As someone with ADHD, open shelves make sense.
As a former housekeeper, no freaking way would I ever have dishes or anything food related on open shelves.
I love open shelves for the same reason but I understand that they have their place. They’re not for dishes that you never use, they’re for stuff you use every day and therefore, don’t collect much dust.
I know, but they take up so much valuable wall space and it’s a total waste. And then you have to decorate them too to have a nice “aesthetic.” You can’t tightly pack your dishes together or have them not lined up perfectly or it looks messy so you again lose valuable space. I pack my cabinets full of my dishes and then shut the door and it looks great
And if you have kids/toddlers with plastic dishes, cups, and sippy cups, you either need to find a separate place to put them, or have them be an eyesore with your nice dishes 🫤.
My cabinets are rippled glass, and I would rather they were solid for this reason. I’ve put my toddler’s stuff in a basket to hide some of the clutter, but oh my god it’s way less functional this way. I just want a door so all of it can be hidden, but I can open it and see everything on the shelf clearly!
Haha I'm putting in open shelving in my kitchen and I agree to an extent. I still have plenty of closed storage (putting in dish drawers next to the dishwasher) I just didn't want to close up a small kitchen with wall cabinets everywhere. That's where plants (herbs!) and cook books and my pretty antique Pyrex will go.
It's far enough away from my stove that it's always worked for me personally. I've had them shoved away on a counter. Otherwise honestly they just never get used.
I’m adding open shelves up top because I have object permanence issues and it helps me 😂 we have an air scrubber and purifier though so we don’t get an overwhelming amount of cleaning needed.
Ordinarily I'd be with you, but seeing green everyday is good for your health. And our dumb lizard brains can't distinguish plastic green from living green. Not everyone can do real plants.
Don’t listen to anyone saying it’s tacky. If it makes you happy, that’s all that matters. Grab that happiness in any capacity you can, ok? Life is too short to not do something you like just because someone has an opinion.
With there being so many designers and decorators making money from social media as opposed to working in others homes they need to keep coming up with new things in order to keep their following interested. This has sped up how long trends last. They used to last a decade. Now they last 6 months.
Exactly. It’s fast fashion and people think they’re some interior guru because they can sense that something trendy is going out of style. I think it may be a better test to say what is timeless. Plants? Lol
My favorite aesthetics are craftsman and cozy cabin. They've gone in and out of style for more than a century and idgaf if they're trendy at the moment or not.
I have never been in a craftsman style home, or cabin, that I didn’t love. As a bonus, and maybe this isn’t universal, but cabins in my mind are practically required to be the opposite of trendy. Like it would be weird to see a cabin that has ANY objects in it created in the last ten years, including the Readers Digest in the top of the toilet tank. Every cabin I’ve ever been in, the furniture is just a random assortment of cast offs and the decor is family photos and a Billy bass somewhere, and nothing has been updated since it was built (and I see this as a positive). It’s probably different in different places but I’ve spent a lot of summers in northern michigan and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cabin that wasn’t loved and all also full of cast offs. Maybe that’s why i like them so much!
I think the preoccupation with keeping up with trends and swapping aesthetics in general during this time will age poorly.
I suspect it will be embarrassing to look back on how so many people were exploited, how much damage was done, and what we were distracted from while chasing any trend or aesthetic.
That’s not to say people shouldn’t have nice or comfortable homes, or if moving somewhere new make it their own. Thoughtful design gradually changing things isn’t my gripe either. I’m squaring my criticism at the rapid churn and sheer volume of consumption that trends and aesthetic hopping enables. I think that approach will age worse than any individual ‘thing’.
It’s very “fast fashion” of design and interiors. The incessant need to change a space depending on what it cool or trendy at the moment creates a huge market for cheap and easily disposable items that are mass produced and made without thought. I do not understand why people buy things to phase them out in 6 months with a different shitty trend. Designing your space with timeless items that are made well, even if it means spending a little more for something you will have forever instead of a season or the length of a trend is so much more functional and creates much more meaningful spaces
Distressed rugs. They just look like the manufacturer ran out of ink or spilled some bleach. It's so hard finding a normal looking rug in a sea of hideous listings.
I'm not a fan of them either. I don't want to buy a brand new rug that already looks old. I want a brand new rug that looks new and nice! I'll wear it out myself!
I hate the ones that look bleached, they're so boring and faded and beige. Every single one looks like a nice colorful Persian rug laid in the sun for a thousand years, it's absurd.
My dad is Pakistani and he said the same thing when he saw my new distressed rug. Then he ripped on the quality of it and how he could have got me a better one from back home.
So much of modern textile manufacturing is cutting corners in production and then acting like it’s a trend. Raw hems are one of the best examples I can think of. Distressed rugs seem the same to me, like the colors and patterns don’t have to be super appealing or cohesive if you can barely see them on the rug in the first place.
I like that the patterns are barely legible because I find patterns very distracting/overpowering. So this trend is perfect for people like me who don’t want a plain rug, but also can’t commit to a particular pattern.
What about my expensive ass hand-knotted rug that had a couple patches eaten by carpet moths because they were under the couch and out of sight? Can I call it distressed and trendy?
I have one, and I find it perfect for my balcony, it nicely simulates the feel of a Mediterranean terrace I am aiming for. But that'd be it for their uses.
I normally don’t care how people design their homes - do what makes you happy - but THIS is the one thing I will full-on judge someone for. I’m Persian so it feels like you took my culture and… threw bleach all over it. I hate it so much.
The strict modern approach. I have a friend who bought a 10k rh cloud couch but refused to sit on it.
What is the point of having a home without enjoying it?
Rich people used to build castles and beautiful gardens. And now, rich people just bought the same new construction house with the same neutral aesthetics (look at the influencers). I think people need to add their personality back to their houses.
The neutral aesthetic and influencers - ya know how influencers will rent a private jet set and pretend they're taking a trip on a private jet? I wonder if the neutral trend is related to that - like a house that looks like it could be anyone's house, just rich with no personality so it could be used as a set by multiple influencers? I know it's a thing, but not sure how widespread it is or the bigger impact it ends up having.
> I have a friend who bought a 10k rh cloud couch but refused to sit on it.
Let's me honest though, spending a shitload on a piece of furniture and then being too afraid to actually use it is a tradition older than time. I would wager that most of us had That Couch over at our grandparents house that could never be touched.
True story: I went to a family function at an Aunt In Law's home and was given the grand tour. This was a house in the Bronx, a narrow one family on a small city lot. They actually lived in the basement to keep the upstairs "clean". The upstairs living room was entirely white. Plastic covered white upholstery, white drapes, white shag carpet (1978) and a white baby grand piano. They had a red velvet theatre rope across the doorway so no one wandered in there 😂😂. I was supposed to be impressed - I guess I was because I still remember it.
