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 like metro tiles. They have a nice vintage feel and add a bit of interest without being overpowering. They are the contemporary version of the bog standard white squares. Not offensive at all.
They are also cheap.
I have them in both bathrooms and the kitchen.
Downstairs bathroom is a wetroom and huge with no windows. I chose large teal metros because what the hell else was I going to do with that dingy space? Its full of necessary adaptive equipment and I didn't want it to look like a hospital.

Imagine it with acres of white square tiles ...bluegh.

Anyway. That is my impassioned defence of metro tiles

I hate the wall art too but then i hate a tattoo child name so. . . I try not to judge or i judge everyone . . . Possibly the latter.

irian I agree.
But I am quite old too.

Each to their own though. I get a lot of pleasure out of foofing around with my decor and I have a lot of stuff people would hate.
Painted pink stairs, murals of dead rock stars, LOADS of cushions (some of them with dogs on) and the like.

So literature is pretentious and should not be on display

Love you’re calling it your “ literature “ in that sentence..

Books? I have loads of books! They are on bookshelves because there are too many to go in a cupboard. They aren't on display - they are stored. Weird.

Agree rosewhite. Maybe some people like to look pretentious with certain kinds of books, but most book lovers just like to be near to their books (that may be me). My shelves have everything from the classics to autobiographies to true crime to rock biographies to horror to Jackie Collins. I only keep favourite books and they're well loved and dusted 😉

What are mason jars?

To me a home isn't a home unless you have books! I have them in the bathroom, bedrooms, kitchen, living room....the hall way! There are books everywhere!
And anyone who has a problem can sod off....and I'll probably lob a crap book at you on your way out!

Yuk!

Remember the trend about 7 yrs ago for canvas prints with feckin pebbles on them - three in a row with a white stripe on them? They made me want to vomit.

Live laugh love - utter bollox, sometimes its just get through the day mate.

And those bloody letters that spell home, bath or some such nonsense. DH likes to rearrange them to annoy people e.g. NOEL becomes LEON. Why can't we have ones that really reflect what we do? KIP in the bedroom, BLOB on the sofa.

I start a new trend right now...everyone must have the letters spelling out BLOB in the living room

I had to bin a house rules canvas which was given my MIL, not for me. I have been cautious of buying art but have found one or two I can tolerate (and it is not the dogs playing cards and pool)

Well it's your home!! You can decorate it how you like!! It would be a boring world if we all looked the same and if all our homes looked the same!!

I had the bookcase-dissing estate agent - we put the wall of books into storage and sold within a week.

I think the overriding thing is that every single person who does grey/glitter/fablon/broken mirror/artsy words etc does it in the grave misapprehension that they are being so trendy and individual and one-off
I think this is so, so wrong. No one who buys a decorative item out of Dunelm Mill, for example, imagines they are the first person to have wooden words in their house. They buy them because it appeals to them or they think it fashionable or a combination of the two.

I love a bit of crushed velvet. Or any velvet. Have a very faux velvet cover on my bed. It makes me happy. And keeps me warm. I'm also into faux animal fabrics. Don't have any words hanging up though. If I did, they'd probably be sweary.

Uptheduff, setting your house to sell and living in it are different.
A colleague has her house for sale. So I had a nosey on the estates agent. As you do and every single wall was covered ceiling to floor with bookshelves. They were all super neat and it suits her completely but as a viewer it felt claustraphobic and made me wonder what was going on with the walls behind them.

I love metro tiles and will be using them in our kitchen. :) we have some rather fab red ones to go in our porch. So there!

Not keen on all the little wooden signs everywhere, especially ones designed to be funny. Or "family rules" type wall stickers. But not my house though so I don't get a say. :)

Quite a few people saying they dislike laminate flooring.

But what is an alternative? Natural wood costs a fortune. Carpet is completely impractical in a small house which only has the one walkway from front door /hall through to the bloody living /dining room and back door.
It's that or vinyl for new builds.
Personally I think it's clean and adds light. Unlike my grubby stair carpet .

grey. hate it.
waits for someone to come along and tell me how wonderful farrow and ball's elephant burp has tranformed their dull and dingy Victorian hall way into something even darker
and all that Not on the High Street personalised shite. Really who needs a wall print reminding them of their Surname? The Jones-Smith Family Est 2013.

I have literally thousands of books, but the trend I dislike is a large coffee table with small piles of big books all over it, usually design art, architecture. For one, you can't see the spines so don't know what each book is. For two, and this is most important, there is nowhere to put your wine glass.

Bluntness, am liking the idea of fairy lights wrapped around tall plants.

A wall of books makes quite good soundproofing - it saves my poor neighbours from hearing my family bicker over the playstation!

I know, moon but lots of posters were talking about being put off a house for sale due to stuff they didn’t like in it, so just adding my own experience.
I can see things like pictures and even colours going in and out of fashion, but with stuff like tiles - I mean how often can anyone change their tiles ffs?

I've got maroon coloured crushed velvet gloves.
They're for the opera.

(slinks away)

But yes, hate the signs saying 'home', 'cook', 'love' etc. Very strange.

I have a bookcase that's stacked with books. I find it funny that some people say that having books out is pretentious when most of them (on my shelves) are Jilly Cooper/Jackie Collins bonkbusters.

Goshthatwentwell - we have laminate for the reasons you state. I HATE it. More than that though, I HATE how practical it is so I can't argue we should get a nice carpet instead.

Uptheduffy - sorry if I sounded harsh, I didn't mean too. X

I think the thing with tiles and kitchens etc is to make a best guess on what you'll like now and in 5 years. But you can't get hung up on it because you just don't know.

Personally, we're the type of peopke who'll keep a sofa until it falls apart and tyen try to buy the same one again! :) I have found memories of a friend's childhood home which stayed exactly the same until her parents died. That is somehow appealing to me. And less work!

My favourite shops:

Home Bargins
B&M
The Range
Dunelm

Sorry, not sorry

I bought a flat not so long ago and I gave our builder some metro tiles for him to tile the kitchen. Came home and he'd put them up vertically

Cant even be arsed getting him to do it over again. Tbf, I didn't specify how I wanted them done. I just assumed everyone knew the metro tile pattern.