Trivial things you hate about your home?

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small rooms

Bloody pigeons….live above the front of our house and they shit everywhere. Have attempted every deterrent over the years …absolutely hate them with a passion!

Badly tiled bathroom floor and downstairs toilet floor, also laminate laid the wrong way (goes across the room rather than the length of it) bodged banister and garden is very small but apart from that it's not so bad 🙃

Where the kitchen light switch is placed. When we changed the kitchen it was supposed to be moved. They forgot and had tiled over it so we couldn't change things over. It is behind the door and under a cupboard so awkward to get to.
And one patch of garden is really shaded by other properties. It is like a swamp in that bit. The grass never grows properly in it.

Loft conversion bedroom is too noisy (hence being awake now due to heavy rain!).

Being a semi.

It's at the top of a 20% hill so a faff to cycle up or carry bags. No parking. Also lots of worrying cracks. We had a surveyor out who said they look ok but they stress me out massively.

Previous owners used floor tiles on the bathroom walls, and only half way so there is an annoying large lip that is constantly dirty/dusty. I’ve put up with it for almost 10 years, I hate my main bathroom.

Surface mounted Plug sockets, which means that furniture cannot go flush against the wall.

A gas pipe/connector pipe for a removed gas fire in what is now a downstairs bedroom that means the box divan bed can only go in one place in the room - either got to buy a new bed frame or get a gas engineer in to close it off properly under the floorboards.

All trivial annoyances but all will cost £££ to fix.

No hallway, just a space big enough for the front door to open and then the stairs, so coats are all clumped up and there's no room for shoes.

Tiny bathroom, so DH shaves at the kitchen sink because his elbows don't bang into the wall there.

Hideous carpet in the living room.

Living room has unusual layout and is also a corridor to the kitchen dining room.

Bay windows in bedroom go right up to the ceiling so it's really hard to fit blinds or curtains and the whole bay window is uninsulated and prone to damp.

But overall, I really love my house. It's solid and cosy and in a great location with a sunny garden and bedrooms big enough for teenagers and just feels like a happy, comfortable place to live.

Ridiculous positioning of plug sockets - they
are in the middle of walls so by far the most obvious places where furniture should go like cupboards and bookcases but then I can’t plug anything in! Upstairs there are plug sockets in the back of built in cupboards at head height - why?!

But after living in an awful house before this one, which I love, I will take those ridiculous sockets over constant leaks!

That the previous owners knocked two rooms into one but only did it half-way, so there’s just a wide archway between two medium sized rooms, rather than what would be one big lovely room if they’d opened it up properly. They did this in TWO sets of rooms!

The fact it's not self cleaning.

A couple of the bedrooms are too small
I have nowhere to put my laundry basket or ironing board
No cupboard in the hall for coats/shoes
It doesn't stay warm for long once heating is off, even though all double glazed/walls and loft insulated (not really trivial, it's v annoying!)

Yes! We also have one about 70cm off the floor in a room downstairs. No idea why can't seem to solve it and people just tell us what an odd place it is to have a damp patch and offer no solution

No problem with the house itself, but once upon a time the front of our house had a small garden.
the previous owners dug it up, not to build a nice paved driveway but to smack down an enormous chunk of concrete.

Damp patch on the chimney breast. Never gets any bigger or smaller and no idea where it come from

Hygroscopic damp I think it’s called. It’s from the deposits from burning in the fire place, the salts absorb into the bricks, and make them prone to damp. We had this in a previous flat.

Advertise it on Facebook or gardeners site. Your hand will get snatched off by someone wanting them for leaf mould.

Have you had a quote for that. Cost us £60 including him taking up and putting back floorboards.

@exLtEveDallas i meant for the gas, cost us £60.

You want trivial? I'll give you trivial...

We have a three-way bin attached to the inside of the cupboard door under the sink. Very clever but it's about 5mm too big which means we have to open both cupboard doors to get to it.

MintJulia · Yesterday 10:20
The fact that my nasty arse of an ex reversed into my conservatory, cracked the roof and now water comes in. The utility room is damp as a result.

I'll have the conservatory removed as soon as I've saved up some money. It's not a big thing but it wrankles. 😠

advertise your conservatory on eBay, we did this and sold it for a couple of hundred pounds and they came and dismantled it.

You can remedy this with a smart light, like Philips Hue or Ikea Tradfri. If you have a traditional bulb in your kitchen light its super simple.

Artex.

Narrow hallway & tiny bathroom.

The fact that none of the sockets have on off switches. So you can't switch stuff off at the wall. Gradually getting them replaced.

The extract fans go out of the wall that gets the direct wind off the fields so they rattle when it's windy. I so would have put them through the ceiling or a different wall if I'd thought about it properly.
2 of the internal doors clash so you have to shut one to open the other and they can't easily be changed without moving one of the doors along a wall.

The neighbours annoying 2 conifers (at least they are thin)
The banister, white spindles with grey handrail, grey painted over white but wasn't primed or sanded so it chips easily