I rent. We live in a quiet hamlet and have lived here for 3 years.
I don’t like the house we live in. I never got a good feel for it when we looked round, and it has never grown on me. However, the rooms are really good sizes and we have really nice neighbours.
The things that annoy me are:
We have no outside space-our front door opens straight on to the concrete path. There is no green space in the cul de sac-it is a poorly maintained unadapted road.
We only have the front door, so in the event of a fire at the front of the house we are trapped.
The decor is poorly maintained. It was “painted” before we moved in, but to this standard (see pictures). I cannot paint it because he got his firm of decorators to do it before we moved in.
I don’t have my own bedroom, I sleep on a single bed in dd (7)’s room.
All of our windows look out onto brick walls, and as a result the house is always dark.
We have one house bathroom and one toilet, but neither have windows and so again make the house really dark.
Only the windows in the bedrooms open. The rest are not designed to open (The glass is in a frame that screw the glass into place).
Are these reasonable annoyances to have about a house? We had to leave our old house as the landlord turned it into an Air B&B, and this was the only one available within budget. I feel like I’m living above my station having these grumbles, and if I could let them go maybe I would like the house more. I am studying at the moment, so hopefully in 2 years’ time my income will increase and I can look for a house with another bedroom.