[Closed] The avocado bathroom suites of the future

Grey window frames look far better than white ones on sandstone houses (mine are white!)

White epoxy stone driveways.

LED soffit downlights.

Electric gates.

Those composite doors with the big sweeping curve of glass panels.
Peak naff 😂

Wood burning stoves
Hot tubs

Oh and houses without a dedicated WFH room.

False grass

Grey houses.

Looking out the window at the short terrace opposite, leftmost has had a full remodel / extension and painted the outside light grey with anthracite windows.

Next three are in the original pebbledash / brick combo with varying degrees of paint.

The grey house looks rubbish, and out of place. They've also got a grey door like the one above...

Room-width muti-fold doors.

Grey Windows and Doors on newer houses definitely. They're already looking 'out of fashion's.

Do some people still write Live Laugh Love on the wall?

Grey houses.

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Bifold doors in the UK. Bring the outdoors inside.....15 minutes a year.

Do some people still write Live Laugh Love on the wall?

From what we've seen on Rightmove recently, most definitely so!

Massive telly on the wall

bifold doors
blue led lights.
polished concrete worksurfaces/sinks in the kitchen
poorly constructed damp and unused garden offices that need to be dismantled and carted awaywhen you've bought a new house.
frosted glass
those composite doors kayak mentioned. Who the hell designs them.

LED soffit downlights.

No need to wait for the future, these already look crap.

Oh, and reeeeeeeaaaaaally gloss kitchens.

LED soffit downlights.

I'm glad someone mentioned these. What a waste of electricity. The serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever.

We just replaced all of our windows with new anthracite grey framed windows.

Those "designer" doors is a good shout. There's a few round here that have replaced their original Victorian or Art Deco door with some horrible modern thing. Looks totally out of place.

Glossy kitchens = folk that don't cook.

Kayak, agreed, that's awful.

We just replaced all of our windows with new anthracite grey framed windows.

People thought their bathrooms were nice at the time 😉

Anything that's a trend will eventually be considered naff, after all the home improvement industry needs to keep selling you new stuff. So yes, grey window frames, and also the slightly naff cream windows that they put on new builds round here. Bifold doors. Kitchen islands. Fake chimneys. Crittall windows and doors are probably going that way too which is a shame as I quite like them.

When we bought our (1979 built) house we had an avocado loo downstairs and a peach Melba bathroom suite.

Sadly both were functionally fine and we had to live with them for a few years till they worked their way up the priority list.

Bifold doors in the UK. Bring the outdoors inside…..15 minutes a year.

we don't all live beyond the wall...

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LED soffit downlights.

I’m glad someone mentioned these. What a waste of electricity. The serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever.

Depends on how they are done. I’ve noticed some that are completely overdone and always on, but I installed some over the garage door and front door linked to a flush mount PIR so they work as security lights but are invisible from the street.

The lights that project a beam of light up and down the wall however...

That and dark grey bathroom tiles the size of Wales are likely to be the avocado suite of the 50s

I put soffit lights in .....above my back door over the step.

I like them. But then there are only 2 and they are there to illuminate the step. Surrounding the whole house in them isn't cool.

Oh, those extensions to houses that are clad with wood, and untreated, left to go grey like an auld pigeon hut!.

I think if you combine everything already mentioned and add ripping up hedges and grass to replace with astroturf and always using your awful ugly BMW X6 to hoon through the village you've pretty much nailed our excellent new(ish) neighbours

White UPVC is truly a scourge. Grey at least hides the fat frames.

Any frames over an inch deep need to be black.

Room-width muti-fold doors.

Yes with associated drop in thermal performance especially when the seals get dragged out, destroyed and left out.

i disagree with the grey windows, most of the time it always looks better than white apart from on georgian buildings but they are usually in conservation areas anyway.
i had to have reddy brown to match the rest of the building rubbish 80’s wooden double glazing, would have had grey if allowed.

plinth lights and their pelmet cousins.
wondering how long institution bathrooms with coloured grout will hang around?

Definitely the glossy kitchens imo. I don't see how bifold doors will though.

I think grey windows can look pretty classy, depends on the house finish I suppose.

