{"id":844,"date":"2021-02-04T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/?p=844"},"modified":"2021-03-08T18:33:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T18:33:46","slug":"five-significantly-overused-design-elements-that-need-to-be-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/interior-design\/five-significantly-overused-design-elements-that-need-to-be-stopped\/","title":{"rendered":"Five significantly overused design elements that need to be stopped"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/five-overused-design-elements.jpg\" alt=\"Five overused design elements\" class=\"wp-image-864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/five-overused-design-elements.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/five-overused-design-elements-600x306.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/five-overused-design-elements-768x391.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/five-overused-design-elements-940x479.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/five-overused-design-elements-150x76.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you remember that song that you loved so much you listened to it on repeat for weeks because it spoke to you on a spiritual level and basically became your theme tune?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You also know then how at some unspecified point in time you went from loving said tune to being unable to stand hearing it at all, and only after a couple of decades had passed were you able to hear the opening bars on the radio without switching stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, that\u2019s what these five significantly overused design elements are to home decorating right now. They\u2019re \u201cDon\u2019t Speak\u201d circa the mid-to-late 90s, or for the slightly younger readers, Sk8er Boi circa the mid-to-late Noughties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gwen-Stefani-no-doubt-dont-speak.jpg\" alt=\"No Doubt - Don't Speak\" data-id=\"847\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gwen-Stefani-no-doubt-dont-speak.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=847\" class=\"wp-image-847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gwen-Stefani-no-doubt-dont-speak.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gwen-Stefani-no-doubt-dont-speak-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TR3Vdo5etCQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">No Doubt &#8211; Don&#8217;t Speak<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Avril-Lavigne-Sk8er-Boi.jpg\" alt=\"Avril Lavigne - Sk8er Boi\" data-id=\"848\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Avril-Lavigne-Sk8er-Boi.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=848\" class=\"wp-image-848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Avril-Lavigne-Sk8er-Boi.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Avril-Lavigne-Sk8er-Boi-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TIy3n2b7V9k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Avril Lavigne &#8211; Sk8er Boi<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019re dead, is what I\u2019m saying, they\u2019re just not yet in the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the colours and elements that are still absolutely everywhere you turn and freely available to buy in the shops like they\u2019re still a thing, except that now said shops are more or less exclusively Poundland and Wilko rather than Conran and Selfridges, possibly filtering down to the reduced section of Homesense if you like a higher class of out-of-date tat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, with the usual caveat that talking trash for a living is how I pay the bills and that listening to my advice is likely to get you banned from TK Maxx (no really, I have a story), read on to learn the five most significantly overused design elements of 2021 that need to be stopped immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pink flamingos<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pink-flamingos-interior.jpg\" alt=\"Pink flamingos interior\" class=\"wp-image-866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pink-flamingos-interior.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pink-flamingos-interior-600x306.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pink-flamingos-interior-768x391.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pink-flamingos-interior-940x479.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pink-flamingos-interior-150x76.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Flamingos are objectively trashy, and trashy interiors stuff is totally fine as long as the whole trashy concept is part and parcel of the point, and everyone involved is in on the joke. If it\u2019s being used ironically, in homage to the 60s, or because it\u2019s so trashy it\u2019s cool, this is 100% fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pink flamingos were totally on point with this, right up until around late 2019 or so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, they\u2019ve come full circle now and are no longer trashy-cool, they\u2019re just trashy-your-skirt-is-too-short. Remember kids: A flamingo is not for life, just for summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rose gold<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/rose-gold-interior.jpg\" alt=\"Rose gold interior\" class=\"wp-image-868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/rose-gold-interior.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/rose-gold-interior-600x306.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/rose-gold-interior-768x391.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/rose-gold-interior-940x479.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/rose-gold-interior-150x76.