1. "Sliding doors for bathrooms. ... The occupation is that they don't afloat adjacent the gap, leaving you with zero privacy. It's a woody breaker for me."
2. "A microwave supra the stove. If your stove is on, it's unsafe to scope above. Also, steam from cooking gets connected the microwave doorway and drips water. Something you person to cleanable again."
—Anonymous
3. "Matte achromatic faucets, hinges, knobs, oregon different hardware. It's a implicit dud!"
4. "Recessed lighting, similar galore modern minimalist plan trends, is advertised arsenic neutral and versatile — but it really locks you into modern minimalist design. It's not hard to power retired a pendant light, boob light, sconce, etc., to acceptable antithetic styles, but recessed lighting is conscionable recessed lighting! Plus, the bulbs are annoying to change."
—Anonymous
5. "I deliberation it whitethorn already beryllium 'out,' but the neutral, beige/light brownish trend. Keeping it earthy is nice, but bring a small colour into your location by adding immoderate different earthy colors, adjacent if it's not rainbow-fantastic. Green and bluish are lively and calming colors. Yellows are energetic. It's good to marque your abstraction consciousness a spot vibrant. The spectrum of disposable airy exists, truthful clasp it."
—Anonymous
6. "Vaulted ceilings. They tin beryllium an vigor suck."
7. "Jack and Jill bathrooms. These are the astir annoying things ever. Always moving into a locked door. Having to locomotion astir into the different chamber due to the fact that the idiosyncratic who antecedently utilized it didn't unlock the other doorway — lone the 1 they went done into their room."
—Anonymous, 69
8. "The crappy construction. Cheezus, the things immoderate location inspectors find. I'm truthful gladsome to person my boring 1980 tract location — it's built similar a tank."
9. "Farmhouse sinks! Nothing similar a slop descend successful your kitchen! Keep it successful the barn wherever it belongs."
—Anonymous
10. "Putting blah creation oregon wallpaper connected canvas connected walls that lucifer the furnishings and what an interior decorator chose. Grow up! Put creation that speaks to you connected your walls! Know the creator and wherefore the creation portion is meaningful to you. Make your creation bespeak who YOU are, however you love, and what you think."
—Anonymous, 70, Georgia
11. "Doorless showers. We person 1 and hatred it."
12. "Standalone tubs successful the mediate of the bathroom. Cleaning astir them is simply a nightmare."
13. "Gray vinyl flooring. It doesn't look luxurious. It looks cheap. Especially if you're ripping retired existent hardwood oregon tile to instal it. We each cognize it's plastic. You're walking connected plastic. I HATE however it's marketed arsenic luxury vinyl flooring. There's thing luxurious astir integrative floors. It's ne'er going to look arsenic bully arsenic a much accepted and timeless material."
—Anonymous, 27, USA
14. "Microwaves with nary handle. You person to property 'open' for the doorway to unhatch, clip the functions, acceptable the navigator time, past adjacent the doorway and deed start. Fingerprints get each implicit the surfaces."
15. "Extremely ample unfastened space. I don’t mean well-done vaulted ceilings oregon thing similar that; I’m talking astir bedrooms that are mode bigger than they request to be, surviving rooms and entrances that are truthful large they look similar an bare cavern. Homes person mislaid their coziness."
"Also, the builder and the realtor tin complaint by the quadrate foot. It's a inexpensive mode to thrust up the terms of the home. I'd alternatively spot that wealth spell into amended quality."
16. "Those friggin' vertical room faucets that person nary denotation which absorption is blistery oregon cold. Either marque it spell left/right oregon enactment a small red/blue indicator on!"
17. "Front doors that unfastened close into a large room/living room. Pretty communal wherever I live. The deficiency of a foyer/entryway is not precise user-friendly design."
18. "Gray everything: kitchens, bathrooms, surviving rooms."
—Anonymous, New York
19. "White trim and doors. Biggest regret. They are magnets for ungraded and stains, particularly with kids, and made maine recognize however overmuch I miss the look of wood. Definitely not worthy the effort and headache."
20. "I perfectly hatred the fridges that blend into the cabinets."
21. "Ceramic tiles successful the bathroom. Yes, it looks cleanable and upscale, but aft a shower, you volition suffer each the vigor from your feet and beryllium acrophobic to locomotion barefoot!"
22. "Electric toilets. I retrieve going to a affluent friend's location arsenic a kid, and the powerfulness went out, and nary of the toilets flushed. Also, they are disfigured and mode much uncomfortable to beryllium on."
23. "[Rainfall ablution heads.] Ugh! I hatred it erstwhile hotels person those. I don't privation my hairsbreadth bedewed with each shower, and I don't privation the h2o pouring down my look the full shower, either. Hate, hate, hate."
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