20 Popular Home Design Trends To NEVER HAVE...If You Hate Cleaning!

Today I’m sharing the 20 home design trends to never have – if you hate cleaning! Watch all of the videos in this series here:    • NEVER Have These 20 It...   Click here for a clean & tidy home!    / @tarynmaria_

The open shower is also much colder, the heat escapes.

I don't cook a lot of messy stuff on my stove but when I do, I prop a large baking sheet against the wall so grease and splatters don't hit the backsplash. Makes it much easier to just wipe down

Agree with you 100% on all of those items you listed. Sometimes designers think so hard about aesthetics that they forget the practical purpose of what they are designing.

And I have quartz counter tops that look like marble. I’ve spilled so much on them -no stains.

The open shower reminds me of a place we stayed in Italy that lacked a shower curtain. No matter how careful you were it was a mess. I can’t imagine dealing with that every day!

Good points here. I was sad to see the slatted walls, but when you mentioned they could be hiding places for critters, I was with you.😲🕷 Regarding the maximalist point, I think collections in general are not a good idea. My grandmother collected salt & pepper shakers and she was always trying to pay my cousins and I to clean & dust them. My mom collected earrings and displayed them on corkboard but grime and dust were too difficult to keep up with them. I used to be a collector of nautical items but shells and related items were a pain to keep clean, so I no longer keep collections. All my knick knacks are good sized and and easy to dust. Thx for the video.🙂

Another viewer commented that "Sometimes designers think so hard about aesthetics that they forget the practical purpose of what they are designing". This is so true. I'm going into the interior design field, but I'm also very practical! Anything you bring into your home has to be easy to clean! I agree with all of your choices, but one: I would rather clean the two mirrors in the bathroom over the two sinks. The oval shapes of the sinks and the mirrors complement each other so well. Also, I have marble on the walls of my shower. Big mistake! Marble is so delicate that you need a special cleaner so you don't ruin the finish. High maintenance! Thanks for your videos!

So true! 2 mirrors in bathroom, UNPOPULAR OPINION I add too that 2 sinks, 2 faucets in the bathroom. You double the cleaning by putting every think twice in the bathroom! 😅 very nice video 💛

I had a wood coffee table with a glass insert. When my son was small, I took the glass insert to glass shop and had them make an acrylic piece to replace the glass.

Our house is easy to clean. Real hardwood floors, no rugs, no upholstered furniture, minimum hardwood furniture, clothes are hund up, and nothing on surfaces. Use a boat varnish for real hardwood floors in bathroom and kitchen. The boat varnish seals the hardwood, it becomes waterproof and long lasting.

Thank you! I feel so seen! I always evaluate everything if it is easy to clean.

Thanks again for making it "okay" to not have some of these design trends in my home. You've saved me so much time and money! 😅

Love your detailed analysis of these trends, and how they just cause more housework! The vertical slatted wood wall trend made me smile...deifinitely something of the suspense movie about what's going to start creeping out of those crevices when the lights are switched off :)

I pulled out shower doors some years ago and, yes, went to curtains. Much easier for me at 77 to keep clean.

There was an open shower at a hotel I was recently at. It felt so stark & kind of creepy to me. Like the walls were staring at my naked body. I like my fabric shower curtain & liner. They keep the water in the shower. I like being able to throw them into the washer & dryer once a week.

They had that half wall in a hotel and I still manage to soak the floor. Lol

This is another awesome list of hard to clean items. Did you ever mention exposed brick walls in any of the other videos? The dust (and cobwebs) must be incredibly difficult to remove from them.

Maximalism can also be likened to the Baroque period--they did the same thing with painting and sculptures in Baroque churches. Too much to look at.

I love tile in bathrooms, but I am on team large tiles after cleaning grout for 2 hours on a tiny bathroom floor with so many tiny tiles 😂