What house trends do you hate?

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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.

What do you think looks better? Serious question.

Depends on the house/room/fixture, but:
Matte black
Oil rubbed bronze
Unlacquered brass
Polished nickel
Chrome
Stainless steel

I’m PP and I like unlacquered brass, chrome, or stainless in a really modern house. Real polished nickel is gorgeous but I’m not cleaning that. “Brushed nickel” is not nickel plating, it’s just yellowy silver paint over zinc probably with a plastic coating. I like finishes that are what they are. I like “living” finishes that patina so I’m an unlacquered brass girl myself. I cheat to accelerate the new stuff with ammonia. I also have “brushed nickel” and bad chrome in my bathrooms because I am not rich I’m just a snob.

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I cook ethnic foods, as do many of my friends. So, if someone doesn't like the ethnic food smell, then we probably wouldn't get along with them that well anyways to have them over often.

IMO, the kitchen area is the heart of the home. I like it to be roomy, bright and airy.

We cook ethnic foods too but I'm completely turned off the open plan. We have a large kitchen/large family room combo and the noise pollution is absolutely horrid. You cannot comfortably cook or use the tap without interfering with the telly sound in the living room. If I use my (powerful) fan, the decibel level everywhere just rises.

In my next house, the kitchen will be large but connected to only the dining room, if that. Absolutely closed off from any living spaces. People are welcome to hang out in the kitchen, they don't need to be one foot in the living room.

I agree. Dislike the open kitchen/family room plan. I too wild
Love a great big kitchen with a breakfast area, and a family room connected by a small hallway.

This is what we have and why it works in our house. I also like having a "formal" dining room and living room for entertaining and another, more casual family room for hanging out on a daily basis, which I realize isn't trendy.

I guess it depends on how big your house is and what your space constraints are.

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Anonymous wrote:Vessel sinks. I hate them and they're so impractical. As a short person, I have to lift my arms way over the bowl. Also, my kids would need a ladder to use it.

I have come to like vessel sinks because they actually give you more room on the countertop. You can put small items like contact lens case, nail clippers, razor underneath the vessel sink. I'm tall, though, so the experience for a short person may well be different.

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Can anyone share (with pics) colors they like on walls that are not grey or greige? Am curious and wanting to be inspired...

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone share (with pics) colors they like on walls that are not grey or greige? Am curious and wanting to be inspired...

I'm not going to post pics of my house but our sun room is open to the living room and we have a buttery cream color in those rooms. We have a linen color with the just slightest tint of yellow in our hallway. Dining room is a peachy creamy pink (I love pink) and our powder room is sea foam green. Kitchen is white cabinets with greige walls. Upstairs, daughter's room is a light green color, son's room is light blue, bathroom is half bead board with turquoise blue, and playroom is a burnt sienna color. Our bedroom is a creamy rose and our bathroom is a blue green color.

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone share (with pics) colors they like on walls that are not grey or greige? Am curious and wanting to be inspired...

I'm not going to post pics of my house but our sun room is open to the living room and we have a buttery cream color in those rooms. We have a linen color with the just slightest tint of yellow in our hallway. Dining room is a peachy creamy pink (I love pink) and our powder room is sea foam green. Kitchen is white cabinets with greige walls. Upstairs, daughter's room is a light green color, son's room is light blue, bathroom is half bead board with turquoise blue, and playroom is a burnt sienna color. Our bedroom is a creamy rose and our bathroom is a blue green color.

To each his own here, I much prefer neutral walls to pink, sea foam green, or orange.

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I feel like a lot of these complaints have to do with the open floor plan look (like it's hard to have strong colors if there are not separate rooms, and you need pillars to support the ceilings). It creates a lot of design challenges but has some real benefits as far as light and just flow of how people move.

I love bright colors, but with an open floor plan, I can't commit to painting the walls coral or something like that. We have tan in the front rooms (which I sort of hate and would like to change out for a cream) and then sky blue in the back rooms where we spend more time. I think sky blue is a neutral.

