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

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Tiles in the living room

Stairs in the lounge
Every room painted 50 shades of grey with grey, black/white bedding, cushions, blinds or curtains
Black and white kitchens with garish red tiles and appliances
Mirrored furniture
Totally open plan ground floor

Having a lockdown puppy. Yes, I understand why it happened but I really wish it hadn’t.

So many poorly socialised dogs kept by inexperienced owners in houses that smell of damp dog and have fur on the surfaces. Plus barking.

I don't think I've ever taken any notice of trends, I just do what I like. This thread has been eye opening!!

I do sometimes walk through Ikea and think how chic and lovely it is, then come back to my house which looks like a pot of rainbow paint fell onto it and think it would never work for me 😂

Kitchens with an island squeezed in just because it's the latest trend. Unless you have proper space all around, then do not squeeze an island in. Kitchens that are two toned and on trend colours. Your green/blue/pink kitchen will not age well in 10-15 years.

Laminate flooring everywhere. I hate the stuff.

Maybe I'm just boring though!

Every room in some houses,with the occasional burgundy accessory.

Open plan ground floor with no other separate living spaces.

Sunlight tunnels - just put a window in

Dark blue kitchens

Oops. I have a tile floor, house is grey (inside), bi folds & huge tv... And half a dozen other faux pas already listed! Tbf, I'm in Aus, not the UK & our houses are very open & large tvs are almost a competitive sport. The grey was to avoid the brief brown trend when we built the house, long before grey was a thing.

What current trend you'll never see in my house is the ensuite bits IN the master bedroom, with no walls, arranged at the end of the bed etc. Especially the loo.

Some of these I love.

love our wood burners, needed in winter and lovely watching the flames.
love some houses with bifolds, we don’t have them but know folks who do.
love an island, assuming enough space, which kitchen designers usually ensure there is.
like a feature wall if done right.
love our fire pit, we don’t have close neighbours and we used it at the weekend with friends, sat drinking wine and chatting round it.
would have defo removed the bath when we redid the bathroom. Husband wanted the bath though and I caved. It’s an expensive ornament.

Gardens with fake grass or 100% paving. I need flowers and good natural drainage.

Baths in bedrooms

Toilets / bathrooms with no doors

Navy kitchens
Fake panelling
’Built-in’ ikea pax wardrobes that have been screwed to plinths and walls - this is all over TikTok and is not as cheap as making your own built-in wardrobe but involves just as many power tools!
Kitchen islands
super-low profile shower trays so you don’t have a lip - the lip is essential to stop water escaping
last summer’s brief lilac trend for walls, ugh

I have an aversion to that monochrome instagram interior plus - fake panelling, crittal internal doors, massive fake flowers in humongous stone vase on kitchen island, black bathroom taps, horizontal batons on garden fences, fake grass and karate chopped cushions.

Macrame plant pot hangers and the new found love of dried grasses and flowers. I just remembered how dusty these things used to get the last time round.

Caged light fittings. Throws weird shadows on the walls. I know because we moved into a house with them and have weird shadows on the wall plus one of the glass diffuser things is missing and impossible to replace.

Bookshelves with books bought by the metre rather than books someone has bought to actually read. Oh and that thing of flipping the spines to the back so just you just see the cover and pages. Not everything has to be "aesthetic" you are allowed to just have your books be books.

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

Spooky, I used to feel just like that. Although I didn't like any photos up, black or white either. Until I lost a kid. She's all over the place now. Odd how your mind shifts a bit out of the blue.

I don't like open plan houses, ruddy awful.

I don't see the grey, grey and more grey about these days. Everyone's got white walls.

Oh god. So many things!

Open plan (last Christmas it was great to shut the kitchen door to concentrate rather than people offering “advice” and distracting me
Fake grass
Grey (yep the people we bought the house off loved it and “invested” in fake grey laminate flooring which looks as cheap as it sounds)
Crushed velvet (especially grey which was endemic when we were last house hunting)
Live love laugh
Wood chip (not a real trend but the people we bought house off thought it was!)
I am a pictures snob. I die a bit inside that my mums lounge features mainly pictures of herself 🤣

Plastic grass
Hot tub
Wood floors
Anything other than white-painted window frames & interior woodwork
Grey paint
Wind chimes
Dogs
A wreath on the front door at any time of year other than Christmas
An air fryer (nowhere to keep one anyway in my titchy kitchen)
Granite worktops

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

can you get FECK, DRINK and ARSE?

Some of the things mentioned aren't really trends... bulkheads in bedrooms- I don't think anyone rushed to include that in their house.

Anyway, 'colour drenching' is one that pains me. Same colour on walls and ceiling and woodwork. It looks stifling to me. I am firmly a white ceiling sort of person. I'm imagining the neck pain of trying to paint over a really dark ceiling in a few years time.

Layering rugs - an untidy-looking way of creating multiple trip hazards.

Framed pictures balanced on tiny shelves, especially over the bed. I bet an episode of Casualty starts with a shot of these, accompanied by ominous music.

Pedestal mats - relying on these to soak up wee is a bit minging.

Art prints with slogans on them - I feel a bit bombarded with with advertising and other info in my daily life, so I just want pictures on the walls at home.

Bar stools on the dining room side of the island/ peninsular, which are about a metre away from the chairs around the dining table. Strange waste of space, it would take about a minute to carry your plate to the table and sit down comfortably instead of balancing on an uncomfortable stool ( and presumably clearing everything else off the work surface so you could put your plate down.)

But presumably lots of people DO like a particular trend otherwise it wouldn't become a thing? E.g the trendsetters saw the first all grey walls a few years ago, their friends saw that and thought "Ooh i like it" and copied it and it trickled down.
There have been lots of "trends" that have come and gone and not made much of an impact, for something to have been a really big or enduring trend, like many of those mentioned on this thread, lots of people must have liked it - that's pretty much the whole definition of a popular trend!

E.g. all the time the shops were selling multiple shades of grey paint they were still selling all the other colours too -but people actively chose the grey presumably because they liked it. Its not as if some arbitrary trendsetter decided grey was in so no other colours were sold and people had to either paint their walls grey or not redecorate.

I don't think many people actively decorated their house a particular way JUST because its "on trend" and they think they should follow it regardless of whether they actually like the trend or not.

Or at least I don't know anyone who has.

Grey walls, grey carpets, grey crushed velvet sofas

I'm with all the Pps on the Grey, all white, open plan, feature walls, and fake grass.

I'm already sick of all the fake panelling.

However, I do love colour drenching, colour photographs (i feel like black and white CAN look nice and have a place but colour feels so much more joyful to me), and dark interiors.

Unlike most of MN I don't mind an ensuite (although I know loads of my decor is a MN crime and I don't have bookshelves ) but I really dislike "open plan ensuite" eg a toilet in the bedroom -that would never ever be ok imo

I'm mildly househinting now and I hate the grey everywhere inside, every blade of grass and shrub removed outside look.

So ecologically bad and so boring inside.

Note to self to get rid of the wood-fired hot tub before moving. Note to others, never get one, they are a complete pita.