OMG yes. For powder rooms, it's fine. But for any bathroom where you use it on a daily basis to get ready for work, etc... I don't get it.
My parents redid their bathroom a couple years ago and put in a pedestal. It annoys me when I occasionally spend the night. The only small compensation is that their linen closet is RIGHT THERE and easy to get to for stuff stored there.
Is it okay in small master bathrooms? There's really no room for anything else in ours. No linen closet to speak of, either.
I have a huge bathroom and put a pedestal in when we remodeled it. I LOVE it! I hate bathroom cabinets and countertops.
I have one bathroom. And when renovating it, we realized that the sink he had bought was too big to fit comfortably in the small space we had, so we switched to a pedestal sink that matched the tub and toilet. UGH. It's such a pain. There's no room for anything so we use the bedroom next to the bathroom as our toiletry room. It's ridiculous.
NEVER AGAIN!
Oh, which reminds me of another house hatred: Only having ONE bathroom.
When I was married, we lived in a 1bd/1ba apt while he was going through his job's school. We both got food poisoning. Our apartment's gym was being remodeled but the bathroom down there still worked. He slept in a sleeping bag overnight there after shitting in our bathroom's trash can because he couldn't make it and I was on the toilet. I have a strong belief there should be one toilet per butt when possible.
OMG - yeah - one toilet per butt would be best!
ETA - we first had a house with 2 toilets in 2011... I'm not sure how we escaped the simultaneous potty need! Now we have 3 (2.5 baths) and it's awesome since we have a potty trained kid. Not sure what's going to happen when we have potty trained kid 2...
I hate two story family rooms. It's a deal breaker for me. They are impossible to heat/cool and waste so much space. I would rather a bonus room directly above it with useable space.
And while I'm at it, some people should not be allowed to paint. Especially people who use colors like lime green and fire engine red. Bad paint skills + bad color = one big disaster.
OMG, YES!
I'll add painted ceilings to this, too.
Our house had two rooms with mustard yellow ceilings. One was a bedroom with purple walls and yellow ceiling; the other was the dining room with yellow ceiling and ketchup red walls. We also had a leather-effect brown wall in the living room that looked like water damage, three rooms with two-toned yellow walls with a darker yellow sponge painted over the lighter color, and the master BR had one mustard yellow accent wall and three pumpkin orange walls. WTF?! On top of the hideous color/technique choices, they did a shit job of painting.
I majorly underestimated how costly and annoying it would be to re-paint the entire house. As much as I love the house, there are days I seriously contemplate just burning the fucker down instead of continuing.
I have more. I've been getting a bunch of new alert listings.
Ceilings that aren't high Rooms that lack sufficient wall space for furniture but aren't big enough to float the furniture Being too far from the highway. We are ~20 minutes from the closest highway now. Too far. Won't do it again.
Haha, I'll be that SF (well SF area) person sfy . One bathroom in our house. MUST BE NICE (devil) We do have a second half-bath in the detached finished garage, but I can't think of a single time we've ever needed it. Sometimes we use it out of convenience to where we are in the back yard, but rarely. I imagine it would be a lot worse with a kid, but we've even successfully shared the main bath with a roommate in the summers with NBD. We also have a pedestal sink, dun dun dun!!! But a floor-to-ceiling linen cabinet right next to it with tons of storage. The fact that I don't wear makeup probably makes a difference here. Also don't care about indoor parking here in CA.
But there's a long list of other stuff I hate that wouldn't make a lot of people blink. Unwalkable/unbikeable neighborhood (I'm within walking distance of at least 5 bars and like it that way), lack of inviting entrance, sticking out like a sore thumb style-wise or looking exactly like every other house in the neighborhood, boxy exterior, vinyl anything, w2w carpet, dinky trim, too much space to clean, not enough storage, beige exterior paint, grass, lack of mature trees, lack of back yard, too-small windows, blue-toned lighting. The list could go on forever. I'm capable of seeing past the fixable items on my list when shopping (paint I ignore completely, e.g.) but some of them are unfixable dealbreakers.
*loses it* lol. I will never live in an low walk score neighborhood again, either. Maybe when I'm old and check into a home, but not before.