"Stop Being Afraid Of Color!": 17 "Ugly" Home Design Trends That Are Actually, Truly, Genuinely Better Than What's Replaced Them

You don't person to scroll Zillow for agelong to announcement that astir modern homes look precisely the same: achromatic walls, grey floors, unfastened level plans, and the aforesaid matte-black hardware successful each kitchen. It's safe. It's tasteful. It's also, frankly, cookie-cutter. So we asked the BuzzFeed Community to stock the "ugly" location plan trends they really deliberation merit a comeback, and the responses were a emotion missive to color, texture, and rooms with existent personality. Here's what they had to say:

1. "Sunken surviving rooms, aka 'conversation pits.' My relative had 1 successful their household room, and it was cleanable for keeping her 2 toddler daughters corralled portion containing a batch of the mess. I liked it due to the fact that it felt little ceremonial than a regular household room. I could beryllium connected the borderline of the pit with a pillow and beryllium wholly comfortable."

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—ladicair

"I emotion sunken surviving rooms and ever have. I recovered them cozy. During get-togethers, they were a large spot for speech — distant from the louder areas but inactive portion of the event. For smaller get-togethers, they felt much intimate. I would bargain a location with 1 successful a heartbeat. I'd renovate my location and enactment 1 successful if I could."

—Anonymous

2. "Parlors! My grandma has 1 successful her house, and it's wherever immoderate of my fondest memories were made. I consciousness similar each location should person a spot with nary electronics — conscionable a spot to relax."

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—Anonymous, 23, Maryland

3. "Don't interaction the babe blue, pinkish and greenish vintage tile bathrooms! They're softly elegant and person truthful overmuch much quality than immoderate 'updates' get installed."

4. "Entryway shelves. These were large successful the '50s and '60s, the midcentury modern era, and radical thin to rip them retired now. They were cleanable for dividing the beforehand doorway from the surviving country portion inactive allowing sightlines, positive they were a bully mode to show tiny knick-knacks."

5. "Brutalist interior. Exposed factual (béton brut), steel, earthy wood, unrecorded plants present and there, and spot lighting."

6. "I miss Tuscan-style kitchens with terracotta floors, earthy rustic tones, bold chromatic connection hoods supra the range, copper pots hanging supra the island, wrought-iron elements, and ample exposed woody beams. I miss each of it. It was beautiful, tasteful, and felt similar surviving successful an upscale Italian villa."

7. "For the emotion of everything successful this world, halt being acrophobic of color! I hatred walking into spaces that are wholly neutral. Give maine a blue, a green, a yellow. Something. I don't mean shades of grey oregon achromatic that look similar idiosyncratic farted successful their absorption portion reasoning astir yellow. Actual vibrant colors!"

8. "A closed level program for the kitchen! Nothing is much annoying than having idiosyncratic crook connected the blender portion you're trying to ticker a movie 5 feet away, oregon hosting a large meal enactment and having to get the room presentable due to the fact that you're virtually successful the aforesaid room."

9. "I don't cognize if this is simply a location inclination per se, but I privation much homes had attics. Not the benignant with a fake level made of plywood and beams oregon the benignant with a spread successful the ceiling that tin lone beryllium utilized for storage. I privation an attic that tin beryllium different country — a small publication nook oregon a playroom wherever kids tin tally astir erstwhile they can't play outside. Attics similar successful Charmed oregon Little Women."

10. "Glass blocks."

11. "Real wood cabinets! Nothing replaces the gorgeous texture and patterns of earthy materials."

12. "When it comes to modern trends that get a batch of hate, I don't recognize wherefore truthful galore radical can't basal shiplap. I mightiness beryllium biased due to the fact that I unrecorded successful a formation town, but it's tasteful astatine champion and innocuous astatine worst. If I tin ever spend a location again, I privation to usage shiplap to screen up the popcorn ceiling I inherited — and, yes, bash really hate."

13. "Carpet!"

14. "Carpeted bathrooms — with super-ultra-dangerous partition heaters — are the coziest happening ever. I grew up with them and ne'er erstwhile burned myself, adjacent arsenic a small kid. Grandma inactive enactment down a afloat bath rug, and we were not — nether symptom of decease — allowed to splash. So I didn't. Her bath was ever lukewarm and cozy. If you aren't careless and instrumentality attraction of your things, a batch of these 'outdated' trends are really bully to have. Certainly nicer than surviving successful sterile plastic-floored, painted-over boxes that consciousness similar infirmary rooms. The occupation is that astir radical don't support location arsenic perfectly arsenic my grandma did. I conflict with it myself. But it isn't that she was amended astatine cleaning. She conscionable knew she had to take what she could maintain. So she chose her luxury features — carpet and a excavation — and maintained them."

15. "Rooms with walls. Every clip I spot a location wherever the interior walls person been removed to marque it unfastened concept, a portion of maine dies."

16. "Everything successful brownish oregon avocado green."

17. "There is an obsession with midcentury modern homes and keeping them original. While I emotion a batch of the midcentury modern look, not each of it is worthy saving. Personally, I'm much of a instrumentality of the '50s and '60s, but erstwhile we get into the '70s, it's usually precise drab and ugly."

Did immoderate of these "ugly" trends marque you nostalgic, oregon is determination a vintage location plan diagnostic you privation would marque a comeback? Share your thoughts successful the comments below.

Note: Responses person been edited for length/clarity.