What annoys you about your own home?

[TruiColours]

Can be anything
My dog
How small it is.

That there is some random pipe noise? Electric noise at night. Once I hear it I struggle to sleep.

Wet and sloped garden.

Bit where we removed bushes in the front.

No plugs on the island unit.

Should have put a wood burner in downstairs

You can't access the bin and the dishwasher at the same time. Sooooo annoying when you're loading the dishwasher and find a plate that needs scraping!
Creaky stairs/ upstairs floors.
Walk through living room.
Small garden.
Stupid front door that sometimes locks when you shut it and sometimes doesn't.
No downstairs loo.

No outside space. And it's leasehold so I have to pay the real owner every year for no idea what.

2 bed flat:

Only one small cupboard (so I rent a garage )

It has rotting wooden windows so we have to keep the curtains closed to prevent draughts. Who decided that wooden windows were a good idea in 2001? UPVC windows are promised by the freeholder but we don't have a date yet.

The lounge/dining area is humungous but the Kitchen is tiny. You can hit the oven door with the kitchen door. We can't get a sluding door for the kitchen that meets fire regs, and our freeholder won't let us knock it through. It's a PITA.

There’s a lamp post opposite our driveway that’s right on the edge of the kerb- means if there are 2 cars on the drive you have to do a 15 point turn to reverse out.

Only one reception room downstairs, but a 5 bed house. We have 3 kids and as they get older I see this being an issue

No downstairs loo. We are saving up for downstairs extension but it’s a few years away.

Only having one reception room. Due to the whole table issue. Especially now Mumsnet have let us know how scummy it is to not have a proper dining table.

White ceramic tiles in the kitchen - whoever would choose those ? .

Long, thin living room - seems a popular shape in modern homes but it makes placing the furniture really difficult and seems like sitting in a dentist waiting room. Hate the fireplace too - we were going to install a wood burner but initially thought we wouldn't live here for long .... ten years later really wish we had just done it.

The fact that my husband still lives here despite my wanting him to leave.

It is in a boring village .

No drive.

The fact my kitchen was made by someone who thought he was Preston's answer to Joseph and the cupboards are too small for my plates so none of the bloody doors shut.

The fact that no matter how often I damp dust the place it's always covered in dust 5 mins later.

Can't wait to move

@SilverBirchWithout

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!

Do it. If that is all you need to do. If you're going to stay for another say, 10 yrs, it will be worth it. It's probably only a stud partition which could be put back at relatively little expense when you come to move.

Our master is massive, but the other 3 bedrooms aren't. I'd rather lose my study and split it between the other 2 but the window is in the way

Lack of a porch at the front annoys me. That and when anything needs to be replaced you find out nothing "off the shelf" will actually fit properly. We eventually replaced the front door because I couldn't get a new letterbox!
Oh, and never have a white floor in your kitchen. Not if you live with another human (or cats)

Creaky floors and shite plumbing

One very small bathroom, and no sensible way of adding another.

x-post with Ragwort
Our kitchen had white floor, cupboards, worktops and tiles. It looked like an operating theatre!
Changed the worktops to a charcoal grey with a black sparkly sink and it looks a lot better especially with a cheap rug covering a lot of the tiles

No hall. Front door opens into a tiny square and the stairs so nowhere to put coats and shoes. Lack of storage in general.

3 of ours rooms have the most knackered lino, I hate it but we rent and not sure if we will be here in 5years so dh wont replace it.
Theres so many lumps in it now and it's becoming a pain to Hoover and mop

Kitchen too small
No downstairs loo
Creaky radiators pipes under the floor

However these are all changeable so I'm super grateful too!

Lovely big rooms but tiny bathroom and kitchen . Kitchen could be a better design which I will fix if arsehole ex ever pays me out of my former home . Really glad though we are secure in our own place.

It's damp. So just a constant battle with damp. We have a dehumidifier but still need to bleach walls, window sills and parts of ceilings every few weeks.

Rats in my loft.
Horrible. Can’t get rid of them.

I keep imagining something like out of Ratatouille where they all fall through the bedroom ceiling.

And mid terraced so lugging the lawnmower/bikes etc through the whole house is a pain in the arse.

Large, draughty single glazed windows.

Stairs in the lounge. It was the perfect house is every way when it was just me living here but feels cramped and untidy now the boyfriend has moved in.

I dream of a 1930's semi with a kitchen extension and cosy lounge.

Nowhere near enough plug sockets

Tiny little doors that you can't fit any furniture through so you have to take the front room window out

Fugly pebble dash exterior

In desperate need of redecorating