Home improvements you find tacky

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r3nu4l wrote: »

No, I think you're confused about my post and don't understand me very well and that's okay.

Grey is ok in and of itself, muting colour to attract the eye to something else is fine but thousands of sheeple all doing the same thing without understanding why they are doing it or how they might use another colour to achieve the same effect is not okay. But hey, if you're that defensive about it, that's okay too.

I love the grey trend at the moment! I've grey in lots of rooms in our house.
The living room off the kitchen is grey with black (mirrors, lamps etc) and my bedroom is grey with lots of soft blush pinks. I have no doubt I'll get fed up looking at it soon but i enjoy changing around the interior design. I'd hate to paint my house/rooms and pray that I won't have to bother with again for the next 5 years

retro:electro

Picture frames with FAMILY written all over them and prints that say "LIVE LAUGH LOVE". Ugh.

I've seen some tacky houses through work but you've seen nothing until you're inside a traveller house. Life size Holy Mary statues in the living room with a circle of candles around her.

NIMAN

Any of that writing you stick up on walls.

One for the nursery, "we had a dream and you came true".

Pass me a bucket.

KKkitty

NIMAN wrote: »

Some of the stuff you see on social media is gawdy at best.

Seen one recently where the entire kitchen splashback was like LCD screens and there was moving images on them.....awful.

Edit: found it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWjpBznbJfA

WTF!! That's an assault on the eyes and how could you clean that.

HeidiHeidi

NIMAN wrote: »

Any of that writing you stick up on walls.

One for the nursery, "we had a dream and you came true".

Pass me a bucket.

Clocks stopped at the time kids were born, with pics of the babies underneath - bad enough in nurseries, but worse, I've seen them (in pictures) in living rooms.

I had no idea this was a thing until recently, and when I saw it first I thought it was because the babies had been stillborn or died or something :eek:

Creeps me out no end.

foxy farmer

House worth 400k on over a half acre site and they feel the only correct place to put the clothes line is in the front garden.
Nothing nicer than seeing a line of bed clothes shirts and knickers blowing in the breeze on a june day in front of an otherwise beautiful house.
Next door house also built in early naughties wrapped in stone and they come along 3 yrs ago and whitewash it in emulsion. A mortal sin.

HeidiHeidi

Red-brick frontage painted. Who thinks that's a good idea?

(There's a house near me with the bottom half of the frontage painted gloss red, with the windows/sills/door frame/garden wall all in a mix of white and mint green :eek:. Think there might be a bit of yellow in the mix as well somewhere, I'm afraid to look these days)

Winterlong

Anything decorative bought in the dunnes home section.

freshpopcorn

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Maybe you're using them wrong...

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I've a relative with them and we all find them really uncomfortable and have found others uncomfortable. We've might just being unlucky in the ones We've sat on tough!

Widdershins

Aglomerado wrote: »

People who have those deserve to be beaten.

Garotte them with their matching Live Laugh Love tshirts.

Widdershins

I hate pvc windows and doors. So that's most windows and doors.

IvyTheTerrible

I think if you're happy and comfortable in your house, it doesn't matter what way you have it decorated. Other people's taste doesn't bother me all that much.

spurious

Don't mind the knicky knacky noodle things to be honest, though they are just dust collectors.

The only thing that makes me cringe a bit inside is a tiny 'bar' in someone's living room, not a few bottles in a press, a proper imitation bar counter and row of optics. Horrid.

meeeeh

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

I think if you're happy and comfortable in your house, it doesn't matter what way you have it decorated. Other people's taste doesn't bother me all that much.

I agree with that up to the point. I hate the pretension. I don't mind if there are Jesus pictures with blinking harts, fairy lights, beige leather sofas or whatever else. But it does look ridiculous when a modernish midtown terrace starts pretending it's something from Downtown Abbey.

Piriz

just leave this here https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/11-parkview-blackhorse-ave-dublin-7/3824477

LynnGrace

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

I think if you're happy and comfortable in your house, it doesn't matter what way you have it decorated. Other people's taste doesn't bother me all that much.

Same here really.

Piriz

Piriz wrote: »

just leave this here https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/11-parkview-blackhorse-ave-dublin-7/3824477

It's like they read my mind and pulled out every tacky thing I hate. It's literally all there.

