Home improvements you find tacky

Elemonator

Stippling on the ceiling is totally ****.

76544567

A home bar.

r3nu4l

meeeeh wrote: »

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?

Actually, what I meant by complement was that the muting of the wall with grey should be done to complement new art that you buy, not that the at should commitment the grey. So when you buy new art it should complement what you've done. However, add I said, most of what I've seen had been painted walls with no attempt to make the photos or at Pop out which is the whole point behind the use of grey.

By the way, surely you'll have guessed by now that when I say 'art' here, I'm referring to something purchased from Woodie's or IKEA, not real art... Very few of the grey brigade are hanging Picasso on the walls.

Even if I was referring to true art, it's possible to find such work that does speak to you and is also complemented by what you're trying to do in your home.

Also, nice attempt at a personal attack. Must try harder.

r3nu4l

Oh and I'm sorry I've touched such a raw nerve here. Obviously you won't like my posts if you've just lathered your home in grey... However, this whole thread is about what people find tacky and I resend the right to that opinion. Just because I find the current trend poorly implemented for the most part is no reason to view it as an attack on you.

meeeeh

r3nu4l wrote: »

Also, nice attempt at a personal attack. Must try harder.

Was it personal attack when you called others sheep?

I think our understanding of art might be a bit different. Mine doesn't include made by Woodies.

milehip

Deedsie wrote: »

Any loose cables hanging down along the roof or along the walls, damaged guttering and down pipes, chipped paint etc

Just looks lazy and makes houses look like they have no pride in their property.

They're more like examples of lack of home improvements.

Stephen15

Winterlong wrote: »

A Bidet.

Nothing screams lack of class than a bidet in an irish home.

Handy enough if you run out of jacks paper

Mountainsandh

Stephen15 wrote: »

Handy enough if you run out of jacks paper

I'd love a bidet !
I'd love for it to just happen to be there, in my bathroom, and I'd be secretly using it, so I wouldn't have the mortification of having deliberately purchased a bidet for use in my bathroom.
Our house had no bathroom when we bought it so that wouldn't wash off. (;))

I might just put one in one day, feck it.
Grew up with them in every bathroom in France, very handy they are. You can soak delicates in them, wash feet ... they're not just for ahem ! you know.

In my grandparents' the bathroom was small, so they actually had one on wheels, no shít. It could be wheeled under the sink after use. That was so cool.

r3nu4l

meeeeh wrote: »

Was it personal attack when you called others sheep?

I think our understanding of art might be a bit different. Mine doesn't include made by Woodies.

I didn't single out an individual the way you singled out me So yes, personal, the very definition of the word...

Also, yes, the majority of people in Ireland tend to refer to what they bought in Woodie's and IKEA as art, so I used the general term, I did differentiate the idea in my last post which you obviously chose to ignore. It would be better to focus your efforts on reading and understanding my posts, rather than just rushing to reply in an effort to score points.

listermint

r3nu4l wrote: »

Also, yes, the majority of people in Ireland tend to refer to what they bought in Woodie's and IKEA as art.

There you go again speaking for people


Where are these stats that indicate the majority of people in Ireland don't art from an item in woodies.


Perplexing..

listermint

Mountainsandh wrote: »

I'd love a bidet !
I'd love for it to just happen to be there, in my bathroom, and I'd be secretly using it, so I wouldn't have the mortification of having deliberately purchased a bidet for use in my bathroom.
Our house had no bathroom when we bought it so that wouldn't wash off. (;))

I might just put one in one day, feck it.
Grew up with them in every bathroom in France, very handy they are. You can soak delicates in them, wash feet ... they're not just for ahem ! you know.

In my grandparents' the bathroom was small, so they actually had one on wheels, no shít. It could be wheeled under the sink after use. That was so cool.

Kinda wondered why a bidet is not acceptable in Ireland but is acceptable in Spain or France.

Do Irish people have different arses.?

