Home improvements you find tacky

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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.

I love the grey trend at the moment! I've grey in lots of rooms in our house.
The living room off the kitchen is grey with black (mirrors, lamps etc) and my bedroom is grey with lots of soft blush pinks. I have no doubt I'll get fed up looking at it soon but i enjoy changing around the interior design. I'd hate to paint my house/rooms and pray that I won't have to bother with again for the next 5 years

retro:electro

Picture frames with FAMILY written all over them and prints that say "LIVE LAUGH LOVE". Ugh.

I've seen some tacky houses through work but you've seen nothing until you're inside a traveller house. Life size Holy Mary statues in the living room with a circle of candles around her.

NIMAN

Any of that writing you stick up on walls.

One for the nursery, "we had a dream and you came true".

Pass me a bucket.

KKkitty

NIMAN wrote: »

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

WTF!! That's an assault on the eyes and how could you clean that.

HeidiHeidi

NIMAN wrote: »

Any of that writing you stick up on walls.

One for the nursery, "we had a dream and you came true".

Pass me a bucket.

Clocks stopped at the time kids were born, with pics of the babies underneath - bad enough in nurseries, but worse, I've seen them (in pictures) in living rooms.

I had no idea this was a thing until recently, and when I saw it first I thought it was because the babies had been stillborn or died or something :eek:

Creeps me out no end.

foxy farmer

House worth 400k on over a half acre site and they feel the only correct place to put the clothes line is in the front garden.
Nothing nicer than seeing a line of bed clothes shirts and knickers blowing in the breeze on a june day in front of an otherwise beautiful house.
Next door house also built in early naughties wrapped in stone and they come along 3 yrs ago and whitewash it in emulsion. A mortal sin.

HeidiHeidi

Red-brick frontage painted. Who thinks that's a good idea?

(There's a house near me with the bottom half of the frontage painted gloss red, with the windows/sills/door frame/garden wall all in a mix of white and mint green :eek:. Think there might be a bit of yellow in the mix as well somewhere, I'm afraid to look these days)

Winterlong

Anything decorative bought in the dunnes home section.

freshpopcorn

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Maybe you're using them wrong...

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I've a relative with them and we all find them really uncomfortable and have found others uncomfortable. We've might just being unlucky in the ones We've sat on tough!

Widdershins

Aglomerado wrote: »

People who have those deserve to be beaten.

Garotte them with their matching Live Laugh Love tshirts.

Widdershins

I hate pvc windows and doors. So that's most windows and doors.

IvyTheTerrible

I think if you're happy and comfortable in your house, it doesn't matter what way you have it decorated. Other people's taste doesn't bother me all that much.

spurious

Don't mind the knicky knacky noodle things to be honest, though they are just dust collectors.

The only thing that makes me cringe a bit inside is a tiny 'bar' in someone's living room, not a few bottles in a press, a proper imitation bar counter and row of optics. Horrid.

meeeeh

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

I think if you're happy and comfortable in your house, it doesn't matter what way you have it decorated. Other people's taste doesn't bother me all that much.

I agree with that up to the point. I hate the pretension. I don't mind if there are Jesus pictures with blinking harts, fairy lights, beige leather sofas or whatever else. But it does look ridiculous when a modernish midtown terrace starts pretending it's something from Downtown Abbey.

Piriz

just leave this here https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/11-parkview-blackhorse-ave-dublin-7/3824477

LynnGrace

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

I think if you're happy and comfortable in your house, it doesn't matter what way you have it decorated. Other people's taste doesn't bother me all that much.

Same here really.

Piriz

Piriz wrote: »

just leave this here https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/11-parkview-blackhorse-ave-dublin-7/3824477

It's like they read my mind and pulled out every tacky thing I hate. It's literally all there.

Plastic windows
Glossy floor tile
Corner bath
Caravan style overhead lockers
Overly ornate furniture
Florals
Pelmets
White Victorian-style lampost
Cobbly driveway
Ornate plastic fascia
Plastic windows and doors
Pillars
Ornate chandeliers
Poorly fitted electric fire in faux vintage fireplace
So many cushions you can't actually sit on the sofa
Literal gold literal carriage clock in breakfast nook
Poorly maintained decking...

