To ask your interior design pet hates?

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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!

I have caravanesque fitted wardrobes in my bedroom. They are ugly as sin but my god they are practical!!

@Bluntness100 I love that wall paper you posted upthread, where is it from?

I don't like the Next catalogue look. It's so bland and impersonal. I like rooms which look slightly jumbled. Not artfully contrived jumble...just naturally evolved jumble. But still tasteful

Photomummy16 - that would also probably disturb me in a living room!

MaQueen8 - that sounds quite nice, actually. I think it's mostly the twitchiness of the owners and I don't really get why you'd want a floor that isn't designed to be walked on.

Harsh central lights ( my in laws have florescent tubes....).
Un natural fibres.
Pointless crap on beds, like ugly cushions.
Tv screens that dominate the room.
Too cluttered
Too clinical

A timber floor installed in my opinion wrong direction to save money. The boards should run the length of the house and if it's a particularly awkward layout lay them at 45 degrees, opposed to horizontally just a pet peeve...

I love this thread.

I'm going to just come right out and say it. I hate ornaments. All ornaments. I just don't see the point of them. My DC drive me mad with their love of tat ornaments, which I do allow but only in their own rooms.

I don't have a glittery toilet seat though

Something o aspire to, Bluntness

Nah, I'm the least twitchy person ever. Friends feeling welcome trumps random possessions every time...

Huge landscape prints on the wall eg a backdrop of the Alps - why?
Letters and words around the place.
Wallpaper that's supposed to look like a bookshelf (?)
"Themed" rooms.
Net curtains - yes I know, people still have them.
Large TVs/ screens that dominate the room oh and TVs in the bedroom....really, haven't people got anything better to do in the bedroom?

I have cream carpets (not chosen by me, they were already in the house). I wouldn't dream of asking guests to remove their shoes. I have two toddlers and a dog so the carpets have got no chance

Ooh how could I forget my main one! Any flooring or wall tiles that are laid at 45 degrees - it looks horrific and if I'm honest, puts me in a state of sheer panic!

We have a huge TV and surround sound system. My friend said it was like watching a film in Stonehenge

Wallpapered feature walls, especially those grim elongated flowers.
All those sign/shite messages
Matching stuff

Smooth leather sofas and laminate floors. Hard Cold Not hygge!!
Sequins on soft furnishings. Uncomfortable and not practical.
Curtains with eyelet hole hanging system. They let light in.
Vertical blinds. Even in an office
Any living space without bookshelves. They could be used for anything.
Feature walls. Clash with other furnishings.
and.... my Number One Form over Function installation is
.......a freestanding bath. wtf ? who wants to worry about splashing and how do you wash your hair without soaking the floor?

Office style vertical blinds. Keep them for the office!
Mirrored furniture
Crushed velvet anything

I'm going to just come right out and say it. I hate ornaments. All ornaments. I just don't see the point of them.

Oh I love my ornaments. Although I hasten to add they're not at the Royal Doulton lady in a ballgown end of the spectrum.........although, having said that I am very fond of early Staffordshire dogs, so maybe Royal Doulton ladies are in my future too 😅😅

a style also disparaged by Michael Kors on Project Runway as "too mother of the bride". I love mother of the bride

The irony of Michael Kors being disparaging of anyone else's style. Have you seen his tack-tastic watches and bags?

I hate feature walls and wall paper yuk! Those little Decals with expressions on too are ugly as sin.

This entire thread leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

It's not lighthearted, and it's not really about "people liking different things", really, is it?

It's about turning up noses at those perceived to be not displaying the markers of upper-middle class taste. The reason you all instinctively pearl-clutch about parquet v laminate is because one is classic and traditional and the other new.

There's also a loathsome undercurrent here that those who "try too hard", signified by wanting matching, or polished, or new, or UPV or whatever are showing their lack of sophistication and money. Because one doesn't try, does one? One kicks off one's riding boots on the hall flagstones where some flea-bitten hound is reclining against an old family tapestry.

It's all too reminiscent of Alan Clark's comment about Michael Heseltine for me: "The trouble with Michael is that he had to buy his own furniture."

That should be lack of old money. It's only new money that's vulgar. Like new furniture.

To be fair, I'm working class and have a few of these things - UPVC windows, vertical blinds, breakfast bar etc, it's just that some of them really are awful - like the meaningless phrases and laminate flooring.

Fake brick wallpaper. I have a colleague who has it in every downstairs room: terracotta in the sitting room, grey in the hall and cream in the kitchen and dining room. I love natural brick but the wallpaper just makes me cringe. Sorry.

ScrumDinger - oh I love Staffordshire dogs too! DH refuses to let me buy a pair though.

The reason you all instinctively pearl-clutch about parquet v laminate is because one is classic and traditional and the other new.

No it's because laminate is hideous. No flagstoned hallway in my house. no aged tapestry on the walls, no ancient retainer snoozing in the kitchen. No old money in my bank account and sadly, not nearly enough of the new sort either!