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When decorating your home, the most important thing is that you feel safe, warm and comfortable there. Nobody else’s opinions should matter… Right? But if you’re an avid watcher or HGTV or you live vicariously through Bobby Berk when watching Queer Eye, you might have some opinions on how a home should be decorated. And if you do think you’re an expert on interior design, you’re not alone. Reddit users have been dishing about all of the home trends they hate or that they expect to become outdated within the next few years, so we’ve gathered a list of their hot takes down below.
Trends come and go all the time, so for all we know, the people who weighed in on this topic might end up with quite outdated homes of their own a decade from now. But it can still be fun to channel your inner Joanna Gaines and imagine how you would or wouldn’t decorate a home (even if you don’t own one at the moment!). Be sure to upvote the replies mentioning trends you would never put in your own home, and let us know in the comments what other design trends you hope will die out soon. Then if you’re interested in checking out another Bored Panda article on the same topic, you can find more modern home trends you might hate right here!
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#1
What’s wrong with people just doing their home up however they like it and don’t give a f**k what anyone thinks
Image source: somaforthesoul, Designecologist
#2
Painting red brick houses grey.
It stabs at my heart. And my eyes.
Image source: vinylrain, Brett Sayles
#3
Meh, I have a ‘Safari’ style bedroom and I love it. Lots of plants, rattan (some old), one wall with a safari print wallpaper, wooden map on the wall, globe, animal lampshade etc etc. I don’t care if it goes out of fashion (was it ever in fashion? I don’t know) but I’ll always love it. If you love it and it’s your home, your safe cosy space why does it matter if it’s so called old fashioned? I mean unless your trying to sell it in the future I guess. But I live for what makes me happy in the now
Image source: pelicannpie
#4
I’ve noticed a lot of modern renovated houses, espcially thr higher price ones, all look like laboratories inside- stainless steel, white and grey, hard edges. And not just in the kitchen, all the rooms. How can you relax and feel comfortable in a house like that?
Image source: Thestolenone, Max Vakhtbovych
#5
Love, Live, Laugh stencilled on the wall
Image source: LJCMOB, Amina Ebrahim
#6
Fake grass. Please, please, let the fake grass be a passing trend. I understand it’s a faff to keep a lawn, but people hosing their dog s**t off their plastic “garden”… the world does not need more plastic.
Image source: itsnobigthing, Arya Satria
#7
Open plan kitchen/living/diners. Eventually people will start to realise that they sometimes need to get away from the rest of the family for an hour or so.
Image source: Southern-Ad379
#8
People mounting TVs above fireplaces or so high that they end up closer to the ceiling than the floor. After a decade of that s**t, their necks will be thanking them
Image source: ZiggyThePanda, Mary Ann Wooten
#9
I hope avocado suites in carpeted bathrooms make a return, that way I won’t have to redecorate my horrendous downstairs bog.
Image source: swoticus, @BBCRadioWales
#10
More bathrooms than bedrooms is a weird one that will seem like a waste of space eventually
Image source: HarassedGrandad, Jean van der Meulen
#11
I worked with a lady in like 2009 ish who spent THOUSANDS on upgrading her house to have Apple ports built into the walls and integrated speaker systems. That’s all I can think about. What an absolute waste and also f**k apple
Image source: anon
#12
High density new builds.
I mean seriously – every single one in this area are crammed together, with tiny gardens, no parking, narrow access roads.
And then you go inside, and find the rooms only look spacious because the houses have 3/4 size furniture in it, or no furniture at all.
All the rooms you could want, just less square feet than ever.
Just a recipe for future slums.
Image source: sobrique, Miten Patel
#13
Kitchen sinks without draining areas. Super instagrammable and super annoying. Where do you put your wet dishes??