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rose gold though, honestly. I get a bee in my bonnet about this one because much as 90% of everyone who thinks they hate Turkish Delight has no idea what real Turkish Delight actually tastes like (Cadbury carries a significant weight of responsibility here and I honestly think that Turkey should sue) 90% of what is peddled as \u201crose gold\u201d looks nothing like the shade of actual honest-to-God rose gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even the majority of actual rose gold jewellery on sale these days is a kind of neon flamingo pink shade (segueing me neatly in from my first point there). Worse, when it comes to the rose gold shades used for mass-produced goods like trays, shelves, and as you\u2019re no doubt aware, literally anything else, no two \u201crose gold\u201d coloured things look the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I own an actual antique rose gold brooch that I inherited, and let me tell you, the colour of that is beautiful. Put it next to anything you could buy under the header of \u201crose gold\u201d in an interiors shop today, however, and you\u2019d probably think the colour of my brooch looked like yellow gold in comparison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Real rose gold is not pink. Pink is pink. Stop buying \u201crose gold\u201d coloured junk, you\u2019re only encouraging them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Duck egg<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/duck-egg-interior.jpg\" alt=\"Duck egg interior\" class=\"wp-image-870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/duck-egg-interior.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/duck-egg-interior-600x306.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/duck-egg-interior-768x391.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/duck-egg-interior-940x479.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/duck-egg-interior-150x76.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sticking with the theme of colours, I am sure no introduction is needed for point three on my hitlist: duck egg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m galled about this one because I was into duck egg before duck egg was a thing. I am also that self-important friend that only like the popular artiste\u2019s earlier work, and who thinks that the book was vastly superior to the movie. So now that everyone else has duck-egg-everything too, well, I\u2019m not allowed to like it anymore, am I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also in a similar theme to rose gold, what actually is duck egg? Ask ten people to point at \u201cduck egg\u201d on a colour swatch and there\u2019s a fair to middling chance that no two of them would point at the same square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike the whole rose gold purist thing I have going on though, I\u2019m not claiming to have any better idea about what duck egg is actually supposed to look like than the next person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, just looking up from my laptop right now I can pick out six individual items around me that were all sold to me as \u201cduck egg,\u201d no two of which are the same shade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn\u2019t say I was good at interiors stuff, just that I was opinionated about interiors stuff\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Palm leaves<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/palm-leaves-interior.jpg\" alt=\"Palm leaves interior\" class=\"wp-image-874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/palm-leaves-interior.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/palm-leaves-interior-600x306.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/palm-leaves-interior-768x391.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/palm-leaves-interior-940x479.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/palm-leaves-interior-150x76.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Often paired with your pink flamingo but also a popular standalone design element for everything from feature walls to mobile phone cases is palm leaves. Like said flamingos, palm designs started out with good intentions, harking back with a sense of nostalgia to those glamorous tropical air travel holidays of the 60s that few of us are both old enough and from breeding stock rich enough to have actually enjoyed at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Flat-faced dogs (especially in sunglasses)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, flat-faced dogs, or to give them their scientific term, brachycephalics. French bulldogs, pugs, and to a lesser extent the rather less camera-friendly English bulldog as a design element is one of my personal bugbears, and has been since when they were indeed actually new and cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why? Well, right now it\u2019s partially because French bulldogs and their other snuffling relatives as a have been done to death as a design element, but because both right now and from the absolute advent of \u201chey let\u2019s put a dog that can\u2019t breathe on a billboard to shill mugs,\u201d the thing hasn\u2019t sat right with me on a moral level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>French bulldogs, English bulldogs, and pugs are often bred to have such highly exaggerated facial features that they quite literally can\u2019t breathe or do normal dog things comfortably and without risking oxygen starvation or overheating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I get that they\u2019re also some of the most popular breeds in the UK, loads of you own one, and I\u2019m absolutely unleashing a world of potential pain on myself here by stating the facts, but it is what it is. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bva.co.uk\/take-action\/breed-to-breathe-campaign\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">The BVA has my back on this<\/a>, and if you really love dogs (and especially if you own and love a flat-faced one) well, you should too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I clearly have a soapbox issue about dogs being deliberately bred with crippling deformities, but what\u2019s the issue with them being plastered in character form all over prints and homewares though? Well, I\u2019m so glad you asked. 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