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

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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.

those fantasy figure ornaments
little houses and cottages
loads of teddybears on adults beds blurgggghhh
grecian statues in the garden
fake flowers/plants
oh and I hate hate those glamour pictures/photos that women have done and displayed all over the room ewwwwwwwwwwww

I am now going to see if anyone has put anything that I have in my house here

Don't Look Now

forgot the nasty swartowsky (sp) crystal animals etc
horsebrass things

Runners on dining tables. Pointless. Why not just use a tablecloth?

Those Shy kids are just Wrong.

Once saw an ad in a magazine for a rag doll which covered up your upright vacuum cleaner. I guess they didn't catch on . . .

shy kids = freaky and weird

cant see anything on the list in my house yet

I have lace curtains!!!!!!!

my sil has millions of little swarkwanky crystals...all beautifully displayed in a cabinet!

lace curtains are only ok if they are plain and you actually need them imo

Cushions on the back seats of cars

Plus most of what's listed below!

I meant when you're driving along and the person in front in the J reg Mondeo has Cushions on the parcel shelf.

My lace curtains are lovely!They are vintage french and are in the bedroom and I am keeping them

Ooh yes, cushions in cars, and those ornate covers for kleenex boxes on the parcel shelf.
Plus ANY lace curtains, anywhere, ever. There is no such thing as "needing" them FGS.

Cherished teddies - DD1 has a granny that bought her one every Xmas and bday for 10 years. She's now started doing the same for DD2 - she's not even related to DD2 (2nd marriage). Her house is full of crap. For DD1's 13th she actually gave her some of her old ornaments - they were even dusty ffs! Luckily, cheapo crinoline lady met with an "accident" as I flung the windows open one sunny day! The poodle with sad eyes is obviously made of some alien compound as it's proving harder to break...

Actually, net curtains at the window are one of the most effective ways of avoiding getting your house broken into, apparently. I have an Edwardian house with box sash type windows - tall and narrow with a bar half way across. I have plain cream nets on the lower half of the downstars windows so people can't peep in.

OK, am hanging head and will go and do penance by watching an hour's shopping channel or something. I have got professional photos of DD - is it any better that they were not Venture (I still have the arm and leg it would have cost to go there) but they look a bit like it - it was a guy who came to my friend's house to do them for the coffee group with commission to the NCT.

Mine are not nets!(faints at the thought)

I also detest anything marketed on the lines of "it's pink so women must like it". Eg most of the Next giftware - men must assume we are all Sheilas Wheels type bimbos who will want to buy their tat because they have covered it in pink fluff and put a "humorous" shopaholic/I love shoes/I'm a bimbo mesage on it.

Pillowcases with embroidery all over them. I really don't want to wake up with a flower imprinted on my face.

The cottage oppostie us has a gret huge metal flyon the chimney breast outside which has a great huge light bulb stuck up its bum which they switch on at night - it is terrifying - DD is glad we are moving to get away from it - she says the people who own the house must be comlpetely off their bockers (she misheard me I think!!)

We went to view a house once where every room was clad in that orange pine shite - and every single wall - and I am talking the whole house, every single room even the loo had those tacky plates you get from the Daily Mail supplemnt attached to them - it was scarey - well until we went into the 'Spare Oom' which lacked the tasteful pine and plate collection and had instead lot and lots and lots of those scarey expensive china dolls staring at you from everywhere - even the top of the wardrobe and one on a swing from the light fitting - the lady who was showing us round informed us that she would not be leaving 'her babies'. Needless to say we hotfooted it out of there and didn't make an offer!! Had bloody nightmares for weeks of the scarey dolls slowly climbing down from the wardrobe and trying to suffocate me with their shite hair - which I was duly informed was actually real human hair!!

What about bloody St George flags going grubby and tatty about 3 months after an England footie match?

And as for plastic ones clipped to car windows... I did allow dh to put one on that also had 'The Sun' on it, just to be ironic!

The WORST house I ever viewed when looking to move many years ago was one belonging to a bloke who looked a rel "grubby mac" type - house smelt a bit musty, general feeling of ickyness - went into the living room and in pride of place above the fireplace was a print (ie looked like a painting not a photo) of a woman sitting astride a pole - you get the idea, didn't want to see any further - eeuuuugh.

Next house belonged to a pine freak who was proud of the furniture he had made - small 2 bed modern estate house, he'd built a four-poster which basically filled the bedroom. With matching lampstand - ie a 4x4 plank of pine nailed on a bit of board with a lampshade on. The four poster was similarly bits of 4x4 nailed together round a bed.

So which is scarier - gnarly Chucky Garbagepailkid one or no face at all?

Lovecats, I'm with you on the glossy Italian furniture, yeeeuch. Those glossy wood bits also tend to turn up on those big white 'Throne of King Zog' sofas.

Twinkie and Housemum househunting is so much fun for seeing bad taste in all its glory

when dh and I were looking we went to one with a motorbike in pieces in the dining room

vilest of them all

This is the ultimate surely?

you know what the next episode of dr who will have in it! scary faceless shy dolls going on a murderous rampage!!