What decor style do you absolutely HATE?!

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Memphis style.

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I hate black faucets and shower heads. I don’t mind black cabinet hardware and light fixtures, but the faucets are just too much.

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Hate farm house sinks

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Vessel sinks. I hate those things with a passion!

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Anonymous wrote:I think the problem with MCM is that it got trendy and spawned so many cheap knock offs that’s what everyone thinks of. The original stuff is nice. I have a MCM dining table and coffee table but they don’t look like what has been sold as MCM. It is clean lines but not the extreme sharp edges and the soindly pointed legs. The dining room table has a dark stain. The coffee table is natural cherry but not orange tone—more the color of someone with medium brown hair. It’s very warm and a really good size (not too big but functional with a lower shelf, which was surprisingly hard to find when we considered replacing it).

It was the same problem with the oak antique reproductions in the 1980s. It was cheap oak so it looked cheap. Real quartersawn oak from the 1920s or earlier is gorgeous.

Whenever something is trendy, it kills it because you get too saturated with the cheap versions.

Very good point. A lot of what people hate about MCM is just a small subset of what it can be. I also think one reason MCM is popular among urbanites is that it is often apartment sized, and before the MCM revival trend, it could be incredibly hard to find living room or dining furniture that worked in an apartment or small row house. I remember struggling to find a couch that worked in my tiny post-college apartment back in the mid 00s and having to settle for a loveseat because nothing else would fit. A few year later I upgraded to a full size MCM sofa that I could stretch out on but that at very compact, square proportions so it worked. In our current apartment, I am actually not sure we could do another style of dining table/chairs than MCM because our dining area is very small and MCM is so much more streamlined than most other styles.

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I only have hate for the decor and style in my own house that I’m trying to update. For example, the 1980s cherry colonial style cabinetry. The brass ceiling fixtures. The cream everything. The builder grade “tumbled” bathroom tile.

I love an eclectic mix of midcentury modern-ish mixed with collected pieces from travel and family. It suits my home and comfort. I honestly don’t care what anyone else does because I don’t have to look at it.

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Anonymous wrote:Rustic French country, unless it's authentically done with real pieces. So many people do this weird generic American version where all the furniture is way too large and it's very fake and cheesy to me.

80s modern with the black leather and the glass. Impractical, ugly, tacky. Hate hate hate.

The faux farmhouse aesthetic popularized by Joanna Gaines with the stupid wooden signs and the big clocks and fake shiplap etc. etc. So ubiquitous. So unstylish.

I don't have the same hate for midcentury modern as some on this thread but I think it's overdone and also a lot of individual MCM pieces are objectively ugly and don't get more attractive just because they once lived in an office in the 60s. However I really love true Danish modern and other Scandinavian offshoots, for their clean lines and use of color.

I also have a real fondness for maximalism done well, and my sense is that DCUM absolutely hates that kind of thing. I'm talking about patterned wallpaper with contrasting furniture and pillows and baroque frames in mismatched finishes and heavy curtains hung from the top of the wall to the floor, layered rugs, etc. Wild color combos incorporating bright pinks and yellows and oranges. It can easily go wrong but when well executed, I absolutely love it. I love color so much, I wish people weren't so afraid of it in home design.

Do you like this?

I’m not the PP, though I agree with the PP.

I don’t love that picture, but I also don’t like the cold gray living room of a few pages ago either.

If the black cabinets in the room were removed, and some of the art, I’d like it a lot better. I don’t like the heavy black though.

I think half of the pattern could be removed and it would be much better. If you removed the yellow and just continued with aqua or green, it would be an improvement.

I think the contrasting colors/patterns would work much better if the neutrals were consistent. The two large pieces of black furniture flanking a white table and chairs just doesn't make sense. It makes it all look incongruous and when you then through the different patterns and the slightly clashing colors on top of that, it doesn't work. But I think you could get away with all the patterns if the wood was all the same neutrals or at least complementary instead of high contrast. I also think in a maximalist space, that much solid black/white/gray is wasted opportunity. Paint that table and chairs green, do the trim in yellow, paint the chest of drawers dark green, paint the break front a pale pink and then do patterned inserts on the solid doors, that kind of thing. I don't think the art on the facing wall is going to work no matter what, but the basic frame isn't helping -- you need something with color or pattern or interest there.

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Black windows!!

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Anonymous wrote:Vessel sinks. I hate those things with a passion!

I once saw an interior designer on a season of This Old House express a love for a vessel sink because it allowed them to make the sink an actual design element instead of just dropping a cream or white porcelain sink under the counter. That was so enlightening because I too hate vessel sinks and have never understood why someone would do it. But now I get it -- it's a designer getting cute and trying to be fancy while ignore practical concerns. Very typical!

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I hate...(many repeats from previous posts)

vessel sinks.
Huge TVs in the middle of the only living room on the main floor.
Huge new, expensive houses that people haven't bothered to fully furnish.
Poorly laid out furniture. My sister in law, for example, has a sectional that she's always laying out with the longest side facing out to the walkway. Makes the house (already small) feel incredibly small.

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I like both chinoiserie and MCM, clearly OP and I have different taste.

Things I don’t like:
Rustic
Industrial
Barn doors not on barns
Black window frames

Almost everything else I can appreciate when done well.

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Anonymous wrote:This. Uncomfortable, impersonal, robotic.

That's beautiful.

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Anonymous wrote:Most mid century modern looks like it’s meant to encourage guests to leave the house as soon as soon as humanely possible. We get it, you hate people.

Flat bottom bathroom sinks. Why is this a thing. They look disgusting after one use.

Griege walls. Life is just not that grim. Find joy.

Such a bizarre take lol

MCM furniture is usually uncomfortable. The hard surfaces, sharp edges, and straight lines are visually stressful; they don’t feel organic, and people are unconsciously tense in those environments. The style isn’t designed for warmth or a sense of caring.

Actually you couldn’t be more off-base. The Womb Chair is an iconic piece of mid-century furniture. It is anything but uncomfortable. If this doesn’t feel “organic,” I don’t know what is.

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Giant screened porches that are not furnished or used ever

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Anonymous wrote:This. Uncomfortable, impersonal, robotic.

Agree. That living room looks like a hospital operating room. No thanks.

See for me this is stark and minimalist enough to be interesting again. I wouldn't do my house in this style but much prefer it over the lame grey wood--greige upholstery--black fixtures--Houzz transitional-semi Scandi style--flipped look.* Commit to a style (like this) and there's some energy there.

*Yes, I'm sure my house has some of this so don't at me...