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.

Grey looks trendy because the grey trend is over. Now is it white with black accents and jewel tones. These will look fresh and new.

It's almost impossible not to buy the trends because these are what are offered.

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Just like a railways station waiting room. (Sorry. The house I’m buying has a very pale pink bathroom and I quite like it although I don’t like pink).

@SchnitzelVon i'm googling The Limes but i can't find any images except the outside shot. Can you link?

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This is the kind of thing.

I blame Mrs Hinch for the grey. Still, in my book it's better than magnolia. (Just my personal opinion.)

Mind you, I don't really get the concept of home decor 'trends'. Once I've done a room out the way I like it, I want it to stay that way for a while so I can enjoy it. DH and I have done no decorating since 2014.

Just find your own style and fill your house with stuff you love, my house is filled with lots of colour but I also have a lot of neutral elements like white walls and neutral wooden flooring and things that arent so easy to change . Have fun with fabrics and textiles amd textures and don’t just go for grey crushed velvet. Pick artwork that feels good to you .

I hate grey, I hate bland. I have a teal and purple sitting room!
(It's large, and west facing so bright and airy)

@Gilead which teal paint did you pick? I want teal on three walls of my sitting room (the other will be palest cream and covered in framed prints).

I have a bright yellow kitchen, turquoise bathroom, peachy pink hall, magnolia and red sitting room. I just chose colours I liked

Jammy Dulux, teal tension.

Duluz Azure fusion is nice too - I have the darkest one in my sitting room and by sheer fluke one a couple of shades lighter in the kitchen. Chosen about a year apart and didn't realise they were from the same shade selection until I was touching up the paint to sell.

Im with you OP!

I just don’t get it, grey in a couple of rooms not a problem but to go grey top to bottom makes my teeth itch! Half the houses round here have grey front doors

One of my neighbours houses, is a carbon copy of that hinch woman’s house. I Mean they haven’t Just taken inspiration from it and done their own take on it, they’ve copied exactly (as much as she can) ..to me that screams no imagination.

Looking at all these grey interiors Online is like looking at black and white photos.

I have one grey room in my house But this was done long before the Trend took off. Dh wanted to carry the theme throughout as he liked it so much but to be honest I’d get bored looking at the same colour everywhere.

Just off to google Teal tension as been thinking of doing dark/teal green in kitchen! 😀

@SurreyHillsGirl

Dulux, teal tension.

I have this in my hallway, love it.

Try again!

@SurreyHillsGirl My ensuite is in Sulking Room Pink!

I bet your house looks great. I'm debating whether or not to do the spare room in SRP. Then move in there!

The only point in looking at those sort of things is to solidify what you DON'T want.

I'm not one to follow trends. We are about to move back into our house next week. The walls are orchid white, I chose dark maroon carpet ( a colour from my childhood home), we are yet to buy sofas but they'll be a dark colour as our old ones are cream. We don't have a floor lamp but I do need to find one for the wall and I've yet to decide how to finish the brick fireplace.
Instagram and the likes have all the same same colours. No one puts up pictures of their own style anymore. It's just a different room furnished in the same colours with the sameish items as everyone else.

Trying to decide on a colour for the sofa. Don’t know whether to have dark teal or go mad with crimson.

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER

The ‘Scandi’ look I’ve seen, in the many links to estate agent particulars sent to me by a Swedish friend looking to buy a flat in Stockholm, is white and grey! With some black thrown in. I’ve never seen so many cold and bleak looking places in my life. Only one of them had a little bit of colour anywhere.

I was just about to say the same myself! We had our guest room Painted grey recently though and I have to say I do really like it. We also have a dark green room and the rest mostly Stockholm white (ie magnolia). It works quite well in scandi countries where it is so dark for much of the year, light walls are a blessing!

I quite like light colours and the 50/60s furniture in fashion just now but have done for a while now, I just happen to look on trend at the mo!

SurreyHillsGirl, dementedma and others with colour in their homes, please post pics.

This thread is apposite. I’ve just read it on a break from applying this jolly colour, amongst others, to DS’s bedroom wall. I’ve noticed that I’m increasingly drawn to colour and much more confident about using them. I wonder if it’s partly a consequence of spending so much time at home over the last few months.

I think I'm comparing my more recent Pinterest experience with my memories of flicking through my Mum's home magazines when I was younger. There were always all sorts of different home decor looks in those, and I loved the variety. What I have found thus far online has just been very samey. And I do acknowledge that there are a few different styles out there - the grey look, the Scandi look, the natural look. But it's still very...samey. Can't think of a better word.

However I'm beginning to think it's as much about the staging of it that bothers me, as the actual look. And that speaks more to my inferiority complex in terms of my ability to keep a tidy home. With the pictures of children's rooms there's ALWAYS a toddler sitting on the floor, quietly and contentedly reading a book. With the lounge pictures there's never a random toy poking out from under the sofa, or a dirty sock. In the kitchen, instead of a pile of dirty crockery in the sink and a frying pan soaking on the hob, there's a bowl of fresh lemons and maybe a relaxed and happy family man chopping vegetables. I know that's how it's supposed to be, and it's the same with any lifestyle photography, and this is really a non-issue. I'm just in a grump today.

I wonder if part of the reason people see so much the same is people redo their houses more?

When I bought and sold my first house, it was before the HGTV trends took off, people were not staging homes or anything like that. You tidied up and fixed any obvious issues, maybe painted if things were a little grungy. When we looked at homes there were all kinds of styles, often people had decorated when they had bought the home years ago, and not changed much since.

Only a few years later, flipping houses became big, and everyone did pretty much the same thing, giant beige tiles, granite counters, all very predictable and supposedly saleable. People started redoing their kitchens before selling, repainting, having homes staged by professionals. Home decor shows sponsored by companies selling reno stuff became big.

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
Etc etc

I don’t know about trend, I reckon all that’s at least 2 or 3 years out of date?!? Have you looked at Instagram? Sophie Robinson? Michelle Ogundehin? Emma Jane Palin? You won’t find a grey room, white furniture or anything else samey from a few years ago. You will find bags of inspiration.

"Zhampagne" I couldn't give a monkeys about whether people think I have 'style' or not - whatever 'style' is supposed to be. The choice of home deco is about being in a room, how much light does it get and from what direction/ time of day, what is the purpose of the room , what do I and the others who live there feel comfortable with. I don't need interior decorators or trends to tell me that.