Home improvements you find tacky

Poor Uncle Tom

the_pen_turner wrote: »

Paint and grain. Unless your an expert painter doing it then it looks crap

the_pen_turner wrote: »

Those kitchen units for displaying bottles of wine or your plate. Hate them. Nobody uses them and they collect dust and dirt.

the_pen_turner wrote: »

Tiled worktops

the_pen_turner wrote: »

I hate pine doors. They are everywhere. Horrible

Gather your thoughts....:rolleyes:

Poor Uncle Tom

r3nu4l wrote: »

Fads! For the last year or so, thousands of sheeple have been out in Woodie's buying up all the grey paint they can get their uninspired hands on, to paint walls or doors, architraves and skirting boards.

Don't they realise that this trend is going to date their design 'ideas' very quickly? So tacky to just follow what's in the latest issue of whatever home magazine you are reading right now...

I have a grey kitchen.......:o

Mind you, I think it was blue or green or red when it was installed first 50 years ago.....:pac:

listermint

r3nu4l wrote: »

Fads! For the last year or so, thousands of sheeple have been out in Woodie's buying up all the grey paint they can get their uninspired hands on, to paint walls or doors, architraves and skirting boards.

Don't they realise that this trend is going to date their design 'ideas' very quickly? So tacky to just follow what's in the latest issue of whatever home magazine you are reading right now...

I would have thought muting the walls to then bring the eye to actual pieces or design ideas is something that you'd want to achieve its not a trend it's a tactic that has been used for decades .

Beyond muted tones for this id love to hear your option to achieve that ? Or is garish wall paper fashionable.

Confused....

Graces7

the_pen_turner wrote: »

Paint and grain. Unless your an expert painter doing it then it looks crap

In immediate post war UK this was all the rage. Cheap wood was all they could get so on went thick varnish and out with the comb...." ah yes, I remember it well! "

silverharp

James 007 wrote: »

Front elevation to new extensions to the side of 2 storey houses (brick style or council 3 beds in Dublin) that finish flush with the existing house,replacing the original garage. If it is an extension, let it be visibly seen that it is an extension by at least stepping it back one foot from the existing wall, not try and blend it in with the original house (most likely the bricks dont match or the new slate and the old slate meet at some point, guys we know its and extension, so let it just be that), its tacky otherwise.

In this one they haven't repainted the house after putting on the extension!
http://www.daft.ie/dublin/houses-for-sale/drumcondra/30-ferguson-road-drumcondra-dublin-1380619/

and the windows dont match, hurts the eyes.

Corkgirl18

I came across a soft cushioned toilet seat recently. Seriously creeped me out.

lawred2

listermint wrote: »

I would have thought muting the walls to then bring the eye to actual pieces or design ideas is something that you'd want to achieve its not a trend it's a tactic that has been used for decades .

Beyond muted tones for this id love to hear your option to achieve that ? Or is garish wall paper fashionable.

Confused....

If mother nature is happy to go with grey as a base tone then I'm happy to get on board..

Nature doesn't tend to be faddish

Graces7

There is a door in this house made up of long strips of tree bark , top to bottom, on one side and narrow painted planking on the other... Not sure what to think;) NB rented so never a thought re changing it

But then what we have to endure in rentals is another thread topic entirely! Like terrible wallpaper and being told " You must not touch that. I put it on with my own hands"

the_pen_turner

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Gather your thoughts....:rolleyes:

my brain seems to only release the next thought when the last one has been posted

James 007

lawred2 wrote: »

Not really getting the issue here

In fact 'stepping that back' would look pretty stupid.

I don't believe so. Some people are okay with it, me definately not. If there are two storey houses built of a certain period in large numbers whether there are the red bricks of Drumcondra, the council look houses in upper Drumcondra or in Cabra, I believe the overall look of the house should remain the same and there should be a clear distinction of the new extension. Perhaps if I had my way I would also have all the windows have a same look to match the period of time the house was built and same colour too. To me anyway the front elevation of your property should be controlled by the council in terms of its look.

When I went to long island on a J1 many moons ago, I stayed in Easthampton and I couldn't get over how all the rented houses in groups had a distinct look and distinct character, all owned by different people. I had a conversation with a painter who was painting one of the houses (all timber of course) a grey painted colour to match the existing look and he mentioned that the local council have control on how the house looked from the outside, not the owner.

Another thing that irks me is the lack of control of the look of facades to shop fronts by our councils, but that conversation is getting off topic and is for another day.

