What decor style do you absolutely HATE?!

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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.

That is not organic. The model looks uncomfortable and stiff. I mean when you feel you have to call something “The Womb Chair” you are already kind of admitting that it isn’t very comfortable. Buyers should not need to be convinced or persuaded that something is comfortable; they should know it instinctively.

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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...

I totally agree!

Unfortunately, it’s hard to do something really well like that without a good amount of money.

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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!

Another reason might be that you can DIY a vessel sink pretty easily. From what I understand. It would not be easy for me.

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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.

I agree with this PP on one reason for the popularity of MCM! The scale of the furniture works well in apartments or rowhouses.

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Anonymous wrote:Hate farm house sinks

You and me both!

If you also hate Shawshank Redemption, we can for a tiny club of outcasts.

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Anonymous wrote:Restoration Hardware Greige

https://rh.com/rooms.jsp?id=143005&slideId=1214000

Oh, God, yes! How and why did the institutional decor become aspirational?

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Anonymous wrote:MCM and racism:

https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/04/midcentury-modernism-history-race-furniture-style.html

Sigh. Apparently nothing exists outside of US. I am European and I grew up in a city apartment filled with MCM furniture. Its proportions are ideal for the smaller spaces and all those bookcase/room dividers are great for apartment living. If it's coded as anything, to me it's city living. Sorry, you screwed up your cities so badly.

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Anonymous wrote:MCM and racism:

https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/04/midcentury-modernism-history-race-furniture-style.html

"Another example: I talk about how designers Charles and Ray Eames invented a leg splint during World War II that was used for medical evacuations. The splint dictates the idea of what is a healthy leg. Their chairs, with that molded plywood, came out of the technology that they developed for the leg splint. The chairs propose an ideal posture and comportment—and size!—of the body."

FFS. I'm sorry you feel fat-shamed by my Eames chair.

Exactly. I have an original MCM dining set, and when a physical therapist visited me at home, she was swooning over the chairs, how proper and comfortable they are for the posture. PP is welcome to ruin their spine with the oversized and overstuffed crap.

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In reference to vessel sinks, did anyone post this?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PAX9knVUfdY

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I think good design is good design and can really come in so many forms. My Instagram feed is all over the place. My favorite is when it’s an eclectic mix of stuff, but also simple. I think grand millennial is great (but a little fussy for me personally) because it’s all about buying second-hand rather than fast furniture.

As a side note, I’m really disliking Emily Henderson’s Portland farmhouse. There’s something about it that really makes me feel…sad. I don’t think it’s the farmhouse style, per se—I think it’s maybe that it’s all farmhouse cliche.

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It’s exterior design I know but the white siding and black windows is killing me. I hate it.

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Anonymous wrote:Memphis style.

Yes!!! I hate it. I hated it in the 90’s, I hate it now. It makes me feel physical stress. I don’t get it at all.

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I hate the gray minimalist decor look, that seems to go along with black hardware and exterior black trim with a white house or a gray house with white trim.

I'm depressed enough already.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s exterior design I know but the white siding and black windows is killing me. I hate it.

Me too. In my family we call them stormtrooper houses. Can’t stand them.

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Anonymous wrote:Any decor that includes those wooden signs with words printed on them (e.g eat, laugh, etc.)

Plus 1

Plus 2. I hate the signs...."Blessed." "Believe." etc.

I'm not crazy about extreme seasonal cutesy decor a la Hobby Lobby.

GATHER DAMNIT!!!!
EAT!!!!