Was there anything you didn't notice as quite common until looking to buy?

nonnatus

We viewed several houses with Cat Litter Trays scattered around.
They were the basic litter trays without a hood, they always seemed to be in the KITCHEN :eek: and were mostly full of deposits.
The smell was revolting.

Person_one

Brown_Eyed_Girl wrote: »

Oh god yes!

"We had 'inspire' printed on the wall as we wanted our children to think creatively"

Congratulations, they now think it's ok to write on the wall.

Its the 'instructions' I hate.

"Wash' above the sink
'Cook' above the oven
'Dream' above the bed.

I'm waiting to see one that says 'S**t' above the loo.

vic_sf49

For those that buy a property with those annoying vinyl stickers on the walls, nail varnish remover, a pan scrubber (the cheap '20 for a quid' ones) and a lot of elbow grease get the adhesive off the wall.

......it takes a lot of paint with it, but you need to redecorate anyway.

I had the joy of removing the horrible things from 4 walls.

LittleMax

fdavidson wrote: »

We went to view a house that was littered with beer bottles and pizza boxes and had a poo in the toilet....

Well that was probably the best place to have a poo

cloo

Third or fourth bedrooms being tiny - it took us ages to find somewhere with a decent sized 4th bedroom. The house the fell through and the one we live in now were the only two we saw with a last room that wasn't a total box.

When we looked at flats 8 years ago, I was shocked at seeing so many (not cheap) ones there were with nowhere to put a table to sit down and eat.

hohum

Art_Contrary wrote: »

While I'm only at the "viewing" via Zoopla stage, I'm seeing words on walls everywhere. I just keeping thinking, "I'd have to put three layers of paint on that room 'cause some knob has written HOME on the wall. Why do they need to be reminded that they're at home? Do they have SLEEP written over the bed and !!!! written over the loo? Couldn't they just stick it in a frame and hang it or get one of those horrible word ornaments?"

It's the curse of Pinterest. I loathe word art - we're currently in the process of decorating our newly purchased house - and as i browse interiors it's everywhere. Why would you do that?

We viewed a lot of vacant houses so we saw a lot of really mystifying decorating decisions. and long narrow lounges, just a quirk of sixties/ seventies semis and how the ground floor got laid out. Often people get rid of the dining room to enlarge living room, which creates a long thin space. We ended up with a house where they'd gone for bigger kitchen when taking out the dining room. Much better.

CathA

[QUOTE=DaftyDuck;69074953

The new trend for "Lovey Dovey" word poems on the bedroom walls. Long, gushing things in bedrooms, framed... with strange formatting ...Things like

"My love for you
burns softly
as a river flows slowly you are
as paradise
my
simple
soulmate"

Then there's the size of the sitting room sofas, the even larger size of the TV, and ... ... no other furniture in the room.[/QUOTE]

That drives me insane as well; why write BATH over the bath, for example?

Even worse is when the owners have something similar to what's on the wall tattooed up their arm- and insist on showing you!!

I can never understand why anyone would want to have washing strewn all over the place, knickers dangling on the radiator and dirty dishes on the side. Mind you, when my daughter was selling her house she put a load of dirty stuff in the oven quickly when the viewers were due, promptly forgot about it (she blames baby brain!) and only remembered when the smell of melting plastic started wafting round when she put the oven on to pre-heat!! Oh I laughed!!

The house we have bought had carpets everywhere, kitchen, utility, both bathrooms-yuk. From the first look it seemed clean but when we moved in and started pulling stuff out, there was cobwebs so big you could have sprayed fake snow on them and used them as Christmas decorations. I would have been ashamed if I'd left any house like that but I've never moved into a clean house yet!!

Another thing I noticed is the tendency for some modern-ish houses in a nearby town to have beams put in-why???? There was a spate of them from the same estate a while ago, all had beams in the kitchen but no-where else, looked very strange.

And yes, I've seen plenty of houses with cat litter trays (complete with p00!) and one house had a house rabbit hopping about-go careful where you walk in that house!! Why don't people move the animals somewhere (though not in the oven!)

clint_S

Always amazed at the amount of bikes stored in the kitchen or bedroom. Surely the garage or shed would be a better place? Or just moved for the photos\viewings.

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I'm amazed at the amount of bathrooms that come directly off the kitchen. I'm sure there's a saying somewhere about how you shouldn't **** where you eat!

ReadingTim

Personally I'm amazed by the number of people who seem to think that an open planning kitchen/dining living area is the height of sophistication - I don't want to have to turn the telly up to drown out the noise of the washing machine, or look at dirty pots and pans as I'm eating my dinner. It's just a cheap con trick by developers to rob you of space as everything gets smaller.

Alternatively, if people are so keen on open plan living, why don't they go the whole hog and have the toilet in the room too? Then then really have gone full circle and returned to the layout of a one room mud hut...