Teyla Emmagan

Helen Turkington. I hate that whole "luxe" look. Particularly when every feckin room in the house is done up exactly the same. Nothing screams too much money and no taste as much to me as getting an interior designer in to give you a cookie cutter home. All storm lanterns and telescopes and giant pointless marble balls and those stupid cut out clocks. Nafftastic.

Poor Uncle Tom

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Helen Turkington. I hate that whole "luxe" look. Particularly when every feckin room in the house is done up exactly the same. Nothing screams too much money and no taste as much to me as getting an interior designer in to give you a cookie cutter home. All storm lanterns and telescopes and giant pointless marble balls and those stupid cut out clocks. Nafftastic.

....just cringed and shuddered at the same time....:P

r3nu4l

listermint wrote: »

I would have thought muting the walls to then bring the eye to actual pieces or design ideas is something that you'd want to achieve its not a trend it's a tactic that has been used for decades .

Beyond muted tones for this id love to hear your option to achieve that ? Or is garish wall paper fashionable.

Confused....

No problem with muting walls at all, it's the way the sheeple are all running to grey as their colour of choice (or should I say, the colour of the industry's choice) at the moment, rather than coming up with their own ideas... No original thought at all.

Edit. I especially hate the indiscriminate use of the colour. The amount of people using grey in tiny rooms in their house or rooms that are already dark and poorly lit anyway, is abysmal

listermint

r3nu4l wrote: »

No problem with muting walls at all, it's the way the sheeple are all running to grey as their colour of choice (or should I say, the colour of the industry's choice) at the moment, rather than coming up with their own ideas... No original thought at all.

How can you have original thought if the goal is to mute the walls into the house and also outside perspective and bring the eye to things it should be brought to.

The original thought then comes from the views out the window , art , furniture .

I think your confused on the purpose of the colour palette and that's ok.

the_pen_turner

chaulk paint on furniture.

Barry Badrinath

Plastic carpet protectors.

Ugh

sadie1502

It's all subjective and down to personal taste. I'd love to see the inside of all your homes and the outside so I can put on my judgey pants for the day. I don't give two ****es what people don't like it's my home and I'll put in it what I want. That said to each their own what you think is lovely I might think it's awful. Who cares.

meeeeh

I like interior designers who design space well and they make it functional for you to put your own stamp on it. Good architect is often much better at it. But then you get a pile of designers who think color coordinating everything to the max is the way to go and it gets so far that you are afraid to hang a painting you like or put in a cool vase because it will spoil the end effect. Do that nonsense in four star hotel but home should reflect the people who live there and not a show home.

Barry Badrinath

sadie1502 wrote: »

It's all subjective and down to personal taste. I'd love to see the inside of all your homes and the outside so I can put on my judgey pants for the day. I don't give two ****es what people don't like it's my home and I'll put in it what I want. That said to each their own what you think is lovely I might think it's awful. Who cares.

OMG.

Is your house full of everything that was mentioned??

Lemme see, gwan, lemme see.

Yourself isit

James 007 wrote: »

Front elevation to new extensions to the side of 2 storey houses (brick style or council 3 beds in Dublin) that finish flush with the existing house,replacing the original garage. If it is an extension, let it be visibly seen that it is an extension by at least stepping it back one foot from the existing wall, not try and blend it in with the original house (most likely the bricks dont match or the new slate and the old slate meet at some point, guys we know its and extension, so let it just be that), its tacky otherwise.

In this one they haven't repainted the house after putting on the extension!
http://www.daft.ie/dublin/houses-for-sale/drumcondra/30-ferguson-road-drumcondra-dublin-1380619/

The only reason that doesn't work is bad implementation. The windows aren't symmetrical and the colour is off.

Personally I think if you can add an extension in the same style as before, go for it, of it works. The other way works too.

sadie1502

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

OMG.

Is your house full of everything that was mentioned??

Lemme see, gwan, lemme see.

Hahaha funny it has some of the above mentioned the brick wallpaper we just moved in October so I like it until we can get tiles and kitchen ripped out . Our sitting room is lovely but again ye on here would probably hate it its all subjective but I'm not ashamed of it its our taste it's clean and until we get the money together to do it up it will work just fine.

andekwarhola

Mountainsandh wrote: »

This.

I'm gonna go all out French arrogant (female) príck here : I think in general, Irish people go about decorating their house completely the wrong way. People try and emulate something they've seen on TV, or at the neighbours, or on Pinterest, but then somehow along the way, they forget to think of what they really do like ! Or else, they seem to think : "hhmm, yeah... that style ... yeah, that's class, I'm going to do that style", so they go about purchasing all the pre-selected items from Dunnes/Habitat/Ikea/etc... that fit that style. I love Pinterest ! But I don't browse and pin to copy a room, more to identify singular ideas that I think would work in my plans.