Absolutely those “modern” front doors. Screams “I’ve seen a modern house on grand designs and I want to make my 1950s bungalow the same on a budget of £800. Also I have no sense of style or design”

i think the single biggest housing monstrosity of the last 30 years is the conservatory.
either too cold or too hot apart from that weekend in the spring where it’s nice and bright and feels like summer is maybe on it’s way and then for another weekend in autumn where it feels just right when outside needs a thicker jumper.
the worst ones are the round pointy country house style stuck on the side of an 80’s semi.

got to hand it to the sales people though, you convinced an awful lot of people to buy something useless.

LED uplighting

Open plan spaces. Families will want rooms where you can shut the door and read without being in the same room as somebody cooking, somebody else watching telly and another person playing XBOX.

Laminate flooring.

Massive kitchen islands.

Oh, those extensions to houses that are clad with wood, and untreated, left to go grey like an auld pigeon hut!.

Seen my house then aye.

Better things to do than paint wood every other year.

And didn't want more concrete to look at.

Are plantation shutters on the list?

Checking for "a friend"

I'm in the process of changing to grey windows. Looks so much nicer than the shit white thats there at the moment.

Just had a loft conversion and that clad in grey so it'll all match nicely. Looks lovely against the shade of red brick we have. I like the fact that there is so much more choice now, white is just shit and old school fake wood is bloody awful. Old stone houses with nice shades of green are nice as well.

I'm also having a bi-fold door to the kitchen as a full width one gets in the way. Normal door width but bi-fold.

Also have double patio doors on the back that we are increasing to 3 door width.....

White tiles with grey grout in the en suite? Oh yes....

Kitchen won't be shiny though.

In six months time... Garden offices. aka the shed where you can see all your shite dumped in it.

I’m in the process of changing to grey windows

...

Just had a loft conversion and that clad in grey so it’ll all match nicely.

That's what the people who put that bathroom in up there said -^

I like bifold doors, good for parties.

Also like grey framed windows on old houses, but not new.

Those doors are naff and live laugh love is atrocious. Also not a fan of woodburners, novelty that wears off after a week.

Better things to do than paint wood every other year.

Lol, they're everywhere round here!

Fitted carpets.  What a stupid idea, give me underfloor heating and an easily cleaned tile or whatever surface.  One day we will look back on the fitted carpet and say yuck

That’s what the people who put that bathroom in up there said -^

😂😭

I'm hardly Laurence Llewelyn Bowen, but if I had to guess.

Grey windows, erm... probably. They look better than white at the moment, but they could become very dated in a few years, the problem with window frames is they look pretty terrible in white, we just got used to them. There were a few years when people had wood effect ones, which just look horrible now. If Grey goes out of fashion, there's not many places to go. That said one of our clients makes UPVC 'stuff' like windows / door and 'glass extensions' aka conservatories. I saw some windows there a few weeks ago with TINY frames, the effect is quite striking, on the right house I think they'd look amazing, on the wrong it'll look like an office. They're a sod to fit well apparently, not longer can fitters just tear a hole in a wall and use a load of sealant and plastic facias to hide it all, but they certainly catch your eye.

Grey in general, spent the last year decorating and generally fixing up our first home. Mrs Jay choose all the colours, I warned her, but she's a lot happier than me to rip out perfectly good stuff when it's no longer fashionable, but I'm living in a monochrome nightmare. I've got Elephants breath on the walls, stormy morning on the floors, polished pebble in the bedroom. We're redecorating the eldest's room at the moment... yep, it's going to be Grey, after that one of the living room walls is going to be 'French Grey'. I've really tried to avoid too much grey in permanent stuff.

Gloss White Kitchens, every house we went to see that was either 'nice' or freshly renovated had these glaring bright, white kitchens, white everything, even counter tops. Every time I saw one I thought it would look pretty crap unless you kept it immaculately clean and would probably wear quite badly.

Hot Tubs / sex ponds, like large enclosed trampolines, they went from aspirational middle-class must-have to everywhere, to about as desirable as a discarded shopping trolley next to a rusty old banger on bricks on the front lawn in a few short years.

Except mine which still heats my house after 4 years 🙂

Am reading with interest as I plan to build a new house soon.

