What annoys you about your own home?

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Can be anything
My dog
How small it is.

Very old terrace cottage, with horrible old sash windows,that have broken sash cords in two of them, chilly house with no double glazing, and some damp walls in places.

The carpets in bedroom 1 and 2, needs replacing but the thought of moving all the furniture has put me right off.

The Lino in the kitchen needs replacing too but again to many large items to move.

Not enough storage in rooms.

Tbh the whole house needs redecorating but can’t really afford professionals and trying to do bits but with two little ones is taking me a very long time but I am having fun with experimenting with colours etc...

A sloping driveway.
Boggy grass in the garden - can only be played on by dc about 4/5 months of the year.
Inexplicable damp and mold that keep appearing around the downstairs toilet window every winter, that we cannot for the life of us get rid of, despite much effort.

The position and over insulation make it insanely hot

I’ll grant you I have very little heating to pay but honestly you could run the portable air con unit
May to October. I can’t understand why anyone thought the place needed that much insulation. It’s a flat so I can’t attack the walls and remove it or anything!

The cupboards open on their own as does the back door. It's oldish and creaky.

Love our house, but the master bedroom is too small - can’t fit a nice king-size bed frame, just a footless divan. It’s 4 bed-roomed, but it would actually be better with just 3 larger bedrooms. Now and again we consider knocking through upstairs to have a dressing room off the main bedroom but it would reduce the saleable value too much.
I would also like to have a utility room, and a proper private frontage rather than a shared drive.
Lived here 30 years so we’ve improved everything else to our liking, but ultimately it’s a 3 bedroom house house pretending to be 4 bedroomed!

Nebby peering tourists. Storage needs sorting. A Mr. with less hobbies that require substantial equipment - not outing - climbing and mountaineering. A “futility” with a floor plan like a tardis.

That it’s so far away from England. I love living here but can’t stand the flight back to England when I visit.

Generally I love our house, sad to be leaving it soon. But things I could do without are:

• Having to lug bikes and scooters through the house - we're mid-terrace.

• Being on a busy road can be very annoying.

• The sash windows that have been painted shut and don't open without a screwdriver.

The persistent damp patches in the basement (or 'lower ground floor' if you're an EA) and the very inconvenient kitchen layout.

I have a 3 bedroom semi detached but my kitchen is TINY. Like the size of one in a motor home/touring caravan

To make room for the 3rd bedroom upstairs they moved the bathroom downstairs (which is also tiny) and cut the kitchen in half to put the bathroom in

Thing is the garden is gigantic so none of it makes sense, I rent or I would absolutely build an extension.

Lack of walls. No obvious place for a Christmas tree

No bathroom or kitchen windows.
I absolutely love having the windows open all through the house when I'm cleaning, or in summer, all the time.

That I still own it. Been trying to sell it for 5 years.

My Crap Arsehole neighbour s

Their football mad son with his stupid football smashed my windows twice !!!

The brambles that are grew everywhere in my garden
The serious damp issues

My other neighbour throwing big amount of pig skin and food, over my garden..

I seem to often acctract Shit neighbours.

Well they appear initial to be nice neighbours to wish for then turn into pyshopathic neighbours in time !!

I can't stand these arseholes

The spare bedroom is TINY.

Garage is just slightly too small for modern cars so I have to park EXACTLY right. Bugs get in somehow and I have NO idea how.
That’s about it really

Damp kitchen and back of house.
Badly fitting windows mean noise from the road is constant
Leaking roof
Leaking shower drips into hall
Broken tiles on hall floor
Big and cold and all needs decorating
Garden is too big, too overgrown and depressingly full of nettles

We have a lovely garden, but deciduous trees along the back, so in the winter when they lose their leaves it feels quite exposed.

It's semi detached and we can hear the neighbours.

I love almost everything else about it.

Married to a builder - not one room is ‘finished’!

No window in the bathroom.

Kitchen is too small (room for one person only).

No in-built storage.

My bedroom. It has four windows and is cold in winter no matter what I do.

I've installed new double glazed windows, insulated and boarded the loft, put foil behind the radiators, have blinds with thermal linings. It's slightly better but still not warm.

In the summer it's bliss though, cool, & breezy

I love my house but, aside from two rooms that need redecorating, things I can't change that annoy me are:

No way to get to the playroom from the kitchen without going all the way around the downstairs and through the sitting room. In the summer, when both back doors can be open, you can cut across the patio but in the winter it's a bit of a pain.

My house is set down from the road a bit and all the rubbish of the street blows down into my front garden so even though it's a fairly quiet street there is always litter in my garden. The neighbour across the road, who is much higher up, has ornamental grasses with massive, rigid shard type leaves, and they blow down too and I have to fill my garden bin with them.

Garden is south-west facing but I'm crap at it and it has nothing of colour there and lots of shapeless bushy things. Got a bit better at it and it looked okay during lockdown, but I bet next year it'll back to square one.

Horrible cheap laminate in 2 of the bedrooms, including mine. I could replace with carpet but can't face the upheaval. I have some nice rugs but still see bits of shitty laminate. Previous owners did lovely floors elsewhere - perhaps they ran out of money...

Other than that I love it!

The conservatory. It’s Victorian and made of wrought iron and slightly opaque glass panels. The problem is it’s freezing cold in the winter which means you can’t use it for half of the year. I read somewhere that , “back in the day” , they were heated all the time but that would cost a small fortune. Means we can only really use it in the warmer weather. We keep the garden furniture in there over winter.

lack of plugs.it's an old house
damp