Unpopular / frowned upon things your house has that you refuse to change

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I’m going with:

Wind chimes -previous owner left them behind. Helps block out the annoying yapping of the dogs on either side
No spare room -l hate house guests so suits me perfectly!
Bath -every house l buy my mum reckons l need to remove the bath. I’m standing firm and leaving it

My house has an eighties kitchen but it is in great condition so I saw no reason to change it.
I don’t like windchimes though. Appreciate what you say about drowning out other noise but my neighbour has some and I find them rather annoying. But it is pretty silent here so its the only noise to be heard.

Also windchimes. The absence of a tumble drier.

No microwave.

Parallel lives -we don’t have a tumble drier either. It was that or a dishwasher and that won

Open plan. Love it, suits our family lifestyle, I will never put extra doors or walls in.

An ancient kitchen - but not stylishly cottagecore ancient - no aga - just put in by previous owners 30 years ago. But functional. So we kept it.

Also an ancient kitchen (probably 40 years old) although we do have plans to replace it soon. Only 1 bathroom for a 4 bed house (we do have a downstairs toilet as well)

My last house had a seving hatch between kitchen and dining room. It was very useful!

My house has no bath... which apparently is essential in MNland usually

Karndean flooring in what is essentially orange 90’s style pine. Love it

No fitted kitchen - yay, after two decades of rented sh*tholes with decayed and badly fitted MDF kitchens I wasn't allowed to rip out! Downstairs loo and shower room are the only toilet/bathroom we have, which is not ideal but is manageable. Boiler is 50 years old and very small but still works, so it's staying.

Hand built wooden kitchen from the 1970s.

"Orange" wood spiral staircase. I've tried and failed to tone it down but other than a total strip and revarnish it is resistant, and it doesn't worry me enough to want to do it.

Old kitchen here too. It's probably about 40 years old.

Wood burner in the front room - I love it

We have an old fashioned corner bath and I love that too, not for the looks, it's got the 70s moulded shell rims, but it's sooooo comfy in comparison to newer baths.

No spare room - I too hate having house guests

No front door - we have a side and back door, neither can be seen from the front of the house

Only one upstairs toilet/bathroom

Tiled floors throughout downstairs. I was a bit 'hmmm' when I first bought the house, but with the winter we've had and a disgusting dog, plus seeing the amount of mud I've had to clean off the floors, I'm actually now quite glad.

Plus it would cost a fortune to refloor, it's great when the weather is really hot (I put damp towels on the tiles when we had that 40 degree weather and it was lovely), and I can put rugs down for the cosy. So I am learning to love the tiles.

Washing machine in a cupboard in the bathroom. I love it but it always surprises people. Personally I hate seeing people's underwear spinning around the wash when drinking coffee in someone's kitchen. Much better hidden in a cupboard.

Me! She says self-deprecatingly.

Mine is in a cupboard in the kitchen, a setup that was created by previous owners. It's great! So much better to be able to close the door on the spin cycle.

No toaster
No downstairs loo - took it out and made a futility room. I don’t want to clean 2 bogs.

I like your futility room @devildeepbluesea 🙂

Original single pane bay windows. Draughty but have stained glass and look lovely.

Laminate floor downstairs in hall and lounge/diner. This isn't a house we're planning to stay in long term, and it's not worth replacing with real wood.

Also we have a muddy dog and it's very easy to clean up with it.

No lock on bathroom door.
No TV in living room (or anywhere downstairs).
No microwave.
Original 100 year old wooden doors, which have got a bit warped.

All absolutely perfect, in my opinion.

What has your mum got against baths?! And is it baths in general, or yours in particular?

All baths. She doesn’t like them so no one should have them. When l came to sell my first house then l asked all the estate agents who gave a valuation, if we did the right thing keeping the bath and they all agreed yes. It was a 3 bed semi, not a penthouse apartment so in keeping with the target market for the house

We've still got the single glazing, we need to change them as it's so cold and draughty. But it's the original 120 year old glass with a lovely sort of ripple in it that modern glass doesn't have.

The previous house had an 80s kitchen but in great condition, we kept until we moved 5 years ago. New owner replaced it with swizzy and new...

Sliding doors on an extension to a 120 year old house - big no on MN apparently.