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I must say, I don't like a lot of things, as everybody knows. Very high ceilings, rooms with no doors, all the house with a big, large warehouse look where all the rooms get together, industrial style, too much grey in decoration, lack of privacy in the kitchen assuming that it's a public place and every guest and friend goes there and stays.

Antique furniture spoiled by corse paint. Old shutters outside windows, making pannels inside homes, as inside decoration. Ladders as towel rails. 

Oh I could carry on.

I don't like most house find and transformation tv shows where, in the end, I think the house is worse than before they began but everybody applauds and even sheds some tears.

Too much people. Wine - well, a little sip of Port or Madeira wine it's ok. Coffee. Extroverts. Political correctness (this I abhorre). Going with the flow, following trends, in clothes and in homes. Or ideas.

Summer with its hot weather and people trying to look their worst showing too much body. Beaches with women showing their bare bottoms - I wonder why they think the others are interested in their backside. But on this, anyway, let them be grotestque, I don't go to the beach anyway.

As I don't intent to please and I show myself as an intolerant woman who dislikes most things that almost everybody likes, if somebody is reading this, now he (she) is wondering if there is something in this world of God that I like. Yes! I do like a lot of things, it's just that I don't follow any trend and I always row against the tide, not because I like to do it, but because I dare, I have the nerve to be different from the madding crowd.

So, now I will show some things I like. Yes, there are a lot of things that I like. - I can't post now about everything I like but I intend to show, slowly, what I like on the course of several posts - not in a row.

Here I go.

Photo by The New York Botanical Garden - Houzz

Flowers, roses and others. Plants that are not succulents - yes, succulents are another thing that I don't like. Lavender.This I like so much.

Ferns.

Photo by Linda L. Floyd, Inc., Interior Design - Houzz

Traditional looking homes. Cottage style, the real one, in the kitchen, with a mix of farmhouse and shaby chic. Or craftsman for kitchens and all the house.

Photo by Ri-novo - Houzz

Shaker style pannels on the cupboards. Subway tiles as splachers.

Photo by Seattle Custom Cabinets - Houzz

Photo by Ri-novo - Houzz

The sink must be overmounted, I don't like undermounted.

The colour white if it must, or cream, that I reeealy like, 

Photo by Ben Herzog - Houzz

and wood tones, but the ones who give a sturdy look, not the soft wood ones.

Photo by Kitchens of Los Gatos - Houzz

Photo by JACK ROSEN CUSTOM KITCHENS - Houzz

Green, that I accept.

Photo by Rosewood Custom Cabinetry & Millwork - Houzz

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Traditional and Victorian style in the bedroom.

Photo by Linda L. Floyd, Inc., Interior Design - https://www.houzz.com/

In the Livingroom:

Photo by Linda L. Floyd, Inc., Interior Design - Houzz

And to finish, just look to this amazing house.

It's how I like things.

Credits under the pictures.

Partying at Homestead Blog Hop.

Some things I don't like

https://www.bobvila.com/slideshow/15-reasons-to-think-twice-about-an-open-floor-plan-52554

There are some things in houses that I can't stand. I recognize the right that some people have to like those things but that doesn't mean that I have to like it also or to pretend that I like, just because most people do.

So now I will say what are those things.

1 - Open space concept.

I can't stand it !!! I usually say that I dont't hate anybody but as this is not a person, just a thing, I think I can say: I hate it the most my soul can bare to hate something.

It comes to my mind that the person is so poor that can't afford a proper house so he bought a warehouse and dumped everything he had in that. No walls, no doors, a mix of livingroom, diningroom, entrance, hall and kitchen all in the same chaos.

I like walls, rooms, doors, corners, cozy feeling and privacy.

No, to have children is not an excuse, I had several and I could be in the kitchen and them in other room near by. Yes, I couldn't see them but I could ear them. When children are silent, something wrong is happening, unless they are sleeping. So, provided that I could ear them, I could be in the litchen or another room, there was no need for knocking down walls and have everything in a big, amourfous open plan.

2 - No walls and door between the kitchen and the dining room and living/familyroom.

A house has rooms: bedrooms, livingroom/familyroom, diningroom, litchen, bathrooms, halls and so on.

One thing is the kitchen, another is the livingroom.

The exception I can accept, if I have to, is to put together the livingroom and the diningroom. That is the most I can have, more than that, is not possible for me.

https://franceandson.com/blogs/recent/an-open-and-shut-case-the-pros-and-cons-of-an-open-floor-plan

3 - Very high ceilings, in such a way that, instead of having two floors, one has only one. 

Such a waste of space ! And the look of it it's most unpleasent too. I can't stand it.

https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/churches-converted-into-houses-apartments.1730747/

4 - To transform churches, big or small, in homes, restaurants, libraries, you name it. 

That really gets on my nerves! That, for me - and not only for me - it's the ultimate abomination.  How can people sleep and eat in a worship place ? No, it was not a worship place in the past, it is always.

5 - Modern decoration.

Cold, not cozy, nude, minimalist.

That's true, people has the right to like all those things I can't stand and present it as a beautiful thing. The same way I have the right to not like it and tell the world that I think those are ugly things. It's just that I am sick and tired to see it presented as the only right way to do it.