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!

@665theneighbours
CLOWNS ARE SO WRONG!!!
My grandmother had a painting of a serial killer clown in her loo. It was so scary I used to pee in the bath!

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I try not to be too sweeping in my statements of what I don't like, as most things can look good if done well. I'm a big fan of Abigail Abern and she talks about decorating with what you really love and somehow it works.

I think where interiors fall down is when people don't do this and just go to Dunelm or Next and buy everything matching. That's when it just looks twee.

That said, I have very rarely/never seen the following look good:

• Cheap teal accessories
• Mirrored furniture
• Twigs in cases
• Feature wallpaper
• Beige everywhere

Poppy canvases
Horse canvases
tub chairs

Poang chairs from Ikea (especially in a rental)
Orla Kiely, Cath Kidston
ginger pine
Buddha figurines
orchids (real AND fake)
Wooden sticks in glass bottles room fragrances
Designer knock offs like fake Arco lamps, Ngouchi coffee tables
Fornasetti

I HATE the alpha wealthy look that is put together by designers like Faiza Seth and Katharine Pooley - lots of tacky shiny silver everywhere and every room looks like a hotel. Interior design magazines like Elle Decoration are paying far too much attention to stupid, ugly bling for wealthy clients (the 'luxe' look) and not enough to good design.

One more:
Bookcases with colour coordinated books. Just Noooo.

Am quietly horrified to find I am guilty of many people's decorating horrors. Oh dear.

But I like glitter. And feature walls...

We are all quite guilty, everything is mentioned.

I'm now determined to get a proper feature wall with wall paper and everything,,,😂

I must admin I am guilty of colour coding ... books, picture frames anything I can get my hands on but I LOVE it !(oh and I also live in a grey house, complete with gloss kitchen and subway tiles) lol

I have recently moved house and am gradually painting over the grey/ green/ beige walls. Grey is great when you have lots of natural light in a room but I find it depressing when it's a dark room. All the show homes on the new estates around me have those massive clocks above a sofa, I'd be constant worrying that I was late for something. Have shutters at house just moved into but actually quite miss the softness and colour of a roman blind.

SueGeneris

I may pinch the 'feck arse etc' but do it in cross stitch so it is twee at the same time.

I love leather sofas - very unfashionable, but practical and hard-wearing. And I'm sitting on a Poang chair right now. It is blissfully comfortable.

hudyer, they have been mentioned many many times.

Oh dear, I have a cream leather sofa, feature walls, grey bedroom, laminate flooring, wall decals, glittery toilet seats, and rooms with "pops" of colour! Ha!

There isn't much I would say I hate other than pine furniture (orangey pine), fabric sofas, carpets in all rooms, "scatter" cushions and office blinds

Displaying books according to their covers colours. Gives me the rage.

I love my colour coded bookshelves. I have three rooms where the whole of one wall is bookshelves, so the visual impact is high - I couldn't cope with a complete mishmash of colours.

Well our house is screwed.

We have feature walls in all three bedrooms and all bathrooms have floor to ceiling tiles. Our curtains finish just below the window sill to avoid dust and hopefully prove to be less of a temptation to our youngest cat (failing miserably). Our TVs are all on walls (and embarrassingly we have a TV in all bedrooms plus a 65" in the living room - his choice)

My husband loves big clocks... thankfully he's cheap though and is on a permanent search to find a massive clock under €50

No twee signs / rules (only one rule here, I'm the boss), but I do hate velvet furniture, diamanté or glass furniture and glitter anything. Pebbledash looks rotten (what were you all thinking?!?). Current battles with husband are 1) if he wants a bloody feature light, stop pushing the damn dining table up against the wall otherwise it looks more wanky than 'normal' and 2) if you're going to have wood bedside cabinets / beds, don't have fake wood built in wardrobes... because two different types of wood looks weird. He may win because I like to keep the peace.

Anything slogany or quotes
Diamanté stuff
Wallpapered feature wall especially within big patterns

Make Jam beat me to it.

As an interior design devotee I love the idea of colour coding your books...as an ex-librarian, I detest the idea and would have to kill you. With pain.

There are leather sofas...and then there are leather sofas. My cousin has a beautiful, dull brown, saddle leather sofa from Heals, which must be 20 years old. It just looks better and better with age, and the leather is more like suede now, so soft.

Then there are the shiny, shiny brown leather sofas from places like DFS et al...they remind me of airport lounge seating. And, God forbid you sit on them bare legged - because getting up off them is like ripping yourself off a huge plaster (ouch).

Next furniture and accessories.

I reckon I could put my ENTIRE house together from all the shit mentioned

However, I like to think it's because all SHIT is mentioned and there's basically nowt anyone could agree on

On the other hand...

I actually like metro tiles. And, I have fairy lights in my kitchen - but, I think it works because kitchen is vair shabby chic and quite large.

I must say I am feeling a bit smug on this thread. I am only guilty of a few crimes. I'd probably get off with a suspended sentence and community service while some of you are sentenced to life. And rightly so.

The only reason for that is because our house is stuck in the 70s and has never been updated to include the more modern tat. Historic crimes are more difficult to prove.

We have an oak kitchen (unpainted) that was put in in 1979 and is in good nick. We have parquet flooring, quarry tiles, and an orangey pine staircase. We even have a dusky pink carpet in the living room which I am rather fond of. Only the avocado suite upstairs is being ripped out - and that had to go. Even I can't defend that one.

We do have brown furniture though (solid oak and walnut) which is apparently dreadfully unfashionable.

I can't see why having old books old a shelf would offend anyone, what's the reasoning behind not liking that?