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.

Yes about the coving!!!

Downstairs I insisted on proper plaster coving but upstairs we settled for basic foam ones I think they are.

Houses look so incomplete without it.

I always wonder about people who do this. Why didn’t she just buy a house she liked and let the nice 1920s interior one go to someone who liked it?

But suppose you like those items but can’t afford to or for health reasons etc travel to the countries where those items have come from?

You don’t need to be well travelled to appreciate items from other cultures/countries…

parquet floors
Feature walls
Sill-length curtains

I've enjoyed this thread.

Houseplants
One , I can deal with but not a whole forest of them .

Love, laugh, love type artwork
Big slogan artwork on the wall with some schmaltzy crap on it.
Crushed velvet
White sofas (more from a keeping clean perspective tbh!)

Live Laugh Love
Crushed Velvet
Grey
Mirrored Furniture
Astroturf

That’s not actually possible as that oak panneling is from the 1600s, not 1920s. It would also be Illegal as it’s listed . I don’t know what she ripped out, but it wasn’t that…😂

@FatCatSkinnyRat I have a very dark grey wall running up my stairs. Why? Kids and their grubby hands making a lighter wall look like a mish mash of everything they have ever touched!

Books placed with spines facing inwards

Does anyone do this? 🤔

I've done nothing to my walls (literally, nothing on them) but I live in a mid-terrace house with smaller rooms than most houses. Do I need coving around the walls? Would it enhance it and make it look more "period", or is it a faux pas?

I'm the last person to ask about decor; my living room is a 10 year old "mushroom" colour that's somewhat scruffy in some places. I've a overfilled bookcase; piano; velvet 2 hand mustard sofa with a repro Afghan rug on dark floorboards; brown venetian blinds. No TV and a mantlepiece with, gubbins from my bag and holiday shell and seaweed; gubbins from my purse and my late cat's ashes in a box still.

What does that say about me? (Not bothered face)

When I visit other people's homes, they're the complete opposite to my taste; totally cheap looking but try hard to look expensive sofa and furnishings and walls. Yuk!

Photos printed onto a canvas
Leather
Sofa
Tv on wall and too
Many tvs
Plastic grass
Fake
Grass
Plants/ flowers

In my job, I visit a lot of houses that are newly renovated.

I despair at the lack of originality.

Every bloody house looks identical.

Pale grey kitchen with dark blue island.

Rose gold handles on kitchen cupboards.

Cox and cox bar stools.

Crittal-style patio doors, partition doors and shower screens.

Asymmetric tiles in downstairs loo.

Pannelled bedrooms with beds dressed in white with grey accents and cushions.

Grey carpets upstairs.

Marble effect bathroom walls, or pale metro tiles.

Young kids' rooms with books facing out on picture shelves. One garish wallpapered wall - usually full of animals.

I could go on and on.

Live love laugh signs
Picture frames with family written on

@Nachtvlinder Depends on the height of the ceiling and what room it’s in: even in grand period homes not every room had coving – it was for the fancy show rooms at the front while the scullery maids had no coving in the back quarters. I’m currently trying to work out whether my house ought to have picture rail in the hall (it’s in the other rooms) by looking at my neighbours’ houses on Rightmove and peering in their windows after dark when they’ve put on the big light but not yet shut their curtains.

Grey

anything grey and everything grey

I am another one who dislikes grey. It can be ok if paired with natural woods, but when it’s grey walls, grey carpet, black or white furniture, I find it so cold and drab. I don’t mind a bit of beige though, as long as it is mixed with some other richer colours.

Grey
Matching furniture
Bland rooms with an obvious accent colour eg minimalist grey room with mustard cushions
Corner sofas
Boxy sofas without legs, especially leather ones
Diamante, crushed velvet
Entertainment walls
Family portraits, especially canvas
Generic art from the Range etc
Cheap laminate floors
Small lone picture in middle of big wall
Short curtains
Shiny coloured metro tiles
Artificial grass
Bold floral wallpaper feature wall
Orange pine
Black and red

Agree.
B and M, The Range, Dunelm, IKEA have all been poo-pooed and looked down on, but these might be either the easiest to get to, or within people's budget. It's not as if everyone who shops there will have identical houses - people will style things differently or accessorise with different things....but ultimately people choose decor for themselves to live with, rather than to meet others seemingly impossible standards.

I've got loads of stuff on the hated list and I actually dislike the approved alternatives!

@Leafblowertime my sisters house defo isn't listed
so thank god for that 😅
Your pic is so small i cant tell
all looks the same to me just grubby masses of heavy ugly wood

I'm not sure of the height, but with the piano in the room, it's quite a small space. I've not considered with the coving until I've read it on here.

Just read up on "picture rail in hallway" and I'm not able to help you there. It does seem very common. If it was my space, I'd leave it.

I don’t like

fake period features in new builds

prosecco o clock,I’ve laugh love etc

fake grass

apart from that I’m not fussed.

I love doors with glass in them too, especially the reeded glass. We're in a 60s house and I'd like to swap our cheap B&Q doors for more solid half glazed.

Agree with lots of pps about disliking fake grass. I can imagine it’s quite nice to vacuum but I love being surrounded my nature at any given opportunity.

My house has lots of white walls and grey features in many places! My colour scheme downstairs is largely white, grey and blue. I do find it calming and fresh-looking, and I use lots of different textures so it is homely but I completely understand why grey everything would be depressing. I enjoy attempting minimalism (for the way it clears my mind) and love the sea so I feel it kind of reflects those things.

I would never choose red or anything too stimulating in my home as, for me, it represents an oasis of calm (can you guess i have a stressful job?)

Upstairs, i actually have pale pink in my bedroom (almost white) and my DD has very pale mint.

I also dislike mirrored furniture and anything to “glitzy”.

All grey or all beige colour schemes
All white and black colour schemes
That thin wood paneling on part of a feature wall that's been done to death the last couple of years
Wood paneling on modern houses
Curtains that are too short, especially in bedrooms
Too many nicknaks/clutter
Houses that follow insta trends and show no personality of the owner