Mountainsandh

listermint wrote: »

Kinda wondered why a bidet is not acceptable in Ireland but is acceptable in Spain or France.

Do Irish people have different arses.?

Yeah, I don't know ...
Are they easy to find here I wonder ? I don't spend much time in bathroom sales places. I'd have room for one in bathroom.

edit : a quick Google search tells me they're not that easy to find actually. Like, one or two models seem available.

Cortina_MK_IV

Home improvements you find tacky.

Getting rid of Blu Tack.



Use a blob of Blu Tack to get rid of Blu Tack but it's still a pain.

Yourself isit

r3nu4l wrote: »

Oh and I'm sorry I've touched such a raw nerve here. Obviously you won't like my posts if you've just lathered your home in grey... However, this whole thread is about what people find tacky and I resend the right to that opinion. Just because I find the current trend poorly implemented for the most part is no reason to view it as an attack on you.

My problem with your posts (besides the use of sheeple) isn't any kind of Iove of grey. I don't have any grey paint in my house. It's the general unearned – as far as I can tell – air of superiority.

The problem isn't with grey, you tell us, but the fact that the lesser classes haven't been using it properly. They are just followers of fashion, following interior design fads. You on the other hand, you are the expert on the use of grey paint.

It could be the case that your are in fact the world's foremost grey paint design expert but it's unlikely

I've just had a great idea for a TV show.

We could call it "Design Wars" or summat.

I have a couple of contestants picked out already!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I'm devastated with my grey house now haha

r3nu4l

Yourself isit wrote: »

My problem with your posts (besides the use of sheeple) isn't any kind of Iove of grey. I don't have any grey paint in my house. It's the general unearned – as far as I can tell – air of superiority.

The problem isn't with grey, you tell us, but the fact that the lesser classes haven't been using it properly. They are just followers of fashion, following interior design fads. You on the other hand, you are the expert on the use of grey paint.

It could be the case that your are in fact the world's foremost grey paint design expert but it's unlikely

You're right, I'm not the world's foremost expert on grey paint, or any paint for that matter

If you read my first post in this thread, you'll see that it's fairly ordinary, noting beyond any other post criticising other fads/trend in this thread.

However, I then got smug responses attempting to belittle me rather than really look at my post and find a way to contradict it. Fight fire with fire.

Simple enough and not very nice. Your post is a very fair assessment! I don't normally post like this

gramar

Picture frames on the wall as decoration. Just the frame.
Mirrors as decoration.
Gaudy garden ornaments.

milehip

http://www.bargaintown.ie/p/aldrin-marble-top-coffee-table/aldrinct.

http://www.bargaintown.ie/p/jaguar-marble-top-coffee-table/jaguarct

Footballers wives has a lot to answer for.

meeeeh

milehip wrote: »

http://www.bargaintown.ie/p/aldrin-marble-top-coffee-table/aldrinct.

http://www.bargaintown.ie/p/jaguar-marble-top-coffee-table/jaguarct.


Footballers wives has slot to answer for.

I think I just discovered my new favorite furniture website.

milehip

meeeeh wrote: »

I think I just discovered my new favorite furniture website.

A veritable cornucopia of crass.

Grueller

WoolyJumper wrote: »

I noticed a lot of new builds now a days are going a "luxury" look. It usually means shiny floors, shiny kitchens, lots of glass tables, "chandlers" mirrors, leather sofas, furry cushions and lots of wall paper. No amount of this stuff is going to make a 3 bed semi look like a mansion. The whole things together looks really tacky and uninviting.

Speaking of leather sofas...I find them mostly tacky. Especially red leather sofas. yuk!

I also don't get feature walls...I mean the kind where you paint your chimney breast a bright colour/cover it with "funky" wallpaper while the other four walls are magnolia.

Agreeing with all of this except leather sofas. For anyone that works a dirty job a leather sofa is a godsend as a fabric one would be destroyed.

