*sigh*
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 9:04AM nothing feels fresh or new to me anymore.
this month's house beautiful sealed the deal.
specifically the cover.
everything about this space feels dated to me.
the popular fabrics look like grandma farted them out.
and i am all for mixing several patterns together but this is fucked up.
and i don't even know what to make of the art..
i think i am just beyond over the arrangement.
the art itself isn't bad.
but this not-so-fresh-feeling emanating from my design vagina is making me angry.
bored.
itchy.
my friend raina tells me that these magazine spreads are shot sometimes months in advance, maybe a year even..
which seems entirely fucked up to me.
a year ago i might have liked this room.
ok maybe not but you get the point.
the real problem here is that as a design blogger i need inspiration or else all of my posts are going to be tv show recaps (trust me i know some of you wouldn't mind this one bit but that recap shit takes tiiiiiiiime).
so i thought today would be a great day to post some of the shit i hate or that is starting to give me chronic vaginal dryness...
and after i want you to do the same.
in the comments section i want you to tell me the shit that makes your eyes bleed.
and along with that comment post a link to a picture of it.
and what i will do is take the pictures and do a follow up post..
i am pretty sure we can change the universe this way..
blogging is powerful!
ok?
ok, here we go!
numbers 1 &2:
art with words and/or letters in them AND hung in a clusterfuck arrangement. let's stop calling it "gallery style" it makes me murdery.
#3:
yep. sunbursts.
done.
and i HAVE ONE!!!!
look!!
rest assured i just punched myself in the face.
#4:
bar set up on a bar cart.
i am not over the bar set up entirely..
i think it is functional
(though i haven't poured a drink from mine one time)
therefore it doesn't make me too too filled with diarrhea madness.
instead i like this option:
a chest of drawers.
love.
#5:
these fucking train station subway bus stop things.
i have been over these for a long time.
in fact i think i liked them for half a second.
done.
and on furniture too???
FUCK YOU!!!!!
#6:
these fucking banner garland things used for anything other than a fucking party.
in fact just about every crafty handmade home decor is on shaky ground with me.
in fact etsy can go fuck itself.
ooooo i'm angry!!!
#7:
while not a design trend it is a word a lot of you design bloggers use.
and you are dead to me until you stop using it.
this is how gay you are:
there are more.
lots.
i know you got 'em.
let's hear it!!
Reader Comments (215)
Keep Calm & Carry On. If I see that one more time I may slit my throat.
I'm sick of ugly flowers in a room, like orchids and hydrangeas specifically. I'm also sick of anything shabby chic, yak!
Poufs....I hate them. Pouf! Disappear!
I kinda a little like that first picture but the art doesn't work with it and is throwing the whole thing off.
Can I say I'm over the blogger moms who spend a lot of time linking to crap I've seen on the other blogger moms' site? And it kind of pisses me off that they're making money on this crap (and I'm not). I could name names but I don't want to .. but half of them are Mormons!
Nate Berkus hype, I'm over it but every fucking blog I go to is not that's why I like yours because you don't talk about the same shit others do.
Big Fakity Fake Clocks. I know this has been over for a while, but they continue to plague me.
yes!! keep that shit coming. i agree with all of you so far. though i am not sure what a "big fakity fake clock" is...are you talking about the mora clock?
like this:http://www.trendey.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/swedishantiques.biz_1.jpg
My butthole squinches up every time I hear the phrase "pops of color." I don't know why, but have a strong reaction to hearing/reading that over and over and over again. Like the concept; hate the phrase.
http://tinyurl.com/2b8gwho
xo
I'm soooo tired of happy-hands-at-home “crafty chic”.
oh yeah i almost forgot my most hatred of all hatrisms, pretty books bought simply to look pretty on ones coffee table. Why the fuck would you buy a book simply because it looks pretty but have no intention in reading it, it's mojones on top of more mojones.
Time to step away from the magazines and the blogs.
Fugly is in the eye of the beholder.
xo xo
and so many things that seem WAY out and keep popping up in Lonny-style mags and blogs. Like enormous mirrors leaning against a wall. what's up with that?
