To ask your interior design hates?

[Illbeindenial]

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 also hate ensuites!

words/phrases in LED. Fuck off with live,life,laugh
Photos on fridges
Fridge magnets
Grey plague
Bar stools in the kitchen
vertical blinds (it’s not a social work office)
Drapes, Pelmets, weighty curtains
Divan beds

Grey grey grey and anything mirrored (apart from mirrors) and glitzy

Things that follow trends and fashion. Exquisite design from any era can be mixed.

I have never liked grey or black Ash. Grey reminds me of mist and misery. Quite like wearing it though.

This stuff.
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Open plan anything... If I wanted to live without walls I would have bought a field not a house.

Oversized clocks, word canvases ‘bathe, relax, love’ etc, massive family photo canvasses and feature wallpaper walls!

Yes! Hate those inspirational plaques or ‘we’re such a together family’ photo frames 🤢

Grey laminate.
Anything with live love laugh on it
Panelling
Stripy carpets on stairs!!!!!!

Grey.
Soulless minimalism.
Stark white everywhere.
Anything black, except where there’s no choice, like the TV.
That’s about it really.

But "Live, Love, Laugh" is so 00's. Even then "Fuck" over the bed was the only stylish take on it.

I used to hate cleaning the house of one of my clients. They were very wealthy, but their huge house was furnished by Next. Lots of sets of three vases, in every room. Utterly boring, and not a book in sight, even in the playroom.

Stylish?? Oh dear…..

Crushed velvet, polycotton bedding, high gloss floors or cabinet doors, ornaments and generic art … from Next.

Tv on wall, plastic grass, beige decor, quotes on walls in plaques, leather sofas, black furniture, feature walls, low back sofas, panelling,

See, Nigella does stripy carpets on stairs and I was thinking that one day I might get some? Are they bad then?

Eyelet curtains
Wicker hearts
Random Next catalogue ornaments like moulded plastic stars cluttering up too-chunky built-in shelves in alcoves
Faux beams, faux panelling, faux anything
Lime green
Maximalist Victorian houses with a House of Hackney feature wall, Farrow & Ball Downpipe, jewel-colour velvet sofa and Made.com brass light
TVs on the wall, particularly above a fireplace
Chrome and glass TV stands
Black leather furniture
Grey fake wood flooring
Glossy kitchens
French rococo style furniture
Kitchen worktop clutter, especially bread bins and matching Tea, Coffee, Sugar jars
Sheepskin throws
Neon signs
Chunky oak mantles above wood burning stoves
Corner sofas

Agree with pps about wooden letters, slogans and stencils.

Black and white kitchen units, tiling, work surfaces - where is the imagination and taste - usually a lone man making decisions about doing the place up to sell or rent (as on Homes under the Hammer etc)

Agree - TV's high up on walls above fireplaces. TV's in the kitchen.

No radios or books.

Mostly I really like the fact that people have very different houses, it really intrigues me

But I used to have a job that involved meeting people at home, and so many people in new builds had an oblong sitting room, with laminate wood flooring, a massive shiny leather sofa and chair opposite a huge TV on the wall, and a glass coffee table, maybe a massive print, maybe a side board. Nothing else. It was like walking into a disused office or something.

I don’t like bright overhead lighting, don’t want to feel I could do surgery in the sitting room

Don’t like exposed bulbs on ceiling lights of whatever brightness (don’t want to feel I might be interrogated in my home.)

Don’t like furniture too big for a room (so common right now)

Am not a mad fan of fitted carpets, would rather the edges of the hard floor around a rug, but I don’t hate them.

Fake grass is obviously extremely evil

Someone staying colour coded my books and I was surprised I quite liked it

Sofa cushions with Union Jack on them. But then I think this thread is full of stuff that was bang on trend in the style magazines about 10years ago. This is surely a warning against blindly following style trends.

Those huge Bells whiskey bottles full of change
TVs over the fireplace
hot tubs
live, love, laugh / Prosecco O’clock! shite
no coffee table
coffee table books by Tom Ford / Louis Vuitton
visible wires from TV
Reclining sofas
grey carpet
mirrored furniture
ironing board / hoover out on show
holiday / beech towels in bathroom

Maximalist Victorian houses with a House of Hackney feature wall, Farrow & Ball Downpipe, jewel-colour velvet sofa and Made.com brass light

@stuntbubbles

I feel seen! Not really, but I could go there if I wasn’t paying attention. I am glad someone is being rude about MMC cliches though, I always feel that other groups get more of a kicking.

I like my jewel coloured velvet sofa mind you 😁

Haha! Taste is so subjective isn’t it? For me, curtains look best when they puddle on the floor – next best is just “kissing” the floor. The worst is when they end randomly a foot above the floor but below the window, just awful. Cafe-length in cottages only.

Wooden legs on any seating? Does this mean you only accept chairs with metal or plastic legs? Is it an aesthetic thing, or a safety thing? 🤔

Oh yes en-suites!

why would you want a loo opening directly onto your bedroom??