What Drives You Nuts About Your House?

[fionas]

OK, I'll go first. I had a toddler-esque tantrum today after spending a good hour this morning trying to work out some Medicare/tax stuff only to be told that I had to send them a letter. No worries. Letter done in five minutes.

BUT ...to print out the letter in our chaotic house, I had to:

a) stand on a chair to make sure that the printer (which is sitting on top of a tall bookcase) was switched on and
b) plug the printer cord (which was short) into my laptop and hold it in midair.

Man, was I furious especially as it didn't work because DP had forgotten to tell me that my puter doesn't have the right printer driver!!!

Other things that pee me off about my house at the moment are. OK, no, I'm not going to list them, I will get too mad especially as it's my fault for not reno-ing quicker.

So share me your horror stories instead. Please. Don't let me be the only one with a silly house.

[Muffy]

I hate the piles of 'stuff'
some of it you need but it doesnt really belong anywhere....
argh i hate STUFF!

[MrsFabuloso]

The fact that it seems to breed mess....

[Nelle]

It's tiny. With no backyard, just a concrete courtyard. The more kids we have, the bigger they get, the smaller the house seems.

Frustrating as it is though, we do have a light at the end of our tunnel because we're building. So. That is probably the only reason my spirit isn't broken yet...but we haven't even hit winter yet and the house won't be ready til summer....so we'll see.....

[Rouge]

My Kitchen. Its the most cluttered, most ugliest thing on the planet. The rest of the house I love minus the things falling apart but the kitchen... pure hideousness. There is about a metre worth of usable bench space which is ANNOYING. The wallpaper is from the 70's but the house is 80's (white with green, yellow & orange floral design). Half the kitchen is dark wood veneer malamine crap. The other half is grey malamine crap. Totally mismatched. There are broken drawers, doors missing and our pantry door is completely falling apart.

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

We have no storage!

DH doesn't tidy up properly and I can't find all my notes and the cupboards in the kitchen are a mess.

It's about 300km too far south, it needs transplanting northwards.

[Tinks]

DUST!! I live on the corner of a dirt road so every single car going into my street drives past my house flicking dirt everywhere. I have to dust every day!

[catherinemoses]

I hate my kitchen. It has no useful bench space and it gets so cluttered so quickly it drives me nuts!
There are no build in cupboards in the bedrooms.
The clothesline doesn't wind up or down cos it's old and broken.
The house badly needs restumping and several doors don't shut properly. There are massive gaps that let in all the cold on all the doors and windows.
I'm sure there are other things! One day I will have my perfect dream house!

[dusty]

To many corridors. What a waste of possible living space!

[smiles4u]

We as a few days ago have a furry border in our roof ... yep, a darn possum DP forgot to mention he noticed one of the wooden borders closest to the eves has come off, hence leaving a nice gap for a possum to get in

My loungeroom is soooo small (my least fav room) ... Also i want a separate dunny (hate em in the bathroom) & i would LOVE a double kitchen sink, & more bench space in the kitchen (or maybe just a dishwasher to hide dirty dishes in will do, LOL)

*** Tinkerbell .... YOU could call it your Tinkerbell Magical Dust

[Kazbah]

No kitchen, laundry or proper bathroom. Pip sleeps in our office (least its better than our walk-in wardrobe).

No storage in our house so everything is stacked.

The area where I do cook / wash is downstairs through an uninsulated room and a garage. I have a sink & oven but no benches or hotplates.

And no clothesline, so I hang my clothes out on airers on the roof of the house.

I hate that not one room in the house is finished. Skirting boards aren't attached, doors don't have handles or locks and everything is temporary. I have coathangers as latches in sliding doors that don't have architraves and the wind rushes through. I hate that there's a blue tarp in front of my bedroom window because the doors aren't sealed.

I actually hate my house.

[mumofmany]

I hate that my block is quiet large for residential, but 80% of the land is un-useable.

Stupid positioning of the house makes the 1000sq out the back no accessible except thru the laundry, but the back yard of steep slopping so difficult for the kids to play in unsupervised. It also means that about 700sq of the front is just "bush" gardens, but slopping again.. plus we are infested with spiders outside.. yuk!!!

The kids only have about 100sq of nice grass to play on.. seems such a waste!!!!!!

