15 Popular Home Design Trends People Think Will Be Considered “Outdated” In The Next Few Years
1. “Modern farmhouse. It’s just an excuse for builders to use all cheap finishes. Shiplap was never it.”
—Anonymous, 40, Texas
2. “Houses painted all black. They look spooky at night. It’s like they seem to disappear. They also stick out like a sore thumb in the neighborhood where other houses are colorful.”
—peacefulgiant748
3. “Primary bedroom closets that require walking through the bathroom. Who thought it was a great idea to keep clothes where it’s humid and smelly?”
—Anonymous
“Why are modern builders putting closets THROUGH the primary bathroom? Who’s asking for that? I don’t want my clothes getting damp, mildewy, or smelling like a bathroom…“
—Anonymous, Wisconsin, 29
4. “Gold fixtures. Ugh, it’s so ugly and does not look sophisticated. It’s tacky, tacky, tacky.”
—casualking314
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5. “All-white kitchens with no shades or curtains, and the obligatory stainless-steel appliances and matching trash can. No privacy, and no personality! Too sterile; not cozy or inviting at all!! People pay designers big bucks for a room that looks like a science research lab! Why should anyone want to live like that???”
—Anonymous, 67, Massachusetts
6. “Granite countertops. They’re easy to ruin and hard to repair. Expensive to replace.”
—Anonymous, 65, Arizona
7. “A small laundry space where the door to the garage and the house bang into each other.”
“Also, an open-concept bathroom in the main bedroom (door to toilet room only).”
—Anonymous, Nevada
8. “Multiple materials on the facade of a house: bricks, fake stone, wood, and plaster. Ugly!”
—Anonymous, 60, Texas
9. “Oversized, step-up, corner soaking tubs with jacuzzi jets. They take up way too much space and are very difficult to get in and out of!”
—Anonymous, 74, California
10. “All the gray, brown, and black. Those blocky sofas and chairs; they’re cheap and ugly. This climate is dreary enough in winter, so I go for color and cheerful colors.”
—Anonymous, 83, Idaho
11. “Totally open concept. My kitchen is in the living room. It’s OK for the dining room, but some sort of partial close-off would be nice for the kitchen. I purchased a good-sized, decorative screen that I can move around to cut off the ugly bits — dirty cooking pots, etc. — that are left out to get a warm dinner on the table.”
—Anonymous
12. “Vinyl ‘wood’ floors. Vinyl siding. Vinyl windows. Tacky, unhealthy, and environmentally naive.”
—Anonymous, 48, New York
13. “Stainless appliances. Been around TOO LONG. There is no other choice in appliance colors. It’s a product of all those home renovation shows that want their content to be less dated. No, I don’t want to go back to avocado, but cream maybe?”
—Anonymous
14. “Rain shower heads. They are absolutely useless.”
—kzich84
And finally…
15. “The horizontal multi-colored thin tiles for kitchen backsplashes. Busy and ugly. Though I found some very soft blue and white ones, I put them vertically in my shower, and it looks like falling water.”
—Anonymous, 49, Washington
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Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.
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