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!

My house is all grey. I thought it was classy . No life affirming messages on the wall though.

Every flat I've ever rented has been a Magnolia hellscape. My last flat mate called it Landlords' Delight, and never having to live with that colour is one of the best parts of owning a home.

Sabine, what do you mean by fitted carpets?

Massive canvases all over of yourself/children.
Glitter walls (unless a teen)

Basket decorative coal! Never heard of that before.

Metro tiles, which are supposed to resemble underground trains stations, but remind me old public toilets,

Grey, grey, grey

huge TVs in rooms, that swamp the room

open plan houses

I like fitted carpets in bedrooms.

It drives me crazy when people have their pictures hanging too high on the wall.

Feature walls (one wall in garish wallpaper)
Tacky letters on mantelpiece etc (like LOVE, PEACE, names...)
People who have posed pictures of themselves up on their walls (excluding wedding pics)
Black worktops
Those Ikea voile curtains

I hate feature walls. One wall in the room with vile wallpaper with massive flowers on or similar.
Also, anything too matchy. Like people who decorate a room in yellow and blue and therefore everything they buy... even down to a lamp or vase... has to be yellow or blue.

Signs that say 'home'. Or 'bathe'. Or any other obvious bloody statement

Massive canvases all over of yourself/children.

I was once in a house where the couple had a massive canvas of themselves.................naked and entwined in one another's arms!

IT WAS THE BEST AND WORST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN!

Tacky letters on mantelpiece etc (like LOVE, PEACE, names...)
People who have posed pictures of themselves up on their walls (excluding wedding pics)

Yes - and these.

Metro tiles have lasted longer than I thought they would. The coloured ones seem more popular than white now though. White really overdone. I remember a friend doing them in her bathroom over 10 years ago.

What's a good kitchen to have that won't be dated next year? Birch/beech with black laminate overdone, white shaker with wooden top also, I think. Gloss doors seem popular and speckled worktops - too modern?

I'm also actually considering wallpaper in the kitchen,,,and I think it's got shiny bits ,,on one wall!!!,this is it. Love it.

No slogans though, metro tiles, glitter, and the fireplaces are real,, ...

Sorry, op here, I meant a fire surround but NO fire. I've seen it! Just stuck on the wall......

I quite like metro tiles.....

Glad everyone is being good humoured about this. It was inspired by a recent visit to my mother's (burgundy leather sofa/ decals). She hates my style though so swings and roundabouts.

I also dislike mirrored drawers and glass tables make me nervous.

Oh, I love grey. Whenever we have the time and energy (and money) to redo the kitchen, I would love to have a grey colour scheme.

A flat I once rented had a fake fireplace with a massive pile of loose pebbles piled up in it that had been painted with white chalk paint. It reminded me of the white dogshit you used to see. I transferred it to a carrier bag under the stairs until the end of the tenancy.

And I have glass coffee tables !!! 😂

Red 'pops of colour' in kitchen. I.e. Red kettle, toaster etc
The phrase 'pops of colour'
Large formal glossy ceramic floor tiles especially when laid in a living room. Just so cold looking
Teal accessories. Especially against brown furniture
Tiled bathroom floors. Never seem to fully dry and attract dirt easily
Dark purple/aubergine anything
Padded leather dining chairs or even worse, fake leather
Seagulls on stilts. Wooden Ines, not real ones.

shabby chic...sorry they just don't go together.

So, let's take out all that everyone hates, listed above; near empty house here! 😉
Just what do you have in your houses?

Sanderson do nice wallpapers Blunt.

Oh dear .
I have glitter grey wallpaper, crystal knobs on bedroom furniture, crushed velvet headboard with diamanté buttons, candles , canvas art AND ( might as well get properly flamed) Bon appetite in my kitchen . In my defence it was already there when I bought the house.

Scrum me neither! I grew up in an old house with a coal fire and never realised the coal cellar was such a paragon of design, rather than just a hole in the ground.