Things you would NEVER want in your house:

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I'll start.

A kitchen island.
A hall console table.
A corner sofa.
New rugs.

I am thinking of getting a plumbed-in Miele coffee machine.

I grew up in a house with an outside lav. The only sink in the entire four-bedroomed house was in the kitchen. This meant going through two doors to get to it. Big blocks of Fairy household soap and a towel on roller.

Devora our Aussie house has the bathroom off the kitchen, though it has the two-door separation rule of old-stylee.

TheOne, that's the stuff! Gorgeous - I like the little spots and stars best (could live without naked ladies whipping their hair back). Even better is the 3D effect raised glass spots - bobbly glass. I would love to have that in my bathroom, in wooden frames (I am currently a uPVC paradise). Still, I can't imagine a time when that will be a priority for my household budget, so I'll just dream.

Bun feet on pine. Yucky

Gloss kitchens. I just do not get these. I don't want my kitchen to look like an operating theatre

you can get replacement sealed units for double glazing in the glass of your choice, as they are made to order.

I recently had one changed in the bathroom, and commented to the installer that I supposed I would have to change the other window as well, so they matched. He knew at a glance what the name was for the obscure glass and had a new one made to match. He took out the old panel to measure (including thickness, which varies)

I had several done at the same time, but I think it might have been about £50 each.

Subsequently I had a downstairs one done, in laminated glass (burglar resistant) which cost extra. It seems to me that a small local installer can be better value, and more inclined to do small jobs, than one of the big chains.

Our builders smashed a panel on our 1950s inner front door (textured glass that looks a bit like bark) - I was amazed they managed to find exactly the same glass, no idea where from. It is single glazed though.

We knocked a toilet cubicle and bathroom into one room last year -such an improvement. Does make for a funny shaped room, but so much more space than we had before.

I don't like super shiny contemporary hard stuff.It makes a place feel like an office or laboratory.
Give me organic stuff,wood stone,slate etc.
I'd seriously love an outdoor composting loo.

Bedbugs.

Can't understand why anyone would have a hot tub in their garden ,the ultimate in naffness.

Artex anything
Pine anything
Carpet in bathrooms and loos
Aga
Wood burning Stoves
Flowery or any type of patterned carpet
Wallpaper
Anything Victorian
White plastic bedroom furniture (my mother has this)
Fake wood anything
Hatches between dining room and kitchen
OVersized and over complicated coffee machines

Loving this thread , I also love twigs and twinkly lights (shoot me now haha) but you can keep the pebbles.

I have fairly relaxed attitudes to stuff in houses but won't give house room to any of that John Wayne shite....you know what I mean, clocks that play one of his famous lines on the hour. The same goes for Elvis Presley stuff which plays a Presley tune on the hour, every hour. In fact anything in that line....stuff like this...

www.bradfordexchange.com/products/115833001_elvis-graceland-cuckoo-clock.html

I also won't have a baby chimp toy as an ornament.

I have had a leather sofa and didn't like it.

I love corner sofas as they make good good use of space (I dot. Have one but would love one).

I agree about hot tubs on the terrace being the height of naffness but secretly I'd rather like one

Until fairly recently we must have been the epitome of naffness amothersplace as we not only had a hot tub, but moved the bloody thing twice when we moved house...I can't even blame DH as it was me being bloody mean because it cost 11k that enjoyed soaking in it with wine and a book!

On the subject of bathrooms, in our new house (built 1853, two storey extension added in 1924) the u/s toilet is separate from the bathroom and doesn't have a basin.....very unhygienic imho (and on my to do list!). The main bathroom is large - possibly a bedroom originally - yet no obvious space for a a toilet, but if we knocked through the room would be a very curious shape.

Pot pourri
Glittery toilet seats
Emma Bridgewater mugs
Purple kitchens
Hearts. On anything.
Outdoor swimming pools
Erotica on bedroom walls
Bowl sinks
Fussy toilets
Big round wooden cupboard knobs in country style kitchens
Massive padded footstool/coffee table things
Marble bathrooms
Roman blinds

Purple anywhere in a house. I just think it's the colour for a dress, and not for walls, but I'm a boring neutral girl.

Old victorian furniture. It might look lovely in someone else's turn of the century house but I can't abide it. (what I am saying is - I can understand why people like it, I just don't want it!) I find it dark, depressing and stuck in a time warp.

Throws everywhere, especially on sofas. They just look messy. I like clean lines and not crumpled throws.

Lots of ornaments, especially if they are in a display cabinet.

