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TruiColours · 2020-12-09T23:41:34+00:00

Can be anything My dog How small it is.

Crappyfridays7 · 10/12/2020 08:00

The decor, green carpet, green couch everything is green, it’s too small
It’s shabby and it’s temporary so can’t have any of our own furniture. 3 of my kids in one room eldest doesn’t get on with youngest so it’s difficult.
3 years and counting maybe get a home next year!!

PrinnyPree · 10/12/2020 08:00

Too small especially the kitchen which only has room for an undercounter fridge (freezer in an outbuilding) and no room anywhere for a tumble dryer, needs a new drive and roof, 101 small diy jobs need doing, including finishing my oak bannister that a joiner bodged in. One next door neighbour (who we share a wall with) is a PITA (but we mostly just ignore him, his wife and kids are nice though) and the nice neighbours we share a dive with are selling. The garden fence on the PITA neighbours side is only 5ft high (and the top 1ft is trellis) and was only replaced a few years ago, wish I'd replaced it with 6ft solid fence.

The area is very good though (safe and catchment to outstanding primary) and we live walking distance to work but house prices have gone nuts since we bought 7 years ago so if we wanted something a bit bigger we'd probably have to move out of the area.

Ilovemycat13 · 10/12/2020 08:02

Hmm. A flat with no parking so car is a 15 min walk away. We’re town centre so noisy. Noisy neighbours which change constantly as they are renting. Faaar too small! It’s one bed with kitchen and living together. NDN having sex loudly.

However it is cosy and when it’s tidy it looks lovely. It will certainly make me appreciate anything else if we are ever able to move.

echt · 10/12/2020 08:07

No hall. We had to buy in a hurry and this weighed on me a bit. Meh.

However, more storage space than I've ever encountered anywhere. Bear in mind this is a typical Australian house with neither a loft nor a cellar.

LakieLady · 10/12/2020 08:17

@BelindaBallsover

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

Same here. There is a space about 2' x 3' between the front door and the bottom of the stairs, which I call the hall, but it really isn't. And it means the living room carpet gets far more wear than it would if the living room wasn't also a corridor.

No downstairs lav.

The living room doesn't have a single uninterrupted wall (one has a door + a cupboard door, one has a chimney breast and a cupboard, one has a door and the other has a bay window). It really limits where you can put furniture.

The meters are in a stupid, tiny cupboard under the stairs that you have to crawl into. And you have to pull out a heavy sofa to get to it, so I can't read the meter. My energy supplier is nowhere near installing smart meters in this area.

And I need a new kitchen and bathroom, but all my spare money is going on new windows, doors and boiler, which were more urgent.

RJnomore1 · 10/12/2020 08:20

I love my house but we have only been here just over a year and have lots still to do. My biggest grumble is the bathrooms at present. We did the downstairs loo when we did the kitchen and utility but the upstairs bathroom and ensuite are 20 years old. The actual toilets are a weird keyhole shape and the ensuite shower is designed for a 5 year old.

I know exactly what I want to do with then but we ended up spending £££ on the garden this year instead.

LemmysAceCard · 10/12/2020 08:22

The light switches! When you come in through the front door the light switch is at the other end of the hallway so you have to walk in the dark till you get to the switch.

In the older days people mostly used the back doors as the main door, but no, once you get in the back door you have to walk to the other side of the kitchen to get to the switch. I have no idea why they designers thought this was a good idea.

EscapeTheCastle · 10/12/2020 08:26

I'm imagining all your houses now, looking sad and saying "..but...I...Love ...you....I felt really happy when you moved in..."

LakieLady · 10/12/2020 08:29

@Stillfunny

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

I feel your pain, @Stillfunny. My ex hung about for over 5 years after I told him I wanted him to move out, it was hell.

He finally got his arse into gear when I started a new relationship, but it still took ages and cost me a fucking fortune.

userxx · 10/12/2020 08:29

@EscapeTheCastle 🤣. Yeah it's a bit mean isn't it. I do love my house though, maybe it's just the boyfriend who makes the place look messy. I'll get his bags packed.

Disfordarkchocolate · 10/12/2020 08:33

One set of neighbours who act like they live in a detached house not a terrace. The lack of storage. However, when we started looking I never thought we'd get 3 bedrooms and a garage so it balances (most days).

madaboutrunning · 10/12/2020 08:36

The neighbour's eucalyptus trees that drop leaves all over our lawn.