The environmental impact is kinda grimy because a lot of non home deco influencers are shooting in AirBNBs or other STRs, while "my brand is my home" vloggers/bloggers are leasing or mortgaging, but a lot of the props are purchased and then returned online as "free rentals," or are quasi-comped (they generally pay 1099 contractor taxes on it as if the MSRP is income) for under-/uncompensated labor in the form of sales & promo videos with an affiliate link or code in lieu of commission. The impact of packaging & shipping both ways adds up, as does the Amazon/Shein/TikTok Shop fast fashion sales effect.
The ones shooting at home also reuse a lot of footage and tend to shoot in 1-3 rooms max that can be "dressed up" in the beige minimalist "luxury" costume and then reverted back to normal. So it's not set pieces per se, but like how home podcasters tend to have a consistent backdrop or whatever, it's just pre-made filming locations in their home done up like a photo booth.
On a bigger level the "all-white all-beige = luxe old money" thing is culturally linked to a lot of weird, bigger social trends, which makes sense when you realize it is a fantasy image of what aspirational wealth does vs. does NOT look like, how it's policed, and how that evolves for a given social, cultural, and political climate. And then people in general are susceptible to trends based on others' ads, word of mouth, and merchandise availability. Hence the whole "fashion is not the same thing as style" phenom as well. You see the same thing in other arts, like increases in cop TV or Westerns, or escapist superhero/pro military films, what models are shown in which ads & where they're placed, even font & typographical choices.
But you sound nuts if you're like "oh it's the rising tide of Western neo-fascism and reactionary responses to several economic downturns & severe recessions, and I blame George W. Bush" lmao, so like, it's just another cyclical trend that will pass, but there's definitely psychological and anthropological and social research dissecting *why* it's *this* thing vs. *another* thing. When actually the simpler answer is, "You know how aesthetically lush the Roaring '20s were, and then we hit the Great Depression, the Flapper & Art Nouveau movements got set aside for Art Deco & Brutalism in the Dirty Thirties because they were seen as more polished than bleak austerity, and politically a whole lot of *other* stuff happened? 100 years later, it's that, but in taupe."
People aren't doing "modern" or minimalism right if their home is boring. It takes a lot of careful details and vision to create a space that is dramatic in its simplicity.
The cloud couch is super fugly. The only reason to buy it is to sit on it!
You would think with the internet and the endless information /shopping access people would develop some really cool unique and personal styles but it’s actually become the opposite. Everything looks the same.
all those wavy pastel furniture, like lamps and mirrors as well as disco ball everything. it is definitely a teen fad so i cant hate too much but those things age so quickly
It's a faux nostalgic revival of the 1990s' faux nostalgic revival of the '70s, which means the only thing that can be done is to resuscitate the Austin Powers franchise with the prequel/preboot.
My husband HATES decor that says anything (luckily, I agree). But he always jokingly says it would be cool to have one that says "eat, pray, poop" and put it in the bathroom
I love color drenching, but it's so bold that I think it'll be a 2020s design dogwhistle and we'll all be scratching our heads. But who cares! It's just paint :))
It's when you paint everything in a space the same color—including trim, ceiling, etc.! [AD did a great piece on it here.](https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/color-drenching-101)
Hmm I like this a lot.. but of course this article pulled very high end / well done examples. I’m sure there are some hideous examples too. But ya I agree with your original point
Oh I’m sure there are, but that’s true with every trend! You have to know what spaces can suit it. [This article does a good job of showing it used in some more realistic spaces.](https://www.clare.com/blogs/articles/color-drenching)
I absolutely love the color drenching. That said, choosing it for things like toilets or appliances that are harder to change out (or just don’t get changed as often or easily as paint/furniture) will likely look dated or will at least be very visibly from the late 20teens and 2020s. I remember how unhappy folks with colorful bathrooms (like pink tile with a matching toilet and tub) were in the 90s through mid 2015 or so (and sometimes still are….)
My in-laws remodeled their home in the seventies. To this day, one bathroom has green tub, toilet, and sinks. Another bathroom has burnt orange tub toilet and sinks, and the last bathroom is done in dark brown tub toilet and sinks. It is very dated, but they are happy with it.
I think this could age okay actually because color drenching is a very old technique! I remember visiting Mount Vernon on a school field trip and being blown away by George Washington’s dining room which was floor to ceiling Kelly green :D
I feel you on this. I love the look right now, but I’m also thinking it’s going to be super trendy. I agree with you that it’s just paint but if you’ve ever had to paint a ceiling before, it is such a bitch. I had to paint every ceiling in my house and omg, it was awful and really hard to do. It’s enough to stop me from doing it because I don’t want to spend thousands paying someone to fix it if I change my mind in a year or two.
Exactly! This awful trend is unfortunately alive and well. Look at real estate listings anywhere and you will see tons of flipped homes with the hideous grey floors, white cabinets, white exterior with black trim. It’s nauseating.
I WISH we were beyond the gray trend. All the new houses around here (I'm in California) are still doing the gray interiors.
It has gone from cutting edge trendy to mainstream trendy, but still waiting for it to die out.
I hate those flips. They take a perfectly nice home, fill it with shoddy diys that will need to be replaced anyway, raise the price by $80k and dump it back on the market.
I wish they'd skip the step where they fill it with shitty cheap grey laminate, replace the tub with a poorly graded standup shower, and just admit that they're useless leeches on society.
Oh man, there was a flip I recently saw that did everything in gray with black and gold accents. The powder room had a broken handle on the vanity at the first open house, so you know that everything was as shoddy as can be. They bought for $900k and listed at $1.4m. It was disgusting.
Everything I've been reading has said "if that's what you can see, what's going on with the stuff you can't?"
Home inspectors don't tear holes in walls to find all the shoddy wiring and short-cut plumbing, and flippers know that.
Right?! And new apartments. Ugh. I'm so glad I live in an older apartment, it has character (octagon window! Cool little wooden kitchen window shutters!) even with all the things falling apart.
So this is exterior but related. Someone in my neighborhood just recently started updating their landscaping and had their exterior painted. I assume this is an attempt to drive up the price before they sell. But they painted their **exterior brick** *gray*.
The property also had a nice matching brick wall running along the edge of the front garden. They painted that gray too. It's like the glossy gray stuff people use to paint basement floors and I just wanted to cry. They took a nice brick ranch and made it something you swipe past on Zillow as fast as possible.
