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!

Generic wall art chosen to match the decor.
Light wood other than in a home office.
Glossy kitchen units
Rooms without books
Wall mounted TVs, especially over a fireplace
Bare kitchen work tops.

@WiddlinDiddlin · Today 12:26

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..

Yes to this. ^ I know a couple who have a piano shoved under the stairs in the hall. They can't play it - either one of them. Said piano just sits there untouched, gathering dust and rusting away underneath! Utterly ridiculous.

I'm glad you have them for your retirement - you will have had your monies worth by then!

We’ve got an extension with sliding doors on an old house.
sparkly quartz worktop on an island.
family pictures up on the wall (I don’t like this but DH does).

we are doomed.

I agree 100% I love having lots of books. Some of them I've had since I was a teenager (45 now) and I'll read them every 10 years or so. Having the exact same book, takes me back to the first time I read it. My teens have started reading some of them. My DH isn't a big reader, but he'll pick one of them to take on holiday etc.
I donate books that I didn't particularly enjoy or know that nobody in the family will ever want to read (biographies mostly)
It's my collection. It's not pretentious to like collecting and displaying something that gives you enjoyment. Filled bookshelves make me happy. Having an English lit degree doesn't mean you enjoy reading more than anybody else. Sometimes, it's quite the opposite.

Open plan kitchen/family room/living room looking out onto a patio with grass yawn. I hate open plan I like rooms with doors

Sky lights impossible to clean

Loads of bathrooms are a silly waste of money

Ensuites yuck go far away to poo and I don't want yo here running water

High baths you can strain your pieces getting out of

For those who don't like tvs on walls, where do you put your tv?
Mines on a tripod tv stand with a bit that concels the cables.
If I had a TV on the wall people sat opposite could see it. Where it placed in a corner people from 3 sides can view it.

*We’ve got an extension with sliding doors on an old house.
sparkly quartz worktop on an island.
family pictures up on the wall (I don’t like this but DH does).

we are doomed.*

No. Some other people wouldn't choose it themselves.

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This thread has made me think about the ubiquitous grey decor and also about that accompanying mustard accent… what to do if I moved and inherited such a colour scheme, and being on a strict budget, I would immediately paint the walls aubergine and get some charcoal in there, to darken it up.
Quite against the spirit of the thing. 🙂

Vertical blinds - looks like an office. Short curtains. Cushions on the bed. What are they for? When I'm in a hotel room the first thing I chuck on top of the wardrobe are those silly cushions. Pointless.

Thats what lamps are for! So many people use the ceiling lights and they are an awful light.

Oh, I so agree. Our village has very few cottages with hints of these modernisations because it’s a conservation area.

Friend up the lane lives in a 1990s house. They were built by a local builder and state of the art when new. However, somebody commented to me recently that they didn’t understand why the village had those “two Barrett homes down the lane”! They are nice inside but do have brown window frames, brown internal doors including a whole wall full that consists of 2 original fitted wardrobe doors and 1 en-suite door - all full-size doors.

Tried a Kindle. Hated it. Love books x

I don’t mind a bit of grey, it’s when everything is grey and looks void of life I don’t like.

Maximalism in general. Clashing prints and loads of knick knacks everywhere, it doesn’t feel very calm to me.

Kids playrooms where it’s all bright rainbow colours everywhere
I know it’s good to have colour and kids love it but the big solid rainbow colours make me feel like I’m on acid 🤣

Fake plants - I get that we all have different tastes, the world would be boring if we all liked the same stuff but fake plants? Come on! Get some real plants, they help filter the air and there’s so many varieties that need minimal maintenance.

Too much Oka furniture.

Overpriced 'faux' antique style.

At least Kindles don’t give you paper cuts!

Books seem to be almost an obsession on here. It’s very strange.

Absolutely. We have ours wall mounted, with the sky box, DH's PS4 fixed to the wall behind it, and a perspex screen over it. Our DS broke our old TV by bashing it in with a wooden toy. He has a learning disability and ASD. Unfortunately he's now tall enough to reach our TV, so we've just had to accept that he will: bash it, repetitively turn it on and off at the plug, unplug it (while you are mid watching something) and try to pull the cables out. When it's completely broken I think that will be the end of TV's in the sitting room for us.

It's in an alcove in the corner of a room on a low wooden chest. It's quite small though.

I think if you love them, you understand.
I love books.

That’s probably true.

I love reading, but don’t have any particular attachment to books as physical objects.

Got a kindle app on my iPad, use it for niche non fiction titles that Waterstones probably wouldn’t stock. Real books are my first love. The joy of walking into a bookshop….

My childhood family home was a 50s house. Very light (maybe a bit too light upstairs) and looked good with simple furniture styles. We had white wardrobes and they looked nice, they would look awful in our cottage even if we could get them to fit.

Not a fan of open plan or ridiculously large windows, instead of walls.

As DD is an interior designer: few people on this thread seem to know what design is. Basically it’s use of space to ensure the client gets what they want from their home. It’s not cushions and clocks. All of this is decoration. DD spends a lot of time utilizing space for sitting, storage, eating etc and they do supply and specify furniture but DD doesn’t get beyond curtains and sofas. The work goes into how to use the space for the best outcomes. You can take a clock away, or repaint a wall but design using bespoke fittings and clever use of space is rare to find. Anyone can buy a few cushions and pieces of art that can be removed in 30 seconds. But it’s not design.

Not exactly an interior design thing, but I hate Juliet balconies. They’re just pointless. Either build a proper balcony or just put a window in.