15 Design Solutions That Are Hopelessly Outdated

Furniture sets, glass blocks, multi-level ceilings... There are many ways to show how outdated your design is. Below – the hit parade of the most popular ones.

Furniture Sets

Any set of identical furniture in the bedroom or living room simply screams how long it's been since you last updated your interior. The trend of combining furniture in different styles persists in recent years and shows no signs of fading.

However, fixing this oversight can be fun! Try mixing your sets with country-style ones, or if you don't have another home, trade with a friend who has the same problem.

Multi-Level Ceilings

This recent fashion makes the room feel heavy and is utterly inappropriate for small apartments. Today, designers strive for simplicity and vote for flat surfaces.

Glass Blocks

This structure reveals that the renovation was done in the 1990s. Today, in living rooms, light airy partitions and portable screens are used instead of blocks, and in bathrooms – glass. Thick blocks consume space, which is why they remain in the past.

Gypsum Partitions

Popular in the 2000s, they are no longer in favor today. Artistic arches in narrow hallways, ornate false walls and niches – there is no better way to show how outdated your design is.

Granite Everywhere

In the early 2000s, every second kitchen was finished with dark granite or similar. This once-popular material has become a design cliché. Today, kitchens are decorated with less capricious and expensive materials. The color can be chosen any way you like!

Wardrobe

Convenient? Yes! Old-fashioned? Very much so. Modern designers have come up with many creative alternatives, and storage solutions are soon to become a separate science.

Shower Cubicles

Once, hydro-massage, bird songs, radio and lighting in the shower delighted us as small children. But we got tired of it rather quickly, and the shower cubicle stayed.

Today's trend is simplicity. Glass partitions and good water pressure – that’s all you need. This also applies to corner bathtubs with jacuzzis.

Marine Motifs

Anchors, ropes and shells should return from our living rooms back to the beach. Yes, it was trendy recently to turn a bedroom into a cabin, but such an atmosphere quickly leads to seasickness. A resort vibe can be captured without piling sand into vases.

Unified Style

Today, matching a handbag to the color of the lacquer – that’s nonsense. The trend is light carefreeness, which also applies to interior design. When everything is matched in one style, it becomes boring. That’s why eclecticism is so popular.

Bar Counter on the Kitchen

Oh, one of the favorite pastimes of the late 1990s: installing a part of a pub at home. It was trendy, it was cool, but if you don’t host parties every weekend and your hobbies don’t revolve around tastings, then a bar counter is not for you.

Stone on Walls

Not the best way to blend with nature or make the design eco-friendly. Natural stone is expensive, and most people use artificial one. It looks cheap, takes up space, and carries no functional load – so it's time to bid farewell to this trend!

Showing Off Luxury

Ampir, baroque, classicism – historical styles ruled the design world for a long time, but to implement them tastefully, at least sufficient space is required. In our apartments, we often see the following picture: A bedroom where for a person there are two paths between a bulky bed with golden embellishments and a substantial dresser with carved details, and between this bed and a wardrobe with intricate handles.

Cheap Stained Glass

Yet another legacy of the passion for luxurious interiors. Vinyl colored film and images of molten glass? In this case, better not at all than even a little bit.

Recessed Lighting

They have been replaced by LED backlighting. It saves space and money.

Eclecticism

Ten years ago, you could impress imagination with an interior like in a sheikh's palace or a maharaja's residence. Today, such a setting would cause confusion. Arabic and Indian motifs are now used more for accent placement.