To ask your interior design pet hates?

[Lotsofsausage]

Am I a horrible snob?
Here are mine:
Bowls of pebbles on coffee table (why?)
Black and diamanté furniture
Photos printed onto canvas (CRAP quality just get a good photographic print and frame it!)
Those shiny duvet sets and cushions
Fire surround but no fire place (not) even a hole in the wall!

UPVC windows on old buildings

these aren't interior design things, these are boring practical things

Hardly. Decent quality wood windows are just as boring and practical and entirely appropriate. It's a choice to change them for ugly plastic windows and of course design is part of that choice. Not caring about the aesthetics is a choice.

and price does that enter your calculation? just because you have an old house doesn't mean you are currently rich.

Oh God. Is this an example of black diamante furniture?

Because that is really quite disturbing.

I don't like words or slogans (on walls or shelves), hate feature walks, dislike laminate floors generally. Shabby chic and mirrored furniture bore me. Fake flowers - I've never seen any I liked. Inside cupboard bins - they make the cupboard smell. Any form of decorative loo seat is a no no.

I have seen the seagulls on sticks before, often in America.

I have a few of people's nos in my house though. We have a very old fireplace in the bedroom that is lovely, but boarded up behind as it was so draughty (300 yr old farmhouse). We have White subway tiles behind the cooker, it looks great behind the stone surround. I also have a few decorative cushions on our bed - extra comfort when sitting up reading in bed.. Quite a few scented candles - a quick fix when the dogs stink!!

Glass tables
Leather sofas (mainly because I hate peeling myself off them when it's hot )
My least favourite thing is small-ish tables that are just filling a gap in a hallway/room, with a massive mirror, with symmetrical nick nacks... I.e two huge vases at each end, two of the same photo frames, two identical candles and a big fat mirror leaning against the wall. I have no idea why I don't like it, I just don't!

My biggest hatred is chequerboard kitchen tiles, particularly multicoloured, like this.

I know they're something that was popular 15 or 20 years ago, but I hated them even then.

I was once in a house where the couple had a massive canvas of themselves.................naked and entwined in one another's arms!

Unless there are two couples this horrific in the world (surely not!) I have been to this house. I spent the whole dinner making chit chat with my hostesses naked arse right in front of my eyes.

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This type of furniture

Those awful subway tiles. They look like public toilets.

I quite like The Range...

I'll get my coat...

zeezeek you'll regret that teenage Goth hope, mark my words. I know it's hard, that pink stage, but we must be brave and try and get through it.

Things like Anaglypta, wood chip and coloured bathrooms I don't find offensive as they're not really 'interior design sins' more just things we have to live with until we can cobble together the cash to strip it and paint everything F&B Elephant's Fart (or whatever it's called). It's when we lose control in B&Q, Next or Dunelm with cash in our pockets that the crimes are committed.

I don't even know where to start with this one. When I look at houses on Rightmove it soon becomes obvious that hardly anyone in the UK has any taste at all. Most houses look like nobody cares. Some look like people are trying but they don't have a clue. The British seem to always get the kitchen completely wrong.

People need to look at Pinterest a bit more before they decorate.

So this thread reminded me of the epic 'smashed teapots' episode of changing rooms where Linda Barker decided to be 'wacky' and 'out there' and put a collection of priceless (to her) teapots on a shoddy set of floating shelves which predictably broke and destroyed them all.

Youtube link here>>>

Ahh changing rooms, that was a great show.

But to answer the question...
Cord muddy grey of brown sofas
All matching furniture or single colour schemes

Pinterest is full of pretentious poncy shite.

My DM has managed to combine all my pet hates in her house:

Artex ceilings in all rooms except the kitchen and bathroom, where she has polystyrene tiles

Woodchip wallpaper in all the bedrooms

Anaglypta in the sitting room and dining room

Appalling vinyl wallpaper with shiny stripes in the hall, which emphasises the wonky wall where the staircase is (1930's house)

Carpet in both bathroom and kitchen

Oversized beige dralon three-piece suite

Scatter cushions that match the heavily patterned curtains

Patterned carpets throughout, but all different, so there is a patchwork effect

Dark wood dado rail crammed with china birds

She's very happy with it all, which is the most important thing

Oh god yes, 'pops of colour' are extraordinarily annoying.

