What decorative objects annoy you? Let's have a MN rant thread (for a change)

[Bucketsofdynomite]

This week I am mostly hating decorative picture frames for tiny photos. Especially ones with teddybears on but that's not the point. Whether they're 6" across or marginally bigger than the photo itself, wallet-sized photos belong in wallets.

we hardly have any decorative objects.....hmm.......none that come to mind. Just in the kids rooms, but they don't count do they?!

Them big horrible butterflies attached to peoples houses....tak takky...

Those sticks that people put in vases

Fake flowers.

doulton figurines

I hate hate hate ornaments - floofy shepherdess porcelain cak.

Also people keep buying me vases - so I now have about 15 in the kitchen cupboard.

I'm very fond of cheap glittery Monsoon/MandS/TKmax photo frames which cheer me up on my dressing table.

My mother in law has about 10 Daily Mail/plates of 'sigificance' collections of various utterly hideous stuff - thimbles, plates, horses (?), and now 200 of those Lilliput Lane houses (they are quite pretty actually but its just sooooo much stuff in one room)

Dried flowers that go dusty (I have some) - ashamed emoticon.

those canvases masquerading as art that you can buy in colours to match your decor in places like asda and argos!

Oh I've got big purple garlands of fake flowers in my hall, I'm going for a camp/kitsch effect.

Cushions with sequins on. You can't put your head on them because they're all scratchy, so why have them at all?

Those tiny ceramic shoe ornaments that Argos used to sell. Best of all was the display stand in the shape of an enormous f*ing shoe. Just why?

Oooh, and ornamental ceramic thimbles in special cabinets.Why????

oh yeh and any dust collecting shite..mini clocks, bottles, plates(esp the ones that people buy from them awful mags)

Oh, and most of what is given away with those "part" magazines that are always advertised just after Christmas, especially the one with the GORGEOUS selection of miniature clocks

Sorry - x-posted with crispyduck

oh crispy that is so true! i hate decorative plates. my mil used to have some......

You lot are making me want to go out and buy some house butterflies, some fake flowers, some sticks and some teeny weeny picture frames.

But I will draw the line at porcelain ornaments

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Glad to see that you have to draw the line somewhere SP!!

not sure you could class them as decorative, but - anything you get from a holiday. Ashtrays with "bournemouth" on them or coasters with "torremolinos" plastered all over them.

Those freaky ornament 'life like' baby dolls you see in the sunday supplements. They cost a fortune - who the heck buys them?

Agree squonk..teatowels aswell..

My MIL has 34 "farmyard and country scene" plates. All of which are on her dining room wall! She has specified in her will that I'm to get them.
I can't wait

Here's the ornamental shoe collection and display stand I mentioned earlier

I have sticks

and a frame for a teeny tiny photo

[sticks out tongue]