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!

Wallpaper made to look like old books on bookcases

Especially in a living room with a huge TV and not a book in sight...why would you do this ?!

It's better for a book if they are not pushed to the back of the shelf.

I'very just read the OP properly and am I to imagine diamanté furniture

I love this thread, that pretty much every possible decor choice is lambasted by someone

I really wish I didn't worry about privacy...

I think it would be really funny to have a "roast my house" thread

Lots of grey in my house, colour feature walls, loads of hardwood floors, a silver not white fridge, floor to ceiling bathroom tiles...

Actually, not sure which crime is worth in the bathroom - floor to ceiling tiles on one wall, or feature paint on the other!

At least there are no word decals

I'm loving this thread too, particularly the frothing distress caused by my loathing of parquet floor

Sorry, but it was that awful, awful, truly fucking awful 'basket weave' sixties parquet shite and it looked godawful and would have looked godawful and depressed the hell of me even if I'd sanded it and oiled it and God knows what else. The laminate might be plastic shite (it will be replaced with proper wood eventually) but it still looks better than godawful sixties basket weave parquet shite.

Any sofa/chair in 'mixed media'

Any time an advert comes on for DFS or SCS or whatever the fuckugly they are called, my brain explodes as I know literally nobody who would contemplate such monstrosities in their home.

I really can't choose between these three bad boys.

Scatter cushions
Ludicrous ugly lumpy shape
Mixed media
Panelling

I don't even think I can explain how offended I am by them

SlightlyJaded I can't stand those either, even worse are those that have in-built docking stations/speakers !

Those revolting sofas. Dear God, my eyes.
I would rather sit on a plank of wood.

I'm not a fan of log burners. Unless they are in a nice country cottages. But in a 1960s semi they just look a bit shit really.

Jakey roast my log burner!
My house is 1920s and it's built in where there once would have been an open fire - but definitely not a cottage! It's a plain style, quite square box - not a cottage / Victoriana look.

OK or not OK?

I love my log burner. And my grey walls.

I hate those mixed sofas though and diamanté makes me shudder!

@Ellisandra haha depends do you actually use it or do you sit there cold like my one friend who doesn't want to go outside and get the logs and if you do use it is the room big enough to get away from it?

1920s marginally better but sorry they don't do it for me!

I'll also add cheap beading around laminate/wooden floors. In fact any bearing. Take the sodding skirting board off and do it properly!

Oh and the new trend for no tiles in kitchens. Having bought a house with no tiles (not because it's new but because the previous owners were tight) I can assure you it is not a good thing in a kitchen.

@Jakeyboy1 it's my main source of downstairs heating from Sep-Apr!

The room is two receptions and a small kitchen knocked together (which will trigger some haterz ) so I think it's big enough.

I get a lot of off cuts from a builder friend so that burner isn't because (I think) it's pretty - I have really low heating bills!

So with you on the beading! Downstairs I had new skirting. Upstairs not and it looks so bad! You know what? In redecorating upstairs now (more grey paint!) and your comment on this thread has single handedly convinced me to buy some more skirting!

You're a one person campaign, one beading criminal at a time

Haha. I'm with you on the grey paint.

Glad to hear there's going to be less beading in the world!

I hate freestanding fridges covered in magnets. It looks so messy. I much prefer inbuilt appliances.

slightly jaded
Totally agree - do you think these adverts show totally vile ones deliberately. I mean - just who buys them?

Someone unthread said they hate tiled floor in the bathroom. I read that comment two days ago and can't stop wondering if I've just found someone who actually wants carpet in the bathroom - quelle horreur!!

"Live, laugh, love" is only one step away from "IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH" let's be honest.

I'd buy them. That's a solid business opportunity. And the copyright on 1984 is up in three years. Imagine:

War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength

but in distressed oak with silver highlights. I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice what was up?

TBH Brave New World would be even better. You could have "A gram is better than a damn" above your guest toilet mirror. I don't think you could use "community, identity, stability" though as I'm about 99% sure that the DCLG has used that as an actual slogan for something at some point.

Anything themed, especially pictures of wolves on everything. Why? Or fairy collections, or those little pottery houses - mind you I am not an ornament fan, too much dusting.
Dream catchers; what the hell are they for?
The current (?) craze for stags on things, especially stags heads made of material for display on a wall.
Any form of taxidermy.
Large fish tanks - make a home look like a pet shop.
BUT, I do have a feature wall, and I love it. I couldn't get a wallpaper loud enough so I went for a mural in an abstract design. Photo attached.

Incidentally, that mural is in a spare bedroom, so it is not inflicted on people all the time, jut the occasional house guest.

Luci I love that mural! Where is it from?

I hate laminate but we can't afford real anything and we're getting an off-white kitchen because we had a white one in our last flat and it was just grubby-looking all the time. We do have our surname on the mantlepiece because I made it for our wedding and I can't throw it away - it's decoupaged too! I also love kilim rugs so I've just bought a beautiful one. DH loves Next so there's also that to fight...

I hate giant floral feature walls too and TVs above fireplaces are horrific - doesn't it give you neck ache to look upwards all the time? Anything leather is gross, sticky and made of dead animals.

These picture frames...

Also, my surname is hilarious so it's ok

When you pick up an Interiors mag, see some lovely looking homes whose owners are people doing standard day jobs- great! But then turn the page, see a smug looking woman stood proudly in a minging kitchen/living room, completely over thought, over styled and tacky looking but you just KNOW she will state their job is an " INTERIOR DESIGNER" arrrghh!!
Seriously, every other person on these mags claims to have "realised their amazing talent and skill for interior design as they made over their own house, so now have deiced to quit their job and work as an interior designer"! NO! You actually need taste/style/creativity to do this, just because you have over styled the hell out of your house does not mean you are and can be called an interior designer.
Sorry, rant over.