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.

Washing machine on the ground floor is logical if you have outside space to dry clothes – wet laundry is heavy so you want your machine to be as close to the clothes line as possible. Which in most house layouts means the kitchen.

The advantage of having a washing machine downstairs in the kitchen is being able to hang it in the garden.

I blame Pinterest

We have our washing machine and dishwasher in the utility, but it’s not much more than a large walk in cupboard with a window.

OMG I love a wobbly crab and also the wobbly tortoises/turtles. Can't beat a good ole tacky fridge magnet. My late MIL had the best though, really badly made plastic/cloth bagpipes that played Scotland the Brave, all her grandkids used to dance to it in the kitchen when they were little.

@Beammeupdude Well those are just obvious 🙄😂😂

Front doors with the long pole door handles. Looks bloody awful.

Uplighting
Open plan
Puddle curtains

Huge, glass bifold doors that look out onto scary blackness at night, thus allowing the serial killer/ghost/zombie hiding in your hydrangeas to observe your ever move (shudder)

Huge puddles of curtains, no. But if they don’t “kiss” the floor you risk them being above the floor by a couple of inches which looks truly awful. Its very difficult to get curtains to end perfectly at the floor. Especially when many floors are not perfectly level.

I wish I had a utility room but I don't, and as such I'd much rather have the washing machine in the kitchen near the back door.

Years ago I lived in Germany and it was in the bathroom there, so I do have experience of it. I really dislked it!

@TheRealShedSadie 😂😂😂

Huge, glass bifold doors that look out onto scary blackness at night, thus allowing the serial killer/ghost/zombie hiding in your hydrangeas to observe your ever move (shudder)

yes this is a fear but movement activated lights help.

@pluggee6 and, rather obviously, blinds 🙄

Or curtains

My biggest bug bears are on the exterior. I understand old buildings with bricked up windows to save glass but why do new builds have fake windows? In the photo the one at the top doesn’t even line up with the real window in the front. it’s not doing any harm at all but they just really annoy me 🤣 Do architects think it looks good? It’s not even a money saver, surely just a feature of different bricks down that expanse of wall would look better? (told you they annoy me 😆)

One of the things I like about having moved (back) to the continent is that I get to have my washing machine in the bathroom again. I like that it frees up space in the kitchen and that (in the case of a dining kitchen or open plan living room/kitchen) I don't have the noise of the washing machine in the background when I'm having dinner or watching TV. I have pretty much always lived in apartments so the upstairs/downstairs aspect has never been a consideration.

And what is this about? Did the building company have spare bits left over from the doors and think they’d just glue them on the front? I’d have to get that off…

I have my own style but I don’t wish to come onto a thread to join in with other likeminded types and pour vitriol on the “Love, Laugh and Love” types of wall decor amid other things. That is so mean.

You must know how popular such items are and to snigger about them must make some posters feel upset about their choices. That’s really not a very nice thing to do.

I grew up in a house that had huge windows looking out on the garden at the back, and it was a huge garden with only fields at the back. I was never happy until the curtains had been closed at night.

I don't think people with live laugh love wall decals are reading mumsnet tbh.

Plus also I think there’s been quite equitable disdain across the board for varying aesthetics. As has been pointed out above, we’ve seen hate for bifolds, range ovens, granite counters, puddled curtains, and other expensive items, alongside the plastic twigs in a sparkly vase cheap stuff. It’s not mean if you hate everything.

I don’t understand why you’re focusing on that, everything has been mentioned on here, literally, from range cookers to beams to roll top baths to paint colours, to wallpaper, to carpet, to hard flooring to bars to garden furniture to flamingoes . there is nothing not mentioned. Why get upset about one of the hundreds and say it’s mean?

I am sure that everyone here has something on someone’s dislike list.

Erm…I’m not upset. Just wondering why that easily attainable wall thing is picked on. Is it an east target? Someone with an Aga will know it’s an expensive item for some. They’ll imagine the scoffers are simply envious. It’s a very different item.

…easy target…