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Recent house hunting and then noticing something on the dog walk this morning got me thinking - what current house design/decoration trends are going to be the avocado bathroom suites of the future, i.e. super trendy now, but in twenty years time people will be saying "WTF were we/they thinking, that's gopping!". I shall kick off with:
Grey frames on windows. They seem to be all the rage at the moment.
Grey window frames look far better than white ones on sandstone houses (mine are white!)
White epoxy stone driveways.
LED soffit downlights.
Electric gates.
Those composite doors with the big sweeping curve of glass panels.
Peak naff 😂
Wood burning stoves
Hot tubs
Oh and houses without a dedicated WFH room.
False grass
Grey houses.
Looking out the window at the short terrace opposite, leftmost has had a full remodel / extension and painted the outside light grey with anthracite windows.
Next three are in the original pebbledash / brick combo with varying degrees of paint.
The grey house looks rubbish, and out of place. They've also got a grey door like the one above...
Room-width muti-fold doors.
Grey Windows and Doors on newer houses definitely. They're already looking 'out of fashion's.
Do some people still write Live Laugh Love on the wall?
Bifold doors in the UK. Bring the outdoors inside.....15 minutes a year.
Do some people still write Live Laugh Love on the wall?
From what we've seen on Rightmove recently, most definitely so!
Massive telly on the wall
bifold doors
blue led lights.
polished concrete worksurfaces/sinks in the kitchen
poorly constructed damp and unused garden offices that need to be dismantled and carted awaywhen you've bought a new house.
frosted glass
those composite doors kayak mentioned. Who the hell designs them.
LED soffit downlights.
No need to wait for the future, these already look crap.
Oh, and reeeeeeeaaaaaally gloss kitchens.
LED soffit downlights.
I'm glad someone mentioned these. What a waste of electricity. The serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever.
We just replaced all of our windows with new anthracite grey framed windows.
Those "designer" doors is a good shout. There's a few round here that have replaced their original Victorian or Art Deco door with some horrible modern thing. Looks totally out of place.
Glossy kitchens = folk that don't cook.
Kayak, agreed, that's awful.
We just replaced all of our windows with new anthracite grey framed windows.
People thought their bathrooms were nice at the time 😉
Anything that's a trend will eventually be considered naff, after all the home improvement industry needs to keep selling you new stuff. So yes, grey window frames, and also the slightly naff cream windows that they put on new builds round here. Bifold doors. Kitchen islands. Fake chimneys. Crittall windows and doors are probably going that way too which is a shame as I quite like them.
When we bought our (1979 built) house we had an avocado loo downstairs and a peach Melba bathroom suite.
Sadly both were functionally fine and we had to live with them for a few years till they worked their way up the priority list.
Bifold doors in the UK. Bring the outdoors inside…..15 minutes a year.
we don't all live beyond the wall...
Franksinatra
Full MemberLED soffit downlights.
I’m glad someone mentioned these. What a waste of electricity. The serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever.
Depends on how they are done. I’ve noticed some that are completely overdone and always on, but I installed some over the garage door and front door linked to a flush mount PIR so they work as security lights but are invisible from the street.
The lights that project a beam of light up and down the wall however...
That and dark grey bathroom tiles the size of Wales are likely to be the avocado suite of the 50s
I put soffit lights in .....above my back door over the step.
I like them. But then there are only 2 and they are there to illuminate the step. Surrounding the whole house in them isn't cool.
Oh, those extensions to houses that are clad with wood, and untreated, left to go grey like an auld pigeon hut!.
I think if you combine everything already mentioned and add ripping up hedges and grass to replace with astroturf and always using your awful ugly BMW X6 to hoon through the village you've pretty much nailed our excellent new(ish) neighbours
White UPVC is truly a scourge. Grey at least hides the fat frames.
Any frames over an inch deep need to be black.
Room-width muti-fold doors.
Yes with associated drop in thermal performance especially when the seals get dragged out, destroyed and left out.
i disagree with the grey windows, most of the time it always looks better than white apart from on georgian buildings but they are usually in conservation areas anyway.
i had to have reddy brown to match the rest of the building rubbish 80’s wooden double glazing, would have had grey if allowed.
plinth lights and their pelmet cousins.
wondering how long institution bathrooms with coloured grout will hang around?
Definitely the glossy kitchens imo. I don't see how bifold doors will though.
I think grey windows can look pretty classy, depends on the house finish I suppose.
