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.

Absolutely agree.I grew up in the 70s no one’s house looked like that. It’s like something from Austin powers

Mirrored or glittery furniture. Crushed velvet 🤢

Kitchen diners or open plan
grey
crushed velvet
twigs or sticks in pots
wall mounted tv

Everywhere painted grey, with grey furnishings
Slogans on walls
Open shelves in the kitchen
Open-plan living. Who wants to see and smell cooking when you're in the living room?
Settees in kitchens
Industrial-looking decor

Too much stuff, you know, like Knick knacks and ‘decor’ everywhere. My MIL and SIL both subscribe to this style and I find their houses too busy. Light up twigs in massive vases and lots of words - ‘house rules’ those photo frames that spell ‘family’. Not my bag at all.

i love minimalist but still homely, scandi style. Lots of natural textures like wood and wool. Warm neutrals and dark colours.
Unfortunately I also live with DH and 2 young DS so our actual home style is ‘a bit cluttered and in need of a deep clean’ most of the time!

@LexMitior Yes it's fab, definitely a fun house! Probably wouldn't want to live in it though and more like a '70s Habitat catalogue than any houses I remember

@LexMitior Yes it’s fun. I may have misinterpreted. Thought you were saying it was a 70s set location house. The dining room is good. The kitchen needs Lino to be more of the time, not wooden/laminate flooring. Same with the metro times in the kitchen. The living room and bedroom is more 60s psychedelic.

That’s the point, surely? You can’t market your house as a 70s house for photoshoots and then explain it’s just a normal house because not everyone in the 70s had stereotypical 70s decor 😉

@Benjispruce4 - that is possibly my fault.

Fairly I do not remember disco balls in my parents bathroom. There was some carpet and William Morris wallpaper. Mushy pea coloured suite...

I like the house because Estelle owns the style. I don't want a brown bathroom, but I love the bloody mindedness of it. Better an interesting house than a boring one!

Spare a thought for me. Parents bought a house just like that in the 80s marketed as needing complete refurbishment. One parent insisted that they loved it so we were basically raised in such a time warp through to the late 90s when they thankfully moved again.

@LexMitior absolutely! Love it when people have the courage to go their own way. We have some strong, dark colours in our house and MIL looks horrified and always says ‘What about selling it on?’ I can’t live like that.

But surely all these things individually can add up to something much different when put together properly?

This is a very eclectic living room that I saved a photo of when we were renovating our house. There are about 10 items in it that I would have said I hate, but they've somehow managed to make it into a timeless feeling room I'd want to be in.

I really hate when people do this. Why don't they just buy a modern house if they don't appreciate the features of an old house.
Vandals!

@emmyren4 That looks like most of my Pinterest 'saves' 😅Don't like the sofa and glass table and would probably add some blinds or small curtains, but apart from that, it's lush!

It's hideous. It like Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen has been let loose. Also 70s houses did not look like this At all. It's like a house in 70s fancy dress!

I wouldn't choose to decorate my own house like that, but that's the thing isn't it; we're all different?

The 70s house is nothing like LLB has been let loose - he's a proponent of arts and crafts style and maximalism.

You got rid of original parquet flooring???????

I think that sofa, with its low back and long seat pan looks horrendously uncomfortable. I’m short and find it Impossible to sit comfortably on sofas like that. I’m either perched uncomfortably on the edge or if I get my back against the sofa back my legs are completely stretched out!

The thing with wall mounted TVs is……you can actually choose the height you put them at, amazing. We have a wall mounted tv and I would never go back to anything else. Had the old fashioned, cumbersome tv cabinet. The front if that is now in my garden, made into a feature with plants in it. Don’t want to put it on a cabinet either.

How do you know they haven't been read in years?
Answer since when have books been passé?
Strange post.

And, not answer.

Exactly. Of course your not a bad person, in fact you're one of the best. Knowledge does not only come in paper form and is, in fact, being updated constantly and quicker than ever before - so books are out of date for most things very, very quickly. The production of paper is contributing to climate change and must be limited. If a book is good, give it away - no need to hoard it to prove you read it. Read it pass it on. Bookshops will one day be a thing of the past as we must preserve forests.

Do books have a shelf life? If I don’t reread them all every 10 years do I have to hide them away?

I haven't read every post so apologies if it's already been mentioned but Estelle's 70s home which is available for film shoots etc; the interior doors look wrong to me. They should be completely flat not panelled. My home was built in 1973, the fashion for panelled doors is a later decade.