#1
This got really popular with the Kanye and Kim house, everything was concrete or plain metal. It feels so cold and detached, it's not comfortable.
#2
I love a beach house, but people get too literal. You don't need a 'beach' sign to prove that you like the beach.
#3
I feel like social media said white kitchens are horrible, I still think a white kitchen can be so beautiful. Also when shiplap got put into every single home. It's gorgeous in a beach cottage or in a lake house, I don't know why it got brought into high rises in like Denver or Los Angeles. Follow trends carefully and ask yourself 'is this right for my space?' and 'am I just getting this because it's trendy or do I love it?'
Ethan and Robert made multiple videos in the series where they named their home decor icks. Part one is on Ethan's account, while part two can be found on Robert's channel. The pair have a disclaimer under their videos, saying they mean no ill will to anyone and that it's all done in good faith. "We all did these things at one point," says one of the captions.
"Don't take us too seriously," Robert said in part two. "We're just having fun and bantering. Honestly, a lot of people found our last one helpful," he added. And he's not wrong: the pair went viral with their "Home icks" series, with the most popular video garnering 2.5 million views. One commenter even said: "This series needs to be picked up by Netflix, seriously, I would watch this for hours."
#4
I in general don't like clear furniture or clear surfaces. Lucite is better suited in your bathroom drawers, to help organize your products, not to be used to dine on or as a coffee table.
#5
That powder coated black steel silhouette or any furniture that looks too concrete or bulky. They look like they're meant to be on someone's back patio with a fire pit between them.
#6
Anything that is printed in marble. I don't know why this became such a thing. I fell like marble is the new galaxy print.
Ethan and Robert are not professional interior designers, but both have a very keen eye when it comes to home decor aesthetics. Robert told Business Insider that his mother flipped houses when he was growing up in Connecticut, so he's seen his fair share of interiors. He started helping her pick out tiles and other finishes when he saw that many houses were what he calls "builder gray."
Both of Ethan's parents were in the house business, too. His mom was a real estate agent, and his father built custom houses. "My mom was always around the house and really ingrained in my brain the idea of keeping a tidy space and making sure your space is a kind of reflection of who you are, in the way that it sort of impacts your mind," he told the publication.
#7
Toiletries, nail polish, makeup if you're over 14 years old. I don't need to see your Essie nail polish collection stacked like it's a spice rack.
#8
It has never sat right with me. In theory it seems like such a good idea, having a charging port that close to you is great, but what happens a year later when the fuse burns out on that? Or the plug type changes?
#9
Specifically the drug pillows or drug coasters and drug jars. Are you showing off that you do pills? Is that funny?
The pair says they're not trying to be the authority on what people should or should not do. They're simply pointing out what decor mistakes they or their friends and family made throughout the years. "This is a lot of stuff we've done ourselves, or we grew up with siblings that have done this, or parents, it's all things that people kind of agree on or relate to in a way, that they can kind of laugh about," Ethan told Business Insider.
#10
A home needs character, needs charm, mix-match looks good, don't do smallest to largest, just put them in order of weather you've read them or not.
#11
Too many notable pieces. When everything is just a name. This relates to fashion too, if someone's wearing designer everything it can get tacky.
#12
House flippers are buying the coolest homes and absolutely destroying them, and the flooring is the one that I see most often. These really high contrast, printed looking vinyl wood floors - it's bad. Your floor doesn't need to make a statement.
Robert also says it's not about calling people out for their poor decor choices. "We're not just saying, 'Don't get this ugly chair. You're pathetic.' We're trying to find ways to make everyone's life easier and have a space that's lasting, that's better for the environment because we're not throwing things away, making people happier."
#13
These are the new 'Live, Laugh, Love' signs. They're always a food pun or a cowboy hat. An art print of 12 pickle jars? You can do better
#14
Those chain link marble things, they can be wood too, oversized glasses, paper clips, even those hand chairs. They bother me for some reason, they're very tacky.
#15
That's the wood pallet coffee tables, using cinder blocks as night stands, or God forbid you take that polyurethane and make that foam cloud mirror. I don't want my home to look like that, leave it to the bars.
Creating your personal interior style can be difficult. Similarly, as with fashion, we tend to be persuaded by trends and the media about whether a piece of decor or furniture is acceptable or not. I, too, like to scroll through Instagram and TikTok for home design inspiration, but, ultimately, it should be about developing your personal style rather than chasing fads, right?
#16
It never looks good, it collects dust, it does not hold up over time. It looks like it always has clumps of hair in it.
#17
There are so many coffee table books, and I see only this Tom Ford coffee table book. There are so many, I think I thrift 10 a week with the coolest imagery in it and they're inspiring.
#18
Specifically these cube-ball candles or the squiggle candles in general. I feel like they're always collecting dust, no one ever lights them.
Leonard Bessemer, a furniture designer and the founder of Objects for Objects, told The Washington Post that what you see on the screen won't necessarily look nice in your home. "People want to imitate really cool aesthetics they see on Instagram, which I think is great, because then your home is going to look nicer, but the fallacy is that it isn't necessarily your personal style."
#19
Overly DIY'ed spaces. I don't want to have the edges of my countertops peeling. It just feels so temporary.
#20
Your appliances don't need to be a moment. Now I'm seeing squiggle light switch covers, your light switch doesn't need to be a moment. Some things can just be simple.