What's one home trend you have done that you now regret?

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Turning a small room into a bedroom.

We have a black sink and dark metal taps in the bathrooms and kitchen, but we have a water softener. I wouldn’t do it without.

We have a black tap and a black composite sink with drainer. No issues at all but we live in a soft water area

We got curved arch and love it

What are day and night blinds?

Blinds2go have them. Horizontal blinds that you can adjust to allow more or less light, or to raise like other blinds.

Try solar lights at the front of the house. Super easy to fit.

The item I regret buying is a wood burner! They are expensive to buy,ours cost £3,400 to buy, install & register.Seasoned wood is expensive at 0.45p- 0.75p a log.We get through loads in the winter.They look nice, but are dirty, dusty, high maintenance! I would not ever buy one again.If anyone on here is thinking of having a log burner installed? Make sure you know what you are letting yourself in for, if you live in a old uninsulated house,it make take hours of using a log burner to heat a few rooms.Would cost more than central heating to run. You have to make sure, timber is seasoned,the right type of wood,that you burn to the correct temperature & make sure it's combusted.I thought I could just pop on a log, have a coffee & relax!

Not our current house, but the stenciling I added to the walls in a previous place. Others loved it, but it was never quite right for me.

Proper panelling, yes, of course. But not the nail gunned/No Nails glued MDF stuff that every Instagram "interior designer" is affixing to every room in their house.

Not my choice, but in a previous rented flat, a gloss kitchen. Every single mark, finger print, water drip and so on showed, I was endlessly cleaning the fronts of the doors.

Edit - I’m assuming the current trend of dark blue kitchen cabinets (either fully or with white/grey top cabinets) will feature on a future version of this thread, much like grey decor?!

Oh dear I put more curved arches in…..

Red and yellow ceramic tiles in a chequered pattern all over one bathroom wall. Now feel garish, and dictate the colour of the other walls, floor, rugs and accessories.Too expensive to remove.

Painting kitchen doors instead of changing them. Constantly peeling off and need touching up weekly.

Mirrored shower it took days to do lasted 3 days and about 20 mins to rip down.

Definitely my biggest regret about Venetian blinds …absolutely hate them ,look lovely but get so dusty and am still trying to find the mental energy to clean them!!10 years later 😭

I’m nodding along with … spotlights, and open plan. If I’ve the extractor fan on, and the kettle boiling, and the radio or music, it completely dominates downstairs. Also, I put a central light in the living room, thinking the previous owners were completely mad to not have one, and in a low-ceiling room, it was a mistake. I’m slowly painting (badly) to bring colour back to my greige walls.

Kitchen/diner, separate living room and a separate conservatory too (used as a room on its own for DD)
living room, we have just decorated with emerald green , white & grey

Ooh no, the big light is only used when I’m working at home, all other times we have lamps - far more ambient lighting.

Could you consider putting some bathroom panels over them? Or those tile stickers?

I think anything that is a TikTok trend is best avoided. All those MDF nail gun fake panelling with caulk are going to be ripped out and make such a mess.

I am old enough to remember when we were all rushing to B&Q etc to buy a wallpaper border for halfway up the wall, or just level with the ceiling.

When looking for second hand taps on eBay and Gumtree, black ones were in abundance. Days it all, a lot of regrets out there.

Love ours, literally pop a log in and relax.

We have wood delivered by a reputable supplier. He asked for the size of the stove, type and size of the room before advising on the type of wood we needed.

With the right temperature/burn setting, the logs burn for ages.

I’m considering oak worktops. What makes them so hard to maintain? Is it day to day cleaning or long term maintenance?

Agree with cheap panelling, dust galore.

Wanted to do a border above the dado rail, but reconsidering now.

Gold taps in our old house, they were trying to imitate brass taps, but had to be replaced as looked cheap.

The beauty of brass is in the aging.

It depends on how hard your water is. We have a black sink and tap in the kitchen and black fittings in a shower room and no issues at all with marking