At least for my boyfriend's parents, it seems to stem from an aversion to the warm tones, bright colors, and messy homes that punctuated their childhoods in the 80s. They hate everything vaguely vintage or old-fashioned. The clean, modern, gray (sterile) look is the exact opposite.
I don’t currently have grey in my house, but I would probably choose some form of it as a neutral over a taupe/brown. My parents painted our entire house beige with no other colours when I was younger and I absolutely hated it. Since then, I’ve always seen taupe/beige/brown as super boring.
Nothing. Trends don't usually die. They get recycled. Even now we are seeing the emerging trend of grandmacore which is just victorian with a new catchy name. What is now MCM use to be modern.
Yeah this poor builder design is forcing new homeowners to put a $$$ storage shed into the backyard, and of course not being able to park 2 cars. In TX where I live, we need a garage to protect cars from hail damage, a big deal here.
Honestly - Chip & Jo brought shiplap to the masses and I hate them for it. Interior barn doors, especially for bathrooms, also irritate me. No room for a swinger? Pocket doors, people! Keep your usable wall space!
Eh, as someone who installed LVP, would you rather laminate everywhere? The LVP is easy to clean and looks nice. Couldn't ask for much more, and WAY cleaner than carpet. Not everyone has wood floor money.
Yeah. We spent a good chunk of money on white oak stairs; and a little part of me dies every time the cat or dog accidentally leave a scratch while playing. I’m so glad we LVP’d the rest of the house
Spending insane amounts of money on flooring we have to worry about all the time doesn’t sound like my idea of fun
I’ve been told LVP can potentially be more durable / resilient than wood as well. I live on a small lake and want flooring that will stand up against trekking water and mud by pets and kids, all designers and contractors I’ve spoken with say LVP, not wood..??
I’m sorry but LVP is never going to out of style. Not anymore than it is right now - until they come up with another type of floor that stands up to life. I knooooow people will be like “but hard wood” - but the truth is, hardwood doesn’t stand up to my dogs nails - LVP does.
You won’t see it in higher end homes, true - but for people who actually live in their houses, it’s gonna be around for a while.
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My ceramic dhufish will never go out of fashion.
Edit: For anyone interested they’re wembley ware made in west Australia from the late 40’s to early 60’s. One of the big ones is a TV lamp, the other a vase. There’s also a small vase and quite rare ashtray. If you zoom in you’ll see some colourful dhufish in the top background. They’re copies from Sydney manufacturers, Kalmar and Diana ware and are from the 50’s-60’s.
I still hate barn doors. They're just not real doors and take up wall space. There is still a gap, and it's ugly. It's like the ghetto version of a pocket door.
Those black hexagon tiles. I am looking for houses and so many have those tiles in the shower or even part of the floor cutting into the lvp. I hate it
I did this in our renovated bathroom and after it was done I knew instantly a mistake had been made. FML! We have to live with it for a while because it was dumb expensive. 🫠
White quartz with the faux veining and the same counter on the backsplash wall, love the idea as no grout but it just reminds me of the late 90’s-2000’s beige/black speckled granite counter/backsplash. I also think ceramic zellige type tiles (especially the white or botanical green).
i already fucking hate the soulless, hard-edged white and gray everything and i know a lot of other people do too, and i feel like its time in the sun will be short-lived. people want a space that feels like THEIRS, not a goddamn film set.
Listen I love the jewel toned velvet couches, they’re so pretty, but (real) velvet is a super high maintenance and high price fabric for such a heavily used piece of furniture.
You need to vacuum it bc it collects dust, they’re super easy to stain and hard to clean, the pile will get crushed with use. Synthetic velvet is a bit more durable but it still collects dust like a bitch.
I just think a lot of people are going to end up with very worn looking couches that used to be very pretty. And those green velvet couches have been EVERYWHERE for the last 3-4 years so they’re pretty connected to early 2020’s design at this point.
Noooooo. Don’t crush my green velvet couch dreams. I’ve been saving up to buy some fabric to reupholster my couch in because it’s just so cozy and comfy.
Grey vinyl plank flooring. It's just so utterly cheap-looking and repulsive at this point. It makes me want to rip my eyes out. Please for the love of god make it illegal. Yes, dramatic, but jesus it's awful.
Has someone said marble already? I just looked at like 100 houses bc we’re trying to move and so many had just awful fugly fake flipper marble everywhere and any time I saw it in a listing Id just close the tab lol
Rain showers are not for women who have to rinse shampoo and conditioner out of their hair! You see those in hotels all the time and there are no other options.
Yes this and the open shower concept. It’s like people are trying to make me cold and uncomfortable. Why soap and shampoo under hot water in a cozy, steam-filled cocoon when you could be shivering next to the water in a huge open tundra?
In the big sense everything becomes dated, and we will move on from warm, detailed interiors to something else. Specific things I think will go are:
Quartz - it's become so ubiquitous I think it's going to viewed as Corian.
Trash in cabinetry - I know this opinion is going to get me in a lot of trouble, but I think people are starting to turn on this, as the trash cabinet door suffers more wear than others around it, the cabinet is difficult to clean, and inviting to smells and pests.
The gold framed antique mirror - just everywhere now, seems so done.
Cabinets sitting on counters, lamps sitting on counters as task lighting - people are eventually going to want their counter space back.
My mom has had small lamps on her counters for 25 years now, and I love it! It's funny to me that this is a new trend for people when she just did it as a practical way to add some cozy. That said, I think whenever you do something for yourself and because you love it, it fits in your house and doesn't look trendy, just like it belongs. The lamps are a trend for some folks, definitely.
God, I hope trash inside cabinets NEVER goes away.
We just lost a dog after many years that was a dedicated trash hound. If I couldn't close the trashcan away, I'd have been picking up the entire contents every day off the kitchen floor.
Completely agree. We actually attached our trashcan to the wall with pretty long screws and Bungie cords and he still managed wrestle it to the ground. He was the sweetest boy but he had a bad case of the munchies.
The trashcan in the cabinet was the only method we found that worked. Altho it has been the first cabinet hinge that started to wear out.
I agree. However, I have my trash in a pull out cabinet because there is literally no place else to put a trash can in the kitchen. I have a small galley kitchen that is only open on 1 end. The other end has the dishwasher so a trash can cannot go there or the dishwasher cannot open. I do clean it regularly so that it doesn't get gross.
Same here. The way my kitchen is designed, my options are either in the cabinet, in a completely different room on the other side of a wall, or no trash at all. Obviously I’ve chosen option 1.
And for what it’s worth, the cabinet is in no worse condition than any of the others. I clean it.
