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.

Plastic grass
Shapeless brown leather sofas
Letters on walls or messages
Multi coloured lights
Shutters

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.

I like dark wood furniture too. Light wood looks impersonal and anonymous to me - like an office or hotel room.

In my kitchen I have white corian worktops - not dead white, there is a pattern - and bardolino oak units, which I love. Gloss kitchens were the fashion when we had the kitchen done but I never liked that look.

I can't believe oversized skeletal clocks (usually with Roman Numerals) have only featured once - thanks Soosan ?!! They're my personal bete noire but I know lots of lovely people who have them. Ditto Jack Vettriano prints.

Honestly these threads are very bitchy. But I don't think anyone escapes criticism. Everyone has some feature or item that offends. I know some people would hate my cluttered house that's a mix of bits and bobs collected over the years mixed in with charity shop, cheap furniture and lots of mass-produced IKEA furniture.

Many of us are on tight budgets that don't allow for new flooring, total redecoration etc... We've just put up curtains in our living room to stop the draught - made do with self-installed plain IKEA blinds till now. But we need to cut down on heating bills and block out any draughts. We've committed the sin of getting eyelet curtains but you know what? They're bloody much cheaper.

Personally I'm not impressed by seeing anyone's Maeve Binchy collection on display. But I think the people who like to see books on display wouldn't be impressed by those sort of books anyway 😁

As someone else said everyone just wants somewhere comfortable and safe to come home to. You can't see your own sofa once you're sat on your arse watching TV with the lights down and a cat on your lap.

To add -

Corner sofas
Brass coloured fittings. Actual brass is good
Wood panelling (it's mdf in most cases)
Middle class tat from Oliver Bonas

I don’t understand it to be fair. I don’t think it makes a house look cosey or lived in, I think it looks musty and dusty normally and often cluttered I don’t need books to be a reflection of the personality of the owner, I know my friends well enough and even know what they read. I’m not in strangers homes enough that it matters if I can see books or not. I can grasp most people read electronically now.

we do have books out, people do borrow them, but we don’t have too many out , it’s mainly history, cooking and gardening books which are in use on the bottom of the very, very large coffee table. There is about 15 sitting there right now in neat piles. The rest of our books are in a shallow cupboard, basically a bookshelf with doors. The ones not in use.

my best friend is an avid reader, three books a week every week kind of reader, everything is on kindle , I don’t need to see her books to know what she’s like.

I don’t want to go to peoples homes and look at their books. I go to their homes to visit with them. Spend time with them socialising. People across all demographics read, books on display or not isn’t some form of evidence if they do or don’t, and if you want to know what someone likes to read, you just ask them. You can take a conversation on it. Use your words.

I don't dislike maximalism but I do hate it when everything has been bought and shoved together quickly. Things that date quickly (velvety stags, pineapples, flamingos) that will be in landfill in a short while. I like it when someone's house has things in that they like and have had a while to become familiar with, and build on. It's really obvious, I think, when someone does maximalism as a style and not because they've collected things they love and ignored the decluttering trends. Deliberately quirky, let's call it. It's very LOOK AT ME I'M DIFFERENT. I know that's bitchy but it's what I hate.

Our kids rooms are the same. I grew up in rental places so we weren't even allowed pictures on the walls and have always said that my kids rooms will reflect their likes and personalities. We all decorate our houses to suit what we like so why don't we offer our children the same choice? I live in a Scandinavian country where (you'll be shocked to hear) Scandi design is very common so our kids rooms stick out a bit but I get away with it cos I'm from the UK.

As to design choices I hate there are things I wouldn't go for such as grey walls, all white decor, an inordinate amount of knick knacks (looking at you mum) but if other people get pleasure from it who am I to judge?

Oh and macrame. Fucking macrame wall art.

@Leafblowertime You'll be pleased to know I wouldn't invite anyone as sanctimonious as you to my home anyway.

Yes I was thinking that too, I also dislike it, that and those awful dream catcher things with long feathers on and tie dye shit. It’s very 60s stoner student bedroom.

I’m all good with that 😄

It's just your own taste. Being invited to someone else's home is a privilege. Obviously you don't have to share their taste

White
Grey
gloss kitchens
glittery worktops
”marble” tiles, floors, worktops… all look tacky
mirrored furniture
anthracite windows
anthracite front doors with the long handle
naff signs “this kitchen is for laughing” or similar
rugs on the bottom corner of your bed
A tray on your bed
Tiled floor in the lounge

A freestanding bath in the bedroom. No, no, no!!!

Colour coded book shelves.

Artificial grass
So minimalist that your house tells me nothing about you as a person
Smell of Zoflora or plug-ins. Not really design but I hate it.
So open plan that there's nowhere quiet to hide away from noise

Antique furniture
Bookcases and books every where
Agas

The only thing I really dislike is when people have no curtains. Even if they have blinds, the big, square hole in the wall just looks so angular and cold.

My house has lots of things that people seem to hate: corner suite in a tiny room; photos in matching frames and canvas prints on the walls rather than art; lots of clutter; books all over the place with a big, cluttered bookcase (which is broken, hence the books being everywhere else)... We live here though so it works for us rather than for everyone else.

Open plan
Three piece suites
A house that looks like it's been completely decorated from Next
Any furniture that doesn't tell a story basically

I think that sounds lovely and cosy, despite what other posters may think. I used to be a big bookworm, not so much nowadays, but I’d definitely be rifling through your bookcases 😁

I don't know if it's new thing, although I notice that libraries haven't adopted it yet!

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@BellePeppa Our door will always be open to you 😅

Can someone please explain the correlation between the lack of books and interior design hate? I thought books were for reading and not to be used as a design hype ! I love reading and so once I'm done with a book I either lend it to someone or throw it in the loft as my 2 bed semi isn't big enough to have a bookcase downstairs! Are you saying that the lack of a bookcase is a design flaw?
My ds6 has a bookcase full of books in his bedroom though - is he considered more fashionable than me ? Lol

I don't understand why people can't just ignored other people taste and enjoy theirs ! These sort of posts are just soo shallow!

People who've had to buy furniture rather than inherit. Ghastly

People who have mirrors and serviettes. They're looking glasses and napkins.

Fish knives! Outre.

Doilies. Anti Macassars. Telephones in reception rooms. Lounges. Radiograms. Gladioli

Fake grass and loads of clutter are my main ones.