To ask your interior design hates?

[Illbeindenial]

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'm on a roll here:-

I absolutely loathe new builds with combined kitchens & living rooms. I can only think that people who don't cook, live off takeaways, and occasionally use a microwave would ever buy one of these. Why would you want your sofa and cushions smelling of food smells and sticky with grease?

Black taps & bathrooms fixtures seems like a recipe for a nervous breakdown when you think of limescale.

Huge skeleton clocks in kitchens. Every show home has one.

Leather sofas.

Oh and vertical blinds.

I obviously led a very sheltered life because until a mns thread some years ok I had no idea a) these still existed (remembered them from school/offices) b) people used them in houses 😱

Sofa in a kitchen. If the space isn’t big enough to be a proper open plan kitchen/dining/living room, a sofa against the kitchen wall just looks random and odd.

Fake grass.

Clutter, especially on kitchen worktops.

Big bulky leather sofas

Scandi style furniture

Don’t take it personally, most folks will have something they have on here, personal tastes differ, and if there was another thread on what do you love plenty of the stuff mentioned on it.

for example I love shutters. I don’t have them as they would not work in this house, but think they look great, I love old period houses with exposed beams, roll top baths, range cookers etc and think pink and green looks fab together , y sofa cushions are a mix of both, I also have a portrait wall with loads of framed art. It really doesn’t matter that someone dislikes them. 😄

When someone picks one accent colour go their kitchen, eg red and goes overboard.
Black kitchen worktops or floor tiles
Grey carpets
Pictures/photos mounted really meanly, so too small for the space
Orangey wood look laminate flooring
Too much pine, especially furniture with big round handles
Slogans like this kitchen is for dancing or if life gives you lemons
Too much cat/dog themed stuff
Not enough table/floor lamps, just one harsh overhead light,
Strip lighting
Huge fake stone fireplaces
Insufficiently full curtains, also too short curtains
Nautical themed bathrooms
Tourist tat
Too small rugs
Bulky sofas, especially with big arms and especially when they don’t fit properly
Purple/lilac walls
Lime green walls

@Leafblowertime agree & remember good taste cannot exist without bad 😉

Cool White spotlights.
Mirrored wardrobes.
Striped carpet on stairs.
Deep pile carpets.
Black granite worktops.
Vertical radiators.

I hate paneling. Don't get me wrong, I like how it looks and is styled these days. But like Grey everything, in 5-10 years it'll be out and the thought of pulling it all off the walls along with half the plaster makes me feel stressed.

Don't most new builds have kitchen diners these days, and haven't they for well over 10 years?

Anyway, I dislike all grey, especially with natural wood as it often doesn't go - cool with warm. Hate red and black in kitchens. It's always the male property developers on HUTH who put black or red units or black and red tiling in kitchens.

Sofas with low backs - uncomfortable and not supportive. Recliner armchairs. Hate chesterfield sofas and chairs. And crushed velvet upholstery.

Dislike eyelet curtains. Hate plantation shutters. Ubiquitous and often jarring imho. Vertical blinds. Roller blinds. Venetian blinds.

I've got a thing about not liking metro tiles with bevelled edges.

Doors of the wrong period on houses.

I really like arts and crafts style.

white houses. 😉

I hate anything that is obviously "designed" and not just there because the owner likes it.

I actually think all-white walls can work really well, especially if the owner's creative and there's a lot of decent art on the walls, plants and colour in the soft furnishings and darker or antique wood furniture

For my own house: I don’t like mirrored furniture, wallpaper and carpets.

For my clients: the idea that there’s rights and wrongs in style. Mirrored furniture is fine if you like it, mustard and grey is fine, minimalism, maximalism, mish mash - it’s all fine. I don’t like the idea that if your home doesn’t fit into some Instagram aesthetic it’s somehow wrong.
(Obviously doesn’t apply to wrong size furniture type of wrongs!)

Panelling.

Media walls.

A table with strategically placed designer books that never get read with a token torso figure next to it.

Pax wardrobes with no doors. Who wants to see all your clutter and clothes?!?!

I’m enjoying reading this thread!
Bifold Doors-prefer sliding.
Rain head showers-especially placed too high up.
Pictures placed too high.
Beige tiles.
Too much crammed into a small bathroom-just have a shower bath instead of cramming in a tiny shower cubicle-especially with doors on rollers where you can’t get the gunk out.
Oversize sofas.

I do have several things people have mentioned in this thread though!

I forgot one! I hate homes that are styled to be a style rather than suit the occupants. I'm not talking about people who love interior design, so their home is always on trend. I mean designed with a look from a catalogue in mind, rather than practicality. Like an all white, glossy kitchen units for a young family with pets.

The older I get, the less I care about ‘good taste’ and the more I love to see a home filled with the things that make up someone’s world - inherited ornaments, well loved books, chairs that look like they get sat in a lot. That’s what makes a home warm and welcoming.
We have lots of grey, but that’s because I am a bit fickle and love new cushions/rugs/curtains (make my own), grey (or any neutral) gives a blank canvas to decorate with lovely colours and patterns in your textiles.
I also personally love a new build. Again, it’s a blank canvas so you get to do what you like and express yourself/your family in the decor. Less goes wrong. It is well insulated and tends to stay warm in winter and cool in summer.
Plastic grass - we’ve had it for a decade and it still looks good. Our garden gets very little sun so it was a practical choice. I think people are very snooty about it on here but I’m happy with the decision, plastic inherently isn’t great, but we haven’t had to waste loads of water on it in a drought (and droughts seem to be increasing…) or use fossil fuels on powering a lawnmower.

I'm pretty sure there are lots of posters who would dislike my decorating choices but

My dislikes are

Eyelet curtains

Shiny

Overhead lighting

Maximilist

Pictures hung too high

A house where it looks like everything was bought in the same shop on the same day.

Grey, grey, grey ( and I love the colour but too much and everywhere and all the time )

No plants or flowers

And yep, plastic grass. Nope never for me. I am never going to put a green plastic rug over my garden. But each to their own.

I have most of these and my house is beautiful. It’s not what you have it’s how you have it.

@sunglassesonthetable Yes, it's the same shop same day that is my pet hate too! Love homes where the decor and furnishings look like they have grown organically and reflect the character of the owners.

I’m interested in the ‘no books.’ I have lots of books, but they are stored upstairs. I’m not a fan of advertising my reading matter in the sitting or dining room.

I dislike:
Shiny white furniture
Lots of silver, gold or sparkly stuff
Word art stickers
Everything matching
No cushions
Lots of family photos on the walls
Crushed velvet

Plastic grass is practical tbf, plenty of beautiful homes have it.

These tiles!

They always remind me of underpasses, old railway stations and public loos.