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 enjoy this

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Exposed brick wallpaper
Mirrored furniture
Floral wallpaper

Mirrored furniture. I just look at it and think of all the hassle that would cause.
I think velvet and wallpaper show their worth. Cheap versions of either look cheap, especially cheap velvet furniture.
When you walk into a room and it looks like everything has been ordered and bought from a catalogue in one fell swoop with zero thought put into it.
Although I have a lovely canvas hanging in my grey sitting room so I'm probably not one to talk!

Black, white and red colour schemes. Whenever this appears in the finished renovation on "Homes under the Hammer", you can be pretty sure that no women were involved.

Cheap laminated flooring looks gross. Also Really shallow basins in bathrooms, Jack and Jill basins, I mean really, what is the point unless you want to indulge in communal toothbrushing. White goods that aren't white,.

I do love fitted carpets and anaglypta wallpaper. Also have a weakness for artex and expecting it to make a comeback any day now.

And I have a collection of those cushions with photos of animals on them.

UPVC windows on old buildings

these aren't interior design things, these are boring practical things.

@NicolasFlamel it has been the best entertainment on a Sunday night! Fluffy lampshades, TVs covered in sticky back vinyl, mosaic on everything.

Well worth a judgey snoop!

Well fuck you all then - l love grey, my sofa is leather and l'll go to the wall for my fairy lights!
That said l hate the huge inspirational slogans, glass furniture, glitter and wall hung tvs ... lt would be massivly tedious if we were all the same, though.

@RiverTam I just snorted at your comment about wooden floor in bedroom = probably grey on walls people.

Yep!

I have a lot of grey in my house - love it!

I'm fairly live and let live, the only thing mentioned that really has me screaming "yes!" is 'vintage' made in a factory 6 months ago. I actually like the vintage look (though not for my own home) but just think 'WTF' when it's mass produced factory brand new.

(from The Range)

I don't think anyone has stood up for woodchip here... I'd like to share my joy that this very evening, I have stripped the last of it from my house

I was talking to my OH about this today and my pet hate has to be soul-less homes. We have a 3ft wooden monitor lizard (called Bruiser) in our living room. A full size mannequin of Star Wars armour. Shelves full of books, and items we love. Our home is eclectic and 100% us. I can't stand homes where you look around and can't tell anything about the people who live there...do they have interests...

If you are living under Artex or along side wood chip Ethel then stick with it as they're both bastards to remove, took me years of hard labour and I wish I'd never started. Should have just bought some big carved letters saying UP YOURS LAURENCE LLEWELYN BOWEN to cover it up.

I have Sanderson print wallpaper in the sitting room, dining room and three of the bedrooms. I like it. I have very old leather sofas which I will keep until they fall apart because they look good, are comfortable and are child-proof. I have fitted carpets (it's an old house which felt much colder with bare floorboards). I have photos of my family all over the house - I like them out where I can see them rather than on a memory stick.

Shall I get my coat?

I also live in a bit of a tip. And I'm aware enough of fashion trends to know that F&B grey, metro tiles and Orla Kiely are all getting naff: but I don't care, I love them anyway.

So it's no spirit of superiority that I offer you:

Pineapples
Cacti
Fake animal heads on wall
Oversized headboards
Baths in bedrooms
Glass tables
Spotlights (I have plenty of these)
Travertine bathrooms (got one: hate it!)
UPVC porch leading straight into sitting room (I have this too)
Breakfast bars
Bar stools
Red kitchen accessories
Red dining rooms
Open plan madness
Union jack cushions
Dining suites
Fabric swagged chair covers
Pale wood
Cowhide rugs
Mixed tile effect vinyl flooring
Magnolia
Big TVs
"Bringing the outside in" - leave it outside, this is the UK FFS
Matchy matchy kitchen accessories
Rolltop baths

@Bluntness100 I'm coming up with stiff competition here!

I have in my bedroom a fireplace feature wall (no fireplace) with a tv fixed onto it... the wallpaper is exposed grey bricks.... under are built in grey shelves with replica vintage tins filled with fake flowers

And I have a beech kitchen (it's a horror, wasn't my choice but I'm moving in a few years so not changing it!)

So I call at least second place

We do have some crimes against interiors (pine floors upstairs and orangey pine staircase). I actually like them, they suit the style of the house.

Oh and we have woodchip (painted over) on some of the ceilings between the beams. We looked at it and thought, nah too much work to get that off, we'll leave it.

And a faux leaded window thing in the porch done on purpose by the previous owners. God knows what they were thinking. Horrifying. Everyone who visits looks askance at it.

Lovely SIL who rates her interior design skills visited our house, gave it the once over, and remarked "Yes, a homage to the 1970s but thankfully no grey".

What is black diamante furniture? That must have passed me by.

I would say the only things that are total pet hates are:

-Carpets in bathrooms/kitchens
-Coloured bathroom suites
-Artex on walls

Aside from that, I wouldn't say there's anything that I hate - things I wouldn't choose, sure, but hate it such a strong word! I don't like Cath Kidston, but I don't hate it!!

You would hate my taste, incidentally - I love grey with other colours, have lots of photos on my walls (mainly of my nephews and niece), enjoy having a framed quote/phrase as part of my decor (but framed and something I've chosen/created myself, rather than bought from the shop), and have laminate flooring in the lounge/diner of my house (because I can't afford real wood). I like having a 'feature wall', although it would be a paint, not wallpaper, situation.

Basically, I like what I like and therefore my decorating taste is a mish-mash of things that appeal. Also - as I hope everyone else on this thread does - I give zero shits what others think about it.

I do quite like that seagull on stilts though, and definitely did not see him when I lived by the coast, or he would probably have a home with me now.

Net curtains
Venetian blinds
Those vertical Venetian blinds - like you live in an office
Shabby chic
Decking especially with those railings that look like banisters
Thai God head ornament things
But the worst thing are toilets that have a mirror wall to the side so you can see what your bare arse looks like sitting down while you have a dump. Why?

*UPVC windows on old buildings

these aren't interior design things, these are boring practical things*

Hardly. Decent quality wood windows are just as boring and practical and entirely appropriate. It's a choice to change them for ugly plastic windows and of course design is part of that choice. Not caring about the aesthetics is a choice.

Can I add corner sofas, particularly modular ones, to my original list please?

Basically anything from Dunelm Mill or The Range! I quite like IKEA (ducks for cover )

Yeah definitely writing on the wall... "Bathe" in the bathroom; "Eat" in the kitchen etc. I don't even like words on things - like a breadbin that says "Bread" or tea/ coffee jars that say "Tea" "Coffee" etc.
Funny cos I love words, reading and information generally.

Franklin Mint Plates (esp with dolphins on them)
Actually, collections of anything....
This....

Red 'pops of colour' in kitchen. I.e. Red kettle, toaster etc
The phrase 'pops of colour

This. My house is totally uncoordinated with furniture from various decades that we've either acquired, inherited or bought over the years.

The only complete source of absolute horror, however, if my youngest daughter's bedroom. Bubblegum pink carpet. Bright pink glittery duvet cover (on a Princess bed) with matching curtains and pale pink and white walls.

DD1 has now progressed onto purple.....

I'm actually hoping they both become Goths in their teenage years.

I want to add spiral staircases. Hate 'em. Ditto glass staircases, actually any staircase that looks like a threat to life and limb.