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

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Turning a small room into a bedroom.

Do not do that. Nobody is buying the house for the carpet and if it was me I’d just have to rip out the grey carpets to replace with brown when I moved in!

Dont waste your money trying to match an unknown person’s taste.

Opening under stairs up, looks great as it makes the hallway "appear" more spacious, but I'm always knocking my head off the bannister bottom!

This is why you go for what you like not what's on trend. It lasts forever.

Moral of the story - don’t go along with every colour and appliance trend. Grey was always going to look drab so quickly. And carpet rarely looks good.

@BigDahliaFan I’d highly recommend getting one of those standalone solar spotlights, I’ve a few off Amazon, easy to fit and no wiring required! Give almost as much light as a mains powered one too.

Carpet has other benefits though. If we didn’t have carpet in the kids’ bedrooms and on the stairs it would sound as if a horde of elephants live here. (As opposed to just two small elephants.)

Heat will be to do with the roof. If the roof is glass or plastic, it will always be too cold or too hot.

People don't like conservatories or orangeries for that reason.

We have a proper roof on ours and it's like an extra room.

Appreciate a solid roof would reduce light into your LR even more though.

A few of you regret fitting bifolds, can I ask why as I’m considering them for a new conservatory??

For all of you suffering with watermarks on black sinks, taps, worktops etc, can I suggest a water softener. No more water marks on ANYTHING 🥰

I love them. Mdf or real wood. old or new. they do fit very well in a victorian house, add interest and there is nothing wrong with installing them. It is just that MN sees them as a fashion item. I think they look classical because, well panelling is classical. Even if it is fashion, people are allowed to like them, and then change them when they want. Isn’t all house decorating literally like this? unless you live in a museum....

I haven't done it in my current home but my previous home.

Bought a fitted kitchen. Spent a fortune, bought the best appliances and wish I'd saved my money.

Current house I ripped out the fitted kitchen and have replaced with 50s kitchenette units, 2nd hand Neff oven and hob and an original butler sink and unit. Far more practical, everything in reach and can move units to clean behind.

I love at the bottom of the wall panelling, and want it up the stairs and in hallway, and landing. It looks neater.

thinking of doing exactly the same! but then the question is do I continue on the first floor or will it look odd if it stops at landing.

I regret relocating the washing machine to upstairs when we had our kitchen refit.

We have more cupboard space in the kitchen which is nice, but the washing machine moves so much on the suspended floor upstairs (and when it breaks and invariably leaks, it pours through the kitchen ceiling)!

Don't do it folks.

I don't mind our bi-folds, they are not south facing so that makes a difference. We do get a lot of flies when they are open mind.

I agree - I love the look of panelling, even the MDF stuff. If it's done well of course, anything done shoddily is going to look awful.

I personally don't like the beadboarding look but that's just taste, not a huge criticism. I've panelled quite a few rooms in my house and still think it looks so lovely.

Haha, this is what I am questioning too. I feel it has to be either just up staircase, or hall, staircase and landing. Then I'm thinking will the latter be OTT. I'm going to need to Google image search variations of this! 😂

I agree, all that grey is so dreary and depressing especially the shade of roads.

Confused. What was the small room used for previously? And why do you regret turning it into a bedroom? What’s wrong about the bedroom it’s become? So many questions!

We have black taps and sink. I do have to spray the tap and clean it every few days. The sink never looks dirty. I give it a daily spray down and wipe over as I would my old stainless steel sink. Once a week I give it a deep clean by filling with boiling water and dropping a dishwasher pod into it. Everything sparkles after a good soak

Egg shell finish paint on the walls that looks shiny and needs to be sanded down before you can paint anything over it. Oh no wait, that was the previous owners that did that...

I don't get this either - surely it's only the furniture that makes it a bedroom?

We used one of the bedrooms in our old house as a combined office/teen gaming room with sofa, TV, Nintendo etc. When the house was on the market, a lady we were showing round said "oh what a shame you can't use this as a bedroom!". Did she not realise we planned to take our furniture with us or something?? It was so weird (but a good example of how unimaginative people can be when viewing houses!)

Mahogany furniture. Had it for years and thinking of painting it all a light brown and changing the old fashioned handles on some, just worried it won't look good.

I love our bi-folds, was surprised to see the negative posts about them.

Gallery wall. It had better be forever because when you get tired of it you just have a wall with lots of holes in it. And if, when attempting to repaint it, you aren't able to match the colour of the other walls in the room because they were painted before you moved in, you end up with another potentially regrettable trend, the contrast-colour wall.