While the way we decorate our homes can be (and should be!) down to personal preference, there’s simply no way to escape the hotly contested ‘trends’ that are emerging more and more every year. I was reminded of this as a Redditor u/wazzel2u people asked that shed light the ‘terrible trends’ you’ll find in new home design these days – and things got pretty heated in the comments. These are the hot shots that were too spicy not to share.
1.‘Remove stair railings for a fresh look. For example, your drunk friend Brooks will one day fall off the side and die. There are building regulations for a reason.’
2.“Open bathrooms. My dad has a large bathroom with an open concept and high ceilings. For example, the toilet is surrounded by nothing for a good six to six feet in all directions except the one where it’s against the wall. I don’t think I don’t know why, but a deeply hidden primal instinct comes out when I use that bathroom. Like, my lizard brain screams, ‘Don’t poop in the open, you’ll get it eaten by one bear.’ I hate it. It’s unnatural.”
—u/mandy_skittles
3.“As an electrician, I see this all the time: putting 600 lights in every room of the house. Sure, it makes me money, but it looks damn ridiculous to have that many lights per four feet of every room.”
4.“Too many bathrooms. Every house they build in my neighborhood has at least five bedrooms and five bathrooms. Who wants to clean that many bathrooms?! Letting your kids share a bathroom teaches them to be considerate roommates as they grow up .”
—u/CrossingGarter
5.‘Pleasant gray. Everywhere.’
6.“Lack of storage space. I just bought a new house and didn’t realize how little space there was. We have one storage closet upstairs. That’s it.”
—u/A_Bit_Off_Kilter
7.“No door between the master bedroom and the master bathroom. It’s so annoying. The last three houses I’ve lived in have had this problem. I like being able to close the door when I take a bath or shower.”
8.“Glass railings on stairs or even patios. They get dirty very easily and installing them is a chore.”
—u/richard-777
9.“I have seen several houses where appliances are integrated into the construction of the kitchen itself. Not just in a niche, but actually built into the wall. Of course it is useful to have a cappuccino machine built into the wall. But what happens if – not as, when – does it need maintenance? Should I call both a carpenter and a cappuccino machine repairman? Should I take into account whether this is a load-bearing wall that my broken device is in? If it’s just about convenience, that’s one thing, but they do that with refrigerators too.”
10.“Go to a high-end gated community development project – $800,000 to $2 million in my area – and the front of the houses will be beautiful stone and brick. But in the back every house has cheap ugly vinyl siding in the same color As far as the eye can see, I never understood this, because you actually spend time in the backyard, not out front.”
—u/MisterSolid
11.“The ‘modern farm.’”
12.“Showers are floor to ceiling clear glass. They look great when they are spotlessly clean, which means they usually look terrible in most homes.”
—u/wazzel2u
13.“Microwave ‘hoods.’ Building regulations should state that all new houses and apartments must actually extract and blow away cooking fumes and misty oil, steam, heat and CO outside. Who invented the microwave fan that sucks in all the fumes and blows them out the top?”
14.“Kitchens that they cram into a narrow rectangle as an afterthought. Many apartments and townhouses come with them. They are so narrow that if you open the refrigerator door, no one can walk past you. A kitchen should be open, not walled off on all sides , and is shaped like a narrow rectangle. It drives me crazy when I see this.”
—u/Effective_James
15.“Huge kitchen islands. I’m only five feet tall and I have to walk all the way around it to get it clean. It’s just too big to be useful.”
16.“The trend of having big windows at the front of your house so that everyone on the street can see your entire ground floor. It turns your first floor into a fishbowl that I would never feel comfortable in. I love being able to walk around my house without having to worry that the people across the street can watch my every move.”
—u/dekenz___
17.“Counter-depth refrigerators. My family recently updated their kitchen and got a counter-depth refrigerator. Nothing fits in it. It feels like a bachelor’s refrigerator; it’s meant to impress you when you first see it and to immediately disappoint you, you’re in the bedroom.”
18.“Most new sinks are absolutely terrible. Looking better is nice, but not at the expense of hitting the bowl with your hand every time you wash your hands.”
19.“Knocking minimalism to death with a sledgehammer. Everything is gray and white and hardly any color anywhere.”
—u/notagoodusername183
20.“It drives me crazy when people replace cabinets with open shelving. Do people not understand dust? Do bugs ring a bell? Pet hair? Speaking of pets, how do you keep your cats from messing with that setup?”
21.‘No broom cupboards. Where on earth do people put their mops and vacuum cleaners? Or do the people who buy those McMansions just not clean themselves?’
—u/CristabelYYC
22.“I really don’t like the design of the fireplace where you’re supposed to put your TV above it. A TV is way too high when it’s above the fireplace.”
23.“Garages that can fit two mid-sized cars with about an inch of space.”
—u/kryppla
24.“Over painting bricks. It’s the new ‘put carpet over nice hardwood floors.’”
25.“Small laundry rooms, tiny pantries and no closets…but here’s a 400 square foot media room for TV watching. My next house will be decorated by me or made in the 70’s or 80’s – when they designed houses to live in.”
—u/deleted
26.‘No decorative moldings on doors and windows. The drywall extends to the door frame and is square. It looks like a Greyhound bus station.”
27.“All white: white carpet, white furniture and white shiplap.”
—u/Defcheze
28.“Shitty bathtubs. I grew up in a 100 year old house. It had a nice bathtub with a sloping back so you could comfortably lounge in the tub. Modern bathtubs are pretty much straight up in the back so there’s no comfortable way to soak and read a book.”
29.“This may be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t need my house to be smart. I just want things to happen when they need to happen and not be completely shut down when some idiot thinks it’s a good idea to ‘who can’ to play.” touch the power line. ”
—u/ptapobane
30.“Rounded corners. Of course they look cool… until you want to paint your kitchen a different color than your living room.”
31.“I hate the design of houses with a huge garage in the front: ‘Welcome to my garage! The house is in the back.’”
—u/groundsgoneour
32.“Exposed ‘wooden beams’ in houses with typical white plasterboard ceilings and walls. It’s hideous and I think it will look very dated in 20 years.”
33.“Wasted space. Think huge bedrooms with sitting areas, houses with as many beds as bathrooms, extravagant foyers that take up half the front of a house, and formal living or dining rooms that never get used.”
—u/Sarah-the-Great
34.“Maybe a strange fixation, but I can’t stand kitchen cabinets that don’t reach all the way to the ceiling. No storage and a big opening at the top for my husband to pile all kinds of junk on. No thanks!”
35.“Huge houses on small lots with two feet of grass around them. There were two houses in my old neighborhood that could touch each other’s windows.”
—u/Trabbledabble
36.“Open floor plans where the main floor is just one large room.”
37.“Today the exterior appears to have been designed by a committee of people who can’t work together. Every possible exterior finish is there: faux stone, stucco, siding at all angles, board and batten, shingles and shakes… you name it, some of the house has it, often in different colors.
—u/FrightenedOfSpoons
38.And finally, “Those stupid, fake balconies.”
What is a modern living or interior trend that you absolutely cannot resist if you encounter it regularly? Let us know in the comments below, or via this anonymous form.
Note: Entries have been edited for length and/or clarity.
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