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!

Grey grey grey
Plants indoors. Gross 🤢
Fake panels on walls 🤣

Those landscaped gardens with a large pale slab patio and path then fence to fence grass. Fake grass would put me off buying a house. Joyless.

Oh god yes, gallery walls. They're dated already.

Pale pink velvet sofas.

Rose gold anything.

Yeh. What happens when they go out of “fashion” and you’ve lopped great chunks out of your wall

I hate media walls.

Neon wall lights anywhere other than a tween’s bedroom.

When everything matches rather than compliments.

Black and white. Or worse, black white and red.

‘Cottage core’. Particularly in new builds/ other very much NOT cottage-y homes

Stencils

Fake grass!

Love my granite worktop - it's in such good condition (17 years old) it will be reused when we redo our kitchen! If I were house hunting that would be a huge plus!

I hate range cookers, open plan, the 'family rules' things, massive chalk boards, farmhouse kitchen style in a newbuild nowhere near a farm or even the countryside, pale carpet in high traffic areas and grey.....

@bananasstink nothing wrong with plants per se just they were on trend so everyone has them.

My silver crushed velvet sofa 😂 It was the cheapest I could find!
No matching crystal-silver accessories though, I don't live a Disney ice palace.

Shaker style kitchens. Tediously ubiquitous.
And grey of course.

White
Grey

Bleugh

Metro tiles. Just degrades every kitchen or bathroom to looking like a public lavatory circa 1974.

Bifold doors on the back of a house especially if the house isn't a modern house.

Fake panelling.

Dark paint.

Feature walls with wallpaper especially hideous poppy wallpaper.

Houseplants everywhere.

Grey.

Bland front doors with a thin vertical window and chunky vertical handle.
Character houses that have the exterior rendered flat and bland and now look wrong compared to the neighbours.
Plastic grass.

Shades of grey everywhere.
Those words on walls and signs that make icky claims like “we’re making memories…”
sofas that are bought for looks and not comfort.
Slippery leather sofas.
Vertical blinds. Hate them.
Poncy coffee table books but no bookshelves.
Giant TVs that take up a whole wall.

Open plan
No hallway
Curtains that don't reach the floor

Grey, obviously. Mirrored anything (except mirrors) and velvet dining chairs with those weird silver door knocker things on the back. Anything with words on - pictures, clock, decals. And although you said interior, exterior I hate hot tubs, painted wood garden offices and plastic grass.

Eyelet curtains

I tend to like most things, even if I wouldn’t choose them myself, but my one major ick is industrial chic. Very popular on Grand Designs of old. Bare concrete floors and exposed pipes etc. They spent a million quid to live in a warehouse.

I love houseplants! So homely! Especially in a kitchen/snug. Not so much in the formal rooms. I think that the 'giant office type statement plants vibe has had its day though (although I personally love them!).

Built in wardrobes.
Bifold doors on open plan kitchen-diner-living space.
Curtains that aren’t full length.
Grey carpets.
Huge wall mounted TVs.

love plants and big windows and high ceilings.

Oh and white pebbles anywhere - in fire place, picture frames, plant pots.

Shaker style kitchens. Tediously ubiquitous.

@BinkyBeaufort what kitchen style isn’t ubiquitous?

Tab top are the best but I much prefer eyelet to pencil pleat!