"It's Already Very Dated": 34 Popular Home Design Trends That People Feel Reaaaally Strongly About

How you design, decorate, oregon personalize your location tin alteration heavy from 1 idiosyncratic to the next, but that doesn't halt radical from having aggravated feelings astir the "trends" that specify galore homes' aesthetics. I shared thoughts from our readers astir the astir "infuriating" decor trends we spot a batch nowadays, and much than 500 of you responded with your ain location plan opinions. These are immoderate of the astir fascinating responses of the bunch. Hot takes incoming!

And if you person immoderate beardown feelings astir modern location decor that you'd similar to stock with america — oregon if you hold oregon disagree with immoderate of the opinions beneath — you tin bash truthful successful the comments astatine the extremity of this post or through this anonymous Google form.

1. "Open shelving successful the kitchen. It looks large successful photos, but unless each your dishes and cups lucifer each different and you're consenting to enactment them connected show each the time, it's impractical for day-to-day use. I consciousness similar if you person unfastened shelving successful the kitchen, your worldly could get covered successful particulate if you don't usage definite things each the time, and if (like me) you person a cat, that unfastened support would beryllium WAY TOO TEMPTING for the feline to avoid."

2. "I can’t basal seeing these big, costly homes that person nary storage, particularly nary closet successful the entryway. Where are you expected to enactment your shoes oregon your jacket? How astir your vacuum?!"

—Anonymous, 54, Florida

3. "Huge airy fixtures with Edison-style bulbs that are truthful agleam it hurts. We telephone ours the Jesus Light — and with the dimmer power we added, it conscionable flickers."

—Anonymous, 38

4. "Microwaves built into little cabinets are a nightmare for anyone with kids oregon mobility issues. I cognize I can’t crook down to get things without a accumulation progressive to get backmost up, truthful I tin spot idiosyncratic older having occupation utilizing a microwave astatine that level. It’s besides a large mode for kids to enactment things successful the microwave that shouldn’t spell successful there."

—goldenlion71

5. "Shower rooms, wherever the tub is wrong the ablution glass. All the scum you spot connected your ablution walls volition beryllium each implicit your tub, truthful you person to cleanable not lone the ablution walls but the full tub each clip you cleanable your shower, adjacent if you ne'er took a bath. And what astir the mold increasing down the freestanding tub that sits 2 oregon 3 inches distant from the wall? Dumbest thought ever."

6. "As a cabinet-maker, I accidental the astir annoying inclination is outlets wrong drawers. So you privation to usage a blender connected your room island? Open a drawer to plug the blender in, and present the drawer is successful the mode and you’re going to spill into the drawer."

—Tony, 52, California

7. "Fireplace 'chimneys' for fake fireplaces, covered with fake siding, is sickening. Like, wherever did this travel from? If you can't enactment a existent fireplace in, don't marque it look similar it has a chimney."

8. "I truly dislike the unfastened level program trend. I emotion cooking and hatred the full location smelling similar food. Like, if you navigator salmon, you tin expect your sofa to odor similar food for astatine slightest a mates of days. I've been looking for a caller place, and it's been incredibly hard to find abstracted kitchens astatine all."

—natrulis

9. "Putting laundry (and laundry closets) successful the kitchen. Very impractical to bring your soiled laundry into the kitchen, wherever things should beryllium kept cleanable and sanitary."

—Anonymous

10. "Farmhouse sinks are the worst. With their level bottoms, h2o doesn’t drain decently and it takes 10 gallons of h2o conscionable to cleanable them."

11. "Pot lights. Nothing worse than a row, oregon rows, of cookware lights each implicit a ceiling erstwhile 1 bully airy fixture would suffice instead."

—Anonymous

12. "I hatred two-toned kitchens — wherever the apical cabinets and bottommost cabinets are antithetic colors, oregon the land is simply a antithetic colour oregon decorativeness from the remainder of the cabinetry. I deliberation it looks truthful ugly, arsenic if it was thrown unneurotic with leftovers from different house."

—Ben, 46, Pennsylvania

13. "Adding gangly niches successful showers...but not adding shelving into said niches. Why person it beryllium 3 feet wide and 2 feet gangly connected the partition erstwhile you tin lone usage 1 shelf?"

14. "Immediately decorating your location to delight the adjacent imaginable buyer. I erstwhile saw a representation of a country painted with vibrant colors and decorated successful greens, blues, and yellows. I wanted a cozy nook successful my location painted and decorated precisely similar that. And I did it. When I showed radical my astonishing room, they talked astir what imaginable buyers would deliberation of the color. My location isn't connected the market; nor bash I person plans to determination anytime soon. Why bash I request to unrecorded successful a dreary, boring, beige/gray satellite due to the fact that idiosyncratic might bargain my location successful 20 years?"

