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!

Read them again.

Don't be so ridiculous. Snobby and judgemental indeed! 😆 People are just giving their opinions on what they dislike.

Maybe the internet is not the place for you @DiamondGazette

Dirt?? You mean the beautiful outdoor world that we lived out in for most of human existence? 🤯 That's too sad for words.

The Instagram account house to home at no1 is my idea of hell

I don’t hate bifold doors but I don’t like that a house with white windows often has grey of black bifolds. It looks wrong

Grey
Slogans on the walls
Grey
White towels
Grey
Pictures broken up into three slabs
Grey
Kitchen cabinets without handles
Grey

I think the bare windows adds to the cold, gloomy look.

Anthracite windows. Like brown windows in the 1980s. Dates. White is classic

I dislike

" the everything bought on the same day in the same shop " look

Grey, Grey,Grey

Carpets generally.

Fake Grass. No never never ever.

Eyelet curtains.

Gloss floor tiles.

Pictures too high.

Overhead light only and ice white bulbs.

Too much stuff.

I prefer open space to objects and I'm always trying to maintain that. I couldn't relax in a maximalist house. So that would be a no.

I like books. I didn't realise I was being pretentious or showing off. I have limited myself to a single floor to ceiling bookshelf though and donated lots of carrier bags full of books when it was built.

I love plants, greenery and a vase of flowers.

I think Dunelm is a total gold mine. There is some great stuff to be unearthed there.

Overall each to their own. I have some lovely friends whose homes I dislike. It's not that important.

@Alondra · Today 06:01

I disagree. The reason why open space layouts are so popular is because they make the most of the space available without walls.

There are superb ducted range hoods in the market to absorb smells from the kitchen without affecting the rest of the house. Dirty dishes go in the dishwasher or get washed as they are used. The beauty of an open plan kitchen is being able to talk and participate in a conversation while cooking.

Frankly, some of you should join the XXI century.

Are you having a laugh? Open plan is soooooooo 1970s. Awful! 😫

I think YOU are the one who needs to get into the XXI century!

Also, you can't disagree with an opinion! D'oh!

Bifold doors
Too much grey
Hotel chic rather than homeliness
Tab top curtains (very 90s)
Over manicure look whis clearly for style not substance
Gloss kitchens
2 different colour kitchen cabinets in the same room
Large kitchens with no table cos there's a sofa wedged in instead
Sofa wedged in kitchen
Stainless steel worktops
Grey windows in white houses
Black and white colour scheme
Open plan

Each to their own though. Others would hate my home.

Grey - dark grey carpets, lighter grey walls, black bedding and furniture. I hate it! It’s so miserable and cold-looking.

I also dislike black kitchen units and white too to a lesser extent (looks like a vet’s not a home)

Patterned carpets with vertigo-inducing swirls; red and burgundy carpets; carpets in bathrooms.

Yes. Both are awful. Several of my neighbours have grey windows and grey front doors. So ugly.

I am loving the hatred for all grey! Looks like the grim and 'everything grey' era is over! Hoorah! 👏

I’m with you guys. We live in an old cottage and I think it would look wrong if too modern or too minimalist. That said, I have some quite modern art ceramics and framed prints and bit of mid century kitsch - storage box that’s fake wood, table lamp that belonged to my parents.

That crazy paving look diagonally decorated grey /gold/ yellow walls (often in living rooms of houses where they dont appear to own books). It looks like someone misunderstood the 80s.

Ill defend Eric and Marvin (cheese plant and elephant ear) to the DEATH...

They make my bathroom look like a jungle. I like showering in a jungle. If you don't like showering/weeing in a jungle, thats fine, piss off and shower/wee in your own home 😁

Some choices aren't really choices though, I can't have a billionty bookcases, I grew up in a house that had more books than a public library, but I need the wallspace in this tiny mid terrace for other things. I no longer live in a five bed four storey mid victorian semi, my books are on my kindle, not my walls.

I wish I had period features to enhance, but this is a late 70s ex council house, it never had any features to speak of, if you exclude nothing being square or true and a complete lack of sensible heating system!

I can take the piss out of everything being grey, but in reality rather than a silly MN thread, I think you should live how you want to live in your own home. If media walls and diamante/mirrored/silver everywhere really floats your boat, have at it and get amongst it, be happy.

I do despise people who have to follow the latest trend because it is the latest trend rather than because they truly love it. Have some courage in your own ideas and tastes people!

Yep I have seen a few houses with brown window frames in my village - and also grey. Bleurgh! White is much better in most houses.

@OhNoWhatIf Actually, one of the best bifold situations I've ever come across was some friends who were renting in a posh part of clapham. It was originally a fairly small terraced house with a smallish garden and at some point, it had been extended, making the garden super small. But it was done brilliantly - the kitchen extension became a kitchen/diner with bifold doors which, in the summer, turned the entire kitchen /dining/outdoor area into one seamless space so that the fact that the garden was small didn't matter.

Then they had the original front room and, I think, what had perhaps been a utility to create a fairly large formal front room/lounge.

It was really lovely!

@lookwhatyoudidthere if your pots are all the same, the labels are handy side eyes DH who recently filled the "coffee" one with sugar

Ohhhhhhh and I also reserve the right to HATE it when people have a 'talking point' object.

A piano, a spinning wheel, a whatever the fuck... object they do not use, do not actually know anything about, have zero desire to learn about or use... is often broken or put together incorrectly.

What are the conversations people are having about these objects?

Mrs Thing: 'Oh, I see you have a spinning wheel, do you spin?'
Ms Blah: 'Oh no, it's a talking point... I got it in a market on Shetland.. it's terribly old...'
Mrs Thing: 'Oh... do you know the Mother of All is broken and the flyer is missing?'
Ms Blah: 'Ehh.. the what now?'
Mrs Thing: 'Well what a lovely broken antique you have. And such a gripping conversation this has been...'

If you have three pots, that sit beside each other day in day out, surely you know which contains tea, sugar and coffee? So who is the labelling for? A child? A guest? Someone else? Full disclosure: I'm an interior designer - those pots are banned from tasteful product edits. This doesn't apply to incredibly old people, or if you suffer with dimentia or loss of sight.

I don’t really get the problem with books. I think we have about 3,000 books and not an English Lit degree between us. I read fiction on Kindle and Libby or get it at the charity shop and then return it there but the books I have are important to me, have sentimental value or are reference books for my work.

I am working my way through the older books and reading the annotations of late relatives and finding old book marks that tell a story in themselves. I’m not sure what I’m trying to prove but what it does prove is that I’m too sentimental, a slow reader and bit of a hoarder (or “maximalist” as I see I can now call this failing).

That does sound lovely. The only other thing would put me off is that we have dogs so I would be forever cleaning the glass. We also don't let the dogs on most of the garden (fenced off) so it just wouldn't work for us.

Maybe if I win the lottery one day and move.

They are to help me because my family don't put things back the same way.

I'm sure you are a wonderful interior designer but I'm keeping my pots.

You've just proven my point, someone who lives in your house doesn't read the labels in any event. So the ugly labelling system doesn't even work! Awesome. My pots sit in the same place/position, so I know which contains what. I bet yours do too?