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 think is where taste comes into though. Trends do come and go but todays paintings of highland cows were yesteryears painting of "wings of love".

They're really useful if you can't have a balcony, if it's not suitable for the building, and they allow you to have that benefit.

For what???

I actually have one and there seems no discernible use to it whatsoever

Oh indeed. Can’t beat it. All the goodies on offer. Bliss x

Sex dungeons, large taxidermied animals (particularly gnus), dining tables with inbuilt fishtanks, rugs made from woven twigs, lack of potato storage.

Because you can open a door wide and sit by the window, it's more of the outdoors in. It's better to have a balcony, but if you can't have one, they're nice. I used to sit by mine with a book on a pleasant evening.

Our TV is on a purpose built 'TV cabinet' that DH built. It's a bit like the one pictured here. (Pic 1 in medium oak.) Holds our blu-ray player (that also plays DVDs,) our Freeview box, our playstation, our soundbar, and the 46" TV (obvs!) Also has a couple of little cupboards to hold things - like remote controls, game controllers, information booklets for the electrical items we have on/in the cabinet, DVDs etc...

I also dislike TVs on walls. Especially when it's two thirds of the way up the wall/over the fireplace. (Like on pic 2 on the cream painted wall.....) It would give me a bad neck. 😬

I can't get past fake grass under any circumstances tbh. It makes me wince. It's a green plastic rug.

Anything else is better.

( And Just going on visuals here obvs the environmental impact is grim . Never mind the hygiene side of it. )

It just takes up space that could be better used for something else, particularly if it faces on to a road (as mine does). Opening a window works perfectly well, or going to sit in a park if you insist on being outside. Sadly all the flats around here have the stupid non-balcony things.

Mine opened onto a garden and had views of a park beyond. It was lovely. Each to their own.

That picture reminds me I don’t like those ladder shelving things either.

Such a weird response to plants indoors.
They are good for the air, especially specific ones for the bedroom, and they look lovely, I’ve got them everywhere

That might be nicer, particularly if you had sliding doors rather than the inwards opening ones. There just is no point to them if they’re almost straight on to an A-road or a car park though, which pretty much all of them around here are!

Controversial, but I HATE kitchen islands. Too clunky and heavy looking. Much prefer a large prep table.

ooooh, me neither. My older DD and her DH had one a few years ago, and I hated it, but couldn't tell her that! 😆

Oh, that's not my home btw @ZebraPensAreLife It's a pic I got off google to show (roughly) what our TV cabinet looks like!

With you on the gnus.😂

Don't hate them, but not a fan. I would never elect to have one.

Me too - they take up too much space and never look right.

Yeah I have about 20 plants in my house! 😬 LOVE them! 😃

Bling
Grey
Family photos made into canvases
In fact Any photos turned into canvases🤣🤣
Wall paper that looks like books instead of real books
Gold coloured taps etc
Laminate flooring
Original features removed
Radiators in front of chimney breasts
Removed chimney breasts
Fake grass
Gardens with all greenery removed ie just fences, gravel etc.
Stone flooring coated in a shiny sealant
Gloss paint
Open plan kitchen, dining, sitting room. I’d have to put the walls back
Bling, bling and more bling

You can have book cases distributed around a bigger room without needing a wall.

Absolutely@Alondra bookcases behind sofas or forming in themselves a partial partition ie not going to the ceiling
( although I do detest open plan )

I don’t like period features removed, although there are some I’m glad our cottage doesn’t still have. Namely fireplaces upstairs, we just wouldn’t have enough wall space if they were still in. We didn’t take them out. The more ‘modern’ bit of our house is Victorian and there was definitely an outside loo attached to the house because the builder wrote on the brickwork the year when the outside door was bricked up and it became the downstairs loo 😂

Kitchen islands. Very dated and vulgar imo.

Ditto hot tubs. Discustin 🤮

Writing on walls obviously.

I don’t understand the posters saying you shouldn’t have loads of books on display because you can’t possibly have read them. I have read well over a thousand books. Books make me feel happy and cosy.

I hate those dining chairs with giant ring pulls on the back. So ugly

Totally this. Books are my personal history, my comfort blanket, my refuge. I’ve got loads I haven’t read yet and the thought of all that reading to come makes me tingle.