I’m an interior design pro – four trends that make your home look dated, including matte black kitchen cupboards
WHEN it comes to home design, it can be pretty overwhelming making the choice on what overriding feel you want your place to have.
And it’s a really important decision, given how your house is decorated can have a huge impact on how easily it sells should you put it on the market, and how much it could potentially fetch.
So one interior designer has put together a helpful video of the interior design trends that you ought to avoid if you don’t want your house to look dated or dirty, and accidentally knock a small fortune of its value.
Jordan Samson is an architectural whizz specialising in virtual home design, and has racked up nearly 100k followers on his TikTok account @JordanSamsonDesign, where he regularly shares his top tips.
In a recent video, he informed viewers of “the worst interior trends” that he regularly sees people opt for, without realising just how problematic their choices are.
His first no-no are “matte black kitchen cabinets with no hardware”.
Although the swanky style looks super modern and sleek, they get “fingerprints, handprints and footprints” all over them, making them an absolute nightmare to keep clean.
And there’s surely nothing less appealing than a grubby kitchen covered in smudges!
His next feature to avoid is a vessel sink: a design where the basin sits atop a vanity counter.
“Don’t get me wrong, these look beautiful,” the interior whizz admits, “but cleaning them is a nightmare.”
“The crevice between the sink and the countertop and that back wall is gonna collect a lot of grime and gunk,” he points out.
“And depending on size, there can be issues with splashing.”
The same goes for free-standing tubs, Jordan says, because they again leave hard-to-reach spaces in the bathroom where dust and dirt will inevitably accumulate.
His last tip is to avoid grey-wood floors, because he points out “wood is not meant to look like this, it’s meant to have a little bit of warmth to it”.
Because of this, “it appears very soulless and almost plastic-looking”.
Another issue is versatility, because adding any warm furnishing around it “will clash with the undertones”.
The handy clip amassed a huge 200k likes, with viewers flocking to the comments to share their opinions on the controversial design elements.
“Free standing tubs…” one wrote. “Can’t understand why people still do this, how they don;t think at all about anything beside the looks.”
Another agreed: “Yes, the goddamn grey floors in every apartment these days absolutely kills me.”
“Outlaw grey wood flooring,” a third joked.
But some were a bit more receptive to some of Jordan’s blacklisted trends.
“Matte black kitchens when ‘clean’ are stunning though,” one wrote in their defence.
“IMO grey floors are great-looking,” another insisted, “and honestly go with everything.”
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