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!

Those wall slogans 🙈
Family love life blessings the glass is half full 🙈
No thanks. Lol

Sorry, I meant remember things visually not see things visually.

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."

Well, as my dear departed mother used to say, "Nouveau riche is better than no riche at all."

I borrowed a book from the library and then found I already had more than one copy of it. It was a novel and I don't have many novels (DP might disagree).

Seneca - Love that!

ScrumDinger

Quite right. Laminate flooring is just shit, looks like shit and sounds like you're on the deck of a ship.

I don't particularly like tiled floors either (outside of the bathroom and kitchen) - are we snobs?

Painted radiators 🙈

Hate 'witty' sign overkill, ditto stickers of verses on walls. Massive TVs dominating the sitting room, matching duvet and curtains, shiny bedspreads and bed linen, buddhas, massive canvases of homeowner's children. It doesn't matter what I think though and I'm sure those homeowners would hate my grey walls!

Tiled floors in rooms other than bathroom/kitchen just feels wrong in the UK. Works in a hot country though.

People covering up their original Victorian floorboards with laminate wood-effect flooring. People ripping out their original sash windows to put plastic ones in.

Rearrange BATH and SOAK letters and you have SHAT and BOAK.

Seriously
Google saddam husseins art collection and a feature wall won't seem so offensive

Oh! Oh! I forgot! BUNTING!!!!!

MsJudgemental

Oh I wish we'd been able to keep our lovely victorian floorboards. We had to pull them all up to have the house replumbed and rewired and now they're just bog standard ones!

I actually hate people trying to tastefully cover up and hide their tellies. Just be honest about it.

The only thing I don't like is when it looks really 'done'. Nothing out of place or a bit shabby or sentimental. Just as though you've bought the whole thing in one go and will then replace everything a bit later when somebody decides whatever you have is over.

I like grey
Mainly as my entire house was property developers magnolia when we moved here. Every sodding wall.

And I just painted the sitting room grey and got slightly striped curtains as all our family and precious pics and items I realised as coast based. I was raised by the sea. So it's almost themed. Do I give a flying f*ck what anyone thinks? Nope!

And you know what, it actually looks lovely with the aged brown leather sofa (god I'd love a new one but two kids = keep ancient one a bit longer!)

I do hate:

Slogan things. Especially wall decals.
Bright kitchen accessories. Nobody needs a purple toaster in their lives.
Wine chillers. Use the fridge. If you need that much wine, have a bigger bloody fridge or second fridge in the garage.
Pelmets. Tie backs.
Fringing. Especially on cushions.
Clinical feeling glossy sitting rooms with shiny black furniture.
Sculptures out of context. I know someone with a glass topped table where the bottom part is a naked lady sculpture. It's a monstrosity. I want to take a hammer to it.
Fluorescent lights. They bring on my migraines and make everyone look half dead too.
Piss mats round toilets. Boak.

But then again I like ikea and have found some pretty things in the range before now, so I must have hideous taste!!!

Love live laugh

Saw this picture on Facebook and nearly spat my wine out.... almost everything mentioned on this thread lmao

My eyes...my eyes...

There's a shop that sells those metallic velvet sofas near me and it's always busy so I think we're in the minority for thinking that they're utterly hideous.

😳

Laminate flooring
Carpet
Signs saying LOVE,
NET CURTAINS
wall paper borders
artex wall paper or ceilings
shabby chic
tile borders

I do have to confess to a 'feature wall' but can I be excused for doing it in a child's room? Ditto the bunting which I also loathe!

And a fire place with nothing in it (except an old chest!). No idea what else should go there as the chimney has been removed.

Do you reckon that there is a TV above the fireplace? The fireplace is stuffed with ornamental twigs or Yankee candles? Also that RELAX will be in letters above the sofa (which will have been bought from DFS on a Bank Holiday?

Anything with glitter or black "fur"

HERE!

That's my cocker spaniel you've just condemned to the tip!

Those weird dangling green balls that people hang outside their front doors. Took me ages to work out that they were supposed to look like plants. They're horrible!