What house trends do you hate?

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Anonymous wrote: I hate roof, columns, walls, ceilings, floors, doors, windows, hvac

Ok tribesman

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t hate white cabinets, but I hate white cabinets with a white countertop and white backsplash and white walls and a white sink...

Racist?

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Jack and Jill bathrooms.
Palladium windows.
No front coat closet.
No powder room on main floor.
Garage entrance at basement level.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate front loading garages with a passion. I would never buy a house with one.

I hate the "modern farmhouse" trend. Classic farmhouses are nice but I'm talking about the McMansions that are built to resemble one but don't quite make it. Hope that trend dies out soon.

For instance I think these are so fugly:





I don't mind white kitchens but I hope the white on white on white trend everywhere else dies out soon.

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Yes to all of this.

We've used white and gray for decades, it's always a beautiful combination. Cream is also nice. Kitchens shall be white or need to be remodeled every 8 years. Craftsman is the best style to stay timeless because it bridges the gap between farmhouse and colonial. Sears homes and Massachusetts is the Craftsman and it's 100s of years old.

Craftsman is early 20th century, not 100s of years old. Craftsman doesn't bridge any gap between farmhouse and colonial style homes, it's a unique style. Kitchens don't need to be remodeled every 8 years if they're not white. You're just...really wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate front loading garages with a passion. I would never buy a house with one.

I hate the "modern farmhouse" trend. Classic farmhouses are nice but I'm talking about the McMansions that are built to resemble one but don't quite make it. Hope that trend dies out soon.

For instance I think these are so fugly:





I don't mind white kitchens but I hope the white on white on white trend everywhere else dies out soon.

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Yes to all of this.

We've used white and gray for decades, it's always a beautiful combination. Cream is also nice. Kitchens shall be white or need to be remodeled every 8 years. Craftsman is the best style to stay timeless because it bridges the gap between farmhouse and colonial. Sears homes and Massachusetts is the Craftsman and it's 100s of years old.

Craftsman is early 20th century, not 100s of years old. Craftsman doesn't bridge any gap between farmhouse and colonial style homes, it's a unique style. Kitchens don't need to be remodeled every 8 years if they're not white. You're just...really wrong.

PP. Also, farmhouse describes a house on a farm, but it isn't an architecture style. Maybe it's a decorating style started by HGTV?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate front loading garages with a passion. I would never buy a house with one.

I hate the "modern farmhouse" trend. Classic farmhouses are nice but I'm talking about the McMansions that are built to resemble one but don't quite make it. Hope that trend dies out soon.

For instance I think these are so fugly:





I don't mind white kitchens but I hope the white on white on white trend everywhere else dies out soon.

+1

Yes to all of this.

We've used white and gray for decades, it's always a beautiful combination. Cream is also nice. Kitchens shall be white or need to be remodeled every 8 years. Craftsman is the best style to stay timeless because it bridges the gap between farmhouse and colonial. Sears homes and Massachusetts is the Craftsman and it's 100s of years old.

Craftsman is early 20th century, not 100s of years old. Craftsman doesn't bridge any gap between farmhouse and colonial style homes, it's a unique style. Kitchens don't need to be remodeled every 8 years if they're not white. You're just...really wrong.

Craftsman has been in style since 1890s and a farm is 1000 years old, open a book or Wikipedia you moron

The American Craftsman style (along with a wide variety of related but conceptually distinct European design movements) was developed out of the British Arts and Crafts movement, which began as early as the 1860s.[1]

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coffered ceilings

microwaves under the counter

cooktops and sinks in islands (sink is ok in a really big island where stools on the other side are far away from it)

kitchens where the dishwasher opens in front of the sink

kitchens where nobody's planned a place for trash and recycling bins.

tiny and/or corner sinks in kitchens (especially big kitchens; I'll cut some slack for small apartments)

master baths with jetted tubs

vessel sinks

silk flowers and vines

entry foyers where there's no place to hang a coat--I like a coat closet right by the door.

main floors without a bathroom (half bath is fine).

ornate curved/double staircases

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Anonymous wrote:The ugly garages being front and center. Why why why???? Why make those the absolute focus and center of the house? They are ugly. They should be in the back tucked away.