....it's FANTASTIC!

LynnGrace

spurious wrote: »

Don't mind the knicky knacky noodle things to be honest, though they are just dust collectors.

The only thing that makes me cringe a bit inside is a tiny 'bar' in someone's living room, not a few bottles in a press, a proper imitation bar counter and row of optics.Horrid.

Yes, I think that would make me cringe alright. I haven't seen it except on Corrie when the Duckies used to have it, together with the stone cladding outside

NIMAN

Piriz wrote: »

just leave this here https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/11-parkview-blackhorse-ave-dublin-7/3824477

If you went out of your way to make a house tacky, you couldn't do better than that. That is gold medal standard.

Having said that, it was nice when cycling through the photos to get to the backyard shots, at least there was no shine outside, my eyes were blinded looking at the internal photos.

Wanderer78

Piriz wrote: »

just leave this here https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/11-parkview-blackhorse-ave-dublin-7/3824477

ornament house, must not touch anything!

foxy farmer

House painted in the local or County GAA colours.

dudara

Piriz wrote: »

just leave this here https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/11-parkview-blackhorse-ave-dublin-7/3824477

It's 100% polar opposite to my taste, but it's clearly been someone's pride & joy. They've invested a lot in it.

dudara

dudara wrote: »

It's 100% polar opposite to my taste, but it's clearly been someone's pride & joy. They've invested a lot in it.

Yeah, someone committed themselves so wholeheartedly to that look, they must love it.

I actually think the person who owns that house might be from another culture, that kind of style is pretty par for the course in Southern Italy and parts of Asia.

meeeeh

Deedsie wrote: »

To be honest I love seeing people taking pride in the upkeep of their homes. The council semi d is not exactly aesthetically pleasing.

Fair play if they try to do them up a bit. Now the problem comes in when some of their tastes are not the best.

It's not that. It's the middle classes pretending they have centuries of heirloom from their British gentry ancestors and the oldest thing is actually 20 years old.

Taste is subjective, I just prefer authenticity even if it comes in shape of plastic flowers and china dolls.

Anyway that house in the link above reminds me of houses in Gomorrah. Some Napalese mafioso would feel very comfortable there.

freshpopcorn

Piriz wrote: »

just leave this here https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/11-parkview-blackhorse-ave-dublin-7/3824477

I have to give it to them tough they were very consistent on keeping it tacky!

Piriz

Piriz wrote: »

just leave this here https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/11-parkview-blackhorse-ave-dublin-7/3824477

in its defence the finish on almost everything is superb; few gaps, no botch jobs, spotlessly clean etc.. to the point it would be a shame to rip it out.. lets hope this house finds its rightful O'Connor I mean owner..

freshpopcorn

Candie wrote: »

I actually think the person who owns that house might be from another culture, that kind of style is pretty par for the course in Southern Italy and parts of Asia.

I was actually going to say it looked like a house from My big fat Gypsy Wedding/Communion!

Piriz

Piriz wrote: »

in its defence the finish on almost everything is superb; few gaps, no botch jobs, spotlessly clean etc.. to the point it would be a shame to rip it out.. lets hope this house finds its rightful O'Connor I mean owner..

:eek::D coffee ran out my nose


Did anyon e else notice the banister rails on the staircase? Yup, also gilded in gold paint.

But fair play to them it is obviously their pride and job. Could eat your dinner of that floor

freshpopcorn

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I was actually going to say it looked like a house from My big fat Gypsy Wedding/Communion!

I thought so too, first time I saw this house. But its lack of religious idolatry, makes me question that now.
I think its more 'Shahs' of Sunset'

dudara

Candie wrote: »

Yeah, someone committed themselves so wholeheartedly to that look, they must love it.

I actually think the person who owns that house might be from another culture, that kind of style is pretty par for the course in Southern Italy and parts of Asia.

That was my thought too, felt quite Italian in ways.

LynnGrace

dudara wrote: »

It's 100% polar opposite to my taste, but it's clearly been someone's pride & joy. They've invested a lot in it.

