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!

Oh yes agree with the diamanté furniture and the ornamental words. There was someone of a thread yesterday who was after a SHIT to put in the toilet.

I also hate what I call Argos Buddhas in front of eye assaulting feature walls.

Appetit

Who is it Sydney?

Agree with the beech kitchen. We have one and it shames me. Utterly hate it. Sadly it is in its twilight years and soon to be ripped out.

Another vote for feature walls with statement wallpaper and the rest of the room complementing it.

A house which is entirely black and white.
Wall decal stickers which say something twee about family or dreams.
Net curtains.
Everything matchy-matchy - makes me think the homeowner has zero personal style and has just bought the entire Ikea/Next homewards section.

I absolutely loathe this trend for hanging massive clocks on a wall. Makes a sitting room look like a waiting room.

I also have two Buddhas which were very expensive and not from Argos, two lladro ladies that are pure white and I inherited, and I love.

My home may be the epitome of bad taste...😂

Oh yes the signs! There's a scene in GTA5 where one of the main characters visits a house and the 'live laugh love' stencil on the wall has been scratched out and replaced with EAT SHIT DIE.

I have been tempted for ages to create one of my own using some twirly font but that reads DRINK FECK ARSE GIRLS a la Father Jack.

I am partial to a bit of grey though.

Shiny tiled floor that makes it look very clinical. Very footballers mansion style.

And I have a huge clock in the kitchen!!

I win I win! 😂

Leather sofas.
Leather upholstered dining chairs (usually dark brown) around a really chunky dining table.

Crushed velvet.
Ornamental verbs, everywhere. I do not need to be told to 'bathe' in a bathroom. Nor 'eat' in a dining room.
Those fake twigs with fairy lights stuck on them. Awful

Framed slogans like the "keep calm and...'' ones or some nonsense quote about families, love, friendship blah blah blah.

Glass furniture - I'm a bit clumsy and it makes me feel on edge all the time as feel I need to be careful or I might break it/ injure myself.

Same with white and cream sofas/ rugs- they make me worry I will spill something and ruin them.

We do have a DFS brown leather sofa, which I think may be worse than the words/letters. Fortunately it is soon to be replaced.

Leather upholstered dining chairs (usually dark brown) around a really chunky dining table

Oh no...you've just described mine.

What's wrong with a chunky dining table?! I think they're great especially in a big kitchen diner.

Entirely neutral houses. Boring as fuck. I like a sort of Danish neutral where there's splashes of colour, and natural woods, but not the beige carpet, beige sofa, beige cushions, beige walls, etc.

At the other end of the spectrum I don't think our latitude meshes well with saffron walls.

General matchy-matchy rooms.

There's a couple of decorating magazines where you can see the heavy hand of a stylist in people's homes, but I can't put my finger on what grate about them.

I have a canvas that is absolutely amazing but it's been done by a photographer - photo and canvas

To me they are just so clunky and unstylish.

I've seen a worrying trend for massive decals that say things like 'In this house we love, we say sorry, we laugh, we hug, we sing at the tops of our voices, we dance......................'

Vile creatures.

This is the kind of atrocity I'm talking about.

Definitely the ornamental words and those massive long lists of 'house rules' that are stuck on walls.

I am still v partial to a grey wall though and my travertine bathroom (which I recently read is now passé) is bloody gorgeous.

Sydney - rackley?

Those huge fucking studio 'glamour' pictures that have been air brushed to fuck. My friend has one, and her nose has been replaced by a totally different one.