What's your number 1 top pet hate?

[HildaHosmede]

Just curious.

If you're house-hunting, what's the top thing that will make you stop looking at a listing and move on straight away?

For me, it's unequal bedroom sizes. We're looking at 4-beds and there are SO many that have one absolutely massive room, two decent sized doubles and one tiny box room. ARRGHH.

We have 3 dc and don't want to put one in a 7x6 box whilst the other two enjoy large double rooms. It's an absolute deal breaker for us and as soon as I see huge disparity in bedroom sizes it's 'FFS next' no matter how good the rest of the house is (unless the walls upstairs could be easily reconfigured which they usually can't).

Yeah same. Also when one of the "bedrooms" is downstairs and it's obviously not going to be a bedroom but a study

Not enough toilets/bathrooms. And there needs to be at least one on each floor.

When you step through the front door and straight into the lounge withno hallway, and have to cross the lounge to get to the kitchen.

Open plan.

I have lots but funnily enough the equal bedroom sizes isn't one (prob as I had so many other ones!).

No hallway, so front door opening onto lounge and/or stairs in the lounge. A house where it wasn't possible to knock through to make a kitchen diner, if there wasn't one already. No space to add a downstairs loo if there wasn't one already. North/East facing garden. Very overlooked garden. Paved garden. Tiny garden. I like gardens 🤣

Oh and definitely no driveway, that's another one. And no storage... preferably a garage for that.

When estate agents include things like the greenhouse as square footage...that's not part of the house! Drives me mad!

Conservatories. I hate them

No entrance hall so straight into lounge- I'd hate having nowhere for coats/ wellies/dog stuff etc. Dining rooms, I'd rather a large kitchen diner. Lack of storage. Fake grass, lots of paving or decking outside.

No frontage, especially a door that opens straight onto a street.

No drive or garage.

Medium or large conifers near the property.

Gardens with a hill or slope.

Ivy covered walls.

No bath.

On a busy road.

Garages made into a bedroom. I'd rather have my bedrooms upstairs, and a garage.

Massive open plan kitchen diners with an island and a garage style opening to the back. Worse still, they're everywhere, even in older houses! Give me a cosy real kitchen in a room with a door I can close and a separate dining room

When random reception rooms have been listed as a bedroom (and they're asking for the price of somewhere that actually has that number of bedrooms upstairs). Currently looking for a 4 bed and seen so many which have the aforementioned giant master bedroom, a second decent sized room, a box bedroom and then what is in reality, a dining room, labelled as the fourth bloody bedroom. I appreciate some people want a bedroom downstairs, but it's so frustrating.

En-suites squeezed into tiny bedrooms. And islands there just because when there really isn’t the space for it. I also dislike sinks and ovens on islands.

Don't like knockthrough with eating area in same room as sitting area..prefer a kitchen/diner. Don't like bedrooms or bathrooms downstairs either.

4 bedrooms, two with ensuite but the only living space is a kitchen and a lounge. New builds are crazy in providing such little living space and storage which is the main requirement for families.

Different sized bedrooms don't bother me, in your scenario, I would have two share a bedroom and use the smallest room as a study or storage room. From my experience, most kids like sharing rooms.

I also don't like houses where the downstairs is all open plan, totally non-practical for my family.

no parking. loft conversions. excessive bathrooms/ensuites, especially when they have floor to ceiling marble or similar that's going to be hard work to get rid of. Anything stripped of its authentic character and turned into a grey box (inside or out)

Garden where you’re looking up at the brick walls of surrounding houses on three sides.

Stairs in living room. Had in first house and never again

On a Busy main road

No green/nature I hate plastic grass and slabs everywhere!

As a side OP, we moved the wall between the largest room and the box room. Once done, you'd never have known it had been moved.

DH and I lived 20yrs in a London flat between zone 1-2, on a busy, noisy main road. When house hunting my pet hates were:

-If it was advertised on purple bricks, I wouldn't bother viewing
-Semi detached
-'Within 5min of XYZ.' When in actual fact it 15mins+
-Not having a toilet on each floor
-A 'garage' that is so tiny and narrow, you'd just fit a smart car inside
-No off street parking
-A house on a busy, main/through road

On a busy main road.
Front garden slopes down to house.
Anything shared like shared drive or path.
Front door opening into living room.
Kitchen diner would be OK. No to kitchen in living room.
Very little storage.
Very high ceilings - heat rises and is wasted.
Pylons close to house.

@JC03745 why wouldn't you view if it was on Purple Bricks, out of interest? Even if it was your absolute dream house?

Several reasons! Just some of them:
-I'd assume the sellers were trying to scrimp and sell as cheaply as possibly.
-FAR too many bad reviews and feedback about PB
-Friend lost thousands trying to sell with PB. The sale fell through, yet he still had to pay their fees, then try again with another agent.

3 bedrooms but it's actually two and a box room

Very steep/stepped gardens