Form over Function - Style over Practicality

My new house, (it isn't yet a home), is all superficial glitz. There are quite major underlying impracticalities & stylistic errors to my eyes.

For example, the electrics. I've just had to replace the fusebox & 27 downlights because the box doesn't comply with safety standards & the lights are the old sort with transformers & no heat shield therefore are a fire hazard. But worse than that is the fact that there simply aren't enough lights & the ones that there are are not where you need them. Who in their right mind would put 4 downlights close to each other & a wall of windows & none in the rest of the room? Most of the actual rooms only have uplights & not enough of those. The dining room only had 1, so electricians have just had to make several holes in the ceiling to put in a modern fitting. Maybe the architect & the vendor never read anything.

Then there are the windows. Modern, probably very expensive, but a lot are non opening! For example in an ensuite bathroom. Why would you do that? Possibly for cheapness.

The front door is again probably very expensive - some sort of resin? Both mine & the next door one are cracked. Presumably because they face the South & West strong sunlight which has made them brittle?

The curved walls are very attractive, but make hanging pictures & placing furniture quite difficult. They also make moving furniture in & out a herculean task. I think my son in law's brother & father nearly had simultaneous heart attacks taking away a bed I gave them! As for the curved hall cupboard with no handles, which you had to bang to get your fingernails in to open - well I rest my case!

There are channels at floor level & round doors, with no architrave or skirting covering them. It looks as if the carpenter went off for a tea break & forgot. I expect in reality it was a style statement at the time. In fact it just looks utilitarian & unfinished. It certainly gathers dust.

It will all be sorted. I will make it a practical and attractive home. It's location is perfect for city living. It will just take time & money. (Given what I paid for the house, that is a bit galling). I just don't understand why you can't have good design, using modern materials, which is actually practical too. Maybe there is too big a gap between an architect's vision & a clients ability to live in a house in the 21st century.