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!

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I didn't realise that clutter was an interior design feature.

Badger that's the first seagull on stilts I've ever seen!

Feature walls
Leather sofas
3 piece suites
Divan beds - especially with frilly valances
Rated
Textured wallpaper
UPVC windows on old buildings

I used to loathe mirrored cupboards but have just put some in the hall and am rather taken with them.

Ikea wavy mirrors - HORRIBLE!!
Leather sofas - any holiday cottage that has them are instantly ruled out for me
Completely tiled bathrooms, especially those brown/limestone huge square tiles

However I do have...
Crystal door knobs - love em!
Metro tiles - mine are pale grey with dark grout and I still love them
Grey - I painted my upstairs hallway grey and now it feels Iike I live in a submarine - never again.

Pulls up the drawbridge and gets ready to defend cheap laminate to the death

River Tam if you keep the corners clean there is no dust.

I'm calling my laminate retro. You read it here first.

I am obliged to have fitted carpet because of noise. Not my first choice.

Kirstie Allsop.

@NicolasFlamel have a look at the Facebook page - DIY on a budget official - (if you have Facebook that is!) absolutely hilarious.

Brilliant Sunday night entertainment 😂

There was a post on "how to paper floorboards" like, seriously using wallpaper on the floor 😭😭

Scrum

Ah...but do you live in a coastal town though? Trust me, they're everywhere.

I do own a wooden acorn ornament. I quite like that.

Oh shit I have twigs in a vase..... pussy willow - is that ok?
I hate loads of scented candles just 'for decoration' gathering dust!
Brick wallpaper....

Dark reddish leather sofas that look like they have bulging muscles
Black, glass and chrome furniture - bachelor pad style
Mirrors on ceiling and wardrobes, that you can see yourself from the bed - cringe
Velvet headboard

I have lots of grey, a leather corner sofa, pictures of our family displayed in frames, decorative cushions on beds and feature walls

No random quotes on walls or twigs or BATHE, EAT etc so I've redeemed myself there at least

I don't think MN would like my house but we really do and that's all that matters!

"Statement wall" where one wall in a room has (usually hideous) wallpaper and the remaining walls are plain.

Decorative tat with no function or sentimental value - I mean why give yourself more things to dust than necessary!
Anything with glitter or black "fur".
Vinyl wall decals
OTT matching (so the same pattern, in one room, on a duvet, curtains, lampshade, and "feature" rug).
Twee signs about "this home" "family" or prosecco.
Bunting and fairy lights (unless it's Christmas, then tasteful lights are acceptable in moderation).

Sabine you have me there, housework is not my strength. Anything that hides a multitude of sins and doesn't need to be cleaned very often to still look alright is my interior design go-to. My living room rug is such that you can spill a cup of tea or a glass of red on it and no-one will notice. I wouldn't fancy Aggie probing it with one of her swabs.

Tiny pictures on large walls hung too high.
Patterned carpets
Flowery anything
Ornaments
Bookcases
Too many family photos
Vintage style
Shabby chic
Spotlights
Coloured bathroom suites
Boring decoration that says nothing about the owners personality

Plasma screen mounted on the wall above the fireplace. Like it's the highlight of everyone's life.

That is where a picture or mirror belongs.

Common.

(runs)

Bluntness I'll see your lovely Sanderson paper and raise you a mustard yellow feature wall

cantbefair I'm not sure if I'm feeling brave enough 😂 I feel like I'll actually keel over. Papering the floor???

Letter on walls spelling 'love' 'eat' 'home' etc. Let me supply you with some letters to rearrange; here they are - fofkcfu.

Also canvasses with trite quotes about families or love or brainless spirituality.

I'm not keen on feature walls or faux anything: if you live in a thirties semi don't install a polystyrene Adam fireplace, stick with what nature intended.

Inappropriately massive sofas or worse three piece suites.

Artfully arranged design books that no one reads

As PP said, self conscious 'pops' of colour.

Shelves of learned antique books bought for a 'library' while the well thumbed Mills & Boon are carefully hidden.

Distressed 'French' furniture.

But nothing gives me the rage as much as the smug letters.

You'd think I was some sort of Kelly Hoppen but the truth is I live in a bit of a tip. Perhaps I need to go and buy myself some wall letters spelling ENVY.

Lots I will let you off the twigs as I have scented candles. I do light them but only in winter as I don't see the point in lighting them in the summer when the patio doors are open all day.

i live on the coast and not seen any seagulls on stilts although have seen an alarming number of beach themed bath rooms....WHY the beach is just down the roAd if you want to see pebbles.

Ethel Does anyone remember woodchip wallpaper, anaglypta wallpaper or artex??

Some of us still live in these condition! Shocking, I know - please sponsor £5 a month etc. You shouldn't need to dust walls fgs.

Basket Maybe I could intensify this with the word CALM stuck on one wall.

The most stress-inducing thing imaginable! (Apart from Artex, obvs.)

All of the examples on this thread pale into comparison against the interior decor style of "unrefined man" (for it is particularly favoured by men, especially young ones). It involves a TV as the centrepiece, plugged into a games console or two, and surround-sound speakers. These are the most important things and the whole property is set up around these gadgets, with no thought as to anything else. Furniture must be arranged in the least visually pleasing way, no thought must be given to colours, no pictures on the walls, and definitely no lamps/relaxed lighting - all light must be harsh and overhead.

I just don't understand not caring about your home beyond a big tv...

Anything along these lines.

Feature wall - check
Naff firepace - check
Plasma in prime position - check
plastic plant - check
Generic art - check.