The people we bought our house off had an obsession with sage it appears. Front door is sage, kitchen is sage with dark wooden worktops. They spent a fortune and it looks ‘nice’ now, but I think it’ll date quickly.
Also every part of the kitchen is expensive but underperforming. Not enough cupboard space, oven is awkward, the hob is a bit small and the solid wood worktops look nice but they need looking after which is ok if you do it. They’re only 3 years old and are looking iffy in places. Our old kitchen was 12 years old and still looked new.
Not a fan of the front door in particular. It’s not got a real handle in it, you need a key to close it from the outside, and it won’t close without locking. And it’s green
Those taps that are open at the top so you can watch the water flow out.
Also, square toilets. We aren't made of Lego.
No-one has mentioned these yet:
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My sister's landlord in London recently put matte black taps in her bathroom. She is thrilled at the prospect of cleaning the limescale off every 30 seconds.
Open plan. As mentioned above, why would you want your messy kitchen in the living and dining room.
We put a wall back up, when we moved here 14 years ago to avoid all that. Although we do have a dining kitche.
Agree on gloss white -its horrible, my missus wanted that, thankfully we havnt been able to afford the kitchen yet and the idea has thankfully faded - still wants stupid waterfall marble worktop though.
agree on stoves as well, unlss they have particle traps on..
leave bi-folds alone - i have a lovely set at 7m wide, i havn't noticed much thermal issue with mine, tiles can be a little cooler but not by much.
why would you want your messy kitchen in the living and dining room.
You could always tidy the kitchen, ya filthy get 😉
I fancy an avocado bathroom suite mind, bound to come back in fashion soon.
For ultimate hipster-cool, you want to get a multi set -
green toilet, blue sink, pink bath...
Anybody else ticking off the list?? 🙂
Carpets? HArdly a flash in the pan fashion item surely? Hard floor in the bedroom / living room - nope.
Exposed larch woodwork turning scruffy? Check.
Said scruffy woodwork painted at about 8 years old....grey of course. Check.
Woodburner? Two. Used daily currently. Local stove shop doing good business since 1976, so again, not really a short lived trend. Can see how that may be different further south.
Garden room / cabin. Planned for this spring, now that the kids are of age to get rid of the large enclosed trampoline (check) Trampoline is around 18 years old now, proper Triggers broom affair.
The hot tub craze is the one which I think will lead to the most dust gatherers in time.
Agree on the glossy kitchens, just daft.
That door up there - wtf?? Horrible.
To the list, I'd like to add K-Rend and similar.
I actually think that used in moderation it looks fantastic, really sharp. But, give it five years or so and it's porosity / roughness means that moss starts creeping up the wall. Using it on a horizontal surface will accelerate that pretty dramatically.
Maybe not in the living room but I don't want a separate dinning room unless I have a huge house.
Grey windows
Instant boiling water taps.
Metro/ subway tiling.
Awful.
large stainless steel house numbers
(usually on a freshly greyed house)
Aye, open plan is awful, rented a lovely 3rd floor harbourside flat when we were waiting on a previous house being built, it was open plan, never again.
Instant boiling water taps.
I've got one and its bloody ace.
I'm hoping in the future the WTF will be;
"What's this head height power socket / cabling / hole in the wall? Wait, what!?!?!!" People used to mount their TV's up there - did they only watch TV standing up?!?!"
Grey everything; even the Farrow & Ball colour consultant I talk to recently said "anything but grey. It's over"
Nowt wrong with grey, done my living room in dulux urban espression (matt grey), kitchen (soft sheen), bathroom is (soft sheen). Although to be fair it did take me 20+yrs to get any paint on the walls since I moved in so I guess this will do till I get carted out in a box
Georgian houses should never have white windows, I've done a number of projects both on listed horses and also designed new historically accurate facades and they should be Broken White (is slightly cream/ off white), or a dark color such as black green.
Hmmm... Our bathroom has white mosaic with anthracite grout (a synthetic grout not cementitious).
Do some people still write Live Laugh Love on the wall?
My cousin has a lot of that sort of thing going on in his huge soulless house
He also drives a white Range Rover
Bifold doors in the UK. Bring the outdoors inside…..15 minutes a year.
This is really not true. If it's warm and not too windy our bifold doors are open - in fact I'm amazed at how much we used them last year... maybe it's a lockdown thing.
Grey windows - hmm maybe, but my guess is that grey windows have been around a lot longer than white windows (I'm not sure white paint could even be made initially), so it's not exactly a new thing.
I do agree that they can be done badly though!
Glossy kitchens = folk that don’t cook
Unless it's the kitchen that came fitted in a new build house. How I love spending more time cleaning greasy hand prints off the cupboards than actually cooking.
I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet so I'll offer,
Feature walls.
You know, where the entire room is new-build magnolia save for one wall, or part of one wall even like the chimney breast, that looks like an explosion at a Dulux factory.
Wet Rooms. What sort of sociopath wants to shower in an open room with water going everywhere.
Anybody else ticking off the list?? 🙂
Metro tiles check, square bog check both in our recently refinished cloakroom - replacing the 1980's taupe suite that I actually quite liked
Modern houses that look like visitor centres.
Does monoblock count or has that already had it's day?
I think composite decking will be the next thing, lasts forever but tastes don't so will be landfill fodder in a few years. At least the wooden stuff could be burned when it fell out of fashion.
