To ask your interior design hates?

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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.

On walls though, not stood up. They get knocked over too much! I think it depends on the frames too, I like wooden not metal ones. And the photos are ones we've taken over the years, not school ones. School ones look really odd for some reason and I don't know why. Except the ones in my Nana's house, which is practically perfect in every way.

Mirrored furniture
Pine furniture
fake grass
bright coloured sofas
shabby decorating (cutting in not neat)
family canvasses on walls
tv on fireplace wall, or too big for the room
live laugh love
too much grey or bling
hot tubs
pine kitchens
cacti or other cluttered plants on windowsills
geometric wallpaper with rose gold coloured lines in it
loud big patterned floral wallpaper
feathered fluffy lampshades
leather sofas and corner sofas
crushed velvet curtains
too much clutter
shiny metallic wallpaper
pampass grass
wallpaper 'dado' borders
gloss painted ceilings
woodchip wallpaper

I love that about your nanas house @Ikeabag

Arches
Spot lights
Fake grass
Curtains trailing on the floor
Walk hung tvs with trailing wires
Any words on the wall
Pet bowls, litter trays
Cat flaps in otherwise perfectly good doors
Sapele doors
Grey or black UPVC windows
Huge flowers/birds on wallpaper
Red walls
Cheap artwork
Shiny kitchen units
Washing machines not built in and often sticking out into the room, likewise any appliance.
Narrow kitchens
Vertical blinds
Open kitchen shelves
Shoes dumped in the hall
Strong dog/cigarette smells

You can tell I'm house hunting!

Holiday let’s are going to be pretty neutral though, to appeal to a larger percentage of people. Why did you pick that place to stay?

Pet bowls, litter trays

this isn’t a decor choice though

It is though as they can be put in a cupboard when not feeding time. Some leave them out permanently on a cutesy mat.

Everything matchy matchy and not one bit of furniture over 3 years old!

Huge sofa's too big for the space

Glossy kitchens - especially in trendy colours

Fake grass

No sense of the people who live there - soulless over styles places with nothing warm about them

Usually dogs have water out all the time, as cats do litter trays and often food bowls for cats, as unlike dogs they often eat when they are hungry, not at set times. I guess you don’t have pets, but if you do then to care for the animal correctly you would have most of these out permanently. It’s not like humans eating and drinking.

Your TV is not mounted properly, it should really be at eye level for comfortable viewing not looking up at an angle.

A lot of the things people are listing can look beautiful, dull or awful depending on how they’ve been used and the things around them.

When I lived abroad we had shutters and I loved them. Every night, like a ritual, I would shut them all up and it would make the house feel really secure and in the morning I would open them all up to the daylight and sunshine. It took me ages to adjust to not having any when I came back to live in the UK.

For those of you who say that hate non original art work … ( and we have some ranging from £500 to £ 15) .. sometimes people just dont feel they can afford it .. or dont know where to look .. we had a local art and community centre near us .. hence I was able to see and buy / save for original work ( one. Of which was by a local disabled young man with learning disability which I wd never have got to see otherwise.. so i was happily exposed to these choices… sometimes all people have near them / have the money for IS B and m etc .

Living rooms that look like they have been kicked through Designer Rooms

big daft clocks. Shiny mirrors, everything bling

I get the dog dish thing. Unfortunately my dog is a weirdo who randomly decides not to eat and gets a bad stomach, so he always has kibble out to graze on. He tries to bury his raw food though. Usually with the air surrounding his bowl, but if I've dropped laundry and then wandered off to do something else, he uses that. He also likes to carry a chunk into the living room, drop it on the rug and then look at me. It's not really conducive to any sort of style choice.

Love it! He sounds a real character.

Complete pillock, but much beloved, November!

I'd prefer my dog's dishes put away but she takes all day to eat her food!

Pet bowls aren't an interior design feature.

Looking for a first house to buy and being driven up the wall by the fashions for kitchens now - WHAT is with all the dark grey cupboards, and drawers with no bloody handles?

Interior design is hard. I have made plenty of mistakes over several properties. After many years, I have to say that white walls throughout suit me the best. ItIt allows me to spot cobwebs and display original artwork (it has to be original, not Dunlem). I also like colourful pieces of one-off artisan furniture in block colours (not multicoloured) but no more than two pieces per room. I like sleek sofas and unlike other posters, brown leather is fine. I like neutral coloured headboards and large, textured rugs. Beyond that, it is a minefield but I am slowly getting there.

Croque I really agree!

My DCs have produced some decent artwork. I also have a friend who is an experimental artist. She is not good enough to live off her earnings but I appreciate having some of her artwork to display for free, even though I would personally not buy it at a fair. Some pieces are ahead of their time. I saw something very similar exhibited at Kew recently - all candy coloured pastels. She was doing that years ago!

Matching furniture
Plastic windows
Furniture against the walls
MDF fake wood furniture.
Electric log burners
Angular uncomfortable and/or too small seating
Patterned or dated carpets
Curtains
Rugs too small for the space
Faux leather, silk, velvet etc.
Plastic plants
Fake grass
Moroccan tiles
Marble
Feature walls
Enormous TV's
Plastic baths
Shower curtains

Our cats graze over a few hours so need their bowls left out, they are in an alcove in the kitchen so not exactly an eyesore, but even if they were - they need to eat. It’s part of having pets. We have adapted our understairs cupboard for the litter trays which, yes, means a cat flap in a “perfectly good door” but it’s the only way to avoid them being openly visible in a room. In our old house they were in the bathroom. Much as I dislike litter trays, they too are a necessity if you want cats.

Mats are used for practicality to deal easily with spillages. Cats are messy.

I don’t think anyone intends these necessities to be a “feature”