Interior design loves?

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Ok, so what's the betting they are the same as the pet hates thread?

I love

Fairy lights
Scatter cushions
Scented candles
Large rugs
Range cookers
Wood burners ( and log baskets)

I'm sure there are many more,..

Thank you Fontella

I also love grey paint and very dark colours
Vintage mirrors (must stop buying them)

LaurieFairyCake that collection is beautiful. I love drinking tea from proper cups and saucers! Do you use it or is it display only?

I like black and white with wood in a Scandi sort of style, and copper/brass - ruefully agree with the person on the other thread who said cheap copper ornaments are crap - the paint has started coming off some of my cheap h&m ones!

Also big fluffy white rugs, that one that's everywhere, wooden floors, sheepskins, cosy blankets, art from small galleries and illustrators not from next.

I do use but not everyday - it's very fine porcelain - so about 4 times a year. I had people over and used it then - and they complained as they 'prefer mugs for tea'

I am rather partial to hanging linen hearts..and I luffs a bit of shabby chic twee...I've even managed to achieve a double whammy of a twee hanging heart and a floral wreath thingy...

I am rather partial to hanging linen hearts..and I luffs a bit of shabby chic twee...I've even managed to achieve a double whammy of a twee hanging heart and a floral wreath thingy

Very nice!

We love a few hanging hearts - love the stripped wood door too!

I love fairy lights...the DDs have them in their bedrooms and I have them in the kitchen. Soooo pretty.

We have off white carpet throughout. I never ask guests to remove their shoes, ever.

I love a bit of Laura Ashley.

I have a cream painted Shaker style kitchen with blue polka dot accents...so twee, but so pretty and fresh.

I love grey. I have always loved grey. Living room was painted in F&B Elephant's Breath 10 years ago, long before grey was a thing. Still love it now.

I have a hugely thick and soft, white bath mat which is Heaven to step on to.

I have faux wooden working tops...insisted on them - had real wood in previous house and hated having to be so precious with it.

We have tiled bathroom floors, but would dearly love some Amtico instead (warmer and softer).

I have lots of those strings of chickens with bells.

They please me greatly.

HA HA great idea for a thread! I bt we just get exaclty the same stuf as on the pat hates one!!!!

I love:

• White gloss kitchens
• Grey everything
• Exposed brick walls
• MCM
• Industrial chic
• Scandi
• Copper
• Concrete

Also....

LOVE IKEA

Where else can you get such nice stuff at such a good price????

Textured wallpaper
G Plan
Ethnic nik naks
Nik naks in general
Blankets/throws/quirky cushions

Fairy lights
Magnolia
Upcycled furniture
Animal-based art
Bookshelves with actual books on them
Non-matching schemes where everything just looks all higgledy piggledy

It's not far off the same things in the other thread. Just not repeared as much.🤣

Repeated !

Turkish rugs in bright colours
Coloured glass jars and bowls
Bookshelves
Vintage propaganda posters

My red kitchen walls. It is a pokey little north-facing galley kitchen, which used to be painted lemon yellow, which somehow screamed "I am trying to hide the fact that I am dingy and dark and pokey from you, and failing hard." Now it embraces its north-facing-ness and is just lovely and cosy.

Beech kitchen cabinets - they are nice and warm coloured against my nice red walls.

Books, books, everywhere (some of them in IKEA-style birch bookcases).

Magnolia walls - they don't compete with the watercolours or swamp them.

Curtain tracks rather than poles (one of my friends told me my current tracks were the height of naffness - I personally hate curtain poles - and the fuckers let way too much light round the edges for use in a bedroom).

Old (style) radiators
Claw foot cast iron bathtubs
Lots of Storage items
Huge mirrors
Table lamps

Amtico flooring
Pale plain carpeting
Plain light walls with paintings framed in interesting ways
Wood burning stove
Big comfy beds with clean white linen and coloured throws
Lots of love get coming in windows
Wooden shutter blinds
Pieces of art - pottery or glass on display
Light oak furniture
Statement light fightings (never bland ones)
Clutter free environment - a place for everything

Jug's, I have found my people

Painted wooden floorboards! The original wooden floor ;)

Stained concrete (or epoxy) floors, especially blue ones and ones with glitter :o

I love photographs! Canvas/framed/lots of small/one huge picture, but family pictures,YES!

Mismatched things in matching colours like picture frames :D

Bright colour

Plants, everywhere :D

Bathrooms that aren't blue, that are a bit different :D

God, I'd love a claw foot roll top bath. I never have baths, but I'd love one of them just to look at,,,,

Books
Corduroy sofas
Woodburning stoves
Old antiquey things
Dogs (real ones)
Wallpaper

lots of love get coming in windows

Eek - I mean lots of light! (Though if love wants to come in my windows then that's fine too!) ❤️

Colour. Each room decorated with its own personality.
Carpet. Warm and soft.
Vinyl floors in rooms with water. Warm, soft, range of choices.
A sense that the room is personal and built up of things that the inhabitant loves, not bought up job lot from Dunelm/ The Range because its on trend.
A feeling that the place is lived in, not a show home. I'm generally untidy, as is one of my best friends. I'll spruce up if I know she's coming, but have no fear of her coming round with minimal notice and finding me in my natural habitat. On one such visit, she commented about feeling relaxed. I suggested that it was a familiar, comforting level of untidiness to her home, but with none of the guilt

Stained glass
Turkish rugs
Leather chesterfields
Kilim cushions
Velvet curtains
Taxidermy
Polished wood/parquet floors
Rich colours
Tiffany lamps
Walls of books
Long case clock
Faux fur throws to snuggle
Period fireplaces
..... probably everyone else's hates list......

I also have plants everywhere and buy fresh flowers whenever I find them reduced enough
Tonight I bought these beauties for £0.80!!!

I've lots of massive plants too, and they have fairy lights wrapped round them,,

Me too - nothing quite as nice as the light from a fairy tree wrapped giant triffid plant!