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!

GREY..can't stand it anymore.
GREY and TAUPE...honestly
The hotel room interior - the one in which nobody ever cooks, play or relaxes in....you are there to go somewhere else
Heavy velvet fabric everywhere all matching...sofas, curtains, cushions....

Oh, I'd forgotten in my earlier haste to confess to 1970s crimes.

We have sliding doors in the porch. They are decent quality and I like them .

Mind you, that's where the faux leaded windows are located so maybe the sliding doors only look okay in relation to the other monstrosity. That might be it - like Richard Hammond actually looking okay if he is standing next to Jeremy Clarkson. That kind of thing.

Stuff on window ledges facing OUTWARDS! So passers by can admire it?

I quite like a bit of grey here and there. Love a metro tile. Agree with pretty much everything else. Especially non-full-length curtains and fire places stuck on the wall with not so much as a hole cut out behind. Oh and dado rails. Got to hate a dado rail especially when combined with stripy wall paper above or below

Not strictly interior but..... garden Gnomes / meerkats/ squirrels/mini windmills or huge fake butterfly's on the outside wall of a house

Leather sofas and dining room chairs. Fatties like me get their thighs stuck but to look at they always look so cold, not at all cosy.

Red walls and even worse red in bedrooms.

Twee sayings stuck to walls and wooden instructions on what to do in each room - eat/ sleep / bathe

Figurines of fairies / old fashioned ladies

Orange pine

It goes without saying, I have several pairs of judgy pants on rotation

I think everyone on here would hate my house. I chose the colour schemes when we moved in 20 years ago and have simply redecorated in the same colours. So I have:

• a navy blue dining room - colour chosen to highlight the cobalt blue Regency porcelain I collect and display in alcove cabinets. All the furniture is upholstered in navy too and the curtains are hung with the tacky white plastic hooks someone disliked up the thread - although I'm going to replace them with rod-pocket tops, which will require hold backs - I've bought some French gilt ones.
• green blue above the dado rail in the halls and stairs and white below (chosen because it is easy to top up white when it gets knocked/scuffed)
• hundreds of books, mainly on history arranged by period and music arranged alphabetically by composer. CDs ditto.
• all bedrooms painted in either duck egg or eau de nil Laura Ashley paint, including the doors on the wall of cupboards in my bedroom.
• bare floor boards with rugs in all bedrooms, the kitchen and laundry have quarry tiles (original to the house). The hall has very scuffed parquet and the bathrooms a fake tile effect lino which I have always intended to replace and not got round to it.
• a large dolls house (for my dds not me) in front of the dining room fireplace. *off-white painted shaker style kitchen cupboards and some open shelves for crockery. Plus metro style white tiles and a rail for utensils behind the hob.
• a sign saying laundry on the door of the laundry room as it stops guests wandering in expecting it to be a loo - I don't always want people to see my drying knickers.....

SO do I win the prize for mumsnet's worst house?

BTW my pet hate is that tacky plastic coving - it isn't hugely expensive to get proper plaster put up and a good firm have loads of styles to choose from.

blunt and byebye
I am a bit late to the thread but had to say both wallpapers gorgeous!
And I am not a wall paper fan too many years working at laura ashley has put me off for life

Collections of anything
Pointless round golden or wicker things in threes in fruitbowls
Wooden signs with wanky messages (lifes a beach)
Heart shaped things
Anything from Next
Mirrored furniture
Everything matching

Dado rails or friezes which are too high... People put them at the half way point up a wall, and it totally unbalances a room. They should be about a third of the way up from the skirting board.

Oh god we've got bi fold doors as well - no hope !!!!!

I am hoping this does not count as twee sign. DH got for me for Christmas and I love it!!

Live laugh love. In fact anything with writing

esPECially personalised smug af shiz from not on the high street

Ugh

'Live, Laugh, Love' Mugs, Canvasses, Wall Hangings, Box Frames... gah!

Wooden signs with wanky messages (lifes a beach)

Grammatically incorrect wooden signs.

Deep pile carpet. Especially cream carpet. The kind of carpet you know is going to lead to an agonised 'please...no shoes' as soon as you walk in, and everywhere you go, the host is watching you with horror in case you have mud on your socks.

Patterned wallpaper in general, mostly because any time you hang up a picture on it, you have clashing patterns.

Too much IKEA furniture. I accept most of us end up with a few bits and pieces (I am sitting on an IKEA sofa right now) but I cringe when I walk into a house and it's like being in a show room.

Pop culture adult 'toys' on display. You know, those POP! dolls or Disney memorabilia etc. I mean, I am not pretending I'm reliably grown up, but I like to at least have a living room that pretends.

Too many decorating crimes committed by me to count... surely this thread needs to be turned into an exam you have to pass before you get a Mumsnet account? Keep out the riff raff who POSITIVELY LOVE:

1. uPVC windows - nice and chunky, open and shut unlike wooden sash numbers
2. bathrooms tiled up to the ceiling - easy to clean, walls don't go mouldy
3. matchy matchy - a style also disparaged by Michael Kors on Project Runway as "too mother of the bride". I love mother of the bride

My home's not dated or 1990's, it's "pre-vintage". Give it another 10 years and folks will be all over my beige living room and brown leather sofa.

Everywhere covered in laminate flooring particularly kitchen and bathroom

Feature walls. Especially ones with walllpaper with big flower designs.

Bi-folding doors.

lol Winnie! I read 'adult toys on display' as I was scanning through and seriously wondered about your friends and acquaintances!

Gold furniture, china dogs, chintz, fringed lampshades, busy carpets

My MIL has a weird shade of grey and it makes the room look fire damaged

I really don't like those fire places for log burners with the floating beam. They are so samey and boring and will date horribly. There are so many interesting fireplace options out there too.

Mirrored furniture, sequins and crystal. Tack-tastic.

Grey.

Fitted wardrobes - makes your bedroom look like a caravan 😷😷

Winnie we have off white carpet through out. But I never, ever ask guests to remove shoes.

The first 3 feet of our hall floor is coir matting which traps all the dirt. And I have a Vaxx. Our carpet has been down nearly 10 years and it still looks good.