What annoys you about your own home?

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Can be anything
My dog
How small it is.

It’s really messy, I’ve got too much crap
I have an arch by the front door and the decorator hung the wallpaper so that the ends just meet rather than overlap on the corner. Over time they curl up and it looks really scruffy and because it’s right by the front door I can’t ignore it. I’d have to have the whole hall stairs and landing repapered to get rid of it.

When we had the extension built I told the builder I wanted deeper skirting boards everywhere. He did the whole house except on the landing. It’s only 30cm worth I’d lost the will to live with him at this point so never for round making him come back. Every now and again I notice it and it pisses me off again.

Overall I love my home but hate that:

• the creaky stairs and floors upstairs (it's a 1990's house, so not a nice "old timey creaky" kind of way)
• the fact that my kitchen is 11'3" square yet is so poorly designed I only have 5 cupboards and a useable piece of worktop that is about 3 foot wide to do all my food prep on.
• plug sockets in the wrong locations - none next to the phone socket and only one single socket on a wall where you'd place a double bed meaning it's impossible to have a bedside light on both sides of the bed
• trickle vents in the double glazed windows that let in sound and draught (what's the point in having double glazing if you're going to have holes in the frames?!)
• hideous 1990s real flame gas fire and twee surround and mantle that I'd love to replace but it will no doubt damage the floor or mean the wooden floor needs replacing and that goes round the whole of the ground floor of the house!

As much as these things annoy me I know I'm lucky to have my own home.

I am slightly envious of a PPs bats in the rafters though!

The neighbours causing a bloody horrible rat infestation that's so far cost 300 to sort and a month later they're back!

What are the neighbours doing?

The kitchen needs renovated, which won't happen anytime soon.
We could use another two rooms, one as a study, and another bedroom.
I'd like to landscape the garden.

Nosy, busybody, interfering infuriating neighbour.

Aside from that, I'd like a dishwasher but there's no obvious place to put it without completely ripping out and refitting the kitchen which we can't afford.

@CakeyCakeyCakeCake

Leaves in the swimming pool

Ooh! First post!

Only one large lounge and no table in the kitchen. So nowhere else to sit and chat with my mum when she visits while DH is watching shite car programmes. She prefers to sit at the table due to her back. Would love a kitchen/dining room.

No downstairs loo. DD at 6.5yrs still wont go upstairs on her own.

On an estate which is 50% council. Not being snobby but there are the Sovereign housing vans everywhere and the park over drives and on verges/pavements.

Small bathroom.

No heating.

We should be greatful really as we only have 40k left on the mortgage and a lovely large garden. Its our 1st house and we were able to buy a 3 bed.

Continually shoddy work from previous owner (builder) bringing up endless expensive problems so we can't "upgrade" the house as we look towards a resale as we are just bringing things up to basic standards

The kitchen layout is awful as are the cupboards. I would love to extend it and give it a rehaul but it would pass the ceiling price in the area. I just need to put up with it until we can move.

Otherwise my house is perfect!

Front door faces back door and it's like a wind tunnel straight through the middle of the house. Can't have both doors open at the same time ever.

Third of four in a terrace and although we have a lovely spacious hall and landing it's got absolutely no natural light so you have to put on electric lights even on a sunny day.

Garden backs onto woodland which is lovely but the downside is hardly any sun in Summer due to tall trees hiding it, and a thick carpet of leaves everywhere from Autumn through to Spring which take a whole weekend to clear before we can see our garden again.

Next door neighbour on one side is a horrible, selfish cow who I can't stand. Thankfully neighbour on the other side is a sweetheart and the family in the 4th house in the terrace are nice too which makes up for her next door.

Desperately needs the woodwork filling and repainting throughout and we can't find anyone to do it

Gaps in the floorboards

Broken, ugly front door

Ugly pvc windows half of which need replacing

Steps up to the door (thankfully buggy days are behind us), and I actually quite like not being street level)

Weird configuration at the back due to it being extended twice (badly)

No garage or storage for things like bikes

Terrible shower

Whole bathroom needs updating

No utility

No playroom

No parking

Apart from that, I quite like it

@purpleme12 leaving their food waste in the garden not dealing with the rats in their house so they chew threw the wall into our cellar from theirs. Their garden is just so full of rubbish it's grim

I like my house but it's on top of a bloody steep hill which has a nice view but really annoying for walking or cycling home!

