Folks Open Up About 30 Things In Their Homes Which Sounded Great But Ended Up Being 100% Awful

Oh god. Have you never seen an alpine home? Very steep roof angle for a reason. Flat roof = snow accumulation = a LOT of extra weight on the roof (average 20lbs per cubic foot) = sagging & eventually caving in.

We live in South Africa so a flat roof isn't a problem snow-wise since it never (well... hardy ever...) snows in Johannesburg. But the house is FREEZING in winter and boiling in summer (we do not have such a thing as central heating in this country). I'd say I don't know what the builder was thinking but I do because it was my dad (he was a bricklayer by trade although worked in a white collar job for 35 years). He thought a flat roof with corrugated iron nailed into place would make it hard for criminals to get in through the roof. I miss you, Dad, but it's winter now and I'm cold!

As an architect with 20 years of experience, I will say that a properly installed flat roof is far superior to a pitched roof. A fully-welded continuous membrane is far less prone to leaking than a pitched roof. And, flat roofs are not flat. They always have some slope. Even in Michigan, basically every commercial building has a flat roof, some that span for acres, and they last decades without leaks, and the effect on snow-loading is a small percentage increase of structure. The only reason we still build pitched roofs at all anymore is just because people like the way they look, and most of them are single-family homes. You had a bad roof, and probably a bad roofer.

Arizona has a lot of flat roofs covered in black tar-paper - codes have been changed to have them painted white

Wicked expensive to replace too. My roof is slightly pitched, not flat, but requires flat roof materials.

I love open concept. I do most of the cooking (by choice) and when we had a separated kitchen I just felt so isolated. And when people did come into the kitchen to talk to me they often got in the way. Now I can be part of the conversation, listen to the music or the TV, all while cooking.

I love it! It's called here 'american kitchen', when the living room and the kitchen is opened together. The best is, when it has a balcony too, when living in an apartment. But I'm living alone, so I can see, why someone with a family, won't be a fan of it.

Love open concept and would never go back. It’s great being in the middle of things instead of in the kitchen while family life happens elsewhere or everyone underfoot. It might be ok if I had a huge kitchen with a sitting area.

Consider shoji screens or portable kitchen island to break up the space.

Plus they'll find out that the "love" you added to the recipe was actually just dropping it on the floor and rinsing it off.

This can be solved relatively simply. You can buy wire basket drawers that go into a cupboard. They are fixed so that they don't tip when you pull them out. If you don't want wire, you could so the same thing with solid drawers.

Agree, you can get aftermarket sliders that essentially turn cupboards into drawers.

You can add pull out shelves to existing cabinets relatively easily and cheaply

This is why I put up one of those pot/pan bars over my sink. My lower cabinets are so narrow and deep. Keeps them from getting scratched too. The biggest pan I have goes in that drawer under the range.

You can easily add drawers in your cabinets they even have ready made ones at home depot

One bathroom per person. Even half a bathroom with just a toilet and sink would be nice. I live with one other person. Too many times one of us is pleading the other to hurry up because we can't hold it no longer.

Or even just a second toilet!

Uh...why? A second bathroom IS really nice.

I grew up in a home with one bathroom, and at some times there were 8 people living in the house

we had 3 toilets with 2 adults and 2 kids living in our house. There was a day where everyone had diarrhea all at the same time.....guess which of us had to "try" to hold it in

There's turkeys who live in the cemetery near me, I was driving in there one day (going to my grandparents' graves) and I stopped the car and they basically surrounded me and would not leave. Tried slowly driving towards them to scare them (wasn't actually going to run them over) and they were completely unfazed. Those bastards fear no man and no god

On the other hand Christmas dinner is sorted. ;-)

I bet they won't bother you near the end of November.

Try Canadian cobra chickens (geese) with babies. They bite and will charge you.

Nasty, very large birds. My neighbors turkeys would come to my yard and I had to chase them with a broom and hose away c**p. They were gone by Thanksgiving.

Most people in my country don't have a pantry to speak of. I'm reading some of the comments and going ??? what do you mean, "food in the kitchen cabinets" isn't that where the food is supposed to live? ETA I have come up with a hypothesis. It might be because my country is small and everything is walkable/cyclable, so people don't need to stock up on food as much as our US counterparts?

What does this one mean? I thought the category was things we regret having, but this person seems to miss having a pantry. Why is this here?

I have a Nicole door shelf pantry. I think I would kill for a walkin.

Pantry yes

I use an armoire :/