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What current "looks" are going to date badly?

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minipie · 05/04/2017 13:03

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 Grin.

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...

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WitchQueenofNewOrleans · 06/04/2017 22:26

Feature walls with wall paper patterns that would have been too loud even in the 70's.
Farrow and bleedin' Ball

AddToBasket · 06/04/2017 22:28

I don't know anyone with a red kitchen.

PickAChew · 06/04/2017 22:30

Those beige stone like tiles all over the bathroom floor and walls. I've seen so many examples of that really badly implemented, during my house hunting that I suspect it's crossed the boundary from "hotel quality" to "shite DIY" already.

The bathroom in this rather badly tarted up house is a particularly spectacularly poor example of the beige bathroom
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-47415111.html

(there's another detached house listed for the same area for a similar price which isn't as superficially nice from the outside, but actually much bigger and more interesting as a house, inside)

PickAChew · 06/04/2017 22:33

And, I suspect that those loos with the hidden cistern will date - impossible to fix the flush mechanism or even the seat without some serious surgery on the bathroom, unless whoever fitted it has thought to put it behind an easily removable panel, rather than completely tile it in, without thinking!

PickAChew · 06/04/2017 22:43

Kitchen is off white for the base and wall units, huge pantry unit is dark blue and the island is red. Range cooker in inglenook is same dark blue as the pantry unit and then the tiles for the splash back are Mexican wall tiles from milagros which pick out the blue and the red to tie it all together. Maybe a bit crazy but I don't care.

This sounds lovely Paleontologist.

Certainly wouldn't put me off a house.

This is a house close to the awful one that I linked that I absolutely adore - very little trendy about it, but I like a bit of colour and warmth - and it has some gorgeous parquet flooring in the livingroom! Sadly, even though it's just within our budget, it's out of area, for us.
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-65513978.html

SwedishEdith · 06/04/2017 22:46

I went into Dunelm yesterday for only the 2nd time ever trying to find cotton curtains (forget it). But I did see this lamp base - manufactured in China. So, that industrial look - crates with stencils etc.

What current "looks" are going to date badly?
propertypriceguide · 06/04/2017 22:48

I like grey but absolutely everyone I know bar about two people who are off the scale in their untrendiness, have grey and white houses. Even really safe people which fits in with the Next/Dunelm theory!

I think you can't go far wrong with wooden floors and a proper woodburner is lovely, although we have an open fire too and I do prefer it to snuggle up by.

OVienna · 06/04/2017 22:53

happygardening* your house sounds like my kind of house....

justdontevenfuckingstart · 06/04/2017 22:53

Pick We couldn't sell tiles like the splitface you referenced quick enough 12-18 months ago, have dropped them now.

SwedishEdith · 06/04/2017 22:55

The problem with grey and white houses is that they look like black and white photos on Rightmove.

PickAChew · 06/04/2017 22:55

So it's already past the shite DIY phase then just!

Thank fuck!

justdontevenfuckingstart · 06/04/2017 22:59

Pick Victorian is back in. And no running the bloody mosaic strip half way up the wall lol

GordonJacobs · 06/04/2017 23:12

I'm concerned that my newly installed anthracite grey aluminum bifold doors will be the avocado bathroom suite of the future....

Garlicansapphire · 06/04/2017 23:17

I have some of these - gloss white kitchen with slate floor, feature wallpaper in two bedrooms. But it's broken up with original art, some old pieces of wooden furniture, a very colourful cosy sitting room, quirky items from my travels (not dusty fusty hippy shit)...

I don't like completely styled matchy matchy, hotel style, neutrals etc. And always go for things just because I love them.

justdontevenfuckingstart · 06/04/2017 23:19

Gordon Rose Gold Taps are coming back in so don't worry.

Kennethwasmyfriend · 06/04/2017 23:37

I am about to get a new bathroom installed and this thread has put the fear into me!
I want a counter top basin - will that look naff? Is it already naff? When I see one I just want to stroke it Confused

GertrudeBrisket · 06/04/2017 23:53

What about "waterfall" ends on kitchen benchtops? I think they look great but wondering whether they will date.

SnowGlobes · 07/04/2017 00:12

Ooh which house did you choose tomHaverford

SwedishEdith · 07/04/2017 00:14

Is that where the worktop continues down the side? I mentioned that to my builder when we got our (white gloss, naturally) kitchen 6 years ago and he said they were a bit dated then. He was no Kevin McCloud but must have absorbed a lot of trends.

Cooloncraze · 07/04/2017 04:58

Think of it as interiors magazines:

Homes & Gardens - sort of unchanging classic old- fashioned country house hotel style. Not trendy so can't date.

ElleDeco - will date immediately as its all current looks like navy kitchens and Berber rugs and juxtaposed vintage finds with glossy minimalist interiors.

World of Interiors - totally eccentric creative houses ranging from Derek Jarman's tiny cottage to opulent Italian palaces. Nothing featured would date is it's all so unique and slightly bonkers.

TheoriginalLEM · 07/04/2017 05:27

once something becomes a "theme" in argos then it's done!

ihatethecold · 07/04/2017 06:58

pichachew
Do you really prefer the bathroom to the second house you linked.
It looked really cramped and dated to me.
The first house bathroom looked spacious and clean.
I much preferred it.
In fact I preferred the first house over the second.
I also am gob smacked at the price of a 4 bed detached house in Durham Shock

mumsiedarlingrevolta · 07/04/2017 07:21

minipie We did our Victorian house a few years ago-I wanted to keep as many beautiful architectural features as I could but with a clean, modern family house (and I love my metro tiles in kitchen)

I love houzz but also used pinterest as a source for ideas-both good and bad-lots of pics of victorian houses and you see what ppl have done-what you don't like is just as important as what you do!

Also good as you will start to gravitate to certain looks, colours or ideas-it's your house-an expression of you.
Everything dates (orange shag carpet was once all the rage) it will evolve over time but has to be what YOU want.
Have fun!!!

Kiroro · 07/04/2017 09:32

@pichachew

LOL I much prefer the beige bathroom to the one in the second house!

Hellofromme · 07/04/2017 09:35

Shame I have just had grey carpet laid throughout the house. Goes with the grey corner sofa and grey and cream rug and grey walls in the living room. I like it though Smile.