Wibbs

Piriz wrote: »

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

It's different, I'll give it that. TBH while it wouldn't be my taste, at least they made an effort. It's a reflection of them.

gramar wrote: »

Picture frames on the wall as decoration. Just the frame.
Mirrors as decoration.

Depends on the frame and the mirrors I'd say G. 18th century plaster and gesso gilded frame, with "shabby chic" from actual time, then grand, placcy frame copying same from Argos, not so much. Ditto for the mirrors. Oh and before the "the real thing is way out of reach for most people", some might be surprised. Some antique stuff is often to be had cheaper than modern reproductions coming on the slow boat from China. Depends as ever with what is currently fashionable. A few years back I was in a Dublin shop that had "high quality" reproductions of Georgian chests of drawers, that were near double the price of the real deal. And the real deal has survived a couple of centuries, so quality isn't at issue. So if you want "authentic", so long as you steer clear of the currently fashionable, the real deal can often be cheaper to source.

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.

This. So much this.

Though I will admit to a bit of a grimace with houses that look like all items within were bought in an afternoon as a currently fashionable job lot.

I personally like the "Victorian clutter", cabinet of curiosities look(among others). Think Sherlock Holmes' gaff style, with various styles, including modern stuff added in. Though if money were no object… Maybe more than a touch of original Art Nouveau stuff*(and some high Deco, rather than the mass produced stuff), mixed with original renaissance stuff. Furniture wise anyway. You'd need a large room(s) though. That style, especially the latter tends towards the monumental and was designed for such large spaces. I also tend to prefer dark woods to light woods. Pine generally gives me hives. All that would appeal to few enough, but it's a reflection of me and I can live with that.



*Quality Art Nouveau was about the last gasp of the excessive ornament, hand made, natural and very bourgeois style, in the face of the rise of the machine and futurism. The New Art looking to a past that never existed. It's part of the appeal for me. High Art Deco was more about the machine and futurism, but was just as excessive, hand made and very bourgeois too. I'm a sucker for futurism/modernism TBH. That it has become nostalgic is ironic in of itself. BUt I digress. As effin usual.

KKkitty

https://www.her.ie/life/can-now-buy-clam-shaped-bed-live-best-mermaid-life/333722

I want one

meeeeh

KKkitty wrote: »

https://www.her.ie/life/can-now-buy-clam-shaped-bed-live-best-mermaid-life/333722

I want one

That must be the most claustrophobic bed ever.

KKkitty

meeeeh wrote: »

That must be the most claustrophobic bed ever.

I'd say it can get quite clammy in it. Don't think I'll shell out for it though

metaoblivia

KKkitty wrote: »

https://www.her.ie/life/can-now-buy-clam-shaped-bed-live-best-mermaid-life/333722

I want one

Maybe it's because I'm from Florida, but there are some things that are just so outlandishly tacky that I can't help but love them. This is one of those things

Poor Uncle Tom

KKkitty wrote: »

https://www.her.ie/life/can-now-buy-clam-shaped-bed-live-best-mermaid-life/333722

I want one

Who wants to sleep in a compact?....:p

metaoblivia wrote: »

Maybe it's because I'm from Florida, but there are some things that are just so outlandishly tacky that I can't help but love them. This is one of those things

There's tack and there's tack......

for almost two years in the 1980's I worked security in an old factory while studying, vast open floor space where they made huge dolls and the like with plenty of old parts still on rails and ceiling hook lines, well eventhough the bosses didn't know it, I stayed there too to save rent.
I put my lilo in the middle of the vast floor and was able to drive my bike in as the doors and most of the windows were broken, but security was still needed for the site but only over night as someone tried to burn the place down. I was the only security there, so I was ok. During bad weather or storms the fu**in shadows and noises were soo creepy, I used to talk to my bike, it was the best serviced CX out there....:P There were times I couldn't wait to go there and there were times I couldn't stop shaking going through the gates, but I lasted 22 months....

