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!

at ceiling height competitiveness !

Everything silver...sofa,carpet,walls...urgh

Like this, my cottage in the Cotswolds I stayed in for a while was just like this - really typical of what survives of the period. Not many grander (unless you're talking stately homes and manors survive of the period)

But plenty of mid 17thC cottages

I love your copper jug. I have a couple like that that came from a pub my great grandparents owned way back when.

Why is a copper jug from a pub ok yet horse brasses not? This thread gives me a headache and glad I don't have very many guests!

I would say our house would be horrible to others but it suits us fairly well. Things I dislike and would never have in my home include:

Carpet
totally matching rooms - every accessory in teal or hot pink
argos style leather furniture (sofas or dining chairs)
decals of inspirational quotes on walls
feature wall wallpaper
cheap nylon curtains
cheap looking polyester cushions, even if they 'match' the wallpaper
shag pile rugs
fake animal skin rugs
real animal skin rugs
beige
non-original 'art' on the walls (ikea / argos canvas )
giant family photos
laminate floors
shiny white furniture
fake flowers / foliage
cheap smelling candles
shower curtains

Well who's to say horse brasses aren't okay and pub jugs are okay? It's all just personal taste at the end of the day. There are loads of things this thread I like and lots I hate.

Er congratulations on having tall ceilings grin

Thanks. It really is a privilege to live here because it is absolutely unique - and listed, obviously!

My DH grew up in a 16th century farmhouse. His parents papered pretty much every one of the (very uneven) walls. They love wallpaper.

• "Feature" walls - one wall with different paint or wallpaper. Why??
• Different paper/paint below or above a rail at waist height - admittedly seen less these days.
• Those metal wall hanging thingies you see in places like Dunelm. Hideous.
• Curtains matching duvet and pillow covers.
• Swarovski animals

I came for the interior design slag-off and stayed for the ceiling height brawl.

I love wallpaper but not cheapo B&Q style wallpaper and not when it's only on one wall. A room done in Cole and Son though, lovely.

I can't wait to find a shop where I can rearrange letters into rude words, or even just "vole". Ha ha! I can't believe I haven't thought of doing that before. I'm easily pleased. Loving this thread.

It just seems as if everyone is saying that everything old and expensive is great, anything that can be bought at a retail park establishment is horrid .

Honestly, is all B&Q wallpaper of inferior design to all Cole & Son stuff? I would be willing to bet that some patterns are indistinguishable from each other.

Many of the interior design "pet hates" on here are not pet hates at all, but rather (2017-style) Hyacinth Bouquet-style snobbery.

Honestly, is all B&Q wallpaper of inferior design to all Cole & Son stuff?

Yes.

I've just had a look at Cole and Son paper , some of it is awful !

This is tasteful? I think it ticks a lot of the naff boxes mentioned throughout thread...

www.designerwallpapers.co.uk/cole-and-son/whimsical/woods-stars.html#grey-wallpaper-tint-7

£196.00 a roll !!

I like Dunelm, the Range and Next, and most of all, Ikea. So there!

In common with most of you, I don't like writing/stencilling on walls, brick effect wallpaper, carpeted bathrooms and/or kitchens, signs everywhere, vertical blinds, upholstered dining chairs or leather sofas.

I do like fairy lights; pebbles, shells and cones; hints of the seaside; owls; matching kettle and toaster; matching tea, coffee and sugar canisters; matching crockery, glasses and cutlery; grey; and my lovely new silver crushed velvet divan. I'd love a silver crushed velvet sofa too, but I wouldn't be able to eat on it any more, so I won't get one.

Why do people have long, leafless, twigs in outsized vases? Makes the whole room look dead and depressing. Why do people have them?

And it's fake books! Please tell me they do an exposed brick design and one with big red flowers on a cream background.

I dont like twigs and things either - all dust collectors.
Other people;s houses are much more stylish than mine anyway.

I don't like clinical, impersonal rooms. The ones without any books, photographs, personal artefacts etc.
The ones with a trio of mass produced art work such as pebbles split into 3.
I don't like grey or glittery walls.
I also don't like rooms without lamps or candles or spot lights.
I like to see homes made personal to whoever lives there.
I also don't like mass swathes of concrete or paving.
I much prefer to see a garden. Not a perfect one but a lovely cottage garden, again with a personalised feel.

This is tasteful? I think it ticks a lot of the naff boxes mentioned throughout thread...

But surely the whole point of the thread is that several hundred people have chipped in with what they like and they dislike? It’s not as though there’s one single voice declaring what’s bad and what’s good. People disagree. No need to take this stuff so personally.

I love leather sofas, clutter, some but not all feature walls, laminate work surfaces in kitchens, kelim rugs, metro tiles, shower curtains, cork floors, parquet, lots of Ikea's furniture.
I don't really have rules about what I dislike because you have the same basic idea done well or done badly. I do think it's incredibly hard to pull off a pink bathroom suite, and I don't like stoves which are too big for the room.