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 own a very very old house. Like no one knows how old. It's not listed as before the listing lady arrived it had had all of its interesting stuff either completely pulled out or just really badly damaged and covered in cement in the 1950s / 60s.

We've spent two years in a caravan pulling it all out and putting it back together. What it's taught me is that there's been so many fashions and things go round in circles. Based on that i've decided not to hate anything as it all ages the house and will give the next people here an idea of what was done now versus the 1960s / Victorian times.

But living in a shitty 1980s static as long as I have means that if we've fixed the damp and I can sleep in a proper bed without fear that a beam is going to give way above me, i shall be happy.

I still can't lose my hatred of the word Bath in Bathrooms or Kitchen in kitchens

Giant wall clocks - this seems to be a trend.
Any sort of dead plant life display, twigs in vases etc.
Plastic grass and artificial flowers.
Any sort of inspirational saying or quote.
Plastic letters spellling out "HOME" "LOVE" "EAT", although I think one in the toilet spelling "SHT" would be a fantastic pss take.

I'm suddenly reminded of a thread on here ages ago about fake grass. It became an all-out class war.

On these threads I like to contribute what gives me the ick, rather than what has reached peak popular and is going down the other side fast. So yes, like most people here I would be steering clear of grey interiors now, but there's nothing actually wrong with grey and I have loved it. I also know only too well what it feels like to be stuck with nasty laminate floors, uPVC windows and unlined curtains.

Far more interesting (IMO) is to think about irrational hates. I can't describe retro bar carts, kitchen islands, marble showers or royal blue as bad taste, but for reasons unknown they make me itch.

“I own a very very old house. Like no one knows how old. It's not listed as before the listing lady arrived it had had all of its interesting stuff either completely pulled out or just really badly damaged and covered in cement in the 1950s / 60s.”

I think it’s more likely that it is not worth being listed because it has been ruined. Buildings that are listed have generally been protected and looked after well. Some may even have survived due to falling into disrepair BUT importantly not ruined by unsympathetic
“restoration”.

Our house is very old and listed. It is part of a village where most of the houses are listed and protected for posterity.

…BUT importantly not ruined by unsympathetic “restoration”.

I loathe the saying about the kitchen being the heart of the home. It might be if you have a huge kitchen where you entertain your friends to kitchen suppers, but not if you live in a bog standard semi with a galley kitchen. Then it’s the place you store, prepare and cook food.

Fake houseplants
Artex
Woodchip wallpaper
wallpaper!
Dado rails (AKA dildo rails)
The whole 'bottom half of the wall a different colour to the top, with a sash or paper dividing it' thing
White carpets
Shag pile

@KimberleyClark the only people I know who say / feel this way are the ones who do have large entertaining kitchens.
Cannot imagine anyone with a galley kitchen with 6 cupboards saying this 😂

One of my friends recently was having a kitchen replaced and apparently it was hell to try and convince the designer that they didn't want a kitchen island (shock/gasp). As if anyone could conceive that is even possible.

I can imagine similar for a non square toilet.

Literally everyone who goes on Escape to the country wants a kitchen about the size of a ballroom! (For 2 people)
Gets shown a house with a really big kitchen. Sniffs. We'll it might be OK but I was hoping for something a bit larger....

WOODCHIP WALLPAPER or ARTEX. I Hate it with a passion because you should not be able to skin your elbow on the walls when you roll over in bed. Why must the entire house be done in this and only ever painted white or magnolia? Walls are bad enough but worse still are ceilings artexed like a chef's meringue.

Minimalism and/or Modernism. I guess it might be ok in a modern house but it makes a home feel cold and unlived in for me. I like busy decor (even if just a feature wall), period features and cluttered rooms - think Victorian parlour.

Replacing gardens with fake grass or just paving it all over, as an avid gardener and wildlife nut it just hurts my heart to see these gardens however while i might be a judgy Ahole about it I do understand the reasons people do this.

Last but not least 50 shades of grey or brown, not that it's bad it's just im not a fan of decor that only uses shades of the same neutral colour.

We live in a 70's apartment, never any fireplaces but very well insulated. It had UPVC windows when we bought it, not to my taste but they are very good for noise and heat insulation - also the rest of the estate has them, so anything else would look out of place. Would I take out the UPVC and replace them with the "original" wooden windows? Certainly not.

As there are just two of us, with no noisy children, open plan is fine for us so we have recently renovated in this way. We have enough rooms so that we can occupy different spaces when doing different things. We've renovated in a very simple way, but has lots of storage so no problems with clutter. Currently painted white (I can hear the MN sighs of pity) but we can add colour if we feel like it, later.
The property suits us at this stage of our lives. Horses for courses.

I'm not a fan of grey everything or 'sad beige nurserys'.

Other than that, I like most things. I have a bit of an eclectic style, shame I can't actually do anything with it at the moment! Not enough money :(

One thing I do hate is more the opinions of others, specifically when phrased as "grey is hideous". Grey isn't hideous, you don't like it. It makes people feel bad when you phrase things like that; be tactful!

I should have added that we've lived in houses more to MN taste in the past: a lovely victorian villa (with fireplaces!) and a listed Georgian townhouse with period detail. Needs change, I enjoyed those houses but this is lovely now.

No point being snobby about other peoples' taste in property, you may choose to live in a suburban bungalow when you are 85.

I love greys and silvers. These are beautiful colours; ones I often wear, and I've always preferred silver jewellery. I'm not too keen on the monochrome look where everything is grey, or when it's shot through with acid yellow which I think makes it look cold. But these are simply matters of personal taste.

The fact that grey's suddenly become de rigueur (or common, in some people's language) is no reason to change my long-held personal tastes to accommodate particular decorating fads.

I'm never having beige in my house.

Kate Moss prints? Like, the model? I googled it and I missing some sort of subculture?
I'm not doing well in this thread am I!

It's worth noting that if you're buying a new kitchen cabinets the more interesting colours are often a lot more expensive even though they're on the same kind of material. Homogeneity is usually just a product of economies of scale.

I don't see the need to be defensive on a thread like this!

I posted a few of my dislikes, but some of my choices for my home have been listed by other people, wood-effect flooring being one. Heavens. I even have wood effect laminate worktops.
So what, these things are practical and look nice in my opinion, so that's all that matters.

My friends have very varied styles in their homes. Three of them I would hate for myself, but they're beautiful, just not to my taste.

Where would it terminate? The kitchen floor?

-Not a fan of en-suites. Really can’t understand why they are so popular.
Most en-suites don’t have windows so smells linger for hours.

I like elegant furniture, so Italian ( traditional)made dining tables, beds , sofas etc. I have a dining table that is over twenty years old and still in good condition
You can buy these second hand on the internet.

Re integrated appliances, I don't really like them personally as I tend to like a kitchen to look like a kitchen. I want to see the cooker, washing machine and fridge etc. if they are all hidden away behind wall to wall doors and cabinets it can be a bit dull to look at (just my opinion!)

There's nothing wrong with them taste-wise per se, (it also depends on the look of the cabinets too) but I just prefer to see a kitchen with all its bits out, if you see what I mean lol.

See, I love integrated appliances. I like to have everything put away neatly.
I like sleek lines

@herdingcatss you’ve just reminded me of another one; washing machines in kitchens?!? What the hell.

@Lampzade we were actually put off 2 houses we viewed as 1 of the en-suites didn’t have a window 🤮
Luckily found our home and 2 of them did have windows but we’ve had to reconfigure the 3rd one so it can have a window.