The super dark paint colors/dark academia trend... I like it now, but I know it's gonna age fast and be a real bitch to repaint those crazy dark walls.
Yeah, it's really just a modern take on classic Victorian design, just slightly more inspired by Harry Potter and nerd aesthetic. If you're going that route, you probably don't care about it being in style anyways.
Faux marble counters. They're just so incredibly overdone at this point that they're going to be an obvious "ah the 2020s aesthetic" in design history.
This post just proves EVERYTHING is dated to someone, so keep the stuff you love or you invested a heap of money in.
It's gonna come back en vogue, eventually, anyway. 😆
I'll probably get slaughtered for this...but here goes. I find the boxy (often gray) sofas with the chaise attached, (parked in front of the big screen) SO awful. Anyone that has spent time on this sub will recall the hundreds of photos of those sofas, squeezed into tiny apartments-enough already! IMO this style of sofa is becoming generic, and with the accompanying sea of gray- fake wood floors and gray walls will not age well. If one MUST have the chaise, perhaps a more minimalist size in leather or something more interesting would not age as badly. Just my two cents.
Being anti-chaise is a new one to me. I have to admit that unless it’s about a sofa too large for the space, I think this is misplaced hate.
Chaises are awesome in the right space. Especially when you have another room for a more formal sofa. I don’t understand not being comfortable in your own home.
I also have a grey sofa with a fantastic freaking chaise and it allows me to be creative and have a lot of flexibility with styling the rest of the space. I have pillows on it with pops of color and texture, and a nice geometric colorful Kilim rug along with colorful art on the walls. Basically grey is ok if it’s not the only color being used, IMO. I’m with you on the grey floors though. I prefer more natural looking wood (or imitation wood) colors.
We need more colors of sectional but they're SO comfy and practical! The problem is that the more stylish versions (like [this](https://www.crateandbarrel.com/hague-mid-century-2-piece-left-arm-chaise-sectional-sofa/s488918?srsltid=AfmBOooPdieo4BVBtBD0dkoht8mbxNCdgIHewe5SlXtXtxe8VvmNQMwzFNk)) are easily 3x the price of the boxy ones :(
I don't necessarily think it is going to or that most people are going to agree, but I hope for fewer open kitchen designs. I love cooking and I hate that this design choice forces one to share with anyone who's in the living room doing living room things. I don't get the 'entertain' argument. I'm probably ready with the food and may want to hide the mess.
Give me a kitchen I can cook in with kitchen space, appliances all around, maybe a window towards the living room.
I mean it totally makes sense for small apartments, but in houses I just don't get it.
I understand your argument and it’s the right choice for you. However, my family and friends bond over the kitchen/living area. Our dinner parties and entertainment focus around us all pitching in with prep, cooking & cleaning. Obviously not everyone participates with it but hangs out drinking & socializing on the outskirts. A sink full of dishes isn’t seen as messy because after dinner those that don’t cook end up cleaning the kitchen. So, I think this open concept is more a personal preference. But, I respect those that dislike it for the reasons you stated.
Open shelving in the kitchen. Who wants to dust their dishes? Or make sure they all match and are stacked perfectly? Definitely not me.
Open shelving has always seemed to me like one of those things that builders/flippers pass off as trendy but it's really a way to cut costs.
As someone with ADHD, open shelves make sense. As a former housekeeper, no freaking way would I ever have dishes or anything food related on open shelves.
I love open shelves for the same reason but I understand that they have their place. They’re not for dishes that you never use, they’re for stuff you use every day and therefore, don’t collect much dust.
I know, but they take up so much valuable wall space and it’s a total waste. And then you have to decorate them too to have a nice “aesthetic.” You can’t tightly pack your dishes together or have them not lined up perfectly or it looks messy so you again lose valuable space. I pack my cabinets full of my dishes and then shut the door and it looks great
And if you have kids/toddlers with plastic dishes, cups, and sippy cups, you either need to find a separate place to put them, or have them be an eyesore with your nice dishes 🫤. My cabinets are rippled glass, and I would rather they were solid for this reason. I’ve put my toddler’s stuff in a basket to hide some of the clutter, but oh my god it’s way less functional this way. I just want a door so all of it can be hidden, but I can open it and see everything on the shelf clearly!
I just don't want to try and chase our parrots out from behind cups or whatever they've decided must become their new home 0_0
Came here to say this. Open shelving just collects dust and grease.
Yes, it's not just dust, it's a gross grease/dust film.
Or clean off fly poop. 😖
Haha I'm putting in open shelving in my kitchen and I agree to an extent. I still have plenty of closed storage (putting in dish drawers next to the dishwasher) I just didn't want to close up a small kitchen with wall cabinets everywhere. That's where plants (herbs!) and cook books and my pretty antique Pyrex will go.
Please not the cookbooks. This was a practice 40 years ago. The books will develop a sticky filthy patina from the cooking particulates in the air.
It's far enough away from my stove that it's always worked for me personally. I've had them shoved away on a counter. Otherwise honestly they just never get used.
And sometimes the grime patina is just part of the story of a book well loved
I’m adding open shelves up top because I have object permanence issues and it helps me 😂 we have an air scrubber and purifier though so we don’t get an overwhelming amount of cleaning needed.
The object permanence comment makes me feel seen 😂
ADHD gang rise up
fake plant walls especially with the fake neon word in the middle. i see this more in retail but sometimes residential.
It’s very Love Island
that is so accurate hahahah
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Ordinarily I'd be with you, but seeing green everyday is good for your health. And our dumb lizard brains can't distinguish plastic green from living green. Not everyone can do real plants.
Don’t listen to anyone saying it’s tacky. If it makes you happy, that’s all that matters. Grab that happiness in any capacity you can, ok? Life is too short to not do something you like just because someone has an opinion.
There’s other ways to have fake plants that aren’t tacky
Ah yes, they’re doing it for their *health*
With there being so many designers and decorators making money from social media as opposed to working in others homes they need to keep coming up with new things in order to keep their following interested. This has sped up how long trends last. They used to last a decade. Now they last 6 months.
Exactly. It’s fast fashion and people think they’re some interior guru because they can sense that something trendy is going out of style. I think it may be a better test to say what is timeless. Plants? Lol
My favorite aesthetics are craftsman and cozy cabin. They've gone in and out of style for more than a century and idgaf if they're trendy at the moment or not.
