Home improvements you find tacky

KKkitty

osarusan wrote: »

I hate stone wall cladding that has a mismatch of stones at horrible angles. Looks awful.

That would be so much nicer if real stone was used.

meeeeh

PARlance wrote: »

What is that... The stone cladding is horrendous but what is that wall supposed to be. A wine rack / storage unit / sink.

It looks to me as part of the wine cellar.

Edit: It's not cellar but there are wine fridges on the right side so it's part of a shop, restaurant or similar. The sink is for wine tasting I would assume.

Conor Bourke

snowflaker

Statues of Ex Top Gear presenters

maryishere

flazio wrote: »

Lighting up the entire front wall of a house like it's some important landmark that needs to be seen in the dark.

Worse still are homes lit up with hundreds of outside bulbs at Christmas.
What a waste of energy, and bad for the environment too.

lawred2

maryishere wrote: »

Worse still are homes lit up with hundreds of outside bulbs at Christmas.
What a waste of energy, and bad for the environment too.

Jaysus it's a temporary bit of seasonal cheer ya misery bags

maryishere

lawred2 wrote: »

Jaysus it's a temporary bit of seasonal cheer ya misery bags

Can have plenty of seasonal cheer without looking tacky, horrible and cheap.

osarusan

KKkitty wrote: »

That would be so much nicer if real stone was used.

Probably applies to every possible use of fake stone.

B00!

I have never heard of sparkle plaster walls, :eek: had to google... yup I'd say that's a bit OTT (but I'm a neutral pallete person :rolleyes: so what do I know about design!)

freshpopcorn

Kitchen/Dining table with miss matching chairs!

topmanamillion

Garden bridges.
They are always huge and because the person who bought them has gotten them half price in Woodies they haven't bothered to actually dig out a hole and fill a proper body of water under them so they end up being a bridge over a puddle.

Graces7

topmanamillion wrote: »

Garden bridges.
They are always huge and because the person who bought them has gotten them half price in Woodies they haven't bothered to actually dig out a hole and fill a proper body of water under them so they end up being a bridge over a puddle.

In this house ( rented) there is a real live stream through the garden ( where the water for the house comes from) and two bridges, of simple single planks. Dignified and practical.

Graces7

maryishere wrote: »

Worse still are homes lit up with hundreds of outside bulbs at Christmas.
What a waste of energy,

Love to see them especially in dark rural areas. Lovely sight.

Their choice. They pay.

freshpopcorn

maryishere wrote: »

Can have plenty of seasonal cheer without looking tacky, horrible and cheap.

To be fair the majority of Christmas decorations would be considered tacky, horrible and cheap.
None tacky decorations are essentially a candle in the window with Holly!

Sleepy

Graces7 wrote: »

Love to see them especially in dark rural areas. Lovely sight.

Their choice. They pay.

I love seeing them myself but sadly, the last part of your post is far from true.

SVDP / the taxparyer usually end up stumping up for many of the massive electricity bills run up in the Christmas period. :mad:

lawred2

Cheap PVC windows with plastic glue on strips to look like astragal bars..

Vomit.

mariaalice

Passing the house I use to live in, it has a beautiful hardwood front door the people who purchased it have now painted it grey!

whisky_galore

Chipping off all the plaster off the outside of an old house to expose the rubble stone, when the stone was never intended to be exposed originally.

Like what you'd see done to perfectly fine pubs to make them look more 'Olde Worlde'.

The Princess Bride

Gardens which have old toilets, Belfast sinks or tyres filled with plants.
Tacky with a capital T.

Mountainsandh

The Princess Bride wrote: »

Gardens which have old toilets, Belfast sinks or tyres filled with plants.
Tacky with a capital T.

I like that
Maybe not toilets though.

I have a belfast sink with plants. :cool:
I grew a lovely crop of spuds in tyres too in the past.

Here, Princess Bride, have a lovely frog
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/c6/9a/f7/c69af776c8384bd6a99dfd73a8ccb979.jpg

Graces7

Sleepy wrote: »

I love seeing them myself but sadly, the last part of your post is far from true.

SVDP / the taxparyer usually end up stumping up for many of the massive electricity bills run up in the Christmas period. :mad:

One of my former neighbours one year covered his house with flashing blue lights. He lives on a very dark back lane and when I needed to be out before daylight, not having seen them before, I thought there must be an accident ahead..

He paid his own bills by the way

There was one house in deepest Donegal by a beach that was a wonderland each Christmas, well off.lady .

" Two men looking through prison bars.. One saw the mud the other the stars."

Graces7

Mountainsandh wrote: »

I like that
Maybe not toilets though.

I have a belfast sink with plants. :cool:
I grew a lovely crop of spuds in tyres too in the past.

Here, Princess Bride, have a lovely frog
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/c6/9a/f7/c69af776c8384bd6a99dfd73a8ccb979.jpg

Thanks... there is a Belfast sink here in the garden and three tyres so as soon as the rain stops.. oh and an old bath that has been gipsy style painted... rolls sleeves up !

Graces7

Huge rocks in the middle of the front garden as "features" ..

listermint

Professional family photos with everyone posing , bonus points for everyone dressed in white.



Just...... Just



No

SCOL

A big old style well in the front of the garden, round stone wall with a little roof and a bucket on a rope.

iguana

I saw some home improvement show on RTE a couple of weeks ago and the owner was so obsessed with light that she insisted the architect leave an internal window from the bathroom to the diningroom so the light cold flow through. One of the architects was nearly sick at the thought of sitting down to your dinner and seeing someone on the toilet. It was an opaque window but still the stupidest thing I'd ever seen anyone do to their house.

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whisky_galore

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You would see the outline of someone lining up for a pee when you would be diving into your plate of spuds?

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lawred2

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what's the difference between opaque and frosted?

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RDM_83 again

topmanamillion wrote: »

Garden bridges.
They are always huge and because the person who bought them has gotten them half price in Woodies they haven't bothered to actually dig out a hole and fill a proper body of water under them so they end up being a bridge over a puddle.

Agreed but I think if somebody puts the effort into having a proper pond it looks ok, I actually really like ponds in gardens as long as they have some vegetation around them, really relaxing to sit beside on a summers day (and I like frogs :pac: )

So this
http://www.your-garden-ponds-center.com/image-files/small-garden-ponds.jpg

But not like this
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GhULgYjPPM8/UDmLsQ9aUaI/AAAAAAAAGFA/h-XlXLOILGw/s1600/Minimalist-garden-pond-designs-4.jpg


http://olpos.com/20-beautiful-garden-design-for-modern-house/modern-garden-furniture-with-small-pond-using-glass-wall/

Yourself isit

An opaque window is a wall.

Yourself isit

At this stage I think I know why most of the houses I viewed a few years ago were beige walls with no character and few or no human touches or interesting features.

Too much tacky is bad but the fear of it drives conformity.

lawred2

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opaque glass does allow light to pass through - but it's diffused

e: actually maybe I'm getting confused with levels of opacity

as in opaque = 0% opacity

however a google image search for opaque glass returns exactly what I had pictured it to mean

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lawred2

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wouldn't be my choice