{"id":104125,"date":"2025-08-29T11:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/104125\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T11:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:40:13","slug":"13-modern-home-design-trends-people-secretly-hate-and-hope-will-disappear-very-very-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/104125\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Modern Home Design Trends People Secretly Hate And Hope Will Disappear Very, Very Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

We recently wrote a post where people shared the modern home design trends that will likely be “outdated” very soon<\/a>. In the comments, readers revealed even more popular trends they dislike and think will probably disappear in the next few years. Here’s what they had to say:<\/p>\n

1.”I don’t get the massive two-person showers with no door. First, I don’t want to shower with anyone else, and I’ve been happily married for almost 20 years. Second, how are you not freezing in there with so much space and no door???”<\/p>\n

\u2014matrisnark<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Modern<\/p>\n

Carlina Teteris \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

2.”White kitchen cabinets. It’s blah and looks like a workplace break room.”<\/p>\n

\u2014Anonymous, 63, California<\/p>\n

\"Modern<\/p>\n

3.”If I see one more TV mounted above the fireplace, I’m going to scream. Even if craning your neck to stare upward at a screen for hours was comfortable, ruining a focal point intended for gathering near by slogging your dust-trap boob tube on top of it is peak tacky.”<\/p>\n

\u2014Anonymous, 38, Washington<\/p>\n

“Flat-screen TVs on the wall above the fireplace. Sitting lower on the couch, you don’t want to stretch your neck and keep looking up just to see your television.”<\/p>\n

\u2014Anonymous, 52, California<\/p>\n

\"Living<\/p>\n

4.”Gray interiors: walls, cabinets, floors, and trim. Houses built today have no character. The new developments I have seen look like boxed carbon copies of each other.”<\/p>\n

\u2014Anonymous<\/p>\n

“The ‘sad beige aesthetic’ has got to go!!!”<\/p>\n

\u2014Anonymous, 56, Maryland<\/p>\n

\"Modern<\/p>\n

5.”Gables within gables \u2014 those unnecessary triangles nested within a roofline gable. Ugh. It may have been ‘different’ 30 years ago, but every new house and apartment complex has them across the US. Is that really the best our architects can do?”<\/p>\n

\u2014Anonymous, 52, New York<\/a><\/p>\n

\"House<\/p>\n

6.”When kitchens have cupboards in one color and islands in a completely different color.”<\/p>\n

\u2014Anonymous, Canada<\/p>\n

\"Spacious<\/p>\n

7.”Subway tile. Yuck. It’s called that because it was the cheapest thing to put in subways! Please, designers, get over it.”<\/p>\n

\u2014Anonymous, 65, North Carolina<\/p>\n

\"Bathroom<\/p>\n

8.”Cathedral ceilings and lofts. They are massively energy inefficient echo chambers and a total waste of space.”<\/p>\n

\u2014Anonymous, 56, Ohio<\/p>\n

\"Room<\/p>\n

9.”Attempting to make your house a castle with a round room\/turret. That makes me laugh so hard.”<\/p>\n

\u2014Anonymous, 59, Texas<\/p>\n

\"Round<\/p>\n

10.”Open-concept homes have given birth to a whole new generation of child\/pet enclosures. They are so impractical!!!”<\/p>\n

\u2014Anonymous<\/p>\n

\"Spacious,<\/p>\n

Dan Totilca \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

11.”Open shelving in kitchens. It attracts dirt and grease and needs high-maintenance cleaning.”<\/p>\n

\u2014Anonymous<\/p>\n

\"Wooden<\/p>\n

Kirpal Kooner \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

12.”Carpeting and fake anything.”<\/p>\n

\u2014Anonymous<\/p>\n

\"Spacious<\/p>\n

And finally…<\/p>\n

13.”There are no architecturally redeeming white box houses with black windows. They are super ugly!”<\/p>\n

\u2014Anonymous, 59, Texas<\/p>\n

\"Modern<\/p>\n

Joe Hendrickson \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

Note: Some responses have been edited for length and\/or clarity.<\/p>\n

What other popular home design trends do you think will seem “outdated” very soon? Tell us in the comments, or if you prefer to remain anonymous, you can use the form below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We recently wrote a post where people shared the modern home design trends that will likely be “outdated”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134,528,75107],"class_list":["post-104125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-getty-images","tag-white-kitchen-cabinets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}