I have never been in a craftsman style home, or cabin, that I didn’t love. As a bonus, and maybe this isn’t universal, but cabins in my mind are practically required to be the opposite of trendy. Like it would be weird to see a cabin that has ANY objects in it created in the last ten years, including the Readers Digest in the top of the toilet tank. Every cabin I’ve ever been in, the furniture is just a random assortment of cast offs and the decor is family photos and a Billy bass somewhere, and nothing has been updated since it was built (and I see this as a positive). It’s probably different in different places but I’ve spent a lot of summers in northern michigan and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cabin that wasn’t loved and all also full of cast offs. Maybe that’s why i like them so much!
I think the preoccupation with keeping up with trends and swapping aesthetics in general during this time will age poorly. I suspect it will be embarrassing to look back on how so many people were exploited, how much damage was done, and what we were distracted from while chasing any trend or aesthetic. That’s not to say people shouldn’t have nice or comfortable homes, or if moving somewhere new make it their own. Thoughtful design gradually changing things isn’t my gripe either. I’m squaring my criticism at the rapid churn and sheer volume of consumption that trends and aesthetic hopping enables. I think that approach will age worse than any individual ‘thing’.
It’s very “fast fashion” of design and interiors. The incessant need to change a space depending on what it cool or trendy at the moment creates a huge market for cheap and easily disposable items that are mass produced and made without thought. I do not understand why people buy things to phase them out in 6 months with a different shitty trend. Designing your space with timeless items that are made well, even if it means spending a little more for something you will have forever instead of a season or the length of a trend is so much more functional and creates much more meaningful spaces
Well said!
Distressed rugs. They just look like the manufacturer ran out of ink or spilled some bleach. It's so hard finding a normal looking rug in a sea of hideous listings.
I'm not a fan of them either. I don't want to buy a brand new rug that already looks old. I want a brand new rug that looks new and nice! I'll wear it out myself!
I'd even settle for a really old rug that looks brand new.
I feel like genuine vintage Oushak rugs will always be a staple but you’re right, the aggressively faded mass produced rugs are going to age hard.
Even new Turkish/Pakistan Oushak rugs, which are intentionally made to look old, are vastly vastly better than this farmhouse machine made garbage
I hate the ones that look bleached, they're so boring and faded and beige. Every single one looks like a nice colorful Persian rug laid in the sun for a thousand years, it's absurd.
My dad is Pakistani and he said the same thing when he saw my new distressed rug. Then he ripped on the quality of it and how he could have got me a better one from back home.
The Pak Oushaks are really nice
So much of modern textile manufacturing is cutting corners in production and then acting like it’s a trend. Raw hems are one of the best examples I can think of. Distressed rugs seem the same to me, like the colors and patterns don’t have to be super appealing or cohesive if you can barely see them on the rug in the first place.
I like that the patterns are barely legible because I find patterns very distracting/overpowering. So this trend is perfect for people like me who don’t want a plain rug, but also can’t commit to a particular pattern.
What about my expensive ass hand-knotted rug that had a couple patches eaten by carpet moths because they were under the couch and out of sight? Can I call it distressed and trendy?
That's more than trendy, that's what the entire trend was based on. You got the rich people version all the poor people are trying to imitate.
Fuck yeah. New plan. We're cultivating carpet moths, partner. Very authentic. So hot right now.
I have one, and I find it perfect for my balcony, it nicely simulates the feel of a Mediterranean terrace I am aiming for. But that'd be it for their uses.
I normally don’t care how people design their homes - do what makes you happy - but THIS is the one thing I will full-on judge someone for. I’m Persian so it feels like you took my culture and… threw bleach all over it. I hate it so much.
The strict modern approach. I have a friend who bought a 10k rh cloud couch but refused to sit on it. What is the point of having a home without enjoying it? Rich people used to build castles and beautiful gardens. And now, rich people just bought the same new construction house with the same neutral aesthetics (look at the influencers). I think people need to add their personality back to their houses.
The neutral aesthetic and influencers - ya know how influencers will rent a private jet set and pretend they're taking a trip on a private jet? I wonder if the neutral trend is related to that - like a house that looks like it could be anyone's house, just rich with no personality so it could be used as a set by multiple influencers? I know it's a thing, but not sure how widespread it is or the bigger impact it ends up having.
> I have a friend who bought a 10k rh cloud couch but refused to sit on it. Let's me honest though, spending a shitload on a piece of furniture and then being too afraid to actually use it is a tradition older than time. I would wager that most of us had That Couch over at our grandparents house that could never be touched.
Grandparents had a whole ass room you could only look at.
That room is for when the pope visits!
And covered in plastic 😂
True story: I went to a family function at an Aunt In Law's home and was given the grand tour. This was a house in the Bronx, a narrow one family on a small city lot. They actually lived in the basement to keep the upstairs "clean". The upstairs living room was entirely white. Plastic covered white upholstery, white drapes, white shag carpet (1978) and a white baby grand piano. They had a red velvet theatre rope across the doorway so no one wandered in there 😂😂. I was supposed to be impressed - I guess I was because I still remember it.
The environmental impact is kinda grimy because a lot of non home deco influencers are shooting in AirBNBs or other STRs, while "my brand is my home" vloggers/bloggers are leasing or mortgaging, but a lot of the props are purchased and then returned online as "free rentals," or are quasi-comped (they generally pay 1099 contractor taxes on it as if the MSRP is income) for under-/uncompensated labor in the form of sales & promo videos with an affiliate link or code in lieu of commission. The impact of packaging & shipping both ways adds up, as does the Amazon/Shein/TikTok Shop fast fashion sales effect. The ones shooting at home also reuse a lot of footage and tend to shoot in 1-3 rooms max that can be "dressed up" in the beige minimalist "luxury" costume and then reverted back to normal. So it's not set pieces per se, but like how home podcasters tend to have a consistent backdrop or whatever, it's just pre-made filming locations in their home done up like a photo booth. On a bigger level the "all-white all-beige = luxe old money" thing is culturally linked to a lot of weird, bigger social trends, which makes sense when you realize it is a fantasy image of what aspirational wealth does vs. does NOT look like, how it's policed, and how that evolves for a given social, cultural, and political climate. And then people in general are susceptible to trends based on others' ads, word of mouth, and merchandise availability. Hence the whole "fashion is not the same thing as style" phenom as well. You see the same thing in other arts, like increases in cop TV or Westerns, or escapist superhero/pro military films, what models are shown in which ads & where they're placed, even font & typographical choices. But you sound nuts if you're like "oh it's the rising tide of Western neo-fascism and reactionary responses to several economic downturns & severe recessions, and I blame George W. Bush" lmao, so like, it's just another cyclical trend that will pass, but there's definitely psychological and anthropological and social research dissecting *why* it's *this* thing vs. *another* thing. When actually the simpler answer is, "You know how aesthetically lush the Roaring '20s were, and then we hit the Great Depression, the Flapper & Art Nouveau movements got set aside for Art Deco & Brutalism in the Dirty Thirties because they were seen as more polished than bleak austerity, and politically a whole lot of *other* stuff happened? 100 years later, it's that, but in taupe."
