All this to say: Plaster walls look really bad. 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. 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 “fuck it!” I appreciate whimsy*, but I won’t stay silent any longer; these chairs need to go. *Nothing says “I’m a chill, whimsical gal” more than angrily shouting “I APPRECIATE WHIMSY!!!” into the void. 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 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. Most of all, it just looks bad. This is just one of many terrible trends that we can trace back to HGTV, though we shouldn’t absolve the reclining leather couch industry of their culpability. But don’t worry, boys, I’m not trying to rob you of your fun entirely. If you need a non-gendered place in your home to relax and unwind, you still have plenty of options, including but not limited to: rec rooms, dens, libraries, studies, offices, living rooms, family rooms, and home theaters. But despite what Boys Like Girls and Taylor Swift would have you believe, two is not always better than one. In this case, it’s a rich person’s monument to excess and performative consumerism; the only conceivable use for a second kitchen island would be when the proletariat rise up and need extra space to prepare the rich for consumption. HGTV once again bears a large portion of the blame for pushing this trend on the masses, but ultimately it doesn’t matter who’s responsible; the fact remains that open floor plans are offensively impractical. Bad smells, sights, and sounds carry from the kitchen to the other open areas with no resistance, and these designs don’t allow for privacy or solitude.
- You want to feel like the captain of your bathroom and these walls contribute to the realism in some way???
- 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.)
- You just discovered SeaShantyTok. I Ranked 133 Celeb’s Bathrooms From Best To Worst, And I’m Honestly SHOCKED By How Many Are Ugly And Dysfunctional
