To ask your interior design hates

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For me it’s got to be those massive bloody clocks made up of parts which get stuck to the wall. We’re house hunting at the moment and they’re in almost every kitchen. Those and navy walls nearly always coupled with wicker furniture and cheese plants - it feels like such a ‘done’ look now.

Interested to hear yours!

I can't believe people are coming for the plants, houseplants fit in perfectly with the Victorian aspidistra vibe, modern/Ikea vibe. That said, I am not fond of the trend for cactus (cacti?) because they are too spiky and not plant-y enough for me, I don't want a desert vibe in my house, so if I get given one I put it in the patio and if it lives, I'm happy for it.

I love plants ..but only a few and I inherited a large palm and a large umbrella tree from my dad so definitely not a trend here!
We have the hated bifolds and in summer they are glorious... the inside joins the outside!
No grey though... my house has mismatched multicoloured sofas, a coffee table made of railway sleepers (weighs a ton!) and wall to wall book cases.

That's the only thing I judge... houses without books look souless to me. As do houses without a dog or cat

Magnolia, borne from many years of renting.
Macrame
Slogans
Carpet in bathrooms
Shiny floor tiles
Gloss kitchens, especially red ones
open plan

I have no idea what these clocks made up of parts are. I don't think I've ever seen one!

Eyelet Curtains.

Designed by Satan.

Grey everywhere and those letters signs that read Soak, Eat, Get Naked, Cook, etc as if the inhabitants are stupid enough to forget what they are meant to do in the kitchen or the bath.

But the ones that really make me boak are those that read gin or wine o’clock. WTF? What kind of empty life you need to have to make a fuss of having a drink at home?

Panelling in none period homes….in new builds it’s worse 😵😵😵….also everything white, beige, grey or monotone black and white….fake marble fake wood…..none crystal chandeliers…..plastic plants….

Can someone explain to me what is so heinous about eyelet curtains? Educate me please!

do we live in the same house?!

this is the the only reply on this whole thread I agree with 100% (high five? 🖐🏻)

My mum's cheese plant has been going over 45 years in her house, this is not a passing trend.

It's going to be a heritage plant, like a heritage piece of furniture.

Also pleated front curtains! They're the nicest ones in my eyes!

I'd love an island but my kitchen isn't big enough.

Charlize43, I am with you on this. My daughter has decided to decorate her first house in a mid-century way (in fairness, in a mid-century house). We have had a right laugh with her Nana and Grandpa at some of the things she was looking for, me saying it was going to be impossible, everyone chucked that stuff out in the 80s. We managed to find the exact sideboard I had as a child, it was dreadful (£445 !!!!, she did not buy it because first flat, low income, but my dad put it in a skip when they moved in the '90s because he said "no one will ever want any of this old fashioned stuff - he is regretting that now) and plenty of other "horrors", to many to mention, but including melamine kitchen table (again £170 on a trendy site (and again skipped by my Dad). These G plan, mid-century "monstrosities" bane of my teenage-hood years (my words, I realise some people might like them) are going for an absolute fortune these days. She has persevered and got some furniture she likes and can afford (mainly charity shops) to furnish her first house, and whereas I don't love it and would not want to live in it, it isn't grey. Going back to the OP ask, I'm not that keen on interior design that does not reflect the overall age of the house, but I realise practicality has to come in somewhere. Great thread, despite the hating of grey xx

Any signs which mention prosecco

Signs that say :

Live, Laugh, Love Prosecco

Family is Everything

It's Gin O'clock

Things I genuinely dislike and wouldn’t have in my home because they don’t appeal to me:

That biscuit brown shade of carpet that people get because it’s a practical, not too light, neutral colour. It just never seems to tie in well to any other colours used in rooms.

Try hard decorative objects that the owner is desperately hoping will become a conversation piece.

Geometric wallpaper.

Mismatched carpets in different rooms. I like one flooring choice throughout the upstairs (barring bathrooms of course) and similar downstairs but not always as easy to achieve downstairs.

Neutral kitchens (usually bright cream or white) with dark or wood worktops and then every removable item is one single colour. The coffee canisters, the kettle, blind etc. It’s almost always red! Whenever people talk about a ‘splash of colour’ on here this is what I picture and think nooooo.

Jumbo cord sofas

I’ve tried to post things that aren’t just ‘anything that’s been popular in the last 5 years’ as I do think that’s what a lot of the things that other posters are mentioning are. We see so much of other people’s homes these days that it’s only natural that they will all start to look more alike.

I love gold coloured light switches and plugs. I know it gives some of my friends and family the ick. For some people silver is the only colour. I would prefer white as an alternative.

I'm not fashionable and have decorated each place we have lived the same. My sister has grey laminate throughout and grey sofas. Not what I would choose in my own house, but her home always looks nice.

Not massively keen on:
Ensuite bathrooms
TVs hung above a fireplace.
Hot tubs
Fucking wind chimes.
Karate chop cushions.
Furniture scale that doesn't fit the room. Like single beds in large, double sized rooms, or massive sofas in a tiny living room.

Vertical radiators.

You would all hate my home 🙈

Feature walls
Grey anywhere
Live, Laugh, Love and their ilk
Black everywhere
An entire wall of family photos
Leather sofas you know the ones I mean
Anything beige especially beige everything
Laminate floors everywhere
Gas fires

I am fascinated and love other people's interior design, all of them. Find it fascinating.

Butlers sinks, too bloody low for anyone over 4' tall. I get backache trying to wash up in them.

unfitted carpets are large rugs, especially the ones like flying carpets

We need a thread on what people actually like because I don't think anyone likes anything

@ghostyslovesheets most semis I know, of all ages, have their doors at opposite sides and are joined by the main rooms and not the hall, stairs and landing.