Why are wooden letters so popular?... What are your decorative bugbears?

[Whirliwig72]

One of my pet hates are the ubiquitous decorative wooden letters featured in every homes magazine and style magazine since forever. They just seem so unoriginal to me especially when they spell out the action to be performed in the room they are put in, i.e E....A....T in the kitchen, L....O...V...E in the bedroom, C...R...A...P in the loo and so on as if the inhabitants might forget what happens where without 3 foot high gold letters reminding them at every possible occasion.
I also have a dislike of most wall transfers and also of feature walls decorated with flock or metallic wallpaper - stinks of 'Chavez' IMHO.

What decorative horrors make you shudder?

Loving that website, Pennybubbly

Wouldn't a Snoopy toilet seat cover be the BEST Christmas present for someone you secretly hate?!

Devora -

I really want an end to the "Keep Calm" phenomonem too.

Quite fancy starting a "JOG ON" trend !!!

If I had a gun with one bullet I could use without being caught it would go through kath kidsons head

Pud1 that seems rather extreme

[massiveunderstatementcallthefrickingpolice]

I know it does. It is a measure of my feelings for the over priced twee shit

Anything with the word of what it's for written on it. SLEEP on your duvet cover. BREAKFAST on your cereal bowl. My DM even has cutlery with KNIFE FORK and SPOON on them. FFS!!!!

sherlock I have been known to come to a halt in homewares dept and shout at cutlery/crockery like that.

I cannot bear it!

How dare a plate tell me what to do with it!

MrsDeVere I do that too. BTW are you the same MrsDeVere whose neighbours were building in the garden? if so, what's happened?

They have just put another shed up

Right in front of the huge bungalow.

I am hoping they have done it to block our view because they are going to be forced to remove the 10 foot fence they put up.

Its a bloody weird place to site a shed otherwise.

Oh no

Is the Council doing nothing at all?

Wooden letters and phrases are so popular as some people in this world like to surrounded by positivity. I wish you could all take pictures of your obviously amazing homes and family photos so we can rip it to shreds as none of you give one single hoot as to wether you are offending anyone. I live in a forces quarter so I am limited to what I can do to decorate. My house and my children are clean and happy and that's all that counts.

Nah, I can slag off my own home perfectly adequately, thanks mintcake. Believe me, amazing it ain't

Crack on but I could do the same with mine but I won't sink to the depths of trying to humiliate others in the process.

mintcake1 -the point here is these are not views anyone share with the wooden letter owners. In the house of such a person one would be polite, then laugh like drain in the car afterwards.

To suggest that posting such a view on t'interweb humiliates the wooden letters owners is bizarre.

I hate union jack stuff

and the letters (I have got a large 'K' and 'Y' in lovely turquoise that came out of a skip, though...they used to light up but don't work any more.

I do have a doll collection but they're really really old ones and not the plastic kind.
I don't like big floral wallpaper like you get in B&Q

or anything that's pretending to be something it's not, like sort of pointless decorative stuff

most of our furniture is old and a lot came out of skips. and is slightly broken.

I do not like teal. Or rooms that are totally coordinated.

I hate tab top and eyelet curtains. Also hate stuff that's new but sold as 'shabby chic'. Bleurgh.

and fake antique clocks. Fake anything really.

Bloody hell though, doesn't that woman over there >>>>>> look REALLY uncomfortable? The one in the stretchy lurex vest thing?

She looks like she is trying to get it off but it's stuck

Oh she's gone.

mintcake, with all due respect I don't think we are taking the piss out of people, or even their homes so much as the awful stuff that is SOLD to us by big shops wanting to make money out of what's 'fashionable'.

I'm having a go at marketing more than anything. Pedlars thread anyone?

Echt: very well done as you can tell its not exactly the fact that people hate these items that's the problem. It's way the original poster and others then refer to these items in such a way as Chavvy(oh sorry Chavez) which is referring to the homeowners as such. I have no problem with people hating something it's how they word it to make someone else feel bad for owning it.
As for laughing at someone's house in the car afterwards GROW UP AND HAVE SOME RESPECT. Then again by your atittude they are probably relieved you have left. Never heard of Karma!!
I personally don't care what decoration anyone else has as that is how they choose to express themselves.
Oh and in trying to humiliate me. Which you haven't!!! You have shown your true character.