Home decor internet trends, aaargh!

[AFierceBadRabbit]

(lighthearted thread)
Does anyone else ever despair at online inspiration photo's of interiors?

I'm about to move into a new flat, so been looking online for ideas and tips to save space, etc. Ikea really good for this, but have stumbled into a world hitherto unknown to me - instagram famous decor bloggers!
WTF?

So right now I am tired of seeing endless images of the SAME:
*Flokati rug, the one in cream with black diamond design.
*Y-back chairs.
*Sectional sofas regardless whether they fit in the room or not.
*Massive expanses of artfully designed desk space in vast sized rooms that appear to never get used.
*Geo shaped lamp shades or those Scandinavian style exposed filament bulbs hanging everywhere, even ten in one row over a small table.
*Homes that are so large it boggles the mind. I searched for inspo for small apartments and what came up? Tons of images claiming to be small spaces which were actually football pitch sized with ceilings as high as a warehouse (don't forget those exposed pipes!)......one tiny mid-century sideboard in middle of this wast expanse looking lonely and uncomfortable.

God why is everything trend driven so damn soulless?

Ok I like white, and I love the Soderhamn sofa, but I need to wind my neck back in and ponder some reality.

I can also post a picture of my grey and white bathroom/bedroom/while of upstairs if it helps?

*whole not while

I'm sure all of us on this thread have got a few of these trendy things somewhere in our houses - confession time, my name is krakentoast and I have a roll top bath and I'm considering painting my new kitchen in F&B French Grey! That's why we peruse these interiors blogs/pics in the first place anyway isn't it, because we secretly like them... they can just have a bit of a silly cumulative effect sometimes though

ahipponamed I don't know how hipster they all are really, but I'm thinking of Ideal Home, Kinfolk, Apartamento, Wallpaper...

Confession time? Sure, my name is booboobutt and I'm a hippo. I actually got my name from the instababy must have - the book with no pictures. I have the dfs zinc sofa, eames dining chairs, far too many white Ikea items and more houseplants then fingers including not one but two fiddle-leaf figs!!
Luckily though, any books I do have would be displayed spine out, if I displayed them at all. Which I don't as I like things bare and uncluttered because I am also a minimalist.
I look because I love the style. It's fresh, it's modern, it's not a floral feature wall middle-aged couple home.

Confession time... any minimalist who wandered into my house would expire from an apoplectic fit on the spot. I love books too much to be a minimalist.

Do a couple of pots of herbs on the windowsill count as pot plants?

I suppose my bath might count as antique. Not roll top, but probably a good 40 years old with rust spots and a green copper oxide stain below the hot tap (I'm going to take to describing it as "distressed").

What's actually irritating is when you follow the image sources and find an instagram where the lady declares that she is a 'home stylist'. Why this irks me I don't know. It just feels like something you're supposed to worship or aspire to, when in reality most people plugging that career will be self employed and struggling to some extent. Then you are introduced to the hubby who works regular 9-5, looks fucking tired and fed up of hard, rattan sofas.

I work from home, a creative field. It's not so easy. I am in a LTR but very self reliant and the cost of living screws me at times. I guess so much of this lifestyle curation crap just seems a bit disingenuous to me.

And I do wonder what happens to all of the expensive stuff once the trend shifts. I've watched this happen - from shabby chic to minimal. Many of us a true aesthetes (pompous but true), and have always been naturally drawn to scandinavian/minimal style, but how many do you think still will be when the trend shifts?

The mattisse thing personally pissed me off as it got quite massive just as I tried to get a lifelong desired ticket to see his work in Liverpool a few yrs back. No joy. Mattise was too hip to shit by this stage. All of a sudden. Like f-off!

OMG I love this thread. You are all expressing how I feel.

These people don't live in homes, they just show off. And have no sense of idiosyncrasy or personality.

I once commented on a well known lifestyle blogger's Insta account which was ever ever so slightly critical. The fuss it made. I was blocked, blogged about. Her sycophants were outraged.

Hilarious fact - she was purporting to live in an 18th century cottage. Well the foundations may have been but I know for a fact her house was built in about 1970.

hedgehog I LOVE reading, but I never read the same book twice so buy one, read it, donate it and buy another. I just don't keep them for the sake of keeping them

are true aesthetes (basically we like eye candy).