I get quite passionate about this. You should choose every item because you like it and it serves a purpose, not because it's part of the style package you brainwashed yourself into.

You don't have to go for one style, and follow it through because... Showhouse showed you. You don't have to stick to large print, silvery wallpaper, if what you like is small print Provencal.

I also go all "George Hook in full drama mode" about the "Dermot Bannon extension". I'm shamelessly using him as a scapegoat, but it seems to be every architect these days, who can't think further than steel beams, windows walls or rectangular window slots (black frame preferably), timber cladding, and maybe a touch of a) concrete b) grey slate c) industrial metal panels
This http://www.endacavanagh.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/11-2181-post/Kiltiernan-2014-07-25_DSC6604-sharpened-copy(pp_w950_h634).jpg
or this https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/5d/e9/49/5de9491a21eb176884e4171a9e6cacd7.jpg
or this http://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.2202020.1430918320!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_620_330/image.jpg

These are the flat roof kitchen extension of the 80s, all over again, but worse. Yeah, they make nice rooms inside. So would more traditional styles that suit traditional houses.

I guess I'm ok with eclectic inside, not outside. Or outside too, but only to a sympathetic extent. These extensions are not that.

OP, I think if you like the idea of the wrap around presses, you should go for it. I get the tackiness, but your own style pragmatic tackiness is better than showhouse tackiness.
http://www.parisattitude.com/large/10800/31_bed1.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/5a/b5/e8/5ab5e86d9fbc0bd232c6b8768a04c3a6.jpg
http://i2.cdscdn.com/pdt2/2/1/5/1/700x700/auc2009939868215/rw/lit-armoire-moderne-oxford-meuble-house.jpg

Jaysus.

LaChatteGitane

Deleted User wrote: »

Even worse if they're in the bathroom!
Sliding out of the shower isn't fun!

Or in the kitchen ! When we first viewed the house, which we bought eventually, I said : over my dead body.:D

It had natural coloured wool carpet in the livingroom and black shiny tiles in the hallway. White shiny tiles in every bathroom and the kitchen. Lethal !

When the price came down considerably, we went for it and changed every floor in the house.

mikeoneilly

Gates that are out of proportion to the wall or house

Barry Badrinath

sadie1502 wrote: »

Hahaha funny it has some of the above mentioned the brick wallpaper we just moved in October so I like it until we can get tiles and kitchen ripped out . Our sitting room is lovely but again ye on here would probably hate it its all subjective but I'm not ashamed of it its our taste it's clean and until we get the money together to do it up it will work just fine.

Ah hold yer whist.

I dont think anyone is judging anyone here. I have things in my home that feature on this thread too. It doesnt mean that you are some sort of poor reprobate if you have things in your home that others find tacky.

Theres stuff in my home that I find tacky but the other person doesnt, thats why its there.

You need to stop taking others views personally....especially on the internet.....where the bulk of people dont know you....whose opinions really dont matter.

the_pen_turner

mikeoneilly wrote: »

Gates that are out of proportion to the wall or house

Especially will scrolls and elaborate decorative bits all over them.

the_pen_turner

Checker board effect done with tiles. Especially black and white

Barry Badrinath

Oh, enamel family name crests. Havent seen them since the 80's....anyone still have them?

sadie1502

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Ah hold yer whist.

I dont think anyone is judging anyone here. I have things in my home that feature on this thread too. It doesnt mean that you are some sort of poor reprobate if you have things in your home that others find tacky.

Theres stuff in my home that I find tacky but the other person doesnt, thats why its there.

You need to stop taking others views personally....especially on the internet.....where the bulk of people dont know you....whose opinions really dont matter.

Jaysus put a sock in it. I don't I don't give two flying ****es I'm just saying is all.

Youre a person that says calm down a lot I reckon.

Aglomerado

mikeoneilly wrote: »

Gates that are out of proportion to the wall or house

A neighbour of my parents lives in a 70s bungalow and a few years ago put in these gates and piers that dwarf the walls around them, big arched gates that would be better suited to a country manor... Laughable and über tacky. Another neighbour stuck a portico onto his 70s bungalow and it looks ridiculous, adding no value, not even protecting the door.
I grew up with artex and dado rails and lino in our 70s bungalow though!!!! I'll take those over 'live laugh love' any day...But I don't have any of it in my own house. There is magnolia paint in one room though....

sadie1502

Those long fluorescent lights God they are awful. Lino yuk. Pebble dash hate it. Pine anything hate it. Those mats near toilets vomit.

Barry Badrinath

sadie1502 wrote: »

Jaysus put a sock in it. I don't I don't give two flying ****es I'm just saying is all.