Absolutely those “modern” front doors. Screams “I’ve seen a modern house on grand designs and I want to make my 1950s bungalow the same on a budget of £800. Also I have no sense of style or design”
i think the single biggest housing monstrosity of the last 30 years is the conservatory.
either too cold or too hot apart from that weekend in the spring where it’s nice and bright and feels like summer is maybe on it’s way and then for another weekend in autumn where it feels just right when outside needs a thicker jumper.
the worst ones are the round pointy country house style stuck on the side of an 80’s semi.
got to hand it to the sales people though, you convinced an awful lot of people to buy something useless.
LED uplighting
Open plan spaces. Families will want rooms where you can shut the door and read without being in the same room as somebody cooking, somebody else watching telly and another person playing XBOX.
Laminate flooring.
Massive kitchen islands.
Oh, those extensions to houses that are clad with wood, and untreated, left to go grey like an auld pigeon hut!.
Seen my house then aye.
Better things to do than paint wood every other year.
And didn't want more concrete to look at.
Are plantation shutters on the list?
Checking for "a friend"
I'm in the process of changing to grey windows. Looks so much nicer than the shit white thats there at the moment.
Just had a loft conversion and that clad in grey so it'll all match nicely. Looks lovely against the shade of red brick we have. I like the fact that there is so much more choice now, white is just shit and old school fake wood is bloody awful. Old stone houses with nice shades of green are nice as well.
I'm also having a bi-fold door to the kitchen as a full width one gets in the way. Normal door width but bi-fold.
Also have double patio doors on the back that we are increasing to 3 door width.....
White tiles with grey grout in the en suite? Oh yes....
Kitchen won't be shiny though.
In six months time... Garden offices. aka the shed where you can see all your shite dumped in it.
I’m in the process of changing to grey windows
...
Just had a loft conversion and that clad in grey so it’ll all match nicely.
That's what the people who put that bathroom in up there said -^
I like bifold doors, good for parties.
Also like grey framed windows on old houses, but not new.
Those doors are naff and live laugh love is atrocious. Also not a fan of woodburners, novelty that wears off after a week.
Better things to do than paint wood every other year.
Lol, they're everywhere round here!
Fitted carpets. What a stupid idea, give me underfloor heating and an easily cleaned tile or whatever surface. One day we will look back on the fitted carpet and say yuck
That’s what the people who put that bathroom in up there said -^
😂😭
I'm hardly Laurence Llewelyn Bowen, but if I had to guess.
Grey windows, erm... probably. They look better than white at the moment, but they could become very dated in a few years, the problem with window frames is they look pretty terrible in white, we just got used to them. There were a few years when people had wood effect ones, which just look horrible now. If Grey goes out of fashion, there's not many places to go. That said one of our clients makes UPVC 'stuff' like windows / door and 'glass extensions' aka conservatories. I saw some windows there a few weeks ago with TINY frames, the effect is quite striking, on the right house I think they'd look amazing, on the wrong it'll look like an office. They're a sod to fit well apparently, not longer can fitters just tear a hole in a wall and use a load of sealant and plastic facias to hide it all, but they certainly catch your eye.
Grey in general, spent the last year decorating and generally fixing up our first home. Mrs Jay choose all the colours, I warned her, but she's a lot happier than me to rip out perfectly good stuff when it's no longer fashionable, but I'm living in a monochrome nightmare. I've got Elephants breath on the walls, stormy morning on the floors, polished pebble in the bedroom. We're redecorating the eldest's room at the moment... yep, it's going to be Grey, after that one of the living room walls is going to be 'French Grey'. I've really tried to avoid too much grey in permanent stuff.
Gloss White Kitchens, every house we went to see that was either 'nice' or freshly renovated had these glaring bright, white kitchens, white everything, even counter tops. Every time I saw one I thought it would look pretty crap unless you kept it immaculately clean and would probably wear quite badly.
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.
Except mine which still heats my house after 4 years 🙂
Am reading with interest as I plan to build a new house soon.
I fancy an avocado bathroom suite mind, bound to come back in fashion soon.
Edit to add, the log burner post I was replying to has vanished.??
gonna go out there and even though i have some on order.
surface mount solar panels of any ilk.
itll all be about the roof tiles and those of us with surface mounts will be considered retro and old fashioned 😀
Lol, they’re everywhere round here!
tell you what - its not a price thing - the timber , stainless screws, prep and time cost more than throwing some dash at it - probably by a factor of 2.