Here are the most surprising ones:
1.
Anonymous
2.
Am I the only one who thinks it looks sloppy?
What happened to just picking a nice paint color and sticking with it?
Things like chandeliers, DIY wall paneling, and gold fixtures are magnets for dust and water droplets.
etconner
4.
“Stock tank pools.
I understand why people like them!
“I hate peel-and-stick tile made out of plastic or vinyl stickers.”
sandra95008
6.
“Wallpapered powder rooms in busy prints.
Its going to look so dated in five years!
It also seems less sanitary than painted walls, to be honest.”
“Open kitchen cabinets!
No more mess!”
jmacxjr
8.
“Statement front doors.
It’s the trend taking over my suburban housing development like a literal plague.
We expected it would take a long weekend at most.
Try three weeks of endless weekend and night work.
The worst part is that it all looks and feels cheap now that it’s installed.
I wish we’d just had a professional installrealcabinets.
Don’t let influencers swindle you; if you’re upgrading your kitchen, do it correctly!”
Shelby, 40, Nevada
10.
“I’m sorry, but the ‘color-wash’ trend is absolutely ridiculous to me.
Buying a sprawling house just to feel like you’re sleeping in a cave?!
Make it make sense!”
“Stop painting brick!
It looks awful and always looks DIY.
Or, do a whitewash.
Either looks better than coating brick with a layer of boring white paint.”
I had the tiles removed and the room repainted first thing when I moved in.”
witchycentipede62
14.
We made that mistake once, and we’ll never make it again.
There’s no traction!"
“The ‘landlord’s special’ of painting, which is just paint over paint.
At least I could mop.”
lobster_lemon_lime
16.
“Tongue-and-groove ceilings and walls or, god forbid, shiplap!
How do I know?
I did it myself!
Though I’d love it at first, but now I hate it.
The modern farmhouse aesthetic it adds to my house is totally wrong.
Sandy, 58, Illinois
18.
“The whole gray faux wood floor thing.
Whoever was originally going to buy our house chose those floors.
Why would you want your floors to look like a beat-up old deck?
If you’re going to spend all that money, at least make it look nice.
“All the faux stone!
It’s not very cost-effective, either.
In most cases, it’s actuallymoreexpensive than real stone…minus the install, of course.”
Ryan, 42, Pennsylvania
20.
Its ruining the quality and resale value of the items!
These are good quality items, people!
You are actively diminishing their worth, all while simultaneously making them look worse and doing irreparable damage!”
“When people buy lovely antique wood furniture and paint it, I get mad enough to chew glass.
Dont like the look of old wood furniture?
Great news: Ikea exists.”
Its overused and overhyped.”
I hate to be this person…but they’re not great foranimals, either.
Those string bulbs are BRIGHT; so bright that they can really affect animals' sleep-wake patterns."
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