Youre a person that says calm down a lot I reckon.

Calm down, calm down.

If you didnt give "two flying ****es" you wouldnt be so defensive.

I dont give three flying ducks what your tacky house looks like. Now go iron those doileys and talk to your porcelain dolls.

Unwind yerself and have a good day.

sadie1502

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Calm down, calm down.

If you didnt give "two flying ****es" you wouldnt be so defensive.

I dont give three flying ducks what your tacky house looks like. Now go iron those doileys and talk to your porcelain dolls.

Unwind yerself and have a good day.

Laughing here how annoying are you. Very I'd imagine.

Kewreeuss

What do they mean, those white statues in inner city windows?

Splishsplash

That brick wall paper is not for me especially on the chimney breast. 😷 hate them mats around the toilets, p*ss collectors! Cream leather couches aswel aaaaah. Cream carpets.... Wallpaper on the chimney breast in general.

Barry Badrinath

Hanging baskets...especially empty ones

Conor Bourke

Kewreeuss wrote: »

What do they mean, those white statues in inner city windows?

Read the article in the link

Wibbs

buried wrote: »

I also go all "George Hook in full drama mode" about the "Dermot Bannon extension". I'm shamelessly using him as a scapegoat, but it seems to be every architect these days, who can't think further than steel beams, windows walls or rectangular window slots (black frame preferably), timber cladding, and maybe a touch of a) concrete b) grey slate c) industrial metal panels

+1.

Glass dining tables. Faux anything. Wood, stone, metal.

sadie1502

Oh nearly forgot terracotta tiles or anything terracotta. Hate the colour. Tack city.

lawred2

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Plastic carpet protectors.

Ugh

Have not seen them since the nineties

Remember one particularly bad case where the owners had gaffer taped the thing all down the length of each side to the carpet to stop it moving when walked upon

r3nu4l

r3nu4l wrote: »

Fads! For the last year or so, thousands of sheeple have been out in Woodie's buying up all the grey paint they can get their uninspired hands on, to paint walls or doors, architraves and skirting boards.

Don't they realise that this trend is going to date their design 'ideas' very quickly? So tacky to just follow what's in the latest issue of whatever home magazine you are reading right now...

What happened, did people take 50 shades of grey to heart or did the navy overorder on ship paint and got a fashion guru to "sell" it. :pac:

bottlebrush

I find myself looking at my house in a whole different light this morning . .

I don't like curtains with those eyelet tops to go through curtain poles or pine doors pine staircases pine floors accompanied by black leather couches and huge flat screen televisions

LynnGrace

Corkgirl18 wrote: »

I came across a soft cushioned toilet seat recently. Seriously creeped me out.

I can't stop laughing at this and I don't even know why!

lawred2

sadie1502 wrote: »

Oh nearly forgot terracotta tiles or anything terracotta. Hate the colour. Tack city.

Stay away from the Med then

sadie1502

lawred2 wrote: »

Stay away from the Med then

Yeah I know place is littered with them.

r3nu4l

listermint wrote: »

How can you have original thought if the goal is to mute the walls into the house and also outside perspective and bring the eye to things it should be brought to.

The original thought then comes from the views out the window , art , furniture .

I think your confused on the purpose of the colour palette and that's ok.

No, I think you're confused about my post and don't understand me very well and that's okay.

Grey is ok in and of itself, muting colour to attract the eye to something else is fine but thousands of sheeple all doing the same thing without understanding why they are doing it or how they might use another colour to achieve the same effect is not okay. But hey, if you're that defensive about it, that's okay too.

Yourself isit

I discount posts with the term sheeple in them.

Yourself isit

bottlebrush wrote: »

I find myself looking at my house in a whole different light this morning . .

I don't like curtains with those eyelet tops to go through curtain poles or pine doors pine staircases pine floors accompanied by black leather couches and huge flat screen televisions

I don't have those curtains but they seem to work well when I've seen them in hotels and it seems more like a general improvement in function than form.

NIMAN

Some of the stuff you see on social media is gawdy at best.

Seen one recently where the entire kitchen splashback was like LCD screens and there was moving images on them.....awful.

Edit: found it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWjpBznbJfA

listermint

r3nu4l wrote: »

No, I think you're confused about my post and don't understand me very well and that's okay.

Grey is ok in and of itself, muting colour to attract the eye to something else is fine but thousands of sheeple all doing the same thing without understanding why they are doing it or how they might use another colour to achieve the same effect is not okay. But hey, if you're that defensive about it, that's okay too.

Ah I'm glad you speak for thousands of people.

That's okay.