what DON'T you like about your house?

[wotamidoin]

mines to dark..it depresses me

Straight on to the street - no front garden. Which wouldn't be so bad if we had a hall but we don't. So you open my front door and you're in the living room.

And the garden is accessed via a shared passageway at the back - so the kids can't go in the garden unaccompanied - as they could just wander down the shared passageway on to the street.

On the plus side, plenty of space in the house - huge kitchen/diner, 4 bedrooms...just which I could transplant it to somewhere with a bigger (attached) garden at the back and a little bit at the front.

just wish, not which...

No garden.

Oh, too dirty too, but that's my fault.

too small ....it's only temporary...I hope
ARRRGGGHHHH!

Thanks I feel better now
Goodbye.

Too small. Nowhere to park.

It's my favourite subject to moan about. Modern houses are too damn small

Lack of driveway and garage (but do have space for 1 car out the front and the other in the road outside the house)
Lack of utility and downstairs toilet
Fact that the huge loft room is virtually unusuable as for half of it the ceiling is too low to stand up.
Fact it is on a busy little road just off the village high street instead of on a nice leafy cul-de-sac

But the above far outweigh the positives: bustling village centre with fab itialian coffee bar at the top of my road, largish victorian semi with lots of character, large garden, walking distance to outstanding infants, very good juniors, very good secondary, good neighbours (not close friends, but pleasant enough) so all in all, I like it!

Bugger, I meant the above ARE OUTWEIGHED by the positives.

And yes, another thing I don't like is that the garden seems to think it lives in the house. There is sand/mud/grass/leaves/twigs/stones everywhere, all over the kitchen and dining room. How does that happen??

And it is not self-cleaning.

Just about to move to our new house. I love the actual house - big rooms, big garden, well planned, nice road etc -but the decor is hideous and it will be a while before we can afford to do it up completely (bad wall paper, bad carpets, horrible dark staining on all the skirting boards, doors and other wooden areas, disgusting kkitchen and bathroom...I could go on!). i keep telling myself it will be beautiful when we've put our stamp on it :-)

No garden
3rd bedroom too small
2 loos but only 1 bathroom
it's a bit dark

it's rented luckily

the ceiling is 200 years old and is on it's way down[worried emoticon]

Needs another bedroom to fit baby in!
Nowhere to put stairgates
Damp in lots of the walls
Loft has only a teeny hole into it and can't fit much through!
Boiler is old and inefficient
It's next to a DIY nut and an end terrace
The carpets are cheap as chips and ten years old but landlord shows no sign of ever replacing
Kitchen too small, doesn't match, and no extractor fan
We have an infestation of ants at least 3 times every year, and they rule the garden.

I could go on, but i won't!

Issy - that is how I feel about this house.
We used to call her 'the bearded lady' due to ivy growing around the bay window, we have removed that now, so now she is just a 'grand old lady'. Mind you, she is more of a stoppy old cow at times! Throws slates off the roof in a strop during a storm, allows floorboards to creak loudly ONLY in the middle of the night when you are sneaking to the loo without wanting to wake anyone up. Threw a massive stop when we installed the new oven (removing a 30 year old one) by blowing all the fuses despite the electrics being triple checked.
We love this house, despite its' ability to suck all the dust from the entire street up through the floorboards within one hour of me having hoovered.
Pipes make strange clanging noises just at that point you are on the phone, strange smells appear just when you have guests, and other irregularities for which there are perfectly rational explanations but which I prefer to attribute to this grumpy old lady of a house.

The neighbours.

One side they are really nasty people, and the other side seem to blame us for all their misfortunes - even told their kids not to speak to ours! Goodness knows why. Their children are only little too and you could see them looking at us wondering what we had done to their mum and dad - we wondered with them.

Road noise, no garage, garden maintenance, blue carpet, gold taps and fittings !

There is no where for vacuum, mop etc.

Patterned wallpaper on every wall, horrible fire in living room, tatty kitchen, bathroom is downstairs, it fronts directly onto the street which can be noisy

Too messy.
Too small.
Made of clay lump and i have a fear that it's going to turn into a big mud pie and melt on our heads.

Not a lot.

I do wish that my garden was a little more private, or that my next door neighbours kids (4 of) didn't spend quite so long watching us out of their bedroom window. Grrr

I think our house is great so not in any rush to charge it but would like a bigger kitchen, a utility room, bigger garden and can I have nicer next door neighbour while I'm at it.

I don't like the fact that the contracts haven't been signed and we're not moving in yet...