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!

"you can buy books by the metre"

So what is actually nice in a house then?

Sorry lanouvelleheloise you choose them by colour

Trying to think of things not already mentioned like the faux twigs etc.

•a pottery thing that looks like a group of female figures in a circle
•designer everything: very WAG style and totally dead due to lack of genuine taste
•American-styke fridges
•Agas for some reason: too try/hard
•decking
•too much colour in gardens: green is more lovely
•coffee machines
•modern prints
•modern geometric patterned rugs
•red rugs on laminate floors
•any conservatory
•fake gas fires
•candles

American-style

try-hard

laminate floors, shiny kitchens, especially those with curved end units, feature walls if they have fancy wallpaper on them, indeed most wallpaper in general.

so what is actually nice in a house

ALL the shit you LOVE that reflects what you like, where you came from, where you are now

THINGS THAT MAKE YOU FUCKING HAPPY

I hate cake smash photos and the professional newborn ones when the baby doesn't look alive.

I have been looking at new houses in a small development in a very scenic place. The décor of the show houses is so awful I found it impossible to imagine living in any of them. Piles and piles of cushions on the beds, those huge headboards that take up all the wall, fancy shabby chic type chests of drawers and disgusting patterned wallpaper feature walls. I'd much prefer them to paint everything white and leave the contents to the imagination.

Fake candles...

I'm with you on the TV as focal point. A lovely fireplace and the seats are pointing at the wall!
Like this near me.
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/fullscreen/image-gallery.html?propertyId=54389423&photoIndex=0

• Massive modular sofas with chaise longues that dominate the room.
• huge clocks
• red as accent colour
• white subway tiles
• padded headboards for beds
• glass-topped dining tables
• rocker-recliners
• massive American-style fridges
• wall-to-wall carpeting
• breakfast bars with 3 pendant lights and 3 chrome swivel stools

Fake books and books by the metre?!!

Not really interior design, but windowless bathrooms are horrible. I've had one for years now and feel like it's a real treat to have a bath in natural light when I visit my parents.

wooden floors in the bedroom

Guilty. But mopping a wooden floor when your toddler has been sick for umpteenth time is million times better than trying to get the smell of sick out of a carpet!

Can I add these while I'm here. Totally pointless - can't read it, can't write in it, look awful.

Aquariums?

I need an answer to this, hurry up.

Faux Henry Moore ornaments.

Posed family photos, especially those Venture style ones, that are 'relaxed' and 'fun'

Framed degree certificates.

Magnolia and off-white are not the same.
I stayed in one place that was well and truly stuck in the 80s. Magnolia everywhere apart from the peach bathroom with a peach bathroom suite.

OxfordshireLass, I was tempted to get a Home and Love sets and just put up HOVEL.

More an exterior than interior design hate - front doors and gates painted in that grey/green heritage colour I call "aspirational sludge". Once you see it on a road you know gentrification is coming.

I want the pink bird bogroll cover.

Colour coordinated bowls of impractical fruit, e.g a bowl of 20 limes because they are green.

Those massive shiny black leather suites that are invariably wayyyy too large for the room.

Pine. Anywhere.

Magnolia. Anywhere.

Country-style kitchens in modern houses.

Painting bathrooms blue just because blue is associated with water.

Painting rooms yellow to 'brighten it up' no it doesn't fucking brighten it up, it gives me a bloody migrane and looks shit

Those house & home mags when there is a random frilly dress on a hanger outside the wardrobe. WHYYYYYYYY.

Photos in a frame without a mount.

Photos on the wall that are hung too high.

Canvases of really bad pictures.

Canvases bought in hardware shops that have a drawing of a kitchen item on them, like a coffee pot or piles of apples.

Jees, I actually have to stop myself here, else I'd be here forever.

I have

Large clock
Stencils and plaques
Brown leather sofa
Light up twiggy shit
Hot tub

At work we sell loads of big clocks and metro tiles, not going away soon.

I hate the glitter stuff tho, too blingy for me.

Those house & home mags when there is a random frilly dress on a hanger outside the wardrobe. WHYYYYYYYY.
Because I am a tardy slut who let it fall to the bottom of the wardrobe and get crushed for maybe months. Now it is hanging up outside of wardrobe waiting for wrinkles and creases to magically disappear or for someone to be arsed to do some ironing. Seems a strange thing to put in a house and Home mag.