I'm Calling It — These 12 Heinous Interior Design Trends Are Officially Dead To Me

If you're anything like me, you've wasted countless hours of your life watching Architectural Digest videos and HGTV shows.

A GIF of a guy jokingly say that he's practically a Property Brother

They're just SO addictive.

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Over those many hours, I've formed A LOT of opinions on which interior design trends look good — and which can eff off forever.

One of the Property Brothers saying Got to go
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There's a great big world of ugly home design out there, so I made a list of the 12 most revolting trends that I never want to see again.

Elaine from Seinfeld screaming, I hate it

1.Limewash plaster walls

Depending on the color and texture of plaster walls, they look either like a mistake or like an incredibly stoned college student took a single coat of primer-less paint to their cinder block dorm room, realized they only had 20 minutes before the dining hall closed, and booked it out of the room without giving the walls a second thought.All this to say: Plaster walls look really bad.
In the interest of being fair, this picture is an example of plaster walls that don't totally drag down the beauty of a room. Still, this is the exception, not the rule.Note: I'm only offering praise up top to show I have the capacity to love. I will not be this forgiving of the other trends on this list. Proceed with caution.

2.Curved plastic chairs

This trend was popularized by the Herman Miller Eames Molded Plastic Side Chair, and it's one of the most offensive trends on this list. Not only are these chairs ugly (in my opinion), but they also wage active war on the spines and lower backs of the world (allegedly). And if protecting your spine doesn't matter to you, congrats on being 22.Even the highest quality versions of these chairs look exceedingly cheap, and they harken back to a period in interior design history when the general vibe seemed to be

3.Glass furniture

The recent rise of
Even when glass tables don't have corners, they require constant cleaning because of how easily they smudge. Also, glass coffee tables are so breakable that Seinfeld dedicated a whole plot to their impracticality.*cue bass outro* What's the deal with glass furniture? I think we should call it ASS furniture, because owning it makes you look like an ass. *entire audience starts crying, screaming, pissing, shitting, and throwing up* 

4.Floating stairs

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Not only are floating staircases ugly as sin, but they're too easy to trip on! My general rule of thumb for stairs is "if a drunk person has a decent chance of making it to the top unscathed, these are good stairs." Obviously, this trend doesn't pass the ̶s̶m̶e̶l̶l̶ stumble test.

5.Generic word art/Rae Dunn products

A cupboard full of Rae Dunn products
Home decor that says home

6.DIY foam furniture

The TikTok youths are at it again with horrific DIY furniture made out of expandable Big Gap Insulating Sealer foam (aka the same foam my landlord used to fill in all the holes where bugs entered our apartment).Thankfully this trend is already on its way out — presumably because people took one look at the furniture they ruined with a thick layer of toxic industrial foam and realized they'd been duped by Big Hardware.
Even when foam furniture is done well, it still kind of looks like something went wrong on the assembly line! (And

7.Bouclé

For those who aren't familiar with this trend, I envy you. But to catch you up: Bouclé furniture is made from special loopy yarn woven into fabric that's lumpy and textured. It looks like if DIY foam furniture was professionally made. It looks like the cheap leggings I bought on Amazon that started pilling after a single wear. It looks like someone released an entire animal shelter's worth of cats and dogs into a furniture depot and said,

8.Man caves

A man cave with a dart board and arcade games

9.Double islands

I have to assume the inventor of double islands had a thought process that went something like this:

10.Open floor plans

Kitchen and adjacent Breakfast nook and living Room
An open concept bathroom
  Robert Nichols/Boston Trust Realty Group
Robert Nichols/Boston Trust Realty Group

11.Shiplap

The closer you are to a beach, the more shiplap becomes an acceptable design choice. But if you don't live near a shoreline, I genuinely do not know why you'd want shiplap in your home. My working assumptions are:1. You want to feel like the captain of your bathroom and these walls contribute to the realism in some way???2. You just read Moby Dick and making shiplap look good in your non-beach home is your own personal white whale. (I wish you better luck than Ahab.)3. You just discovered SeaShantyTok.
No matter your reason for shiplapping, it's time to accept your landlubber status and put up some statement wallpaper or slap some paint on the drywall underneath.

No matter your reason for shiplapping, it's time to accept your landlubber status and put up some statement wallpaper or slap some paint on the drywall underneath.

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12.All-neutral rooms

A bedroom with neutral colors

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What interior design trends do you hate? I want to read your wild rants in the comments below! 👇