Home renovation choices you now regret…

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Anonymous wrote:I regret my Moroccan tiles I installed over 5 years ago (when the trend was just emerging) in my powder room. They are still beautiful and are not yet dated but I’m a bit over the trend because it’s so overdone. Wish I had just gone with a classic marble mosaic.

I love moroccan tiles- do you mean the arabesque shapes? I'm still warming up to DO that eventually. Is it already passé?

We have just finished remodeling our kitchen and the backsplash is arabesque shape tiles. They have been around for thousands of years. I love them.

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Anonymous wrote:Anything people regret NOT doing? We’re about to embark on a renovation project and contemplating some add-ons like a new bathroom or a basement dig out.

I wish we had installed heated floors on the first floor when we replaced the carpet with tile.

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Previous owners blew out the attic to make a master suite. It’s beautiful but I hate that it’s an extra floor up, I am almost never in there except to sleep and it’s a pain to heat and keep cool in the summer. I so wish they had added on top of the first floor addition instead. I also think it’s a harder sell to families with young kids, which we didn’t have when we bought but could make resell challenging.

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Wish we had done our attic bath when we did the kitchen & all the other bathrooms, but we figured we'd do it later. Here we are 15 years later and it's still not done It works but we really needed to redo the tub/ shower when all 3 kids were living at home.

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Wish we refinished the hardwood floors before we moved in. Literally impossible to do it now.

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Anonymous wrote:I regret the tile color in the bathrooms. Also laminate flooring.

We pick a tile color in a sand color that i thought was neutral. Turns out
It clashes with every color and tone.

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I regret choosing a real hardwood instead of composite decking for our front porch. The maintenance is too much for us to keep up with and DH hates to hire people for that type of work, so it looks grayed and weathered.

I wish that we had installed a sprinkler system in our small yard during an addition/remodel (when most of the yard was torn up due to extending the foundation). Our yard is small, but shaped in a way that sprinklers have to be repeatedly moved to get everything.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I regret my Moroccan tiles I installed over 5 years ago (when the trend was just emerging) in my powder room. They are still beautiful and are not yet dated but I’m a bit over the trend because it’s so overdone. Wish I had just gone with a classic marble mosaic.

I love moroccan tiles- do you mean the arabesque shapes? I'm still warming up to DO that eventually. Is it already passé?

No not the arabesque, the patterned Moroccan tile. Mine are neutral colors and I’m still over it. I don’t think the trend has ended and the tiles are beautiful. I just hate when everything is overdone.

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Anonymous wrote:Previous owners blew out the attic to make a master suite. It’s beautiful but I hate that it’s an extra floor up, I am almost never in there except to sleep and it’s a pain to heat and keep cool in the summer. I so wish they had added on top of the first floor addition instead. I also think it’s a harder sell to families with young kids, which we didn’t have when we bought but could make resell challenging.

I wouldn’t worry about resale. We had a house like this, and it sold before we put it on the market to a family with small kids. If it’s an otherwise nice house in a good location, it will sell.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I regret my Moroccan tiles I installed over 5 years ago (when the trend was just emerging) in my powder room. They are still beautiful and are not yet dated but I’m a bit over the trend because it’s so overdone. Wish I had just gone with a classic marble mosaic.

I love moroccan tiles- do you mean the arabesque shapes? I'm still warming up to DO that eventually. Is it already passé?

No not the arabesque, the patterned Moroccan tile. Mine are neutral colors and I’m still over it. I don’t think the trend has ended and the tiles are beautiful. I just hate when everything is overdone.

I don’t get this. Either you like it or you don’t. Disliking something because it’s popular is just as bad as liking something because it’s popular.

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Anonymous wrote:I regret my Moroccan tiles I installed over 5 years ago (when the trend was just emerging) in my powder room. They are still beautiful and are not yet dated but I’m a bit over the trend because it’s so overdone. Wish I had just gone with a classic marble mosaic.

I love moroccan tiles- do you mean the arabesque shapes? I'm still warming up to DO that eventually. Is it already passé?

No not the arabesque, the patterned Moroccan tile. Mine are neutral colors and I’m still over it. I don’t think the trend has ended and the tiles are beautiful. I just hate when everything is overdone.

I don’t get this. Either you like it or you don’t. Disliking something because it’s popular is just as bad as liking something because it’s popular.

I’m not sure what you aren’t getting. You can like something and still wish you hadn’t done it. It’s not about being popular it’s bout seeing it every where and being sick of it. Hopefully that clears it up for you.

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Anonymous wrote:We made some bad decisions on a renovation we did two years ago, and it bugs me every time I see them. What was I thinking?? Obviously we won’t be paying to replace something brand new, so I’ll just have to deal with it. Hoping to commiserate with other homeowners who are dealing with this too! What home improvement choice do you regret?

Modern toilets. I wish I had just gone with regular toilets.

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Anonymous wrote:Regret flooring choice (bamboo because it is sustainable, but has so many dings/dents I hate it).

Location of recessed lights in the kitchen. They are so random, rather than thoughtfully or logically placed.

Finally, I wish we had placed some pocket doors in locations that are generally open. Not so much an issue now, but when the kids were little, and we were entertaining, there was no way to close off the open floor plan that we love, to keep the noise from floating upstairs and keeping them up. Would have been easy to do at the time, now there is electrical and other things in those walls.

I regret my light placement as well. I built new and was overwhelmed with making all the choices and really didn’t plan accordingly.

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Anonymous wrote:I regret my Moroccan tiles I installed over 5 years ago (when the trend was just emerging) in my powder room. They are still beautiful and are not yet dated but I’m a bit over the trend because it’s so overdone. Wish I had just gone with a classic marble mosaic.

I love moroccan tiles- do you mean the arabesque shapes? I'm still warming up to DO that eventually. Is it already passé?

No not the arabesque, the patterned Moroccan tile. Mine are neutral colors and I’m still over it. I don’t think the trend has ended and the tiles are beautiful. I just hate when everything is overdone.

I don’t get this. Either you like it or you don’t. Disliking something because it’s popular is just as bad as liking something because it’s popular.

I’m not sure what you aren’t getting. You can like something and still wish you hadn’t done it. It’s not about being popular it’s bout seeing it every where and being sick of it. Hopefully that clears it up for you.

It does clear it up. It’s about being a snob.

[Anonymous]

We reused the existing perfectly fine toilets. We put a Toto in the new bathroom and I wish we had replaced the others at the same time. I’ll eventually swap them out, but we’re just so glad to be done with construction that I can’t bear the thought of having one more thing done right now.