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.

Fake plants
all grey rooms
glass furniture
gallery walls

Maximalism design/too much clashing or colour, clutter/ornamental things - it doesn’t feel calm or relaxing to me.
On the other hand, I don’t like extreme minimalism where it can feel very clinical and bare.

Same as most people for me:

Single small pictures/paintings hanging in the middle of a great expanse of wall.
massive sofas and armchairs that are too big for the room
grey anything
feature walls (especially wallpapered ones)
mirrored furniture
extravagant Adam style fire surrounds in modern properties, especially when they’re made of plastic.
massive TVs over fireplaces that dominate the room
single overhead lighting
cliched slogans on walls, cushions etc
beige everything

I have one of those new-build type open sitting room / kitchen, I hated the idea but am used to it now & like it. No cooking smells. I will NOT have cooking smells, windows are thrust open & extractor fan on!
I will NOT have white walls. Mum had them all the time I was growing up, so stark & cold. I'm the one who still likes the dreaded magnolia! :-)
I LOVE a leather sofa, discovered when my kids were young! Wipeable.. and mine are brown, which seem even more hated here, lol! I don't mind at ALL. It's what we like, isn't it?
I personally don't like TV's on walls, for the simple reason they hurt my neck. I hate wallpaper, it's a bitch to get off & redo - I mean, why? More work..

I have CARPETS! I don't like stark hard flooring, beautiful in others' houses, just not for me - even the carpet estimator was visibly shocked when I said I wanted carpet in the hall, too. Why on EARTH would I put my vac away & then have to start sweeping or whiffing or whatever it is you do? I have a huge fluffy rug too in the living room that everyone loves. Obvs hard flooring in kitchen & bathrooms though!!

I don't like baths.. ripped ours out when we moved in, & installed a big f*ck-off shower! :-)
I'm in a kinda industrial mood at the mo, bookshelves, wall shelf, dining table & chairs, but mixed with my grandparents' old chests etc from the far east. They go together surprisingly well, being all the same kind of tone wood, I expect. Which is good, because they are going nowhere, I adore them. :-)

I would hate anyone else's home to be like mine, I love seeing the differences & the things others like that makes THEIR house a home.
Oh - sorry to anyone who loves them, finally, but I hate throws on sofas.. I like them folded up on the back of a sofa so you can grab one to get snuggly!

Tv on wall
Magnolia walls throughout house
Stripy wallpaper
When walls have had masking tape put up in triangles then different colours painted in them

We've got a largish TV - had a very dinky one before it broke. I didn't mean to buy a TV as big as we did - when it come I reassured DH 'oh its just the box and the foam packing that is big, it'll be much smaller when you take it out the box'
Well it wasn't smaller - it was very big. We kept it anyway - and I realised that watching films (and sport) is much better than squinting to see what's going on on the dinky TV.

I hate those bifolding garden doors that everyone has, that they’ve seen on Instagram and which in a few years will look so dated. That whole thing about making the inside and the outside blur. You live in Middle England, not Tuscany.

Matching kitchen cabinets.

Glass furniture.

Ornaments.

Landscape paintings, insipid art generally.

No books.

Tall stools.

I LOVE a leather sofa, discovered when my kids were young! Wipeable.. and mine are brown, which seem even more hated here, lol!

We have brown leather sofas too. 😄Theyre probably 20 years old. DD was a really pukey baby I can't imagine how many times that sofa was vomited on. I'm not sure how I would have coped with a fabric sofa! (Would the covers withstand washing almost daily, without shrinking or mis-shaping??) Also the cats have scratched one chair a lot, the little buggers but it doesn't show all that much. I think there would be pulled strands all over the place if it was fabric.
Is there an acceptable colour for a leather sofa, if brown is unacceptable? (Not that I'm going to replace it, just curious to know whats considered OK!)