I also hate faux everything. Vinyl siding meant to look like wood. Fake stones stuck on top of your facade instead of being the actual wall. Fake wood floors. Formica or quartz made to look like other stone... what's wrong with quartz? It's own qualities are quite nice. Stop faking it. Even newer materials have some redeeming qualities and should stop perpetrating a fraud. It looks CHEAP and feels gross.

I think the front load garages are more of a result of smaller lots than anything else. Town houses have them out of necessity, but if you have the land, why would you make it front load?

Because I love them. I love front load garages. I love cars and my cars shouldn't be tucked away.
I park my luxury cars on my driveway and front load garage. My garage is clean and an attractive part of my house.
People who hate front load garages usually have trashy garages and that's why they want them out of sight.

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I hate front load garages, too, but I pretty much hate cars and would rather not be reminded of them.

Not a fan of bland, generic, HGTV style. All HGTV houses look the same, which is basic and dull.

Sectionals. Don’t like ‘em. Same with carpeting. Hardwood or bust.

Abhor TVs over fireplaces and farmhouse sinks.

Disappointed when people replace old windows in historic homes with new, non-historically accurate windows. Same goes for doors.

Basically I don’t ever want to live in a house built after 1940.

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Anonymous wrote:Farm house
Ugly patterned tile in bathrooms
Black windows
Blonde wood
Two tone kitchen cabinets
Exposed light bulbs
“Wood look” tile
“Brushed nickel”
Words on walls

Hanging head in shame on some of these...

I'm that poster and you should never be shamed by internet strangers. I can hate anything if I try for a minute. You are probably a great person with a lovely house filled with happy, loving people.

That's a nice follow-up, PP. curious what your issue is with brushed nickel? I find it to be an attractive look in most kitchens and bathrooms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:White kitchens. Timeless? Nope. Sterile and Trendy.

Agree, hate the all white kitchen— so sick of seeing white cabinets, white quartz cabinets and subway tiles everywhere. So overdone.

Also hate shiplap (ok in beach houses) and sliding barn doors in urban/suburban homes.

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Anonymous wrote:If you don't like gray walls, then what color would you suggest instead? Doesn't it pretty much have to be either beige or gray for much of the home?

We have all different colors in our house and no gray. A warm green in our entry room, a grayish-blue in kitchen, office, and my son’s room (we use colors we like multiple places!), soft gold in family & dining room, tan on stairs and in hall, light green in hall bathroom and my daughters room, sky blue in master bedroom, and a cream color in the basement. I love varied color on my walls - each one chosen to go with my decor and our moods. Bright and sunny in our living space, cool and relaxing in our bedrooms, bright but neutral in the basement where there is less natural light.

Gray or any color in every room of the house seems crazy to me and/or very unimaginative.

Having the same color throughout the common areas of a house makes it look more cohesive.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you all think this style of architecture is beautiful?

Very Jersey

Here we go again.

Actually, the tile roof is very....warm weather climate....like the islands.

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Anonymous wrote:Easily fixable, but nothing makes me giggle more than McMansions with two big pointy topiaries in huge urns in front, framing the door.

Usually the McMansions are "Italianate."

Wow, do you say that about other countries? That's racist.

Interesting.

NP. Yes, Italianate architecture is very interesting. Go troll elsewhere.

Your label is troll enough for all of us.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Farm house
Ugly patterned tile in bathrooms
Black windows
Blonde wood
Two tone kitchen cabinets
Exposed light bulbs
“Wood look” tile
“Brushed nickel”
Words on walls

Hanging head in shame on some of these...

I'm that poster and you should never be shamed by internet strangers. I can hate anything if I try for a minute. You are probably a great person with a lovely house filled with happy, loving people.

That's a nice follow-up, PP. curious what your issue is with brushed nickel? I find it to be an attractive look in most kitchens and bathrooms.

Not PP, but brushed nickel just looks like cheap builder grade stuff (even if it’s not).

It belongs with the “wood” tiles.