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!

Auctions.

I also wonder why so many people dislike leather sofas? I personally find them much more comfortable than fabric ones and definitely easier to keep clean.

Any good suggestions for affordable art, please?

Etsy

There is possibly something worse than this. Fake coffee table books that have nothing inside them

White/cream walls, stripped wooden floors, shaker kitchens, gingham, oatmeal, coastal, Cath Kidston, child-centred... basically, if you can imagine a smug middle-class family who own a cockapoo and have Boden-clad children with names like Evie, Poppy, Felix and Barnaby living in it, I'd hate it.

I think just about every single thing about my house, from layout to decor to what I have in it, has been mentioned in this thread as something hated by someone on Mumsnet 😂

Yes, you did have to wonder why anyone in the U.K. would want all or mostly grey decor, when on so many days you only have to look out of the window.

See, that sounds nice! And real! It’s when it’s some new build flat in Reading decked out to be Stow on the Wold by people who’ve never been for a walk because the wellies would get muddy.

Same as the live love laugh signs: you know those people have never laughed.

Concrete kitchen worktops and floors
Televisions mounted on the wall
Pictures that are mounted to high on the wall
Those hoover lines in carpets
Crushed velvet
Grey everything
Bright colours on only one wall
Red accents
Vertical blinds
Glossy kitchen doors
Short curtains
Rugs that are too small for the room
Furniture that looks like it’s been pushed back against the walls

What fresh hell is this?!

See I’d love it, but can’t afford it in a million years, plus it wouldn’t be practical (I need wipe clean and things that hide the dirt / mess!)

What’s the point of them if you don’t have them fully pulled back then?
I enter my house by the front door like most people, I guess 🙄

You're spot on, I think, about the majority of replies coming from the faux old money aesthetic.

I'm getting rid of (sending to charity) the few bits of multi-generation furniture I have left, much as I love them, and replacing them with identikit Ikea stuff. Half of Mumsnet may faint but, even though these were made as small items, they're too bulky for my little flat now. Ikea rectangles fit unobtrusively together, and that's what I need.

I'm looking forward to getting it finished - and am confident enough in my design sense to know it'll look good, albeit more "honest new poverty" than "fake old money" 😉

My award for most bizarre comment so far is a tie between:
Plants indoors. Gross
You can't disagree with an opinion!

Second prize goes to vulgar kitchen islands, of course.

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I know

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@mypafology OMG!! 😂😂

anything I think will be a bastard to keep clean or tidy
Concrete or wooden worksurfaces.
Excessive ornaments and frippery
gloss cabinets
floor to ceiling windows and bifold doors.
Open plan. You could never leave the pans till later because they're glaring at you all evening
Using basic building materials as a look ie steel girders as beams,osb board, zinc panelling

@Kittythecutest, what’s the issue with furniture pushed back against the walls? I’ve not come across that as an issue before. Mine all is as otherwise there would be no room to walk through the (tiny) rooms in my house…

anything light wood is just the worst …. and those sisal carpets (all I can think about is how exfoliating those carpets must be 🤢🤢)

Media walls

Grey

Live laugh love (these have surely all been sent to landfill by now)

Panelling

Crushed velvet

Black taps 😖 oh and the matching black panelled shower screens (some people DIY it with tape 🤨)

Any Stacey Solomon or Mrs Hinch mass produced tat

Those woman shaped candles 🤣

This is like therapy!! 😅

Light wood looks far better in my flat - dark wood would look ridiculous.

Are sisal carpets the horrible scratchy ones we all used to have at school?

@ZebraPensAreLife … it’s literally dead skin that’s been cured in wee 🤢 gives me the ick! (Also see my post about dead skin cell carpets … I just … don’t want dead things in my house. )

Antique shops for anything 70s and before . Either on line or bricks and mortar, even eBay, lots of dealers on there, you’d be surprised how cheaply you can lift stuff. Etsy for more modern stuff.

ive quite an eclectic mix, from charcoal drawings, to framed and signed prints, to original oil paintings, all picked up from antique shops in person or via online. Never spent more than about 250, and often in the 50 quid range. Just don’t buy anything unless you love it. Keep looking till you do.

theres an old saying which says don’t have anything in your home that isjt either useful or beautiful. And I think thats really true. Don’t buy something to fill a space as it’s all you can afford, wait , keep searching, online is good, enjoy the hunt, and buy the thing you love in budget.

Why are plants gross 😄

@rainydaysandwednesdays I forgot I hate any decor that involves naked bodies. Couldn’t think of anything worse than a pair of tits or a naked arse on my walls.

Oh bloody hell, to the contrary...this is my dream. 💭

Sisal is made from plant fibres…