What's one home trend you have done that you now regret?

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Turning a small room into a bedroom.

Our house is rented ( very nice one) but I would get rid of the thick cream cornish tile in hall and kitchen with electric underfloor heating - it’s too expensive to have the UF heating on ‘at all’ above an hour in the evening when it’s cold in those areas and it always looks grubby even when freshly mopped. Rest of house is great

We had a four bed house with Venetian blinds in all the rooms. We changed the kitchen ones to day and night blinds, but I absolutely hated the amount of time it took to clean those blinds. They were big windows too, so heaving up the blinds to get at the windows was a pain.

Now we have day and night blinds, roller blinds and Roman blinds. So much easier to go over with the handheld vacuum.

Nasty upstairs bathroom ... beige/brown tiles with a curved walk in shower. Looks so dated. The downstairs one is a decade older and looks more modern

I stayed in a grey AirBnB last weekend. All grey furniture, curtains, carpets, hard flooring, kitchen counter tops, crockery, towels, even the tea towels! It was depressing.

Nooooooo! Interior designers are putting curved arches back in everywhere!

Panelling

Seagrass matting. The cat has done his best to scrape it all up.

Not us, but the previous owner chose a black ceramic sink. Looks nice but gets watermarked immediately even in our soft water area.

Also wish I had white appliances instead of shiny silver metal, it shows every fingerprint. I think white will come back in eventually even though right now it's horribly old fashioned.

Hate open plan!!!

We had panelling in our old house which was put in before we bought it but it collected so much dust!

I regret patterned Victorian tiles with WHITE grout in one of our houses, looked nice but the bathroom was 9ft by 9ft and a pain to clean! It was also a very cold floor.

YY to the grey. When we bought our new build house the pale grey kitchen was already installed so although not my preference I leaned into it and had mid grey tiles. Bitterly regret it. If I’d chosen white I could have repainted the units, but now I’m stuck with variations of grey, which I hate.

Electric UF heating is my only regret I think. Too expensive and breaks easily.

Painted the living room pink. It was like sitting in someone's lower intestine. Now back to a tinted white.

You MUST install a water softener, buy high quality tap and not use harsh chemicals to clean. Just soapy water is more than enough. Perhaps look into gunmetal.

We had panelling in our old house which was put in before we bought it but it collected so much dust!

Thank you, this has evaporated my regret of not doing panelling!

We’ve had a black sink before and it was fine. Easier to clean. We’re about to have one put in because the stainless steel one reflects sun into my eves.

Kitchen island in my old house.I spent more time than enough walking round and round the fecking thing to get to where I wanted in the kitchen. Bifold doors draughty and never fully opened due to weather where I lived. Loads of big windows which cost a fortune to keep the outsides clean. I only cleaned the insides of them once every six months it was such a big job.

Me too @Purplecatshopaholic me too
I'd love a striped stair carpet!
I've got an arch though
Regret having 6 spotlights in a bedroom

Hate our bathroom. People before put up uPVC sheets instead of tiles.
Floor is a cream tile shows the dirt. And doesn't match the walls.
Loo and sink are a different design than the bath.
Cupboards that are dust harbourers.
When viewing they had lots of festoons of curtains around and you could hardly
see the uPVC.
House needed a lot of work which we have done over the 15 years here.
We keep putting off doing the bathroom yes they are easy to wipe but look so boring.
Got a quote for a full new bathroom suite and tiles £15k.

Can you not get vinyl stickers to go on it? I mean decent ones like vehicle wrapping type

Those of you with open plan regrets. Can you not put in doors? Like bifold ones. Then you have the flexibility

I had black sink, taps and draining board in a previous house. Between the hard water and soap scum, they only ever looked clean immediately after I'd scrubbed them

Extending with a flat roof. It has leaked and leaked and leaked.
Using a friend and neighbour to do building work. He took the p* for 2 years.

I think panelling is going to be the polystyrene ceiling tiles of the future. Will be shown being ripped out on future house renovation programmes.

A toilet with a concealed cistern. Fine till the flush mechanism broke and they had to cut through the worktop above to get to it. Never again!

If you have limescale please don't fit them, they will drive you mad.