What are your biggest home decor dislikes?

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Fake flowers/ potted plants

I think decks can look nice, but often are slippery and prone to rotting.

Fake flowers, wooden signs like "Live, laugh, love", grey everyfreakingwhere

I've got bingo several times over already on this thread. There are so many things in my house that other people would hate! If a lighthearted post on an anonymous forum about interior design choices is enough to be 'hurtful' it might be worth trying to develop a thicker skin.

Anyway, I'm off to sit on my grey sofa and watch the TV above the fireplace.

Unnecessary outside lights

Plastic grass

Carpets

My anger is probably mainly directed at our deck, specifically 😅 My parents have a lovely decking area at their house. Ours made me angry to look at, and I'm glad it's currently a log pile

Meh... I expect most people have a few of the things listed so no one should feel too bad about the thread.

I'm not a fan of the grey and I do hate plastic grass ... so very bad for the environment.

For my sins, my house is clutter, mostly off white and the flooring has been destroyed by dog and life in general. We have (non varnished) pine in places a champagne coloured bathroom which is overdue replacing and don't even get me started on my 50 year old kitchen! I'm off to work so I don't have to look at it and I can save for the (non grey) makeover ..

Grey crushed velvet
Those velvet dining chairs with knockers on the back. Why? 🤷‍♂️
Black and white
Diamante things
Live laugh love anything

AstroTurf
Marbled anything
Black kitchen cupboards

Admittedly I do like grey. We're putting grey carpets in all the bedrooms to make them nicer to walk on (currently awful laminate).

However our living room was grey when we moved in and that was one of the first things to go. Happy to report that we also filled in the holes above the fireplace where the previous owners had hung their tv. And we have a lovely wood burner that chucks out heat in winter.

I don’t mind most things except grey walls, which have a very depressive effect on me. I used to live in a rented flat with grey walls and hardly any natural light and it was awful.

We have decking which has been there for 14 years. My DH chose the wood and laid it. It’s still as good as when it went down. It’s not slippery and there’s no rot. I love that I can step out of my kitchen and not get my feet wet or muddy.

When everything is very grey and minimalist with no character. Looks so soulless to me. I don't like clutter but I do like lots of beautiful things in a home. Paintings, ornaments, noce throws and cushions etc.

Crushed velvet
Mirrored furniture
TVs above fireplaces
Black worktops
Leather sofas
Artex ceilings
Fake grass
hot tubs
grey carpet

Media walls. Will be a short lived trend IMO.

A feature wall. Edited to add glass table/ coffee table tops

That sounds great. You obviously made a good choice with the wood etc. I do think they look nice.

Oh I’m feeling nostalgic for “twigs and pebbly shit”

Same here, we have one which is amazing. We love it, big inglenook fireplace with the fire going on a chilly day - can’t beat it.

Chevron flooring makes me feel very uncomfortable for some reason, just go with herringbone!

'Word' art/ signs about the house, like "wash/ family/ gin o'clock/ the kitchen is for dancing" or some other hilarious quip. Lacks imagination in my opinion.

Gloss kitchens and granite worktops. They look sticky to me 😆

I'm inclined to agree with this. I think they're going to look dated very soon.

We have dado rails but refer to them as dildo rails because we are childish.

I knew before I opened this thread it would be all 'grey, grey', 'grey is the new magnolia' 😂.

Meanwhile the grey trend has been over for ages - it's all about beige/neutrals now!! Which to me feels like going back to the early 2000s when I had a beige and brown bedroom and thought it was incredibly modern 😅 .

Astroturf. White one white minimalism. That horrible orange pine - especially on the ceiling!!!

Decking - encourages rats and mice and you lose so much garden.

Goodness me! I don't know what type of log burner you've used but I've certainly never encountered one that only gives out 1°c of heat!
We wouldn't be without ours. It's only a small one, 5kw, but it's capable of heating most of our house. We barely use the central heating, except first thing in the morning in the depths of winter.

What I dislike in home decor are:
TVs on the chimney breast above a fireplace.
Grey.
Garish wallpaper.
Four poster beds.

We inherited our log burner with our house and it's the one that was originally put in when the house was built in the late 1940s - the heat it chucks out when going is incredible, wouldn't be without it in winter! We live very rurally and I imagine it was originally the only heat source in the house before central heating , it heats up several downstairs rooms.