Your design gives me the fear

Hello my name is My Friend’s House and I’m a Cretaphobic. To save you Googling, that’s a fear of chalk. To be honest it’s chalk and the accompanying board. Brrrr. I got through school somehow, but then my chosen line of work – the interiors racket – turned out to be full of them too.

Blackboard

So it’s with a mix of revulsion and amusement that I bring you this new blog, focused entirely on stupid uses to which stylists – and presumably some homeowners too – put this dusty and dubious design feature.

Chalkboard tumblr

Chalkboard

What about you? Any interiors trends that collide with a phobia of your own…?

Chalkboard

7 Responses to “Your design gives me the fear”

  1. Malika
    June 13, 2012 at 9:20 am #

    My interiors phobia is the fondness for lettering – large gilded letters propped on mantelpieces, on walls. Even worse if they spell LOVE.

  2. Emma
    June 14, 2012 at 10:19 am #

    …and mine is crockery with text on, e.g bowls that say PASTA, and mugs with COFFEE emblazoned on – hideous tableware tyranny!

    • myfriendshouse
      June 16, 2012 at 6:22 pm #

      Malika AND Emma – thank you. That’s three different kinds of writing-as-decor that we’ve given the thumbs down. I hate all of these things. Tableware tyranny indeed!

  3. Nora
    June 15, 2012 at 11:42 am #

    Oh yes. I do not like to see or touch parts of dead animals in interiors. So the cowhide and taxodermy trends have hit me hard.

    • myfriendshouse
      June 16, 2012 at 6:23 pm #

      Nora me too! I never want to walk on cowhide rugs – it seems disrespectful and slightly creepy.

  4. Yvonne
    October 16, 2014 at 5:54 am #

    I don’t like gallery walls. I may be in the minority here.

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