To get the rage about home decor trends...

[catpoooffender]

I've just moved house and have been looking online for style inspiration. But I'm just getting so tired of seeing the same thing everywhere. It's not that it doesn't look good, it's just that it's done to death.

Typically you will have a grey room, with throws artfully draped over the arm of the sofa. The furniture will be all white. There will be a floor lamp, probably tripod style. Candles will adorn the shelves, along with multiple house plants. On the pouffe, there will be a pretty tray, with two more of the following: a candle, a small vase, a book, some pretty cups. Hanging on the wall or on a shelf somewhere will be a framed print of some inspirational saying - possibly 'she said she could, so she did' or just a single word, like 'family' or 'love' or 'home'. Other artwork or mirrors will be placed on shelves and will lean against the wall, rather than being flat against them.

I'm not knocking any of this. I just yearn for something different.

Just decorate how you want your home to look?

I've never decorated to 'trends', I look at the room and imagine how i want to feel in it and what will work with the space eg:

Small, south facing Master Bedroom - cosy, relaxing, sumptious/decadent = black Graham and Brown Crocodile textured wallpaper with soft, warm lighting = my heaven.

Large, dark, north facing sitting room - play on the dark for long cosy winter evenings - deep navy blue with dark wood, dark leather sofa and chunky knitted blankets and dimmable lighting.

Kitchen - clean, uncluttered = white gloss units and grey tiles, granite worktops and granite tiled flooring.

I can’t stand grey homes. They make me feel so depressed inside. I look round a show home all in grey and felt so meh coming out- grey is such a dull, clinical colour.

If you have to look on the internet for "style" then you have none of your own. Of course they all look the same, they are trends, but do you want to decorate your home according to a trend or according to what you like and want? Or don't you know what you like or want and need interior designers to tell you?

I do think things like those white gloss kitchen cabinets will date very badly. Walls can be painted over but a new kitchen isn't cheap.

Please remember that the plants have to be fake.

Why are people so rude to each other????

You need to have a look at different interior designers who have styles out of the norm.
I follow a few on insta, some of which were on Great British interior design challenge, and they have quite interesting ideas.

I just want aubergine, maybe paired with dark green and gold, lots of crushed velvet and something like a hippie, 70s, boho, pre-Raphaelite, Medieval, 'gypsy' style, with Indian and Moroccan influence
It sounds like our family room We have velvet, gold, orange, red, batiks,etc - more central Africa than Moroccan admittedly.

@IgiveupallthenamesIwantedareg0

If you have to look on the internet for "style" then you have none of your own. Of course they all look the same, they are trends, but do you want to decorate your home according to a trend or according to what you like and want? Or don't you know what you like or want and need interior designers to tell you?

Do you think that your sense of style evolved in a vacuum? Or do you understand that it is the product of various sources of inspiration, as OP is looking for?

Haha OP I could dissect this all day - agree!!! I find the 70’s trend disturbing too, just reminds me of our house when I was a child!

And like you say it's not that it doesn't look nice it's just all feels very formulaic.

I don't think the OP is asking for advice. She is noting a trend that she is seeing. I enjoyed her observationit's an entertaining snapshot of the moment we live in. The cringiest detail is the inspirational sayings or single word partugh! I hate/love it!

We're about to completely re do our house- extension, knocking down walls... the lot. It's been small child chic for the last 10 years and I've realised I don't even know what I want it to look like. But also that all my friends have grey.

White furniture is the furniture of optimists and fools, IMHO. I am sick of all white kitchens with all white subway tile.

@MikeUniformMike - The trouble with inspiration is that you will tend to look for things you already like.

You are so right! That was my problem in the beginning and i didn't even know it!

By choosing and sticking with my theme which i just banged on about it's stopped me veering off course and back to my usual chaos of lots of looks which end up looking like nothing. Now i'm achieving something which looks like something at least!

'Hanging on the wall or on a shelf somewhere will be a framed print of some inspirational saying - possibly 'she said she could, so she did'

We have velvet, gold, orange, red, batiks,etc - more central Africa than Moroccan admittedly

Sounds so warm and lovely!

The problem with home decor trends is that they go out of fashion quickly and cost £££ both in time and money.

Had a 70s avocado bathroom which was expensive to replace. If it had been white it wouldn't have dated so quickly and probably still have now. The bath was massive and suited an awkward room.

Sounds so warm and lovely!
It's very cosy. It's my favourite room in the house.

@Laiste google The Limes, Heworth, York should come up on zoopla sold properties - lovely late Georgian villa which was done simply but well imo - especially the hall/staircase

Hear you OP. I went radical and we now have a riot of colour in our hallway and living room. I get many complements on it and it makes me think that a lot of people are just tired of all this dull, monochrome decor that we keep seeing everywhere. It utterly boring, and downright unoriginal and lazy in so many cases.

We're looking to buy a house we can move straight into, so ideally basic decor to our liking. It's all prison chic grey walls, grey kitchen countertops, ashy floorboards to go with the grey paint tones, and often black tiles in the bathroom. I hate grey. If I find a house to our specs with basic magnolia walls I'm snapping it up!

Who the fuck has a vase of lillies on their hob?

House details and pictures with the same vase of lilies in each room, obviously shifted round for the photographer, those are my favourites!

@BluebellsGreenbells

I never take any notice of trends . I just get what I like

The problem is these trends are overloaded in the shops, so you can only buy grey or mustard whatever, I’ve just been to buy Capet and every shade of gray is cater for. I don’t want grey!!

Same for wallpaper I want purples and greens and not grey or silver.

It’s hard to find off trend basic items.

I found this when my mother was looking for new bathroom and kitchen tiles after a leak. We went to countless places and saw a sea of beige and grey. Only one shop had the odd blue, green and pink.

@Staffy1 - and yes to flaming mustard everywhere?!?!!!

How the feck do people keep this white decor looking nice, anyway? I presume it's a nightmare with kids, pets and bottles of wine?