What do we do now, that will be naff later?

[GummyBunting]

The "feature wall" thread got me thinking. What are we doing to our homes, which seems seriously stylish now, but will soon become super naff?

My nominations:

Open plan living
French Grey
Anything made from wooden pallets

• Chevrons

-.Gallery walls

• Copper everything
• Industrial style stainless steel kitchens with low pendant lights and exposed pipes
• Geometric accessories

Ohhelp sorry, couldn't resist lol woodchip. Think I will pass thanks very much! X

I remember when everyone used to have breakfast bars with those high bar stool chairs with s-shaped metal frame and the rattan seat and back. Then they became naff and everyone pulled them out. And now every kitchen extension comes with a breakfast bar on the side of the ubiquitous island, with industrial chic high bar stools. Surely they will dip out of fashion again?

Anything that everybody else is doing.

Just do something you really like and reflects your tastes.

Has shabby chic not always been naff? Or maybe I'm just grumpy because I hate it.

There's a whole shop near me dedicated to it. It's even called Shabby Bollocks or something. Grim.

Photo cushions. Of stags in the Highlands and pugs. Not in the same forest.

Tbh it just sounds like everyone has different tastes rather than things being 'naff'.

No it's not different tastes - some things are more naff than others. Everything mentioned so far is most definitely naff.

But 'naff' is a matter of opinion.
Saying something is 'naff' doesn't make that a fact. You just think it's 'naff'.

Meh. I don't care whether someone else thinks it's naff, as long as I like it. I am, after all, the one who lives here.

That's my thinking Alice.
I'm obviously hideously naff as I love shabby chic, bi fold doors, open plan living and feature walls!!!!
Shoot me now.

I think some things are naff from the start and some things become naff through their ubiquity. I'd put most of the things mentioned on here in the latter category

I'm with the 'as long as you like it' crowd. To be honest I would just like to be able to decorate properly not some half arsed attempt to make out rental seem like it's ours.

I think partly it depends how you decorate. Like when we were looking at houses last year, there were so many that had a great big floral feature wall in most of the rooms. It just seems so unimaginative to do the same thing in each room.

Owls
Stags

Bifold doors as fashion seems like an expensive trend. I've never seen them in Au in RL, though I can see online that they exist. How the feck do you keep the flies out?

Anyway:

Subway tiles
Grey
Breakfast bars.

Black kitchen surfaces.
Already very naff in my eyes but they are EVERYWHERE and I hope the backlash comes soon. ...

All those stupid words like "eat" in the kitchen and "sleep" in the bedroom, as if people are too stupid to know what they are meant to do in each room!

The word things would only have value if they said "Piss/Shit" or "Shag/Snore"

I'd buy those just to see the look on my mother's face!!

'Boutique-style' bedrooms

'Spa-like' bathrooms

Oversized headboards

Spotlights

Breakfast bars

That strange washed-grey wood flooring; looks like stone-washed grey jeans

Victorian roll-top baths

I love grey, metro tiles, Orla Kiely, mid century modern and sunburst clocks, but I hold out no hope for them escaping the incoming tide of naffness.

How can Victorian roll top baths become naff? They've been fashionable since, er, Victorian times! Except for the grim period when peach or brown baths were all the rage.

Everything we do now will be naff at some point and then fashionable again at a further point e.g. swirly artex ceilings in our new to us thirties bungalow last decorated in the early eighties/late seventies dh: "Jesus those have got to go", grown up dd: "I quite like those"

Oh gawd l live in a temple of naffness then