The kitchen unit fittings that are apparently unique to the housebuilder but no longer available, so if one breaks (which they do, as they are poor quality), they can't be replaced. It will be a few years before we can buy a new kitchen.

The lack of kitchen worktop space. How can a 4 bed house have just 1m of useable space?

A utlity room with no sink.

A finish that looks OK on first glance but when you look closer, it's poor. Our landing window has been put in at a slight angle FFS and last week DH found a bit of door frame that hadn't been cut square.

Built in wardrobes that have been finished in the same dark brown laminate material and colour as the kitchen cupboards, and are taking an age to sort out.

Having said all that, I love our house

wherethewavesarehighest · 10/12/2020 08:37

Most things.
We're moving soonish.

On the plus side it is rented which I'm glad of because we'd probably never sell it.

Fluffy40 · 10/12/2020 08:37

Old windows, creaky floors.

PancakesAndSyrup · 10/12/2020 08:39

The ugly draughty windows that need replacing but I can't afford to do it until at least autumn next year

muddledmidget · 10/12/2020 08:48

Creaky floorboards upstairs and creaky stairs, dripping noises from loo and boiler (plus a little leak somewhere in the heating system that needs repressurising regularly.

Husband who can't throw anything away so there are piles of papers everywhere, and remnants of hobbies that he's moved on from (beer making, wine making, cycling, running, gardening)

A wonky wall in the loft conversion that you look at as soon as you come up the stairs and unfinished decorating everywhere because neither of us have time but I'm not allowed to pay someone to do it

StCharlotte · 10/12/2020 08:49

@EscapeTheCastle

I'm imagining all your houses now, looking sad and saying "..but...I...Love ...you....I felt really happy when you moved in..."

I'm so glad It's not just me who anthropomorphs "things" (I'm the only person I know who feels sorry for 2020!).

My house and I get on very well. We will shortly be replacing the flooring downstairs and that's about it because we've done pretty much everything else - much due to the savings we've made on holidays and not having a life this year.

Would also like to add some railings to the frontage.

It's been a lovely place to be stuck in wfh for months on end. Thank you house!

Floridana · 10/12/2020 08:53

It's way too small. It's badly laid out with so much wasted space which means so little storage. It's so much older and smaller than my friends' houses and so much worse than my parents' when they were my age.

butterycooler · 10/12/2020 08:55

There's not enough plug sockets. There's 1 double socket in the hall which is taken by the router and some other thing we need for the WiFi which meant we had this stupid game of musical sockets when hoovering downstairs (we've bought a cordless now)

I'm currently working at home in my dining room and there's only 1 socket in here (in the wrong place) so I have to faff about with extension leads to have enough sockets for my laptop and chargers.

It's the same issue all over the bloody house. I spend half my life plugging and unplugging things.

boymum9 · 10/12/2020 08:55

White painted floorboards everywhere downstairs, gets so dirty and I'm constantly cleaning then, brown dog and young children, don't know what we were thinking!

NastyBlouse · 10/12/2020 08:58

Kitchen's too small, including tiny 'space-saving' appliances that aren't practical.

Really noisy building work nearby; they're putting up three 15+ storey apartment blocks just behind my building and it's Angle-Grinder Time at the moment. Connected to that, dust everywhere constantly.

Some in the residents' association are a bit Tubbs and Edward precious. Occasionally racist.

Bike thieves nicking people's bikes from the underground communal bike store. Despite every inch of the space being CCTV'd up the wazoo they can't seem to catch anyone on camera.

Dog poo everywhere on the street.

AriesTheRam · 10/12/2020 09:05

The lack of storage space!

2021optimist · 10/12/2020 09:09

The garden didn't suddenly double in size after I discovered that I loved gardening.

AND It's not in London (even though I have chosen not to live in London).

I do love it though.

Confusedandshaken · 10/12/2020 09:10

I love my house. The only thing that annoys me is that I would love a massive American style fridge but they are all about 70cm deep and the only way I could fit one in would be to rip out and refit the entire kitchen. If I ever do I will have a pantry built in too.

Pascha · 10/12/2020 09:11

The bloody great tree at the front I'm not allowed to chop down.

The hallway is too narrow

No parking.