I would NEVER buy a house with…

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• solar panels

• a ‘garden house’ IE a lockdown special outdoor wooden shed dressed up as an office - usually taking up half the garden and completely pointless

• a neighbour who has a load of cars / shit in their yard - hoarder vibes

who’s next? 3 things that would make you not buy a house…

Yes this is same in an area a friend lives in Essex way. Crazy they literally have to pile up bin bags at 4/5am

Ah ha. I see. Thinking about it, my DD has a Belfast sink in her kitchen, and that is white.

Oh how annoying.

Neighbours who keep fridges, sofas, trampolines, junk in the front garden.

Stairbox in any of the upstairs rooms. Hideous things.

On a street with awful parking.

What’s a stairbox ??

I do agree that solar panels aren't pretty. My solar panels are at the far end of the garden, not near the house, but I can still see them. However, having no electricity bills for the rest of our lives has reconciled me to them being there! (Also they are DH's dream and his big pet project, and they make him very happy!).

No bathroom window
No bath
No driveway

Happy husband and free bills is quite tempting!

Wouldn’t stop me buying but I’m going to add horribly ugly front doors

Open plan downstairs. Kitchen-diner not so bad but do not want my living room in the kitchen!
Downstairs bathroom ie no upstairs bathroom.
No hall.
No off-street parking.

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Things like this 😧

Oh yes! Very ‘3 bed semi’ box room.

I wouldn't have an ensuite bathroom or loo. Hate hate hate them! We pretty much rebuilt our house from a ruin and could do what we liked, so we made a little room off the main bedroom into my office, and another room into the upstairs bathroom! Some people would probably have done it the other way round!

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yes its odd this....we have two food thread going at the mo....."does nobody eat sandwiches" and "food trends" and (so far lol) no one has made sniffy comments about "being grateful for anything" or "people who have to eat what they are given". I mean we can all dream can't we?

The mumsnet ‘whataboutery’ and race to the bottom olympics! 🥇

Oooh, I used to love my little stairbox bedroom in my parents 1930s council house. 😃 Fond memories. I used to put all my toys and board games on it. And keep my record player and records and cassettes on it.

Infuriating isn't it? 🙄 No-one has to be on this thread if they don't want to be...

I am now fascinated by what house you own
and where because you pretty much couldn’t buy many houses in my area of suburban Surrey

Why’s that? Does every house in Surrey have solar panels and a garden house?

Fuck yes. Don't get me started. I have one of those next door . Like someone repeatedly dropping a bag of spanners. They can't hear it. They're deaf! 🤬🤬🤬

no they pretty much (in my area) all have the box room (although tbf maybe you were responding to that)

but a lot have one of solar panels garden rooms open plan artifical grass and those doors

i get the impression 1930s suburbs are not for you

I’ve owned 5 1930’s semi’s 😬 great houses, just terrible 3rd bedroom size usually.

They all do! Makes a good size office