Decorating trends that won’t last?

[Winnipegdreamer]

Just for fun as I’m bored, I also live in rented so don’t really have much choice on decor but interested to hear your thoughts.

I feel possibly that very dark wall colours and dark woodwork might be the next thing to get a bit dated.

Maybe painted and high gloss kitchen cupboards?

Feel free to add yours

@Thisismytimetoshine are you talking about herringbone wall tile looking quite shite

Will white bathroom ware ever date? I see the trend is to go back to pistachio (the new avocado) or rose (salmon) but I have an avocado suite and copper taps from 1980 and I can’t wait to rip it out.

Beige tiles, white ware. You’re going to tell me that is so 1998.

Yes, herringbone pattern. I like metro tiles.

God, surely the avocado bathroom suites won't ever return? They were a joke even when they were popular!

Painting your skirting architrave and ceiling to match a usually dark coloured wall

Those decal things to put writing on your wall saying inane things like 'love family' or 'coffee is nice'

Wood burning stoves

Anything 'shabby chic' bloody repainted chests of drawers

If Ikea ever goes out of business then future generations will laugh at how many homes are 100% Ikea

Copper everything

Definitely the industrial style furniture that is highly likely to give anyone a splinter or get food trapped in it

I think my future house is 'dated', but I only decorate using colours and styles I actually love, so I am definitely not influenced by what is 'on trend'. In fact, often when I want to decorate it buy new furniture, I spend months being told by salesmen that what I want just isn't available because it isn't fashionable.
I hate the grey that is everywhere at the moment, just as I hated the 'terracotta'and beige of the late 80's and the magnolia of the 90's etc. My house is a reflection of me and if there's one thing I'm not, it's a slave to fashion.

*dont know where the 'future' came from - definitely didn't type that!

I'm just about to install bevelled white metro tiles with dark grey grout. How unfashionable retro of me

Grey, rose gold, matchy matchy things.

Everything will date. Every single thing.

If in any doubt, go and visit the wonderful Geffrye Museum in Shoreditch. A fantastic museum showing interior decor and design through the ages.

I think dark blue/dark green walls and kitchen units are already starting to date. We painted our bedroom navy 5 years ago and thought it was so unusual and now it’s everywhere!

Shiny handle less kitchens, bi fold external doors, open plan kitchen/dining/ living room, grey, cheap looking velvet sofas, feature walls.

High gloss handleless kitchens are already very dated. Ditto bi-fold patio doors.

Oh and gallery walls above your sofa in the living room - definitely overkill now.

Geometric/ frog tape walls. Please make it stop.

Everything dates, look at those fake wooden MDF kitchens with black laminate worktops that now scream nineties. That everyone painted to try to pretend they were something they weren’t. Or terracotta walls. That were so ubiquitous in the eighties, so many trends.

What’s really important is to keep a house fresh, put a modern twist on it, and do it in a style you love. Once it gets to about max twenty years old, it becomes tired, and usually looks it. It’s less the style and more how long since it was last done.

Shutters.
Maybe ok in the med with strong light to shut out for an afternoon siesta. In the cold dark uk in the winter just makes a house gloomy.

Honeycomb tiles seem to be the thing now, in time they will look very dated.
I hope grey goes out. It’s really been overdone.
I remember thinking blue and yellow looked really good sometime in the early 90s ( it was probably already a hangover from the 80s). A couple of years later I thought it was beyond naff.
A month ago I bought a decoration magazine, saw a pic I liked and thought how great it would be to paint my bathroom in a mix of candy pink and pistacchio. Then I took a step back, saw that colour scheme in Fired Earth’s window etc, and realised it will one day be the new yellow and blue. And the colours wouldn’t work in my flat, not least due to the low light levels in the bathroom.

Gre grey grey with silver or rose gold. Anything that has the look of Mrs Hinch.

Everything dates and people get bored.

All you can do is choose things that you genuinely like regardless of trend.

These threads just end up being a long list of posters' personal dislikes. Everything will date and that is absolutely fine. If you want to maximise longevity then keep the big, fixed stuff as neutral as possible and use smaller items to bring in the trends that you like. Use paint and fabric for colour rather than carpets, tiles and sanitary ware, etc etc.