VESSEL SINKS
Vessel sinks are aesthetically offensive, functionally ridiculous, and a prejudice against your cute petite friends.
LEATHER SOFAS IN FAMILY ROOMS
Some guy’s butt stuck to a leather cushion? No thanks.
KARATE CHOPPED PILLOWS
The karate-chop of a pillow is as dated as wearing Brut aftershave, just more offensive!
BRASS KITCHEN FAUCETS
Please stop.
ICON-ITIS
Too many iconic pieces together in one room. A Mies van der Rohe with a Herman Miller with a Saarinen is too much information at once.
FOOL’S GOLD
FAKE FANCY
Would you swing around a fake Fendi? If you can’t afford the name brand, don’t buy the knockoff.
SENTIMENTAL DECOR
We are not very sentimental, particularly if it’s ugly. Your grandmother’s Hummel figurine collection? Torch it.
ONE NIGHT TABLE
Unless you have a twin bed, not having bedside tables on both sides of a bed is not friendly and not functional, especially for the person without a place to set down a book.
BEVELED GLASS...
DRIED FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS
How, exactly, does one clean them?
POORLY DONE “MORE IS MORE”
HOTEL-INSPIRED ROOMS
The idea that a hotel room has a 'look' you’d want at home is ridiculous.
DARK LAMPSHADES
TOURIST ART
Please shop for anything at all while you’re traveling—the loudest Hawaiian shirt, snow globes, mugs. But please don’t make me hang your tourist art. If there are buses parked in front of the gallery, go elsewhere.
COMMITMENT-PHOBIA
If you use color, don't just put it on a throw pillow and call it a day. Own it.
NOT USING EVERY ROOM OF THE HOUSE
Spaces absorb energy when they’re lived in, adding a whole other dimension to design.
MATCHING FABRICS ON THE DRAPES AND THE FURNITURE
Too much of a good thing is a bad thing!
DARK WALLS...
...with white trim everywhere.
SHABBY CHIC
We’re tired of worn-out, cluttered rooms that that make you want to wipe your feet on the way out.