Thing that puts you off straightaway looking at a house?

[hugoagogo]

For me it's open plan type kitchen and living rooms. Like a bedsit!?

@DashboardConfessional I agree. We went to look at some new builds recently, out of curiosity really. They’re built with a 1930s aesthetic so appealed to me more than most new builds but as you say they were mainly garage. A 4 bed detached house was basically a living room and kitchen/diner. My 3 bed semi has more downstairs space.

Yes, exactly that. We're already in a terraced townhouse with a lounge diner and medium kitchen so we'd be buying for more living space.

This^^
Been kept awake by my selfish neighbour partying again last night...
I dream of a cottage in the Highlands, 20 miles from my nearest neighbour...

Long narrow houses- I've had 3 now of various ages that are double fronted and I just love 'the width'

No open plan kitchens into lounges (been there done that)

Not keen on just floorboards on stairs and upstairs- done that too (but is changeable I guess) it's very clattery

Parking issues

Terraces or townhouses ( husband needs to play audio and video in daytime as part of his job)

Loft rooms with no bathroom if they 'need' to be used as a bedroom- ok if used for storage or a very very occasional stay over

Conservatories - had them a few times and never used them -and if open to a room can make the other room cold

Neighbours who clearly don't give a shit about their house

We moved into a house with a lot of the things people are saying are off putting.
Front door opens onto the living room , stairs in the living room , only one bathroom downstairs , on street parking with permit. Hopefully when the time comes to sell we will have earned brownie points with having the leilandi trees cut down in the North facing garden!!

Haha us too @Noseylittlemoo and in fact we were very happy there. I think if you love city living you learn to cope with all these disasters ;-)

Yes @WinterDeWinter we love our place too! It's our home and it works for us. Most of my life I've lived somewhere with 1 bathroom and have never suffered any accidents or disasters! And I'm much better at parallel parking than my friends with driveways 🤣

Haha yep I've developed excellent parallel parking skills on our narrow Victorian, permit parking-only street...!

We also have a (the horrors) single downstairs bathroom, stairs into the dining room, and no garden. While I'm glad we're moving next week for many reasons, I have happily lived here! You learn to live in the space you've got :)

Having just bought a house recently, ours were:

• High gloss kitchen (unless we knew we were renovating)
• Open plan
• Near a main road (got cats)
• Shit storage options (big built in cupboards, boarded out loft, etc?)
• New build

None of these are absolute dealbreakers except new builds and main road - we'd ignore an ugly kitchen or open plan space for an otherwise gorgeous house in the right area. But that's what put us off properties.