Home improvement regrets!

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What is the permanent feature/alteration you have made to your home that you constantly regret?

I write this while cleaning around the external entrance we added to our kitchen for the umpteenth time in a week.

It's now the main thoroughfare in and out of our house, with 2 adults 2 teens and a dog, it's constantly filthy and littered with footwear. (despite a shoe cupboard in situ!) I hate that my kitchen floor is always dirty and wish we'd put the door somewhere else.

Actually I wish we had a big enough house for a posh boot room complete with dog shower but that's a whole new moan ha!

@BlueMongoose

No it was a loooong time ago. It is gone now and replaced with an extension. Really pleased that you are happy with yours.

I have the same white grout problem on the floor in the family bathroom and in the hallway. I plan to go over it with black grout pen at some point. I expect it will take an age...

Stone floors throughout, it was the previous owner and they look filthy even when they are clean
It makes me really mad because in my last two houses I had stone floors and sealed them properly and redid it frequently and they were beautiful.

Im having a large utility, shower, boot room made in part of the garage to hopefully stop the muck trailing in the kitchen.

Oh, Im sorry stone floors are a nightmare! I really wanted one in kitchen but couldn't justify the cost & thought the changes in level would be a pita. But I chose a pale silvery porcelain tile that shows up every speck.

I regret: doing a botch job on downstars cloakroom. Wish we'd replaced the shower & enclosure as wouldnt have been screamingly expensive but now as Ive decorated and laid new flooring (admittedly from Facebook for £15), the shower has packed in and the screen is gubbed. Cant face redoing it.

I'm learning lots from this thread!

Most of our regrets are flooring related;textured tiles in the kitchen,off white grout in the dining room,a white floor in the bathroom(gone now and replaced with something much more user friendly),white flooring in the downstairs loo and oak in the smallest bedroom.

What IS a good colour for the bathroom floor?

For the bathroom floor I would say light but not white.

We have grey ash ‘wood’ ceramic tiles in downstairs WC and the laminate version in the bathrooms so it’s warm underfoot. The grey goes with most colour schemes.

Our biggest regret that the previous owner did was to put riven ceramic tiles over the underfloor heating in the kitchen. The tiles also have recessed grout that traps even more dirt, they are also cracking and due to the cost we don’t put the underfloor heating on. It’s not necessary.
We are eventually going to have the floor replaced at who knows what cost.

I’m terrible for improvement regret’ and often think, why did I do that!

Currently toying with the idea of replacing two bathrooms, the existing ones are ok but 20 years old and not my taste (but neutral and clean/tidy). Then I think of the inevitable improvement regret and don’t bother because I know I’ll think all that 💰 and it’s just a bathroom like the other ones.

We put an peninsula in our (small) kitchen when we renovated as I wanted a second eating area (despite having a perfectly fine 2m dining table...)
It just takes up space and is used as a dumping ground for everything. It's always messy and just 'in the way'

Improvement regret anxiety definitely stops me altering things Linen.

Is a peninsula like an island Sunshine? I've always thought them a pain, unless you have a cavernous kitchen. At least it's stopping your dining table becoming the dumping ground, that's what ours always is!

Just noticed another one; nickel plated light switches when grubby teens don't wash their hands often enough. The smeary finger prints are so obvious. Lucky a fairly easy fix. Chuck the teens out 😜

The people who had the house before me blocked up the double door between the living room and dining room to make a bigger dining kitchen. While I like the bigger kitchen as the house is east west facing it means we spend all summer sitting in the living room with the curtains shut (big windows). It also means the the heating balance in the house isn't quite right.

Getting a shaver socket installed in the bathroom of our new house at some effort and cost. Then after a month or two I noticed that the bathroom mirror seemed to be oddly set proud of the wall. Oh... it opens... it's a cupboard! And there's a shaver socket inside it 🙄

Same here. Just had a new bathroom and had to change the lights as considerable cost already as far far too bright. Still don’t use them. Put on hallway light instead.

Not sure I understand your thread. Do you mean the lounge is too hot/sunny
which is why in summer you close the curtains?

Wished I’d gone with a walk in shower instead of the oval shaped one with doors I went with. Too much glass cleaning and nooks and crannies for dirt to accumulate!! I was worried I would be too cold without doors!!

Had the boiler replaced as an emergency when we moved into our decrepit house. Hadn’t noticed that it blocked the entrance and sink in the downstairs loo. It would have been easy to change. Then had the house rewired and the psycho builder overseeing it insisted that the fuse box had to be moved from its discreet position in a cupboard under the stairs to high on the wall above the toilet in the same downstairs loo. I bloody hate that builder, and that room. But after a beautiful pearl grey porcelain floor disaster, most of my floors are mud coloured, and always will be.

Had the opening from dinning room to lounge change from rectangle to curved. I bloody hate it now!! Going change back to the original rectangle shape when we redo living room next.