What annoys you about your own home?

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Can be anything
My dog
How small it is.

Nothing really. I love my tiny house. Wish horrible neighbour 2 doors down would move out though and someone nice move in.

Can see top deck of the bus going past the window. Need to put voiles up.
Roof leak - need to fix
Downstairs artex ceiling. Need to board over.

Everything ☹️ My last house I designed myself so it was my perfect home. High vaulted ceiling’s hidden cupboards everywhere, 3 bathrooms with walk-in showers and huge baths and underfloor heating. Now divorced and living in a totally impractical house with no storage. All my decor doesn’t fit in this house and it makes me sad that I can’t see my comforting bits and pieces. They’re all still in boxes. I loved that house more than my shit of a husband.

It's alright, but could always use more toilets/bathrooms.

We rent (unfurnished). Small kitchen. LL has installed a double sink, which is handy but means there isn’t any room for a dishwasher and a washing machine... and while I’d rather hand wash dishes than clothes - I’d really prefer to do neither!!

The garden. Have to go up steps to get to it, a small patio is the usable space, grassy area is a slope so no good for playing on. My daughter never plays out there unless one of us is also out there.

I absolutely love it, but the fact that the hot water takes minutes to reach the kitchen tap drives me nuts. Old House, hey ho.

The entire roof is slowly disintegrating into the guttering and every few months a new leak appears.

The kitchen is tiny and has one very small piece of work space.

The downstairs loo and utility room are at the back of the garage, single skin, so bloody freezing in the winter.

The bathroom is a horror show, with a leaking bath and clam shell sink, but it's being ripped out next month and replaced with something much nicer

Lack of linen cupboard. We have to store towels and spare bedding in our closet which is already tiny.

Large house which looked ok on the surface but has been a money pit and still isn’t fully renovated.

Homeowners association with doesn’t allow sensible fences so people’s dogs keep escaping.

An extra garage bay would be so useful as a workshop. Position of the house means extending isn’t an option.

No back door from the garage.

Limited storage.

A furnace that creaks and rumbles and generally threatens to fall through the ceiling every time it switches on.

Kitchen is big but cabinets are awkwardly sized and nothing fits. Hideous granite and tiles.

The carpets. Oh god, the carpets!

All the bathrooms bar one which we’ve renovated. It is now stunning.

The roof and the deck both need replacing.

My Trump-supporting neighbour.

Apart from that, it’s great.

It needs rewiring because the electricity in my bedroom doesn't work.

Would love to replace the draughty conservatory with a small extension that included a utility room and a downstairs loo. Need an extra bedroom really. The whole place needs decorating.

Awful neighbours on one side of the property. Been here 8 years and now at the stage where it’s really getting me down. The house is lovely so it will be a shame to leave but life is to short to put up with it.

The galley kitchen. It’s so antisocial! I don’t get why a roomy 3-bed needed a thin kitchen that you can’t congregate in or have children chatting with you as you cook, the cooker is at the end of it so your back is to anyone who chooses to stand there.
Other than that I love my house.

All these posts make me realise how lucky I am.

My main beef is that our front hall is a box stuck on the front of the house, literally one metre square, with two doors opening into it (front door and coat closet) and one door opening out (to the living room). Presumably the architect (if there was one) was designing for stick people.

Garden is too small for two ‘spirited’ children, it gets too noisy in summer, our attic bedroom doesn’t have an en-suite so night time trips to the loo are annoying.
It still needs masses of work doing 6 years after we’ve moved in. Feel like I’ll be nearing retirement before it’s all done and I’m only 36 now!

Too small.

The mess

Work that constantly needs doing. At the moment we are building up to a major damp proofing exercise downstairs.
We also need a few roof tiles replacing and I'd like to replace the gutter boards with plastic.
After that the render needs painting and the windows at the back of the house need replacing. There is always something.
In terms of things we can't do anything about, the third bedroom is tiny and the kitchen is too.

Nothing annoys me.
It's not a perfect house, but it's home.
Stuff always needs doing in a house, my decking is falling apert, I need the downstairs toilet decorated following a flood, I have a leak in the roof, but none of these things annoy me.
No more than having to brush my teeth annoys me.

Clutter and on street parking!

Don't like the rendering, probably £20k to change it. Also the decking and patio is a state.

I love my house, but none of the internal doors fit the frames. The external doors stick and you have to shoulder barge into the house.
The dining room has a 6 seater table and a desk in it. There’s literally not enough room for people in it as well.
The stairs sound like they’re about to give up any day.
The kitchen is so tiny you can’t open the dryer and back door at the same time as they clash.
The worst part though - there’s no storage space in this house. Which means everything is dumped in the loft.

The walls are too thin.

I love my house. Its big and full of character and is situated on a wide tree lined private road two minutes from the city centre. There are, however, many bad points:

1. we are the end terraced with our gable end and side door directly opening onto a public path. We're close to the city centre so people always park there. We are also very close to one of the most deprived areas in the country. As a result, we have everything from drug addicts to opportunist thieves going past.
2. the house next door to us is converted to flats. I hate having transient neighbours - you never know what you're going to get