Worst home decorating idea EVER!

[hedgehog]

I saw a show a few weeks ago in which they glued turkey feathers all over a wall. It was completely covered. It's an interesting texture, no doubt, but how in the world would you ever keep it dusted and clean? Can anyone top this?

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Sounds like a Trading Spaces Hildy design

She is an absolute nightmare on that show.

Saw one time when she glued cheap silk flowers all over bathroom walls, another when she screwed old vinyl LPs all over one wall, and another when she used peel 'n' stick wine lables to decorate a kitchen's walls.

Had I been the homeowner in any of those episodes, I would hae been pretty pissed.

[hedgehog]

2. Silk flowers in the bathroom!?!?!?!

Sounds like a recipe for mildew city!

[eleny]

4. Remember her straw covered walls?

I read that the family had it all removed and it cost them a bundle.

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. Oh yes! it was a little kid's room

When someone remarked that the kid would pick the straw off the wall, Hildy's response was something about to just tell him not to and then it won't be a problem. :eyes:

[troubleinwinter]

8. I remember it. It made me sick. It was a wonderful craftman style

home. If they'd done that to my home, I'd have spilled some blood.

You'd think that part of 'design' would be preserving the unique beauty of a period home.

I can't watch the show anymore. Glueing old record albums to walls isn't design. Gack.

[troubleinwinter]

9. Now I'm confused...

STRAWS??!!! Gawd. I was refering to the straw/hay stuck all over a wall & ruined a nice Craftman style (c. 1915) home.

[tammywammy]

10. I remember that episode

It was horrible, those poor home owners. And weren't those flowers stapled to the wall too? Can you imagine the horror taking them down.

But in a slight defense of Hildy, she did do a few rooms that were really nice. When she wasn't "experimenting," I liked a few of her designs.

[China_cat]

11. Sounds almost like the time my favorite ex-husband's

next wife striped the bathroom with fingernail polish.

[133724]

17. You obviously didn't see the one one with Moss.... n/t

[hedgehog]

18. Moss? Sounds like the set to a fantasy movie?

Live moss might be interesting; you'd have to keep spritzing it for maintenance!

[On the Road]

20. The Mad Magazine Parody

had her nailing live frogs into the wall to create an "outdoorsy" feel.

[eleny]

21. I haven't read Mad in too long

Looks like they're still on top of things!

[Warpy]

3. Just when I think it can't possibly get any worse

another Trading Spaces airs. They're not the only ones, either.

I guess design schools don't bother considering maintenance and the probability that styles will change, houses will change hands, and people will want to get the crap off the walls and do something else. They also don't consider that antique furniture might lose considerable value of they slap a coat of paint on it and then sand all the edges to make it look--tada--antique.

As an allergy sufferer, my pet hate would be those fabric draped walls. I'm also not fond of the trend to smother a bed in a pile of ornate but uncomfortable and useless pillows. I can't imagine having to pitch them off the bed at night and spend time in an already hectic morning trying to retrieve all the suckers and replace them. Also, what's with those candles and why do they place so many of them so that they'll char a shelf above them? Also think about those basins set on top of granite and used as bathroom sinks. Can you imagine cleaning around their bases after a year or so? Toothbrush city.

A turkey feather wall would top it all. I can't believe some screwball did that and some other screwball thought it was the least bit attractive.

[hedgehog]

5. I hate the basins on top of the granite also.

My sister claims that people that can afford them hire someone else to clean their bathrooms, so they never consider maintenance! All I can imagine is someone slipping in the bathroom, slamming a hand down on the edge of one of those basins and slashing their wrist! I think the design came from a concept design and someone decided they wanted one in real life.

[The empressof all]

7. I almost got a pedestal sink when I remodeled my bath

Then I realized I'd have nowhere to stuff the stuff. I need my vanity sink...Thank you very much. I do think that the basins on top of the counter are very cool looking but in the long run I think it's a trend that will look very dated in a few years.

[NMDemDist2]

12. this thread got me thinking about those basins on the top of the counter

and I ran thru what I use that sink for

washing hands
brushing teeth
washing face
washing out sweaters and other delicate items

going thru the mechanics of those tasks in my mind, I'm thinking those basins would be difficult to use without making a mess every where and bruising my upper arms as I tried to splash the water on my face. same thing with washing sweaters, talk about slopping water everywhere

i'm thinking the look is nice but they probably aren't very practical

[bleedingheart]

23. I stayed in a luxury hotel that had those sinks...they suck

perhaps it is how they were mounted...but as water poured out...it splashes onto the surface around it...and onto the user...which means instead of washing my hands...I got water on my blouse...

they look cool...ergonomically speaking they sucked...

[Warpy]

15. My bathroom is 5x8

I'll get the pedestal sink. I will also get a real linen closet instead of the piece of crap the builder put in back in 1946 which would make sense only if I were about a foot and a half taller. It's a total space waster and I've wanted to take a crowbar to it for 11 years, but am waiting until I find a willing contractor and decamp to a furnished studio apartment for the duration.

I can live without a kitchen, but not without a bathroom, and mine is a blow up job.

The only advantage to the pedestal sink is that it makes the room look a little less squashed together.

[ebayfool]

13. Whoops - you've named 2 of my pet peeves w/my clients!

I'm a housekeeper & both of my main clients (2x & 3x weekly homes) have those sinks & the pillow mountains ... pains in the arse they are, too!

The pillow cases alone make a full load in the wash every week in each house, then you go on to the sheets. That's not even including the 'decorative' pillows, shams, bedrolls, etc. No one could possibly need 8 danged pillows to sleep, lol! Looks bitchin' when I've made it up - but the pillows stay on the floors & chairs (or where ever they happened to land) on the other days that I'm not there to make the beds up. On the other hand ... I'd love to sleep in a bed w/those 1200 thread count sheets. That's the ultimate in bed luxury! :rofl:

The sinks. I hate 'em. Flat out, unequivocally hate 'em. And you're right - it does take a toothbrush to clean them well!

One of these days I'm gonna snap on the spitter, though! It ain't THAT hard to miss the faucet spout (or the mirror!) when you're doing the rinse & spit after brushing your teeth! :spray:

[Mist]

14. I think that's a rerun--saw it a while back. A fluffy beige-feathered bedroom--all I could think

was A)how the hell do you dust/clean the walls, and B)wouldn't it make those homeowners sneeze all night?

To djmaddox1: back in college, I cleaned houses occasionally and was astonished at how many people apparently like to look at themselves in the mirror while brushing their teeth. Windex alone doesn't work!

[Warpy]

19. Razor blade

The best way to get rid of flecks is to scrape them off with a razor blade. Using Windex or just plain water just smears them around. The mirror gets cloudy eventually from the abrasive in the toothpaste.

[Pathwalker]

16. You must have missed the wall glued with Mirror shards.

They took MANY mirrors and broke them, then glued the shards all over the wall, stacked on top of each other so that the points all pointed up. No, I am not kidding. Can you imagine cleaning THAT?

[BlackVelvet04]

22. Hildy did a kitchen with

the walls covered with Sunflower seed packages. It was ridiculous.

[Mist]

24. Hildy also did a "wine-theme" kitchen with dozens (hundreds?) of wine labels

used as wallpaper. The couple who were her "team" said that's a no-go, they're dry (the couple whose kitchen was being done). Hildy said but that was her design and she was sticking to it. Naturally, the "dry" couple were speechless when they saw all the wine labels. "This really doesn't work for us," the wife said, which was an understatement.