17 Modern Home Design Trends People Secretly Hate And Never Want To See Again
I like living in the modern world in terms of home design. There are so many good, cool things about it, but with it comes people who hate on some of it. Maybe we peaked in terms of design? I don’t know, but many of them make fair points. If I see anymore gray wood floors, I’m gonna lose my mind. And don’t get me started on shiplap.
These modern home design trends are ones people secretly hate and never want to see again. Some were trendy for five minutes and overstayed their welcome. Others were questionable from the start. Either way, people have had enough.
1. “Let’s talk about home designs (floor plans). Any time the attached garage connects to the house through a bedroom, a closet, or some other weird connection, that is ridiculous. A garage needs a mudroom connection where you can drop your coat, take off your shoes, etc. It should be close to the kitchen so you can leave the groceries.”
2. “Pot fillers. How much pasta are you boiling anyway?”
3. “Super tall cabinets. Being only 5’1″ tall makes it impossible for me to reach the cabinets that are above the refrigerator space. Total waste.”
4. “I hate the bland white/grey look with white furniture and no character — and adding a little bit of trim to pretend that they have paneling. If you want paneling, get the real thing. I prefer real wood floors over laminate, although I admit the latter are often more practical. Everything looks the same nowadays.”
5. “Granite countertops: They’re hard on the dishes, too. Set something down a little too hard, and shards everywhere!”
6. “Cooktops with NO OVERHEAD VENTILATION. Seriously: WTF.”
7. “The DIY limewash people are doing with regular paints. Looks great in the right environments or with certain styles like modern Mediterranean, but it’s only timeless in certain regions lol. Like, why does your new build farmhouse have the walls of a Spanish villa?”
8. “I can’t for the life of me figure out why the microwave is mounted directly above the stove. The outside of the microwave collects moisture from the stove’s heat, which then drops into my food cooking on the stove. Yuck.”
9. “Low armless oversized furniture. Impossible to get out of and bad for the back. Also, beds with hefty frames around the mattress — shin bruisers.”
10. “Shiplap everywhere. It’s nice in small doses, but whole walls of it will feel dated soon.”
11. “I hate open-concept houses. I do not want to see the back of my house before I even step through the front door. I like houses that have either full doors I can close or doorways so I know when I’m leaving one room and entering another.”
12. “Indented tile grout.”
13. “Ridiculously huge islands. You will never seat eight people there — unless your house is a diner. I just signed up for Discover+ and saw a 15-foot island in a narrow kitchen on Restoring Galveston. No. Just no.”
14. “Sage green. And I say that as someone with two rooms painted sage green. I think it’s an inoffensive and natural color that goes with a lot of different tones, but I’m always seeing that recommended when people ask what color they should paint their cabinets, doors, living room, bathroom, bedroom, siding — it’s everywhere.”
15. “Open-shelving in the kitchen looks messy and hard to keep clean. Cabinetry works so much better.”
16. “Anthracite-coloured window frames giving funeral parlour vibes. Hardwood is beautiful but expensive and needs maintenance, so stick to white uPVC — it won’t date.”
17. “The weird, same greyish, brownish floors that are in every single house and apartment.”
