What Will Be The Next Great Thing In Interior Design?

The chunky highlights 😂. I had never even put color on my hair but I let my best friend talk me into going to the “it” hairdresser in town. I left with orange and yellow chunks in my really dark hair. My neighbor’s 3 year old screamed and hid when he saw me. A few weeks later I cut my hair to what was basically a buzz cut.

For anyone with babies that feels that just have to have that squared off glass coffee table with pointy sharp edges, I hit my head on the corner at age two and still remember the terrible medication that my parents had to hold me down to apply! I also still have a giant round bald spot in my hair that I have had to strategically work around whenever I put my hair up.

Mixing timeless patterns is super easy to vary up a space without punching people in the face when they walk in, too. I’ve had a black/white polka dot duvet cover for an era, love it. Recently gotten into hunting down vintage Wamsutta bedding from the 80s, and found some black/white striped sheets- put them together with my duvet and blew my mind. Black lace trim pollowcases, black lace canopy, I’m living my best Lydia Deetz life.

We had buttery yellow-tainted concrete floors in our open-space apartment and got so many complements on it! Now it’s rented but the tenants still adore the floor. It’s slippery. It shows every hair. But once you vacuum it (or get an inexpensive robot vacuum because anything works on concrete), it looks amazing and brightens everything up. We flipped traditions and had dark rustic-industrial furniture with the light floors and loved the way it looked. I still miss it, I love spaces that have their own style.

My house is 170 years old. We have been rebuilding for 23 years. Finally, we are at a stage of purchasing the outward furniture. Gathering the personal items in storage and trying to make a cohesive look that is timeless because lord knows I won’t get the opportunity to update things, avoiding trends and going classic is where I need to go. Anyway, thanks for your help. I am going back and looking and rewatching

I’m laughing as I sit looking at antique brass lamp, chunky bronze candle stick bases, chrome door fittings and black matte light fittings – and yes – they definitely all work together. Always loved stripes especially subtle ones like two levels of the same color. I had a home with soft buttery yellow walls and white trim and ceilings. It was lovely. Wallpaper is always out for me. It’s so easy to repaint, much harder to remove wallpaper. I’m with you on glass furniture, cat paw prints and random scratches are not a feature I want

I live in California. Loved that you used Chelsea Fagan (Financial Diet) home for wallpaper whimsical example (she was on Homeworthy). I always enjoy your website, but I also enjoyed you on her website back when. So cute to see the tie-in. Regarding the glass and glamour, I was walking around a nearby outdoor mall and popped in to Bob’s Discount Furniture (new items only). They had the glass glamour thing going on in coffee tables, lamps, side tables etc. Not my style but I do have a friend that would love that. They are selling it and people are buying so maybe it might come back. 🤯

I have chrome in my bathrooms here in my apartment in Italy. I thought I would always be a brushed nickel guy but after living with it I really like it. There is cheap chrome and quality chrome and of course I have the latter or at least I think I do. There is really nothing like it: strong, solid, old school, serious. A more matte finish would be kind of weak and blah.

Just did a renovation and we did chrome or brushed nickel fixtures, lights and knobs/handles because when we visit the UK it’s in every London hotel and I love that look. As for colors, jewel tones and slowly showing up more and more each year. Started with the dark blues and greens and now yellow and burgundy have entered the chat… my 100% jewel toned home mother would be so happy.

I had a yellow laminate countertop in my new house. Ugh! I thought I’d replace with granite but then I found a vintage-pattern lemon and pink flower wallpaper that made the counter look intentional. I bought a big black and white diamond pattern vinyl rug so I wouldn’t have to replace the floor. Chairs don’t move easily over it. So I wound up buying pink stools with chrome legs on wheels. I’m nowhere near my original vision. I love that.

I have an aversion to glass and chrome tables. They remind of me of 70’s key parties, shag rugs and lines of cocaine. I also love that Cesca chairs are back because they are actually quite comfortable. They’re came out of the Bauhaus school so they are technically modernist but they also had a moment in the 70’s when they were super popular as well so I can see why people might see them as midcentury.

On having something child proof in terms of coffee tables – my parents had a slate coffee table when I was little (putting something hot on it directly did do it in by the end) and I was told not to bounce on the sofa. I think I was three, so you can imagine just how that went. We spent something like half of my dad’s birthday in the ER because I gashed my head open on that table. Children will find a way.

