What would you never want in your home even with unlimited money?

[raythechay]

too many flowers

Kitchen island, especially with extra oven, fridge, sink
Fake grass
Hot tub
Sauna
Whirlpool bath
More than one TV

This made me laugh! I have a hot tub ( a real one). They remind me of beautiful Scandinavian models though, not swingers!!

Erm, no it isn't. How on earth do you cope in hotels?

Our en suite has a door between the bedroom and bathroom, an extractor fan and a window that can be opened.

She's not far off tbh. I watched a TV programme where they said the UK has more home arson attacks than anywhere else because only the British have letterboxes. Don't know how true it is but my I'm investing in a separate wall- mounted letterbox when I renew my front door.

Those big roof windows in kitchens
conservatory
Aga
wood burner
fire pit in garden
pizza oven
jacuzzi type bath
bi-fold doors
decking of any description

I've got a fair few of the things mentioned. Not sure what people have got against poor Alexa, I find her quite useful.

I don't like diagonally laid flooring tiles or boards. Herringbone is OK though. And flooring where they have put a border around e.g. the kitchen units. Same goes for paved driveways with a border set in an alternative colour. I hate looking at them.

I also can't be doing with divan beds, they freak me out. The worst thing is probably those built in cupboards that go over the bed.

I would actually like a natural water pool or swimming pond; my friend has a freshwater pool and it looks lovely, it’s been built very sympathetically (read: expensively) to the landscape and she WFH so swims often. Skinny dipping in the rain in your lunch break is surely a great thing!

I would also suffer the horrors of an outdoor kitchen, a pizza oven, a barbecue and bifold doors, though I’d prefer heritage Crittal French windows. Also! I do hate big lumpy kitchen islands with appliances and piles of clutter and ugly stools, but then I discovered Phyllis Grant’s unadorned kitchen island on a Pinterest deep dive: 3 metres of extra counter space, no stuff on top, very slim. Just a perfect working kitchen. I couldn’t replicate it because DP’s approach to any horizontal surface is to dump crap all over it, so if I had pots of money the thing I wouldn’t have in my house is “surfaces”, but if we had an amicable breakup I’d be straight in there.

I haven’t got bifold doors but a sliding patio door. What’s wrong with bifold?

I love my bifolds they stretch the whole length of the kitchen and we are even getting them extended to go round our conservatory! Will be so useful for when I'm walking out to my hot tub

Tee hee. I love those doors but why are so many posters saying they wouldn’t have them?

More than one TV. Grey or fluffy furnishings. Matching stuff. Big fridge. Plastic plants. Hot tub, unless it was one of those massive ones with a current you can swim against. Unnatural fibres.

You gotta try the Japanese toilet. 130 million Japanese people (and me) can’t be wrong 😉

Carpet in the bathroom.

We have more than one TV @MissingMoominMamma. It means that DH can watch boring rugby while I watch something more interesting.

Haha you're not weird, I feel the same about all of those! 😅

Agree with @glitterfinder about marble staircases!

Goosedown bedding or cowhide rugs

I rarely watch TV, so DH is welcome to ours 😁.

I love nothing more than a soak in a huge bathtub. INSIDE my house. Can spend up to 6 hours in there, genuinely. It's the only time I feel relaxed and my achy, autoimmune joints are comfortable. But why would anyone take the relaxing, warm solitude of indoor bathing and make it into a noisy, sociable, al fresco thing? Mad.

So it's a sex pond for me too.

(But I'd love an extra tub in the bedroom, unlike many pps.)

Pets

A dog

Any grey decor

A hot tub 🤢
A home cinema
A gym
An aga

A coffee machine. Makes it less special when you go out for a nice coffee.

Also a pizza oven