Nightmarish decor: interior design mistakes and horrors to be avoided

There are some mistakes that should not be made in furnishing a nice house. It is true, of course, that "de gustobus non disputandum est" (i.e. there is no accounting for taste) and everyone should be free to furnish and decorate their home as they see fit. But it is also true that there are certain standards that cannot be ignored if you want to have a home that is considered to be in good taste or aesthetically pleasing.

Yet there is no shortage of examples of houses decorated in absurd ways. If you don't believe this, or have no direct experience of it, check out the samples we have collected for you below:

A very kitsch toilet seat, full of various decorations and designs, has no earthly reason to be in the bathroom that is struggling to be labelled as tasteful.

In the same way, a Baroque bathroom made of polychrome marble and gilded finishes, can only be considered as totally excessive and gaudy.

In the jumbled mess shown in the photo - between paintings with unlikely subjects placed randomly on the wall and objects of different styles mixed up without care - there is nothing that could be called a piece of furniture. This room just seems like a set of things thrown together at random.

The head of a stuffed deer is an iconic piece, especially in rustic houses and mountain huts. However, it is quite anachronistic and old-fashioned practice - not to mention that it can be quite creepy.

What can we say about porcelain dolls? There were a few decades (long ago) during which displaying dolls indoors was truly classy. Today, this is not the case. And when the dolls don't even look nice, the result can be truly chilling.

Even this "French court in the time of the Sun King" style kitchen is far too Baroque for anyone living in the 21st century with any taste at all.

And finally, here's a bed that would have been anachronistic and exaggerated, even back in the 1980s, let alone today. Defining it as kitsch is probably an understatement.

Would you ever choose any of these decorative, furnishing styles for your home?