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To ask your interior design hates?

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Illbeindenial · 12/11/2022 05:15

Mine are:

Feature Walls
Pampas Grass
Crushed Velvet
Hanging Lights - all on the same beam
Shiny furniture

My house is white and I love it - contrasted with darker wood, artwork, plants and colour from things like cushions etc. and to some that’s absolutely boring and that’s ok.

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Runover · 12/11/2022 05:19

Grey everything.
black wood furniture.
lack of comfortable furniture
maximalism when cluttered and stuff absolutely everywhere
rooms with no personality

BlueKaftan · 12/11/2022 05:20

Walls painted in bright colours. Like “and now here’s our red wall!”
Bare walls, no art
Brown leather sofas
Pine

Ragwort · 12/11/2022 05:24

Corner sofas - unless you have a massive room ... I waste spend a lot of time looking at houses on Rightmove and wonder why people try and squeeze a massive corner sofa in the sitting room of an average 3 bed semi. The room looks totally crowded and awkward. Lovely if you live in a converted barn or similar.

I'm also not a fan of trends not matching the age and style of the property... ie: very modern styles in a period property or antiques in a very modern house, unless it is done very well.

But my own home is a total mishmash so I wouldn't want anyone to comment on my 'style' Grin.

FatCatSkinnyRat · 12/11/2022 05:45

Writing / text as artwork, in particular "Live, Laugh, Love" or whatever it is, or "Prosecco on tap!!"

FatCatSkinnyRat · 12/11/2022 05:46

Oh, and grey anything. Why!?!?

FangsForTheMemory · 12/11/2022 05:46

Grey everything.
Bathrooms with plastic boards on the walls so your home looks like a hotel chain.
Three-piece suites.
No books.
Carpets.
PLASTIC FUCKING GRASS AND ENORMOUS PLASTIC SOFAS IN THE GARDEN.

Luncheonmeatsandwich · 12/11/2022 05:48

Panelling

Toddlerteaplease · 12/11/2022 05:49

Black or coloured double glazing. It looks dark and forbidding or dated.

DipmeinChoc · 12/11/2022 05:50

Grey walls and floors and mirrored furniture. Or monochrome homes.

I like warm neutrals, lots of real wood and plants, japandi minimalist.style

CiderJolly · 12/11/2022 05:52

Pine multiple photo frames
huge canvasses with the home owner’s posing
glass tables
cold shades of grey

CookieDoughKid · 12/11/2022 05:53

Anything beige.

LateAF · 12/11/2022 05:57

All white, all grey, all beige everything. I get why people do it because it’s easier to avoid design mistakes if everything matches but then it feels so soulless.

Too minimalist (I.e. no artwork or books).

Trendy coffee table books that you see everywhere (I.e. Tom ford, Chanel, Live Beautiful).

Traditional panelling in new builds (much prefer adding architectural interest through modern features such as wood slat walls, lime wash paint, built in shelving, arch door ways). Same as people putting traditional wood beams in non farmhouse/ modern farmhouse designs.

Bookcases stuffed with random decor, plants and pots but no sight of any books.

Books placed with spines facing inwards.

Grey wood anything.

Changing decor to what’s trendy every 2 years. That’s why it’s important to not follow trends. I have sage green kitchen cabinets and shades of burnt orange and terracotta all over my home- it’s trendy now but l will not be changing once it’s out of fashion next year since these have always been my favourite colours.

Kitchens with only open shelving instead of upper cabinets.

Bulky reclining sofas.

Mid century modern everything.

Live love laugh house signs.

That said I’m sure there’s things in my home that other people dislike and I don’t mind.

LizzoBorden · 12/11/2022 05:59

Grey walls and furniture that looks like someone’s been on a trolley dash through Next home. Enormous canvases of the family (particularly ones of their wedding day), usually in black and white. Laminate flooring.

Ragwort · 12/11/2022 06:02

^^ I've got a bit of everything that everyone on this thread seems to hate!