As an observer what you see as tacky decor or surroundings or furniture doesn't matter a f**k, it's what the user/occupier sees and experiences is what matters, at least their comforting piece of decor isn't a Honda CX 500.....:p

Poor Uncle Tom

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Who wants to sleep in a compact?....:p




There's tack and there's tack......

for almost two years in the 1980's I worked security in an old factory while studying, vast open floor space where they made huge dolls and the like with plenty of old parts still on rails and ceiling hook lines, well eventhough the bosses didn't know it, I stayed there too to save rent.
I put my lilo in the middle of the vast floor and was able to drive my bike in as the doors and most of the windows were broken, but security was still needed for the site but only over night as someone tried to burn the place down. I was the only security there, so I was ok. During bad weather or storms the fu**in shadows and noises were soo creepy, I used to talk to my bike, it was the best serviced CX out there....:P There were times I couldn't wait to go there and there were times I couldn't stop shaking going through the gates, but I lasted 22 months....

As an observer what you see as tacky decor or surroundings or furniture doesn't matter a f**k, it's what the user/occupier sees and experiences is what matters, at least their comforting piece of decor isn't a Honda CX 500.....:p

That's some story. :eek: You're made of pretty stern stuff, not many would last that long.

It's true though, while we're here picking apart decor there are people out there who would give their arms to be safe and secure in a home of their own regardless of the color scheme or size of the sofa.

Poor Uncle Tom

Candie wrote: »

That's some story. :eek: You're made of pretty stern stuff, not many would last that long.

It's true though, while we're here picking apart decor there are people out there who would give their arms to be safe and secure in a home of their own regardless of the color scheme or size of the sofa.

You're right Candie but I wasn't referring to the homeless but the prolonged tit for tat about the grey colour.

Stern stuff, naw, I had no money so I saved on rent for a while, student concessions to the gym and pool looked after hygiene three times a week. When you're young you don't care, do you?

Widdershins

Candie wrote: »

I've just had a great idea for a TV show.

We could call it "Design Wars" or summat.

I have a couple of contestants picked out already!

Will it involve bitchslapping with Farrow and Ball paint charts?

Widdershins

Wibbs wrote: »

I personally like the "Victorian clutter", cabinet of curiosities look(among others). Think Sherlock Holmes' gaff style, with various styles, including modern stuff added in. Though if money were no object… Maybe more than a touch of original Art Nouveau stuff*(and some high Deco, rather than the mass produced stuff), mixed with original renaissance stuff. Furniture wise anyway. You'd need a large room(s) though. That style, especially the latter tends towards the monumental and was designed for such large spaces. I also tend to prefer dark woods to light woods. Pine generally gives me hives. All that would appeal to few enough, but it's a reflection of me and I can live with that.



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I was going to say, that sounds like my house, but not so much after the ''Victorian clutter", cabinet of curiosities look(among others). Think Sherlock Holmes' gaff style''.

We do have some pitch pine, mostly old oak but very little heavy dark brown colour furniture. No art deco apart from a radio. I do not like green embossed tiles or chrome. It's more along the lines of the Weasley's house (The Burrows). Except it's tiny.

Poor Uncle Tom

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

You're right Candie but I wasn't referring to the homeless but the prolonged tit for tat about the grey colour.

Stern stuff, naw, I had no money so I saved on rent for a while, student concessions to the gym and pool looked after hygiene three times a week. When you're young you don't care, do you?

Oh I know, but in the grand scheme of things it's a bit trivial arguing about color choices when we're all just lucky to be in a position to have a roof over our heads.

(Sez she, who poured scorn on PVC doors and corner baths )

Widdershins wrote: »

Will it involve bitchslapping with Farrow and Ball paint charts?

I certainly hope so!

Leather couches. The fur coats of interior decorating. Beloved of people who go on tanning machines. Status symbol for people who have no socio-economic status.