I don’t like glass furniture yet I must admit that at one time I owned not one but two absolutely gorgeous glass coffee tables. One was a simple Parsons table, all glass, and the other was 3 slabs of thick etched glass with brass accents. They were expensive and I adored them at the time. No more glass for me ever since we moved seven years later and as another commentator said about Windex and PTSD…it was quite the experience selling a house with two glass tables that had to be kept spotless in a house with four cats! As for chrome – ick, ick, and ick. I didn’t like it back in the day and I don’t like it now. I do love your articles!

Oh my gosh I just watched a different article where the YouTuber spoke super slowly, so I had bumped the speed up to 1.25….and then Nick auto played afterwards and WOW he is COOKIN’ on this speed. 😂😂😂 He sounds like a kid who drank four cups of coffee and is really excited to tell you all the information they know at once.

My home is small but I’m so excited to do it up exactly how I like it. Chrome always feels cold and looks cheap to me, then it rusts. I don’t like glass either, same cold feeling, can’t touch it or you have to clean it, afraid it’s going to break and cut me 😮. I love patterns, colors and textures. Of course there’s such a thing as too much. I have an upstairs loft area I need to remodel and I’ve been obsessing over a specific bold wallpaper by Chasing Paper.

I very much appreciate you. You speak clearly and explain why things work and why they may not. I love being a woman but have always been a tom boy and have never been very good at the girl things and design and colors. I do love beautiful things and would love to have my home show that. You are making that happen for me. I love perusal your articles and always learn something. Thank you again for making this information available to everyone. Oh, and I love the beard style you are wearing now. You look just wonderful.

Our kitchen used to be that exact buttery yellow back in 2019!!! 😂 While yellow is my favorite color as well, you could not pay me to switch it back. I painted my bedroom sortive goldenrod back in high school… Ended up unintentionally giving it a very “Under the Tuscan Sun” look… Again, you couldnt pay me to do that again 😅

Hmm. Personally I think glass is excellent as a decorative element is around light fittings. It transmits light and reflects light and diffuses light and generally makes light fittings more effective, unlike any other sort of light shade that makes them less effective, and you don’t have to worry about someone tripping and slicing their head open on the chandelier – or leaving smeary fingerprints on it. In fact, other than windows, chandeliers are the best place for glass in the home – and that fits the theme of glass being about lighting your home, too. I’ll take the mildly glam look of a small glass chandelier, and skip the glass tabletops, thank you.

A hill I’d never thought I’d die on: I love my glass dining table! My mom moved in with us and brought her furniture, and I tried to incorporate her stuff so it would feel like “her” house too, and one of the things was a completely glass table (including the base) from the 80s. I never liked it growing up, and wasn’t excited about it AT ALL. But man has that table grown on me! It’s PERFECT for puzzles and board games because things slide across it easier. It is a fingerprint magnet, but it’s SO easy to clean. I also like that it’s non-porous so it’s easy to “deep” clean too. Several nieces and nephews have cracked a skull or two in the past while running through her house, but I don’t have small kids or grandkids (yet) so it’s not a concern currently. 👍

Don’t like chrome. Don’t like stripes- they remind me of these old rickety outdoor lounge chairs my Mom had that had canvas covers with huge stripes-e Around 2010 I set out to paint the rooms in my home (by “I set out” I mean I picked out the colors and my husband did all the work). I took pity on my husband and did not purchase the paint for all eight rooms at once rather I picked them out one by one over time. Not by design, I ended up picking out eight different shades of yellow without even realizing it. In fact I did not even realize it until one day I was looking around to see the end result just to see eight shades of yellow. Obviously, I like Yellow.

Back in 2009 I painted our dining room & living room the light butter yellow and I loved how it looked with my dark gray sofa but at the time I could only find yellow with red accents and not the gray. Before we moved, 10 years later, we repainted light gray to appeal to more buyers. My mom just repainted her kitchen that same yellow

I think people confuse chrome and polished nickel, which can easily appear to be chrome. I love both as accents in a room. Think light and electrical switch plates, faucets, light fixtures, lamps. I would never use it with furniture. You want your furniture to be warm and appear comfortable. Nothing about shiny metal says comfort. As accents, it really elevates the room and makes it look expensive. I have chrome, polished nickel, pewter, stainless steel, and brass accents throughout my home and it really works well.

