Those bloody awful tempered panels....

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...in place of wooden balustrades below the hand rail on staircases and landings.

I hate them with a vengeance. I’m house hunting and they are fecking EVERYWHERE at the moment. Small scale developers building new houses are obsessed with them, along with grey gloss kitchens.

They are going to date SO badly and be really expensive to replace.

They make your house look like a shopping centre or a doctors surgery.

They will be a bugger to keep clean, especially if you have kids and dogs.

They don’t make your house look cool and edgy like something off Grand Designs, they are a suburban abomination and it needs to stop.

They are going to be this decade’s equivalent of pebble dashing or avocado bathroom suites.

AIBU?

The thread title should read tempered glass panels

It's much like artex ceilings and brick built tv cabinets, its fashionable just now and some people like them

YANBU we have just replaced our staircase and chosen wood for this reason

I like them, they make it much lighter

no, disagree, I like them!
I have kids and dogs, and twirly brown balustrades that need loads of dusting. I'd love to paint them white but it is too big a job, and will scratch.
Would love someone to come along and replace them will clean sleek glass panels

They are going to date SO badly and be really expensive to replace.
They are going to be this decade’s equivalent of pebble dashing or avocado bathroom suites.

Or we could just stop destroying the planet by ripping out perfectly serviceable and acceptable stuff for the sake of fashion. What a waste.

I quite like the glass staircases but I’m sick to death of grey everywhere. I thought it had been done to death by now?

I quite like them

I’m on a Facebook DIY group and some of the current trends are absolutely hideous though - frog tape walls anyone? Or mirrors that look like windows with plastic plants below them, strategically placed as you go up the stairs.

I’ve never forgiven Alan Titchmarsh for popularising slippery, dangerous garden decking.

Wtf is a frog tape wall?

Hinge well I agree with you, but everything has its acceptability and serviceability lifespan. That’s why in one sense, the most eco friendly houses might actually be the older ones with all their period features still intact. People are happy to keep those just as they are, once they get past a certain age they stop being naff and start being ‘period.’

Anything between 15 and 40 years old generally looks abysmal and anyone who can afford to rip the fixtures out will.

I wouldn’t buy a house with a reasonably new and expensively feature that I hated because it would be wasteful and expensive to change it. . Hence my irritation at all these new glass staircases.

And yes to whoever said swirly artex. Exactly like that.

I hate artex. My house is full of it and I haven’t changed it because it’s really not a big deal. Living with it hasn’t upset me on a daily basis

It's wet walls I detest. Can see the benefit in cleaning them but decent tiles are so much nicer.

Agree, they shout abuse every time you go upstairs and get so agitated.

I prefer the wood look. Surely the panels will get fingerprints all over them and be a pain to keep looking smart.

My bug bear is ripping out stuff just because it's not the height of fashion. People on house buying programmes look at a lovely quality kitchen that's probably 10 years old (and isn't grey or glossy) as if it's turd on the floor. 'We'll have to change that'. Why?? At least give it a go, change handles paint the walls etc.

It's all very show offy

I wouldn't buy a house with tempered glass, but am stuck with panels of some cheap, crappy wood on our stairs. Some idiot has used a coloured wax on them which can't be sanded and painted so is almost impossible to remove.

I wouldn't buy a house that was grey anywhere unless it could be painted over, but neither would I want a gloss kitchen as I had one when they were fashionable in the 80's.

New houses seem to look like a clinical trial of some kind, not homes.

Agreed! And yes to the previous poster who's clearly in the same Facebook group as me, if I see one more of those tragic fake-window-mirrors...

m.youtube.com/watch?v=nWoWHzq21tA
Featuring national treasure O Coleman :)

I've had to do quite a hard sell on a client who was playing with the idea of glass on their new staircase (it's been completed moved and rejigged so has to be replaced) and they are having a gorgeous, simple timber balustrades in black instead - it looks timeless and if they get bored with the black can easily be painted.

I’m on a Facebook DIY group and some of the current trends are absolutely hideous though - frog tape walls anyone?

Hang on, what? Frog tape walls were all the rage on DIYOAB before I got booted out for not being enough of a vacuous hun - and that was probably 2 years ago now.

Are the broken CD stairs still a thing too?
(or actual mirror and grout for the more permanently-minded, non-superstitious huns)

I think grey walls in a warm tone can look nice and is really the modern version of magnolia. It's when people have grey curtains, carpets, rugs, sofas, throws etc as well that it looks awful. When we all had magnolia walls in the 90s we didn't have magnolia sofas etc as well, it was just a wall colour that went with everything.

Dd has pale grey walls with cream carpet and multicolored curtains and bedding and it looks fresh and clean. We also have a grey kitchen but it's matt grey wood with cherry worktops and knobs and sage green tiles and I love it and can't see it going out of fashion anytime soon. Dh was all for getting a gloss kitchen with shiny worktops but he's glad now that I put my foot down.

can't see it going out of fashion anytime soon
Ok then

I can't think what you mean by tempered glass panels? Please can someone post a pic? (And now concerned in case that's what I have and it's not bothered me!)

That clip 😂

I wonder why it was perfectly acceptable to have coloured suites since bathroom suites were invented, right up until the nineties and then totally and utterly unacceptable ever since? Everything else has come full circle except bathrooms. Even now we are having a huge mid century style revival but there has been no return of the coloured bathroom suite.