45 Modern Home Design Trends That People Deeply Hope Will Become Outdated Soon

1. "What's wrong with people just doing their home up however they like it and don't give a f**k what anyone thinks"

2. "Painting red brick houses grey. It stabs at my heart. And my eyes."

3. "I live for what makes me happy in the now"

4. "How can you relax and feel comfortable in a house like that?"

"I've noticed a lot of modern renovated houses, especially the higher price ones, all look like laboratories inside- stainless steel, white and grey, hard edges. And not just in the kitchen, all the rooms."

5. "Love, Live, Laugh stencilled on the wall"

6. "Fake grass."

"Please, please, let the fake grass be a passing trend. I understand it’s a faff to keep a lawn, but people hosing their dog s**t off their plastic “garden”… the world does not need more plastic."

7. "Open plan kitchen/living/diners."

8. "People mounting TVs above fireplaces or so high that they end up closer to the ceiling than the floor."

"After a decade of that s**t, their necks will be thanking them."

9. "I hope avocado suites in carpeted bathrooms make a return, that way I won't have to redecorate my horrendous downstairs bog."

10. "More bathrooms than bedrooms is a weird one that will seem like a waste of space eventually."

11. "What an absolute waste and also f**k apple"

12. "High density new builds."

"I mean seriously - every single one in this area are crammed together, with tiny gardens, no parking, narrow access roads. And then you go inside, and find the rooms only look spacious because the houses have 3/4 size furniture in it, or no furniture at all.

All the rooms you could want, just less square feet than ever. Just a recipe for future slums."

13. "Kitchen sinks without draining areas."

"Super instagrammable and super annoying. Where do you put your wet dishes??"

14. "Geometric designs. Clinical white and grey everything. Words."

"What is it with words? In the bathroom: SOAK.

In the bedroom: SLEEP. What goes in the bog?

I also have a special hatred for decor with whimsical phrases or prose. Humourous house rules.

Kitchen opening hours. I just can't hack it, it makes me cringe hard.

Oh and don't get me started on f*****g bunting."

15. "Those will still be around..."

16. "Open plan."

"With the rise in heating bills we'll all go for 'cosy' and want a nice tiny room where we can all huddle around the one electric fire we can afford."

17. "Reclaimed barn wood up on the interior of the home"

18. "Crushed velvet and fake diamonds on everything, absolutely hideous"

19. "I’m gonna go against the grain and say that I quite like the upsurge of grey as a neutral!"

"Wouldn’t have the whole house or room in it, but as one neutral colour I much prefer the cooler tone of grey to magnolia or cream. I chose a grey living room carpet (walls are white) and a black settee and everything else is just … a hodgepodge really lol.

I needed one plain ‘colour’ (or lack of) to offset everything else! And I find brown and its variations a bit depressing."

20. "I like to be able to close doors on mess"

21. "Those chairs with the lion head door knocker on the back…"

22. "Stone gardens."

23. "Not on houses but the little f*****g balconies on large apartment buildings."

24. "Funny how things change isn’t it?"

"I saw a house on Right Move recently which just screamed 1990s. The living room had that half wallpaper half painted style with a wallpaper border at the ceiling.

The bathroom tiles with one random one with a flower design on and coloured bathroom suite …. As for modern styles … those bloody obnoxious wall stencils can get in the bin. Live, Laugh, Love and all that bollocks.

Everything seems to be bright white and grey and those geometric kitchen lights …"

25. "Actually owning a house, so last decade."

26. "I'm sick of bloody bulbs everywhere."

"I've got a smallish kitchen and there are seven bulbs in there, with three different types of bulb and fitting. It's completely unnecessary and such a ballache.

Rather than buying a box of generic bulbs to replace each one as it goes I have to buy and store boxes of all different types of bulbs and remember which ones go where."

27. Astroturf

28. "Grey everything."

"Grey windows, grey doors, grey kitchens, all of it. Don't quite understand why everything has to be grey these days.

Needlessly cladding perfectly fine properties with fake wood. Costs thousands, literally serve no purpose and look dumb as f**k.

As if we're supposed to believe your 1950s townhouse was supposed to have 'oak' cladding on it. One I hope goes, but probably won't - mounting sockets halfway up the wall to allow wall mounting of certain gadgets/TVs... no... just please no, I would rather go to the additional expense and effort to have to hide cables on the off chance I utilize it, than have these butt ugly mains sockets everywhere at eye level."

29. "Not sure about specific things but my local area (West Sussex) has been covered in housing projects the past decade and there is practically no character in any of them."

30. "Being able to afford your energy bill."

31. "Look at my house" lights.

32. "We do not have the climate for these arrangements"

33. "Literally anything new build."

34. "That trend of gluing strips of MDF to the wall as paneling and painting the whole thing in a safe sage green or disappointing blue. It’ll be a right s**t to get off, too."

35. Bifold doors

"I’ll die on this hill: Bifold doors. Looks amazing in a magazine.

However, if you have kids, sticky awful kids, they just become a wash of hand prints. It’s not energy efficient having a whole wall of windows.

In the right kind of extension, it works, but I’ve seen so many of these open-plan diner things where you can’t open a window by the oven or release cooking smells - only a door - as they’ve gone all across the back. Prob fab for the three days of great weather you also happen to host a bbq this country gets, but it seems a design trend for a different climate.

Deep pile carpet can go do one as well. We inherited this on our staircase, and you can’t walk on it with a pair of socks without leaving a little trail of lint.

Have to Hoover way more often."

36. "Square toilets, sinks and baths."

37. "The geometric patterns with tape and paint samples."

38. "Literally everything - that's how fashion works"

39. "I hate this grey look"

40. "Shiny red kitchens."

41. "Wrapping kitchen countertops in Vinyl"

42. "Probably the radiator"

43. "I always advised against these things"

"I worked in the flooring trade for the last 20 years or so and have seen a lot come and go. Chocolate brown was popular for a while.

Greys/silvers, aubergine, striped staircases. I always advised against these things.

I had a lot of customers come back after a few years, ripping up the chocolate brown to replace it with silver etc..."

44. "I think we are past peak lights on ropes now."

45. "Terrazzo, brass, house plants & ply will be done soon."

"Also as someone else mentioned those LED light strips that some people have instead of personalities."

Trends are constantly changing, so it's possible for those who have recently renovated their homes to end up with outdated home decorations in just ten years. So, if you are thinking of making some changes in your home, maybe this post could help you to choose softer solutions and avoid regrets later.