I fancy an avocado bathroom suite mind, bound to come back in fashion soon.

Edit to add, the log burner post I was replying to has vanished.??

gonna go out there and even though i have some on order.

surface mount solar panels of any ilk.

itll all be about the roof tiles and those of us with surface mounts will be considered retro and old fashioned 😀

Lol, they’re everywhere round here!

tell you what - its not a price thing - the timber , stainless screws, prep and time cost more than throwing some dash at it - probably by a factor of 2.

The people we bought our house off had an obsession with sage it appears. Front door is sage, kitchen is sage with dark wooden worktops. They spent a fortune and it looks ‘nice’ now, but I think it’ll date quickly.

Also every part of the kitchen is expensive but underperforming. Not enough cupboard space, oven is awkward, the hob is a bit small and the solid wood worktops look nice but they need looking after which is ok if you do it. They’re only 3 years old and are looking iffy in places. Our old kitchen was 12 years old and still looked new.

Not a fan of the front door in particular. It’s not got a real handle in it, you need a key to close it from the outside, and it won’t close without locking. And it’s green

Those taps that are open at the top so you can watch the water flow out.

Also, square toilets. We aren't made of Lego.

No-one has mentioned these yet:

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My sister's landlord in London recently put matte black taps in her bathroom. She is thrilled at the prospect of cleaning the limescale off every 30 seconds.

Open plan. As mentioned above, why would you want your messy kitchen in the living and dining room.
We put a wall back up, when we moved here 14 years ago to avoid all that. Although we do have a dining kitche.

Agree on gloss white -its horrible, my missus wanted that, thankfully we havnt been able to afford the kitchen yet and the idea has thankfully faded - still wants stupid waterfall marble worktop though.

agree on stoves as well, unlss they have particle traps on..

leave bi-folds alone - i have a lovely set at 7m wide, i havn't noticed much thermal issue with mine, tiles can be a little cooler but not by much.

why would you want your messy kitchen in the living and dining room.

You could always tidy the kitchen, ya filthy get 😉

I fancy an avocado bathroom suite mind, bound to come back in fashion soon.

For ultimate hipster-cool, you want to get a multi set -
green toilet, blue sink, pink bath...

Anybody else ticking off the list?? 🙂

Carpets? HArdly a flash in the pan fashion item surely? Hard floor in the bedroom / living room - nope.

Exposed larch woodwork turning scruffy? Check.

Said scruffy woodwork painted at about 8 years old....grey of course. Check.

Woodburner? Two. Used daily currently. Local stove shop doing good business since 1976, so again, not really a short lived trend. Can see how that may be different further south.

Garden room / cabin. Planned for this spring, now that the kids are of age to get rid of the large enclosed trampoline (check) Trampoline is around 18 years old now, proper Triggers broom affair.

The hot tub craze is the one which I think will lead to the most dust gatherers in time.

Agree on the glossy kitchens, just daft.

That door up there - wtf?? Horrible.

To the list, I'd like to add K-Rend and similar.
I actually think that used in moderation it looks fantastic, really sharp. But, give it five years or so and it's porosity / roughness means that moss starts creeping up the wall. Using it on a horizontal surface will accelerate that pretty dramatically.

Maybe not in the living room but I don't want a separate dinning room unless I have a huge house.

Grey windows
Instant boiling water taps.

Metro/ subway tiling.

Awful.

large stainless steel house numbers

(usually on a freshly greyed house)

Aye, open plan is awful, rented a lovely 3rd floor harbourside flat when we were waiting on a previous house being built, it was open plan, never again.

Instant boiling water taps.

I've got one and its bloody ace.

I'm hoping in the future the WTF will be;
"What's this head height power socket / cabling / hole in the wall? Wait, what!?!?!!" People used to mount their TV's up there - did they only watch TV standing up?!?!"

Grey everything; even the Farrow & Ball colour consultant I talk to recently said "anything but grey. It's over"

Nowt wrong with grey, done my living room in dulux urban espression (matt grey), kitchen (soft sheen), bathroom is (soft sheen). Although to be fair it did take me 20+yrs to get any paint on the walls since I moved in so I guess this will do till I get carted out in a box

Georgian houses should never have white windows, I've done a number of projects both on listed horses and also designed new historically accurate facades and they should be Broken White (is slightly cream/ off white), or a dark color such as black green.
Hmmm... Our bathroom has white mosaic with anthracite grout (a synthetic grout not cementitious).

