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...

Annoyingly we did our bathroom in grey/silver in 2004 and now trying to sell, we look like fashion victims!

averythinline we got our bifolds from this place www.valdi.com. Our architects found them for us. So far we've been pleased with them, they've been in since July and are wooden - touch wood no issues yet.

Petally My front door in blue. But three houses that I can see out of my sitting room window have the exact same shade of grey green. Why would you do that? I bet the neighbour who did it first is really pissed off.

Oh, I want one of those massive sofas. I regret that I bought a tidy little two-seater and a wingback chair. I want a sofa I can fall asleep on, I don't care if it's about to be naff!

I literally painted my front door 'Bay Tree' green today

But in my defense it was a truly faded and battered upvc door, and it looks so much better now. And no-one else in my street has one!

We've got lots of 'bound to date' things in our house (big refurb completed last year) - grey kitchen, beige bathroom tiles, anthracite bifolds.

Oh and we ripped out the parquet floors and replaced them with laminate from carpetright. Which would no doubt have the purists shrieking in horror, but I loathe parquet, I don't care if it's classic or stylish or whatever, I hate it and would rather have the cheapest tackiest looking laminate than parquet any day of the week...

I do agree that the 'Bath' 'Eat' 'Love' type signs are crap though and should go out of fashion ASAP.

I have lots of things that will date, according to this thread, but I don't think anything is genuinely classic.

I love parquet flooring but its not classic, its popular now because there's a trend for natural materials but you only have to read of people (my parents included) who discovered beautiful original parquet flooring when they pulled up the old carpets. There was a time where it definitely wasn't classic or fashionable and everyone tried to cover it with lino or carpet!

dietcokeandwine

What do you loathe about parquet so much that you'd replace it with laminate??!! I'm not a fan of parquet personally, would rather have tiles or even carpet. But laminate?!

Is it pronounced 'par-kay'?

Yes 7, how else?

We have parquet in our rental flat and it got water damaged. Turns out it's cheaper to have it restored with reclaimed tiles than to replace with something much less nice.

I love parquet as it can look fantastic. If anyone finds it they should have it sanded back and then varnished, and you can have it varnished either so it's all the same colour or where you see different colours in the wood, and even with a gloss, satin or Matt finish.

Im no purist but ripping it up to put laminate down is surprising. I guess if you hate it though.[shocker]..

Ripping out parquet!

Couldn't you have laid laminate over the top if you hate it that much?

I live in an old school house so parquet would be more than in keeping. It's laminate throughout, no idea what's underneath. I imagine if there was parquet it was damaged of taken up in the conversion. I know someone who lurked around closed schools and got builders to sell them the parquet cheap, which they relaid in their house. Their floors are beautiful!

Could someone put up a pic of a massive sofa? The reviled kind?

echt

I didn't know any of these things were fashionable!

Had to do about of googling to understand this thread.

I like lots of colour and mosaic tiles.

Couldn't care less what's fashionable.

Snurk, *dynevoran.

Shiny plastic kitchens.

Spotlights.

Laminate floors ( just plastic anything really)

And wooden beam mantles over wood burner. (The modern version of the gas fire!)

Grey aluminium windows (grey walls are fine as decor is regularly updated anyway)

Bifold doors on period properties

Enormous flat roof extensions on period properties

I wanted to paint our front door blue when we bought our house. The interior designer informed me that was very "council house". I had to Google council house because I thought it was an architectural style I was missing! >not a Brit

I cant find pics of shiny plastic kitchens?

Grey. In the U.K. it's all too often grey enough outside anyway.

Decking. Though this is mostly passé already.
Garish-wallpaper 'statement' walls.
Public-lav tiles. I've tried to like them, but they make me think of the smell of stale wee, and the sort of people who let their kids pee on the seat and drop loo paper on the floor.

Dollars that's hilarious! And wrong, they come in a variety of colours as I'm sure your search bore out. The interior designer probably had a tin of (insert colour other than blue here) he/she wanted to use up and charge you for.

It's not meadowfield we're looking at, paeleo, we're searching more to the south of the city (currently living to the east) but meadowfield pops up in our search radius (along with ferryhill, ick)

The bathroom in that second house isn't lovely, but I prefer the house as a whole. I find that first one cold and clinical.

Fuck me. I've read some dark shit on MN in my time but ripping up parquet flooring to put laminate from CarpetRight in its place....

THAT'S THE DARKEST.

I had a glossy white kitchen installed in 2003 and they're still
Going strong and look great!

I think that feature walls have been outdated for about 7 years now tbh

I think it's the addition of "from CarpetRight" that messes with the mind.