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1. "Giant bathtubs. Are you truly going to capable that? Water is precious, and you person nary mode to beryllium connected the edge."
2. "When did we halt installing lights successful rooms? Why bash I request to bargain a lamp for each azygous room, minus the bath and kitchen? Seriously, instal lights successful each room! This is truthful atrocious successful 'luxury' apartments."
—Anonymous, 40, Illinois
3. "Having eating rooms close astatine the entranceway of the home. Carrying nutrient each the mode from the room to the eating country doesn't marque sense. And where's the privateness if idiosyncratic comes to the doorway portion you are having dinner?"
—Anonymous, 40, Virigina
4. "The warfare connected carpets. The information that they request to beryllium replaced each 15 years and that they get stained makes radical hide that they service respective important functions passim overmuch of the home. There's carnal comfort, of course, and they are precise adjuvant for reducing dependable coming from traversing a 2nd floor, but 1 of the biggest things is acoustic comfort. Wall-to-wall carpeting with astatine slightest a small fluff is captious to the prime of dependable successful a room, and however it feels to beryllium successful it."
"Don't person carpet successful the hallways, the entrance, the kitchen, oregon particularly the bathroom, sure, but leave the surviving country and chamber carpeting alone, please! Enough of the cold, hard millennial remodels."
—Anonymous, 31, Wyoming
5. "Painting implicit woody oregon chromatic accents with white. It's truthful ugly, and it ruins the property completely."
—Anonymous, 16, USA
6. "Flat overgarment everywhere. Sure, it's the cheapest decorativeness for a reason. You can't hitch it down oregon cleanable immoderate of it without rubbing disconnected immoderate of the overgarment connected immoderate aboveground you're cleaning. Go with astatine slightest eggshell truthful the adjacent idiosyncratic tin cleanable the mode erstwhile thing splatters connected it, oregon amended yet, satin oregon semi-gloss."
—Anonymous, 40, Illinois
7. "I person ne'er liked undermount sinks. Water and bedewed scraps of nutrient splash onto the hidden underside of the countertop edge, and a disgusting, unsanitary furniture of sludge accumulates there. Plus, you tin easy spot those costly exposed countertop edges with a ample cookware oregon cookware portion washing them."
—Anonymous, 56, Minnesota
8. "I unrecorded successful an accessible condo, and the microwave implicit the oven is unusable."
9. "Farmhouse-style sliding doors, particularly for bathrooms. They don't support sounds oregon smells out, and nary 1 needs to perceive everything that's going connected successful there."
—Anonymous, 36, California
10. "Making everything successful your home, including your kids' toys, the aforesaid scope of muted colors. It feels truthful boring! It feels similar I'm successful the archetypal portion of a Skittles commercialized earlier the container is brought retired oregon something. I can't hold for those kids to go teenagers and rebel by making their rooms each pastels oregon neon!"
—Anonymous
11. "I truly dislike achromatic cabinets. Unpopular opinion, I know. But immoderate painted wood, particularly white, conscionable looks similar a full landlord peculiar to me. White cabinets usually mean that they are made of crappy particleboard with a integrative coating. If you person existent wood cabinets, stain the wood an charismatic colour and item its earthy beauty, but don't overgarment it!"
—Anonymous, 57, New Mexico
12. "Covered beforehand porches little than 8-feet wide thrust maine nuts. If you person to shimmy astir chairs to get to the extremity of the porch, it doesn't marque sense."
—Anonymous, 51, Iowa
13. "A built-in refrigerator looks bully until you request to regenerate it and can't find 1 to acceptable the vacant hole. What bash you do, rebuild the cabinet?"
—Anonymous, 69, male, Florida
14. "More of an architecture happening than a plan choice, but geometric shapes and all-glass walls. Personally, I don't similar the feeling of knowing idiosyncratic tin spot everyplace successful the gathering from a artifact away, and the oddly quadrate shapes conscionable consciousness Cybertruck-adjacent and outgo ~millions~. Like, why?"
—Anonymous, 21
15. "Brass room hoods. Brass and grease build-up volition support you looking for a hack to get them cleanable and dust- and grease-free."
16. "The unfastened conception living/kitchen/dining large country is abominable. I hatred cooking successful beforehand of everyone, and I hatred having each repast fundamentally successful the kitchen, with nary mode to flight the pots, pans, and cooking mess. The sound level is ridiculous if you are entertaining. The tremendous land is ever cluttered, adjacent erstwhile you aren't cooking. Give maine abstracted living, kitchen, and eating rooms, please!"
—Anonymous
17. "Granite/marble countertops successful kitchens oregon bathrooms. Yes, they're pretty, but immoderate magnitude of h2o near connected the aboveground for excessively agelong leaves stains/rings."
—Anonymous, 32, Illinois
18. "I person rented a caller flat with wood-look vinyl flooring. Pro: It's large for grooming a puppy. Big con: It's similar walking connected slabs of cement — I ended up with achy calluses connected my feet. I present person to deterioration slippers successful my flat to debar damaging my feet. I've had tile, wood, and manufactured wood flooring, and I've had this problem. I would ne'er instal it anyplace but a canine kennel!"
—Anonymous, 68, Connecticut
19. "Horizontal plank fencing doesn't property good astatine each and is much 'climbable' than vertical pickets."
20. "Little bath tubs. I'm not tall, but I request a bathtub I tin prevarication down successful to bash a due soak, for wellness reasons."
—Anonymous, 69, Canada
21. "Curvy everything. Yes, the integrated signifier is chill and all, but successful 20 years it's conscionable gonna shriek 2020s, not successful a chill retro way. If I spot different puddle reflector oregon beige couch, I mightiness really suffer it."
—Anonymous, 18, Michigan
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