[DaintreeDream]

Yep I agree with the dust comment, I dust everything, the next day I can see everything is dusty again and I HATE dusting!

Storage space in non-existant.

Kitchen - Yuck! there is no bench/sink space so even with just 2 plates and cups it looks messy. The tiles are grey and show up everything, I mop and once again the next day, dirty! The oven doesn't cook very well, 10 minute cookies take 30-40 minutes to bake.

The toilet! we have hard water, so there is always a stain at the bottom of the bowl that drives me crazy, it never used to be there, what happened?!

Argh and mice, we bought a cat, it got rid of the mice, but over summer the cat decided she liked it better outside so the mice returned... yuck, we now do not have a usable pantry as we cannot get rid of these smart little mice, cat is coming back inside more now that it is getting cold so the mice disappear again.

Hmm, there is alot more but I shouldn't winge to much, it really can't be that bad .

[SophieRose]

Dp LOVES to find and keep useless crap. So our house is overwhelmed with "stuff". And he refuses to get rid of it.

Plus renovations!!!! We moved into our house last November, and we just finally been able to put things where we want them, and finish unpacking. With the rooms getting painted, and then all the floors getting new carpet and lino, everything had to stay in boxes. Sooooooo annoying.

And my biggest thing.....We have no bath, just a shower with a small tub sort of bath thing at the bottom. I would give my right BB for a bath at the moment!

[Phteven]

We thought it would be nice to build a sand-pit for our boys. Biiig mistake!! It's worse than living in a beach house. And to top it off they have created a second 'sand pit' in the car-port so they can play in the sand when it is rainy or sunny. Every time I sweep it they transport a fresh load of sand.
And the toilet is a bad design - the S in the S bend is too far forward so every time the boys do poo they leave giant skid marks!
And the car-port and garage is designed for 4 cars (it's a 2 bedroom house - go figure) all in a row. If I want my car DH has to reverse his out.

[sunshine_sieben]

MMMM, mine sounds petty noww, but here it is:

- small ugly kitchen with textured benchtops. WTF? who wants a textured benchtop? It's so hard to wipe clean. Well, better than my old house where the benchtop was covered in orqange mosaic tiles from the seventies. Can you imagine the grout?
- Bathrooms sooo tiny and in need of overhaul (some tiles falling off, needs regrouting etc., shower screens cracked).
- Bathtub is shallow and short. Useless for adults. but great for DD.
- windows and doors don't seal and are warped from moisture.
- nasty carpet in the living room and bedrooms. it's not that old, but looked ancient and dirty when first laid. I would so love floorboards or tiles. Much easier to keep clean.
- Leaky roof. Was fixed so manyh times. But water always seems to get in somewhere.
- Sloped backyard. Much of the area can't really be used. And the top of the "hill" has no grass on it, because water just runs off. So t's like a dirty sandpit. All that fine sand causes lots of dust in the house, too. Especially when our dog keeps rolling in it.

Thanks Brontide, I have been toying with the idea of a sandpit for DD's birthday. But was afraid of the "sand goes everywhere" phenomenon. You have convinced me that my fears are not unfounded.

Sasa

[DaintreeDream]

And the car-port and garage is designed for 4 cars (it's a 2 bedroom house - go figure) all in a row. If I want my car DH has to reverse his out.

Your not in Yarra Glen are you! The house I built 7 years ago had a silly huge garage (4 cars plus workbench, not my idea) compared to the size of the house.
Oh but wait at least it was square, yours sounds rectangle, thats annoying.

[alioops]

The Lounge and study have big floor to ceiling west facing windows. It is NEVER cold enough in the tropics to have those blinds open, especially in the afternoon, so we keep them shut all the time and use the family room instead because it stays cooler, and of course these rooms become junk magnets.

We dont have as much junk now as we used to, and it is getting even better, DH has taken everything out of the study and started sorting through it, so now the lounge is a mess, but there is a lot going in the bin.

The washing line is not height adjustable and is down the side of the house, so I cant hang the washing and let the kids play with their equiptment at the same time, because I can't see them.

OHHH and the thing that irks me the most is that our neighbours have their dogs on the opposite side of their house from their bedrooms - Right next to our bedroom windows. And they YAP constantly!! Their yard is wider on the other side too, so they have the dogs in the narrowest part and ignore them when they bark. Truly a PITA.