50 Poorly-Aging Interior Design Trends That This Interior Designer Says You Should Avoid

Yes, unbelievably minimal and completely beautiful, but this is why I want you to avoid them. This is a Neutrogena commercial nightmare. Unless your water pressure is at a glacial speed, it's going to overflow in seconds and get everywhere. Kim Kardashian had these in her en suite and the craze for them has skyrocketed. Save yourself the water damage and avoid using these.

Pin and rail list staircases are honestly an engineering marvel. They are so beautiful based on this design. You cannot get away with this in Canada, but they're really popular in the states. A railing is put in place because if, God forbid you slip and fall, you are able to catch yourself. If you don't have these on these staircases, it's game over.

I hate them because of the way that they look. They're so busy and the extra amount of grout means that they're grimier and much harder to clean. And honestly, there's no aesthetic mosaic that I have seen personally that works with a space.

It can look great in photos, even when it comes to the Restoration Hardware cloud couch and all of its dupes out there on the market 99% of the time.

Matte paint will always have a special place in my heart because it looks so incredibly beautiful in photographs. If you touch it, it is going to show your fingerprints everywhere. And if you've ever tried to clean matte paint, it just, you can't do it.

Ugh. If you weigh more than 50 pounds, this is going to be a disaster. Trust me on this one. If you're moving around in bed, or even if you're doing questionable thumping around, they're not going to last. Invest in a good bed frame. Honestly, you're not gonna hear that creaking, if you know what I mean.

I get it. These were super affordable and they were easy to put in everywhere. The problem with these tiles is that they offer no personality to the style of your shower or even the bathroom aesthetic overall. The one plus side about these large format tiles is that they get close to a seamless look, but in the end they end up just looking like larger scale subway tiles, which I'm not a fan of. If you want more of that seamless look, I would go for a 30 by 30 tile and match that grout color to at least the tiles so you have that close look.

They were huge in the 90s and 2000s. Everyone thought this was the hottest s**t. Doing this visually stunts the height of the room. You're adding this extra horizontal line that visually breaks up the space and adds more clutter. Adding in these super busy accent mosaic tiles really does not add the personality and flair that you thought it did.

I've said this before, but it gives big box store on clearance. I know that this is a standard for an entrance furniture when it comes to having your own place, but avoid buying everything from the same store. Take time to curate the space to what you like.