Thinking on gloss kitchens and gloss floors - I wonder if it is the fashion of the moment? Someone I know (an architect and a bit of a style guru) has rebuilt a house. The kitchen is glossed up to within an inch of it's life. Yes, it looks clean, but it is quite sterile, I just wonder if it will date...

I love these threads, it is as if I used it as a template for my home.

Old victorian furniture. It might look lovely in someone else's turn of the century house but I can't abide it. (what I am saying is - I can understand why people like it, I just don't want it!) I find it dark, depressing and stuck in a time warp.

Ha ha, mine is all painted 'shabby shite', the other MN hate I'm the opposite to you, and don't like modern furniture, especially Oak Furniture land stylee.

Anything shabby chic.
A seaside theme in a bathroom. (A friend of mine once artfully placed an anchor with a rope in the corner of her newly decorated bathroom. I nearly wet myself with joy.) A lighthouse design light pull anyone?

I haven't read the full thread because I honestly think I would lose the will to live. What the hell do half of you actually have in your houses?

Lots of what's on here!

I have 3 fairly new sash dg hardwood windows that I inherited in this house which I've done nothing but clean

Im having the other 7 victorian sashes refurbished slowly and they are using this SRS that Ventrolla do which is supposed to make them easier to clean repaint and look after generally as they can be removed

Hopefully will be easy to maintain and keep looking lovely

I hate my artex, it's in every room.
I don't think I could face the dust and upheaval to get rid of it though so I'm just waiting for it to come back in to fashion

I hate:

Matching curtains and duvet cover. So naff looking.

Polycotton bedding. Sweaty and nasty.

Mug trees.

Plastic fruit in fruit bowls.

Glass chopping boards.

Candles that are for "decoration only".

Rodents, snakes and monkeys.
Not so keen on cats either

Any matching fabrics on beds windows etc
Gas fires
Sill length curtains
Artex back in fashion so some of you are in!

late - but great stuff.

I never want:

throws on sofas.
anything on the bed that you need to take off to have room to sleep.
letters/words on walls
decking; stupid idea in the UK climate
water features
garden feature lighting
butler sink: instant backache
silly flimsy curtains
floral bloody anything, especially Cath Kidston where I am in full agreement with Bird in Bluestone 42...
leather furniture: cows are for eating and wearing on feet, not sitting on
bowl sinks. Muck traps.
freestanding baths. Ditto
air fresheners. Yuk.

I would like:
pelmets: keep out draughts and unwanted light.
colours; can't have the heritage colours I had in the last house, wouldn't work for this place, but did like them
bedding with strong abstract patterns and colours; not words, not new york skyline, not poncy girly florals, not frills, not pink, not stripes, not plains. Appears to have been outlawed as can't find it anywhere.

Canvas mounted photographs of children.
Prints of famous works of art.
Signs and mottos on anything.

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Well, we have loads of stuff that MNetters would hate -

I already mentioned the taxidermy - mostly butterflies (approx twenty frames, but had over 200 frames in the hall at a previous house!), but we do have a couple of small mammals too.....

Ornaments - not knobbly knickknacks (such as the crinoline ladies & cranberry glass my late mum collected) which I hate with a vengeance, but things that really mean something to us - we love and collect items from the Art Nouveau/Arts & Crafts period, so 'art pottery' and copper trays etc and every one has been chosen carefully and deliberately, not like people that just go out and buy whatever is currently on trend, only to change it five minutes later!

Lots of heavily patterned fabrics (Liberty in particular, but also Voysey designs), antique rugs and busy period type wallpapers - although the latter have yet to go up in this house as we only completed in mid December and are still decorating.

Dark colours - one of our living rooms is F&B Brinjal and we both hate white rooms (unless you're talking CR Mackintosh!).

Heavy oak furniture - mainly original pieces from the late 19th/early 20th century.

Books everywhere - DH and me both love books and he would have them littering every surface if I let him.

A kitchen island - again not in this house yet, but on order and we've had them in our last three houses. Our last kitchen was 36' long so needed large pieces to fill the space - we also have a 7.5' table :@)

Prints and original art in every room.

Masses of cushions - on beds, sofas and window seat - fifty at the last count.

Two dogs and three house cats.

These are all things we have chosen. We also - thankfully - have original sash (and 1920s Crittall lead light) windows.

Then there's the stuff we inherited from the PO, such as carpets in toilet & bathroom, primrose yellow cloakroom suite, louvre doors on bedroom cupboards, cheap laminate flooring in the kitchen, fluorescent tube lighting in kitchen and bathroom, fussy brass wall lights with pink etched glass shades and woodchip wallpaper on walls and ceilings in almost every room......grrrr!

Good job we're not all the same I guess!