Plastic windows
Glossy floor tile
Corner bath
Caravan style overhead lockers
Overly ornate furniture
Florals
Pelmets
White Victorian-style lampost
Cobbly driveway
Ornate plastic fascia
Plastic windows and doors
Pillars
Ornate chandeliers
Poorly fitted electric fire in faux vintage fireplace
So many cushions you can't actually sit on the sofa
Literal gold literal carriage clock in breakfast nook
Poorly maintained decking...

....it's FANTASTIC!

LynnGrace

spurious wrote: »

Don't mind the knicky knacky noodle things to be honest, though they are just dust collectors.

The only thing that makes me cringe a bit inside is a tiny 'bar' in someone's living room, not a few bottles in a press, a proper imitation bar counter and row of optics.Horrid.

Yes, I think that would make me cringe alright. I haven't seen it except on Corrie when the Duckies used to have it, together with the stone cladding outside

NIMAN

Piriz wrote: »

just leave this here https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/11-parkview-blackhorse-ave-dublin-7/3824477

If you went out of your way to make a house tacky, you couldn't do better than that. That is gold medal standard.

Having said that, it was nice when cycling through the photos to get to the backyard shots, at least there was no shine outside, my eyes were blinded looking at the internal photos.

Wanderer78

Piriz wrote: »

just leave this here https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/11-parkview-blackhorse-ave-dublin-7/3824477

ornament house, must not touch anything!

foxy farmer

House painted in the local or County GAA colours.

dudara

Piriz wrote: »

just leave this here https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/11-parkview-blackhorse-ave-dublin-7/3824477

It's 100% polar opposite to my taste, but it's clearly been someone's pride & joy. They've invested a lot in it.

dudara

dudara wrote: »

It's 100% polar opposite to my taste, but it's clearly been someone's pride & joy. They've invested a lot in it.

Yeah, someone committed themselves so wholeheartedly to that look, they must love it.

I actually think the person who owns that house might be from another culture, that kind of style is pretty par for the course in Southern Italy and parts of Asia.

meeeeh

Deedsie wrote: »

To be honest I love seeing people taking pride in the upkeep of their homes. The council semi d is not exactly aesthetically pleasing.

Fair play if they try to do them up a bit. Now the problem comes in when some of their tastes are not the best.

It's not that. It's the middle classes pretending they have centuries of heirloom from their British gentry ancestors and the oldest thing is actually 20 years old.

Taste is subjective, I just prefer authenticity even if it comes in shape of plastic flowers and china dolls.

Anyway that house in the link above reminds me of houses in Gomorrah. Some Napalese mafioso would feel very comfortable there.

freshpopcorn

Piriz wrote: »

just leave this here https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/11-parkview-blackhorse-ave-dublin-7/3824477

I have to give it to them tough they were very consistent on keeping it tacky!

Piriz

Piriz wrote: »

just leave this here https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/11-parkview-blackhorse-ave-dublin-7/3824477

in its defence the finish on almost everything is superb; few gaps, no botch jobs, spotlessly clean etc.. to the point it would be a shame to rip it out.. lets hope this house finds its rightful O'Connor I mean owner..

freshpopcorn

Candie wrote: »

I actually think the person who owns that house might be from another culture, that kind of style is pretty par for the course in Southern Italy and parts of Asia.

I was actually going to say it looked like a house from My big fat Gypsy Wedding/Communion!

Piriz

Piriz wrote: »

in its defence the finish on almost everything is superb; few gaps, no botch jobs, spotlessly clean etc.. to the point it would be a shame to rip it out.. lets hope this house finds its rightful O'Connor I mean owner..

:eek::D coffee ran out my nose


Did anyon e else notice the banister rails on the staircase? Yup, also gilded in gold paint.

But fair play to them it is obviously their pride and job. Could eat your dinner of that floor

freshpopcorn

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I was actually going to say it looked like a house from My big fat Gypsy Wedding/Communion!

I thought so too, first time I saw this house. But its lack of religious idolatry, makes me question that now.
I think its more 'Shahs' of Sunset'

dudara

Candie wrote: »

Yeah, someone committed themselves so wholeheartedly to that look, they must love it.

I actually think the person who owns that house might be from another culture, that kind of style is pretty par for the course in Southern Italy and parts of Asia.

That was my thought too, felt quite Italian in ways.