Home Decor Trends 2022

[TheSmallestOneWasMadeline]

What is everyone seeing?

Around here there is a lot of newly rendered white houses with dark grey windows and a lot of panelling which I love but is defo beyond my DIY capabilities!

On the outside there's still a fair bit of render here (just outside SW London) but I definitely see fewer dark grey windows going in, it's either white or lighter grey/green.

In interiors from the magazines and on Instagram I see there's a lot of cream and beigey neutrals now a lot more than grey. I still see a lot of green and pink though colour wise. I'm never sure how much Instagram just shows me the trends I've clicked on before though so there could be a whole world of other trends going on that I don't see!

I have had some panelling just done up my stairs and not ashamed to say that I needed a carpenter to do it, my husband built a bathroom cabinet (from scratch!) recently so he's very handy but he wouldn't have attempted the panelling either.

Pinterest will only repeat back to me what I'm already interested in, so not much help in telling me, or anyone else, about general trends.

I follow a couple of interiors blogs which seem ever more focused on what they describe as a 'layered' style, but which is a bit more cluttered, busy and patterned than I feel comfortable with. Maximalism - pattern, different textures, more colour - seems to be leaving its mark on even designers who don't start from that point. Makes me long for a bit of Conran 'plain, simple, useful', but I also quite like the pivot away from iterations of boxy, mid-century stuff, which often gets watered down into dull little sofas and teal and mustard everywhere.

I hadn’t noticed until someone mentioned on another thread but the cluttered, mis matched look. Is this the maximalist look?
So one wall partly wallpaper in a striped pattern with a dado rail, then another wall wallpapered in a swirly design, yet another wall papered in a totally different pattern. Topped with patterned curtains and non of it in the exact same colour. It looks as though 4 separate art and design students have been let loose and each given a wall to play with.
Then random ornaments, lots of them as if someone has gone into a shop and bought every single item on display from one section of the shop.

In most of the interior photos I've seen online it's apparently normal to have a full size tree in your living room. Not sure how long this has been going on

I'm seeing a lot of yellow kitchens on Instagram. India yellow F&B kind of shades

Sliding patio doors

Californian colours - yellows, pinks, pastels, beiges

Gold and brass accents eg on lighting

natural materials, linen, sisal, textured cottons, raffia, terracotta

concrete

green kitchens

no more: grey everything, Berber rugs, white kitchens, bifolds

I heard the kitchen island is over - OVAHHH!! kitchen tables all the way.