Home improvements you find tacky

La.de.da · 19-02-2017 2:49am

Even worse than tacky is bland. Feicin brown and cream colours everywhere. Use a bit of imagination/creativity.

Venetian blinds are a pet peeve. (Only cause they are a bollix to clean)

The striped carpet/ lights combo for the stairs like a runway up to bed.

Galvanized steele sheds.

Mountainsandh · 19-02-2017 3:13am

WoolyJumper wrote: »

I also don't get feature walls...I mean the kind where you paint your chimney breast a bright colour/cover it with "funky" wallpaper .

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. People try and emulate something they've seen on TV, or at the neighbours, or on Pinterest, but then somehow along the way, they forget to think of what they really do like ! Or else, they seem to think : "hhmm, yeah... that style ... yeah, that's class, I'm going to do that style", so they go about purchasing all the pre-selected items from Dunnes/Habitat/Ikea/etc... that fit that style. I love Pinterest ! But I don't browse and pin to copy a room, more to identify singular ideas that I think would work in my plans.

I get quite passionate about this. You should choose every item because you like it and it serves a purpose, not because it's part of the style package you brainwashed yourself into.

You don't have to go for one style, and follow it through because... Showhouse showed you. You don't have to stick to large print, silvery wallpaper, if what you like is small print Provencal.

I also go all "George Hook in full drama mode" about the "Dermot Bannon extension". I'm shamelessly using him as a scapegoat, but it seems to be every architect these days, who can't think further than steel beams, windows walls or rectangular window slots (black frame preferably), timber cladding, and maybe a touch of a) concrete b) grey slate c) industrial metal panels
This http://www.endacavanagh.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/11-2181-post/Kiltiernan-2014-07-25_DSC6604-sharpened-copy(pp_w950_h634).jpg
or this https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/5d/e9/49/5de9491a21eb176884e4171a9e6cacd7.jpg
or this http://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.2202020.1430918320!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_620_330/image.jpg

These are the flat roof kitchen extension of the 80s, all over again, but worse. Yeah, they make nice rooms inside. So would more traditional styles that suit traditional houses.

I guess I'm ok with eclectic inside, not outside. Or outside too, but only to a sympathetic extent. These extensions are not that.

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.
http://www.parisattitude.com/large/10800/31_bed1.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/5a/b5/e8/5ab5e86d9fbc0bd232c6b8768a04c3a6.jpg
http://i2.cdscdn.com/pdt2/2/1/5/1/700x700/auc2009939868215/rw/lit-armoire-moderne-oxford-meuble-house.jpg

tomwaterford · 19-02-2017 3:15am

La.de.da wrote: »

Galvanized steele sheds.

who puts these into their home:pac::pac:

though i dislike big massive presses in a room full of ornaments and ****e

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 19-02-2017 3:26am

Live Love laugh bollocks painted on your walls.

Neames · 19-02-2017 3:28am

Wooden ceilings....

Horrendous. I was in a house with wooden floors and a wooden ceiling....like being in a very large coffin.

eeguy · 19-02-2017 3:36am

Neames wrote: »

Wooden ceilings....

Horrendous. I was in a house with wooden floors and a wooden ceiling....like being in a very large coffin.

They can look nice on country houses, or painted white.

Display cabinets full of trinkets and tat. Plates hung on walls. Porcelain figurines, books with fancy covers that have never been read. Coffee table books. Anything "inspirational". Cushions with pictures of dogs or quotes on them. Fake fireplaces, fake anything. Those weird wooden letters. Kitschy crap like hurricane lamps, excessive use of candles, metal figures. I could go on.
Basically anything from that corner of Homebase or Woodies that's always on the left when you come in.

Decking. Empty, rotting 6 x 4 sheds. A garden that's not looked after.

Give me functional, simple and uncluttered any day. I have enough of my own crap without adding to it.

KKkitty · 19-02-2017 3:36am

Neames wrote: »

Wooden ceilings....

Horrendous. I was in a house with wooden floors and a wooden ceiling....like being in a very large coffin.

You've reached a dead end when it comes to decor if you resort to that ðŸ˜‚

Yourself isit · 19-02-2017 3:40am

Jack the Stripper wrote: »

Magnolia paint

Screams rental.

mansize · 19-02-2017 3:42am

that weird textured paint that looks like globby bits on the walls/ceilings

mansize · 19-02-2017 3:45am

non white bathroom sets

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

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 19-02-2017 3:48am

mansize wrote: »

non white bathroom sets

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

OR the barbed wire toilet seat!

Yourself isit · 19-02-2017 3:50am

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.

mansize · 19-02-2017 3:54am

Yourself isit wrote: »

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

No! Not even blue!

KKkitty · 19-02-2017 4:14am

mansize wrote: »

No! Not even blue!

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

mansize · 19-02-2017 4:30am

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

Keisha07 · 19-02-2017 4:53am

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

19-02-2017 5:10am

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Globe bars

I'd love a globe bar.

metaoblivia · 19-02-2017 6:37am

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."

Graces7 · 19-02-2017 7:25am

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.

lawred2 · 19-02-2017 8:59am

Ornaments.

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

Urrgh

mrsmags16 · 19-02-2017 9:06am

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....

Belle E. Flops · 19-02-2017 9:10am

Cabinets filled with 'good china ware' that will never ever be used.

Winterlong · 19-02-2017 9:15am

A Bidet.

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

Wanderer78 · 19-02-2017 9:22am

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

Sue Pa Key Pa · 19-02-2017 9:25am

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

osarusan · 19-02-2017 9:38am

Big ornate chandelier lights.

