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

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Tiles in the living room

@C8H10N4O2 But why would anyone need to use a hairdryer in the bathroom? The only time electric sockets are needed is if people use an electric shaver, and every bathroom I've ever been in has a shaver socket.

My parents were both born in the 1920s and seemed to be constantly decorating and building things. I can remember coming home from school several times to find thst my mum had completely repainted my bedroom and wallpapered a feature wall whilst I was out. She still wallpapered her living room and painted the ceiling when she was 90, although her eyesight wasn't too good by then so the edges of her painting were a bit dodgy 😆. I've been decorating ever since my husband and I got our first flat when I was 18 and I could never imagine paying anyone to do something like decorating.

Clear empty sides in the kitchen, with even the toaster put away in a cupboard.

Photographs on the wall, I like a rogues gallery on a side board

a home without books, I couldn't do it as I like books

I like open plan, low level furniture and wood, I find it really sociable & calming

To be fair my grandparents of that era did also. But my parents in the next generation did not.

i get a decorator in for high ceilings like the hallway or the kitchen where it is over 20 foot. Anything 10 foot or under I will do.

Some posters don't seem to understand what the word "trend" means. Talking about houses not having a hallway or the stairs in the living room are not trends, they are the way the house was built.

they are trends, builders buy the plans in the trends and build that style of house. The next trend is having a dressing room, on suite and bedroom on one side of the house upstairs.

I find a home without photos of people a bit weird. Ditto no books. And I definitely judge people that tarmac over their entire front garden when they don’t need it all for parking. It looks soulless and dead and grim. And lazy.

I don’t like homes that are Insta-ready and look like show homes, with no piles of crap anywhere, or any other signs of life.

Not a fan of signs eg “It’s Prosecco o’clock!” and other gak shite.

Boiling water taps and black taps/ shower fittings are 2 that immediately spring to mind.

Its not just hairdryers but I've regularly been in hotels where the only decent light/mirror combination was in the bathroom. Some bathrooms double as dressing areas.

I've also seen plenty of bathrooms without the two pin sockets and if they have them there is only one (shaver sockets are used by a number of different devices, bathrooms are often shared).

The point is its a restrictive rule created to assume people are stupid which the rest of the world manages very well without. It makes just as much sense to say "no sockets or switches in the kitchen" which is also a wet area.

Not having a hallway (ie the front door opening into the living room) isn't a 'builder's trend. It's done because there isn't room for any kind of porch. I know, I live in one. If you put in a hallway, you wouldn't be able to get a sofa into the living room and, because the stairs go straight up opposite the front door with a door onto the staircase, any hallway would have no light at all.

So that isn't a trend at all. It's a small house thing.

I don't have a hall and stairs from the living room - I don't live in a small house though

But my house is 150 years old. This is why I mean that no hallway and door straight into living room isn't a builder's trend. It was what they had to do when these little cottages were built, because all the walls are 2 ft thick.

when I sorted through the building plans for a town in the West Midlands between 1870's-1890s, the archetect plans were all purchased from pretty much the same architect in Birmingham - the trend then was to build with two rooms downstairs and two up all the plans were identical and often a pig sty was applied for afterwards

every period in history has had trends

Since we’re classing construction points as trends, I find it personally affronting when people forget to add a helipad. That and no indoor swimming pool, just awful.

We gave up our helipad so that we could have a bigger shed.

True story.

Over 20 foot?! Fair play, I wouldn't be decorating that myself either!

Yup, it’s a weird layout and only half the kitchen has that height ceiling, the other half about 10 foot. But no way either of us would be up there doing it. My husband hates decorating and I hate heights 😂

metro tiles, remind me of public toilets.

A kitchen island .. I can't stand them, especially with tacky stools.

I don’t mind en suites but the trend for putting them in 2 and 3 bed new builds at the expense of space for something else (such as a decent sized smallest bedroom) isn’t good imo.

I dislike open plan. My ex’s dream place was the condo belonging to Frasier in the eponymous sitcom. It wasn’t for me. My ideal house would be the ranch from Dallas. I wouldn’t mind the Texan climate either!