Bloggers who scan and post pictures from design mags before mine has arrived in the mail - but NOT YOU in this case... I felt the same way when I saw the new HB cover when I was visiting my mother. "That room is freaking hideous", I said, and she responded, "I'm glad you can see that, dear".
Have to agree about shabby chic and foo dogs are starting to make me hate real dogs. Go away!
I hate the color dusty rose.. I HATE dried eucalyptus that collect dust. I hate Tiffany lamps.. This post made me happy.. I just broke up with a boyfriend of 4 years last night... he makes my eyes bleed
Sunburst mirrors. foo dogs. "vignettes" on people's coffee tables. UNPRACTICAL decorating. why the fuck do I want to put a piece of driftwood, a stack of peguin classic books, a small vase of peonies, and a decorative lucite box smack in the middle of my coffe table?! I eat dinner on my coffee table. Afterwards I cover it in bottles of wine and ashtrays and then, maybe I'll even clip my toenails on it. A cluttered coffee table makes no fucking sense.
I also hate people who stand directly in the doorway of the bus even though they're riding all the way to the last stop. Do you really need to be there? With your wedgie and your cup of Starbucks. So that everyone has to fight their way past you? Get syphillus and die. Wait.... is this only decor related?
Amazing post and I love the comments. I am kind over this chevron craze. Enough already:
http://www.saksfifthavenue.com/main/ProductDetail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524446216528&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=282574492703449&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=1408474399545537&bmUID=1244583880101&ev19=1:6
Lets talk about those shelves in the shot of your house, so cool!! How about you share more impressive Casa MFAMB pictures? Those are new and interesting!
Sorry, should have said Big Fakity Fake Clock FACES. Like this:
http://www.ballarddesigns.com/jump.jsp?itemType=PRODUCT&itemID=12728&fromNewSearch=true&mercadoResultId=7
Still loving the swedish longcase clocks...
Ditto ditto foo dogs, sunburst mirrors, "Keep Calm" posters, bus signs! They're not bad individually; it's just when they show up everywhere you start to feel like they're the overplayed song on the radio. Visual "Macarena"!
I would add the "For Like Ever" poster and ... even the Chiang Mai dragon and Imperial Trellis [ducking head to avoid flying bricks]. They're SO pretty, but they're EVERYWHERE! Bar carts make me wonder who is gonna dust all those bottles.
That train station black and white room is the most jarring room I think I've ever seen! How could you possibly relax in that room? Could you imagine how disoriented you would feel in there after a few drinks? That image makes me want to throw myself (or the designer) on the tracks!
Moss Balls in a bowl, random fruit in a bowl (for a color pop) THINGS IN BOWLS, OVER IT! Also, when I read the phrase "outside the Box" it creates a giant burning hot fireball inside my box!!!
Ok it's official. I don't like your language. Nonetheless you have got me reading. I saw a keep calm and carry on pillow at Bed Bath and Beyond, and I am so so beyond. Also, I personally am over the whole "Domino" look thing. Graphic prints, lucite and zebra with an antique chair mixed in. It was original once. Ok invoking beloved Domino in a less than positive way. That is Rad (sorry). Lynn from Decor Arts Now www.decorartsnow.com
Pottery Barn, Restoration Hardware's giant furniture, staged homes for sale, that creepy u-verse wormy thing in comcast's infinity commercials, Better Homes and Gardens when it has more make-up, clothes and food than homes and gardens, HGTV's real estate programs(bring back the decor), any recent issue of Architectural Digest, Kelly Wearstler(don't shoot me please), that annoying guy from Man Shops Globe and the ugly stuff he has made up to sell in Anthro, the stupid names anthro gives to their clothes like Lepidopterists top and chalkboard paint.
In Domino's defense, they'd be over Domino by now too and doing something good (and bad -- they always had both).
AND STYLING! Where to start -- I'm over balloons and fake mustaches and "cute" weddings with hipster guys with beards and straw in their teeth looking at their tattoo'd bride in an organic hay field... in the rain. And then the pictures of just their feet. And then the picture of just their joined hands! Bah hum bug to the hipster wedding and the following hipster baby crap. And also tattoos. And all that goth script font.
Antlers. Any of them. Anywhere. Want to rip them off the wall and impale the person that hung them in the first place. I will not post a picture because that would be just spreading more fugliness in the world.