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.

The dreaded woodchip wallpaper.

It’s one of the few things I am certain won’t come back in fashion!

I grew up in a lovely Victorian house (my parents still live there) but it is covered head to toe in bloody woodchip. It’s even in the downstairs loo.
My dad tried to remove some of it about 5 years ago and it took half the plaster off the wall, so he just gave up🤣

Extremely thrilled to be embarking on removing woodchip from every single room of a three-storey, five-bed house, including the fucking ceilings. 😭

@Penguinsaregreat @stuntbubbles What you do is buy/hire/borrow a wallpaper steamer, then leave it to steam and shut the door on it for 2-3 hours (you might have to check every now and then to make sure it hasn't run out of water). The woodchip then comes straight off. I discovered this only after I had painstakingly scraped woodchip off 5 rooms. The rest were a doddle.

Popular? I don't know a single person who has this kind of shit on their walls.

‘Live laugh love’ has become a bit of a meme and joke, I haven’t seen it on anybody’s wall and most of my family/friends have the average IKEA-filled, Dunelm mill/the range decorated newer build homes that everyone on here loathes.

Mirrored furniture

It's probably a classic case of the 'birds that flock together' cliché. I don't have a single friend or family member who lives in a new house or who would buy new furniture (all passed around the family or bought at salerooms etc). Going to my friends' houses feels nice because they all feel like (my) home.

I love old houses but they are a lot more expensive where I live, I associate a lot of the stuff people like on this thread with more ‘well-off’ people really.

@stuntbubbles you have literally just described our house, and also the sate of it when we moved in, who the fuck thinks woodchip on the fucking ceilings is a "really good idea", the woodchip had hidden the crumbling walls on some rooms, although our house also had chewing gum, spit and blood on the walls aswell, when we moved in, oh and almost forgot mouse shit hiding everywhere, oh the joys (I cried and swore....alot 🤬and that's sugar coating it) some people live like utter arsholes😤

Totally agree!!

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If you don't have access to a steamer then Screwfix do a product called Zinsser Dif, which is great for removing woodchip too. Only a tenner. Just score the woodchip then spray it on using a garden pressure sprayer, you know the cheapo hand primed ones. Leave it for 5-10 minutes then repeat. You can scrape it off by hand.

@fingcntbags and @VoluptuaSneezelips – thank you! Joyfully for me there are some whole strips where it’s not adhered to the walls so I can just peel it off in one go, which is deeply satisfying. But 80% of it is in “utter bastard” category. Going to ask for a good steamer for Christmas and also encourage DP to do it instead of me.

The owners also left us about 10 spare rolls of it in the shed, “in case we found it useful”. There’s nothing left to paper except the floor! (Which they’ve also covered in so many layers of carpet I gain a couple of inches in room height every time I strip a room.)

I hate Artex - we've just bought a house with it over every. single. ceiling. Paying a plasterer to skim it will cost £££ though so it's here to stay.....

It’s so personal isn’t it. I hate spiral staircases with a passion. I would absolutely rule out any property with one.

likewise I think baths in bedrooms are awful. I perceive them as tacky. dsis is just doing a million pound renovation of her home and is putting one in. It’s her favourite feature and she perceives it as making her home like a boutique hotel. Horses for courses

Yep Artex is absolutely horrid. For some reason I always imagine the room stinks of nicotine! Also dated colour schemes - teal or plum co ordinates accessories. Leather sofas, unless cracked and very old. Voile curtains, those little wicker hearts that hang off cupboard door handles. Fish tanks - grim. Parrot or jungle patterned wallpaper.

I hate cushions that are plumped liked this:

Why, why is that a thing? I cannot seem to convince my to cleaner not do it. I go around the house undoing it constantly. I think she thinks it doesn't look properly finished without it, but it just looks weird. And like you're not meant to actually use the cushion.

I don’t understand people that are taking offence over the things that some people hate, why get upset over strangers that are never going to visit your home, decorate your homes in the way that makes YOU happy!

I can’t deal with the beds that look complicated to make... duvet tucked in super tight, 4 or more cushions perfectly placed, another throw/blanket neatly tucked in at the end. Just makes me feel exhausted looking at it!

My absolute hate is what estate agents call "open plan" ensuite bathrooms. Basically a loo /bath/shower in the bedroom with no wall.My friend had a loft conversion with a master bedroom suite but there was only half a wall (maybe 4ft tall) separating the bathroom area!!

Ensuites I'm OK with (I know MN don't like them)
Toilets in a bedroom with no separating wall is absolutely not OK under any circumstances.

I hate the mid century look.

I agree that loos need a door between them and the bedroom, but why are so many on MN against ensuites? I don't have children living at home any longer, but when I had an ensuite put in it transformed my life as there was no competition for my facilities!

Feature walls.
Plastic grass.
Massive plastic outdoor sofas and chairs that are meant to look like living room furniture.
Hot tubs.
Grey everything. It's fine in moderation but not every bloody room
Crushed velvet.
'Script' wall art

fake grass. Looks absolutely vile and is awful for the environment. Why do something that looks so shit and is bad for the environment?

There are plenty of other things that aren’t to my taste, but that really annoys me.