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.

Good for you

Some of the posters would be horrified by my dated home with leather sofas and pine etc

Do have some grey too in a couple of bedrooms

To me y try he manipulated choice of grey by mrs hunch ruined it for me.obsessed copying I found quite harmful,and the tags to her page of them featuring and trying to be this lady.it made me both angry and sad.

@woodhill Pine is great if you like it! I love how comfy leather sofas are, my friend had this huge corner one, comfiest sofa I've ever sat on!

Mine is crushed velvet, shock horror! I saved up for ages to buy it, thought it was the nicest thing I'd ever seen when it finally arrived! Can't afford to replace it now 🙈

I bet your home is lovely. It's your home, have what you love. It's not to impress anyone else, that's what I always think anyway!

This is why it's subjective - no right or wrong answer. Only a matter of opinion.

@Maddison12

It's more we've got it downstairs and it's functional and it seems like a waste of money to replace it all

It was trendy in the 90s when we moved into this house

Your sofa sounds lovely to and your home

Hoover lines!!?? Not interior design I know but on Instagram people post photos of their living rooms and they make lines all over the carpets with their hoover and I hate it!

Red kitchens, actually just red interiors in general!

I have a grey gloss kitchen that was in the house when we bought it that we can't afford to replace but I don't like it at all, I never would have chosen it. There's nothing wrong with it, it was brand new when we moved in but it's not for me!

Huge entrance halls in large new builds then tiny rooms off it so eg the living room being smaller than the hall way. I've mostly seen this when looking at show homes of 5 bedroom detached new builds.

Open plan kitchen diner living rooms. I don't mind a kitchen diner but so many seem to have their living room in the same space now and it just makes me wonder whether the sofa smells like cooking?

Too much furniture in a room

Canvasses on walls of any kind

Greytea the council want you putting in drought tolerant plants when you take out the grass rather than fake grass but many people put in a combination of the two and I just had not realized how often what I thought is real grass is fake but I think using it for huge lawns is not environmentally friendly.It is increasing in popularity over here as it is better than using a ton of water in a place that gets so little rainfall. Yes I miss the verdant green grass of the UK but not the persisent rain, I guess you cannot have one without the other. The UK countryside is so beautiful and it is because of all that rain I think, that people complain about but it is what contributes to the beauty.

There is so much snobbery on here and we are all little snobs I think in that we think what we like is the best but I appreciate a warm welcoming home, however it is presented and the warmth of someone's welcome. I really try and suppress my judgemental impulses when I feel them rising up because it just feels so naff to be that way about...stuff, because it is just stuff and so inconsequential in terms of the relationships we have with the people in the homes we have the judgments about. I still do it of course. The thing is by verbalising it on here all the people with the stuff mentioned, some of them are getting a little pang of hurt that someone thinks their stuff is shit and it does not sit right to contribute to that, like a public interior shaming board, come mothers of the UK get shamed for your naff taste by the superior mothers of the UK with the budget and the culture to not have the naff taste you have developed.

Anyone else getting that?

I love a feature wallpaper, in a bold geometric pattern, or metallics in a spot which reflects the sun, with other walls a co ordinating neutral. It is so dated its due a revival.

Grey everything, hate, but I didn't at first. I dislike anything that's overdone.

I love people doing what they like and not slavishly listens to trends or MN posters. If you like it, it’s all that matters.

@Literaturemakeslifebetter I don't think naff taste necessarily has anything to do with budget.

We're in a small 2 bed, not at all affluent, with our fair share of ikea stuff. Have got cushions from the Range and B&M, a vase from Primark, throws from Dunelm etc. But I am very selective about what I buy from those shops, our house is colourful and to my mind tasteful and well put together.

A lot of the people who live in grey homes with their live laugh love signs will have considerably more money than we do.

Books on display...

Donate them so others can enjoy them - most people's books only ever get read once. Why keep them!?

All those dead trees, sitting around collecting dust.

We have all been overexposed to grey.

What do you think is next?

Red and black. ie black leather sofa and red rug/cushions. Red is such a difficult colour, with black it looks way too harsh. Also using red as a 'pop' of colour with black and dull colours

I am guilty of having that huge corner sofa. a GREY one. It's a perfectly decent sofa, comfortable and absolutely nothing wrong with it but I HATE it.

I live in a small semi-decent sized living room but nowhere near big enough for this thing. My friend wanted me to have it rather than her get rid of it as she was moving back into her parents temporarily while she found a house. I needed a new sofa, mine was getting a bit tatty.

That was a year ago and she's still there. It takes up so much space, means I have to walk right around it rather than be able to walk through the room normally if that makes sense? And means my gorgeous armchairs are basically unusable as I have to have them in an awkward position.
I daren't get rid of it as she could find a house any moment and It's technically not mine? But it drives me insane.

I also hate grey everything
Hard floors in bedrooms and sitting rooms-cold, clinical and god forbid you drop something, the neighbours four streets away will hear you and it'll likely break .

Agree with 'live laugh love' and 'family' photo frames and all those sorts of things.

Extremely tidy, 'angular' living spaces.

White everything-one's home is not a classroom or hospital.

Look at Mathmos @RedDwarfGarbagePod they are the original company that invented them. I love them. Ours really fits in to our mid-century styled dining room.

I don’t understand this on new builds either! Why put in the space but then brick them up and also highlight there should be a window by putting a sill there. Why not just have no window and have it bricked smoothly over? Love for someone to explain it as there must be a reason.

It’s an architectural feature, very popular in newbuilds as it avoids a large expanse of featureless brickwork. It’s also a note to tax windows so can give the property a period feel.

*nod, not note

Ah ok thanks. It just looks unfinished to me. Or like they made a mistake and just bricked the window up last minute 😆 I know it wouldn’t be for everyone, but I’d prefer just flat brickwork, instead of a bricked up window.

You often see it on a side elevation where they would be allowed a window under planning.

*not be allowed

Gorgeous!!!

I keep the ones I want to re-read.

I find your attitude (and similar ones expressed here) so weird. A house without books is just sad.

I agree with @CatJumperTwat i have multiple books in cases and I do occasionally revisit then. I love having books about, it’s a palpable joy. I do donate to BHF when I’m doing a tidy but no I wouldn’t be without my books