What are your biggest home decor dislikes?

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Fake flowers/ potted plants

I agree with some already said:

Mirrored furniture
Crushed velvet
Patterned carpets
Heavily Patterned wallpaper
White everything - too sterile and not practical
Pine furniture/doors
Fake grass
Wood chip wallpaper
TV above fireplace
Ornaments everywhere
Motivational type decals on walls
Mahogany furniture
Gloss worktops in the kitchen (said from experience as we have black ones and they're a freaking nightmare to keep clean!)
Grey render on external walls

Potted plants? How can you not like plants?

Slogans on walls, like ‘live, love laugh’ or ‘soak’ in the bathroom.

Fake grass.

Textured walls and ceilings.

We live rurally and our two log burners basically heat the entire home so not entirely true about the heat they give out. 🤣

You've got efficient ones! I've been huddled next to one in a friend's house while she feeds it bits of balsa wood like matchsticks, wondering why she bothers.
You've obviously got it right!

Pictures on wallpaper, but then I dislike wallpaper anyway.

Open plan. Very impractical.

Leather sofas
Pale Grey with bling
Big canvas family photos

Decking
Navy/dark green kitchens
Feature wall with garish wallpaper
Belfast sinks
Black taps/bathroom fittings

Crushed velvet.

Far too much grey - in a country where on so many days you only have to look out of the window,

Grey or beige.

Tab top and eyelet curtains. Hate them, so sterile and mean looking.

Belfast sinks, no idea why, just really don't like them.

Different strokes for different folks.
This is an unpleasant post and will be hurtful to some people.
Embrace how you and others decorate their homes.

Family photos on the wall.

That’s the whole point of the thread though let’s face it.

while houses in the same shade

inspirational quotes on walls

coloured bathroom suites

fske grass

Grey
Dark kitchens
black hardware in bathrooms
Black and white tile bathrooms
Carpets, prefer hardwood floor with rugs
Blinds
Astroturf
Paved, concreted or tarsealed front gardens, (prefer loose gravel)
Plastic plants indoors and those ghastly faux hanging flower baskets outside
Greenery free front gardens
Those horrible plastic front doors
Printed house numbers on a sign rather than the brass individual numbers. This and a concrete/paved front garden make look like like it’s a dentists/physio practicing from a house rather than a home.
Faux panelling
Glass screens in bathrooms, one shattered on me when I was a guest at a friend’s, gave me such a fright. Beastly to keep clean too
Short baths

Grey. Especially grey carpets and that fake wood grey flooring. We're house hunting at the moment and I get so frustrated at these newly done up houses in this gloomy, life-sucking colour - it would cost a fortune to rip out new fittings and replace them. But I couldn't live with that grey so all those houses have to be discounted.

Also loathe fake grass. It just makes me angry and judgemental. It's a garden. Wildlife thrives when gardens are full of living plants not sheets of plastic.

@Autumnweddingguest , I hear you.
I'm the same about grey. We spent the first few weeks in our house painting over it - it was everywhere - the hall was a very dark battleship grey and it took some coverage!
However - the difference! The house looks so much bigger and lighter. The navy kitchen was an effort, but again, looks bigger, brighter and cleaner.
I know it seems daunting, but if it's a good house at a reasonable price, go for it.

Feature walls. idk why but I hate them so much

Anything diamonte. Chandeliers - unless those are actual diamonds hanging from them, they look really tacky.

Dark coloured walls. I want to breathe in here, not feel soul-crushing suffocation!

Non-smooth bathroom tiles. They look good, but they are a nightmare for catching dirt. I moved earlier this year and had to clean the entire bathroom floor with a toothbrush

Wooden decks. We've just ripped up our (mostly rotten) one and planning to replace with a little stone patio. The garden faces east, so not sure what the previous owners were thinking?!? Total shade in the pm and evening. Plus the fence was cheap-looking af

I'm guilty of having some of these, vertical blinds and log burner, both in the house when I bought it. I don't have a TV over the fireplace though.

My own pet hates are artificial grass, hate it, so environmentally horrible, grey walls in every room and black and white kitchens, usually with red tiles.

I’d love an aga, and the rest sounds like my own home!

Our house is on a slope- without the deck, we’d have a great drop into the back garden!