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!

Has anyone mentioned Eyelet Curtains?

An abomination!

Another one asking what is the alternative to eyelet curtains? Is it that curtains themselves are not desirable these days or just eyelet ones?

Wallpaper

Grey. Especially those silvery grey carpets many have.

Mirrored furniture. Those giant family photos on white backgrounds (I visited one house where they had matching cushion covers for the sofa a printed with the family photo 🤢

How can plants be on trend?!!! What about plants in the garden? I hope they’re still fashionable…

Feature walls
slogans decals on walls
faux things like having “a library” that isn’t filled with books anyone in the house reads. I once went into a very expensive house where an interior designer had “sourced” old French hardbacks to fill the library shelves. What’s the point?
A massive TV dominating the room, especially on the wall above a fireplace
Talking of fireplaces - a fire surround just stuck on a wall with no recess and some wood effect fire in front of it
Grey - loads of new builds now covered in this instead of magnolia
Tiny lonely pictures floating about on a wall - worse than a gallery wall IMHO.
stark overhead lighting from a single bulb
@biscuitnut (and others) yes, door knocker velvet dining chairs, what’s that all about?
massive 3 piece suite dominating the room
centrifugal furniture in a living room that looks like it’s been welded to the walls
Steel kitchens (DH says too much like a mortuary)
Metro tiles - (I like these but DH says too much like a Victorian mortuary).
Mean curtains with not enough fabric
short curtains that finish at the window sill
”art” from John Lewis
Wooden letters in a kitchen that say things like “eat” or “cook” as if the owners can’t remember what to do in the kitchen. They never have “shit” in big letters in the downstairs loo do they?

DISCLAIMER: my own house is nothing to write home about.

Ours isn't- early 1900s and joined by hall stairs landing- no through rooms except one we created (playroom through to kitchen) which has double doors so we can shut it iff. Sitting room, dining room, back sitting room , kitchen, snug/study and separate rooms. I think that's quite normal. PIL live in a semi where all the rooms are separate joined by hall. Our last house was a semi and the same.

Bookcases filled with spine-in books so you can't actually find the book you're looking for.

Although I've just discovered the concept of buying a decorative book bundle and I think I hate this more.

I just can't imagine how anyone could live with these.

The great thing about a thread like this is that everyone’s taste is going to get skewered by someone else. My sitting room is painted a deep colour, I’ve got a mid century style sofa, engineered wood flooring, metro tiles in the bathroom AND a grey bathroom floor! 😁

That's worst than people who arrange books by colour!

They really need a good poke in the eye... which reminds me:

Eyelet Curtains!

Vile.

I dislike the hotel foyer or office reception look that so many domestic interiors seem to have these days.
I don't like minimalism, neutrals, blandness and sameness.

I don't like acres of white or grey. Magnolia, beige and greige aren't my choice either, although they are at least a bit warmer.

I don't like the kitchen wall cupboards being a different colour from the under counter ones. if you're going to have a fitted kitchen, then have one that at least looks cohesive.

Grey in cool tones
Plastic plants
Artificial Orchids
Statements such as LOVE, letters, posters, stencils. Make s place look a bar
Gold handles on doors
uPVC front doors. Like a air lock of odour. Yuck

@Viewfrommyhouse that's quite a list I'd love to see your house or pics of what you like 😂.

I also hated eyelets curtains but unfortunately our walls can't hold curtain poles so we have have them

@bombastix what does that mean... An air lock of odour?

I wasn’t suggesting no houses were like that, more that it’s not a new thing that they are the way I’m used to seeing them. I grew up in a place where all the houses were turn of the century to 30’s and I honestly cannot recall seeing any as you describe. I wonder it’s an area thing.

I do like this cushion though

It would probably be exactly the same thread.

With the posters reversed.

@Charlieradioalphapapa I said to a friend once, do not go near eyelet curtains they looks like....

Now I have to have something light and smooth on the curtain pole we have to have them and actually... They are OK. Definitely depends on curtin fabric and type of house at

All ‘Sporting Memorabilia’

Unfunny framed cartoons about pheasants

@ConstitutionHill do you know the most shocking thing about that cushion? Frank looks young 😱

know this is about interiors but…people doing this to lovely period properties makes me cringe. I hate this black door/windows trend.

@Garlickit 😂

How the hell are you meant to tuck your curtains behind the radiators if the curtains are floor length?

Agreed. They work with my thin floor length linen curtains casual and easy.

The best bit about everyone hating brown leather sofas is that I picked up two from a free giving site. They were immaculate and only a couple of years old. I think the woman who gave them to me might have been slightly regretting her vanity. These will last a lot longer than the fabric sofa she was buying. I am very poor and these will last me until brown leather is back on trend.