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.

Homes that feel generally sterile, which would probably include the grey crushed velvet mirrored furniture genre. And if there are no personal items, so just generic canvases, matchy matchy vases etc.

Glass tables.

Black and red colour schemes, which often falls into the matchy matchy way of things. Made ten times worse if the walls are just white.

Too many florals.

Themes. Especially when the person has been to buy new items to match the theme. It just makes me think of all the container ships coming from China that had to carry the right coloured vase.

Also matching toasters and kettles to a theme.

@cherry2727 Books can taken on a lot of meaning to some people, in the same way records do so it's nice to be surrounded by them. It's personal taste rather than fashion for me. I just find homes filled with books more interesting. Other people won't agree, and that's fine too.

I do not like Karate chopped cushions, they look fecking awful.

A friend came over and straightened and chopped her cushion when she was leaving. We live either side of the chopped divide.

Obviously you don't go to someone's house and tell them you don't like their taste - politeness means you say something nice about it and give a compliment.

Massive brown leather sofa is very comfortable

Plastic grass is durable and stress free

And so on if you must comment

This is exterior, but one grey set of doors on an extension or new porch when the rest of the house still has white UPVC. Either change them all or just get over it and stick with white.

I read 100% on Kindle at least two books a week. I only have one small trolley with my favourite books on it.

If anyone knows where I can find an old wooden library trolley, please let me know.

I inherited laminate flooring in my house when I bought a year ago…I’d love to replace but just way too expensive and question is with what? Real wood out of my price for such a large room ( open plan kitchen, diner, lounge)

I don't like rooms that don't have a soul. My sister-in-law likes to keep up with current trends and changes her furniture and accessories every few years. Everything is bought from b&m or the range and is very matchy. It isnt for me.

I love houses that are cluttered and mismatched with loads of colour and personal items on display.

Loads of things on here are to my taste. I love those pine kitchen cabinets that everyone hates, that 90s country kitchen style. I also love a house on Rightmove that's not been decorated for 40 years. The style matters less than the fact that it's a time capsule. When I'm rich I'd love to buy someone's parents' family home and just maintain it as it is. Which is anti my politics, keeping an empty house just coz, but it makes me sad when people's lives are expressed through their homes and just eradicated by flippers or super modern deadness.

@WhatDoesTheNannyDo There's a few lovely ones on ebay just now but unfortunately they are £££

Swaggy curtains (not seen much these days anyway).
Curtains that don't reach the floor (unless they hit the sill) or that pool on the floor.
Barstools too high with no room for your legs.
No original artwork
Everything too matchy matchy

Yep range cookers! I hate them. I have an induction hob and two ovens, which I love and find very practical.

The 'cold and clinical' comment about white walls is such an unimaginative trope on these kind of threads.

Most of my rooms are all white - I have a lot of paintings, huge plants, colourful plant pots, jewel coloured throws, rugs and cushions, and colourful glass (candlesticks, bowls). I get a lot of compliments on how cosy my house is.

None of it is wrong, it's just individual taste.

@notquiteusual our bathroom has panels and a freestanding bath. It was decorated that way when we moved in. Makes me chuckle that the panels are fashionable again for 5 minutes! The bath moves if I knock it and it's knackered the draining pipe before. Also I have bent over and bashed the bottom of my back on it several times, don't even know how. I do like it though. Suits the old place.

Years back when I was a kid we had a corner bath with 2 walls of mirrored tiles, with a huge ship image printed on them. Pine walls elsewhere and green carpet. I shouldn't love that style but it's in my DNA now. 😁

Exactly
All the walls in my house are white. They serve as a blank canvas for all my art work etc

@eyebright22 totally - I belatedly learned this after seeing what a friend of mine (arty cool friend, but not wanky in the slightest) likes house wise. The bones are basic but she adds in things that she really loves, and it looks brilliant. I think light really helps too.

I find it odd that so many people are against photos on display. I mean, why take any at all.

We have heaps on display, I love them.

I agree with many things already stated -

Fake grass
Dark window frames
Live laugh love inscription on the wall
Bath in the bedroom - a local house installed this and it didn't sell for ages. Really put people off.

I hate paint colour that is chosen without regard for the individual room / house. I love some white, grey, and magnolia rooms. Also think flow is important. But I once made the mistake of using a warm grey colour I LOVED in room A to paint room B. Room B had totally different natural lighting and the colour looked so dismal. White also made it look like a cell from an institution. Magnolia all the way for room B. I think not taking the room in to consideration and painting every room the same colour is like expecting the same dress to suit everyone.

Totally agree. My friends houses are not to my taste, but I like their homes, enjoy being in them, becsyde they are their homes and I am with them. my house will not be to their taste, but the same back.

When I say something I dislike it means I wouldn’t have it, I think that’s what most folks mean. A couple of posters have come on and got upset, but if you read it carefully nearly everything in existence has been mentioned. We all have stuff in our homes that someone else dislikes and wouldn’t have in theirs.

my house is very quirky, I love old weird antiques, and often trawl antique shops. I’ve a lot of weird shit. I have a lot of framed artwork on the walls, a lot. From inherited stuff to old charcoal drawings and quirky pop art I have bought. The sofas are huge, but they fit the room. All things some folks on here dislike.

one of my friends homes is painted white throughout with colourful blinds, cushions and rugs, she loves a bit of purple , orange and red. My house would never be white with purple, red and orange. Another friends is a rhapsody of pale grey. Again not what I would have. Another loves a sign, she’s signs with silly sayings and quotes on them everywhere. Again I’d not have this. Her house is very colourful as well.

I spend time in their homes, I enjoy being with them, you just need to look at the differences in how we decorate to know we all have very different tastes. They also clearly don’t like each others tastes as no one is decorating their houses the Same.

no one, no one decent at least, goes to a friends home and sits and thinks god this Is awful as long as it’s welcoming that’s all that matters. The fact you’d not decorate your house like it is irrelevant and they wouldn’t decorate like yours. It’s not a personal slight. It’s just different tastes

leather sofas of any kind

Everything white! So bland and hospital like

Oh and fake grass! So tacky and so so bad for the environment.