What is the most wasted feature of your home?

what good is a beautiful guest bedroom if it only sits empty most of the time?

Not a feature, but a possession. We inherited from my mother a 1930's glass and chrome trolley. It would be great as a cocktail trolley, but not for us. So it is in a spare bedroom with a basket of toys on it. I would like to be without it, but has sentimental memories.

Nothing, we moved three years ago and knew exactly what we needed and were lucky enough to get it.

A large footstool we bought which matches the conservatory furniture. It was too large, too high for comfort.

It sits in the corner of a spare bedroom with a spare blanket in it.

The laundry basket in the bathroom and the kitchen bin (the type with recycling, food waste and general waste compartments. At least in my son's eyes.

I think he views both as some sort of idol, at the base of which offerings should be left on the floor and that the said idol will later somehow consume his leavings!

Likewise his wardrobe and other clothes storage facilities - he instead is a firm believer in the use of the floordrobe.

Ironically it was he who persuaded me to buy the kitchen bin, which was quite an expensive item.

Never mind, he has now bought his own house and we are working on an exodus of his incessant mess from our house to his!

At my old house I had a bath but hardly ever used it. Now I’ve moved into an apartment which has a wet room but now wish I had a bath. ???!!

We also have a big expensive stone fireplace that was all the rage in 1999 when house was built, but fire is one setting - furnace! So don't use it! I'd love to rip it out and have a wood/ dual fuel instead on a stone base, but fat controller is stuck in the " i like it ( only cos it was expensive) so why rip it out?" Stage of old bloke thinking.....they do say they become their dad.......grrrrr!

Barmyoldbat- I'd forgotten we have a piano stool ( was my grandmothers/ mothers) but no piano! Its hidden in a corner behind the sofa and stores tools.

Redhead56

Bath in main bathroom was used for grandchildren as babies but not anymore. However we were told not to remove it as a four bedroom house is sold easier if it actually has a bath in it. Only thinking of the future just want to make life easier for our children who will be selling it.

Least used? 3rd massive bedroom is train room, never use it since before lockdown! Spent 2-3years building it and now? Never play with it!! Waste of £0000s of Dosh could've been used to redecorate throughout! Not seen GK for 5years so no point!
We also removed bath and we'll be in this house until ....we aren't if you get me? Anyone want a bath? Have one put in , simple as it was to remove! Won't be here- not my problem!

Like many others now-we rarely use the freestanding oven, but have several trays/ baking sheets to use in it- that are equally rarely used- as they don't quite fit in the smaller combi microwave but are too big to fit in cupboards so are stored in the oven. We also have lots of cookware china and vases etc that were my mothers and her mothers etc, but hold memories and might be useful ( I do find it difficult to give away anything that might be useful!) .
We don't really sit out in our back garden - its too close to a motorway to hear anything else! It has got much noisier since we moved in. The back garden is however useful - we watch the wildlife from indoors ( who don't seem to mind the traffic hum), dry washing, grow flowers and veg-and with the bushes etc, distances the house from the motorway- so I don't think it counts as not being used!.

Elusivebutterfly

I have a log burner which was here when I moved in and I have never attempted to use it. I do wonder if I should have a go at using it now as imagine it would be cheaper than the central heating.

If you are going to use it, please get it overhauled by a HETAS engineer.
Wood burning stoves can give off carbon monoxide if they’re not properly installed or serviced. We have our done every year.

A rocking chair that was left to us by my mil. It takes up a great deal of space, it looks out of place, no one ever sits in it and despite it being recovered it still looks out of place in our sitting room. It is now taking up space in the spare bedroom and I hope one day to get rid of it but Mr B wants to keep it.

I have a log burner which was here when I moved in and I have never attempted to use it. I do wonder if I should have a go at using it now as imagine it would be cheaper than the central heating.

Our Summerhouse. We built it to provide wind shelter at the top of the garden so that we could sit up there and enjoy the lovely views across the village and countryside beyond. But it gets damp and mouldy inside so now we just use it for storing garden furniture. We tried insulating it but that just made things worse. It's a pity as I envisaged it prettily decorated in ice cream colours with a beach hut theme. Now it just looks a bit shabby and unloved

My craft room (originally the smallest bedroom) has become a bit of a dumping ground, mainly because it's too small for me to work in and stuffed full of my materials and tools. I'd like to restore it to a bedroom (with bunk beds for the GC) but I don't know where I'd put all the contents. I suggested a shepherds hut or vintage caravan in the garden but DH says no.

All other areas of the house are used regularly.

Our lounge, it's a lovely big room but we tend to live in the kitchen/diner, even when the family come round for dinner everyone gravitates there. It comes in handy when we have big family gatherings, but they're not that frequent now.

Our underfloor heating, powered by an air source heat pump, is extremely efficient and our bills aren’t high. The house is, however, very well insulated.

My son in law is a builder and he told me that he advised people that it was really expensive and a nuisance to get at if there is a problem. He has kick board heating and it is cosy when I have been there. In the event of trouble it is easy to pull the board out to fix. One customer asked him to take out the underfloor heating as it was so expensive.

Our dining room is hardly used, attached to which a small conservatory which is often filled with other things. We don’t sit in as it only gets the sun very early in the morning.
Certain kitchen gadgets hidden away in top cupboards but keep meaning to give the ice cream maker another try. Too late, will have to wait, til next summer.

nadateturbe

FannyCornforth

The dishwasher. I never wanted it in the first place.
It was a sort of nearly new gift.
I store my Tupperware type stuff in it.

FannyC you made me laugh. I love my dishwasher. I miss it at the caravan.

Related to this and anther post, I have an Indian friend who claims that all her Indian friends use their oven for storage and not for cooking...

But related to this, and I’m almost reluctant to admit, we have two dishwashers a small one in the kitchen and a larger one in the utility room. It happened by accident, but it was a happy accident – I’ve read an article by someone with the same setup who essentially said “I have a cupboard that also washes my dishes”

We have several friends who are very anti-dishwasher but have never really succeeded in getting them to say why. It’s true that in their early days they were inefficient monsters, but as far as I can see they use less water and power now than washing by hand.

1. The coal effect electric fire in the sitting room.
2. Downstairs shower. We use the downstairs loo but the shower has only been used once. If we ever need to turn the back room downstairs into a bedroom, it will be useful.

FannyCornforth

The dishwasher. I never wanted it in the first place.
It was a sort of nearly new gift.
I store my Tupperware type stuff in it.

FannyC you made me laugh. I love my dishwasher. I miss it at the caravan.

annsixty Nothing old fashioned about a breakfast bar! I'm sitting at mine now and wouldn't be without it.

OP We never watch TV. We are cancelling our Sky subscription and considering getting rid of the TV completely. In the last two and a half years, I have only watched one programme, the recent BBC1 Great British Sewing Bee, although I do occasionally cast some favourite YouTube channels to the TV via my Chromecast. We have stacks and stacks of DVDs gathering dust.

The one fireplace in main sitting room is useless save for a pretty face. It had a back boiler when house first built but put in badly and disabled now. But it means the fireplace is hopeless as an open fire as little heat out into room. What with power cuts/energy prices, we might need it yet!

dragonfly46

My Ninja - just can't get the hang of it. I like to cook multiple things at the same time.

Then sell it. Everybody is snapping them up now that electricity is so expensive. I’ve just bought a Ninja dual two drawer model and so far it’s fantastic. As I’ve already said, it’s replaced my oven completely and does lots of other programmes too.

Probably the bath. I have an en-suite shower and have a bath probably every 2 years…