Do some people still write Live Laugh Love on the wall?

My cousin has a lot of that sort of thing going on in his huge soulless house

He also drives a white Range Rover

Bifold doors in the UK. Bring the outdoors inside…..15 minutes a year.

This is really not true. If it's warm and not too windy our bifold doors are open - in fact I'm amazed at how much we used them last year... maybe it's a lockdown thing.

Grey windows - hmm maybe, but my guess is that grey windows have been around a lot longer than white windows (I'm not sure white paint could even be made initially), so it's not exactly a new thing.
I do agree that they can be done badly though!

Glossy kitchens = folk that don’t cook

Unless it's the kitchen that came fitted in a new build house. How I love spending more time cleaning greasy hand prints off the cupboards than actually cooking.

I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet so I'll offer,

Feature walls.

You know, where the entire room is new-build magnolia save for one wall, or part of one wall even like the chimney breast, that looks like an explosion at a Dulux factory.

Wet Rooms. What sort of sociopath wants to shower in an open room with water going everywhere.

Anybody else ticking off the list?? 🙂

Metro tiles check, square bog check both in our recently refinished cloakroom - replacing the 1980's taupe suite that I actually quite liked

Modern houses that look like visitor centres.

Does monoblock count or has that already had it's day?

I think composite decking will be the next thing, lasts forever but tastes don't so will be landfill fodder in a few years. At least the wooden stuff could be burned when it fell out of fashion.

Folks have the wood effect PVC with white harling, utterly hideous. We have it on the extension in a much less orange tone and it looks okay but the harling has more of a brown tone through it anyway.

Oh and on the subject of "Live Laugh Love", random adjectives connected to the room they are placed in. I've frequently threatened to place "pish", "burn", "gouch" etc. in their respective rooms when we sell up just to keep things interesting.

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Metro/ subway tiling.

Check

Feature walls.

Check (living room is grey forward to back and green side to side)

My next door neighbour is ticking most of these boxes

Garden Office, artificial grass, led lights in the soffits, hot tub, grey composite front door.

Also just bought a dog, pretty sure you can guess the breed.

He's actually a lovely bloke, just maybe needs to give up the subscription to Better Homes

Artificial grass + dog + summer = *boke*

I like bifold doors, good for parties.

Never be used again then

Glass balustrades on the stairs - especially if they forgo a handrail.

My next door neighbour is ticking most of these boxes

Garden Office, artificial grass, led lights in the soffits, hot tub, grey composite front door.

Also just bought a dog, pretty sure you can guess the breed.

He’s actually a lovely bloke, just maybe needs to give up the subscription to Better Homes

Iainc finally moved in next door?! 🙂

I like that house up there, a damn site nicer than 99% of new build housing

Open plan. As mentioned above, why would you want your messy kitchen in the living and dining room.

This - advertised as being "great for entertaining". Also great if you like your soft furnishings to stink of curry and chip fat.

I was momentarily tempted to go for one of these recently

But common sense prevailed as there aren’t many days when I would ever want to stand and admire the sideways drizzle over the Peak District.

I'm a little bit concerned about how many of these things we have in our house.

Glass balustrades - tick
grey window frames - tick
Boiling water tap - tick
Wood burning stove - tick and second tick
Wall mounted TV - tick
Open plan Kitchen / diner / back room - tick (but we do have separate living room as well)

I don't have a sex pond but we do have a sauna, does that count?

Crittall windows and doors are probably going that way too which is a shame as I quite like them.

We have Crittal windows - look nice in a Poirot-esque stylee but I am freezing my ass off cos they are single glazed and I can't afford to replace them with double glazed, and the council won't allow me to replace with anything else 🙁

This has just turned into 'things I don't like' rather than things that won't age well.

I lived in an open plan house in Canada for a bit and it was bloody great. Probably less great with our comparatively tiny houses though I guess.

I like that house up there, a damn site nicer than 99% of new build housing

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