms of panic at the fear that I will need the loo.

Cold house- our friend's house was always like that- although they are brilliant hosts, their house is alway clean a cosy, but the freeze just puts you off.

Toilet in utility room- my friend have one straight behind the dining room, they have also another bathroom with toilet upstairs, but prefer visitors use the bottom one.
I hate to use it, as you can hear everything behind the door.

people who insist on coasters - I do because I don't like those rings on the tables.

@JauntyMcGinty

Cushions on leather sofas.

So you'd just leave them as they are? That looks so soulless and boring.

Bad lighting. I’ll often walk past people houses in the early evening and they’re all sat watching TV under the glare of a 100w bulb in a ceiling light fitting, giving the room the relaxing nighttime vibe you’d expect in an operating theatre.

2 bathroom house, no 1 in one bathroom no2 in the other so when you stay over you have to think about what bathroom to go to.

BIL and SIL never seem to have the heating on. We went on Christmas Day once to exchange presents. It was so cold my son's lips went blue! He was shivering uncontrollably and luckily young enough to say "I'm freezing!" and get away with it. They put the heating on then.

I couldn't really get over not heating the house on Christmas Day with visitors coming. They aren't short of money.

people who insist on coasters - I do because I don't like those rings on the tables

I find they stick to my cup and fall off, making me jump and spill coffee!

In our house we just have old side tables, or magazines strategically placed if we’re worried about rings on the wood.