What annoys you about your own home?

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Can be anything
My dog
How small it is.

Creaky stairs

That I rent it. I’d love to buy it.

The neighbours curtain twitching.

Creaky upstairs floors
Too bloody small!

Neighbours throwing out bird seed every single day so there is an army of pigeons sat on my fences, leaving poo trickles on the fence, fighting occasionally and flying off with a lot of bluster and noise when something spooks them all

No drive and no chance of ever having one.

No downstairs loo, but in time, we may be able to add that.

The house is too small and the garden is too big and requires tons of maintenance.
It's also really creaky and noisy.

No hall. Have to walk through living room to get to the kitchen.

Our bathroom lights keep going on and off randomly when you use the bathroom 😱😱!

Garden’s too small.

I have bats under the eves and when I am lying in bed I can hear them.

House is perfect.
The weather in the city I live in, is not. Seeking warmer climes.

The fact that it's got leaded Windows
You know the ones with those stupid small diamond shapes all over the window
I hate it. No idea why someone would want Windows like this

Too small. So very small. Constantly thinking of a ways to maximise the space. Bathroom is downstairs, annoying as I am pregnant.

Bathroom needs new floor after the kids soak it every day. All peeling up at the corners and gross. Gets damp patches as well though not as bad since the roof was replaced.

My bathroom is tiny
Third bedroom may as well be a cupboard
Floor looks streaky no matter how I clean it

We bought it prior to having DS when we didn't need as much space. Plus DH hoards

Location. Great road, but when you leave my private road that consists of 5 houses, the next road is double parked cars, speed humps and potholes.

My roof leak
Burgundy bathroom suite
My kitchen

Stupidly shaped rooms so furniture only fits in one way, I like to have a shuffle around sometimes! Also plug sockets being right where the furniture has to go so I can't get to them and have to use extension leads all the bloody time

Yup, the size. 2 bed, 4 in a block and due a third baby (not planned), and no chance of moving anytime soon.
The skirting boards and doors. They are bloody horrendous, cheap as chips doors, and skirting that have been there for years with several coats of paint and they are chipping nd knobbly. I want to replace but the upheaval of moving everything, then having to redecorate, just probably not worth it.
It gets a couple of mouldy patches and the fucking neighbour up the stairs took away his external porch and left the walls damaged on the outside. We now have water leaking in in 2 places, and the plaster coming away from the walls.
The external doors. It's and ex council house and still has the councils doors, same as the internal ones.
The boiler needs replaces.
Honestly thenlist goes on and on.

The neighbours
Boggy back garden

Lack of storage. Every spare cranny is storage but it's a tiny flat and never enough.

We have to keep seasonal stuff on the spare bed (loft bed) which means it can never be used!

Leaking roof and builders taking months to sort it.

Leaves in the swimming pool

The ceilings are too low. We lived in a terrace before this, moved because the neighbours were so awful but would do anything for my 10ft ceilings back :(

Also the bathroom is just bloody awful. Functional; but awful.

And I've waited my entire life for a downstairs bathroom but it's just so fucking cold that I can't use it.

It has a lovely garden though which is a bastard to maintain

Great idea for a thread!

• Crappy tiny en-suite in which I have to hold the shower head as I can’t reach the fixed holder on the wall. We will be refurbishing soonish
• internal walls apparently made of foot thick Kevlar, requiring a drill the size of a microwave and expensive diamond tipped drill bits to hang pictures, shelves or mirrors.
• we have damp issues in some walls which we will fix at doubtless great expense.
• the crappy kitchen we inherited has that salmon pink and brown speckled terrazzo type stone work surface. It’s ugly, and is the perfect camouflage for crumbs and debris, the number of times I’ve thought “I’ll give it a quick wipe just in case although it looks clean...” - only to collect a mound of toast crumbs with one swipe.

We will be selling in Spring to buy a bigger house but need to do essential remedial work first. I’m always amazed that so many people buy houses and immediately replace kitchens and bathrooms with ones to their taste. We have been financially comfortable in recent years, but we’ve never felt able to do that and make do for ages while we gradually get around the house. I”m fifty and still get surprised about how expensive some house related things are; decent curtains for example, so simple but so bloody expensive. Boilers! - Yawn! I wish one of us were handy; getting work done is also so expensive and seems to be a lottery in terms of reliability and quality.