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

[DaringAquaViewer]

Tiles in the living room

I know a few of the lads I went to school with have toilets in their bedrooms. Or, at least they do until the end of their custodial sentence.

I commit many mumsnet sins: deep colour walls, grey laminate in bathroom, stairs off the sitting room, mismatched pictures . . .

I loathe gardens that are not filled with green and growing plants, also fitted carpets, wallpaper, open plan kitchen/sitting rooms, the environmental disasters that are wood burners.

Open plan areas
Excessive use of grey
Word-based decor
Chrome/mirrored furniture and appliances
Husbands
Photo walls

Wall panelling. We have it along our hallway and up the stairs, it's been there since the house was built 30 years ago. I can't wait until we can rip it off and have fresh, simply plastered & painted walls.

Fake grass.

Decorative items spelling out words such as Relax, Bath etc.

The colours grey, dark blue or dark green.

Mirrored furniture.

Open plan kitchen/living areas.

May I ask what colour walls you have? Not being goady, just interested 😁

There's plenty of stuff I think is awful so wouldn't want in my house, but there's also loads of stuff I absolutely love in other people's houses, but I'd find a nightmare in my own!

I really like country cottage/ maximalist kitchens but I know I'd actually find it really stressful in my own home - I need minimalism or I get really anxious😆

I also like large airy spaces but think they must be a nightmare to keep warm in winter.

Tiled floors like a Spanish villa and fake grass

As for open plan, I absolutely love it. But we do also have separate play room, lounge and dining room but the family area is an open plan kitchen, diner, living area. We deliberately created it that way as the kids when little (and still to a degree now) wanted to be wherever I was, which was usually the kitchen. It meant they kept getting under my feet. Now they can play in the living area and I cook in the kitchen area, they do homework at the island whilst I cook etc and we chat and they can see me. It's massively reduced household stress.

I need a bath too and all I have is a shower now. I hate it.

Cottages. All the teeny-meeny windows, oppressive looking beams, low peasant ceilings, cutesy cutesy quilts, stone, old 'cozy' fireplaces, rocking chairs, granny chic. Nothing that can be described as 'cute and cozy'. I don't want to live in the 'Wind in the Willows', ffs.

Arts&Crafts. Similar reasons. Fusty, musty, old-fashioned. Just because it's old, doesn't mean it's good.

Shabby chic.

Solely British thing - carpet EVERYWHERE. On the stairs, in every room, in extreme cases even in the bathroom. Just...why??? So naff and pedestrian.

Not a trend anymore (hopefully), but crushed velvet, mirrored furniture, crystals, fake D&G towels/bedding - WAG chic.

Obv all the 'live, laugh, love' signs.

Those disgusting poofy, reclining, bulky leather sofas/armchairs.

Low/regular ceilings (has to be high) and small windows.

No sockets in bathrooms. All the rest of the world manage somehow..

Or an overshadowed north facing small garden.

Metro tiles (love the look but wouldn't want all that grouting to clean!)

Plantation shutters - expensive and block out too much light for me.

@DaringAquaViewer

it was a good thread starter & could have been fun. But as usual spoilt by people who can't resist the urge to prove how much more money or taste they think they have.

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That’s not a trend, that’s a house design to maximise space on a small footprint.

Ceiling led lights
coordinating furniture
anything from HomeSense
polyester carpets that show marks when you hoover
versailles floor pattern where it’s out of place i.e a modern flat
Interiors of new built flats

Open plan
Ensuites
Kitchen island with back breaking stools

I live in a converted restaurant, and the doors open straight into my sitting room. The upside is my sitting room is over 750 square feet with lovely high ceilings :)

@Fizbosshoes

i'm with you there, open plan 'en suites' WTF

Grey anything

Blue anything

Faux anything

Bath in a bedroom

Venetian blinds

Bathroom or ensuite completely tiled in grey and white marble effect

Square loo seats

That damn health and safety trend of not allowing sockets in bathrooms....

Door opening onto the pavement.

This is not a 'house trend' it is a sign of a house that was built for people who cannot afford houses with drives. front gardens etc.

Ditto 'no utility room' in a house that is simply too small to have a utility room alongside kitchen or bathroom or anywhere.

Husbands?

They seem a right inconvenience at times

No sockets in bathrooms. All the rest of the world manage somehow..

That would be because our electricity would kill you and theirs wouldn't, the supply being half the voltage.

That's why Americans have stove top kettles - not enough power to boil an electric one fast.