Things you would NEVER want in your house:

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I'll start.

A kitchen island.
A hall console table.
A corner sofa.
New rugs.

I am thinking of getting a plumbed-in Miele coffee machine.

You will find toilet paper increasingly in Western hotels and some developed places in Indonesia, but for the majority of the country- and many other Asian and Arabic countries toilet paper isn't used.
In fact many consider toilet paper an unhygenic way of personal cleaning after using the toilet.

Rats, moths, damp, slugs, swirly plastered ceilings, carpets in dining room (for the toddler to throw food at), kitchens with acres of worktop and cupboard space but nowhere to sit down, patterned carpet, hold in wall gas fire (70s tastic), pebble dash, wallpaper with frieze half way up wall...
We had all these but have finally got rid! Touches wood fervently...

It is the reason using the left hand to eat food is considered very rude.

I don't like unfitted kitchens. I like clinical looking kitchens, having grown up in a house with a death trap of a very unhygienic kitchen.

I don't like unfitted kitchens either. I like it to look done. However I wouldn't be over impressed with a whole lot of clinical stainless steel. I like black and white. Black sink, black worktop, white units, black or glass appliances or built in.

Now, now bunbaker. My unfitted kitchen is clinically clean the two are not mutually exclusive. But yes, you do have to pay particular attention to having a good floor etc and keeping it uncluttered to avoid it looking ramshackle....

I grew up with an unfitted kitchen, very hard to clean- all those spaces and crannies.
I prefer fitted, but also don't like the steel kitchens- especially those sinks with a metal shower gead on a metal hose pipe.
They look like autopsy rooms.

I don't like stainless steel kitchens in the home either. Obviously they are far more practical in a commercial venture.

Ooh now, a spray head on the tap is a fabulous thing! Just brilliant for hosing all the crud down the waste disposal to be ground up. No mess, no fuss. Lovely.

I think it depends on size, antumbra. My kitchen is very big with high ceilings, so it is airy and big enough that I can easily pull furniture( and my cooker ) out to vacuum and clean behind. I think a really large space lends itself to being unfitted. I like being able to see beneath things, so I hate divan beds too. With fitted kitchen I think those - ? Kickboards- between the cupboard doors and floors always get pretty manky very easily.

I have a large kitchen too- I just don't want to be pulling out furniture.
Kickboards have a purpose- to trap dirt and food particles and preven them going under units, so making cleaning easier. That crud has to go somewhere= kickboards are easier to clean than having to more heavy stuff around to find the debris. I really don't want to have to move a cooker to vacuum behind it.
I don't have a cooker just a large 6 ring gas hob and a separate double oven.

I wouldn't want to pull kitchen furniture about to clean the floor. Sounds far too labour intensive for me. Wiping down a kickboard sounds much easier.

Yeah.. It is more work to keep clean, but I don't mind because I could not reconcile myself with the alternative ..and I'm in the fortunate position of having renovated the entire place so I could have every room, including the kitchen, exactly as I wanted.

Woodchip
Black gloss kitchen
Tiled flooring
Coloured bathroom suite

I could put toilet in the bathroom on the list of things I never want to have, as I'd much rather have them separate. Much more hygienic. But that's not going to happen, so no point.
Wet rooms are not supposed to have a toilet in them, btw.

Volvox I grew up in a 1930s house which had the loo separate to the bathroom, next door. There was no washbasin in the loo, however, so you had to go into the bathroom to wash your hands; rather negating some of the hygiene benefits.

I think it was the norm in the early 20th century once indoor loos became commonplace. It's probably been knocked though into one larger room by now.

Plastic windows
Crinkly glass in bathrooms
Shag pile rugs
Leather corner sofas
Twigs and pebbly shit
Fake gas fires

If we didn't have crinkly glass in the loo and bathrooms we would have to have the blinds closed every time they were used or have net curtains (the horror).

Those of you with wooden windows, how much time and effort to you spend on their upkeep?

My old childhood house was built in the 60s and had a separate toilet and the basin was in the bathroom next door. I didn't think it odd at the time but do now. Especially as mil's is almost the same set up. I tend to go to wash my hands without trying to touch anything

Now, crinkly glass: I love old crinkly glass, like that stuff with the polka dots on it you used to get everywhere (what's it really called?). Modern crinkles not so great.

Does anybody know if you can get vintage/retro style crinkly glass that is also double glazing? [cake and eat it emoticon]

My childhood home had the toilet in the garden. We lived in the flat upstairs (my bedroom was two floors up). It was a long walk up and down in the middle of the night and - as we didn't have hot water either - I don't think much hand-washing went on

My mum now lives in a Victorian terrace with the bathroom through the kitchen. I know for loads of people this is a real no-no, but for us it still feels pretty luxurious

I sound like something out of Monty Python, don't I?

you can get triple glazing frames and have original coloured textured glass put in the middle bit. expensive though.

Goes without saying that the loo should have a wash basin. You can install a small one almost anywhere with plumbing nearby.

Devora, you can get sort of misty glass, without the dots, in standard glazing

You can also get the old fashioned proper misty glass (I think it's 'etched'?) but that's extra

Etched glass designs. Beautiful

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