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

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Turning a small room into a bedroom.

That is quite funny! 😂

In my last house it was the underfloor heating. Takes ages to heat up or cool down. I prefer something with more instant control.

This house: expensive electric oven that has far too many different programmes and settings and takes ages to switch on. I hate it.

I also disliked the bifold doors in our last house. We got french doors instead in our current one.

A few of these. Underfloor heating: both electric (in bathroom) and throughout downstairs (coming off main central heating). I thought it was a bad idea at the time and bloody hated it. Expensive to run and when it malfunctioned gave me massive stress.

Red ceramic porous tiles on the floor (didn't choose, inherited). The bane of my life.

Belfast sink (in cottagey kitchen). Bastard mould where it met the kitchen surface. HATED IT. (Have moved now, no belfast sink in sight.)

Toilet with concealed cistern. Who thought that was a good idea? (DH.) Toilet breaks and you have to get to the cistern with a pick axe and trash the place. Yay.

House we live in now had white tile flooring downstairs and we got rid as soon as we moved in and just added it in to the expense of moving house. Have lived with flooring I hated before, would never choose to do so again.

Something I loved: enamel stand alone bath. An absolute pig to clean but I LOVED it and am sad to be living with a normal plastic bath in the new house (though not enough to spend the ££££ to change it).

Same i love it to

Also, last house had a huge kitchen. It's so inefficient to cook in. Our kitchen is much smaller now and better for cooking.

Glass instead of tiles in the bathroom and a P shaped bath, it looked so spa like when fitted, but ten years down the line, the basin and loo unit has all peeled and I can't get a new bath side to fit the bath shape, and I hate the glass that has to be polished to shine. I hate it, I have a Pinterest board for changing the lot.

If you use a surface preparation you won’t need to sand down, just under ait and topcoat. I’ve used Owatrol for decades, it’s brilliant. It j keeps well in a frost free garage, too.

Please don’t do it, as a Professional cleaner I can honestly say they are a nightmare to look after and you can’t use anything on them without damage. They never look nice for long especially if you are in hard water area. Every single customer regrets them, every single one! & I hate cleaning them takes ages pain !

I'm starting to regret painting my living room in Crown Runaway blue

I love the colour but the living room is quite small and faces NW and it does nothing but make it darker.

It was lovely actually for the colder months but now feels totally out of place at this time of year.

I think I'll just enjoy it for one more winter then get it repainted next spring.

I think the thing with black taps is so bleeding obvious and foreseeable, and anyone who blindly gets sucked into that trend deserves everything they get! sorry. It's like getting a face or neck tattoo - patently stupid and yet still it happens.

Belfast sink. Oak kitchen worktops.

so fucking hard to keep nice.

A neighbour has something like this in their front garden. Would that work for your steps?

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Navy blue hallway paint up to the dado rail. From the front door all the way up to the first floor landing. Matching skirting. Behind the radiators. Just everywhere! Looked so good on Pinterest but saps the light out of an unlit passageway in a small Victorian semi and I cba to repaint it!

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A colleague of mine has just painted half her house grey and thinks it's the most stylish thing imaginable. Rest of us are having to bite our tongues..

@DeptfordDolly one of our rented houses had this and the oak worktops were a nightmare

I had my beautiful handmade oak door spray painted anthracite grey

Can I ask why? I’ll probably be having a new bathroom in the next 18 months and I quite like that look!

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Is it on all the walls? Could keep 1 wall as an accent and paint the other 3 walls a lighter complementary colour?

We didn’t do it but previous owner painted the bannister black and it’s going to be a ballache to sort. The hall is too dark to take it and it’s not really the style of house for a black bannister.

It looks beautiful when it’s absolutely 100% perfectly clean. Defo do not get the floor done in the pale tiles though, as you’ll be in cleaning hell like me.

The ‘gold’ coating on the taps and flush have not worn well so worth researching those. We didn’t and just bought the ones that looked nice. Hadn’t even occurred to us that the finish would essentially rub off.

But overall it’s kinda like having a navy kitchen: it’s a strong look but will look very dated quickly.

That said, almost anything you install will look ‘of its time’ a few years down the line, so I suppose crack on with whatever you love now.

(No offence to you navy kitchen owners! I can totally see why you chose that colour!).

I had an undermount sink it was stainless steel and just too low for me as well as showing every mark

Panelling (as in, proper panelling not those square tic-tac-toe board monstrosities) is timeless. It’s been around hundreds of years.

I came here to say that.