I do love having the kitchen open to the family room. I do most of the cooking and cleaning and I feel like otherwise, I would never see my family. It's also easier to wrangle help from them if they are not already in a separate room. I do find it frustrating sometimes to have all the kitchen clutter always visible, but I accept that as a tradeoff. It just works better for my lifestyle, and I feel like most modern parents lifestyles.

I also hate vessel sinks, and TVs over above a fireplace. I'm also irritated by the trend towards mismatching cabinets in the kitchen. Looks too trendy, like those old color block sweaters from Generra. I also hate double-level entry foyers, but I feel like those are becoming much less common than they were 10-20 years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone share (with pics) colors they like on walls that are not grey or greige? Am curious and wanting to be inspired...

I'm not going to post pics of my house but our sun room is open to the living room and we have a buttery cream color in those rooms. We have a linen color with the just slightest tint of yellow in our hallway. Dining room is a peachy creamy pink (I love pink) and our powder room is sea foam green. Kitchen is white cabinets with greige walls. Upstairs, daughter's room is a light green color, son's room is light blue, bathroom is half bead board with turquoise blue, and playroom is a burnt sienna color. Our bedroom is a creamy rose and our bathroom is a blue green color.

To each his own here, I much prefer neutral walls to pink, sea foam green, or orange.

Lol you are so literal. Burnt sienna /= “orange”

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Definitely white kitchens.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like a lot of these complaints have to do with the open floor plan look (like it's hard to have strong colors if there are not separate rooms, and you need pillars to support the ceilings). It creates a lot of design challenges but has some real benefits as far as light and just flow of how people move.

I love bright colors, but with an open floor plan, I can't commit to painting the walls coral or something like that. We have tan in the front rooms (which I sort of hate and would like to change out for a cream) and then sky blue in the back rooms where we spend more time. I think sky blue is a neutral.

I do love having the kitchen open to the family room. I do most of the cooking and cleaning and I feel like otherwise, I would never see my family. It's also easier to wrangle help from them if they are not already in a separate room. I do find it frustrating sometimes to have all the kitchen clutter always visible, but I accept that as a tradeoff. It just works better for my lifestyle, and I feel like most modern parents lifestyles.

I also hate vessel sinks, and TVs over above a fireplace. I'm also irritated by the trend towards mismatching cabinets in the kitchen. Looks too trendy, like those old color block sweaters from Generra. I also hate double-level entry foyers, but I feel like those are becoming much less common than they were 10-20 years ago.

Agree with all of this, especially the last paragraph.

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone share (with pics) colors they like on walls that are not grey or greige? Am curious and wanting to be inspired...

I'm not going to post pics of my house but our sun room is open to the living room and we have a buttery cream color in those rooms. We have a linen color with the just slightest tint of yellow in our hallway. Dining room is a peachy creamy pink (I love pink) and our powder room is sea foam green. Kitchen is white cabinets with greige walls. Upstairs, daughter's room is a light green color, son's room is light blue, bathroom is half bead board with turquoise blue, and playroom is a burnt sienna color. Our bedroom is a creamy rose and our bathroom is a blue green color.

To each his own here, I much prefer neutral walls to pink, sea foam green, or orange.

Lol you are so literal. Burnt sienna /= “orange”

Okey dokey

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I was recently in a house where the rest of the house was rustic American farmhouse-y and then you stepped into the bathroom and it was Japanese zen with a glass vessel sink, black marble, an orchid, black stones, and a japanese print.

So weird.

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Bathrooms with barn doors. Not very private- you can hear right through them.

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I love more than half the hated trends on this thread, especially neutral walls, white kitchens and modern farmhouses. I must be really basic.

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Anonymous wrote:I love more than half the hated trends on this thread, especially neutral walls, white kitchens and modern farmhouses. I must be really basic.

Yup.