what DON'T you like about your house?

[wotamidoin]

mines to dark..it depresses me

The kitchen and bathroom need to be ripped out. It's too cluttered and really too small.

Boco - Your house is made of a clay lump? I am intrigued....

The kitchen is very 1970s, the floor is carpeted and is minging.
The bathrrom has no bath, just a shower.
The garden is awful (our fault I know).

All reasons why we're moving!

The sitting room and kitchen are on different floors. All that running up and downstairs, constantly having to carry stuff around drives me crazy. The rooms are too small, the garden is too small, it's an ugly 1970s house that needs a complete overhaul and an extension.

However, it is in the perfect place, so I put up with it. Unless I win the lottery or MIL pops her clogs (joking, God forbid) we can't afford anywher bigger/nicer nearby.

You see my house would be okay if it wasn't for dh and all his stuff.
He is an awful hoarder, keeps everything, collects comics and toys, the loft is used to store his collections rather than important things like luggage that need a home!
He also insited on buying a filing cabinet which lives on a very small landing so our house looks like an office.
The washing machine is the kitchen so when it is on full spin we can't hear the TV in the lounge.
We'd love a utility room to put the damn thing outside!

Lucy, you have made me suspect my dh is a bigamist. Even our car is full of boxes and junk because he has filled the house and garage to bursting!

Oh yes we only have on road parking - no garage or driveway. So we're looking for a ouse with a garage which he wants as his study as we can't afford a 4 bedroom house!

the damp smell
the s**ing Greade II listed windows that we're not allowed to double glaze
the wet rot
the rent
the cost of heating the place
having to have bars on the back windows and repair the fence regularly when people try to break in
the noise of sirens and baselines all night
the drip from the roof that gets you down the back of the neck on the top step of the stairs
the brothel/ heroin dealership next door with a sycamore plantation for a garden that blocks all the light from ours
the nutters on the other side, who've ripped their front door off in a fight a few weeks ago and left it like that
the green, swirly artex and black mould themed bathroom
DP's DIY efforts
the tat mountains everywhere
the way the upstairs loo wobbles when you sit on it
the 8ft wall that I'm sure is going to fall down as it wobbles when you push it and will probably crush someone to death one day, but we can't afford to replace
the mice and rats
the police being too overstretched to do much
the lunatic, unlicensed drivers round here who try to kill you when crossing the roads
the racism
the appalling schools
the chip pan
the unconscious junkies
the price of bus fares
the price of car insurance
the needles all over the neighbourhood
...ohhh! that feels better!

blimey crimplene where do you live?

After crimplene, I feel I can't really complain too much but..
I hate the peach carpet in the bedrooms
No garden
The flaking paint in the bathroom which doesn't have a window
The vinyl flooring and the way it buckles
Our noisy neighbours upstairs who do aerobis to crap music at six in the morning on Saturdays and stomp around late at night the rest of the week (I'll get them back with a homebirth)
The strange smell in the communal hallway
The evil vinyl blinds which are breaking
Thankfully, it's only a temporary rental.

crimplene can you move please? I'll break off a bit of my clay lump for you if you like, you can mould it into a nice little house.

Lucy, don't let him have the garage as his 'study', if he's anything like mine he will just fill it floor to ceiling with boxes and assorted rubbish. You can't actually get inside my garage any more. I haven't seen my wedding china since we moved and it is probably broken.

Boco, I like clay lump, maybe we should swap?

Crimplene, sorry you are stuck there. Sounds awful.

It's not so good when it gets so wet the walls start dripping. We're one step away from mud pie house.

It gets too hot
too small
awful kitchen
awful fireplace, which I can't remove because my back boiler is attached to it
horrible bush by my front door
mad neighbour one side of me
street too noisy

The ceiling to floor tiled bathroom (olive Green!) that we now realise is tiled on all four walls to mask the fact that we have an unsupported brick wall on the first floor of the house, that is not pinned into any of the external walls and is slowly tipping itself forward onto the landing, with the long term aim of falling through the kitchen ceiling!

Hence equally grim kitchen ceiling covered in polystyrene tiles to hide the fact that the bathroom wall is falling through to ground floor, except that it is currently being held up by a number of acros. Thereby rendering me unable to open kitchen drawers more than 6 inches.

We did buy the house to renovate but hadn't envisaged rebuilding.

Other than that love the place to bits!

What do your dds/dses say when you read the story of the three little pigs?

Shouldn't there be some sort of lime render or something that stops it washing away?

PC they are the minuses.

The plus far outweighs the minuses.

Criplene - poor you, that sounds awful.

Well yes, you're right there, LGJ!

Too many neighbours.
Garden too small.
Needs another bedroom.
Not enough storage.
kitchen units are manky.
gas fire in living room is foul.

But I like......
Security of tenure.
The village.
Surrounding area.
It's bright.
It's at the end of a dead end road, so no pesky traffic speeding through.
Neighbours, although overlooking us, don't cause any trouble.
Everyone's considerate with parking. (everyone who lives on the street, still get 'interlopers' )
Not too big to keep clean.

Sorry, had to feed DS. We live in the 'hood (inner city Birmingham). Actually there are quite a few good things about living here (some lovely neightbours, most other living costs, really being able to contribute to making things better, multiculturalism), but we're planning to move as the bad stuff is quite bad as DS gets bigger, it's just a bit of a slow process.

I hate loads of stuff about our house:

plastic windows
plastic front door with doesn't have a catch, need to lock with a key
some horrid laminate flooring upstairs
too small kitchen
gold fittings everywhere

And yet, and yet, I love it. Loved my last house, HATED living there.

Tis too small.

don't like that it is too small, not enough storage, need more rooms & bigger garden, grotty floorboards, mice

love the light and the location