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!

No discussion. Just a slow, painful death.

My youngest DD bought this for me for my bedside table when she left home for university as our family nickname for her was 'mouse' when she was little. I love it and always will. I don't care that it is a gold animal lamp. https://courthouseinteriors.com/products/gold-mouse-lamp-sitting?variant=19797856845953&currency=GBP&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campai
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That’s gorgeous @BewitchedorBewildered

My interior design style is to always put a glass vase stuffed with bubble wrap on top of internal features 🤣

Same, I love a corner sofa because comfort trumps beauty in a sofa. Just no crushed velvet, studs, grey or geometric fabric please.

Grey, crushed velvet, and live laugh love wall decals.

Open plan.

Glass dining tables.

Fake flowers.

You're probably right, it is easy to offend isn't it. I mean I've got a grey sofa!!!

Why have a sofa that seats 2 when you can seat 10. But each to their own!

Loads! Now it's called Timeless, New White, or something like Washed Linen 😏

We bought new Tetrad sofas last year. They're beautiful and also comfy. But not nearly wide enough for DH and I to lie next to each other watching a film. Also the base cushions are feather filled and weigh the same as a small car. Big mistake. But because they're from Tetrad they can survive a direct missile hit. Hoping to palm them off on DD when she moves in with her boyfriend later this year.

On an opposite note to the top short eyelet curtains with astroturf and chopped cushions aesthetic, I truly loathe the faux-Cotswolds, wannabe Camerons, twee country look, often perpetrated by people who’ll instagram a butler sink with a tea towel hanging out of it alongside a bunch of white flowers. Often features:

Hunter wellies
Fortnum & Mason basket with dog leads in it (thank you to pp who noted this aesthetic crime)
Shaker peg shelf above DIY MDF panelling, all painted sage green
Artificial autumn door wreath
Single tartan scarf hanging from the otherwise empty pegs

Naff wall art that says moronic gems like ‘this kitchen is for dancing’ or ‘Prosecco o’clock’ 🤮

It’s probably unkind but I can’t cope with mdf panelling. It’s like the current version of the faux picture/dado rails of the nineties and makes me think of changing rooms when they used to whack things like this up with a bit of pritt stick and a staple gun.

I’m actually a fan of neutral shades and quite like grey but I haven’t used it anywhere in my home as you lot made me worry that people might judge although I probably deserve it as I judge the panelling.

On trend plants?

Yep it’s a thing, you can google if you like

I have a curved corner sofa and its seats 5 comfortably. It's the comfiest sofa I've ever sat on but it does needs replacing as it's getting worn. I will miss it when it goes.

Oh I hate that Cotswold Twee look too and it's rife around here. Who the fuck ever has just one scarf hanging on a set of coat hooks? When our DDs were still at home we had so many coats hanging up in the utility that I once overheard DH calling 'Is that you Mr Tumnus?' when trying to find his coat.

No
The pegs won’t be empty they will have Barbours on them
You forgot the gun rack too.

Then you’ll be in my house,😳 except for the sage green, we have French grey and the mdf🤢

😂We have a similar problem.

Also, I love Narnia/Mr Tumnus.

Oo and the tartan is a Nono….

Fitted carpet, I HATE fitted carpet. I just think it's so unhygienic.

Baffled by the TV mounted to the wall thing. I have two children under 5, my TV is mounted to the wall at a totally normal height so they don't pull it on their heads. Everyone else I know with small children also has their TV bolted to the wall, surely it's just common sense?!

Word and slogan decals on the wall, especially “Bath” above the bath and “Eat” above the table.

Pedestal mats around the toilet. If you can’t pee straight, mop up after yourself. Or better still, sit down.

Diamante everywhere.

Fake historical features which are the wrong age for the style and age of the house e.g. leaded glass windows in a Victorian semi.

Oh I win again! Not only do I have an animal light, in the upstairs hall. It’s a monkey, I also have hunter wellies, they at rhe back door hooked over a boot stand, no fake panelling, but real stuff and no shelf above it, and I also do genuinely have spring/ summer and autumnal wreaths! And my Scottish husband has indeed got a tartan scarf.!!

i don’t insta it, on account of it just being us , ya know, living,and genuinely quite rurally, but I do feel I deserve a prize for my muddy wellies and my husbands scarf .😄

Ooooh, Prosecco-o-clock really does my head in. See also gin-o-clock! Just STOP!!!!!!!!!!!

I also love lots of books in a house, and think it makes the house look classy. It's also a well documented fact that a house with a lot of books suggests the owners are intellectual and intelligent. Not saying people who don't have lots of books are dumb, but it's a well known fact that book-reading increases your intellect. The posters here who are getting salty about others having a lot books - and calling them 'pretentious' are clearly projecting their own insecurities.

Oh I HATE fake grass/fake lawn too - even though that's not in the house. (Someone mentioned it a few pages back.) I know a couple of people with it, and it looks hilariously FAKE. I know the clue is in the name etc, but it looks truly naff. Also hate LIVE LOVE LAUGH signs, massive clocks, and laminate flooring throughout! (And as I said earlier - GREY everywhere. Just no!) 😖

Also, some people really need to stop getting offended at other people views and opinions. If someone mentions something I have - and says they don't like it, I honestly could not give a shit. Genuinely. Why are people upset at the opinions of randoms on the internet that they have never met/don't know/will never meet?! Have people had a go at you in real life or something ??? Is it jarring you because other people have commented negatively on your home decor? Get a grip, seriously!