What current "looks" are going to date badly?

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I'm starting a house refurb next year and collecting various ideas for decor.

I'm conscious that I tend to be quite influenced by what's around at the moment... 5 years ago I probably would have chosen a house all in white and shades of grey, and a painted in frame kitchen, now I'm liking darker colours and handleless kitchens... I think I may be a recipe for a house that dates quite badly .

Please help me avoid that. What do you think is currently ubiquitous/on trend but will look all wrong in a few years' time?

Conversely what's going to stand the test of time?

It's for a Victorian house in London if that matters...

I did think of farming him out to MN if it turns out well! I'll let you all know how it goes. Bloody hell hes taking his time about it though so buyer beware.

Nobody mentioned leather sofas? We have two as we already had one when we moved here and bought a second for the the second reception room - they'll never die so I think I'm stuck with them forever which is a shame as I think they're probably very 00's.
I have ideal Homes on Facebook and every time an"amazing conversion" pops up all they seem to have done it painted everything white and grey - so dull

I think shiny granite work surfaces and decking are both going to look terribly noughties or teens. And grey paint.

Loads of inset spotlights.

taptonaria, I am addicted to interiors magazines but do love it when occasionally they show a truly different home. I remember one which was a kind of bonkers goth kitsch paradise. Best bit was a gallery of those 60s 'weeping child' prints - she called it 'the wall of pain' or something

We have parquet flooring in our hall. It was covered up when we moved in but we had it sanded back and varnished with a dark walnut shade of brown and it looks amazing! The chap who was sanding it was convinced it would look awful and said pale wood would look better but he loved it. When it's pale or orangey it looks very church hall like.

My parents have parquet in their hall. Probably the best bit of their house. Even better than the high level cistern in the downstairs loo - with the dodgy, temperamental flush!

Anything (apart from avocado and pink etc. bathrooms) that was out of date before the grey thing and open plan gloss kitchens will come back. It's a cycle.

So glad I kept walls and doors in the living areas now. Never wanted everyone together. I likes my spaces!

We eat mostly in the kitchen which is not huge but big enough. Have a through room for sitting and TV and a dining table when more than four arrive for grub! Great. I can close the kitchen door and just voila... serve up without them seeing the almighty mess behind me!

In the through room which is for TV, sitting, dining and more sitting and a little workdesk, we have a blackout blind salvaged from the patio doors when we changed the blinds. It is bloody marvellous. Just pull the windy cord and two separate rooms instantly.

Each to their own though.

I am sorry, but I really think high gloss is a fad. I'm in the market for a new kitchen soon and will go classic maple shaker style. Clean lines. Good quality matte laminate worktops too. The current worktop is laminate, 23 years old and is as good as the day it was installed. OK time for a new kitchen I accept that!

Classics don't date really.

Beautiful floor, Titsywoo. I love dark wood.

Jeaniusly- what brand is your laminate worktop, if you don't mind me asking? What colour is it? Will you be getting the same brand and style in your new kitchen? Thanks!

The grey thing is doing my head in though. Why can't anyone have anything but grey at the moment ? Do we all have to look the same?

@EJC85

Hi there, I am so sorry but it is so old I haven't a clue!

But it has taught me a lesson, and I will never get polished granite now either. My sister has black polished granite tops and seems to spend her life polishing the water and other stains off!

Sometimes less housework is good.

Sorry EJ I forgot to mention that it is pebbled colour mostly cream, brown and white. Kind of mottled?

Never a stain nor a worry for putting hot things on. I think I will recycle it into a table/computer stand or something. Marvellous.

Jeaniusly thanks for replying. I was dreaming with quartz for my new kitchen but the price is impossible for me now. I am now in search of good quality laminate as I don't fancy spending my life polishing worktops of any kind. Yours seem great! I wonder if I can get something durable and dirt hiding like yours but mostly black? What do you reckon? (My kitchen will have oak cabinets and I like the contrast)

Oak is brilliant, much nicer than granite I think. Mine is 20 years old and I have only sanded and oiled it once in all that time, so durable.

EJC85

This link shows matt laminate worktops. The one I currently have is the natural stone one.

www.wickes.co.uk/Products/Kitchens/Kitchen-Worktops+Upstands/Laminate-Worktops/c/1000940