It happens same time as clothing fads too - recall watching the Isabel Marant/minimalist/curate this wardrobe craze morph into lets spend like maniacs we need more slip on mules, clan of cro, maryam nassir zadeh.......oh god.

And art - this type of work, love it or loathe it is hot shit

www.instagram.com/p/BUM3NhZlNME/?taken-by=mashareva

And eventually it all gets dropped like a ton of bricks, like those suede dicker boots, etc.

Hilarious fact - she was purporting to live in an 18th century cottage. Well the foundations may have been but I know for a fact her house was built in about 1970

I've seen someone on IG who claims to be renovating a Georgian house that is actually a 1980's semi that has mock Georgian features on the facade. I cringe for her every time I see it, but I'm not sure how well pointing it out would go down.

My name is mrsjamin and I am currently searching for a second fiddle leaf fig and a second cheese plant (also bloody everywhere even on dresses and cushion covers)! I love following these on instagram as they are a bit different to the hygge blush-pink-and-grey-and-white types you normally get a lot of...
@sophierobinsoninteriors (from Great British interior design prog)
@lisadawson_
@madaboutthe_house
@blackparrotsstudio
@oliverthomasesq (came second in last year's GBID)
I am sure these have some of the above but they are also pretty colourful and creative too.

Hippo, sorry, no offence meant - I'm just one of those people who re-reads my favourites (kind of like a comfort-blanket thing).

(I have just spent longer than is healthy on that tumblr. This is my favourite fuckyournoguchicoffeetable.tumblr.com/post/26537121842/fuck-your-fireplace-full-of-tubes - it's not a designer statement at all but quite clearly a response to a note from school asking is to save kitchen roll innards for next term's art project. The overflowing books and sub-fisher-price figures merely confirms this as a normal family house someone has mistaken for hip .

(I've started seeing similar artful vignettes all over my house - I'll borrow dhs camera and do Still Life With Herbs and Batmobile, Towel Stacks in Basket, and Raw Plaster Detailing.)

Oh, I have raw plaster detailing in my house MrsBadger. Whee, we can form an interior decor clique together and get terribly up ourselves. Is there a way of re-branding "my small child has stuck stickers all over their fucking door and I can't get the fuckers off" as a form of shabby chic?

yes that does look like a normal family home, haha!

I loved 'fuck your stump on wheels' referring to a tree stump coffee table on castors.

MrsJamin thanks for those links, most actually are different and a breath of fresher air.
Really like the lisa dawson one.

A few inspirational quotes flying around but can forgive ;)

Bit old now, but some of the captions in Unhappy Hipsters should help calming the 'insta-rage'.

badrabbit I've just fallen down the rabbit hole of 'diy on a budget official' on Facebook. If you want 'real' homes then it'll definitely please you. There's glitter walls, upcuvked furniture glittered and diamonted, rainbow staircases and lots of frog tape painted walls which are a sight to behold. Brace yourself!

M0stlyBowlingHedgehog I've known many artists like your mum which has obviously influenced me and after I typed that post I wondered if we are the minority (apparently we are 😂)

AFierceBadRabbit I wonder how much ends up in landfill.

My house is a work in progress. I'm happy to spend the rest of my life adding to it as I can afford it.

The rugs are Beni Ourain not flokati.

That one, yes, but there is a lot of flokati about.

this is the type of rug i meant
www.anthropologie.com/shop/amala-flokati-rug

you can call it whatever.

haha! That blog! I'm simultaneously laughing at "fuck your ombré stairs" and thinking "Oooh, pretty"

I'm mid house renovation and had to leave Houzz because all it did was induce existential angst and hipster antler saturation.

I have issues with the really, really dark rooms full of plants and a single neon light. I can't help but feel like they'd be quite claustrophobic in real life.

Although I am NotAMammy, I love grey paint, mid century furniture and in the last week I've been asked if I've salvaged accessories from my Nan's house. I hadn't, but I had bought them in a second hand shop and they are possibly from the same run.
And I really love the idea of a teepee in my imaginary future child's room. With triangle mountain walls. And an eames-a-like rocking chair...