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.

Mine are sticky all year round because of DCs spilling drinks and not confessing in time.

Oh and fake grass. I would ban that if I was queen of the world. Why turn your lawn into a plastic carpet.

@Hobbesmanc I presume a satirical tone? If not, I have no more words for your snobbery.

What sort of sofa do you have then?

I have a standard fabric sofa. I like the look and feel.

Mine are sticky all year round because of DCs spilling drinks and not confessing in time.

@Hobbesmanc you sound about 103. Doilies and anti macassams? Have you been in anyone else’s home this decade?

@Croque we have fabric sofas and 4 children. My children don’t do “messy” things around the sofas. 2 of them are cream and they’re still as clean as when we got them.

Fake grass and metro tiles. That’s about it. I love a home that feels like it’s lived in and reflects the people living there.

White furniture
Matching furniture (like a tv stand, coffee table and side table as a set)
Badly fitted curtains
Neutral
Art that has no meaning or is personal to the people living in the house
Woodwork that isn't white (I dislike the trend to paint skirting and door frames in anything but white)

Passing trends pasted into any house regardless of style. Eg modern shiny stuff in an old house, it can look good if well designed but mostly it's just odd. Likewise very twee farmhouse style in a urban new build.

Also people insisting they are so unique in following fashions. "I'm going for grey/navy shaker because I love it". In 10 years you'll be cringing at a dated 2020s dark kitchen.

But most of all two things: impracticalness or style over substance. Black taps, white carpet, etc
And ripping out things with life left in them because they are badly designed or laid out (awful waste) or out of fashion. Granite worktops especially. FGS it's 200 billion years old and you couldn't even like it for 5 years.

I know it's hard when all the shops have the same few trends and the industry manufactures trends to make existing stuff look dated but it needs to be be better designed repairable/ adaptable and less throwaway.

Most of my walls and all the skirting is white - due to moving into a house that had been cheaply painted with a job lot of eggshell in a shade DD2 described as 'depression yellow' - a sort of off cream/magnolia - it was awfully dull. when we finally pained away the last bit, she wanted to hold a party to celebrate!

Big TVs that dominate the room - life is too short for TV to be the most important thing.

Words or neon signs - why?

Shiny surfaces - cold, slippery and difficult to keep smear free.

Anything plastic including plastic grass and UPVC windows

Minimalism - it's a home not a hospital

Lack of books

Rooms that look cold due to lack of soft furnishings

MDF furniture - most charity shop furniture is better quality

Uncomfortable dining chairs if you are inviting me to dinner I want a cushion to sit on at least.

@Hobbesmanc , I think your joke went soaring over a few heads 😄

I really don't like those heavy dining chairs with the lion heads or rings on the back. We call them King Gary chairs.

@Unicorn1919 I agree with the furniture thing - we have a fabulous Age Concern shop at our local tip - I have some lovely bits from there (last time there was a beautiful Ercol cabinet for £35 but I had nowhere to put it in the house).

But I dislike cushions of fabric on dining chairs - I just thing they attract food and sticky fingers

Glossy kitchens and shiny floors. Grey carpets. Red/li

*me green highlights.

Shower curtains. Radiators which aren't under Windows. Light switches which aren't next to doors.

@Hobbesmanc - channelling Alan Clark I see

Well I hate:
Twee sayings stuck on wall
Family photos everywhere
High gloss kitchen units
Wall mounted tvs
Fireplaces that are just there as a decorative feature ie not used
Cheap laminate flooring
Plastic stuff behind showers and plastic ceilings in bathrooms
In fact man made stuff when you could have natural alternatives
Hot tubs
Trampolines taking up most of the garden

But to be fair, everyone's taste is different and I'm sure a lot of people on this thread would hate my choices

I also hate radiators under windows and cheap curtains. Have to be floor length too

Agree with all.

Carpet. Much prefer wood flooring with rugs.

I hate my own interior due to grey carpet. Even in the bathroom.

Carpet in the bathroom... ugh

I've got quite a view of the despised items too! 😄
We moved from 2 flats (different styles) to a house. We have furniture from both (some bits are 30+ years old) and some new(er) stuff, some secondhand. We bought a house than was very dated and needed a lot of work. It took us about 8 or 10 years to redo/decorate every room, so I'm sure some stuff was outdated by the time we had finished.

My favourite room has Linda Barker wallpaper from B and Q from about 13 years ago and a bed, bedside cabinets and chest of drawers bought 30 years ago. Not planning to change it any time soon!

A friend moved a few years ago. She sold virtually every bit of furniture from the house she moved from and bought new for the new house, I guess it just depends on budget and how much you love the old stuff.

My personal dislike is mirrored furniture and gloss kitchens because I'd be worried they'd get sticky fingerprints on them and require cleaning too frequently

I forgot to mention:

Exposed brick walls inside

Shower cabinets with doors - I am only a size 12 but find them far too small and claustrophobic. I have also never seen one that looks really clean, they always have a bit black mould round the seals. Yuk.

I prefer to have TVs on furniture rather than be wall mounted. I do not like TVs mounted high on the wall over a fireplace. There is usually only one seat that has a good view. The rest of the family has to contort themselves sideways to watch.

I love a massive TV, we bought one just before lockdown. We started watching box sets and films as a family. We still do twice a week and I absolutely love it. My DP and I make a habit of watching something at 9pm. They are very cosy times, we get hot drinks and snacks. I hope DC have fond memories of these times.

We had leather sofas when DC were little.

I like carpet upstairs, downstairs we have exposed floor boards and rugs, but up stairs, hallway and bedrooms we have carpets . I find it much warmer and softer.

as much as I won’t carpet downstairs a friend has recently moved house and she’s got fitted carpet in her living room, which not that common any more, but honestly it’s lovely, very soft and warm under foot. The kitchen is hard flooring. The carpet feels very luxurious in comparison to the hard flooring which we all have now.