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Home improvements you find tacky

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    #62
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    mansize wrote: »
    non white bathroom sets

    those weird toilet seats/lids with "fish" in water... ugh
    OR the barbed wire toilet seat!


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    #63
    Yourself isit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,257 ✭✭✭Yourself isit


    mansize wrote: »
    non white bathroom sets

    those weird toilet seats/lids with "fish" in water... ugh

    Light blue is fine for a bathroom. Green never works.


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    #64
    mansize
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    Yourself isit wrote: »
    Light blue is fine for a bathroom. Green never works.

    No! Not even blue!


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    #65
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    mansize wrote: »
    No! Not even blue!

    I prefer warm colours in a bathroom. I can't be the only one?


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    #66
    mansize
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    KKkitty wrote: »
    I prefer warm colours in a bathroom. I can't be the only one?

    The walls etc fine just not the toilet sink bath


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    #67
    Keisha07
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭Keisha07


    Carpet in the bathroom, gross, thought it was a thing of the past seen it recently again horrified.


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    #68
    [Deleted User]
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    Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »
    Globe bars

    I'd love a globe bar.


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    #69
    metaoblivia
    Registered Users Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭metaoblivia


    I see chicken-themed tableware and decorative figurines all the time in home stores and I don't know who could possibly be buying them. Who walks into their living room and thinks, "You know what this room needs? A ceramic chicken."


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    #70
    Graces7
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    Admit I have never seen most of these things.... When I was seeking a rental on daft though.... Especially when they said, "tastefully renovated"... I asked agents for a basic cottage that had not been renovated out of existence and got it.

    Simple place.

    There is a Belfast sink, in the garden. They made great planters. And I boxed up the multi ornaments.

    Oh and an old bath too out there None in the house!

    Would love a conservatory though... warmth and plants.

    Thanks for reminding me I need a Sacred Heart image and lamp.


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    #71
    lawred2
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    Ornaments.

    And glass cabinets full of them just sitting there for years.

    Urrgh


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    #72
    mrsmags16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 185 ✭✭mrsmags16


    Houses with the same ornament repeated in each front window
    Net curtains
    Dogs or other plaster animals sitting on top of the front gate pillars
    White House pillar effect in the porch of a tiny house

    That's just the outside....


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    #73
    Belle E. Flops
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    Cabinets filled with 'good china ware' that will never ever be used.


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    #74
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    A Bidet.

    Nothing screams lack of class than a bidet in an irish home.

    bidet.jpg


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    #75
    Wanderer78
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    Two sinks in a bathroom, Wtf is that all about!?


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    #76
    Sue Pa Key Pa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,060 ✭✭✭Sue Pa Key Pa


    ALL Christmas decorations. Why cover all your nice stuff with crap?


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    #77
    osarusan
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    Big ornate chandelier lights.

    'Welcome to our home' signs.


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    #78
    andekwarhola
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    Sounds like a crazy Saturday night on AH.


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    #79
    D0NNELLY
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    mansize wrote: »
    that weird textured paint that looks like globby bits on the walls/ceilings

    I was going to post that. Wtf is that shít? Gaff we're thinking of buying has swirly in the sitting room, fan pattern in the dining room and stipple in the hall and kitchen..

    Going to lower our offer to take into account getting rid of that crap.


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    #80
    2011
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    ....or when one terraced house in the middle of a row has very ornate / deceptive / tacky facia board and fake stonework stuck on over the entire front of the house (vera Duckworth style) :eek::eek:


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    #81
    Graces7
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    D0NNELLY wrote: »
    I was going to post that. Wtf is that shít? Gaff we're thinking of buying has swirly in the sitting room, fan pattern in the dining room and stipple in the hall and kitchen..

    Going to lower our offer to take into account getting rid of that crap.

    You mean Artex? Thought that was long out of fashion. Had friends who got it skimmed over. dust gatherer!


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    #82
    me_right_one
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    Mountainsandh wrote: »
    This.

    I'm gonna go all out French arrogant (female) príck here : I think in general, Irish people go about decorating their house completely the wrong way...

    OP, I think if you like the idea of the wrap around presses, you should go for it. I get the tackiness, but your own style pragmatic tackiness is better than showhouse tackiness.

    Best post on Boards. EVAR!!!


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    #83
    theteal
    Registered Users Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    I live on the edge of Essex (I should probably end my post right there!)

    We viewed a LOT of houses in the last year. I don't even know where to start. . .need to see if I can find some old links to rightmove ads


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    #84
    JustAThought
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    Plastic windows particularly those ones that divide the GLASS with lots of bars of plastic into mullioned or fake georgian effect - absolutely awful.

    Plastic white front doors and any front door with an interior style pull down handle on the outside.

    Greecian style Pillars on porches.


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    #85
    Andrewf20
    Registered Users Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭Andrewf20


    Cliche pictures - black and while photos of manhattan from homestore and more etc is a particular grievance.


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    #86
    Ush1
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    Stippling.....that is all.


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    #87
    D0NNELLY
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    Graces7 wrote: »
    You mean Artex?

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artex

    *Shudder!!!*


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    #88
    me_right_one
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭me_right_one


    I cant understand the hatred for PVC doors and windows? If the moulding is right, you wouldnt be able to tell the difference between PVC and wood. Actually, the wooden windows/doors look tattier in a lot of cases:confused:


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    #89
    The J Stands for Jay
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    Andrewf20 wrote: »
    Cliche pictures - black and while photos of manhattan from homestore and more etc is a particular grievance.

    Taking your own pictures and getting them blown up and put on the wall: OK.
    Buying a cheap print for the wall: why don't you put up pictures of someone else's kids while you're at it.


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    #90
    Conor Bourke
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 17,424 ✭✭✭✭Conor Bourke


    The lady on the rock

    5219170592_763dd8ddc7_b.jpg

    http://totallydublin.ie/more/lady-on-the-rock-tracing-the-phenomenon-of-dublins-own-venus-de-milo/

    My poor culchie brain was melted when I moved up to Dublin. I saw those everywhere while I was journeying through some of the less salubrious parts of the city, I had no idea what they were or why everyone seemed to have them in their windows.


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    #91
    James 007
    Registered Users Posts: 962 ✭✭✭James 007


    Front elevation to new extensions to the side of 2 storey houses (brick style or council 3 beds in Dublin) that finish flush with the existing house,replacing the original garage. If it is an extension, let it be visibly seen that it is an extension by at least stepping it back one foot from the existing wall, not try and blend it in with the original house (most likely the bricks dont match or the new slate and the old slate meet at some point, guys we know its and extension, so let it just be that), its tacky otherwise.

    In this one they haven't repainted the house after putting on the extension!
    http://www.daft.ie/dublin/houses-for-sale/drumcondra/30-ferguson-road-drumcondra-dublin-1380619/


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