To share my property porn peeves

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I love nothing more than a relaxing nosey on rightmove.

but want to share my dislikes.

new homes. Nothing wrong with them to live in. But we see nothing interesting in themes. They all look kinda “same”.

islands with a cooker or the main sink in them. Happy with a prep sink in them though

stairs in the living room

fully open plan

bedrooms off of the kitchen table or utility room

Nope I haven’t actually. Like I said good job we don’t all have the same tastes. Just find this thread in poor taste.

A thread about what we want to buy with out own money?

Do I have to apologize to the makes of brown bread if I moan thats all the ASDA had and I wanted white?

No one is commenting on the owner personally but the material goods they are selling and which clearly aren't what the 'market' wants... zero poor taste just fact.

You need to learn not everything is personal.

I'm not rich by any means but I don't have or have any urge to have any artwork.

I have photos of my kids, instruments, my kids trophies and (at a push I suppose you can call it 'art') two posters of gigs I went to in my youth.

My wall decor is all about our personal experiences, I dont really have any use for an oil painting of a sail boat bought from a coffee cafe.

@ladygindiva I'm not a huge fan of masses of grey but have 2 deep red sofas, think yellow can look great in the right room and have the odd fluffy rug around!!

The site plan (about photo 7) suggests it's to all intents and purposes it's the front door. Unless you go round the back of the house to the front door, which is I guess more likely than having a front door opening outwards.

Why? I suspect the bathroom came after the door. I used to live in a house with the back door in the bathroom. It had been converted into flats at one stage, and that was the only place to put the bathroom on the ground floor.

What does "deceptively large" mean? I always assume it means "even smaller than it looks", but I expect they intend it to mean "looks like a rabbit hutch but you could with a bit of effort get a bed in there".

This thread has reminded me of housebuying when I bought this house, 30-odd years ago. Two photographs, one of the outside front, one of the garden. No floor plan, just room sizes in the description. We bought an A-Z (for street names) and an OS map so we could work out where the house was and whether the "1/4 acre garden" was actually anything near 1/4 acre. And of course none of it on-line. You would go to half a dozen estate agents who would listen attentively as you told them your requirements, then they'd simply ignore everything you said and every day in the post would arrive paper details of houses with your required no. of bedrooms, right at the top of your price range, and with none of your requirements.

This isn’t about slagging off taste. It’s about what I want to see in my property porn. Where I fantasize about the amazing home I have in my imagination.

in the real world in actually quite happy in my own house with the front half of the house beautifully decorated (to my taste) and the back of the house looking like it’s still in the early 90s.

Nope, no other room https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136977482#/floorplan?activePlan=1&channel=RES_NEW

@peelyjuice a £5m + property https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/125858594#/floorplan?activePlan=1&channel=RES_BUY

I hate radiators under windows, you waste money heating the window. My dad used to have a company selling central heating, they always put the radiator opposite the window if possible so the heat flows accross the room.

I also hate open plan in tot he kitchen, cooking smells, washing machines are noisy, I want at least a door between my living room and kitchen.

I already know my home commits many many MN decor crimes , and it doesn't bother me, but in defence of a feature wall (we have a few in our house) I like wallpaper but on all walls it can make a room seem smaller or too "busy".
(But it does mean you can choose more expensive wallpaper if you're only putting on one wall)

Wood chip - have spent many years in last decades with said chips stuck under my nails as I tried to remove it. Painting it white doesn't disguise it. Artex - makes rooms so dark. Plastic grass - I'm in an Airbnb right now with this!

I would have just move the gas line, put the oven by the sink and put the door where the oven is personally if I was converting.

Property with tenants I can understand bit the homeowner with a vested interest in selling makes no sense

I wonder if any home in the country is free of all of these peeves.

Unlikely, innit? There are some absolute batshit ones in here.

This! I've never understood this.

*If I'm paying hundreds of thousands then only my taste matter. You wont be moving into my house (my house being a rental so I didn't decorate it anyway).

I don't give a rats what your sofa is like or if you have photo frames saying prosecco time in glitter as you will take them when you leave but if you have ripped out all the walls and all character then yes its going to make me go 'pass'.

I can assume you have an open plan grey house full of box rooms with en suites, along with a white gloss kitchen + island and fake grass garden and are deeply hurt by finding out this is actually quite unpopular among buyers but if you love it then simply don't sell it.*

This 100%

Oh yes, bathrooms were invented in January 1911.

My mum didnt have a bathroom until she was 18. There was a tin bath which hung on the wall in the kitchen and an outside loo which was shared with next door. They had chamber pots for the night. People still went to the local 'baths' where you paid for a bath and could call out for more hot water. This was a really common living arrangement in east end London in the 1950s. They were all jealous of the people in the new high rise flats in the 60s who got a bathroom.

Newly done bathrooms with weirdly shaped baths and loos really put me off as they look dated so quickly and it would seem so wasteful to replace them.
Agree with earlier posters about how disappointing it is when an old house has no period features left.

What I call the Felixstowe school of architecture, ie houses looking like a pile of those huge container one sees piled up there, hideous but the houses are usually priced way over the going rate. There's one near me, if it sells for anything near what's being asked I'd be amazed and don't get me started on the Cley monstrosity!

Agree with pps that it's so depressing to see beautiful period houses online...which seem to have been gutted and had every single bit of character and original features extracted. I've seen beautiful Cotswold cottages and houses (OK, we can all dream) which have had most of the internal walls removed and all surfaces apparently clad in shiny marble (floors, walls, surfaces). Absolute vandalism. If you want a completely modern interior, then don't buy an old house.

Otherwise, yes - the dreary grey and the ubiquitous kitchen islands. I know of a few well-off people who've made the ground floor of their homes into basically a massive kitchen...but they don't cook - it's just for appearance's sake. One told me they eat out most of the time because they 'don't want to mess up the kitchen'! You couldn't make it up.

I don't like blinds - I find them so institutional. I like a bit of quality textile for character.

Obviously the 'mark of the beast': astro turf - is beyond the pale.

Either be sensitive to the period/style of the house, or if you can't do that, then please don't do irreversible, radical things which wreck it for those who do appreciate its architecture!! Aaaarrrgghhh.

We have one of them. It’s an old Victorian house. Pooing should only be done upstairs lol. But I have IBS and it’s really handy if I’m just in the door and desperate

@Wintersgirl that's my issue too with some new houses- I love a big kitchen, but I also like a decent separate lounge - we don't have kids at home anymore so I don't want to live solely in the kitchen