Image source: mainzelmaennchen, Andrea Davis
#14
Geometric designs. Clinical white and grey everything. Words. What is it with words? In the bathroom: SOAK. In the bedroom: SLEEP. What goes in the bog? I also have a special hatred for decor with whimsical phrases or prose. Humourous house rules. Kitchen opening hours. I just can’t hack it, it makes me cringe hard. Oh and don’t get me started on f*****g bunting.
Image source: marmighty, Tim Mossholder
#15
Absurdly high prices and shitty build quality. Oh no wait, those will still be around…
Image source: gruffffalo
#16
Open plan. With the rise in heating bills we’ll all go for ‘cosy’ and want a nice tiny room where we can all huddle around the one electric fire we can afford.
Image source: AF_II, Mike Gattorna
#17
I live in the west as a contractor. The amount of rich people that want to put reclaimed barn wood up on the interior of their home without considering that it is covered in horse p**s and s**t it too damn high.
Image source: Float_team
#18
Crushed velvet and fake diamonds on everything, absolutely hideous
Image source: Viviaana, Ifrah Akhter
#19
I’m gonna go against the grain and say that I quite like the upsurge of grey as a neutral! Wouldn’t have the whole house or room in it, but as one neutral colour I much prefer the cooler tone of grey to magnolia or cream. I chose a grey living room carpet (walls are white) and a black settee and everything else is just … a hodgepodge really lol. I needed one plain ‘colour’ (or lack of) to offset everything else! And I find brown and its variations a bit depressing
Image source: KatVanWall, Vecislavas Popa
#20
I’ve got a 1930s semi, with separate living room, kitchen and dining room. Would never want open plan. I like to be able to close doors on mess
Image source: Fatbeau
#21
Those chairs with the lion head door knocker on the back…
Image source: Leclairage, ebay.co.uk
#22
Stone gardens. You lose the cooling effect of vegetation in the summer, bees are dying and most stone gardens just look ugly. Sorry, not sorry.
Image source: Knoppynator
#23
Not on houses but the little f*****g balconies on large apartment buildings.
Not real balconies, the ones just for show.
In 10 years they’re going to be ugly as s**t and in need of repair, and nobody will want to keep them.
Image source: freelancespaghetti
#24
Funny how things change isn’t it? I saw a house on Right Move recently which just screamed 1990s. The living room had that half wallpaper half painted style with a wallpaper border at the ceiling. The bathroom tiles with one random one with a flower design on and coloured bathroom suite ….
As for modern styles … those bloody obnoxious wall stencils can get in the bin. Live, Laugh, Love and all that bollocks. Everything seems to be bright white and grey and those geometric kitchen lights …
Image source: Firebrand777, Max Vakhtbovych
#25
Actually owning a house, so last decade.
Image source: RedsonOfKyrypton, Maria Ziegler
#26
I’m sick of bloody bulbs everywhere. I’ve got a smallish kitchen and there are seven bulbs in there, with three different types of bulb and fitting. It’s completely unnecessary and such a ballache. Rather than buying a box of generic bulbs to replace each one as it goes I have to buy and store boxes of all different types of bulbs and remember which ones go where.
Image source: Ohtherewearethen, Jonathan Borba
#27
Astroturf in the garden is a horrifying trend
Image source: Terrible_Head_8847
#28
Grey everything. Grey windows, grey doors, grey kitchens, all of it. Dont quite understand why everything has to be grey these days.
Needlessly cladding perfectly fine properties with fake wood. Costs thousands, literally serves no purpose and looks dumb as f**k. As if we’re supposed to believe your 1950s townhouse was supposed to have ‘oak’ cladding on it.
One I hope goes, but probably wont – mounting sockets half way up the wall to allow wall mounting of certain gadgets/tvs… no… just please no, I would rather go to the additional expense and effort to have to hide cables on the off chance I utilise it, than have these butt ugly mains sockets everywhere at eye level.
