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!

I really don't like black kitchen worktops (even if it's expensive granite or something cheaper made to resemble it) - they make what is often a small room look even tinier, even worse with black wall tiles and dark cupboard doors.

Still on the subject of kitchens - really tiny ones that are too small to put a table and chairs in. Many of us like these but they're only provided in larger houses which is a shame.

Figures of Buddha everywhere.

Living rooms with no fire surround at all - I love a mantelpiece.

Lack of storage in a bathroom - if fitted kitchens are supplied why not bathrooms too? We all need somewhere to put spare loo rolls and the next tube of toothpaste.

Something I've seen lately is arranging books by the colour of the spine which looks arty and co-ordinated - but what's the point if you need to find a particular title and don't recall the colour of the spine?

Google image search solves the spine colour recollection issue in 10 seconds flat.

Google image search solves the spine colour recollection issue in 10 seconds flat.

How?? (I just got lost in a sea of google images about bookshelving but still can't figure out how you would remember which book was where)

Colour coded bookshelves seems a bit dated. It was an obsession with decor blogs about 7 years ago. Along with those black and white striped IKEA rugs, and covering every inanimate household object in blackboard paint.

Those stupid sayings on the walls in script writing 😬😬

Google the book. Look at the cover. Go to the green/red/yellow/blue/orange section of the bookshelf that holds that type of book... Honestly. I have about 10,000 books. I can find them all.

Today 13:58 PeroxideBosco

Colour coded bookshelves seems a bit dated. It was an obsession with decor blogs about 7 years ago. Along with those black and white striped IKEA rugs, and covering every inanimate household object in blackboard paint.

I think you're right. It's been around for ages do it's hardly new. I am getting 2015, when I search.
As an idea for books, it is supremely daft.

...so it's...

Clearly 'nothing' is ok. This picture (my fireplace) shows a lot about my personality and how I like a mixture of decades

Original fireplace/mantelpiece/mirror -1860
Art Nouveau candlesticks - 1895
Copper tea chest - approx 1905
Art nouveau copper jugs - one 1896/one 1910
Tiny copper owl - handmade (modern)
Porcelain star - made by me
Tiny tealights - probably have over 100 candles out in the house
Wallpaper on every wall - 18 foot room, it can take it

Why are the dates important?

Clearly 'nothing' is ok Yup, we agreed on this pages ago.

Even on a huge scale - which 18 feet is not - wallpaper is awful.

Because people have slagged off 'old stuff', 'modern stuff' and 'new stuff'

Wallpaper is wonderful. What would you have otherwise - paint? Distemper? Lime plaster?

Erm - paint.

What, paint on its own? Or hand painted murals?

Perhaps you're mad keen on trompe l'oeil?

I don't think it matters how you decorate your house , certain trends may be seen as naff now but give it a few years and it will all be back but twice the price because it's 'retro' !!

The house we are in was built in 1665...

Today 14:49 LaurieFairyCake

What, paint on its own? Or hand painted murals?
Perhaps you're mad keen on trompe l'oeil?

Let's not get carried away...

If your house was built in 1665 then I guess you have to use a breathable paint ?

Whereas my house being much newer can take wallpaper as I guess the ceilings are taller.

The house is on the three levels, actually!

Correction:

The house is on three levels, actually!

What makes you imagine the ceilings in your place are higher? Most amusing.

I didn't 'imagine' I put I 'guessed' - generally properties around 1665 have quite low ceilings

Er congratulations on having tall ceilings