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 was going to say about ensuite. Why would you want partner or yourself having a crap virtually next to your bed!Also another room to clean and it takes up so much space .
I have a massive bedroom with two Bay windows and have not been remotely tempted to add ensuite.
I also cannot bare the drab sofas that are on display in furniture shops .All biscuit, gey , black ..so dowdy Have really struggled choosing a new soda recently.
Crushed velvet is also a pethate.

Grey - bloody grey! I hate it! Even worse when it’s paired with black and white.
Black kitchens - don’t know why but they just look wrong to me.
Artex on the dealing with thick, swirly designs 🤢
Stainless steel mock-industrial kitchen work surfaces (reminds me of a butchers)

Ceiling not dealing!!!

Open plan kitchens/ living rooms

Any wall text or wall hanging with words like Live, Laugh, Love
Grey kitchens
grey furnishings or furniture
carpet (I have wooden floors with rugs)
faux crystals lighting features
sparkles or crushed velvet
pine Furniture

Cold houses - cold wood, marble or stone floors.

Leather furniture - again, cold, and don't like the feeling

Dark houses - warm and cozy is nice, but not dark and shadowy

Can I ask is the plastic grass really nasty in the UK? I am in California and the artificial grass I see in our neighborhood it is so high end you cannot tell the difference from real grass- putting real grass in is seen as being very backward as it needs so much water and is very hard to keep alive so you are paid 5$ per s foot by our local council to rip out real grass currently.

Anyway it is nothing like astro turf, it just looks like very high end grass- is that not what people use over in the UK, I am thinking not from the hate it is getting on here? I used to be a hater until I realised so many neighbors beautiful lawns are not real, very high-end artificial lawns and I just could not tell.

Recessed lighting - especially in living rooms and bedrooms.

Rugs. Yes, all of them except door mats to collect dirt off shoes as people enter.

Microwave ovens on the wall. Ick.

Net curtains - I won't have any in my house.

Vertical blinds.

Grey everything, particularly kitchens.

Bare pine, especially knotty pine!

you can get high end and cheap artificial grass. Yes, it can look very realistic. That’s interesting to read that your council will pay you to get rid of real grass. That would never happen here. In general, there’s always enough water from rainfall. It’s not very common to water grass using a sprinkler system - some people might, but most won’t. If there is a period of drought, these are short and hosepipe and sprinkler bans are put in place, anyway. If the grass dies back and goes brown, so be it - it always recovers when it rains again -which it will -the U.K. is a wet country. Artificial grass is seen as environmentally unfriendly because of the plastics in it. There is also - probably - an element of snobbery about it - like other forms of artificial products that aren’t “real” - cf uPVC windows, laminate wood-effect flooring etc - no matter how practical and hard-wearing the artificial product is.

Range cookers
upholstered dining chairs with high backs
hot tubs

I like grey, no idea why so many here hate it

No books
No comfortable seating
Tiny kitchens ( like mine)

Taking out nice flooring (especially parquet) for grey wood flooring.

Grey kitchens (I have no problem with modern kitchens, in fact I quite like a white gloss kitchen).

Towering beams (love how these houses look on the outside, just not on the inside).

Taking out loads of original features of the house (which I suppose is still better than changing the exterior, as you can easily change it back).

Me too. What I don't like are:

Open plan rooms
Wallpaper
Matching furniture
Bare floors
Large T.V's in an average size room
Strings of lights hung up over beds
Kitchen islands.

Also, small hallway entranceways. Makes the whole house feel cramped and small. An entrance that opens into a room is much nicer.

All grey interiors.

Large flower patterned wallpaper in bedrooms, especially in shades of purple, teal or burgundy.

Bouclé upholstered chairs, stools and sofas.

Sheepskins or faux sheepskins over the back of dining chairs. All I can think of is digging out the crumbs and food particles like Mr Twit's beard.

Reed diffusers.

"Eat. Bathe. Fuck" signs on walls.

"Mortuary slab" free-standing kitchen worktop units with tall stools down one side that anyone under 5' 2" will struggle to clamber onto.

A random area of bare brick or stonework left unplastered in an old house or a former industrial building converted to apartments where the rest of the wall has been plastered.

Pseudo fireplaces in living rooms filled with sawn logs.

Knocking two rooms into one larger room but leaving the chimney breast wall and fireplace or woodburning stove in situ (ie with no walls either side of the chimney breast).

Open plan kitchen, dining, living areas in small houses (a number of developers are now building houses like this which obscures just how small the ground floor room areas would be had they been designed as individual rooms with doors).

The hallway in our house used to go from the front to the back of the house like a corridor. The previous owners blocked it off, so it's now tiny, and made the back half part of the kitchen. I think that's a better use of space and would rather stick with a larger kitchen and smaller hall.

I hate that our front door opens into our house. For privacy, I’d much rather have a separate hallway.

I think the grey thing is because it is just so overdone. It’s become boring and lazy.

A front door opening into a live room is a nightmare for heating, privacy and practical reasons.

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Books grouped according to their spine colour.
Books with their spines against the wall.
Rooms with no books at all.
Photos of stacked pebbles.
Throws made of shiny, plush synthetic fabrics.
Cheap synthetic contract carpet seen in new builds - often light grey and shows vacuum track marks.

Do you mean kitchen islands?

Tv on chimney breast, wallpaper that looks like bookshelves, big leather sofas with drinks holders and charging ports, crushed velvet, live laugh love etc. Pictures of clocks with kids birth times and pictures. Pictures of people made from pebbles and frames that spell words like ‘love’ or ‘family’

What is so bad about having a tv on a wall? My sitting room is so tiny there's nowhere else for it to go!

My home has nearly everything listed here!
Grey. Check
Mirrored furniture. Check
Grey laminate. Check
Crushed velvet. Check
And probably much more also. No random 'live, laugh, love' thingys though and definitely no vertical blinds!

I used to get quite upset reading these threads but I absolutely love my tiny grey home. It's clean, functional and it's full to bursting with kids toys, what more do you need 🤷‍♀️
Life would be pretty dull (like my grey house!) If we were all the same.