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!

You're not paying to heat the window, you're stopping the air that's in contact with the window from getting cold and falling to the ground to create a layer of cold air on the floor. Having had many desks under windows, including double-glazed windows, I can assure you that this fall of cold air happens and is really uncomfortable if it's falling onto your desk or onto the floor under your desk. And not all double-glazing is airtight.

I'd love underfloor heating, I get cold feet really easily, but I cannot afford it.

Carved letters usually spelling a word like ‘love’, ‘perseverance’ art on the wall.

Bland, matchy matchy interiors. Like a living room with 2 identical sofas, with plain matching cushions (usually teal or mustard). Matching furniture (likely oak). Eyelet curtains to finish off the look. Not grey but literally no personality whatsoever

@HRTQueen that's ironic - as someone house hunting currently I can tell you that the top ten 5/7 on here are absolutely bloody everywhere!!!!!

Wall paper can be really nice

Some of us still need to know ...!
Yes, I've got them. They're cheaper and I can't be arsed with header tape.
Oh, hang on: they're cheaper.
That's why you all hate 'em!

Shaggy rugs :( Can't see them without thinking about dustmites and age old crusts of porridge hiding in there somewhere.

Lots of nick-nacks or (shudder) broken antiques, in places people don't have time to dust.

@Garlickit I don't like them because they weirdly remind me of ring binders when they have the metal around the circle. That and my friend (shared house) who had them in the 90's had a metal pole that made so much noise every night when she tried in vein to pull them because they were always getting stuck. Sounded like someone banging on pipes every evening.

Any room that's been subject to 'interior design'. It's a room, to be used for various purposes, or not. Certain purposeful stuff needs to be included and if it's a home, various bits and bobs accumulated to date.

Why does it need someone to come in, take your money, and design your home for you? More money than sense some people have...meanwhile...

T.H.I.N.G is happy to come and 'design' any room if ye can pay, just send your hard-earned dosh to MNIamASucker.com.

Clutter
Bathrooms with loads of bottles and other crap all over the ledges
Washing up liquid on show at the sink
Mirror furniture
Decorative tie back things on dining chairs
Anything metal on the wall
Written signs
Highland cows on anything
Front doors wrapped as Christmas presents
Dark colours
Too much dark wood

Art hung too high on walls.
Words as decor - 'Family', 'Live, laugh, love', 'Barf'
Loud wallpaper.
Feature walls.
Patterned curtains.
Carpet.
Open plan design.
Gray.
Houses without a book anywhere.
TVs on walls.
Recliner chairs.

Vertical blinds.
Low ceilings.

I love them. They're nicer than the over structured look of curtains with tape, pleats, hooks, etc.

Awful design trends which incorporate books: Turning all of the books so that the spine faces in and the pages face out. I think that this is to achieve a look of varying tones of textured beige which tones in with everything around it and doesn’t cause any distraction. It alap ensures anyone who comes into your house (or looks at the photo spread in the magazine/online) will know that you absolutely hate books and can’t bear to read anything you actually own.

I can’t unsee it now but it always pops up periodically and no one in the comments (full of praise) seems to notice.

Anyway what do I know - I’ve just drawn my eyelet curtains for the night after tiptoeing across my biscuit coloured carpets.

He’s a little shit! In fairness he is also ancient, smelly, and I’m pretty sure has the cat equivalent of Alzheimer’s. I’m going to have to replace the sofa when he eventually shuffles off this mortal coil (hopefully not for a while yet), as I can never quite shift the lingering door of cat wee. Which is made doubly worse by the fact that I love that sofa, it’s incredibly comfortable and the most expensive piece of furniture I own!

I'll be calling my curtains ring binders from now on 😂 (Maybe)

I love my little house, and it has so much of what people on this thread hate 😂 Metro tiles, navy walls, plants, TV on the wall as there’s no room anywhere else…

@Damaged27 i may start one!! We’ll be doing small scale reno/full re-decorate on whatever we buy and I’d like some ideas of timeless taste, especially with a none period house - this is all I’ve ever had but cannot afford one in the location we need presently.

Yes!! Keep the door firmly closed on the chaos is my motto.

Eyelet curtains are the kings of all curtains. Those bloody flat rail things with the fiddly plastic sliders and the fiddly hooks break so easily and remind me of student dorm curtains, which always had missing hooks and broken sliders so the curtain couldn't be properly closed.

Chartreuse wall paint. Extra horrifying if it's combined with some weird blue. No room or furniture looks good with it. It's just a Pisang Ambon with cream green vomit hell.

Books that are arranged by colour. I hate everyone who does this unless they are a small child.

Most full boho deco rooms. Often its so fucking beige with just whites, greys and rattan hats/mirrors/baskets/bowls/ chairs. Occasionally you see someone do it right with a bold wall colour and furniture that fits but that is an exception.

Most gothic decor. On occasion someone will manage to do it right with a graceful dramatic flair and I will love everything about it. However most of the time it looks like some weird hoarders room filled to the brim of tacky cheap shit with skulls, ghosts, bugs and bats and black walls full of frames with "dark" prints. Oh and the bottles with "absinth". A room where taste became depressed and sad and died.

Radiators at windows.

You can't have full length curtains or if you have them, you can't shut them or you are just heating the area behind them and outer space. Or you have short curtains and tuck them behind the radiator which looks utterly shite.
Gloss kitchens
Open plan.......I need to be able to close doors to hide mess and I can't ignore dirty dishes if they are staring me in the bloody face when I am watching The Apprentice.
Black woodwork
Beige bathroom tiles
Marshmallow leather sofas

Grey!!!

Grey laminate flooring!!!

Did I mention, grey?!?!?!?!?!?

Open plan main floor.

(And anything that looks remotely Hinch!)

Plastic fantastic…

plastic polyester carpets, plastic vinyl floors, plastic worktops, plastic uPVC windows, plastic furniture… All finished off with a big shaggy plastic polyester/acrylic rug just to fill the air with plastic dust.

The laminate or vinyl planks that look like grey wood.

I love wood floors that are warm coloured, and I accept fake wood in a similar tone as a necessary budget constraint, but I don't understand all the grey. And often it doesn't match the wood in other parts of the room, like the trim.