Folks have the wood effect PVC with white harling, utterly hideous. We have it on the extension in a much less orange tone and it looks okay but the harling has more of a brown tone through it anyway.
Oh and on the subject of "Live Laugh Love", random adjectives connected to the room they are placed in. I've frequently threatened to place "pish", "burn", "gouch" etc. in their respective rooms when we sell up just to keep things interesting.
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Metro/ subway tiling.
Check
Feature walls.
Check (living room is grey forward to back and green side to side)
My next door neighbour is ticking most of these boxes
Garden Office, artificial grass, led lights in the soffits, hot tub, grey composite front door.
Also just bought a dog, pretty sure you can guess the breed.
He's actually a lovely bloke, just maybe needs to give up the subscription to Better Homes
Artificial grass + dog + summer = *boke*
I like bifold doors, good for parties.
Never be used again then
Glass balustrades on the stairs - especially if they forgo a handrail.
My next door neighbour is ticking most of these boxes
Garden Office, artificial grass, led lights in the soffits, hot tub, grey composite front door.
Also just bought a dog, pretty sure you can guess the breed.
He’s actually a lovely bloke, just maybe needs to give up the subscription to Better Homes
Iainc finally moved in next door?! 🙂
I like that house up there, a damn site nicer than 99% of new build housing
Open plan. As mentioned above, why would you want your messy kitchen in the living and dining room.
This - advertised as being "great for entertaining". Also great if you like your soft furnishings to stink of curry and chip fat.
I was momentarily tempted to go for one of these recently
But common sense prevailed as there aren’t many days when I would ever want to stand and admire the sideways drizzle over the Peak District.
I'm a little bit concerned about how many of these things we have in our house.
Glass balustrades - tick
grey window frames - tick
Boiling water tap - tick
Wood burning stove - tick and second tick
Wall mounted TV - tick
Open plan Kitchen / diner / back room - tick (but we do have separate living room as well)
I don't have a sex pond but we do have a sauna, does that count?
Crittall windows and doors are probably going that way too which is a shame as I quite like them.
We have Crittal windows - look nice in a Poirot-esque stylee but I am freezing my ass off cos they are single glazed and I can't afford to replace them with double glazed, and the council won't allow me to replace with anything else 🙁
This has just turned into 'things I don't like' rather than things that won't age well.
I lived in an open plan house in Canada for a bit and it was bloody great. Probably less great with our comparatively tiny houses though I guess.
I like that house up there, a damn site nicer than 99% of new build housing
+1
Gopping 'feature wall' wallpaper.
Decking
Huge windows with no curtains or blinds (like you see on grand designs)
Open plan won't age well with the post-covid WFH generations.
Modern houses that look like visitor centres.
heres the thing... and this is true of alot of thinga i guess.
aslong as thats kept clean and tidy ie the finishes etc are maintained, that doesn't really bother me. Look at some of the 30s art deco houses, very dated but still look okay or even great aslong as they are kept sparkly white with black mindows etc.
I think alot of fashinable design starts to look dated because it looks run down towards the end of its first lease of life rather than being purely out of fashion.
Some of the worst looking buildings are "traditional" looking houses but look closely you see the cracks or the plastic render edge beading.
I like that house up there, a damn site nicer than 99% of new build housing
Should we add much of the new build matchstick housing stock that's popping up everywhere.
Not all of it..... But a large amount of it.
What about buying a house on a flood plain. I imagine that'll make avocado bathroom suites look good.
Decking
I think that ship sailed a long time ago. It's got it's place, but those massive 3D structures made of the stuff are deep into the 'No' column now.
I actually like that, I'd prefer the proper headroom but in the right place it makes sense.
I think alot of fashinable design starts to look dated because it looks run down towards the end of its first lease of life rather than being purely out of fashion.
Or in some cases before the glue/paint/mastic has dried. Bad fitting has a lot to answer for.
I'll bet the hipsters are lapping up the Avocado and Peach bathroom suites or maybe they already did and they're officially shit for the second time round.
Hot Tubs / sex ponds, like large enclosed trampolines, they went from aspirational middle-class must-have to everywhere, to about as desirable as a discarded shopping trolley next to a rusty old banger on bricks on the front lawn in a few short years.
Best £500 I spent this side of Covid-19. But it's inflatable so I could put it away / move it on if I could be arsed. And I'm a total snob.
Nowt wrong with grey, done my living room in dulux urban espression (matt grey), kitchen (soft sheen), bathroom is (soft sheen). Although to be fair it did take me 20+yrs to get any paint on the walls since I moved in so I guess this will do till I get carted out in a box
No there's nothing wrong with it, it's just very fashionable now, like Avocado Bathrooms were in the 70s, so there will likely be a backlash in a few years.
In years to come, we'll look back at houses with every room in various shades of grey with the same level of amusement/horror as we might looking at a picture from the 70s of someone's brown carpet, wallpaper, and sofa, or all the red stuff of the 80s, or the featureless whites of a few years ago.
Much like drain pipe trousers and teddy boys I'd imagine.
Fashion's change like the wind.
The important thing is.....you like it. I mean some folk on here actively admit to wearing bootcut jeans out of choice rather than as fancydress.
Unless your actually a developer turning houses over for a profit rather than for a home.
