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!

@pinotmore eyelet curtains are also sold in all the cheap shops, having made to measure proper ones is expensive. A lot of this is just middle-class differentiation. I'm not saying I don't do it myself, I wouldn't have a grey/diamante sofa and cushions, but I am aware of it. Except for bifold doors, I don't even know what those are really!

I'm with you! Never owned anything vintage (haven't the money) but I do like old and colourful and comfortable. I still miss the autumn-foliage tapestry lounge suite my mum and I had for twenty years - bought secondhand and lasted until our cats effectively gutted it. Loved its colours. My pictures are from op shops or online and are things that appeal to me, they've sod all to do with any decorative trends.

Grey walls, grey washed wooden floors, no art on the wall, everything matching, glitzy shiny things, velvet, boho, instagram perfect sterile homes, clutter, large rooms with not the right size furniture, rug in the middle of the floor (should go under sofa legs), not enough mixture of things (feeling stuck in one time period), open plan, shelves with meaningless stuff, no shelves, no books, no pops of colours anywhere, shabby chic, all latest trends, oh the list goes on.

i really like Page Wassel's you tube channel. Some great inspiration there and what we shouldn't do to our homes.

Of course it goes underneath the sink!

Decor can be changed, my view is that if someone has made an effort with decor , it's been a well loved house. Doesn't matter if you like it.

Eyelet curtains.

Future historians will discover this was the turning point in the downfall of Civilisation.

oh and art that everyone else has ( have your own style) massive family photos above fireplace and sofa

These things are very individual. I am a minimalist who likes 1960s styles and paired down design and my brother is an antiques dealer. His house looks like Victorian parlour, dark paint and floral's everywhere. I like it and it is a totally cohesive look. It would drive me mad to live in it, too busy.

I don't understand the hate for plants although I don't have any as I travel too much. Worse than that - I have fake flowers 😂

Yes - I've been puzzling throughout this thread about what is so awful about eyelet curtains and of course, it is that they are cheaply/easily available! I am the only adult in my house and not that 'handy', and not that well off either and prefer to spend on holidays/days out etc. Eyelet curtains to me are affordable and easy to get/hang, so a win! Throughout most of my adult life I haven't had the time, knowledge or money to get made to measure and really dislike pencil pleat and pelmets. I do have wooden blinds now that were made to measure, but maybe they are seen as outdated now?

I really don’t understand the hate for eyelet curtains! Tab tops never pull across easily and let light in at the top. Pencil pleat are annoying with the small hooks (and I personally don’t like the look of overly pleated curtains anyway). So that just leaves eyelet 🤷‍♀️

Grey Crushed Velvet Eyelet Curtains with Diamanté tie backs.

I'm sorry to have written this, but we need to protect the children.

Black bifold doors when all the other windows are white. Likewise dark modern frame windows to rear or property that has classic Victorian or Victorian style sag windows at the front

I don't look down on people whose interior choices I dislike and I so agree that often choices are dictated by the money available.

If I didn’t have all my old tat, accumulated over decades, I would rather buy whatever cushions, curtains and bits and pieces were available from the Range, Dunhelm, Oxfam etc than have to sit there looking at cheerless bare walls and bare surfaces.

And sometimes you just have to compromise, or make the most of what you've got.
For example, I had to have laminate flooring in my hall because I can't afford the parquet I really want. I ran out of money after putting it down in the rooms.
I have wooden kitchen units, which are quite old, not pine but something a bit beiger and in good nick. I quite like them, even though others would shudder. I cheered them up with colourful ceramic knobs.
I have (shock horror) very dated random chequerboard tiling, in great colours, in the kitchen, which I'm keeping. They go well with the bright yellow walls and dark green everything else.

Omg, please don't say 'pops' of colour, it's just so awful

I’ll go out on a limb and admit to being a maximalist. I have a fear of anything matching. I like to source (what I consider) to be beautiful vintage pieces. I once got roasted on a thread saying the poster should add some colour to their curtains but my pet hate is neutrals and greys and anything sourced from B and M or Dunelm. I like things to have meaning so pick stuff up when travelling to remind me of somewhere nice. Everyone is different though and I totally get a lot of people would hate my ‘arty’ house full of books and clutter but it’s mine.

I would like to add a bit more 'personality' to my house (while staying pretty minimalist) by adding finds that jump out at me, but I'm just not very good at it . I have no boldness or confidence in my own taste, so I tend to just buy things that I think will go with the room.

Reading posts about curtains, I was reminded I hate them. I have vertical blinds upstairs and roller blinds downstairs. I love blinds, hate curtains.

Pinch pleat? (Also quite dated) or swags and tails? 🤣

We have quite narrow windows in proportion to our rooms and eyelet curtains require less fabric so (imho) look less bulky than pencil tape ones and allow more light in

The problem with newish terms like 'maximalist' are that they are often used as an excuse and apology for hoarding.

'I'm a maximalist - I have every copy of the Daily Mail You magazine since 1982.'

I don't understand the hate for bifold doors? I bloody love a bifold door out the back. It makes entertaining and summer SO MUCH nicer. I just don't understand why people don't like it. I mean, I can understand not actively wanting it, but that's different to being outraged by their existence?

I also hate no art on walls. even though I have very little on my walls. It drives me crazy.

Re fake grass: I do believe very strongly that if you must have a garden, you need to make sure it’s a haven for wildlife. If you don’t have the time or interest levels to look after a garden and just want a bit of outdoor space to put washing and decking and a couple of chairs out, get an apartment with a balcony like me.

Big letters of the alphabet that just sit on a coffee table doing nothing. Absolutely pointless, unless they are to remind the occupant of the letter of their first name.

This thread is making me laugh on this miserable Monday morning 😂 Agree with pretty much all of it but mostly:

Chairs / stools with door knockers on the back (why?!?!)
Anything grey / silver crushed velvet
"Gallery" walls with a load of generic, mass produced prints
Prints with "This family is the perfect blend of love and chaos", "We're all crazy in here" or "Mummy runs off fizz and chocolate" or anything similar. Vom.
Red gloss kitchen units
Astroturf

But the absolute worse of all are those massive canvases of a family photo shoot bought off Wowcher or Groupon where everyone is in coordinated clothing and posing completely unnaturally.

There is a lot of snobbery hate (or disdain) for B and M, Dunelm, The Range etc and yet I'm surprised all the people turning their nose up at them, can recognise where the offending items come from, presuming they dont shop there themselves?
I wouldn't recognise things that came from eg Liberty, Heals, selfridges because I dont shop there and not familiar with their style. If someone had the same John Lewis lamp or IKEA wardrobe I'd recognise it or notice a pattern i saw when i was last in Next and my SIL has the same Dunelm lampshade as me. (We can go to MN interior sins confession together!)

In the strange rule of Dunelm (95% twiggy shit, 5% decent stuff) I searched for ages for some good quality, plain, grey wool cushion covers to go on the seat cushions of my wooden windsor back armchairs. Reader I found them in Dunelm for £12 each.