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 I mean in a large room where it looks like they’ve cleared a space for activities in the middle of the room! I see it all the time on Rightmove.

We’ve just moved house. Refused to view anything that had been made all open plan and tiles downstairs - we need walls and carpet! (the people who bought our old place immediately ripped out the carpet and put down cold, noisy, dusty laminate so each to their own)!

The vendors of this house kindly left us all the holes in the walls where they took down their Live Love signs - they even had one in the toilet! They were obsessed with gray - even the garden fence. We are slowly eradicating it. One of the spare rooms had a bizarre grey wallpaper with sparkly black flock on it, a black diamanté curtain and a chandelier. Thanks for leaving all that! 🤔

I’m sure people hate my sagey green, big check, handed down furniture look… in fact from this thread I know they do! 😆

As far as 'art' goes - I buy postcards or small prints of places I've lived or visited - I have some lovely prints of Liverpool, Bavaria and various UK towns I've been to.

Feature walls
Grey everywhere (so depressing and dreary)
White gloss cupboard doors in the kitchen with no handles
Wooden or tiled worktops in the kitchen
Slatted blinds and vertical blinds

You prefer MDF? Granite is fantastic for a worktop and very expensive.

I like my gold-plated, rhinestone studded kitchen island, I can’t see what the problem is.

Every single person I know that have bi folds have major problems with them.

PMSL trying to work out how that pp has been led to believe sisal carpet is dead skin cells and wee…

I actually like grey done well: so Anna something’s house from Swallows & Damsons – it was featured in Design Sponge and just felt soulful and beautiful, the opposite of the Mrs Hinch grey look. And goodboneslondon, who has my ideal house, has a lovely grey “library” room. As a backdrop to books and beautiful (not necessarily expensive) things it’s quite lovely; it’s when it’s a backdrop from floor to ceiling, to meaningless trendy “trolley dash in the Homesense sale” things, that it looks terrible.

Fake grass
Fake panelling
Those door knocker chairs

But they're the gnicest bit of gnature in the zoo!

Why do so many people not like plants? I have loads. Absolutely love them though lots are monstrous proportions now and giving off a bit of a jurassic park/ jungle feel.

Grey I agree with. It's not for me, but if you like it keep it.

You must be very lucky to have a room big enough that you don’t have to put your seats against the walls. Some have no choice.

Im house hunting at the moment

not seen s lot of grey but a fair few clocks. I hate giant clocks which are a feature !

who doesn’t have a phone for constant time monitoring?

nothing wrong with a few plants. Unless the house looks like Kew Gardens

I hate crazy coloured kitchens. I saw a purple high gloss one 🙈

CD towers
A stereo unit

Bright red splashbacks in the kitchen. It's such a permanent, personal preference look. whenever I see one in a house listing I just think how annoying to have to either live with it or change it.

Grey everywhere - very dates now (surprise surprise).
Black worktops - draw a kitchen in and make it look very hard and small (and cheap).
Black 'white' goods - very dated.
Thick glass bricks in shower rooms/bathrooms.
Cheap patterned wallpaper.
Feature walls
Arches
Stained brown windows

Love my cabinets

To everyone @‘ing me - I think I probably confused things - @zebra had asked why people don’t like leather - for me it’s because it’s dead skin.

I don’t like sisal (which is a natural plant fibre) because it’s exfoliating and it grosses me out to think it’s sloughs off extra foot skin .

😅🤣😅🤣😅

I forgot about the current plywood everywhere thing that some of the designers on those programmes are so keen on. To my eyes, it looks like a workshop or an unfinished project.

@soupfiend - see above. But Zebra had asked why people don’t like leather sofas . For it’s because the idea of sitting on dead animal gives me the ick. Leather is literally dead animal skin that’s been cured- often in urine.

Agree with you

Would buy them again