What makes the interior of a home look tired and dated?

[FindingMeno]

Interested in people's views as it's sometimes difficult to discern in your own familiar surroundings.

I love my terracotta floor tiles.

My hall, stairs, landing and dining room walls are grey. It's just a normal neutral, unless you've gone bonkers with making all your furnishings and everything grey as well.

Exactly. Pale grey walls with wooden floors, and neutral or colourful furniture, accessories and art is gorgeous and timeless. Grey walls, grey carpet or laminate, grey sofa, mirrored furniture, etc not so nice.

@HasaDigaEebowai

I agree with short curtains. The more up to date way to deal with the issue is long curtains with a Roman blind

That won’t work with wide windows, and having 2 or 3 to cover the width looks silly 😊

I’m added wild pattern kraken octopus wallpaper in my under the stairs loo.

I think it will be fabulous

Wanted where’s Wally wallpaper for a laugh, but it was out of stock. The rest of my house is very minimal, natural woods and white.

Houses all look dated the second you buy your decor. It doesn’t matter. You shouldn’t be decorating your house to trend, it should be done to your tastes. I personally love natural materials (stone, painted wood) and lots of grey in wood / stone / marble tiles. Just finished my house and everyone says how stylish it is. Nobody gives a toss if it’s not quite trend.

Lurking

The only room I really like in our house at the moment contains lots of grey! Very pale grey walls, darker grey carpet, sofas, curtains. White furniture. I change the colour of the cushions regularly- pink, yellow, emerald green.... I find it calming and comfortable. I've never really been someone to worry about having the latest trends, we went for grey because that's what we fancied at the time.

@Caspianberg

I’m added wild pattern kraken octopus wallpaper in my under the stairs loo.

I think it will be fabulous

Wanted where’s Wally wallpaper for a laugh, but it was out of stock. The rest of my house is very minimal, natural woods and white.

I like the sound of that wallpaper. I have a couple of board vermex-coated (it's not actually vermex, but something waterproof like that) tile prints of sea creatures (Emily Martin Winfield prints).

I considered theatre boxes wallpaper, but the one I wanted was too wide. May still do that in the future in our new house.

@Tilltheend99

Grey paint/decor. Grey is to the 2010s what magnolia was to the 90s.

I also think a lot of people will end up regretting this trend for open plan living. Who wants their kitchen in their living room really? It’s also environmentally unfriendly AF.

Why so enviroNmentally unfriendly?

@stuntbubbles

** Arson is dated, sorry.

Open plan is environmentally unfriendly because you have to heat such a big area. Rooms means you just need to heat what you are using.

Total open plan has never been the fashion in the UK though. It’s always been seperate sitting room then open plan kitchen -diner - living. And as there would be the same number of radiators or less (that can be switched off as needed) or temp controlled underfloor I don’t see how it is less environmentally friendly than seperate rooms.

@Ozanj - presumably because it’s easier to just heat separate rooms as you use. So if full open plan you hear it all. If kitchen, diner and living all separate you can keep the two rooms you aren’t using lower.

pinewood panelling or cupboards.

And cane furniture is massively on trend now, too (not naff conservatory type furniture though).

I think built in cookers are really nineties?

I do my own thing so I don't get involved in this sort of nonsense. I will redecorate our spare room next year and have already got some Indian embroidered ribbon to use as a border at picture rail height between two "white" colours on the walls. In the past I've bought anaglypta style white borders, painted them the same colour as the walls and then crayoned on them gently for a bit of an accent. I do think the current obsession with limestone style or metro tiling in bathrooms will end soon, so I'm going to get some very arty looking single colour square tiles and just do around the bath and basin. I get quite upset if I begin to feel I'm liking something currently in vogue as this sort of look dates quickly and makes me feel I'm lacking in originality.