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 don’t care what other people have usually and tbh it’s nice to go somewhere that looks different.

Things wouldn’t have -
Pine. Mainly because my parents had a lot of pine or pine effect furniture.
Ornaments and shite everywhere, I dust enough as it is and don’t want to create more work for myself.
Same goes for high gloss surfaces, very unforgiving. Hats off to people that maintain it well.

Mirrored furniture, they look absolutely hideous I don't even want to imagine having to clean it all

The majority seem to hate grey, yet it’s everywhere☹️
I don’t like the washing machine and tumble dryer in the kitchen/family room.
Books and plants make a room, their absence seems strange to me.

I'm quite cheered by this. Our not-touched-since-the-90s home doesn't have any of the things most listed!

Interior design. Just the words smack of judgement and snobbery.

Considering people in Gaza are living in mortal peril the entire thread is kind of tasteless. Bonkers how we can live a life side by side with people in the worse of circumstances.

Surely most MNs threads are redundant in this context!

Everyone has different tastes, mine happen to be mid century furniture, vintage glass and lots of colour. But what does annoy me is people who buy in lots of tat (b and m, etc) every few months in a new colour/style and throw out or try and flog the perfectly good previous stuff because it's the wrong colour.

Bloody hell, get a sodding clue on the environmental impact of all this shite going into landfill and the energy used to create it

Live in a very old house and don't tend to move with any strange 'trends' that are coming and going. We can't afford it for one thing!

A few things that might make me raise my eyebrows in another house would be no books anywhere, carpets everywhere (especially downstairs) and fake grass. Fake grass is by far the worst offender here - it should be outlawed at once.

We installed high gloss about 15 years ago, when we loved the look. Tastes have moved on (including mine) and we probably wouldn't have it again. BUT it is very easy to maintain and I like the way that the light bounces of the cabinets at certain times of day - our kitchen feels very airy.

Crushed velvet
Mirrored or diamante or leather furniture
Carpet with a really obvious pile that brushes up
Schemes which are matchy matchy, three colours tops (unless neutrals/white/beiges)
Schemes where you can pick out a theme, eg industrial, country chic, nautical.
Holiday souvenir ornaments
Black
Grey
Red
Especially all three together
Vertical blinds
Ill fitting curtains round a period window bay
Excessive kitchen tiling (we had a whole wall)
Wallpaper scale that is out of proportion for the room
Furniture with no legs so sits flat to the ground with no space underneath
Too small rugs
Too small pictures on the wall (better a gallery wall then)
Very obvious laminate (with lots of 'grain') especially when it's too orange
Frosted glass internal doors

I think your dislikes to some extent come from the type of property you live in and what you get used to.

Me too, it’s so unbearably pretentious and cringe yet also really unimaginative

I'm going to bite on the books front. I love to read, but live in a small house with limited shelving so although I have hundreds of books on my kindle I have a very limited supply of physical books in my house. Good to know I'd be judge by so many people for not having stacks of books everywhere.

Same! I love to read but we just don't have the space to store physical copies of books! All our books are either kindle or borrowed from the library. My kids have hundreds though!

You could start a drinking game with these threads. One shot every time someone mentions
Grey
B and M
Live love laugh
Their own tasteful carefully curated decor

You'd be absolutely wasted before you got to page 2! 🤣

@sorestupid
And do you buy items rather than ‘source’ them?
is your house not full of curated pieces?
is your home a bit untidy or is it ‘eclectic’

I’m a holidaying horder myself.

Wouldn't selling old decor be better for the environment then throwing it away?

The thing that confuses me about the landfill argument is that the stuff has already been made? So if it wasn't bought it would end up there anyway.

Lots of these aren't "design" but to do with money. Cheap laminate, frosted doors and badly fitting curtains could be bad landlords or lack of cash more than a style choice.

The question with the landfill is that by you buying it , that triggers the next thing to be made - if people didn't buy so much there would be less made

My own dislike is when things are always being changed

to add to the apparent interior disasters that I love:

kitchen island
panelling, fake or otherwise, in period homes
stair runner
carpet in bedrooms

We don’t have sofas up against the wall but pretty much all other furniture is

Wallpaper feature walls with those awful big red flowers and grey or black background.

MDF panelling

Mirrored furniture

Marble dining tables with big upholstered grey chairs

LED strip lighting.... especially the stuff that constantly changes colour

Anything Hinch.

The kitchen in our old house got very little natural light (north facing with a brick wall outside the window and glass in the door). We replaced the old units with white gloss cabinets and a wooden worktop and it really did make a big difference to how bright it looked as the light it did get seemed to bounce off them. They were so easy to keep clean too. I absolutely loved them and wish I still had that kitchen!

This type of thread is always interesting because it always creates the same effect. The first few posters will name a handful of fairly innocuous things and thereafter everyone else will pile on to repeat the same few things. It's a crowd effect. However, it seems impossible to believe that if, in isolation of this thread, someone was posed the question as to which interior design things they hated, they would jump to 'eyelet curtains' or 'kitchen island' in such numbers.

Surely everyone's house is a product of what they can afford and when they can afford it, combined with what was there when they moved in that remains serviceable, or that would be wasteful and expensive to replace.

Considering your own taste to be impeccable whilst looking down on the taste of others is to fail to acknowledge the wide range of likes and dislikes that make us who we are.

This thread is a perfect description of capitalism in action. Everyone told to do one thing do they do it. 5 years later that’s suddenly “wrong” “out” “eww” so the sheep spend thousands complying with the “new rules”.

No wonder the planet is fucked.

I'm always curious as to why people get offended reading these threads. There's stuff that's been mentioned which I have, but either a) I have it because I love it and therefore don't care what people think or b) I have it because I can't afford to replace it and therefore don't care what people think!

It's just a bit of fun, and I think it's interesting to see what people do and don't like at this point in time – and it would be interesting to compare it to a similar thread posted 5 years ago where the worst offenders in this thread would probably have been considered the height of good taste!.

Exactly
Posters have mentioned several items that I have and I don’t take it personally.