But I also dislike over manicured homes - it's your home, not a show home where everything has to be perfect. I've still got my old pine dressing table that I bought with my Saturday job wages saved up ... nearly half a century ago.... it's followed me to Uni, through two marriages and numerous moves ... and I am smiling as I look at it now Grin.

Huntswomanonthemove · 12/11/2022 06:07

TV over the fireplace.
portrait of family over the fireplace
No fireplace
Range cookers
Beams
Bath in the bedroom
En suite without a door
Big leather sofas
White kitchens
Conservatories

Leafblowertime · 12/11/2022 06:11

I’m afraid I really dislike all white, it is just so stark and cold irrelevant of what’s in the room giving it thr “pop” of colour that some folks seem to think is a thing.

I also dislike a steel cold grey, lots of people do grey wrong, they go for one with a blue undertone, and there are lots of warm pale greys which can work in small doses. Beige and Magnolia the same, it all just shows a lack of flair.

mass produced cheap artwork, the sort you buy in next or dunelm, or get down the local charity shop. Same as trinkets like love heart or cat ornaments,

rugs that are too small for the space, if you’re going to have a rug then it needs to be warm and generous.

shiny brown leather sofas, they just suck the light out of the room

multi coloured houses, different bright colours in each room, each room should differ but it should flow.

fake panelling in a modern house, it’s ludicrous and fooling no one

lack of soft lighting and only a harsh over head light.

tvs that are too big for the room or positioned wrongly Ie too high up the wall

cheap curtains that are short, particularly if they have tie backs. If you want short, get a blind.

Orange pine furniture.

the list goes on,,,😃

Notsympatheticenough · 12/11/2022 06:20

We’ve got bright feature wall wallpaper…makes me smile.

none of the rooms flow.

and we haven’t got any pics up yet.

i don’t like all grey
white furniture

LizzoBorden · 12/11/2022 06:22

@Huntswomanonthemove range cookers?!

kavalkada · 12/11/2022 06:24

grey everywhere. I decorated my flat few months ago and my painter told me 90 per cent of the walls he paints are in grey

sterile children rooms - only colors allowed grey, white, black, and if child is very good bby good, that rules apply for toys too (and yes I have seen them)

too long curtains

tv above the fireplace

actually the list is too long

but I hate things in my own home, so...

Notjustanymum · 12/11/2022 06:28

Absence of a decent book collection
Too-big TV’s
Clutter on surfaces for other use (E.g. “stuff” on dining table/kitchen worktop/sideboard Etc.)
Ah the last one… time for a good sort out this weekend, I think!

Leafblowertime · 12/11/2022 06:29

LizzoBorden · 12/11/2022 06:22

@Huntswomanonthemove range cookers?!

Yeah I raised an eyebrow at that, that and the beams, which unless fake are not a decor choice, but a part of an old building,😂

Museya15 · 12/11/2022 06:32

Grey , glass and crushed velvet.

wallpower · 12/11/2022 06:33

The homogeneity of it all but with the likes of insta & everyone being an influencer it's impossible to avoid.

Footballers decor chic eg monochrome. shiny, sparse, shit load of spot lights. Not my thing.

lightand · 12/11/2022 06:33

Not enough seating for everyone to sit comfortably.

hesbeingabitofadick · 12/11/2022 06:33

Grey furniture and carpets - especially if there's teal, pink or mustard cushions/rugs as a "pop" of colour.
Mirrored furniture...or mirrored anything except an actual mirror.
Lampshades made of wire that look like a badly constructed birds nest.
Uncomfortable sofas with really low backs - especially leather ones.
TVs bolted to the wall.
Grey or black window frames in a modern house Neighbours, I judge you for this, they are NOT in keeping and look dated already
Plastic grass in your garden.
Laminate flooring.
Shutters on a modern (built within the last 25yrs) house.
Garage conversions with obviously mis-matched brickwork (or panelling that makes the bottom half match your black upvc front door).
So many dying orchids in your kitchen window it's like living inside a garden centre.

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