House trends you wouldn't want in your own home?

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Tiles in the living room

Open plan kitchen/living/dining room. I like to cook in privacy, never mind the food smells getting everywhere 🤢

Grey window frames and front door. They remind me of Gru's house.....or somewhere Eeyore would live

Shower only. I need a bath. No to 100% paved "low maintenance" gardens or fake grass too.

Houses that have no entrance hall and open straight into the front room.

Supposedly it's over, but I still see it everywhere: grey, grey, and more grey.

To be fair that's not really a house trend, it's more a small-house thing. My front door opens straight into my (only) living room and it's the same for all the little terraced houses in the village. I'd change it if I could, but there isn't space to do anything else!

Grey fake wood.

Like, whut? No wood is that colour, so why fake grey wood?

It looks really tacky.

@Vroomfondleswaistcoat so did my old house. That’s why I never want another one.

Grey and fake grass to be honest.

And bulkheads in rooms to accommodate the stairs.

No. Just design the floor plan better.

I've got used to mine now and put a Kallax up to make a kind of 'fake hallway'!

This thread is going to evolve into the usual rampant snobbery regarding books on shelves, ensuites and grey, isn't?
After the first couple of pages the original question about trends will be ignored in the persuit of sharing equisite taste with everyone.

Grey.

Bifold doors.
Lantern ceiling.

Metro tiles.

Tarmac drive.

Anything modern in a period home and anything old fashioned in a modern home.

Door opening onto the pavement.

House with no bath only showed.

Hot tub.

Feature walls usually with ghastly wallpaper.

Dark green, navy, red with or even black walls.

Lots of houseplants.

No utility room.

Faux panellling.

Open plan - prefer that cooking smells are constrained to the kitchen

Feature walls - tacky shit

Wood burner - basic and stinks

Stripped floorboards - beautiful but cold and draughty

Conservatory - boiling hot window room

Separate toilet and bathroom - need a sink between arse-wiping hands and any communal door handle

I have very particular pathological dislikes around photographs. I only like old black and white photos in table-top frames in houses. No colour photos. No photos of people currently living in the house. Maybe I'd make an exception if the photo was of something impressive like a person collecting a Nobel prize. Otherwise, no. Definitely no wall-mounted photos ever.

This. Never understood why open plan is meant to be desirable.

Those massive beige tiles in bathrooms

Neutral walls in white/magnolia/cream/grey/pebble/latte or any of those shades

Grey & Beige - fine if you have the Mediterranean outside your windows but not in Hampshire in February.

Fake grass
Kitchen Islands
Boiling water taps
Electric gates (although I realise location may make them necessary)
Fire pits
Hot tubs

Is fake grass an actual trend or just laziness?

Grey anything, fake grass (should be banned), concrete gardens, pattern tiles, huge tv’s, no space for a dining table.

Giant clock on wall.

Pointless groups of letters spelling out stuff like "HOME" "WASH" "LOVE" "EAT".

I think it's a trend, by way of someone does it, someone else sees it and thinks it's a good idea and it replicates that way. It's not the kind of 'trend' that you see trumpeted about in the interiors magazines.

It's also horrible, but that's by the by.

My ndn have just had fake grass put in and it looks really good. They were having issues getting light to that bit of the lawn before, now it looks really neat.

I think fake grass has its place, particularly if you have a very small lawn.

I've never understood people who decorate their home with the latest trends. The grey crushed velvet couches, grey walls and grey life was just dire and it's aged terribly. People should decorate their homes in a way that pleases them and makes them genuinely happy, not what they think everybody else is doing. My house 100% reflects my personality and needs and I know it's not to everybody else's tastes and that's fine. It makes MY heart sing and it's where I live and feel safe.

No to grey windows. No to grey render on perfectly fine older houses to "freshen them up" , they were perfect before!

Plastic grass
”Inspiring” slogans written on walls
Sparkly stuff
Crushed velvet
Laminate floors (especially in living rooms)
Open plan everything so ground floor is basically one room
Bifold doors
Feature walls

Gardens with stones where grass should be… you can’t walk on it bare foot so you’ve just created a massive cat litter tray.

Fake grass.

Open plan with no other reception rooms.