Same here. I looked at the pictures of it when it appeared on the 'Funny houses' thread. It's completely and totally opposite to my taste, but it's certainly well kept and sparkling clean!

Piriz

Jake1 wrote: »

:eek::D coffee ran out my nose


Did anyon e else notice the banister rails on the staircase? Yup, also gilded in gold paint.

But fair play to them it is obviously their pride and job. Could eat your dinner of that floor

the more I look at it the more I like it, the kitchen is nice in its unique way, I could handle the bathroom too..


395k tho.. would you like frills with that?

stevek93

Ehhhh http://www.daft.ie/dublin/houses-for-sale/artane/26-tonlegee-road-artane-dublin-5-artane-dublin-1359214/

Balmed Out

When viewing houses I couldn't get over the amount that lost nearly a third of their floor space to Dallas style stairways. Imagine a detached house with space for three rooms across but the middle one is instead a reception area with a stairway wrapping around it taking up a large chunk of the downstairs and upstairs space.

eeguy

stevek93 wrote: »

Ehhhh http://www.daft.ie/dublin/houses-for-sale/artane/26-tonlegee-road-artane-dublin-5-artane-dublin-1359214/

Johannes Stoetter would love that house :http://twistedsifter.com/2013/07/body-painting-art-by-johannes-stoetter/

freshpopcorn

stevek93 wrote: »

Ehhhh http://www.daft.ie/dublin/houses-for-sale/artane/26-tonlegee-road-artane-dublin-5-artane-dublin-1359214/

To be fair for a house that hasn't being decorated in about 40 years they maintained it fairly well!

ToddyDoody

Too many bright white pieces in a room would remind me of a traveller's wedding dress or a Dublin girlos white strappy stellettos.

HiGlo

stevek93 wrote: »

Ehhhh http://www.daft.ie/dublin/houses-for-sale/artane/26-tonlegee-road-artane-dublin-5-artane-dublin-1359214/

There's great space in that house... Bit of a freshen up/modernisation and it's grand.

I am looking at houses/apartments at the moment and while browsing myhome.ie recently I was scanning through pictures of some house to encounter a full on bar in the house.. An actual bar, with taps, a pool table, bar stools, barrels.... "Al's Bar" it was called. Wish I could remember which house it was.

Everyone has their own tastes, but my pet hates are leather furniture (uuuugggh!) and wood flooring. I'm not anti wood floors, I just don't particularly like them. There's a lot of stuff in my current house that I don't like, (the curtains, the living room suite, the lino in the kitchen, in fact the whole kitchen), but it's rented so not a whole lot I can do.
It also has a textured/flock wallpaper which has been painted over in a cream kinda colour and I must admit that it's probably pretty retro but I actually kinda like it....:D

milehip

All the poster who said PVC windows and door must never have had to sand and repaint their wooden counterparts, Ronseal 5 year wood stain my ass.

What makes me retch is the gold silver and chocolate brown colour scheme that every amateur interior decorator opted for on that Rte design show a few years back.

Can't remember the name but it was a knockout competition style show featuring a two amateurs doing up a few rooms in separate homes. Anyway the decor always seemed to boil down to gold and silver cushions/table runners/underplates and dark brown wallpaper/quilts/seat covers.
It was like a misguided attempt to scream opeluence that failed miserably.

Widdershins

milehip wrote: »

All the poster who said PVC windows and door must never have had to sand and repaint their wooden counterparts, Ronseal 5 year wood stain my ass.

What makes me retch is the gold silver and chocolate brown colour scheme that every amateur interior decorator opted for on that Rte design show a few years back.

Can't remember the name but it was a knockout competition style show featuring a two amateurs doing up a few rooms in separate homes. Anyway the decor always seemed to boil down to gold and silver cushions/table runners/underplates and dark brown wallpaper/quilts/seat covers.
It was like a misguided attempt to scream opeluence that failed miserably.