@Fizbosshoes In MN land tan seems to be acceptable, chocolate brown not so much, and black a definite no-no. We had a leather sofa for the same reason as you when the kids were young, an absolute godsend!

Outdoor bars
Layz spas
Grey
Glass tables
Word art framed.."Chop it like it's hot" etc
Argos art

@Fizbosshoes generally it’s more matt natural hide sofas that are fashinable now. It’s the shiny brown ones that are dated, it’s less about the colour it’s the shiny thing. But generally when you see the shiny ones folks have them in brown.

Photographs on every surface or assorted candles, ornaments, knick-knacks everywhere. The dust!
Lettering slogans on walls, especially bedrooms
Mirrored furniture in the bedroom, even worse, in the lounge
Grey, I quite like some grey colours but not a whole house that looks like the interior of a battleship
Black and white kitchens with red tiling and red coloured small appliances

I hate those bifolding garden doors that everyone has, that they’ve seen on Instagram and which in a few years will look so dated.

err bifolds have been a thing for at least a decade.

That whole thing about making the inside and the outside blur. You live in Middle England, not Tuscany.

This has been a thing for decades. My parents did an extension with sliding doors 35 years ago!

Really surprised to see so many people mention mirrored furniture - not because they don't like it (it sounds hideous) but because I have never actually met anyone with mirrored furniture. Am also a Rightmove addict and haven't ever noticed it. Is it a trend just now?

Also people in big houses, I'm talking 4 bedrooms for a family of 4, who convert their garage and drive so that they can no longer accommodate all their vehicles.

Well I still have a drive thankfully but our 'garage' was barely big enough to open the car doors, let alone open them wide enough for my 6ft6 dh to get out too. Totally wasted space.

Or it was, now it's a fabulously large office that houses all our 'stuff' (music, books, files, computers, 2 huge desks, chairs, wall to wall and floor to ceiling storage. I love it and don't regret doing it at all. It's messy, comforting and eclectic and means that the rest of the house is more minimal, calm and organised.

Cushions and pillows, way too many, I have 1 pillow for my med dh uses 2 and no cushions for the sofa, it looks messy with them on and then they discarded and it just looks better without scatter cushions everywhere

Bed not med lol

I don't 'hate' anything really. There are things that I wouldn't buy for my own house and designs that I'd never use but love seeing what other people live with. It's fascinating how you could give people the same space and they would create totally different looks.

As a result of a chaotic childhood I like my home to be calm, organised and clutter free. Luckily for me DH is happy with whatever I decide to do.

Really hate hardwood floors in a living room. It just makes the room look so cold and not cosy at all.

Any aspirational art… ‘Live, Laugh, Love’ Pass the sick bucket 🤮 🤮

Those dreadful ‘get naked’ bath mats that every Tom Dick and Harry seems to have.

Panelling…so chavvy.

Media walls and TVs hung on the wall in general

Feature walls

Funny you should say that about the ‘manicured home’ as I missed that off my list. It’s also a real pet hate of mine. Although, my sister in law has an Insta page of her ££££ house and when you see it online, it looks amazing. When you go in, it’s an absolute tip as my three nephews have been running round like little crazy things pulling stuff out of drawers. That’s real life!

Disagree. But then we have black painted woodwork (old house). White would look ghastly

Is there an acceptable colour for a leather sofa, if brown is unacceptable? (Not that I'm going to replace it, just curious to know whats considered OK!)

we have a cream leather sofa in our garden room. Is that a total no no I wonder?

For me, brown leather is the absolute worst, followed by red, then black. Cream is the least bad option.

When everything matches perfectly.

Leather sofas (even though I have had one for many years and cannot deny its practicality for small children, I'll be pleased get rid of the old dear).

Cluttered kitchens.

Grey. Crushed. Velvet.
Mirror furniture
Anything crusted in diamante.

Anything that's not arts and crafts ( the movement not the hobby) and Art Deco. So I hate all white homes with tacky wall art and grey sofas.