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.

Also black furniture.

** open storage (especially in kitchen)
** spanish arches (I don’t know why but I really loathe them)
** free standing baths (I have one and agree they are impractical)
** no where to put a bin or trays in a kitchen
** eyelet curtains
** chairs and tables with legs that stick out weirdly
** metal framed beds (freezing and drafty)

I don't like houses that are too 'designed'
And coordinated looking. I'm also not keen on:
All wooden floors with no rugs, or runners on the stairs
Kitchen Islands
Bifold doors
Completely open plan
Conservatories on modern houses

Spotlights. So cold and unwelcoming. There are so many beautiful hanging lights available now in so many different styles. Spotlights add nothing to a room.

Mirror above the fireplace. So unimaginative. Only justifiable in my mind if you have a tiny living room and need to make it feel bigger. Ditto TV on the wall, if it’s needed for space saving it makes sense, otherwise it looks much nicer on a unit.

Grey, monochrome etc. On a bright sunny day you can get away with it. When it’s grey and dreary outside it’s just really depressing.

Kitchen island in a too small kitchen. It’s a pain in the ass and just gets in the way. Kitchen work surfaces with just a kettle, if that, on them. To me it makes the kitchen look cold and uninviting, more so pared with white gloss units. Easy to clean but so dull.

Most people on MN would hate my house. But I love it and that’s the important thing. I do feel people get too caught up in “trends” and what other people think. The instagram effect.

Brick or stone walls inside - they have no business indoors.

No bookshelves

A bare fireplace with no gas, electric or log fire.

That weird idea of reversing all the books on shelves so the page edges show rather than the spine.

I suppose it might not matter to some people, as they probably don't mind which one they're going to colour in.

That weird idea of reversing all the books on shelves so the page edges show rather than the spine.

Is that a new thing ?

No, it's whether you love it. Nothing else matters

one person's beautiful is another person's ugh no matter how you have it.

I don’t like cheap coloured sofas. I’d much rather buy a good quality neutral one and dress it with bright cushions and throws.

Rooms where every piece of furniture is from IKEA.

Rooms without colour or just don't show the occupants personality.

Glass tables.

Anything "shabby chic"

Rooms where the TV dominates or where the TV has dictated the layout. TV on the wall, like it's art. I don't like televisions very much.

Prints or photos on the wall (original art only - you can get lots of inexpensive stuff from places like Etsy or charity shops, doesn't have to cost a fortune). Things like guitars are ok too - as long as it is actually taken down and played!

Whole houses done in grey.

This is absolutely one of the most annoying things for me at the mo.
We asked for a quote for new windows in early summer - all 3 companied designed them in the way you've described and not with identical fixed/opening panels.
Needless to say, we've still got our original windows. 🤷‍♀️

I did ask one of them about it and their rep said it was "more expensive" no-shit-Sherlock!?!?! I don't mind paying but you won't give me an accurate flippin' specification 🤦‍♀️🤯

Exactly
I don’t get the no books on show critics.
I have many books which are stored in the attic.
I don’t have any books on show despite being a voracious reader

btw- I don’t know why people are offended
when posters list their dislikes.
Posters have listed a number of things that they dislike, which I happen to have. For example I have a glossy cream kitchen unit and a hotel style tiled bathroom .
I love them . I couldn’t give a hoot about what others think.

EYELETS!! Why can't we have "normal" tape tops??
Why eyelets? They're draughty anyway!

Prints or photos on the wall (original art only - you can get lots of inexpensive stuff from places like Etsy or charity shops, doesn't have to cost a fortune).

Are photos on the wall original art if you’ve taken them yourself - don’t mean family photos, but your own photos?

> Minimalism
> ’staged’, interior designed rooms that have been overdone. Vast empty shelves dressed with items chosen for aesthetic value rather than collected over the years for their meaning. ‘Art’ chosen because the colour palette fits with the decor, rather than the piece has any artistic merit or ‘speaks’ in any way to the home owner. Looks great in an interiors mag or a corporate rental but not a home.
> Gloss white kitchens with shiny floors. Like an operating theatre.
> Laminate flooring (slippy as hell)
> Vertical blinds
> UPVC conservatories
> Houses that just use the ‘big light’, no lamps or other task or mood lighting .
> blue-white light bulbs, too cold. Warm white, please.
> Scrotum leather sofas, double points if they are recliner types
> Mirrored furniture & blingy accessories
> Crushed velvet, double points if it comes with diamanté buttons
> Plug in air fresheners.
> Rugs too small for the room.
> Home bars. I’ve never seen a nice one, they always look naff.

I am fussy.

Hating:

Bifolds that open up to create inside/outside space. All that happens is the wind blows leaves and dirt into the rest of the house. If you're not careful, great entry point for rats/mice and slugs.

Open plan kitchen and living space. So impractical and gets cluttered very easily. Also everything gets sticky from
over the years.

Vaulted/double height ceilings - cleaning light fixtures is a pain. Worse if it's an open plan space with a kitchen.

TVs on walls above the fireplace - too high up to watch comfortably from a sofa.

Spotlights embedded into patio floor tiles/decking - shining directly into your eyes when you look down. And make your dress transparent.

Suspended kitchen cabinets above worktops (although the norm). Feels like you have a cabinet in your face when using the worktop.

Tiny cloakrooms where there is barely any clearance room for the door to open and close. And basins above the toilet cistern.

eyelets vs header tape

I think eyelets are cheaper because you need less fabric, you need to account for the extra gather when you pull the tape whereas I don’t think you need to have as much excess on eyelets.

I can understand the no-books thing in the sense it keeps clutter hidden but I also think books are a real reflection on the personality of the owner.

I love having loads of books on display in several bookcases, makes the house feel cosier and 'lived in' and I enjoy friends looking through the bookshelves when they visit as we swap books quite a lot.

Good call on the open plan, bifolds and too high tvs on walls @ItsRainingTacos79

Short curtains!!!

Grey
oversizes crushed velvet sofas and beds
large family photos in the lounge
clutter
recessed multicolour lighting

My massive and snobbish turnoff is manufactured floor/wall/kitchen surfaces with the look of a natural material. Like wood-effect karndean or marble-effect ceramic tiles or laminate surfaces that are supposed to look like wood or marble. I just don't like it when a material doesn't feel like what it looks like.

Ditto furniture that has been 'distressed' to look older than it is.

I've done my time with IKEA furniture and no more. With few exceptions it is shit, it tips over, the veneer peels, the bottoms of the drawers pop out, it can't survive a house move intact.

There's so much lovely old wood furniture in the world that lasts hundreds of years so I'm now slowly furnishing my house via fb marketplace.

Grey everywhere
magnolia anywhere
orange
gravel gardens
artificial grass
crushed velvet
wall decals
family photos (Captain Raymond Holt: “if you love someone you’ll remember what they look like”)
tacky posters
artex
gloss kitchens
shiny tiles
tiled lounge floors

All white houses.