I don't know what the previous owners used on the windows of my house but I haven't had to touch them yet and I've lived here for a few years, and the finish wasn't just done when I bought it. They're teak so they're durable, if not particularly pretty. Of course if I wanted them to look veryfresh and smart I might touch them up but I'm not that fussy and it's low on the list of priorities.

The worst improvement is knocking an old cottage that you only bought for the planning, and building a mammoth house in its place. Sacrilege.

milehip

milehip wrote: »

All the poster who said PVC windows and door must never have had to sand and repaint their wooden counterparts, Ronseal 5 year wood stain my ass.

Oh, there's no doubt at all that they're massively more convenient and efficient than wooden frames, they're just so very, very ugly.

That said, I can put up with them for the advantages, but the plastic fascias and especially plastic doors are a bridge too far. They're horrendously tacky looking and ugly.

KKkitty

Piriz wrote: »

just leave this here https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/11-parkview-blackhorse-ave-dublin-7/3824477

Mother of God!! You'd barely live in that house. You'd constantly be afraid to move in case you'd dirty something.

Mountainsandh

The gold pumpkin carriage is amazing. I hate it, but imagine the joy of the home owner when they found it ! Maybe they had it commissioned even ? I like to think they just happened upon it somewhere some day.

Mountainsandh

Mountainsandh wrote: »

The gold pumpkin carriage is amazing. I hate it, but imagine the joy of the home owner when they found it ! Maybe they had it commissioned even ? I like to think they just happened upon it somewhere some day.

It made me smile. It's like a representation of the house itself, a perfect little palace for it's owners.

freshpopcorn

Mountainsandh wrote: »

The gold pumpkin carriage is amazing. I hate it, but imagine the joy of the home owner when they found it ! Maybe they had it commissioned even ? I like to think they just happened upon it somewhere some day.

I didn't spot the horse and carriage the first time now I'd be fairly confident it might be belong to somebody who'd take part in My big fat Gypsy wedding/Communion!

Mountainsandh

Actually not pumpkin, that part was just in my head Just a lot of gold gold gold !

Mountainsandh

Mountainsandh wrote: »

Actually not pumpkin, that part was just in my head Just a lot of gold gold gold !

Carriage clock/pumpkin carriage, easy to scramble up.

The gold was the main thing

r3nu4l

listermint wrote: »

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

That's okay.

Ah, can't refute my point so attempt diversionary tactics in an effort to score points.

That's okay.



Okay, silly title for tats aside. I recognise that you obviously understand the reason for using grey but of all the grey houses I've been in over the past 12 months, not one of the owners had used it properly. Not one had so much as reframed any of their pictures to make them po out our even invested in new art to complement/stand out. No effort made because they didn't understand what they were doing. Just followed the herd/ trend like sheep.

Note, not using sheeple because some people seem to think that the word automatically makes a post unworthy...

meeeeh

r3nu4l wrote: »

Ah, can't refute my point so attempt diversionary tactics in an effort to score points.

That's okay.



Okay, silly title for tats aside. I recognise that you obviously understand the reason for using grey but of all the grey houses I've been in over the past 12 months, not one of the owners had used it properly. Not one had so much as reframed any of their pictures to make them po out our even invested in new art to complement/stand out. No effort made because they didn't understand what they were doing. Just followed the herd/ trend like sheep.

That is not art is it? To find some tat just to compliment color scheme is sad. Art should be there because it means something to you, because it gives you pleasure to look at not because it complements the wall colour. And to think you actually feel superior to people who use grey paint. At least they are using something they like. I think people like you are ideal consumers. They won't buy stuff they enjoy they will buy mindlessly whatever is color coordinated mass produced stuff without any individuality. But it will be colour coordinated. Oh wait what did you call those people who buy mindlessly?

Widdershins

Candie wrote: »

Oh, there's no doubt at all that they're massively more convenient and efficient than wooden frames, they're just so very, very ugly.

That said, I can put up with them for the advantages, but the plastic fascias and especially plastic doors are a bridge too far. They're horrendously tacky looking and ugly.

I'm not even convinced they're more convenient than wood 'cause you have to replace the whole unit if a piece of the frame gets damaged, as far as I know.
You can just repair a bit of damage to a wooden frame.