The Worst Interior Design Trends of the Past 50 Years

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This article just popped up in my Flipboard and made for an interesting read. I agree with most of the list, but including the bidet seems a bit strange. I still don’t understand why houses in the U.K. don’t tend to have them!
Anything you think is missing or don’t agree with its inclusion?

The top 25 worst home horrors from the past 50 years, as revealed by Samsung:

1. Toilet rugs/furry toilet seat covers
2. Taxidermy
3. Avocado bathrooms
4. Floral ‘chintz’ furniture
5. Waterbeds
6. Artex walls and ceilings
7. Carpeted bathrooms
8. Rag rolled walls
9. Tribal carvings, masks and wall hangings
10. Stone cladding
11. Animal print anything
12. Inspirational quote art stenciled on the walls
13. Carpeted or textured walls
14. Beaded curtains
15. Living room bars
16. Bidets
17. Round beds
18. Professional family portraits
19. Shabby chic anything
20. Shag pile carpets
21. Wicker furniture indoors
22. Wallpaper borders
23. Curtain pelmets
24. TV cupboards
25. Stenciled walls or decals
 
Woodchip and swirly artex for me, both horrible to get rid of.
 
There are a number of things that I don't consider in the least bad on that list IN THE RIGHT PLACE.

Smooth Artex was excellent for smoothing over a ceiling in bad nick when you couldn't afford to have it replastered, and done well, rag-rolled walls look excellent in the right house.
Professional portraits being bad - this could put 30% of the forum out of business. ;)
Distressed furniture - done badly it looks poor, but natural distressing from 20 years of family life....
Serving hatches can be extremely useful IF needed.

*edit*
Stencilled walls bad? Really? Morons.
Wallpaper borders, as above.
 
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Ricardodaforce said:
This article just popped up in my Flipboard and made for an interesting read. I agree with most of the list, but including the bidet seems a bit strange. I still don’t understand why houses in the U.K. don’t tend to have them!
Anything you think is missing or don’t agree with its inclusion?

The top 25 worst home horrors from the past 50 years, as revealed by Samsung:

1. Toilet rugs/furry toilet seat covers
2. Taxidermy
3. Avocado bathrooms
4. Floral ‘chintz’ furniture
5. Waterbeds
6. Artex walls and ceilings
7. Carpeted bathrooms
8. Rag rolled walls
9. Tribal carvings, masks and wall hangings
10. Stone cladding
11. Animal print anything
12. Inspirational quote art stenciled on the walls
13. Carpeted or textured walls
14. Beaded curtains
15. Living room bars
16. Bidets
17. Round beds
18. Professional family portraits
19. Shabby chic anything
20. Shag pile carpets
21. Wicker furniture indoors
22. Wallpaper borders
23. Curtain pelmets
24. TV cupboards
25. Stenciled walls or decals
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Yep

You listed pretty much everything my Aunts and uncles perpetrated.
 
Definitely a few things missing off the list .... those stone fireplaces with little "niches" in the sides, artificial beams on ceilings in modern properties, pine wall or ceiling cladding and corner baths would be on my list.
 
According to a magazine in the doctors last week electric lighting will soon replace gas in most homes
 
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