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

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Tiles in the living room

Black window frames.
black accents like black radiators, black taps etc
grey/neutral rendering.
pergolas
that weird grey weave outdoor seater set every new build seems to have
media walls

Blimey what do you like?

Totally agree. I don't get the widespread aversion to open plan here at all.

In my case, I live alone but like to throw dinner parties. A separate kitchen means spending half the evening alone in a separate room cooking and preparing food, only rejoining conversation when each course gets brought out and eaten. With an open plan space I can move seamlessly between sitting and talking with others and dashing over to stir a sauce or turn the oven down, while still hearing the conversation.

I can't see how separate kitchen and dining rooms would possibly work for such a lifestyle.

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

Ah, is that what that trend’s called? I’m not keen on it either. But I do have a wardrobe with mirrored panes in the doors (arranged like an arched window) and I’m afraid I’m pretty fond of it.

En-suites. 😭 I hate them so much.

damp shower air going to the bedroom or even worse a 💩.

I hate the fact that tiny 2 bedroom new builds always seem to have two bathrooms. Who the hell needs two bathrooms in a 2 bedroom house?! Insanity.

Would much prefer an office space or even a large storage space.

I'm really not that picky!
Don't like fake grass
Would never have just a shower as I love a bath

I like grey, I find it calming. But I have other colours, texture, and stuff that it isn't just solid grey

I have 2 in a 2 bed apartment
I counted and it's 15 steps from the en suite to the other bathroom
Was handy when one of the toilets broke I guess

Patterned carpets
Media walls
Radiators anywhere but under windows.

There was an amazing link to one on right move a few months ago - toilet on a raised stage in the bedroom, so everyone could see you shit from all angles.

😀

’Gallery walls’, plantation shutters, Quooker taps, black taps, wall-hung tvs, especially over fireplaces, those giant greige bathroom tiles.

Im willing to bet that everybody here either has or loves at least one of things on this list!!😄

Over use of grey (its too much already and painting entire houses just looks depressing....this country isnt sunny enough for all grey houses!)

Over use of fake grass (meaning large expanses, if you have that much room you could have a lovely garden. Its a godsend for people with dark corners, messy pets or awkward spaces. I have it as a pathway between huge raised beds and it works brilliantly)

Disrespect of original features (if you are lucky enough to get a house with original period features dont just rip them out!)

@Firstworldproblemo
I wouldn't count that as open plan - you have other rooms to watch tv or relax.

We also have that set up - big kitchen diner and a sofa area with a TV. We also have a play room, lounge, study.

I have been to that many houses where basically the entire ground floor is open plan and it's awful. It's sold to young families as 'great' because you can always see where the DC are - brilliant for maybe 3 years but after that you need other rooms to escape to.

Beds full of cushions, throws and other unnecessary crap.

Matchy matchy decor

Overly styled rooms

Kelly Hoppen style decor

Oh dear, I’ve got the second on your list- wasn’t my choice, though!

Predictably the thread has indeed evolved.
It's now not What House Trends Wouldn't You Want in Your Own Home
to
What Has Been Popular Over The Past Few Years That I Can Sneer At Because My Taste Is So Bohemian

I've lived through many awful trends including coloured bathroom suites, shag pile carpet and wardrobes surrounding the bed. Of the current trends, grey is the only one i don't like, but that's because grey is my least liked colour for anything (also brown/beige).

Everything else is fine but things like glossy kitchens would date very quickly

Tastes aren't that original because everyone is saying the same things as the previous posters - grey etc., so just as conformist as the people with feature walls and grey paint

Not so much a home trend, but I am fed up with cafes all looking the same. Bare brick walls and faux industrial pipes on the ceilings. Hard surfaces everywhere and tables right up close to the noisy coffee machines - shit accoustics, I cannot hear anyone in these places. I've gone back to pubs 🙃

I think one issue is that "fast fashion" has infected homewares so a trend goes from interior magazine to Dunelm in 6 weeks, blows up on Insta, gets overdone and then the designers need to come up with a completely contrasting trend (think greys to big florals) and the cycle starts again, so things become dated more quickly than they used to. People are churning their decor so much more quickly now.

I think it’s more people are now more used to doing their homes up. Bathrooms, kitchens, gardens, patios, gazebos and pergolas, decor, soft furnishings, sofas, windows,. So many programs of people renovating, designing, redoing,,George Clarke, Stacy soleman, your home made perfect, interior design masters,,it’s so main stream now.

You never got that years ago. There was no internet, four channels on the tv, interior design programs were not a thing. You didn’t redo your bathroom or kitchen unless it was a proper no go zone. A sofa lasted decades. Buying something new was a big thing.

now we are bombarded with it. And it’s in all the shops, even supermarkets.candles, plates, cushions. Now we see it everywhere basically,

@Saschka oh my god 😅😅

@Lampslights I agree- I think it's all part of the same trend and it's spiralled. The cost is definitely a factor though. You wouldn't have been able to buy cushions and throws and framed wall art that cheap (accounting for inflation) 30 years ago so it wouldn't have been an option. It does just give me a bit of a pause when I'm planning to try to avoid things that are super "on trend" as they'll then be super "dated" a year or two later.

Agree, and we didn’t know what trends were unless you bought a magazine of that ilk. You just went to the local shops or industrial estate, the only houses you saw were your friends or families. I’m fifty, and there was no internet, no online shopping as I was growing up, it was all just the local shops and what they stocked.

now it’s all social media inspired, bloggers, so many tv programs, and people see it and think I like that or I could do that, or worse, I should do that, they compare their homes and come up lacking. You can search and buy things from all over the uk, from abroad, we watch programs about it, see the changes, understand the trends, and some folks change accordingly rather than based on what they like.

someone has started another thread as she’s not going to get bifolds as some randoms on here didn’t like them, and didn’t know what she liked, which is beyond extreme, but it’s a prime example of people being influenced.