Widdershins

KKkitty wrote: »

https://www.her.ie/life/can-now-buy-clam-shaped-bed-live-best-mermaid-life/333722

I want one

Looks like a sunbed

Poor Uncle Tom

Candie wrote: »

Oh I know, but in the grand scheme of things it's a bit trivial arguing about color choices when we're all just lucky to be in a position to have a roof over our heads.

(Sez she, who poured scorn on PVC doors and corner baths )

Haa, me too, and I design this for clients every working day......:D

Widdershins

Widdershins wrote: »

Will it involve bitchslapping with Farrow and Ball paint charts?

Fiddy shades o'grey

ThisRegard

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Leather couches. The fur coats of interior decorating. Beloved of people who go on tanning machines. Status symbol for people who have no socio-economic status.

We got a free leather couch for a play room/den and I tell ya it's bloody well comfortable. And it's a wine/red coulor one at that.

Maybe we got it from the poster here decrying red leather couches.

jprboy

Mountainsandh wrote: »

I'd love a bidet !
........
In my grandparents' the bathroom was small, so they actually had one on wheels, no shít. It could be wheeled under the sink after use. That was so cool.

Ain't that the idea?

:pac:

meeeeh

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

You're right Candie but I wasn't referring to the homeless but the prolonged tit for tat about the grey colour.

Just to make it clear I didn't like the sheep comment, I thought it was very condescending. I couldn't care less about the grey (unless I count bathroom tiles we even don't have any). But I agree the discussion went a bit too far.

Poor Uncle Tom

meeeeh wrote: »

Just to make it clear I didn't like the sheep comment, I thought it was very condescending. I couldn't care less about the grey (unless I count bathroom tiles we even don't have any). But I agree the discussion went a bit too far.

Well done you, eventual sight is much better than hindsight.......

meeeeh

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Leather couches. The fur coats of interior decorating. Beloved of people who go on tanning machines. Status symbol for people who have no socio-economic status.

Nah, you can just scrape ice cream off or dig out crisps remains and the sofa is still half presentable. I'm snob enough not to go for plastic imitation of leather but the rest is pure functionality.

Speaking of plastic, I kind of understand why people pick plastic windows but when I saw my cousin lay beautiful marble flooring (mat not shiny) and matched that with plastic windows with fake glass dividers I almost cried. And the big ones even rattled a bit when they opened.

KKkitty

Another bug bear of mine is radiator cabinets. They do hide a bit of an eyesore but they must block off a lot of heat at the same time.

Mountainsandh

I never realized so many people hated PVC. I don't mind PVC windows myself. We have them, we had to find ones that looked like sash windows, so they're just plain enough, they're great. They're great windows. Fantastic. My windows are the best. They're the best imitation sash windows you can find.



Candie, could I be on the show as an in studio commentator ?
I'm very good at spitting and getting red in the face, I can be very stubborn and judgmental, and if recording can allow for a certain timing on a monthly basis, I think I could very much channel my inner Katie Hopkins for dramatic confrontations (studio safer in that regard). Plus I'm French, so viewers could happily suggest I just go back to where I came from.

JupiterKid

Conservatories - very dated, late 1980s/early 90s era.

Little china knick-knack ornaments.
Frilly white fascias and window adornments - vile.
Fake concrete/PVC mock Roman pillars on door porches.
Bedroom storage units over bed - very, very 70s/80s
Carpet in bathroom - vile and unhygienic
Lino masquerading as tiles - cheap and tacky

iguana

meeeeh wrote: »

Nah, you can just scrape ice cream off or dig out crisps remains and the sofa is still half presentable. I'm snob enough not to go for plastic imitation of leather but the rest is pure functionality.

