To hate these current home trends...

[verynaiceham]

Crushed velvet sofas/beds/curtains.

Also wooden letters in the kitchen/bathroom that's say 'Cook'/'Bath' etc telling you what each room is for.

While I'm at it- wall 'art' (stickers) with cheesy phrases.

I dislike crushed velvet anything, but I love plain, real velvet. My SIL has an olive green, plain velvet bedstead and it is gorgeous. The next time we change our sofas I want plain velvet ones in a dull plum colour or dull green. My parents had velvet sofas back in the 70s and they were very hard wearing I think.

I dislike matchy-matchy furniture and department store type nick-nacks because it looks so impersonal and hollow.

I love love love grey and have it in several rooms. Depending on the shade it can look cool and bright or warm and cosy.

At the moment I am really liking the look of the monochrome + blush + olive green interiors all over Instagram. It doesn't bother me at all that they are 'fashionable' because it's a style I really love the look of.

I absolutely hate the wall stickers of trees with hanging stick on picture frames, then people just stick a photo on the wall!

Velvet makes me cringe I think a crushed velvet sofa would make me vom. I can't touch it at all without it going through me

I don't think liking tacky tat because it's currently trendy has got anything to do with class really.

Take those awful cardboard/wooden fake moose or reindeer heads decorated in multiple colours/flower prints. Just. Why? Also those fake taxidermy specimens recreated in fabric/fluff, often complete with fake victorian glass domes. Yet they always sell well in shops that cater for those with money like Liberty etc.

Beige and brown decor. Makes me thing these people have no style or imagination.

But on the other hand, I have grey in my house

Chasing Cars is a song by snow patrol

The whole song though Afro?

My bedroom walls are grey..... as is the carpet..... and wait for it.........

The curtains and bed cushions are CRUSHED VELVET 😱😱😱😱

runs away to give oneself a thoroughly good talking to

The ILs gave us a twee plaque when we moved in. It's in the cupboard and I hang it especially when they visit.

The whole song though Afro

Usually the chorus for this song is what I've seen in bedrooms

"If I lay here, If I just lay here. Would you lie with me and just forget the world"

Then you get people posting pics of their own homes which they obviously think are fabulous and asking "oh is THIS cheap and common then? " to try and fish for compliments. And the ubiquitous joke about a sign saying "shit" in the bathroom.

I can’t get over the feeling that it should be “lie here” not lay here so couldn’t be doing with that.
How I feel about decor depends on how I feel about the person. If I like someone their twiggy stuff will seem nicer than if it’s someone I don’t like.

I have:
Wicker hearts
A quote at the top of the stairs
Stripey stair carpet
Fablon work tops (they were manky, burnt and unhygienic and I’m too poor to replace them!)
Painted kitchen units (see above!)
Painted tiles in the kitchen (ditto above!)
Grey walls in the bathroom, complete with one brick effect wallpapered wall
Wood effect laminate in the living room which, again, I can’t afford to replace

Actually, my whole living room would be most peoples idea of hell! I have pine furniture, brown leather and wood settees, dado and picyure rails (painted red at the bottom and cream at the top!), and a generic mass produced cheap red rug on my wood effect laminate. My fireplace, however, is fully functioning and not full of twee twiggy shit

Chipscheeseandgravy that would give me a headache but on another note your user name

We are looking for a house at the moment and my not-even-looking-even-if-its-otherwise-perfect thing is fake grass gardens. The irony of pouring cement over grass to cover it with something that looks a bit like grass just makes my heart sink. Plus the weeds always get through.
And fake leather furniture.
Oh and wallpaper that is supposed to look like exposed brick.
I also dislike crushed velvet and HATE "live, laugh, love" signs and "bossy verb signs".
Cannot stand most modern kitchens. My dad was a pathologist and when I was little and was sent home sick from school he took me into work and I often saw the lab with the big fridges for bodies and big tables for dissecting bodies- and that seems to be what most modern stainless steel-y kitchens are modelled on - just not for me (plus finger prints on everything)
I quite like grey though as long as it's not everywhere.

A few people saying they hate the gallery wall thing. I know it has been around for too long now and there are some really bad ones where they fill the frames with anything to have enough pics. But, the alternative , is a huge piece of statement art , which along with the framing is a huge investment and decision . So, the gallery wall thing is practical for me even if it's ' off trend' and means we get to hang the art we have now and add to it as we collect more.

Grey carpet screams 'Homes under the Hammer' done up for rental

Oh, I wish this were true.

I've been renting all my adult life and I have never had grey walls. Nor seen a rental in my price bracket with them. It's all magnolia, scuffed beige/yellow, or (if you are lucky) white.

My current house makes me feel fed up, because I itch to do things with it. The walls are a sort of dark cream/yellow shade, the carpets are brown or dark green, and it has very bad wood-effect laminate in the kitchen. It also has lovely original Victorian fireplaces and high ceilings and it could be really beautiful. I would love to paint the walls very pale blue-grey. Fat chance.

I think people forget that one of the trivial things that's so depressing about renting is not being able to tag onto trends you actually like.

The letters can fuck off, though.

I have a pretty strong astigmatism. Stripy carpets do weird things to my eyes.

Staged or professional family photos on canvas.... my mil did one of my dc for us. It's hanging in my dining room, I hate it!

It is worth remembering that a lot of things on people’s walls and shelves were given to them by relatives/friends and may be tolerated rather than loved!

What do you do with all those things every night?!
I can't imagine the sheer bloody faff of taking 16 dozen extra non-sleeping pillows off a bed, only to put them back on again the next day.

@ShotsFired

At night I chuck them into a pile in the rough direction of a green velvet (!) antique chair. In the morning after I make the bed I cover it with the purple velvet throw and chuck the cushions back on. It makes it feel more chilled out and the cushions provide back supper if I lie on the bed to read s book or paint my nails and so on.

It doesn't take long to heave a few cushions about.

I must agree with pps though, the only thing worse that a "live laugh love" wall art is a "live laugh live" tattoo 😳😳😆😆

I love the gallery wall, catching a glimpse of photo as run round house.

Hate Brown or Green fences ie the colours from decades ago, why?!! Soooo many colors why that dark hideous browny? No flowers or plants look nice with it.