Popular interior design that doesn't appeal to you

[physichull]

Also just thought of one: black kitchen surfaces/black kitchens in general. In fact kitchens in any taccy modern colour. Give me a country kitchen any day.

In addtion, kitchen/bathroom surfaces, including tiles, that are shiny, usually black.

They show up EVERY single smear on yur worktop to you have to constantly keep polishing them to perfection to make it look nice.

 

[Nightglow]

Why do you dislike them though? They look like brick and you can't tell the difference. Well you probably can on the cheap ones.

Brick slips 30 years ago weren't brilliant, but today you only have to look at Ibstock, they offer around 350 different finishes of slips, then there Brick Slips Ltd, & Northcot Bricks are both firms which make superb slips.

I get all excite when I see handmade slips, & use in the right setting they look awesome, & you wouldn't know they are only thin stuck on bricks.

 

[Nightglow]

I've never noticed they weren't real brick

They are real bricks made from clay like a normal size brick, but just thinner.

 

[HangTime]

We've got a 'black' (very dark grey) kitchen surface but it is kinda 'frosted' with specs in it, so it doesn't show the dirt as much as a shiny surface. Although more than other colours I suppose.

 

[bitslice]

No toilets outside the main bathroom

I find multiple toilets a bit pointless.
Agreed that in a family house with children it is handy, but modern houses are being built with one bathroom per bedroom plus a spare, so an average family house now has five bathrooms

That's a lot of cleaning for somebody and a lot of wasted floor space. Invariably there is then a lack of storage space, so you might not have to wait for a poo, but the house looks like a tip.



Something that really annoys is the bas*tardisation of exterior design. We know from the 70's that left to their own devices, architects have naff all ability to design homes people want to live in.

So now we have an abortion of period iconography all mixed into one house. Regency balcony railings tacked onto Georgian windows, add a Victorian bay window and a uPVC front door and maybe some rural beamwork just because Granny likes it.
Nothing has any elegance any more, and given that we inevitably fill such carbuncles with mock Victoriana and IKEA prints of trees and coastlines, then there is nobody left to notice.

 

[Nightglow]

Mock timber beams, mock stone work made from polyurethane foam, resin, lest so fibrous plaster were all the rage in the 70's & 80's.
There one firm around now & their replica beams look pretty good, seen a house with roof trusses & they were artificial, which surprised me.