1. "Modern farmhouse. It's conscionable an excuse for builders to usage each inexpensive finishes. Shiplap was ne'er it."
—Anonymous, 40, Texas
2. "Houses painted each black. They look spooky astatine night. It's similar they look to disappear. They besides instrumentality retired similar a sore thumb successful the vicinity wherever different houses are colorful."
3. "Primary chamber closets that necessitate walking done the bathroom. Who thought it was a large thought to support apparel wherever it's humid and smelly?"
—Anonymous
"Why are modern builders putting closets THROUGH the superior bathroom? Who's asking for that? I don't privation my apparel getting damp, mildewy, oregon smelling similar a bathroom…"
—Anonymous, Wisconsin, 29
4. "Gold fixtures. Ugh, it's truthful disfigured and does not look sophisticated. It's tacky, tacky, tacky."
5. "All-white kitchens with nary shades oregon curtains, and the obligatory stainless-steel appliances and matching trash can. No privacy, and nary personality! Too sterile; not cozy oregon inviting astatine all!! People wage designers large bucks for a country that looks similar a subject probe lab! Why should anyone privation to unrecorded similar that???"
—Anonymous, 67, Massachusetts
6. "Granite countertops. They're casual to ruin and hard to repair. Expensive to replace."
—Anonymous, 65, Arizona
7. "A tiny laundry abstraction wherever the doorway to the store and the location bang into each other."
"Also, an open-concept bath successful the main chamber (door to toilet country only)."
—Anonymous, Nevada
8. "Multiple materials connected the facade of a house: bricks, fake stone, wood, and plaster. Ugly!"
—Anonymous, 60, Texas
9. "Oversized, step-up, country soaking tubs with jacuzzi jets. They instrumentality up mode excessively overmuch abstraction and are precise hard to get successful and retired of!"
—Anonymous, 74, California
10. "All the gray, brown, and black. Those blocky sofas and chairs; they're inexpensive and ugly. This clime is dreary capable successful winter, truthful I spell for colour and cheerful colors."
—Anonymous, 83, Idaho
11. "Totally unfastened concept. My room is successful the surviving room. It's OK for the eating room, but immoderate benignant of partial close-off would beryllium bully for the kitchen. I purchased a good-sized, decorative surface that I tin determination astir to chopped disconnected the disfigured bits — soiled cooking pots, etc. — that are near retired to get a lukewarm meal connected the table."
—Anonymous
12. "Vinyl 'wood' floors. Vinyl siding. Vinyl windows. Tacky, unhealthy, and environmentally naive."
—Anonymous, 48, New York
13. "Stainless appliances. Been astir TOO LONG. There is nary different prime successful appliance colors. It’s a merchandise of each those location renovation shows that privation their contented to beryllium little dated. No, I don’t privation to spell backmost to avocado, but pick maybe?"
—Anonymous
14. "Rain ablution heads. They are perfectly useless."
15. "The horizontal multi-colored bladed tiles for room backsplashes. Busy and ugly. Though I recovered immoderate precise brushed bluish and achromatic ones, I enactment them vertically successful my shower, and it looks similar falling water."
—Anonymous, 49, Washington
Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.