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 about the pudding, absolutely pointless. Sadly one pair of my linen curtains stretch or contract with the weather/humidity so are sometimes too long. Drives me batty!

Yes original panelling is fine. It's the MDF painted Stiffkey blue in the bootility that gets me.

Not a huge fan of herringbone floors either

the Orchids will be dying in that direct sunlight 🤦🏼‍♀️

Grey!!!
Panelling!

This is actually exterior but I so dislke the current trend towrds what I call the garden shed school of architecture, all that cladding, eveytime I see it, and it's too often, all I can think is That'll be expensive to maintain! There are some of the first examples I recall seeing about 15 years ago round here and they look awful!

I work in the interior field ... what I like is walking into a home that feels used and loved. With a blend of family heirloom pieces of furniture blended with new. Books, clutter, blending textures. Where someone hasn't consciously followed any trends, just knows what they like.

I sadly spend a lot of time in houses that look like they've just been turned by a property renovator - set formula, same design and same staging furniture. Just like a photoshoot from the Next directory.

I like them in other people’s
homes but I wouldn’t want hanging wall cabinets in my kitchen. Lucky enough to have a longish, thin kitchen with one big, tall cupboard so don’t need the extra wall storage. My parents’ house when I was growing up didn’t have wall cabinets and I think it’s a throw back to that (loved that kitchen, their new one isn’t the same).

And I’m not mad on artificial grass but it does look very convenient.

Carpets in the bathroom
Net curtains
Ornaments

Do you mean you don’t like period properties`? Because saying you don’t like beams or fireplaces in bedrooms is like saying you don’t like front doors or ceilings. They are just an integral part of period properties. Not an interior design choice, more simply a part of an older property like a ceiling or a front door.

Plastic grass is an eco-sin and should be banned.

@stuntbubbles thank you😊 I think I know the stuff you mean, my mum was going have it fitted in her 1970s bungalow/converted awful hideous house (she was trying to copy us with panelling🙈) she never had it done in the end, she went for shiny fake marble tiles literally allover (i mean everywhere, living room, kitchen, dining room, toilet/bathroom, allover the groundfloor it just looks weird) her house instead🤢

What a bunch of snobs!

Three hanging lights on a beam above an island or table

Dislike:
No books
Giant TVs on walls
TV in living room
Too clean & immaculate, like a show home.... horrible!
No pictures on the wall
Anything cliched and "in fashion"

Oh dear! About to redo the living room and intend to paint it a dark beige with white woodwork, to buy plantation shutters for the bay, and to get curtains that end above the radiator for thermal efficiency. Will probably recover the two twenty year old sofas in a light neutral. Mirror over the fireplace will stay. The old pine floors are an orangey colour. Will look to add pizzazz with throw pillows. Will prob run out of £ before a rug can be bought.

Room is North facing. I have two large canvasses with a great deal of mustardy yellow in them. I’m willing to listen to ideas before I pull the trigger.

I can see that I am about to commit many sins, but the art work is original and the TV is on furniture not hanging from the wall, so there’s that!

Gosh it all sounds so mean and judgmental. But I can't resist joining in. I don't like:

Big TVs
TVs mounted on the wall.
Not enough comfy seats for say four people
Black MDF furniture
Perfumed stick things (are they called diffusers?)
Overhead lighting and not enough lamps
Worktops that are cold to the touch
No curtains if the room is draughty
Belfast sinks
No draining board
Rooms that look like a show home or like no one lives there
Beds with loads of cushions.
Wallpaper

It's really all about fashion. A lot depends on how old you are and how long you've had your home. As the years go by, especially if you keep a house for a long time, inevitably it starts to look dated. It would be very expensive to keep changing major purchases just because the fashion changes.

I used to hate carpet in the front room but then I moved to a house with carpet and LOVE it, it’s so cosy and great now the baby is learning to walk.

I used to hate laminate but again now love it. I’ve had Amtico - overrated and scratched lots despite the claims, engineered wood was the same story, original floor boards fucking freezing. Laminate looks nice and is indescribable.

Downlighters

Best comment I ever heard from a ceo's PA who thought she was posh because she'd moved to an "in" Herts village. "Oh that mirror would be lovely if it was resilvered and the glass was repaired". It was 17th century. I had to swallow down a snigger, and then another one at if it was resilvered rather than it were. But she and her DH had a Beemer and a 4 bed exec home, and sadly she had no idea of style.

@Leafblowertime exactly, our house would have had a fireplace in each room, but some little b#!"d ripped all of them out before we bought it (i could swing for them) and it worked out too expensive to source and fit back in all of them in each room, I feel sad when I think about that! It's all architecture/part of the original beautifulness (I think I just made that word up)😁

I have many of these...anthracite window frames (In and out), white walls - except for the feature walls. We even have anthracite woodwork.

I like it 😁 I'm sure it'll look dated in a few years, but I don't care.

But I do hate:

Fake grass

Things that say things (cushions, wall decals etc)

Blingy furniture and accessories

I love houses through. Love looking at them and seeing other people's styles.

This is very different though, ok everyone knows it’s bits of mdf stuck to your wall , it’s clear from the image , real panelling actually fully stands proud away from the wall , not Just the edging, but even the obviously fake stuff is much better in a period house than in a new build.

if I was to be honest, if I was going to reinstate panelling I’d do it properly , and actually panel the walls or do without, but i can see why folks do the pretend stuff like this, but I will be honest, as the main parr of the panel is flush with the wall it’s obvious it’s not panelled. Just bit of mdf stuck to the walls, but it’s better to fake it. No matter how obvious, in a period house than in a new build.

Is that you Alan Clark? In his infamous diaries he was dismissive of Michael Hesseltine as being 'the sort of person who has to buy hs own furniture', ie not posh enough to have inherited furniture.

I haven’t read the full thread, but I dislike:

Pedestal mats around the toilet - if you can’t aim straight, mop up after yourself. Don’t just piss into a mat, you manky bastard.

Pictures and mirrors propped up on tiny shelves instead of being secured to a wall. The worst is when they’re balanced precariously on a thin shelf above the head of the bed. Just why?

Layered rugs - a messy-looking way of creating multiple trip hazards.

Black leather couches
Animal horns on the wall
Animal skins, including sheepskin
Grey walls or carpets
Faux 1950s furniture with the spindly legs that stick out to the side and all the faux, odd mixture of 1950s and 1970s light fittings and furniture
Feature walls with big patterned wallpaper
Walls with no artwork on them
Artfully placed cushions and throws on couches and chairs that instantly look a mess when someone sits down on them.
Rooms with no original art, pottery, textiles.