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.

I agree, I know they’re probably actually reading them if there’s the odd Danielle Steele or something, if they’re just tastefully bound ‘classics’ and ‘alternative’ books I assume they’re just for show…

Plastic. Anything plastic is awful - “luxury vinyl” flooring, polyester carpets and rugs, melamine or “wood effect” furniture. I’d much rather second hand natural fabrics and finishes than new plastic shite.

The living room has book shelves, so does the bedroom. I have loads of classics, just paper backs though, and art / photography books. It’s not for show though, I’ve read them just filling up available space.

I do think they are pattern of sorts in a room, so the rest is fairly understated (lots of light sources though and good curtains / sofas)

Grey and white in everything.
Chalk effects.
Extra large clocks.
Mirrors with shutter doors.
Plaques with road signs.
Plaques with sayings.
Candles.
Houses that are called barns when they're clearly not.

Too many grey or dark walls.
Too many cushions. Sofas with scatter cushion back instead of a proper back.
Anything frilly.
Large flowers on walls or sofas or curtains.
Overly cluttered.
Overly minimal.
Kitchens and bathrooms that are hard to clean.
Not enough storage.
Not a fan of curtains but they can be necessary in some circumstances.

Some of these don't apply if you live in a mansion with huge rooms or a period property that you are doing up authentically.

I really do t care if people love or hate my house, as long as I love it . I feel the same about other peoples homes as long as they are happy in them then all good.

Well I agree that colour coordinated books are clearly just there to look good, not to be read.

But I have books in nearly every room of my house? Not many in my bedroom, because there's not enough room for a book case, so there's just a small pile on each bedside table.

But the DC have bookshelves in their rooms, and we have books in the kitchen (cookbooks - some going back 30 years), dining room, both living rooms, guest room ....

Oh as well as the crime that is brown leather sofas (with at least 4 cushions on each) we also have feature walls in 4 rooms! (Too expensive /too "busy" or small to wallpaper whole room) And metro tiles in downstairs toilet and main bathroom. I don't have live love laugh on the wall anywhere or family portraits though, but I'm not especially put off by them!
You'd also be hard pressed to find any books "on show" . We have some recipe books in the kitchen that we rarely use the kids each have a book case in their room and there is a small bookcase in the spare bedroom.

Not all books are novels either!

DH has been hankering after a new brown leather sofa, I will have to show him this thread!

(I would prefer heavyweight linen, maybe velvet (not crushed))

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That sounds nice! Very American.

What DO you want over the requisite fireplace? A painting?

Dining chairs with hinged rings on the back
mirrored furniture
short curtains that just about cover the sill
‘live laugh love’ /gin palace / this kitchen is for dancing / this home is full of love etc etc signs

I’ve just remembered one of my all time hates, probably because I don’t like to think about them!

I think they may be called Metro tiles.

They are the most hideous fashion in homes that I can think of. They look like they belong in a public urinal. At one time it seemed like every house on the market had them.

Beyond ghastly.

This is just a small example as I can’t stand to look at whole walls with them on! 😬

We have a lovely mirror over our fireplace. No doubt for some, a mirror over the fireplace is a big turn off. Each to their own.

Bright Red high gloss kitchens / red splasbacks.

Red kitchens

Those awful 'family rules' posters

Small velvet 'occasional' chairs that are like sitting on a bloody rock and too small for my arse and so low that your knees end up by your chin

Any wall art printed on a canvas, especially if it's a photographic close-up of a flower. Makes any room look like a dentist waiting room

Decoupage

Vintage suitcases on legs

Those massive candles in fireplaces instead of a fire

Open plan layouts- I don't want to sit in the same room as my family all the time 😆

Ridiculously big clocks

Grey everything, with furry cushions and loads of bling. Think Mrs Hinch! Eww

Wallpaper that looks like books on shelves!

Crushed velvet anything
feature walls
no art on walls or ones that are too small for the space
ornaments on front windowsills
short curtains
houses that look like no one lives there - no books, nothing lying around at all just furniture
vertical blinds
people that change colour schemes every year to follow trends
white pvc front doors
word ornaments or pics like love laugh blah
artificial grass in garden
fully paved gardens with no plants

I actually read mine! However, i do not want visitors seeing what I read as I am very protective of my book collection so I have started thinking about turning the spines inwards. I have also locked a bookcase inside a wardrobe upstairs.

Heart shaped photo frames/ornaments/wall decor.
Laura Ashley anything, especially wallpaper....just really naf.

A few on here will love that though! Less showy or passe as having the actual books out in a bookcase which is apparently just to "prove" you read books

Urgh yes. They always remind me of shabby public toilets.