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 understand why people are getting upset and calling this thread judgmental and snobbish. Surely it’s a bit of fun in a safe space-I’d never dream of commenting on people’s taste in real life and would be a bit shocked if someone did it to me. My dd has moved into a flat and she’s put up shelves with pictures leaning on them and fairy lights everywhere-I tell her it’s lovely because to her it is-but would shoot myself rather than have picture shelves in my own home. I have plenty of the aforementioned sins in my house but because I’ve chosen them, am not in the least offended because someone’s making fun of them on an internet thread.

What a snobby judgemental thread. Everyone has different tastes. My home is a combination of second hand and vintage furniture, with books, plants, pictures, lots of colour, I love it. It's home. I have friends who prefer everything matching, with nothing on the walls other than family photographs. They love it. I would hate it. If I see a bare wall, I immediately think about what artworks would go on it. But that's what I like, not necessarily other people.

See above, I like the look of bookshelves full of books. I dislike kindles and like the feel of a book in my hands.

Also why do people have pots marked 'tea', 'coffee', 'sugar'? Are these in case of burglary- so the intruders can quickly find and make hot drinks? You live there so surely you know which pot is which? The mind BOGGLES!

Velour corner sofas that could sit about 20 people
All cream decor and accessories because they thing it looks Scandi but more like an IKEA showroom
Matching beds, chest of drawers, wardrobes, tables etc - no imagination and looks like a naff hotel
Wacky doormats and shower curtains
Cottage core in a new house on a housing estate

I just think it looks old-fashioned.

Just goes to show we’re all different!

Indeed it does. I think a house without books looks barren and soulless.

I feel the same about houses without carpets and plenty of soft furnishings.

Eh?

Bi-fold doors would drive me mad thinking about all the dirt floating in🫤

ANY place that is all open plan. Lounge and kitchen-diner/dining room all in one big room.

Also hate grey everywhere, and places being decorated inside all white, and grey. So soulless, and depressing.

Disagree. Books mark a time and place in a person's intellectual life. Discovering Picasso and Modigliani at 18 on a trip to Paris, for example. I look around at my library and it is my history (as a reader) - one of great discoveries, or buying and reading books while I've lived abroad, of passions for certain writers; of misspent youth (how we loved the salacious erotica from Anais Nin at age 15 while we were at the Convent school); of intellectual challenges that I would never undertake today (reading Dostoevsky and the Russian classics in my 20s); there are books that have been given to me by lovers; there are writers who have changed my outlook; that I've loved; that I've revisited many times; that I've grown to disagree with (Nin); that bring back so many memories of travel and airports, of different times and places, etc. I read a lot of biographies as well and some lives are great successes while others are tragic failures.

I've always looked forward to re-reading everything when I retire and become less mobile. Then I can re-evaluate it all.

I love being surrounded by books. Some of the art monographs I bought 20 years ago have tripled in value.

I probably sound horribly pretentious! 😂

Do you never have your back door open in the summer? How odd!

I don't understand your post. Surely if you have three pots the same then it's quicker to have them marked with what they are.

That's how I feel, @Charlize43 ! They're more than just words on a kindle screen.

As per my post (hating all grey/white..) I HATE it... Sorta like this I mean.

Fewer walls means less storage. You can't have a bookcase in the middle of a room.

The literary quote is from Anthony Powell “Books do furnish a room”.

About 20 years ago, I went to a librarian’s conference predicting the death of the book. We definitely saw the demise of the microfiche and most journals/periodicals have gone online. Books still hold onto a sizeable chunk of the purchasing at the academic library I work at. Not everything is online.

Bookshops are still popular, many people seem to prefer their holiday reading in book form.

In houses, too many books is overwhelming but none looks strange. Empty shelves are strange

Every single one of us has something in our homes that someone else won’t like, so no need for anyone to give a shit.

i have many,,

black granite worktops
gloss kitchen
wallpaper in two rooms,
Oak beams and lots of them (400 + year old period house)
wood burners,
real and original oak panelling,
glass coffee tables
plants , real and fake,
no clutter and it’s clean
velvet sofas, although not crushed velvet
walnut furniture
washing up liquid on display,
a slogan sign in the loo
a kitchen island
bar stools
carpet upstairs
2 identical sofas
rattan garden furniture
Only a few books out we are reading.
two b&m lantern candle holders a friend bought me
a sound bar
Two animal skulls.

love it all.😄

You need to look at ceiling hung wave curtains

Absolutely, and who are the unlucky coffee table users who have to sit on the school/dining chairs?

You're mad you! 😆

Oh yeah LOL! 😆

I have Earl Grey and English Breakfast tea bags in different tins. Sugar tin needs marking because it’s only needed when guests want sugar, aka rarely.

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