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!

The Italian furniture shop link is great. A lot of beds that could have been used in Scarface.

Is this nice or naff?

I suspect it's naff - but it's soooo pretty😳

I've got horrible dark brown woodstained skirting boards and door frames (inherited from previous owner). There is SO much of it, it is too daunting to start painting it white. And I also hate how white paint goes yellow, why doesn't it stay white. You only notice it when you repaint something, then the bit next to it looks yellow, so you do that, then the next, etc etc etc! I need to win on the lottery so I can get a painter in!

Id 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?

I love the designer Kit Kemp and how she uses colour/non matching patterns, books, paintings in her rooms (online). So we have made an attempt at that in our house - loads of colour, with our own books, paintings, and bits of stuff we got as wedding presents. My goal for our bathrooms was that they should look like a high end hotel bathrooms. My kitchen is grey and white, nothing on the surfaces, utterly clear. I love it. All my lights are blingy. I heard my son's friend tell him that our pendant lights in the kitchen were tacky (and you should have seen the electrician's face when he took them out of the box). I don't care. I love them.

We are older and have a bit more money now so really thought about what we wanted our home to feel like. Our last look was far more traditional - but it didn't feel like us. Before that we were in more student like flats. The only constant is our books.

Everything is ok if you like it. We are only talking about what we don't like personally. And I have been guilty not only of what others hate on here but also what I hate myself - took me a while to realise it.

Id 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?

I think the only way to avoid perpetrating someone else's idea of a crime against style would be to live outside in a tent. Although then people would be vexed by the colour of the tent...

@BlueIsYou** I'm looking round our home and we've got:

'There's no place like home'

'Home is where our story begins'

'Love, Family, Friends, Memories, Happy Times'

'Faith, Family, Friends'

'Smile'

'Our Family' poem

'Fly with the angels, Dance with the stars'

'Home Sweet Home'

'Love' (numerous times)

'Family' (numerous times)

They're a mixture of plaques, photo frames, clocks, etc

And that's only the start...

Forgot your favourite

'Live, Laugh, Love'

Got it too

And my absolute favourite which is an old song I used to sing to my DC...

Im just about to be moving to a new, rented flat - i have no idea where to start with decorating!!! Ita so hard to take inspiration and bits and bobs you like and make it work without either looking too matchy or just a bun fight with no direction! Argh!

I also hate those canvas's or decals with 'motivational' quotes on. My fil kept giving us them when we moved to our house atm and kept enquiring as to why i hadnt put them up yet....

I too think the quotes are the greatest crime - worse than a toilet roll dolly. (Yes I'm that old)

Those horrid gas fires with pebbles in them, in fact anything that's not a real fire or wood burner and yes cushions on the bed and phrases written on the wall.

Sinister:

'Laugh quickly'

LOL I need a sign that says this!

@nina2b you seem weirdly aggressive about this. I don't think being able to picture something is an 'amazing capability' but perhaps it is by your standards.

@lanouvelleheloise thanks for trying not to be dismissive although I'm not sure you quite managed it. I said I had 4 bookcases in one room, not in my whole house, and my book collection is not comprised of one genre - when you have many bookcases it's possible to separate by subject area or type so I don't struggle to work out where certain books are. Glad your system works for you though.

I don't keep all my books in one room. Novels are on a bookcase in my bedroom. Cook books on kitchen dresser. Academic/professional texts in the office. 2 bookshelves of a mish mash in the lounge. DDs have a large bookshelf each in their bedrooms. Apart from that they're not organised at all

I have 'vole' in my living room as I refuse to have the expected 'love' but the letters were a gift and I feel that I should display them. Is this ok too?

Totally ok.

In fact, it is the only acceptable way to arrange those particular letters Oxfordshirelass.

And now I want some . . .

Toilet roll dollies

I love toilet roll dollies Justilou - It's like sharing the lavvy with one of the lady violinists from Andre Rieu's orchestra.

Paintings of roistering cardinals

Bet the Pope loves these!

It's like sharing the lavvy with one of the lady violinists from Andre Rieu's orchestra.

Ha

Carpets in bathrooms and those rugs that go round the bottom of the loo!
I'm a shameless Rightmove stalker and I've seen some shockers!
Patterns on everything and each one clashing. Why?
I once saw a room that was several shades of purple. It was like viewing it through a roses wrapper!
Rooms that are made up of red decor. I don't want to feel like I'm back in the womb
Large vases of dusty fake flowers.

Having said that I have feature walls and love grey!

I really dislike it if everything is new, or bought in last ten years or so. So, M&S sofas, House of Fraser dining table and chairs, John Lewis bed, Next rug, Ikea prints on walls. Much prefer a couple of oldies thrown in.

Artex and anaglypta.

We've been in our house 3 years and we're still in the process of removing the bloody stuff. The previous owner had some sort of fetish about the stuff and it's fucking everywhere. She even stuck ornate wall paper over the coving .

I also hate the glossy, curved end kitchens with "feature" splash backs in lime green or aubergine. Migraine inducing.

Are we allowed to include gardens? Can I add crazy paving? I fucking loathe that shit.

Black and/or red decor...made worse by black or red leather sofas...boak.
I like a nice subtle feature wall but not ones with big bright cerise flowers
Conservatories with no view, whats the fucking point??
And anything that matches too much.
Houses that look like show homes.

HipHop your daughters room is gorgeous

simon50 - we have a gas fire! Only way to get open flames in a city centre flat - wood and coal etc isn't legal in our area. But I love the flicker of proper flame of an evening.