I'd love to know how you lot do decorate your homes - anybody willing to tell? WHAT THEMES ARE OK? So much easier to criticise than to stick your head above the parapet, innit?
Oh my home is probably someone else's idea of hell! I have a giant L shaped fake leather sofa from IKEA (big living room, so I don't think it swamps it and it's incredibly comfortable), and fairy lights over the kitchen window, and I also have a little word art picture which a friend made for me, based on a bunch of personal associations (can't describe it, as it's dead revealing, but it definitely is suspiciously close to 'inspirational words').
Apart from that, real wood floorboards, lots of rugs over them, a bunch of furniture I got from assorted auctions, charity shops and a couple of decent antique pieces, and a collection of art on the walls - a couple of decent framed photographic prints, a couple of decent engravings, and two proper pieces of 'art' that I managed to get on the cheap due to a misspent youth at art school. I've also got some furniture made by my grandfather (who was a carpenter) which I love but is definitely pretty old style.
I use plants a fair bit - I have a bonsai tree in the living room and a mini herb garden in pots along the kitchen window. Oh, and I also have a brightly coloured toaster.
I reckon everyone who has posted on this thread has committed at least one interior design sin. I don't think any of us regret it.