I have more sympathy for the one about bad architecture. Unless I specify “Make the outside of my house look like the USS Enterprise!” I want the architect to know what they’re doing. If they add a certain type of column or type of roof I want them to know the history of what those things are FOR and why one might add them. So even if they’re for decoration, make them look like they COULD be functional.
But once that same blog started complaining about how people decorated or arranged their furniture they lost me.
ETA: Erm… I want my architect to know what they’re doing even IF I tell them to make the house look like the Enterprise. Just in that case their job is to do what I said, not know how to make it “tasteful.”