Downstairs bedroom, no ensuite.
Upstairs bedroom has pokey dank dressing room. Tiny window. No screen (mozzies). Massive ensuite with leaky shower, leaky bath plug, cracked tile and gross double basins. Second person using basin gets the door rammed into them. Videos tiled bath you need to climb in to open window. Other window doesn't open. Ugly Wall brackets from previous owners TVs. Terrible heating and cooling. Backyard too small. Single lane driveway. No front entrance - door on side. Horrific palm trees that drop huge fronds. Nice or even rats. Large Butler's pantry that has no cupboard doors - just looks a mess. Large kitchen but vacuous - impossible to fit a table. Miniscule downstairs bathroom. Broken toilet seat. Unsealed concrete in side alley. Cafe style kitchen windows - once again have to climb across work top to open. Flimsy structure. House shudders when front door opened. Hear kids walk Upstairs. No storage. Large vacuous playroom. Odd non matching set of doors. Sliders doors everywhere large,vugly and off their runners. List goes on. We're in Aus & traded in our beautiful Victorian house in Uk and some more for this... which cost over a million pounds..

Kitchen and dining room both coming off the living room. I would love a hallway! Considered making one but would make the living room too small!

Sliding shower doors in both bathrooms which have mechanisms that are hard to clean and build up scale in our hard water area. Cannot even reach parts of the rails because the fixed door panels are in the way. Scale builds up like wide-bottomed stalactites so it looks messy even when I have cleaned. It seems like a design fault. I believe I am the only inhabitant that cares about this or even notices (the others do not clean them). Before this we had shower curtains which was worse.

Solid wooden worktops in the kitchen which are badly marked and need sanding and oiling. They are hard to clean well and I have never liked them.

Two small under-worktop fridges in the kitchen which are both broken in minor ways (both inside door pockets broken off, freezer compartment door latch broken) with drip trays that are hard to access. I would prefer a taller single eye-level fridge.

Splash back upstand laminate border peeling off behind kitchen sink.

The kitchen was new in 2004. The oven had broken which somehow turned into the whole kitchen being replaced. The oven from 2004 recently broke, I was hoping that it might be time to replace some other parts but DH wasn't going for that so it was just a new oven (ovens not repairable either time).

It feels good to moan about these little annoyances. Great thread OP.

Literally everything. It's far too small, no storage anywhere, no room for a dishwasher, the kitchen table has to be moved every time we want to get to the fucking bin or washing machine, the boiler doesn't work properly, nowhere to dry clothes in winter, driveway all the way round the back of the house, tiny north facing garden, kitchen cupboards peeling, shitloads of rubble and concrete buried in the garden so nothing every grows, and horrible trampy neighbours next door who have 5 foot weeds in their front garden. The list is endless. The only redeeming feature is the village location, and the fact we back onto a field with horses.

I loathe it. The day we sell this place will be the happiest day of my life, and that's including the births of my children!

The damp, cold, waste of space that is .... THE CELLAR 😱

The kitchen. It's actually a good size, but it is so badly laid out. Eg. There's only one place the fridge can go, but you can only just open the door to the fridge because they've put the radiator so close to it.

It is big enough that you could have all the required kitchen units in it and a decent size dining room table, but again the layout means you can't actually put a table in without it being in the way.

And because its rented there's nothing we can do to fix it. It infuriates me because it could be so nice if they'd just stopped and thought about it.

Also:

Dishwasher broken but it is a slimline one because no room for normal sized, so couldn't fit much in it anyway.

Piles of clutter everywhere. This is my fault, not the house's fault, not helped by me clearing the loft during second lockdown and having nowhere to take stuff. Upstairs it looks as if we're moving house. Meanwhile the loft is very tidy but you don't see that !

The bedroom's too small (well it was fine when I moved in on my own, less so now DP lives here too). The bathroom doesn't have a window.

Other than those two things though I love it. And I bought it, so only really have myself to blame re: the above anyway.

No downstairs loo and no sensible way to add one. The massive hallway. I’d like a bigger garden. It’s a reasonable size but not big enough.

Mine is going to sound like a stealth boast however I say it.
I dislike that it’s set over 5 floors. That we have too many bedrooms and not enough storage. That we can’t quite fit two cars on the drive.

Ours isnt very well insulated so costs more than I'd like to heat.