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.

Some of these dislikes are mental:

New houses 🤣🤣

I'd love to see the interiors of most of these peoples homes 🤣🤣

A lot of people don't have control of the decor of their homes. How many landlords will change carpets or pull up laminate? Not many

@TinaTotal It's perfectly reasonable to dislike new houses. I can't think of one single thing that they have going for them. I think a lot of MNers would hate my (ancient, messy, non-matchy) house, though, so horses for courses.

Haven't read every post (the sun is shining and it's a gorgeous day, after all...) and everything I hate has already been contributed. But how I do dislike a house which has nothing about the inhabitants evident - I don't mean gigantic wedding photos. More, the things that they have collected and love, which give subtle insights in to their lives. Also, I hate rooms that are "hard" - all monochrome and shiny, no softening textures, colours, natural things. My sitting room is filled with light, books, plants, lovely china and ceramics from gt grandmother, and from places that mean a lot to me, or where I've lived, such as Japan and Turkey. There's rattan, linen, a lovely Persian rug, pictures that reflect DH and my Naval history and interests, cushions and throws from Istanbul and France. Two sets of huge folding doors open out into a shady, leafy courtyard, giving extra textures, and beyond that, trees, ornamental and fruit-bearing - bananas, palms, olives, figs create a peaceful ambiance. Feeling "in nature" , even if you don't have a huge garden, is so important to mental health.

All I can think is people are at the vino. New builds lol. Like they are all the same. 😂

That hexagonal starburst style bathroom tile. Especially in pink. Think it's already out of date tbh.

Fake wall panelling.

Rainfall showers, especially over a freestanding bath.

I think @fingcntbags won mumsnet with that posts, new build homes, any one who has a tv and your house being tidy. There is always someone who goes do extreme it makes everyone lol.

Are you saying that no house built over the last, let’s say 20 years, has anything going for it…at all?

I write this as I sit in my Victorian house which I love (I also love Georgian architecture), but dear god, there are some amazing modern houses too!

When I was younger I tried to adjust curtains for hooks, pulling the strings, but forgot to tie them at one end. Pulled the strings right out and had to borrow a darning needle from the neighbours to re-thread them. Never again. Eyelet curtains all the way.

I don't like fake things, so fake plants, fake walls, like tiles that look like stones around a fire place. I'm also not a fan of carpets at all, or sloping ceilings. Also I am suspicious of people if I can't see any books, I think we probably aren't destined to be friends. I also hate bars and pubs in gardens. Grey, greige, white etc don't bother me. Love a leather sofa and shutters.

Do you not need to be their friend before they invite you into their home?. You write like random strangers always invite you into their homes and you just judge them? And you decide if you will be their friends if you can see books. You do this ? This is your life that youre posting: you are invited to random -peoples homes and decide if you will deem to be their friend based on if you see books, nothing to do with them, how kid, welcoming they are, how much you have on common, but this is your life:

just wow.

Those horrendous dark grey/ black upvc windows everyone seem to be getting. Makes the house look like a prison
fake grass 🤮🤮
those fake chimney/ TV unit walls
tiled floor in living rooms
and I’m sorry, but canvas photographs of the family 😂
oh, and any sort of little ‘inspirational’ quote signs. Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… blah blah

But how I do dislike a house which has nothing about the inhabitants evident

that's the thing isn't it - and as style and life experiences are all different, we won't all like or have the same things - see my awful mistake of having a terrible fake mantelpiece with electric fire - but the hearth is filled with tiny star fairy lights, the top contains my collection of Hoptimists and a big colourful picture of The Royal Iris and Liverpool skyline and above that - a big gold plastic deer, called Dave, with fairy lights and Welsh hearts on his antlers - and I Love it - but loads of people wont

The trick is not to take to heart other people's taste because that is was makes all unique and interesting.

Actually, you've made me think about this, and I agree that there are in fact some amazing modern houses. I wouldn't necessarily want to live in them - but if they're one-offs, designed by someone with real style, then they can be fabulous. I suppose I was imagining cul de sacs of Lego type houses. You're quite right to correct me, though.

Anything Grey
Crushed velvet
White gloss reminds me of groupon furniture

Agree with lots here although am guilty of a few as well.

My personal top few hates:

high gloss units of any kind
high gloss floor tiles
kitchen units that are completely flat and matte and featureless and you have no idea how to open any of the cupboards
windows/window features/door styles that do not match a property's brickwork and overall style (i.e. an anthracite grey modern door in a old fashioned redbrick property with wooden windowframes, or plantation shutters at a window with leaded glass)
and my personal top hate...horrible sixties style basketweave parquet flooring. There are some beautiful parquet designs out there but basketweave makes my skin itch, it's awful. We have a sixties house and ripped out the basketweave and replaced it with (good quality) wide plank oak effect laminate. And I know that is considered an absolute cardinal sin by many but do I care? No I do not.

I can’t lie, yes that’s cardinal sin level, ripping out original flooring to put fake laminate in. Brave admitting it ..but you’re not alone, it’s why so many homes are now missing their original features. Personally I’d have covered it up it I didn’t like it, I don’t think I could Have brought myself to destroy it.

Faints at the parquet removal.

That flooring is almost irreplaceable and now very very very expensive.

Kitchens that are black/white/grey. Island in the middle…..morgue like vibes

Patterned carpet
Way too much clutter
Word art in frames, on wooden blocks, canvases etc.
Similarly big family canvases everywhere
Those crushed velvet dining chairs with the silver rings on the back
Big chandeliers with plastic jewels
Diamante/crystals/glitter on everything
Fake grass (especially the cheap stuff that looks sad & manky when it’s got wet)
Stuffed animal heads/bones on display
Red
Yellow (except mustard)
Baby blue
Anything that looks like it belongs in an old fashioned Mediterranean villa

Also I am suspicious of people if I can't see any books

I need to tell you about these things called Kindles, eReaders and Tablets, which you can gasp read books, newspapers, magazines and all manner of things on.

I probably have more books on these than some people do physical ones in their houses and I actually read them all too, unlike some who just have unread books for show gathering dust on bookshelves.

I’m sorry you can’t nose and judge me in my books as they are all digital but I care not! 🤭

I’m not a fan of new builds but at least when you move in everything is new and I’m pretty sur e I’ve heard they’re easy to heat.

I moved into a very old apartment (once a huge house now divided up) and the bathroom was gross. But I had to wait a year to re-do it. Plus it was freezing all the time and had mould (no matter how many times I would treat, bleach, leave windows open)

No one should be wasting money on watering a lawn during droughts. Grass is incredibly resilient.

I live in east Anglia, one of the driest regions of the UK. My lawn is a decent size and resembled the savannah during the summer. I just left it alone and it now looks (weirdly) even better than before the heatwave arrived - it’s a much brighter green.

Fireplaces. Especially horrid gas ones.

Why not just have central heating? If nothing else it makes furnishing a room much easier.