Tasteless friends, what is the name for mismatched furniture style?

Frasier called it eclectic.

Eclectic?

Emily called it eclectic on [italic]the Bob Newhart Show[/italic].

^ except it sounded as if she was saying "egglectic"

"Poor".

"Student".

"Straight guy".

So far it seems to be from the Invisible School.

Eclectic implies a sense of sophistication and intention

I'm talking about a style that just randomly gathered crap over the years, like the Connors' home in Roseanne. Is that still eclectic?

I actually eclectic if done right.

That's tacky R7.

That's a WASSILY!

Agree, look up 'eclectic'. Doesn't mean it looks good, it just means it's a mix of old, new, exotic, fun, funky, and differing ideas and styles. It can easily come off looking like a cyclone hit or someone took a bad acid trip.

fat whore durr

I think it's called Most People's Houses.

R5- straight guy! PMSL

Pics please OP to give us some ideas.

I mismatch furniture intentionally.

Eclectic is better than matchy matchy.

Eclectic, studio or cottage style, bohemian are other descriptions.

Uh, like when we had the IKEA bookshelf alongside a Louis XV fauteuil in Frogmore Cottage?

That was so neat and relatable!

I believe the TFs thread from yesterday shows "tacky" eclectic perfectly.

Carefully curated furniture and pieces collected throughout the years....some hand me downs from family. The WASPy way to put it.

Everything matching screams amateur, first home, or nouveau riche.

Plenty of examples of eclectic here. The point is, the pieces are 'quality' and none are OTT.

Link here to R21

It’s called harlequin for some reason in my family. Not furniture, but dishes, silverware, linens etc were called “harlequin sets” by the now deceased older generation.

Ask Nate and Jeremiah, they don't suggest "sets" of living room or bedroom furniture.

Old money.

Hodgepodge.

modern farmhouse

Shabby Chic?

Everything matching/co-ordinating suggests unoriginality, Nicholas Fairford with his beiges and accents of green is so basic.

R23 never look up that baby

Derelicte.

Good eclecticc.

It depends on the origins of the "mismatched" furniture.

"Student eclectic" is very different from "old family pieces with some matching pieces and others not matched and not altered to use the same 'eggplant, squash blossom and Jungle Red' color scheme Madam may wish to impose for unity."

I cringe at too-divergent fabric choices and wood types, but prefer rooms that tell me something about the then-and-now of the residents. I loathe formal drawing rooms that are unused and for which no one dresses appropriately when they are used. The former smells like last-century parvenus and looks like a 1968 Peter Sellers movie when Taylor is sitting in her cut-off shorts while Dakota in his sweats is hanging a leg over the Louis XVI chair armrest, bare foot dangling.

Talentless.