Image source: AllRedLine, Max Vakhtbovych
#29
Not sure about specific things but my local area (West Sussex) has been covered in housing projects the past decade and there is practically no character in any of them. Just endless identical copy and paste boxes with tiny gardens and giant roofs that are designed to be turned into loft conversions in the future. There have been so many indentical developments across the county that I can tell which developer has built them from the house designs alone. The only differences I can see between the “affordable” and “premium” houses in the developments is that the premium ones come with some kind of cladding and occasionally with the extension already built in. They all get built in ~6 months with the exact same timber framing and breeze block construction and all the landscaping appears to be a case of how many meters of grass and homebase plants can we squeeze in in the week before the owner moves in. I’d be genuinely astonished if they maintain value anywhere near as long as the 80s/90s housing developments that are already here.
Image source: StonkDreamer
#30
I think a housing trend that will go out of style quite soon will be being able to afford your energy bill.
Image source: mightysmiter19
#31
“Look at my house” lights. Big flashy lights that people shine on their houses to show them off overnight.
Image source: unclecatstain
#32
Taking out the wall between the house and conservatory so there’s no barrier, meaning you can’t shut the door on the icebox room in winter or the blazing hot oven room in summer.
And in the same vein replacing external walls with glass and knocking down internal walls. We do not have the climate for these arrangements!
Image source: SydneyTeacake
#33
Literally anything new build. Every single house is built like there’s just one 25 year old man living there.
Also, open plan. Good luck heating your 350 sq ft living room with your single modern column radiator pumping out 2500 BTUs.
Image source: anon
#34
That trend of glueing strips of MDF to the wall as panelling and painting the whole thing in a safe sage green or disappointing blue. It’ll be a right s**t to get off, too.
#35
I’ll die on this hill: Bifold doors. Looks amazing in a magazine. However, if you have kids, sticky awful kids, they just become a wash of hand prints. It’s not energy efficient having a whole wall of windows. In the right kind of extension it works, but I’ve seen so many of these open plan diner things where you can’t open a window by the oven or release cooking smells – only a door – as they’ve gone all across the back. Prob fab for the 3 days of great weather you also happen to host a bbq this country gets, but it seems a design trend for a different climate.
Deep pile carpet can go do one as well. We inherited this on our staircase, and you can’t walk on it with a pair of socks without leaving a little trail of lint. Have to Hoover way more often.
Image source: han_reddits, Packers Australia
#36
Square toilets, sinks and baths. They look s**t, are so uncomfortable to sit on/lie in, but everyone has them.
Image source: Disastrous-Ad8604
#37
I reckon all the pinterest pirates doing the geometric patterns with tape and paint samples. Which somehow then seems to make it into the metro newspaper as a “hack”.
Image source: rosielemon
#38
literally everything – that’s how fashion works
Image source: jibbit, Spacejoy
#39
I hate this grey look, my wife started buying crushed velvet furniture and mirrored tables etc. I hate it
Image source: TheNotSpecialOne
#40
Shiny red kitchens. I’m sorry, red kitchen lovers, but strong colours are best reserved for walls, IMO, where they can be easily changed at minimal cost.
Image source: itsnobigthing
#41
Apparently wrapping kitchen countertops in Vinyl is a thing now… Seen mainly on TikTok…
Don’t have to worry too much about it looking dated in the next decade or so, seeing as it will never last that long before peeling..
Image source: mattling9
#42
Probably the radiator, because no point in having it if we can’t afford to heat the f*****g thing
Image source: ManyWrongdoer9365
#43
I worked in the flooring trade the last 20 years or so and have seen a lot come and go. Chocolate brown was popular for a while. Greys / silvers, aubergine, striped stair cases. I always advised against these things. I had a lot of customers come back after a few years, ripping up the chocolate brown to replace with silver etc….
Image source: rygza, henry perks
#44
I think we are past peak lights on ropes now.
Image source: elbapo, Magi Dobreva
#45
Terrazzo, brass, house plants & ply will be done soon. Also as someone else mentioned those LED light strips that some people have instead of personalities.
Image source: anon, Skylar Kang
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