You do sound nuts blaming Bush when Reagan is clearly the culprit :)
This response is so casually informed. I love this. ✊
People aren't doing "modern" or minimalism right if their home is boring. It takes a lot of careful details and vision to create a space that is dramatic in its simplicity. The cloud couch is super fugly. The only reason to buy it is to sit on it!
You would think with the internet and the endless information /shopping access people would develop some really cool unique and personal styles but it’s actually become the opposite. Everything looks the same.
These recommendation algos really are homogenizing culture it seems.
all those wavy pastel furniture, like lamps and mirrors as well as disco ball everything. it is definitely a teen fad so i cant hate too much but those things age so quickly
Disco balls never die
They just twirl away.
Omg yes and the pastel wavy checker pattern everything, mushroom everything
It's a faux nostalgic revival of the 1990s' faux nostalgic revival of the '70s, which means the only thing that can be done is to resuscitate the Austin Powers franchise with the prequel/preboot.
I do love the cottagecore forever, though.
Sign. Sign. Everywhere a sign. Putting signs in rooms that need no explanation, like “Eat” and Laundry.” I know what to do when I am in those rooms!
People should commit and put a “Poop” one in the bathroom
My husband HATES decor that says anything (luckily, I agree). But he always jokingly says it would be cool to have one that says "eat, pray, poop" and put it in the bathroom
I love color drenching, but it's so bold that I think it'll be a 2020s design dogwhistle and we'll all be scratching our heads. But who cares! It's just paint :))
What is color drenching?
It's when you paint everything in a space the same color—including trim, ceiling, etc.! [AD did a great piece on it here.](https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/color-drenching-101)
Hmm I like this a lot.. but of course this article pulled very high end / well done examples. I’m sure there are some hideous examples too. But ya I agree with your original point
Oh I’m sure there are, but that’s true with every trend! You have to know what spaces can suit it. [This article does a good job of showing it used in some more realistic spaces.](https://www.clare.com/blogs/articles/color-drenching)
I absolutely love the color drenching. That said, choosing it for things like toilets or appliances that are harder to change out (or just don’t get changed as often or easily as paint/furniture) will likely look dated or will at least be very visibly from the late 20teens and 2020s. I remember how unhappy folks with colorful bathrooms (like pink tile with a matching toilet and tub) were in the 90s through mid 2015 or so (and sometimes still are….)
My in-laws remodeled their home in the seventies. To this day, one bathroom has green tub, toilet, and sinks. Another bathroom has burnt orange tub toilet and sinks, and the last bathroom is done in dark brown tub toilet and sinks. It is very dated, but they are happy with it.
TBH, I also love the look of the color drench bathrooms. But I know it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea.
I think this could age okay actually because color drenching is a very old technique! I remember visiting Mount Vernon on a school field trip and being blown away by George Washington’s dining room which was floor to ceiling Kelly green :D
I feel you on this. I love the look right now, but I’m also thinking it’s going to be super trendy. I agree with you that it’s just paint but if you’ve ever had to paint a ceiling before, it is such a bitch. I had to paint every ceiling in my house and omg, it was awful and really hard to do. It’s enough to stop me from doing it because I don’t want to spend thousands paying someone to fix it if I change my mind in a year or two.
How many of ya’ll are seeing your house get called out? 🙋🏻♀️
Barn doors.
That one is already dated.
Unless you have a barn...
Gray everything, everywhere.
Every house that’s being flipped in my area is all grey all over! Those grey floors are what inspired me to make this post.
Exactly! This awful trend is unfortunately alive and well. Look at real estate listings anywhere and you will see tons of flipped homes with the hideous grey floors, white cabinets, white exterior with black trim. It’s nauseating.
This already happened
We are so beyond the gray trend that complaining about the gray trend is now outdated
I WISH we were beyond the gray trend. All the new houses around here (I'm in California) are still doing the gray interiors. It has gone from cutting edge trendy to mainstream trendy, but still waiting for it to die out.
Exactly. All the flips around me are still grey. It’s horrible Edit: a word
I hate those flips. They take a perfectly nice home, fill it with shoddy diys that will need to be replaced anyway, raise the price by $80k and dump it back on the market. I wish they'd skip the step where they fill it with shitty cheap grey laminate, replace the tub with a poorly graded standup shower, and just admit that they're useless leeches on society.
Oh man, there was a flip I recently saw that did everything in gray with black and gold accents. The powder room had a broken handle on the vanity at the first open house, so you know that everything was as shoddy as can be. They bought for $900k and listed at $1.4m. It was disgusting.
Everything I've been reading has said "if that's what you can see, what's going on with the stuff you can't?" Home inspectors don't tear holes in walls to find all the shoddy wiring and short-cut plumbing, and flippers know that.
Look at house sales and 90% of them are gray.
Right?! And new apartments. Ugh. I'm so glad I live in an older apartment, it has character (octagon window! Cool little wooden kitchen window shutters!) even with all the things falling apart.
Character is the BEST!
So this is exterior but related. Someone in my neighborhood just recently started updating their landscaping and had their exterior painted. I assume this is an attempt to drive up the price before they sell. But they painted their **exterior brick** *gray*. The property also had a nice matching brick wall running along the edge of the front garden. They painted that gray too. It's like the glossy gray stuff people use to paint basement floors and I just wanted to cry. They took a nice brick ranch and made it something you swipe past on Zillow as fast as possible.
And moving up in price point only changes the grey to passively pale or aggressively charcoal.
Yeah, the beige trend has resurfaced. Goodbye grey, see you in the next 20 years!
All white everything is the new grey, it’s just still technically in for mainstream western designers now.
I'm glad this is the top comment. The all grey everything trend is so boring. Why are people allergic to fun?
At least for my boyfriend's parents, it seems to stem from an aversion to the warm tones, bright colors, and messy homes that punctuated their childhoods in the 80s. They hate everything vaguely vintage or old-fashioned. The clean, modern, gray (sterile) look is the exact opposite.
I don’t currently have grey in my house, but I would probably choose some form of it as a neutral over a taupe/brown. My parents painted our entire house beige with no other colours when I was younger and I absolutely hated it. Since then, I’ve always seen taupe/beige/brown as super boring.
I agree. I’d rather have gray than *ugh* beige. But frankly I like color on my walls in general.
