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!

Drapes that match with scattered cushions in a pattern that came from an old Next catalogue. Huge oversized leather sofas crammed into tiny living areas.
Fairy lights. Especially crammed into jam jars.

Ah scrum that's what I mean. An abomination

Gnhh.

I'm partial to a fairy light I must admit.

Absolutely with you. Also I can't stand the whole glitter trend that's going on just now.

I have a glittery toilet seat and I love it! I also have glittery wallpaper in the bathroom. It makes me smile every single day.

My pet peeves are white/pale carpets that people don't let you walk on in shoes.

ducks and runs

I'm defintely in the lead, I also have leather sofas in one of the living rooms, I have cream carpets upstairs, and I have a shed ton of fairy lights,,all twinkling happily at me right now,,,

Love em all 😂

Wallpaper with shiny bits

Wall paper
Matching vases/pictures/candles/throws/rugs from Next

ScrumDinger that's grim I've seen a disney version of that decal floating around somewhere. It makes me feel a bit itchy.

I wish more people would put this in their bathrooms

Other weird things I hate:

Fully tiled bathroom walls. Round the shower/bath/sink is fine. But ceiling height on every wall feels really oppressive to me.

Beige with different shades of beige accents. Just neutrals generally. Especially magnolia walls. Just lazy and ugly.

Anything that looks like a 'boutique hotel'. IT'S A HOME. LIVE IN IT.

Grey everything.
Beige everything.
Houses where everything matches like it's a show home.
Leather sofas, especially brown or burgundy ones.

Mind you, some people would hate my house. Without my dh's moderating influence it would look like a Cath Kidston outlet.

Modern or upcycled 'distressed' furniture finishes.
Anything designed to look like something it isn't, e.g. fake wood.
Everything in the room matching and/or colour coordinated.
Open plan staircases. Our rented house has one in the sitting room and all the heat just whooshes straight up the stairs. During the winter when the heating's on, the warmest place in the house is in the middle of the staircase

Yes, Scrum! That one is the worst!

Also don't like the overly coordinated look - marching microwave, kettle, toaster. Why would you replace all your appliances at once?

PIL have a new build house that has a huge fireplace for a fake fire with decorative fucking coal. I don't think they bought the coal, I think it came with the house, but if it were me that would have been the first thing to go. It's not even one of those fires where the coals are pet of it, it's actual coal in a pile that just falls everywhere constantly.

I like the poop print

I could leave it near a bottle of V.I.Poo

Something else I don't like is when people hang picture frames too high on the wall. Bring them down to eye level and it looks so much better.

Totally agree with feature walls and words / slogans. We were house hunting recently and it seemed like every second kitchen had glossy white bevelled tiles, rectangular and arranged like bricks, if that makes sense. shudder. And I hate rustic pine. Those round bobbly knobs on drawers and cupboard doors give me the rage :D.

Bluntness100, you definitely win! If you like it, who cares what anybody else thinks!

Televisions mounted on walls, especially over fireplaces.

Wallpaper, all of it, no matter how 'tasteful'. this is because I grew up in the 60s and 70s when you'd have swirly carpets, printed wallpaper and patterned curtains, all fighting for attention.

Also, fitted carpets. Cannot stand them.

Finally, dishes and ornaments of the kind that are bought to be thrown away every three years when you redecorate. I've got dishes and ornaments but I bought them from galleries and I love them so much I will have them for the rest of my life.

Metro tiles Drawing. Very popular at the moment and I do quite like them but have been a bit over-done.

Definitely 100% agree with the hideous slogans people stick on their walls. Drives me mad.

Saying that, I do have a grey bathroom (just a few tiles and bath mats) and a grey wall in the bedroom. The wall in the bedroom was originally a brown that wasn't too akin from poop, so that's why it was just one wall. I do have a couple bits of grey furniture though in the bedroom, a lovely set of drawers and a bureau which has been painted grey and 'distressed' sounds awful but I love it. But I love bureaus anyway 😀

Ha my mil has lime green everything in her kitchen including dog dish. I have black but its more subtle

The decor in my flat when the previous owners had it ticked pretty much all my 'No' boxes. A teal theme in the kitchen/living area (teal utensils, kettle, shiny table runner, curtains etc.) 'LOVE' spelled out in wooden letters stuck to the bedroom wall (which had to be chiselled off) and a HUGE clock made up of separate stuck-on metal components taking up an entire living room wall. Monstrous.