What house trends do you hate?

[Anonymous]

White kitchens. Timeless? Nope. Sterile and Trendy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Interior columns. I’m not an Ancient Greek.

How would you hide load supporting posts? Turn it into a stripper pole?

A wall. Worked for hundreds of years.

[Anonymous]

Wood look porcelain tile is fine in bathrooms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Those dining rooms that are "dropped" down from the rest of the room. Seems like a tripping hazard.

[Anonymous]

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.

I think the top one looks great! A farmhouse with a Jiffy Lube attached. It would be a short commute from farm to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interior columns. I’m not an Ancient Greek.

How would you hide load supporting posts? Turn it into a stripper pole?

A wall. Worked for hundreds of years.

+1. We have a drywall square post and I like that look much better than a column.

[Anonymous]

It's 2018, people/flippers still use grey? Who knew!

[Anonymous]

1. Siding on the sides and decorative stone/etc on the front.

2. Garage sticking out and attracting the eye.

3. Busy facade with conflicting period accents: different window shapes/panes, tudor upstairs but not downstairs, too many turrets and pointy roofs, etc...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those dining rooms that are "dropped" down from the rest of the room. Seems like a tripping hazard.

Yes. Awful.

I loathe interior stairs that aren't a full staircase. This includes split levels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fake front porches on McCraftsmens and modern farmhouses that are too shallow to comfortably hang out on.

+1. We're city folk with a Wardman rowhouse (i.e., our porch gets used a lot) that are unfamiliar with the distant DC burbs. Went to a cousin's house in Gaithersburg and was super confused by how shallow the porch was. Then I realized it was just for show and not actually functional. Whatever, works for them I guess.

Also hate the bowling alley rowhouse flips! We renovated a fixer upper and kept walls around the living room/entry way. It's open without the bowling alley effect. Love it!

[Anonymous]

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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?

Why would it have to be those colors? There's a whole spectrum out there - what do *you* like?

But you need to have a neutral backdrop for most of the house, right? Or are you the one who paints the dining room red and the living room blue and the kitchen green?

If you don't like gray, then what color do you like to see in homes?

I do like gray! In fact, I just repainted the formal living/dining room (and the damn ceilings) -- previously they were a dusty green kind of like scrubs. Yes, the ceiling was green too. I painted that white and the walls gray.

[Anonymous]

Blocks of bland row houses in the same dull brick. Might as well be Manchester or some other ugly place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those dining rooms that are "dropped" down from the rest of the room. Seems like a tripping hazard.

Yes. Awful.

I loathe interior stairs that aren't a full staircase. This includes split levels.

I adore split-levels, they're such an efficient use of space! But I wouldn't call this a current trend, they went out of vogue decades ago.

[Anonymous]

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

White kitchens are timeless...sorry