Faddy trends in home design

fits

BoardsMember wrote: »

Over time, it might do my head in to have to walk downstairs to shower. Much prefer en suite.

Large shower and large bath upstairs. Walk in accessible shower downstairs.

listermint

listermint wrote: »

Such a weird view point. Do you not keep your toilets clean ?.....

If course I do. What does cleanliness have to do with it?
Don't particularly want to listen to people having a big **** or even a pee right beside me when I'm in bed.
Toilets far away from bedrooms please!

Exodus 1811

bubblypop wrote: »

If course I do. What does cleanliness have to do with it?
Don't particularly want to listen to people having a big **** or even a pee right beside me when I'm in bed.
Toilets far away from bedrooms please!

Yea.. Like in the outhouse at the end of the garden!
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Up/down lights on the outside of houses seem to be 'in', along with huge numbers noting what house it is.

Princess Calla

fits wrote: »

Agree. And en suites are usually pokey. We chose to have a large main bathroom upstairs with two sinks and walk in shower room downstairs. Plenty for us but each to their own.

May I ask if you have a shower upstairs?

Our main bathroom only has a bath, the shower is downstairs.

My god does it do my head in, especially as it's off the kitchen...when I moved in first I came out of the shower to unexpected visitors sitting at the kitchen table.....I no longer have kitchen chairs in the kitchen and himself is warned to keep visitors out.

Then if you happen to forget a towel well that's another barrel of laughs.

If someone is at the front door you're shivering in the kitchen till they leave.

I cannot stress how much of a pain in the hole the whole set up is.

listermint

bubblypop wrote: »

If course I do. What does cleanliness have to do with it?
Don't particularly want to listen to people having a big **** or even a pee right beside me when I'm in bed.
Toilets far away from bedrooms please!

Small bedroom worries :P

Exodus 1811

Exodus 1811 wrote: »

Yea.. Like in the outhouse at the end of the garden!
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Up/down lights on the outside of houses seem to be 'in', along with huge numbers noting what house it is.

On the big numbers thing, this is soooooo handy for emergency services, honestly. Some estates have the numbers all over the place and houses with no numbers or really small numbers. Just an aside..

listermint

listermint wrote: »

Small bedroom worries :P

Maybe!
Bedroom big enough to have a hallway between it and the toilet is perfect!

sydthebeat

each and every material that is made to look like a different material

formica that has wood effect / marble effect etc
pvc that has wood effect
concrete that is moulded to look like paving or brickwork
new timber distressed to look like old wood
mock plastic chimneys

fits

Princess Calla wrote: »

May I ask if you have a shower upstairs?

Our main bathroom only has a bath, the shower is downstairs.

My god does it do my head in, especially as it's off the kitchen...when I moved in first I came out of the shower to unexpected visitors sitting at the kitchen table.....I no longer have kitchen chairs in the kitchen and himself is warned to keep visitors out.

Then if you happen to forget a towel well that's another barrel of laughs.

If someone is at the front door you're shivering in the kitchen till they leave.

I cannot stress how much of a pain in the hole the whole set up is.

Yes. Massive shower. Massive bath. Two sinks. Loadsa room.

fits

sydthebeat wrote: »

each and every material that is made to look like a different material

formica that has wood effect / marble effect etc
pvc that has wood effect
concrete that is moulded to look like paving or brickwork
new timber distressed to look like old wood
mock plastic chimneys

Big time!

Paulzx

beveragelady wrote: »

I'm with you on the ensuite toilet. Mank. I always think it's one of the unpleasant compromises you have to make when you stay in a hotel.

Having somewhere in the hotel room to go to the jax is an unpleasant compromise???:eek: WTF....

What's the alternative? A shared bathroom on the corridor or leg it outside to the bushes ?

Weird

Princess Calla

fits wrote: »

Yes. Massive shower. Massive bath. Two sinks. Loadsa room.

Jealous

B-D-P--

B-D-P-- wrote: »

Agreed & I have a recliner, It works great with my tv over the fireplace.
Prefer it to a lower tv

Yeh me too. I don’t get the idea that there’s an immense strain on the neck. And the TV is centred in the room.