Also the idea that 'eclectic' means a house full of random jumbled up crap.

Kitchens which don't have proper kitchen units in, but have open shelves with everything out on the shelf or in crates, so everything gets covered in grease and dust and it just looks like an unholy mess.

Pans hanging from racks or the ceiling, so you have to look at the bottom of a pan every time you go in the kitchen.

Utensil rack immediately behind the hob, so that if you cook anything spattery you have to wash all the utensils (previous owners of our house, I'm looking at you!)

Current trend for living/dining /kitchen and then ANOTHER dining room miles away from the kitchen- WTF is that about! Can't you just have a big enough dining table in your kitchen, and move the sofa to the living room?

My only real 'hate' is an architectural one - open plan houses that were not built that way.

I live in a street of 1920's houses all basically built the same - with a long entrance hall downstairs with doors leading off to a separate sitting room, 'drawing room', dining room and kitchen - all good sized rooms. But most of them have been made open plan, so there is just one massive soul-less space, still (usually) furnished as the separate rooms would have been, but without any walls . Or even worse, with two or three sofas spread out around a 40 ft long 'living space' where you need a Tannoy to have a conversation.

Open plan living may seem lovely when you don't have DC, or have cute, small ones. But trust me, once you have a house full of teenagers, you will want your walls back.

Looking at American TV and films it seems they favour kitchens made from dark wood. I really don't like that look at all.

hahaha I am going to MN hell

I have fairy lights, bunting, grey walls, wall paper, laminate, pineapples, DFS sofas, cushions on my bed ...

you know what - I love it - it's my home and I like it - surely that is what matters - although I totally agree with the crappy wall slogans!

I will defend laminate! We have the most beautiful deep walnut colour which is so lovely in our living room and hall. Was not cheap to begin with but got an amazing sale deal.

Behold the beauty!

I think the term 'pop of colour' is annoying but I do like actual pops of colour. Better than everything being beige.

Grey walls, grey window frames, white rendered walls (outside), grey bifolding downs. yawn yawn yawn

Vertical blinds.
Homes Under the Hammer style - magnolia walls with dark brown carpets.
UPVC front doors.
Pictures on walls- any pictures at all. Mirrors ok.

How on earth do people know that it's Magnolia to judge it as 1990s or whenever it was?! It's it all just basically slightly off-white paint, good for neutral decor?
clearly I will never make a designer!

I have a first flat to decorate at the moment. It's newbuild and I don't have a choice about a lot. Really ugly kitchen, but wasn't my choice and it's brand new so can't be ripped out. Almond walls. Oyster carpets. Light beige blinds. Everything possible cream coloured. And because I have to furnish everything from scratch, I'm also having to go very neutral on it all, as I won't be able to afford new stuff for a long time. So all the furniture is wooden or grey, accessories are cream, curtains will be neutral, even rugs and lampshades at the moment have to be fairly boring so to go with everything. Maybe some day in the future when I can afford to replace it, I'd make different choices, but it's hard at the moment. And yes I agree that it looks very very boring in places. But it's not always someone's choice. And then once you've started, you get stuff to match. I have to buy more ugly bits for the kitchen to match what's there! etc.

but no giant letters or ceramic words.

Excuse my ignorance but are subway tiles those brick shaped ones hung in broken bond style (like bricks)? I quite like those but my DH says they remind him of Victorian mortuaries where he's attended PMs and he can't face seeing them in the house.

Enjoying this thread

Curtains that don't reach the floor
Why should curtains reach the floor? . For one thing, under every one of my windows there is a radiator, so it'd be really stupid to have floor-length curtains. But other than that, I want curtains to reach down to the window-sill and no further, because they just gather dust.

On the other hand all of my walls are white, I have fitted carpet in the living-room and carpet tiles in the bedroom (which was because I did not have the money for anything else when I moved in, but it has turned out to be the best thing ever: quiet, warm but less "fluffy" than the fitted carpet in the living-room, so much less dust).

Wondering why anyone would buy a leather sofa at all: to me they are unpleasant to the touch, cold in winter and too slippery.