Please Hate These Things: The Instagram account dedicated to the ugliest homes

Instagram, as a social media platform, is widely known for its devotion to beauty. Scroll through and you’ll likely beautiful people wearing beautiful clothes, sometimes holding beautiful children in beautiful landscapes.

But one account, Please Hate These Things, is bucking the trend. Conceived by interior decorator Dina Holland, the account aims to document every awkward, atrocious, poorly-conceived indoor decorating idea gone wrong. And we mean, seriously wrong.

From the fireplace that looks like the devil, to life-size porcelain dolls, and stairs made of hair, the result is hilarious, and deeply offensive to the eye.

“I did a story about ‘trends I don’t like and hope go away’ and that sort of morphed into things I hate,” is how Holland explained the account’s inception to Metro.co.uk.

“It really resonated with my followers because I started to receive dozens and dozens of messages of things that they hate, often accompanied with photos.

“As I shared more and more of them over the coming days, I realised that I just couldn’t keep doing it because it was taking over my normal beautiful interiors feed.”

That feed, @honeyandfitz, is where Holland, who runs her own interior design business from her home in Boston, US, posts her serious work, and inspiration. But with 32k followers, it’s less than half of the 73k of @pleasehatethesethings has.

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Stairs leading to nowhere is a design flaw that can happen to anyone, but a shower that sprays directly into the toilet? A blood-red dining room with matching chairs? How do these atrocities come to be?

“It’s a lack of communication between the designer and owner,” says Holland. “As a designer, people hire you to have an opinion,” she says. “I think a lot of younger designers don’t have the confidence to go in [to their clients] and say, ‘No, that’s not the right look.'”

The result is fodder for Holland and her followers. Like the tiny home theatre, complete with chairs, that is tiled like a bathroom, but looks on to … the kitchen?

Or the basin that seems to double as a shower, with no discernable corresponding taps, just a collection of knobs on the side, looking like some sort of wall acne. Although there is a bin, so let’s put that one down in our gratitude journals.

Or, perhaps the bedroom, filled with taxidermy, many of which are mounted on the wall, so that the overall result resembles a horror movie directed by Wes Anderson. There’s a curious symmetry to the deer heads, though, which will undoubtedly make for some high quality “winding down” time before sleep.

Then there’s the laundry room, which looks as if it doubles as a storage space for cult leaders to hide hostages. Hey, at least those super-long night gowns will be clean!

Holland does, from time to time, hear from critics who accuse her of being mean. But, as she points out to them, nobody forces a person to decorate in this way. And often, they’re doing it because they have the money, (although, clearly, not enough sense).