As for the grey, as a neutral colour it’s better than magnolia. :-p

All grey is a mess though.

Kaybaykwah

Adhesive Vinyl sloganeering in every room of the house. Like tattoos, they're everywhere now.

With feelgood themes like:

"This House may be Ramshackle,
Full of Runny Noses, but it is Our Home and 'tis Filled with Love".

That one is in the mud room near the back door. But the missus made sure she bought sets to put in the kitchen, the bath, kids' rooms, etc...

Folks need tattoos now, it follows that they need inspirational BS in their homes, too. What would intimacy be without sloganeering?

ellee

I hate open plan. Kitchen is just such a noisy place and there's nearly always someone doing something in it. Maybe they work better in bigger houses where the open plan is spread out over a bigger foot print. However in my semi d I'm sick of everyone under my feet and the noise. It's way worse as the kids get bigger.

Islands are also a pain. My mother has one and we are full time walking around it to get to the fridge etc. Pain in the hoop.

Those window shutters seem daft to me. They must make rooms very dark.

beveragelady

Paulzx wrote: »

Having somewhere in the hotel room to go to the jax is an unpleasant compromise???:eek: WTF....

What's the alternative? A shared bathroom on the corridor or leg it outside to the bushes ?

Weird

That's what a compromise is.

A communal bathroom separate from the room is an unpleasant option, a private bathroom separate from the room is ideal but not feasible, so we compromise and settle for a private bathroom that is attached to the room.

Compromise.

I have no idea why so many people are convinced that having this in their houses is the height of genteel sophistication. It's what my grandmother would have called nouveau riche.

I quite like many of the 'unpopular' things posted here. For example, my house is grey throughout. Every room, hall, stairs and landing are grey. Carpet is grey, laminate is grey. Kitchen is white gloss, bannisters/spindles are white. However, I try to break it up with large canvas prints and blobs of colour thrown into it. We've a large 'feature wall' (for lack of a better description) in the sitting room which is turquoise. The Kitchen has a 3-canvas-print picture that takes up a large chunk of space, in blue, and three other canvas prints are in there too.

I personally find that it's easier on the eyes. More relaxing. Most other colours are turquoise, yellow and navy around the house, with different 'wood' on the worktop/tables etc. but I like the simplicity of it all.


Now that I've painted myself into a corner as being 'that guy' in the thread, the things I don't particularly like are:

A 'feature wall' in a room, were the wall has paneling on it, that's nowhere else to be seen in the house. I can see the next 'trend' for this being the easier version, where it's just 2" vertical strips on the wall, and none of the horizontal ones (sounds a bit prison-ey, but bet it'll take off once people start at it).

I don't like those large pouffe things, that are oversized and take up most of the floor space in, what are generally small, rooms.

Although I have some downlights/spotlights in my houes (only one room) I'm not a fan of them either, anymore. I like the aesthetic and space-saving kinda sleekness to them, but ever since they became LED as standard, I find them overly blinding, and it's put me right off them. Dimmable halogen ones were lovely.

I like colourful LED strip lighting, but I think it's a nice secondary compliment to a room. Some people go way overboard and have them everywhere. Houses that have rooms that look like commercial premises or nightclubs because someone got a deal on buying a load of strip lights. Not for me. (I say that as someone who also has some, in my house, but they're part of a dropped ceiling and are an ambient light, so they struggle to fully light the room the way I have them set up).


One thing I really think is stupid are window shutters that you (thankfully, rarely) see fitted to outsides of houses. Often in house estates where no other house has bothered, so the house with them looks even more odd. What bugs me is that they 1) aren't functional, they literally get nailed to the wall, and 2) the houses they are on are so small, that you can't fit a shutter that looks like it'd actually cover the window. So you lose out on both the function and aesthetic. I just don't get it at all.

