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!

Man caves

Black chandeliers, huge looming canvases of the owners and their family, words and mottos, crushed velvet, shiny or sequinned bedding, animal print, feature walls, loads of cushions on beds, blue LED lighting strips anywhere.

Any bit of tat that you are supposed to call an ornament sold in a set of 3 - usually meant to be 'complementing' colours or the same vase/pot/whatever in differing sizes.

I don't care what the designers say, it just looks like you've been shopping the clearance sales for stuff nobody else wants.

Carpet in general but especially in bathrooms.
As carpet goes, patterned carpet in particular. I can cope with a bit of seagrass, and I like stair runners.
Artex.
Colour schemes where everything is matchy - 0.lushome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/matching-interior-design-colors-room-decorating-1.jpg
Feature walls.
Bold graphic wallpaper and curtains, both matching and clashing, individually and together fighting it out in the same room.
Imprecations to eat, laugh, chew your food thoroughly, etc. in large wooden letters on the walls.
And 'family mission statements' too. (In this family/house we... are anal retentive, passive aggressive, sulk for days if we don't get our way, and we are also really, really twee.')
'Keep Calm and ...' (I am mentally filling in the blank here).
Vertical blinds.
Art hung too high.
Wall to wall Pottery Barn with no personality or character.
LaZboy furniture.
Cherry wood cabinets and furniture in particular (I think it reminds me of office furniture) but any wood kitchen cabinets really. I like them painted.
Eleventy hundred pillows on beds.
Formal, structured curtains.
Short curtains.
Knick knacks/tchotchkes.
1960s/70s wood paneling.
Tiles on floors everywhere. Nice in a hot climate but otherwise not really.

I like grey, leather sofas, cowhide, subway/metro tiles, crystal door knobs (often a coveted feature in older homes where I live) and hexagon tiles in bathrooms.

Does anyone remember woodchip wallpaper, anaglypta wallpaper or artex??

PILs are happily rocking all of the above, they last had their house redecorated circa 2001, but they stick with what they like.

We just got new carpet in the bedroom, they were surprised when they asked what the pattern was like and we told them it was a plain carpet I think they wanted to ask us if we couldn't afford a patterned one!

PP mentioned twin sinks, there is no way I would have a single sink, even with a dishwasher.
Bowls in the sink for washing up.
Leather furniture.
Cream walls, cream anything, sometimes called magnolia.
Trends - everyone chooses the same tiles, furniture, colours and before you know it it's already out of fashion. Those multi coloured kitchen tiles were on nearly every house show for ages.

Justilou I have those dolphin plates or ones very similar. Icollected them from on of those Sunday magazine offers and for a few years they graced my flat. Three moves and 20 years later they are in a box somewhere in my loft along with various other plates and general shit collected.

@cantspell2 They remind my of my batty aunt who is on benefits in Australia but earns a shitload scamming more vulnerable types by claiming to be psychic. She had the dolphin plates around the house to add to the effect.

Oh, and speaking of her decor choices....

I ALSO HATE:- ceramic mythical creatures & indoor water features. (They don't hide the smell of nicotine, Aunty)

I can't believe no one has mentioned carpets in the bathroom or matching toilet cover / toilet floor / bath mats. Or carpet tiles. We currently have carpet tiles and a birch (or maple coloured kitchen), can't wait to take a flame thrower to it next year!

MIL's house makes me dizzy every time I go there, it is so crammed with everything I would steer well clear of. I could fill an entire thread on my own. But mostly it's the kitchen table set with matching crockery which nobody is allowed to use. So when you actually want to sit down and eat, the whole lot has to be lifted off. And we're talking all the crockery here. Dinner plates with side plates on top, with bowls on top with linen napkins on top, wine glasses at each place setting - like a display in Next ( which I think is where she bought it!).

My biggest, absolutely hugest pet hate is an actual interior designed house. One with "the right" paint, wallpaper, draperies, furniture, flooring etc, everything beautifully tasteful with just the right amount of mismatching. So painfully insecure. Makes me feel very sorry for the owners!

Any house that's clean, lived in, and doesn't have a life lesson hung up on a wall somewhere is just fine with me

I have a "Family Rules" poster in my kitchen. It says....
"Neville Family Rules.

#1 Don't be a dick.
#2 That's it. "

I freakin LOVE that poster!

Sea themed bathrooms. What does showering and pooping have to do with the sea, besides the water involved?

Carpet in the bathroom - my parents have this and it makes me cry.

General clutter. We have plants, a couple of photographs and some wooden duck things that are a traditional wedding gift in my husband's home country. I cannot tolerate more clutter than that - ornaments, random wooden letters, glittery stuff here and there - it makes me feel on edge just thinking about my house being full of stuff like that. Whenever people buy me stuff like that, it just gets stuck in a drawer.

This is such a great thread and I'm loving fuckyournogucicoffetable.
Amongst my pet design hates are Chalkboards up high in kitchens. Just no.

Carpet in the bathroom. My pil's have this, and I always find it a bit odd and gross.

Wall stickers of quotes
'Blinged up' decor
Anything to matchy-matchy

And I've recently come across some minimalist channels on YouTube. I like the idea of minimalism, but some of these homes look so cold and bare; all stark, white and echoey with a single table and chair.

Ethelfleda
Your kitchen sounds beautiful, just my cup of tea. My heart is already broken because I have sage green metro tiles in my bathroom and I bloody love them. Oh well I'll live

Tiles with dead pheasants on them, lime green & orange anything. Brass rubbing "artworks".

Like so

My new home has dark grey gloss kitchen units with subway tiles (white with grey grouting). I like it. Every room is light grey. I find the colour soothing.

I like grey too, btw.... except for my hair. That I like not so much.

rain I love minimalist decor. It doesn't feel cold to me, it feels neat and easy to tidy and I can find everything easily.

Oh yes carpet in the bathroom. When we moved into our house there was thick, burnt orange carpet on our bathroom floor. The previous owners were not the cleanest people. It was disgusting. I pulled it up on day 1. Also they had swirly orange artex on the dining room walls which they matched with lime green paint on all the window surrounds .

If you want some tv joy in the style of this thread, then Interior design TV gold is to be found on iplayer - 'Signs of the Times'. Even 25 years ago (when some of the stuff was in fashion) it was laugh out loud hilarious. There is no commentary other than the various couples explaining exactly why their own design taste is so much better than their neighbours...

Coordinating anything e.g. duvet cover, curtains etc all from Next. You know the house that is like a carbon copy of a page from a catalogue

TVs above fireplaces. There should be a mirror or picture there.