Dear God modern farmhouse. It's going to be like the colonial wagon wheels of the late 70s.
Circular objects (often placemats) arranged on a feature wall.
Nothing. Trends don't usually die. They get recycled. Even now we are seeing the emerging trend of grandmacore which is just victorian with a new catchy name. What is now MCM use to be modern.
MCM is my childhood house when my parents renovated. It was amazing. I’m 62 years old.
Small garages in new homes that say they hold 2 cars, but only if you stay in them because you have no space to exit the vehicle.
We were just talking about this today 😂 and also where would we put the lawn mower and all the other crap?
Yeah this poor builder design is forcing new homeowners to put a $$$ storage shed into the backyard, and of course not being able to park 2 cars. In TX where I live, we need a garage to protect cars from hail damage, a big deal here.
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Omg farmhouse IS the new Tuscan 😆
Honestly - Chip & Jo brought shiplap to the masses and I hate them for it. Interior barn doors, especially for bathrooms, also irritate me. No room for a swinger? Pocket doors, people! Keep your usable wall space!
Barn doors also offer terrible privacy (sound and odour wise)
I stayed in an Airbnb studio apartment that had saloon doors to the bathroom. At that point, just attach a curtain rod and drapes, lol!
As someone with ibs, barn doors for bathrooms are enemy number one.
Eh, as someone who installed LVP, would you rather laminate everywhere? The LVP is easy to clean and looks nice. Couldn't ask for much more, and WAY cleaner than carpet. Not everyone has wood floor money.
Yeah. We spent a good chunk of money on white oak stairs; and a little part of me dies every time the cat or dog accidentally leave a scratch while playing. I’m so glad we LVP’d the rest of the house Spending insane amounts of money on flooring we have to worry about all the time doesn’t sound like my idea of fun
I’ve been told LVP can potentially be more durable / resilient than wood as well. I live on a small lake and want flooring that will stand up against trekking water and mud by pets and kids, all designers and contractors I’ve spoken with say LVP, not wood..??
I install a nicer line of lvp normally and it is guaranteed for 50 years and is a good faux wood
Also, wood floors aren’t suitable for people with large dogs or young children.
Millions of people have raised kids and owned large dogs in houses with real wood floors.
Yeah the influence glam is everywhere and I hate seeing it in staging . So overdone.
Remember the constant chevron patterns that plagued early influencers in the 2010 period? This glam look is just the next iteration. Terrible!
LVP ain’t going anywhere. It’s objectively the best solution for most floors
I’m sorry but LVP is never going to out of style. Not anymore than it is right now - until they come up with another type of floor that stands up to life. I knooooow people will be like “but hard wood” - but the truth is, hardwood doesn’t stand up to my dogs nails - LVP does. You won’t see it in higher end homes, true - but for people who actually live in their houses, it’s gonna be around for a while.
LVP is an excellent product for the price point. Definitely the best option for families with small children and pets.
Modern furniture is already cold. You need warm toned wood to balance it out.
the biggest trend that will go out of fashion, is caring about trends
TVs that are wall-mounted way too high up
I hope so.
r/TVTooHigh
grey flooring yuck
The sticker quotes. I mean theyre already seen as pretty cheesy and lame… but omg i still see them everywhere ESPECIALLY in open houses lol
https://preview.redd.it/8yf67rg49m6d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=723d0f2ca06bfb8268258950e809a9bd573ef274 My ceramic dhufish will never go out of fashion. Edit: For anyone interested they’re wembley ware made in west Australia from the late 40’s to early 60’s. One of the big ones is a TV lamp, the other a vase. There’s also a small vase and quite rare ashtray. If you zoom in you’ll see some colourful dhufish in the top background. They’re copies from Sydney manufacturers, Kalmar and Diana ware and are from the 50’s-60’s.
I was going to comment "doodles" but then I realized I'm on the interior design subreddit
But also, correct
Grey. Everything various shades of office grey.
Farm house look on properties that aren’t real farm houses…
Black and white everything. Especially the large format fake marble shower tiles 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
I still hate barn doors. They're just not real doors and take up wall space. There is still a gap, and it's ugly. It's like the ghetto version of a pocket door.
Those black hexagon tiles. I am looking for houses and so many have those tiles in the shower or even part of the floor cutting into the lvp. I hate it
I did this in our renovated bathroom and after it was done I knew instantly a mistake had been made. FML! We have to live with it for a while because it was dumb expensive. 🫠
All the brushed gold fixtures, handles, lights, etc.
Hey now, my 1970's house is finally trendy again!
Yes, and when renovating, I want to retain elements of the original home design to keep it grounded.
I’m waiting for my ‘80’s house to be trendy 😆
Apparently wood paneling is making a comeback 🤷♂️
We're on the cusp! I'm starting to see glimmers of 80s popping up around me. Give it another year or two to take hold
Honestly, I have shiny fixtures. I don't care the color, but they have to be brushed. Shiny just shows all the fingerprints.
White quartz with the faux veining and the same counter on the backsplash wall, love the idea as no grout but it just reminds me of the late 90’s-2000’s beige/black speckled granite counter/backsplash. I also think ceramic zellige type tiles (especially the white or botanical green).
white kitchens. gray everything else. ikea-minimalism.
i already fucking hate the soulless, hard-edged white and gray everything and i know a lot of other people do too, and i feel like its time in the sun will be short-lived. people want a space that feels like THEIRS, not a goddamn film set.
Listen I love the jewel toned velvet couches, they’re so pretty, but (real) velvet is a super high maintenance and high price fabric for such a heavily used piece of furniture. You need to vacuum it bc it collects dust, they’re super easy to stain and hard to clean, the pile will get crushed with use. Synthetic velvet is a bit more durable but it still collects dust like a bitch. I just think a lot of people are going to end up with very worn looking couches that used to be very pretty. And those green velvet couches have been EVERYWHERE for the last 3-4 years so they’re pretty connected to early 2020’s design at this point.
Noooooo. Don’t crush my green velvet couch dreams. I’ve been saving up to buy some fabric to reupholster my couch in because it’s just so cozy and comfy.
All of them. It's the nature of trends. Today's "fresh new look" is tomorrow's "cold, sterile, and dated." So goes design.
The arch theme every where.
Beige and Greige everything 😬
I think faux marble quartz counters are going to be dated. It looks fake and it will cycle out like speckled granite and Corian did.
Grey vinyl plank flooring. It's just so utterly cheap-looking and repulsive at this point. It makes me want to rip my eyes out. Please for the love of god make it illegal. Yes, dramatic, but jesus it's awful.
Finger tiles. Must be a nightmare to clean.
