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!

Stuff I have in the house that I hate but is here because dh also lives here:
Family portraits, white background, staged laughing
Leather sofa
Bowl of pebbles

Stuff I have in the house that may well be a faux-pas, but I love:
Grey. Grey grey grey grey grey.
Chandeliers

Three decades ago I colour coded the books after failing to subject sort them. After two weeks of chaos, I subject sorted them. My DB has still not forgiven me. It does look pretty but is useless if you use and read your books.

If books were meant to be colour coded, then all books by the same author would be in the same colour range. Having said that, I colour coded several shelves of books recently and I smile every time I see them. It makes finding a particular book more difficult though.

That awful textured wallpaper that you then paint over.
Slogans on walls 'Live, Love, Laugh' etc.
Net curtains.
Vertical blinds - looks like an office.
Flocked wallpaper.
Wallpaper borders shudders
Tall fake twigs and flowers in garish blingy vases.
Nautical accessories in bathrooms e.g. wooden sailboats, lighthouses and so on, they are just germ magnets.
Carpeted bathrooms boak.
Coloured bathroom suites, a beige bathroom suite just looks dirty and gross.

I'm not keen on the skewered curtains look. Looks painful.

This kind of thing.

Grey paint. "Teal" paint. Dating already...

Leather sofas

Colonial-style blinds: most of us are not in the West Indies...

L-shaped sofa thing

Photographs on walls

Accent colours...please no

Check this:
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Colour coding books is deeply stupid.

It does look pretty but is useless if you use and read your books.

Huh??

Colour-coding books comes from people who wanted everyone who came in to say 'wow, look at all those classic Penguin paperbacks you've got!'. And now it's fucking everywhere.

All it really says is 'I don't read'. Because there is no earthly reason why you wouldn't want to have an authors books together, or all your history books together.

Mind you, BIL once told us that bookshelves were merely middle class wallpaper, and I daresay he's right.

No we are not all guilty...

I absolutely love this thread. Decor bashing.

Have started a full blown argument at work with my colleagues over this and it's amazing how so many people's opinions are different.

Another thing I hate:

People making garden furniture with pallets.

"I can't see why having old books old a shelf would offend anyone"

I don't think anyone is offended by people having old books they read. Converting books to an item of interior decor that you've no intention of reading, however, is a crime against humanity and should get perpetrators sent straight to the Hague for trial!!

Ditto for colour-sorting books. Wrong, wrong, wrong. And don't even get me started on fake books.

lanouvelleheloise you can buy books by the metre
I am now having bookshelf guilt, they have got very mixed up and now I have acknowledged this they need sorting, and a box to the charity shop.

Wow, most of my pet hates have already been mentioned and I'm only on page 2. I must be so in touch with the zeitgeist.

Text on walls etc: DP and I contemplated stenciling "shit" and "piss" on the wall in the bog, but couldn't agree whether "piss" should be on the wall above the cistern or on the back of the door, along with "shit".

One of my bookshelves collapsed a while ago, and I did put the books back on by colour as an experiment. I know where most of the books are anyway so it doesn't really matter. When left to my own devices, I categorise books by mood I'm in when I want to read them.

Has anyone started a what is nice in houses thread yet?

Glitter wallpaper
Black gloss furniture

Vases with decorative sticks or glittery twigs poking out

Metal love hearts - they seem to be in the centre of every window around here

I will admit I occasionally have to look at Amazon to remind myself what colour a book cover is before I can find it. And mine are additionally classified - each bookcase only contains either reference or fiction etc. But the decorative and soundproofing qualities of my walls of books comes a long way behind the joy of reading them. Plus I don't have any wallpaper (live in a wooden house).

In defence of my leather sofa. It is matt, not the painted shiny stuff, and its squishy and soft.,,and fairly knackered...

On the negative, I keep my books in cupboards and don't have them on display.and had a big clear out ages ago and gave a shed load to charity....

Musty books cluttering up the place isn't my idea of designer gold...😂

Any of that shabby chic chintzy stuff.

Big flowery wallpaper on a feature wall.

Any room that looks like everything been ordered from the same page in the Next catalogue.

Speaking of colour coded bookshelves, has anyone seen the trend for turning your books the other way round so the spines are to the wall with the pages facing outwards? It gives me the fucking rage! Completely pointless, although it's useful for letting you know the houseowner is a pillock.

I judge people who do not have masses of books. So shoot me.

nice stuff thread Fox
Spines of books facing wall is weird.

I'm doing well.

Only thing I'm guilty of so far are porch leading to the front room (not much I can do about that) and the grey kitchen - but utensils, etc are different bright colours so you don't walk in and think, "Ooo, grey." And in our back room we have a cage but the world's cutest bun lives in it so I think it can be excused.

My pet hate is stairs in hallways leading to the front door. So going up to bed at night you have to leave your cosy downstairs area, walk past your front door, coats and shoes and go up to bed. It's only a step away from being outside!

I like stairs tucked away in the house so they're part of the house bit and not the entrance bit. Otherwise it's wildly uncosy.

We have floor level lights under the kitchen cupboards. They are the only think we've found that stops the night time slug invasion!

Right, that's it. If they work, I'm getting some.