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 actually can't stand the current trend for people to buy a house that is nothing like what they want then turn the road into a building site while they totally rebuild. While living elsewhere of course and leaving their new neighbours to put up with the noise, dust, disruption and trucks and vans parked everywhere.
Selfish people.

This isn’t going to win me any friends but I hate the trend for goldfish bowl giant folding patio doors instead of a back wall with a window and door.

If you live in a town, every sod behind you can see all up your business in what’s usually your lounge/kitchen space, especially at night when you light up like a Christmas tree. Who wants that? I don’t want to worry about what I’m wearing when I make the first cup of tea of the day or lounging in front of the telly.

Plus walls are great because you can put furniture along them. Like a bookcase or a sofa. Or outside, a wall is perfect behind your patio table and chairs or even a few plants in pots.

Yes of course, why?, here is the real deal. You can see the difference immediately . It’s actual panels on rhe walls.

There aren't a lot of things I hate in every context. There are some things I wouldn't want, some I could not do (minimalism,) and many I think are often done poorly.

But as far as things I hate, I would say I hate the current trend where I live to build these very boxlike homes with dark grey siding. I hate boob lights. I hate wallpaper borders. I also hate fussy drapes or curtains but I accept that is probably a personal bias.

Oh, I hate those floors too.

I've seen them in a few homes recently where they clearly replaced an older wood floor. In an older home, where I expected something like a warm maple.

It just looks awful.

Design over functionality and people who put chops in the top of cushions

Clutter! I can't stand clutter. I'm not into wallpaper or carpet. Textures and blends with paint for me. Laminate/wooden flooring is what we have.

Can't stand too many plants around either. I dislike: larva lamps, curtains, magnolia, brown and grey paint. Cheap tacky art and ornaments.

Curtain wise I prefer blinds and simple lace swirls to edge the window frames

I like colour pops in with simple wall painting colour -

Sofas and chairs pressed up against the walls around the edge of the room with vast expanses of carpet in the middle and maybe a rug island with a coffee table on it that's too far from the sofas to reach your coffee cup.
Shiny carpet with a pile that shows where you've hoovered it
Carpet in the bathroom or toilet - it always smells awful
I love houses where you can see the personality and the style of the owner - someone I know has a really girly house with loads of pink and country style stuff in it. It's not me but I love how you can tell it's stuff she loves. A friend of my mum's has loads of shiny dark wood, cream leather, red accents and black glass. It's not my style at all but again you can tell it's her house as soon as you walk in. So much more interesting than bland and inoffensive

@Leafblowertime it's beautiful, but needs a bloody good clean 🤣

Lack of originality, where people have obviously gone along to The Range or Homebase and bought their stuff in a job lot. In two years' time, they'll be chucking it out and buying something different. Save your money and take your time and get stuff you'll want forever.

Carpets, wallpaper and spotlights. I grew up in the 70s and saw enough of these never to want to see them again.

Fake plants, pictures from IKEA that everyone else has got.

Nothing is bad! Everything decor wise is just personable preference. You do whatever you love - we are all different. You'd probably hate my decor haha 😄

Grey walls. When every other front room is the same colour/style yet they think they’re being out there/creative/avant garde!

I’m no Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen/Kelly Hoppen but my best mate’s sister is an interior designer and posts inspiration!

Can’t think of pet hates but must be a list as long as my arm!

My ideal house and garden (interiors and exteriors) would be along the lines of Monet’s Giverny house with bits of Chartwell and some inspiration from houses along Lake Garda.

I'm pretty sure most posters would hate my house! I do clean under the clutter on my large desk, and replace it unsorted. If I sorted it, I'd never remember where I'd put things.

I have ornaments on every available surface - one cabinet for my treasured glass animal collection alone - and several almost life size canvases of my late husband in 4 rooms. (Which I actually kiss at least one of, every day.) I'm in 2 of them with him. Yes, I feel your pain all you anti-family portraits people. 😂

I have myriad photos and canvases and paintings of my animals past and present on my walls, and because I'm now not the tiniest bit well-off, industrial carpet that was given to me free by the lovely man who was my farrier until I had to give up my croft. And - oh the horror - every wall in the house is buttermilk, because I'm partially disabled so the Council did it for me. (I love it. It's light, bright and incredibly versatile.)

Now for my own snobby hates!

Those live, love, laugh signs. Or other "witty" slogans.

Velvet beds. They're just wrong.

Brown. I hate brown, it depresses me thoroughly.

No ornaments.

No tall bookshelves filled with ornaments and precious stuff but not books.
(😛at the poster who hates the opposite!)

Baths in bedrooms. All the bedding and clothes must get damp, it's inevitable.

Prints of Constable's Hay Wain.

I'm sure there must be more, because I'm a judgemental beeatch, but I've amused myself enough and better move on to something "worthy".

Glittery shiny Dunelm type stuff
Slogans like ‘live, laugh ‘etc
fake plants
massive tvs
cheap artwork
a total absence of books
cat scratchers or towers
‘safe’ Next type decor with no personality although Next is fine just add some personal ornaments or whatever
kitchen islands shoehorned into kitchens that are too small for them
fake grass
garden bars
trampolines dominating the garden
pink
white leather and white carpets

Macrame plant hangers and a mix of cultural items. Fine if you're well travelled and those items have come from different countries but it's so pretentious otherwise. For example tribal art/statues, faux afghan rugs, etc

Oh and those gaudy prints of animals with top hats or crowns on. Unless you're 8

@GonnaGetGoingReturns that sounds amazing😍

Fish tanks in living areas. Just brings back memories of deep fried grease and fag smells…no idea why as we had none of those things in our house growing up!

Pine furniture
Pictures hung too high
Pleather anything
Vertical blinds with plastic chains
Photo frames with words on
Fake flame fires

Oh there are many..

Plastic grass.
PVC kitchens.
Clutter on all flat surfaces.
Photo walls with naff frames and giant black & white 90s family portraits.

‘Live/Laugh/Love’ etc.
Houses with no coving. Why no coving?! To me looks like couldn’t be arsed to finish the decorating properly. Or it’s a new build which I hate most things about, especially the paper doors.
Carpeted bathrooms and entry halls.
Those IKEA ‘spaceship’ ball pendant lights that open and close with the strings. Hideous!

I have a south facing patio door and want the shutter asap to avoid cooking inside in the summer. That’s what you do in Southern Europe. What should I do in your mind?

House was built in 1965.

This thread is full of hideous snobbery of the worst kind. Antiques, heirlooms, REAL panelling are unlikely to feature in most people's rented flats, council houses, brand-new semis. The majority of people in the UK have to buy what they can afford at the time and then live for years with decor, flooring, furniture they'd love to change but can't, other than to do cheap updates from The Range and B&M. It's really mean to sneer.

@Leafblowertime wow that is the same stuff my sister ripped out in her 1920s house when she bought it
god awful stuff it is gets so dusty and dirty really quickly
Gives off no light makes everything look so dark and dingy

I'm certain the posters here would hate my house.

It's grey and teal. Dining table and other furniture bits are oak. Decorative pieces are a couple of fake plants and scented candles.

We have a TV on the wall (but properly done, no wires on show) and I HATE books on show.

I can't stand wall art tbh and I don't like curtains (unless you have a big room with big windows). We have blinds everywhere.

Another thing I can't stand but I get is necessary esp if you have young kids are those storage cubes.