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.

@Cuck00soup

Too much stuff. It’s the box of papers that need sorting and the bag with the craft project, and the pile of stuff to go to the charity shop when you get round to it.

My other pet hates are dolls, pastel towels, plain panel doors, woodchip walls and furniture covered in lace.

Craft items and bags for the charity shop won't date a house?

@DSGR

Lots of these lists are just people’s taste.. nothing to do with dated!

Exactly. It usually happens with threads like this.

@DJSteves mine too plus the kitchen isn't finished; I'm totally b*ered!

signs that say something to do with prosecco or LIVE LIFE LOVE type of nonsense

Maireas, my point was that clutter does date your decor. Old fashioned, tired furniture looks less tired in an otherwise uncluttered room.

There's something like a house looking like someone cares.

Swirly coloured pub carpet definitely dreadful.

@smarshian heating costs I assume

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Arson is dated, sorry.

There's dated and there are trends that are dated.

If you buy a house that hasn't been decorated for decades, it will likely be dated. It may have swirly carpets, old fashioned wallpaper, 1970s furniture. All of those things will not look dated in an otherwise up to date bang on trend house (House of Hackney maximalist style).

Then there are trends that are dated because they were trends from 2021, or 2020. Trends cycle super quickly. So for example, grey kitchens are out of trend. Dark blue kitchens are out of trend. We are now seeing on trend green and some pink kitchens. Another super on trend item which will be dated in a couple of years is Crittal doors.

If you want a continually trendy home, then one way to do it so to paint the walls soft white (yes white!), buy classical designer type furniture and then accessorise with super trendy (throwaway) pieces, like cushions.

Whatever you do, don't decorate like Insta influencers who style a bathroom with a plant in front of the WC and a pile of towels on top. It's styled for a photo, not to live in!

Sill length curtains are dated?
Half our windows have radiators underneath them, if we have floor length curtains all the radiators would heat is the window side of said curtains, no?
What are people supposed to have instead then?

Fake leather sofas. Black decor. Signs about Living, Love and Prosecco.
Grey carpets.

Half our windows have radiators underneath them, if we have floor length curtains all the radiators would heat is the window side of said curtains, no?
What are people supposed to have instead then?
A draughty old listed country pile with no radiators, obviously.

I was puzzled by that remark too.

Better not tell Carrie Johnson that pattern, wallpaper and clash are dated!

(Brown furniture, ie mahogany/ walnut etc) is currently v out of fashion. Which of course means there are raging bargains in auction houses for really quality antiques of you don’t care about being up to date.

Lots of photos and Knick knacks

Yankee candles

Oooh I quite like a navy kitchen and industrial style lights.

Not really making the house look dated but one trend I have seen as of late is flowers on top of the cooker? I just find it an odd place to put them.

@RiskyCookie I think that’s a Mrs Hinch thing. It’s utterly bonkers

Black furniture of the sought popular in the 80 / 90’s. The 80's are the new mid-century modern - funny how the 70's got a side swerve. Black furniture is making it's way back in again - look at Thonet Bistro style the black chairs with caning are the thing of beauty but not only that - you can see the 80's Miami look start to take hold by the edgier homeowner - it'll be with us all soon.

Who gives shit? As long as your house is warm, comfortable and relatively clean nothing else needs to matter. Not everyone can afford to keep up with trends and what one person thinks is dated another will love.

@ApolloandDaphne

Who gives shit? As long as your house is warm, comfortable and relatively clean nothing else needs to matter. Not everyone can afford to keep up with trends and what one person thinks is dated another will love.

This is the home decoration page - so most of the folk who post on here care I would imagine - otherwise they wouldn't bother reading.

Three-piece suites, quilted headboards, orange pine, those big swagged curtain pelmets, tasseled curtain tiebacks?

Sticky decals with inspirational quotes,
or gin quotes

When I stopped worrying about what is dated or not my life became so much easier, I have a home which I'm slowly turning into something I love and don't care what anyone else thinks. Our home only needs to please us. We are currently redecorating our sitting room, I still love the flowery feature wall we decorated 15 years ago, but it's looking dirty and I just fancied a change. I'm sticking to wallpaper on one wall, the shock!! My kitchen is grey too. Many people would hate it here, but that's ok, I don't want them to come.

Literally any thing you do to your house is considered dated by someone on Momsnet.