I also don't like, although it's not really a fad, perhaps, is the ceiling window/light that often gets popped onto flat roof extensions to 'let more light in'. Not a bad thing in and of itself, but no one bothers to put blinds on them, so you end up with a square in the room that you can't use, because if the sun is shining, you get glare and the eyes are cut out of your head, or if it's a warm day out, you'll burn sitting underneath it. I'd rather the marginally darker interior, and option of using lights.


I also don't like silver crushed velvet and mirror-finishes everywhere. Screams 'tacky/cheap' to me (although I presume it's supposed to look more premium than cheap).


Though, it's obviously only fair to point out that everyone just has different taste. If you were to decorate your house based on a load of other people's opinions, you'd be sitting in an empty shell for a long time to come. :pac:

theteal

beauf wrote: »

I like open plan. But it has its limitations. Working from home, noisy teens on their xbox, studying, private conversations in a busy house. But if you have a small place it does makes it feel bigger.

This is the thing. I'm seeing pricey new build house done this way to give the illusion of space. They're flipping tiny.

NovaDublin

Here are a few

1. Painting floor tiles and then stencilling
2. Large beams over fireplaces that houses a big stove
3. Those American styled shutters on windows

I have all three 😊

BoardsMember

Electrified front gates with back lit keypads on ten a penny terraced and semi detached houses with low front walls, small front garden, bog standard car in the drive. Talk about airs and graces....

NSAman

Open living I love. However, there has to areas of privacy. My main floor is open plan, kitchen has an island, living area and dining area. It also has a private room for TV and a pantry. For entertaining it is superb and very open.

We also have a basement area which we live in all the time. It contains all the mechanics and utility items in seperate rooms apart from the living area which has TV surround sound etc. It again gives privacy etc.

I love plain unified looks in houses. Plain white walls, same flooring throughout. Colour is brought into the house through art pieces, unique furniture, and soft furnishings.

I like little clutter so having everything on display is a no-no for me.

Everyone’s taste is different. I think many of the issues in Ireland are that the houses in general are small. What works in larger houses will not work in smaller homes. At he end of the day, your house is your design template. Whatever you like, play with it until you are happy.

One thing that is awful for me personally, is people trying to copy what they see on TV. Make your own choices!

GingerLily

I hate brick effect wallpaper, it never looks good (with the exception perhaps in a teens bedroom). I don't know why it's a thing, but people are ruining perfectly good livingrooms and diningrooms with the hideos stuff.

Sardonicat

BoardsMember wrote: »

Electrified front gates with back lit keypads on ten a penny terraced and semi detached houses with low front walls, small front garden, bog standard car in the drive. Talk about airs and graces....

I bet they have a white, slimline telephone with automatic radial button as well.

JustAThought

BoardsMember wrote: »

Electrified front gates with back lit keypads on ten a penny terraced and semi detached houses with low front walls, small front garden, bog standard car in the drive. Talk about airs and graces....

Handy to keep the chuggers away. side benefit of global plague - no door to door chuggers.

I always disliked and still dislike balls on pillars and giant eagles ( the stone or horroro of horrors plastic type) stuck onto basic semi d gate pillars. Also doric/ionic/corinthian columns on anything less than a 24 bedroom classical country estate. If ya have that you’re welcome to doric away!!

I do like garages and gates that slide open at the touch of a botton/fob as the car glides up. Defo would like some of that.

RTighe

beveragelady wrote: »

I'm with you on the ensuite toilet. Mank. I always think it's one of the unpleasant compromises you have to make when you stay in a hotel.

Sliding barn doors as interior doors are a current fad. I get the attraction of sliding doors but the whole American rustic thing just looks so affected.

Just on the sliding doors, we went from standard double doors to Sliding doors that recess into the walls. Image attached. Found them to be pretty space saving and blocks off the living room to the kitchen / dining room (yes the downstairs is open plan, with a bunch of items mentioned by previous posters that will probably be dated :D)

but in saying that. it does work for us.

lawred2

bubblypop wrote: »

Probably not really a faddy design but ensuite toilets.
Yuck.
Who decides to put a toilet near their bed???? Jaysis disgusting. I would prefer a big wardrobe. Wouldn't mind a shower but not the toilet.
Gross.

