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.

There are some really cool prints and cards at arthouseunlimited.org/shop/ which is a charity "Presenting artistic talents of adults living with complex neuro-diverse and physical support needs" (from the site). I like the art on there, it's great. Cards are a good option for inexpensive wall adornment.

Years ago a friend - extremely cool, lovely, clever creative woman - at uni had a newspaper clipping of a story about a man and woman who filled their house with things they loved. It's vague now, but it was written when he was older and his partner, the woman, had died. I think the house might have been made into a museum, perhaps they'd travelled around? I should try and find it online. Anyway, there was a photo of him holding a sculpted yellow flower on a stalk. It's less a visual choice, more an ethos, but that's perfection I reckon.

Neither are narrow kitchens or small hallways which have both been mentioned, unless the residents designed it that way themselves? I wouldn’t call cigarettes or dog smells interior design choices either, they’re just the result of houses being lived in.

My cats have dried food out all the time - in the kitchen, and if I didn't have a litter tray behind the TV in the living room my stupid tabby would pee there anyway (I tried!)

It's cleaned daily and if we were having house viewings all of it would be tidied away - but my friends, the only people usually visiting my house - just have to put up with such unsightly features. Not a design choice though - more of a pet care one.

Glass tables
wallpaper and prints of books on your wall when no one in your sodding house reads a book!
Grey sofas
faux leather dining chairs
brown leather sofas
gloss furniture

I've thought of one more. Wallpaper that looks like things. Like bricks, for example. It makes a room look smaller, somehow?

All grey
Leather sofas

I've just bought a new sofa, its grey AND a corner one, the kind that makes mumsnet shudder.

I LOVE it. Its fabulously squishy and comfortable and I feel like lady muck sitting on it, wine in hand watching my too big TV.

Big canvas prints especially of "cute" kids
Leather sofas/chairs
Furniture out of scale with the room it is in
Crushed velvet
live laugh love or similar "inspirational" decor/prints

Don't worry - I have black leather, a mid-century coffee table, painted AND wall papered 'feature walls' and curtains that are 'too long' - plus cat food bowls - we are doomed!

@EdgarFrog Son and his wife have a grey corner sofa and ENORMOUS TV and while not my taste it is just the comfiest wee room ever - enjoy!

I really hate those large photo canvas prints where the whole family are dressed in the same denim jeans and white shirts and uncomfortably posing trying too hard to look relaxed, jolly and casual - WHY?

You are right. As I said the rooms in my house are all painted white. The white paint looks different in different rooms depending on the position of the room in the house and how much natural light there is
This is why the rooms are painted with different shades of white .

Small kitchen diners with a sofa squeezed in at the expense of a proper table and chairs.
Large living-rooms with a too small coffee table on a too small rug in the middle of the floor. out of reach of all the seating.
White metro tiles with grey grouting.

I still don't get what is wrong with sleek, structured leather sofas (not those giant puffy ones with footrests)? How do you keep fabric sofas looking goods with messy children? Unless you dye the covers, they will never look the same after the first wash. I went through several in the early years before I discovered leather.

Really dislike faux leather dining chairs. My kitchen table ( which is marble) came with faux leather dining chairs. I ended up giving the chairs away and buying some new chairs

I love glass tables

I still don't get what is wrong with sleek, structured leather sofas (not those giant puffy ones with footrests)?

They look terrible. Plus they're cold in winter and sticky in summer. Eurgh.

The sofa too big for the room thing confuses me - we have a small living room because we have a small house (because houses are very expensive!). But we still all want somewhere to sit and be comfy even if it comes at the expense of a nice sideboard or grand piano...

Are people like us supposed to squish a family of four onto a 2 seater sofa in MN land just so it doesnt look too big for the room??

Oh my!

What sort of sofa do you have then?
Ligne Roset Togos are all the rage around here. They are usually bought second/third -hand and look dusty and worn.

En suite without a door

😱😱 why would anyone do this!

Mine are
Grey everywhere
Mirrored furniture
Belfast sinks
Those fluffy sheepskin shape rugs
Black taps

Open shelving in the kitchen - I have it and hate it. It's clearly designed for photos in nice Scandi magaines to display that one perfect imperfect pottery butter churn...if you actually use your kitchen though? No.

What is wrong with wall-mounted TVs though? Hung at a correct level I mean, someone tell me why that is so awful?

On a side note, my granny had fake grass which she swept and hoovered 😂. It was her pride and joy, clearly I have dodgy genes.

LoL @mycatisannoying at the Argos living room, I know exactly what you mean and couldn't have put it better

Shaggy acrylic rugs.

are you sitting on them naked!

Mine are not sticky in the summer or cold in winter as I normally wear clothes/ dressing gown!

Neutral I don’t mind, it was the non-neutral bits - glass table, skeleton clock, sparkly bathroom, pleather seating etc that were done in a style I'm not keen on. It all feels a bit cold to me - emphasising the coldness of white and grey rather than softening it.

But I fully acknowledge it appeals to a wider market (including my own DH apparently!); my home is much more in the ramshackle hodgepodge where maximalism meets mess style and I’ve definitely ticked off quite a few of people’s pet peeves on here...

We picked the rental purely for location as we were visiting family.