Home accessories from hell – Part 11

Pia Seidel

12-3-2025

Translation: Veronica Bielawski

We all know that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. However, some items from our range put the question of taste to the test. Welcome to Part 11 of my personal interior design nightmare.

Open, unorganised boxes

My personal home organisation ick? Patterned square boxes with no lid on open shelves. At best, they belong in your kid’s room; they’re the epitome of handy – if by handy you mean dust magnet.

White boxes are the worst of the bunch, becoming yellowed over time as you have to constantly pull them out by their handle. A home accessory that looks like a coffee spill survivor after just a few weeks? No thanks, I prefer something that’s actually low-maintenance.

My tip: invest in furniture with doors and closed storage space. This will keep your chaos hidden, and you won’t have to deal with dusty floral patterns.

Lint magnets

In winter, many people pull out their fluffy fleece blankets or, as I like to call them, hair, crumb and dust magnets. I’d rather freeze to death than snuggle up under one of them! What’s more, these fleece blankets seem to come in the most garish colours, like runaways from an 80s colour catalogue.

Honeycomb hysteria

Ah, photographic wallpaper covered in a geometric pattern – the ultimate answer to the question, «How can I turn my home into a mathematical puzzle?» Sure, it’s meant to be an eye-catcher. But it seems more like an eye test for people wanting to gauge their tolerance for geometric shapes before feeling like they’re trapped in a kaleidoscope.

Of course, this is all just my opinion. Perhaps these wallpapers are exactly what your inner geometry buff has always longed for. But I’m over it since leaving school. In any case, I don’t want to have to maintain a certain viewing distance just to avoid being trapped in an optical illusion.

Pia Seidel

Senior Editor

Pia.Seidel@digitecgalaxus.ch

Like a cheerleader, I love celebrating good design and bringing you closer to everything furniture- and interior design- related. I regularly curate simple yet sophisticated interior ideas, report on trends and interview creative minds about their work.

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