Yup, maybe back in the 80s leather furniture was some sort of status symbol. Now it's mostly a symbol of someone with small children who values the ability to quickly wipe away smushed banana over all else. Leather is just extremely, extremely practical. I have three dark brown leather couches. Two in my livingroom that are soft brown leather in a sort of slouchy style. They are very soft and comfortable. And one in the playroom with firmer leather and shape. It's still quite comfortable but not as homely feeling as the other two. I believe it was probably the more expensive couch originally. I bought them on adverts and donedeal and paid €350 for the two in the livingroom and €180 for the one in the playroom (and as a bonus found €22 in the cushions of that one:D).

It's actually a sum up of my whole house style though, which is what do I like and can get for a bargain price and what have I already got that I can turn into something I like more. Matched with what is practical in a house with springer spaniels and a crazy 4 year old. I love how it looks though as it's as unique as you can get on a budget of 'what's spare in my current account.' My house had been rented out before I bought it and the owners left everything in it when they sold, from the quite nice dining table and chairs to the really, really awful picture frames. I reupholstered the kitchen chairs with a piece of material my dad found for €3 in a charity shop. I thought he was mad when he came in with it but the chairs look absolutely amazing now. And I repainted the frames in either bright colours (or grey - ha), put brash superhero posters in them and hung them over some insanely bright multi-coloured Hot Wheels wall tracks in my son's room. It literally cost €30 and has turned his bedroom into a child's fantasy room. Once Aldi get their wood paint in again and I paint his wardrobes as a Tardis and a castle it will be perfect.

_Brian

the_pen_turner wrote: »

decks

What !!
what's the problem with decks

lawred2

iguana wrote: »

Yup, maybe back in the 80s leather furniture was some sort of status symbol. Now it's mostly a symbol of someone with small children who values the ability to quickly wipe away smushed banana over all else. Leather is just extremely, extremely practical. I have three dark brown leather couches. Two in my livingroom that are soft brown leather in a sort of slouchy style. They are very soft and comfortable. And one in the playroom with firmer leather and shape. It's still quite comfortable but not as homely feeling as the other two. I believe it was probably the more expensive couch originally. I bought them on adverts and donedeal and paid €350 for the two in the livingroom and €180 for the one in the playroom (and as a bonus found €22 in the cushions of that one:D).

It's actually a sum up of my whole house style though, which is what do I like and can get for a bargain price and what have I already got that I can turn into something I like more. Matched with what is practical in a house with springer spaniels and a crazy 4 year old. I love how it looks though as it's as unique as you can get on a budget of 'what's spare in my current account.' My house had been rented out before I bought it and the owners left everything in it when they sold, from the quite nice dining table and chairs to the really, really awful picture frames. I reupholstered the kitchen chairs with a piece of material my dad found for €3 in a charity shop. I thought he was mad when he came in with it but the chairs look absolutely amazing now. And I repainted the frames in either bright colours (or grey - ha), put brash superhero posters in them and hung them over some insanely bright multi-coloured Hot Wheels wall tracks in my son's room. It literally cost €30 and has turned his bedroom into a child's fantasy room. Once Aldi get their wood paint in again and I paint his wardrobes as a Tardis and a castle it will be perfect.

wife and I are a bit like this..

Found some huge ornately framed mirrors in some garden centre in the worst pink and purple you're ever likely to see..

Sitting there for ages with sale stickers on them.. A bit of good bantered haggling and we walked out with two of them for €50 when the original marked price was somewhere over twice that each..

Repainted the frames and they look fantastic.. Everyone comments on them as soon as they see them

ratmouse

Stephen15 wrote: »

Similar enough as it's notso really an improvement but those black and white images of Big Ben with a routemaster or a black taxi crossing the bridge or one of the Eiffel Tower. Absolute tat.

I know those pictures. Pure tack! Worse than a picture of the Eiffel Tower is a miniture size ornamnet of one. One of the leading Irish Fashion/Beauty bloggers has an ugly silver one (that appears to have lights on it!!) in the background of photos she puts up of her living room. So tacky looking.

Yamanoto

foxy farmer wrote: »

House painted in the local or County GAA colours.

...by an Elvis fanatic.