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

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Turning a small room into a bedroom.

They’re fine… as long as they’re correctly sealed and you clean up any water immediately (and don’t leave wet things like glasses etc because they’ll cause black ring marks). We had them in our last kitchen and we weren’t very diligent. There was a huge black ring by the sink from a cold champagne bottle that got left overnight.
The bit around the sink is always going to get black and manky, but you can sand them down and refinish them. It’s rarely permanently damaged unless it’s been neglected badly.

None yet as our entire new house needs renovating but part of the delay of doing it is my perpetual fear that I’m going to hate any choices I make in 12 months.

The problem is that you need to keep them dry. So you can't just rinse out a glass or whatever and leave it upside down to dry like you can on a normal worktop. Ours (installed by previous owner) drove me mad!

I love our grey kitchen cupboards. We don't have grey anywhere else though.

Yes, it's on all walls. I think your idea is a good one as I do like it!! I thought of half-way panelling in a lighter colour all the way around but now, after this thread, wondering if I would regret the panelling!!!😂

Whereas we had dark blue gloss cabinets in our last house and I found a quick wipe with a microfibre cloth kept them glossy. We have matte cashmere ones now and I find them more difficult to keep looking good.

We have high gloss cashmere cabinets now and it’s been the easiest thing to keep clean and nice looking. Much easier to maintain than other types we’ve had and you can rarely see finger stains. A quick wipe with micro fiber cloth as you say and job done.

Why do people regret panelling out of interest? We are about to have some panelling made...
Thanks x

I call my neighbours house “Fifty shades of grey” 😂 it’s so drab.

I’m really worried about some of the comments on here. I’m looking forward to getting my underfloor heating down. Electric upstairs and wet downstairs.
I’m also planning a concealed toilet.

But we will put in an openable flap for Maintainence.

I hated our under floor heating - but most people love it, so it's probably just me!

Out of curiosity, what would you have done with the small room instead? Just wondering since we are buying a house with the smallest room currently being used as an office. We don’t technically need the bedroom but it would be nice to have a guest bedroom for when people stay over. Equally we could use it as an office too. Not sure what to do with it to be honest.

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I'd personally rather than expense of turning into two rooms, just have an office and futon for when someone stays. With the right furniture you can do both.

My nephew has a small room and a gaming station under his bed.

Most of the stuff I regret has been the compromise stuff - where DH and I couldn't agree so went with something in the middle that we both don't mind, but neither of us love.

I dream about having my own place decorated exactly as I want 😁

My friend has a black tap and basin/draining board. It’s about 6 months old but already has small chips in it, every morsel of dust shows on it and her hard water is already leaving white residues where water collects.

@Profpudding make sure it has timers- we were unaware of where ours were , it’s not obvious and it’s a rented house- we presumed it came off the heating , it didn’t - ended up with £2ks worth of extra bills over 5 months till the smart meter kicked in-technically it had been on and off the whole time so was constantly kicking on

Hmm @neverwakeasleepingbaby @Mightyhike we have two boys so not leaving wet things on them doesn’t bode well for the teenage years.

Don’t do it. When I was having the kitchen refitted I fell in love with some of the wooden worktops I saw. After the umpteenth person said “your are nuts, I’m taking mine out” I changed design. (I ended up with granite which so far is proving pretty bullet proof and looks amazing).

As PP say - well sealed, and well looked after they should be fine but a kitchen area and a family do not gel well with ensuring its never left slightly wet, no wet glasses are put down and its fully dried around the sink area.

I did see a house with stone worktops in the kitchen area but wood in the utility and if a kitchen is big enough you could have a mixture of wood and stone surfaces. Just don’t have wood where it is likely to get wet or have wet thing left on it.

Can it be stripped and refinished? A door of that quality should be recoverable (we bought a wreck with a beautiful oak door hidden underneath 1960s tropical blue but it stripped down quite well)

I think I may have bought your old house 🤣

Did you attach all the borders with araldite/superglue or something? They have been just about impossible to get off!!!

Knocking my utility room down to make kitchen bigger and making a room in the attached garage instead. Should have gone with mu original idea putting utility room in box room! Would save all the unnecessary up and down stairs

Don't have it any more but black leather sofa. Cold and uninviting - and slippery.

@MeandT, Ha, ha, not guilty! It was all that self adhesive stuff, like large rolls of sellotape, lol.

range cooker

Deciding at 4.15pm today that I was bored of the red walls and started painting them. Paint is supposed to be matt and off white but the whole room looks pink because of the underlying 90s red walls.

I feel like Adrian mole.
It’s also 7.05 now, I’m bored of painting and want to watch Corrie.