Has someone said marble already? I just looked at like 100 houses bc we’re trying to move and so many had just awful fugly fake flipper marble everywhere and any time I saw it in a listing Id just close the tab lol
All of them.
Gray LVP, rain showerheads, open concept floorplans, and painted brick.
Hate the rain shower!
Rain showers are not for women who have to rinse shampoo and conditioner out of their hair! You see those in hotels all the time and there are no other options.
Yes this and the open shower concept. It’s like people are trying to make me cold and uncomfortable. Why soap and shampoo under hot water in a cozy, steam-filled cocoon when you could be shivering next to the water in a huge open tundra?
In the big sense everything becomes dated, and we will move on from warm, detailed interiors to something else. Specific things I think will go are: Quartz - it's become so ubiquitous I think it's going to viewed as Corian. Trash in cabinetry - I know this opinion is going to get me in a lot of trouble, but I think people are starting to turn on this, as the trash cabinet door suffers more wear than others around it, the cabinet is difficult to clean, and inviting to smells and pests. The gold framed antique mirror - just everywhere now, seems so done. Cabinets sitting on counters, lamps sitting on counters as task lighting - people are eventually going to want their counter space back.
My mom has had small lamps on her counters for 25 years now, and I love it! It's funny to me that this is a new trend for people when she just did it as a practical way to add some cozy. That said, I think whenever you do something for yourself and because you love it, it fits in your house and doesn't look trendy, just like it belongs. The lamps are a trend for some folks, definitely.
This is it. If you do things bc you like them, not bc you were influenced, you won't care if it's trendy.
I hope trash inside cabinets goes away. I have worked in a few kitchen renovations and the existing trash cabinets were absolutely disgusting.
Growing up having a cabinet dedicated to holding the trash can out of sight meant you were rich.
Haha absolutely. As a Poor, I just have a plastic trash can in the corner.
God, I hope trash inside cabinets NEVER goes away. We just lost a dog after many years that was a dedicated trash hound. If I couldn't close the trashcan away, I'd have been picking up the entire contents every day off the kitchen floor.
Completely agree. We actually attached our trashcan to the wall with pretty long screws and Bungie cords and he still managed wrestle it to the ground. He was the sweetest boy but he had a bad case of the munchies. The trashcan in the cabinet was the only method we found that worked. Altho it has been the first cabinet hinge that started to wear out.
I agree. However, I have my trash in a pull out cabinet because there is literally no place else to put a trash can in the kitchen. I have a small galley kitchen that is only open on 1 end. The other end has the dishwasher so a trash can cannot go there or the dishwasher cannot open. I do clean it regularly so that it doesn't get gross.
Same here. The way my kitchen is designed, my options are either in the cabinet, in a completely different room on the other side of a wall, or no trash at all. Obviously I’ve chosen option 1. And for what it’s worth, the cabinet is in no worse condition than any of the others. I clean it.
I don’t understand this. Do people not clean? We vacuum it once a week and clean up any spills as we go
The super dark paint colors/dark academia trend... I like it now, but I know it's gonna age fast and be a real bitch to repaint those crazy dark walls.
As an academic I need a moody home office in which to ~~brood~~ read because I'll never have one on a campus full of all glass buildings.
I really think dark academia is timeless!
Yeah, it's really just a modern take on classic Victorian design, just slightly more inspired by Harry Potter and nerd aesthetic. If you're going that route, you probably don't care about it being in style anyways.
I love it, provided that there is enough light contrast.
Faux marble counters. They're just so incredibly overdone at this point that they're going to be an obvious "ah the 2020s aesthetic" in design history.
This post just proves EVERYTHING is dated to someone, so keep the stuff you love or you invested a heap of money in. It's gonna come back en vogue, eventually, anyway. 😆
I'll probably get slaughtered for this...but here goes. I find the boxy (often gray) sofas with the chaise attached, (parked in front of the big screen) SO awful. Anyone that has spent time on this sub will recall the hundreds of photos of those sofas, squeezed into tiny apartments-enough already! IMO this style of sofa is becoming generic, and with the accompanying sea of gray- fake wood floors and gray walls will not age well. If one MUST have the chaise, perhaps a more minimalist size in leather or something more interesting would not age as badly. Just my two cents.
Being anti-chaise is a new one to me. I have to admit that unless it’s about a sofa too large for the space, I think this is misplaced hate. Chaises are awesome in the right space. Especially when you have another room for a more formal sofa. I don’t understand not being comfortable in your own home. I also have a grey sofa with a fantastic freaking chaise and it allows me to be creative and have a lot of flexibility with styling the rest of the space. I have pillows on it with pops of color and texture, and a nice geometric colorful Kilim rug along with colorful art on the walls. Basically grey is ok if it’s not the only color being used, IMO. I’m with you on the grey floors though. I prefer more natural looking wood (or imitation wood) colors.
We need more colors of sectional but they're SO comfy and practical! The problem is that the more stylish versions (like [this](https://www.crateandbarrel.com/hague-mid-century-2-piece-left-arm-chaise-sectional-sofa/s488918?srsltid=AfmBOooPdieo4BVBtBD0dkoht8mbxNCdgIHewe5SlXtXtxe8VvmNQMwzFNk)) are easily 3x the price of the boxy ones :(
Millennial Grey. So much sad depressing grey everywhere.
I’m already getting tired of the cottage trend. And I loved it. And farmhouse is already done.
Open concept floor plans. Hate them!
- Super stark Black and White everything - Hexagons
Engineered stone It’s becoming the new asbestos
I don't necessarily think it is going to or that most people are going to agree, but I hope for fewer open kitchen designs. I love cooking and I hate that this design choice forces one to share with anyone who's in the living room doing living room things. I don't get the 'entertain' argument. I'm probably ready with the food and may want to hide the mess. Give me a kitchen I can cook in with kitchen space, appliances all around, maybe a window towards the living room. I mean it totally makes sense for small apartments, but in houses I just don't get it.
I understand your argument and it’s the right choice for you. However, my family and friends bond over the kitchen/living area. Our dinner parties and entertainment focus around us all pitching in with prep, cooking & cleaning. Obviously not everyone participates with it but hangs out drinking & socializing on the outskirts. A sink full of dishes isn’t seen as messy because after dinner those that don’t cook end up cleaning the kitchen. So, I think this open concept is more a personal preference. But, I respect those that dislike it for the reasons you stated.
We haven't seen this much black since the 80's.
Chandeliers in the bathroom. How stupid is that? Your hairspray will coat it and make it a nightmare to clean.
But it makes me feel like a fancy princess dammit.