—Ponygirl123

15. "No trees! They chopped everything down with caller builds these days, and it is truthful bare and sad. With a small much effort, they could program the improvement around existing trees and marque the finished houses and neighborhoods much livable. It is truthful bittersweet and yuck; I'd alternatively remodel an older location than unrecorded with nary trees around."

16. "Installing two-handle faucets conscionable for the 'look.' I similar to beryllium capable to modulate somesthesia with 1 manus erstwhile doing the dishes."

—Anonymous

17. "Freestanding tubs that you person to cleanable behind."

—Christine, 78

18. "I've seen a batch of all-black modern farmhouses with achromatic metallic awnings successful my parts that genuinely confuddle me...we're successful the South; bash you not recognize however summers work?!"

—globlinqueen

19. "Roughly textured room backsplash tiles and stones are pretty, but if you really cook, however bash you cleanable them? We intentionally chose textured but glossed subway tile due to the fact that it is precise casual to clean. I'm convinced that is 1 crushed subway tiles were and are truthful prevalent."

20. "I really, truly hatred hood vents that conscionable vent everything retired into the room. A hood is expected to instrumentality steam, room smells, and immoderate fume that mightiness hap consecutive up and retired done an exterior vent. Ventless hoods person perfectly nary intent but for perchance shedding immoderate airy connected your stovetop. In fact, they should beryllium renamed 'stovetop lighting.' If I’m looking to determination into a caller location oregon bargain a house, that’s 1 of the archetypal things I look for...maybe due to the fact that I’m a chef."

—Margaret, 66, California

21. "What is the woody with cookware fillers implicit the stove? Doesn't anybody recognize that that afloat cookware volition person to beryllium moved off the stove astatine immoderate constituent anyway? Why put successful that other plumbing?"

22. "My idiosyncratic favored peeve? Gorgeous room renovations and caller builds successful elder communities that lone person basal cabinets with nary drawers! I’m 74. I tin nary longer crook implicit oregon crawl successful beforehand of a furniture to find thing waaaay successful the back. I WANT DRAWERS! In my past room remodel, my lone basal furniture was nether the sink. And erstwhile we sold the house, buyers loved it. Paid a premium for it, successful fact."

—susanknieriemen

23. "Monster houses connected tiny lots. I privation country for a histrion oregon 2 and capable country for a fewer flowers!"

—Anonymous

24. "In caller builds, the inclination of gathering full sides of a location without a azygous window."

25. "Mini-splits! Take each the negatives of a model AC portion and past permanently instal them into your partition truthful you get the look and consciousness of a 1990s dentist's bureau successful a portion mall. Add ductwork each implicit the extracurricular truthful the location looks arsenic if it’s being attacked by an octopus. Hideous! They are faster and easier to install, truthful the contractors emotion them and propulsion them hard — but they’re a blight connected these historical New England homes. We installed accepted cardinal air, but if mini-splits were the lone option, I curse I would alternatively sweat successful a location with a model instrumentality than unrecorded successful a location with these fugly boxes everywhere."

—Jenny, 49, Massachusetts

26. "Deck railings that person horizontal balusters. It’s like, did toddlers hide however to ascent each of a sudden?"

—Nick, Colorado

27. "Gray flooring. It's already precise dated and, frankly, tacky and cheap-looking."

28. "I curse radical successful my vicinity who overgarment ceramic connected mid-century homes white! It should beryllium illegal."

—jlmitchell1212

29. "Fake stone. There's immoderate bully worldly retired there, sure, but much often, what I spot connected caller builds is that truly cheap, plastic-looking stuff. Looks precise retired of place. The worst usage I've seen was idiosyncratic who covered existent chromatic with fake chromatic — conscionable slapped it connected top."

—Anonymous, 33

30. "Having to locomotion done the bath to get to the closet. This lone works if you unrecorded by yourself."

31. "Clear ablution doors. In houses with aggregate people, sometimes determination volition beryllium a concern wherever much than 1 idiosyncratic has to beryllium successful the bath astatine the aforesaid time, truthful the deficiency of privateness erstwhile showering tin beryllium precise awkward — unless the radical successful question are a couple."

—allthatglittersisdiamonds

32. "Please halt with the quartz countertops. It’s what laminate was to the '70s and '80s; it’s fake and plastic-looking."

—Anonymous

33. "Small garages! Vehicles are wider than ever these days, and homeowners associations don’t similar extracurricular parking. Many caller garages won’t accommodate a full-size vehicle, fto unsocial immoderate other storage!"

—Tony, 60, California

34. And finally: "I volition beryllium truthful blessed erstwhile they halt putting successful barn doors! Barn doors are lone allowed if you unrecorded successful a barn. Otherwise, stop! You are simply embarrassing yourself."

What's a modern-day location oregon interior plan inclination that you're not excessively fond of? Tell america astir it successful the comments beneath oregon done this anonymous Google form.

Note: Some submissions person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.