The toilet in our en suite is nowhere near our bed

I'm curious as to the en suites you've seen

lawred2

BoardsMember wrote: »

Over time, it might do my head in to have to walk downstairs to shower. Much prefer en suite.

Going downstairs in the morning to shower would absolutely do my head in.

lawred2

RTighe wrote: »

Just on the sliding doors, we went from standard double doors to Sliding doors that recess into the walls. Image attached. Found them to be pretty space saving and blocks off the living room to the kitchen / dining room (yes the downstairs is open plan, with a bunch of items mentioned by previous posters that will probably be dated :D)

but in saying that. it does work for us.

The amount of extra space reclaimed by putting in pocket/sliding doors is justification in itself

FrancieBrady

Don't have an issue with relatively easy to change trends, wallpaper/paint/soft furnishings, it's when people invest in the hard to change stuff that I have issue. For instance, this tiling 'look' is going to be very tired in a few years and very expensive/disruptive to change.

lawred2

lawred2 wrote: »

The toilet in our en suite is nowhere near our bed

I'm curious as to the en suites you've seen

You must live in a mansion!
Ensuites are basically the same room!

I love the recessed doors, love them

lawred2

bubblypop wrote: »

You must live in a mansion!
Ensuites are basically the same room!

I love the recessed doors, love them

I definitely want to see the ensuites you've seen now

ellee

Ah no, some en suites are way worse than others. I've seen them as basically a tiny triangle cut out of a small square room and also then as a whole separate full size bathroom a good distance from the bed so no sense of someone on the loo behind your head or similar.

Cam empathise with bad en suites! But would not mind a good one. Again answer seems to be a bigger house!!!

beveragelady

RTighe wrote: »

Just on the sliding doors, we went from standard double doors to Sliding doors that recess into the walls. Image attached. Found them to be pretty space saving and blocks off the living room to the kitchen / dining room (yes the downstairs is open plan, with a bunch of items mentioned by previous posters that will probably be dated :D)

but in saying that. it does work for us.

It's not the sliding doors that are a silly fad, it's specifically the 'barn door' style. Sliding doors are practical in lots of ways. The pseudo-rustic barn door setup is laughable.

lawred2

beveragelady wrote: »

It's not the sliding doors that are a silly fad, it's specifically the 'barn door' style. Sliding doors are practical in lots of ways. The pseudo-rustic barn door setup is laughable.

I'm interested to see an example

chooseusername

bubblypop wrote: »

Probably not really a faddy design but ensuite toilets.
Yuck.
Who decides to put a toilet near their bed???? Jaysis disgusting. I would prefer a big wardrobe. Wouldn't mind a shower but not the toilet.
Gross.

https://sd.keepcalms.com/i-w600/no-solids-in-the-en-suite.jpg
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beveragelady

lawred2 wrote: »

I'm interested to see an example

https://lmgtfy.app/?q=interior+barn+door

whisky_galore

Kaybaykwah wrote: »

Adhesive Vinyl sloganeering in every room of the house. Like tattoos, they're everywhere now.

With feelgood themes like:

"This House may be Ramshackle,
Full of Runny Noses, but it is Our Home and 'tis Filled with Love".

That one is in the mud room near the back door. But the missus made sure she bought sets to put in the kitchen, the bath, kids' rooms, etc...

Folks need tattoos now, it follows that they need inspirational BS in their homes, too. What would intimacy be without sloganeering?

Live, Laugh, Love.

'Hilarious' pound shop wooden signs.

Home bars with imitation pub decor, that's going to be popular for obvious reasons right now.

Garlinge

Just ordered some of those swanky tiles

Paulzx

beveragelady wrote: »

That's what a compromise is.

A communal bathroom separate from the room is an unpleasant option, a private bathroom separate from the room is ideal but not feasible, so we compromise and settle for a private bathroom that is attached to the room.

Compromise.

Eh....is that not an ensuite?

I'm confused

beveragelady

Paulzx wrote: »

Eh....is that not an ensuite?

I'm confused

Yes. Yes you are.

