good taste or bad taste?

today was a "key ideas" event at school.
i misinterpreted the brief, instead of bringing in found images i brought ones i'd made. and felt silly for it.
this was my image supposedly representing bad taste:

and for good taste:

i was wracking my brains trying to come up with something, as i thought we had to come up with finished work that was going to be displayed gallery fashion. so in i came with mounted work, the latter of the two images in a frame!
i really loved the idea that the items that surround you as a child; those things in the house, help develop your own ideas of taste later on, or show you how not to decorate your house in my case.
i remember carpet patterns for example in the rented house we were living in in tooting, the mis-matched furniture, and, though i have no idea why; peacock feathers assembled fan-style on the wall.
so now, when i see peacock feathers, somewhere in my sub-conscious i remember those feathers on that wall in that rented house, with 3 floors on pretoria road, tooting.
i didn't grow up with the interior of the house being a major concern. we weren't a family that redecorated every few years or went to look at paint swatches in focus, so my ideas of what a house should have looked like came from american movies like "home alone" or "miracle on 34th street" in which houses had grandiose winding staircases and open-plan kitchen/diners with breakfast bars and a fridge/freezer with an ice-cube thing. then later ikea made simple scandinavian-esque, modern living affordable. and suddenly oak bunk-beds from argos felt so dated and i wanted a flat like the one in "ghost", natural light and bare brick, a simple leather sofa, stainless steel lamp and a sheep-skin rug. (i don't know if that's what it looked like but you get the idea, it sounds more austin powers)
now... we all want the studio apartment don't we? as a wannabe designer i'm sure everyone secretly wants that kind of an upgrade. the big black desk with the mac and the huge window overlooking some crummy place, you the designer in your own designer nook, habitat? psshh, yeh right.
anyways.. i don't really know what i'm getting at.
i've a lot of work to do.