'Welcome to our home' signs.

andekwarhola · 19-02-2017 9:43am

Sounds like a crazy Saturday night on AH.

D0NNELLY · 19-02-2017 9:48am

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.

19-02-2017 9:55am

....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:

Graces7 · 19-02-2017 9:57am

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!

me_right_one · 19-02-2017 10:03am

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!!!

theteal · 19-02-2017 10:03am

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

JustAThought · 19-02-2017 10:09am

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.

Andrewf20 · 19-02-2017 10:14am

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

Ush1 · 19-02-2017 10:19am

Stippling.....that is all.

D0NNELLY · 19-02-2017 10:20am

Graces7 wrote: »

You mean Artex?

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

*Shudder!!!*

me_right_one · 19-02-2017 10:27am

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

The J Stands for Jay · 19-02-2017 10:33am

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.

Conor Bourke · 19-02-2017 10:33am

The lady on the rock

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.

James 007 · 19-02-2017 10:35am

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/

Poor Uncle Tom · 19-02-2017 10:43am

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Square toilets I find them really uncomfortable....

Maybe you're using them wrong...

WoolyJumper wrote: »

I noticed a lot of new builds now a days are going a "luxury" look. It usually means shiny floors, shiny kitchens, lots of glass tables, "chandlers" mirrors, leather sofas, furry cushions and lots of wall paper. No amount of this stuff is going to make a 3 bed semi look like a mansion. The whole things together looks really tacky and uninviting.

Speaking of leather sofas...I find them mostly tacky. Especially red leather sofas. yuk!

I also don't get feature walls...I mean the kind where you paint your chimney breast a bright colour/cover it with "funky" wallpaper while the other four walls are magnolia.

I think you are mixing up 'luxury' with 'personal taste'....

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. People try and emulate something they've seen on TV, or at the neighbours, or on Pinterest, but then somehow along the way, they forget to think of what they really do like ! Or else, they seem to think : "hhmm, yeah... that style ... yeah, that's class, I'm going to do that style", so they go about purchasing all the pre-selected items from Dunnes/Habitat/Ikea/etc... that fit that style. I love Pinterest ! But I don't browse and pin to copy a room, more to identify singular ideas that I think would work in my plans.

I get quite passionate about this. You should choose every item because you like it and it serves a purpose, not because it's part of the style package you brainwashed yourself into.

You don't have to go for one style, and follow it through because... Showhouse showed you. You don't have to stick to large print, silvery wallpaper, if what you like is small print Provencal.

I also go all "George Hook in full drama mode" about the "Dermot Bannon extension". I'm shamelessly using him as a scapegoat, but it seems to be every architect these days, who can't think further than steel beams, windows walls or rectangular window slots (black frame preferably), timber cladding, and maybe a touch of a) concrete b) grey slate c) industrial metal panels
This http://www.endacavanagh.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/11-2181-post/Kiltiernan-2014-07-25_DSC6604-sharpened-copy(pp_w950_h634).jpg
or this https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/5d/e9/49/5de9491a21eb176884e4171a9e6cacd7.jpg
or this http://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.2202020.1430918320!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_620_330/image.jpg

These are the flat roof kitchen extension of the 80s, all over again, but worse. Yeah, they make nice rooms inside. So would more traditional styles that suit traditional houses.

I guess I'm ok with eclectic inside, not outside. Or outside too, but only to a sympathetic extent. These extensions are not that.

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.
http://www.parisattitude.com/large/10800/31_bed1.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/5a/b5/e8/5ab5e86d9fbc0bd232c6b8768a04c3a6.jpg
http://i2.cdscdn.com/pdt2/2/1/5/1/700x700/auc2009939868215/rw/lit-armoire-moderne-oxford-meuble-house.jpg

Feel better now sweetie.....:pac:
You've been bottling that up for a while, you should stay in for a year or two and not visit anyone else's places for that time, never know when you could get triggered again....:D

Personally, I can't stand,
Georgian style pvc windows,
Ornate plastic doors,
Bell cast roofs,
Ionic or Corinthian columns around the entrance,
Mini doric columns with concrete balustrades around patios,
Ornate decorated fascia boards,
Roof finials,

or

Elaborate entrances, huge piers and chunky stone walls with wrought iron gates and key pad entries all leading to a bungalow, the modern equivalent of fur coat and no knickers...

marketty · 19-02-2017 10:44am

Dublin flag

893bet · 19-02-2017 10:44am

James 007 wrote: »

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.

Why waste a foot of space? To step it back?

Have to lay a new foundation to step it back....higher roof costs to step.

Korvanica · 19-02-2017 10:48am

I hate it when other people do what they want with their own homes too.

lawred2 · 19-02-2017 10:50am

James 007 wrote: »

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/

Not really getting the issue here

In fact 'stepping that back' would look pretty stupid.

the_pen_turner · 19-02-2017 10:53am

Paint and grain. Unless your an expert painter doing it then it looks crap

the_pen_turner · 19-02-2017 10:56am

Those kitchen units for displaying bottles of wine or your plate. Hate them. Nobody uses them and they collect dust and dirt.

the_pen_turner · 19-02-2017 10:57am

Tiled worktops

the_pen_turner · 19-02-2017 10:58am

I hate pine doors. They are everywhere. Horrible

r3nu4l · 19-02-2017 11:00am

Fads! For the last year or so, thousands of sheeple have been out in Woodie's buying up all the grey paint they can get their uninspired hands on, to paint walls or doors, architraves and skirting boards.

Don't they realise that this trend is going to date their design 'ideas' very quickly? So tacky to just follow what's in the latest issue of whatever home magazine you are reading right now...

Home improvements you find tacky

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