Here's what happened:

I said that I don't like ensuites, I consider them an unappealing compromise I am forced to make when I stay in hotels.

You said that hotels have to have ensuites because the alternatives are communal toilets or no toilets.

I said that that is why an ensuite is a compromise. It is a concession I make because it is the least objectionable of conceivable options. A compromise. It is both an ensuite and a compromise. Like the way a twix can be a chocolate bar and a treat.

You said that that a private toilet attached to the room is an ensuite as though that is new information. You added that you are confused, as though that, too, wasn't obvious to everyone else.

Ubbquittious

A corner chopped out of the house and replaced with windows

Cheap slate/stone slabs glued onto the wall to give it that fake Aran Islands look

"Darth Vader" pointy windows

Air source heatpump fitted at an exorbitant price

Plastic slide and other childrens play stuff rotting in the garden

Site completely bare, only grass, concrete and maybe bit of gravel.

Sh1tty ikea and other particle board furniture

No paint on the outside

Island, uTility room

Tiles everywhere

Anything that could possibly make the place look cosy or give it character quickly horsed into the skip

Corruptedmorals

We bought a grey house. It started at the front door and just got worse from there. Kitchen units, kitchen walls, all blinds, all rooms including the hall stairs and landing with the bathroom as the only exception. Two rooms are further enhanced by feature walls featuring ugly grey and black wallpaper. It's relentless. Grey goes with everything but they just paired it with more grey? It's cold and grim.

The de-greying has begun, we're on our second room.

I hope mirrored furniture and glitter backing on stairs goes away.

Doniekp

Doniekp wrote: »

Hot Water Tap

What brand one did they have?
They must of had a faulty one or low water pressure in the house.
Our tap does:
mains water
Cylinder hot water
Filtered mains , the flow is reduced as it runs through a filter.
Boiling water.

why would you need to use a kettle when you have instant hot water tap??

Some of your other dislikes i agree with.
But unless to can build a very big house you can run into some of those issues

I love the idea of them and I'm sure they are safe. But something about having a pressure vessel full of superheated water in my kitchen makes me nervous.

Agree with Ubbquittious about corner windows.

whisky_galore

Imitation shutters.

I want to make my house look like a Lego house but with the added stupidity of useless shutters.

RTighe

beveragelady wrote: »

It's not the sliding doors that are a silly fad, it's specifically the 'barn door' style. Sliding doors are practical in lots of ways. The pseudo-rustic barn door setup is laughable.

Ooh, i think i know the types you're talking about!
its been so long since i've been in someone elses house!!

hots

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

glitter backing on stairs goes away.

Now this sounds good

razorblunt

Having lived in a (relatively big and well thought out) open plan apartment I will never have an open plan kitchen-diner-living room. Even if the washing machine and tumble dryer are in a utility.

My wife (and the mother in law) love hanging things off the inside of door handles.
Drives me bananas especially now with a toddler going through a sleep regression and they bang off the doors as you move around.

In an example of great timing I threw them into a cupboard earlier this morning after knocking against one at 3am this morning.

Doniekp

ronoc wrote: »

I love the idea of them and I'm sure they are safe. But something about having a pressure vessel full of superheated water in my kitchen makes me nervous.

We have the vessel fitted behind the back of the press in the space between the press and the kick board on the island. It cant do to much harm if it ever explodes in there.

Aglomerado

RTighe wrote: »

Just on the sliding doors, we went from standard double doors to Sliding doors that recess into the walls. Image attached. Found them to be pretty space saving and blocks off the living room to the kitchen / dining room (yes the downstairs is open plan, with a bunch of items mentioned by previous posters that will probably be dated :D)

but in saying that. it does work for us.

I like these.
The "barn door" style ones are nice too but they only suit certain types of house/ decor. The recessed ones could be put in any house.

I utterly detest the current trend for mirrored furniture/ crushed velvet and door knockers on the back of dining chairs. And "inspirational quotes" on walls (usually found in houses devoid of bookshelves).

If anyone's on Facebook there is a group called "Hunbelievable" which rips the piss out of a lot of this stuff.