45 Terrible Modern Home Design Trends That People Just Don't Understand

Those chairs with the lion head door knocker on the back…

Stone gardens. You lose the cooling effect of vegetation in the summer, bees are dying and most stone gardens just look ugly. Sorry, not sorry.

Not on houses but the little f*****g balconies on large apartment buildings.

Not real balconies, the ones just for show.

In 10 years they're going to be ugly as s**t and in need of repair, and nobody will want to keep them.

Funny how things change isn’t it? I saw a house on Right Move recently which just screamed 1990s. The living room had that half wallpaper half painted style with a wallpaper border at the ceiling. The bathroom tiles with one random one with a flower design on and coloured bathroom suite ….

As for modern styles … those bloody obnoxious wall stencils can get in the bin. Live, Laugh, Love and all that bollocks. Everything seems to be bright white and grey and those geometric kitchen lights …

Actually owning a house, so last decade.

I'm sick of bloody bulbs everywhere. I've got a smallish kitchen and there are seven bulbs in there, with three different types of bulb and fitting. It's completely unnecessary and such a ballache. Rather than buying a box of generic bulbs to replace each one as it goes I have to buy and store boxes of all different types of bulbs and remember which ones go where.

Astroturf in the garden is a horrifying trend

Grey everything. Grey windows, grey doors, grey kitchens, all of it. Dont quite understand why everything has to be grey these days.

Needlessly cladding perfectly fine properties with fake wood. Costs thousands, literally serves no purpose and looks dumb as f**k. As if we're supposed to believe your 1950s townhouse was supposed to have 'oak' cladding on it.

One I hope goes, but probably wont - mounting sockets half way up the wall to allow wall mounting of certain gadgets/tvs... no... just please no, I would rather go to the additional expense and effort to have to hide cables on the off chance I utilise it, than have these butt ugly mains sockets everywhere at eye level.

Not sure about specific things but my local area (West Sussex) has been covered in housing projects the past decade and there is practically no character in any of them. Just endless identical copy and paste boxes with tiny gardens and giant roofs that are designed to be turned into loft conversions in the future. There have been so many indentical developments across the county that I can tell which developer has built them from the house designs alone. The only differences I can see between the "affordable" and "premium" houses in the developments is that the premium ones come with some kind of cladding and occasionally with the extension already built in. They all get built in ~6 months with the exact same timber framing and breeze block construction and all the landscaping appears to be a case of how many meters of grass and homebase plants can we squeeze in in the week before the owner moves in. I'd be genuinely astonished if they maintain value anywhere near as long as the 80s/90s housing developments that are already here.

I think a housing trend that will go out of style quite soon will be being able to afford your energy bill.

“Look at my house” lights. Big flashy lights that people shine on their houses to show them off overnight.

Taking out the wall between the house and conservatory so there's no barrier, meaning you can't shut the door on the icebox room in winter or the blazing hot oven room in summer.

And in the same vein replacing external walls with glass and knocking down internal walls. We do not have the climate for these arrangements!

Literally anything new build. Every single house is built like there's just one 25 year old man living there.

Also, open plan. Good luck heating your 350 sq ft living room with your single modern column radiator pumping out 2500 BTUs.

That trend of glueing strips of MDF to the wall as panelling and painting the whole thing in a safe sage green or disappointing blue. It’ll be a right s**t to get off, too.

I’ll die on this hill: Bifold doors. Looks amazing in a magazine. However, if you have kids, sticky awful kids, they just become a wash of hand prints. It’s not energy efficient having a whole wall of windows. In the right kind of extension it works, but I’ve seen so many of these open plan diner things where you can’t open a window by the oven or release cooking smells - only a door - as they’ve gone all across the back. Prob fab for the 3 days of great weather you also happen to host a bbq this country gets, but it seems a design trend for a different climate.

Deep pile carpet can go do one as well. We inherited this on our staircase, and you can’t walk on it with a pair of socks without leaving a little trail of lint. Have to Hoover way more often.

Square toilets, sinks and baths. They look s**t, are so uncomfortable to sit on/lie in, but everyone has them.

I reckon all the pinterest pirates doing the geometric patterns with tape and paint samples. Which somehow then seems to make it into the metro newspaper as a "hack".

literally everything - that's how fashion works

I hate this grey look, my wife started buying crushed velvet furniture and mirrored tables etc. I hate it

Shiny red kitchens. I’m sorry, red kitchen lovers, but strong colours are best reserved for walls, IMO, where they can be easily changed at minimal cost.