Nick ! I’m dying for you to answer this question. Why are framed pictures being displayed leaning one against the other, one being partially hidden. They are usually on a sideboard or shelf, where there is ample room above for them to be hung separately. Why is this a trend ? I think it’s crazy. Please give us the rationale .THANKS !

Chrome actually requires care, especially chrome that has been badly applied. If I had anything chrome the first thing I would do is wax it with an automotive past wax (I’m sure there is something better that I don’t know about). Chrome that is flaking off and has rust underneath is very unsightly. I was lucky moving into a home with high-quality faucets are they are beautiful, indeed.

I love Stripes too. I loved those multicoloured stripes at gap / Benetton in the late 90s / millennium – on scarves etc. anyway – how about ….. Stripes interior deep dive article? Spanning classic & modern… Or you could cover all the design styles just looking at stripes??? Also – used en masse or in small areas, woven or printed, fabric or wall, mixed colours or monotone / two colour (natural stripes..🦓!)…. ❤🙏 pretty please 😉 💈💈💈💈 ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ But not check / plaid. That’s another article!

I ordered hilarious wallpaper from Spoonflower featuring Sasquatch holding hands with an alien walking through a forest filled with deer, bunnies, and squirrels. It is a hoot and everyone loves it. It’s in the bathroom, but the rest of my house is normal Japandi style. The only thing is, cool wallpaper is ridiculously expensive, hence why it is only in my bathroom.

I, too, hate chrome. It was everywhere in our house when I was growing up (also a geriatric millennial here… w/Gen X Mom who loves chrome). We got yelled at way too much for leaving fingerprints on all the chrome everything in our house 😫 especially bad were the kitchen cabinet handles and the friggin STAIRCASE RAILING which we weren’t supposed to touch 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

I inherited a small glass coffee table and i find it to be pretty enjoyable, albeit scratchable, but its that thicc glass, so no easier to scratch than a wood finish… To sound as not-poor as possible, i spend more time dealing with glass at work than about 99% of the population. The last thing you should use, on any glass surfaces, is windex. It’s a scam of a product held up by the well known name and indestructibility of its parent company, when in reality it’s a garbage product! When i see a chance to promote dawn/water usage, i take it. My little way of making the world a better place.

Many years ago I painted the kitchen and breakfast nook a bright-knock-your-socks-off-gotta-wear-shades lemon yellow. It was FABULOUS.. and shocking upon first viewing but everybody loved it as much as I did. I used black & white checked towels with lemon images and put plants and lemons everywhere, so it not only looked good but smelled good too, especially when lemon blossoms were available. Would I do it again? Probably not since I’m now into a kind of southwestern wabi-sabi style (and my yellow kitchen was back in the late 70’s). But if I ever went back to a country/farmhouse style then YES. As to glass furniture, ugh (and I love glass…bottles, cubes, stained glass windows, figurines, etc). If I was going to make a glass end table or coffee table, it would either be super-deep beveled and sandblasted (depth-blasted) or geometric bevels (all bevels). Of course that would make it weigh a ton but it would be a statement piece, for sure.😁

Miranda Priestly: Where are the belts for this dress? Why is no one ready? Jocelyn: Here. It’s a tough call. They’re so different. Andy Sachs: (snickers under her breath) Miranda Priestly: Something funny? Andy Sachs: No. No, no, nothing’s… you know, it’s just that… both those belts look exactly the same to me. Y’know, I’m still learning about this stuff, and uh… (giggles uncomfortably) Miranda Priestly: This… “stuff”? Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You… go to your closet, and you select… I don’t know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back, but what you don’t know is that that sweater is not just blue, it’s not turquoise, it’s not lapis, it’s actually cerulean. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that, in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns, and then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent, wasn’t it?… who showed cerulean military jackets. I think we need a jacket here. Nigel: Hmm. Miranda Priestly: And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. Then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic casual corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars of countless jobs, and it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you’re wearing a sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room… from a pile of “stuff.

I really don’t like matte black. Ew. Chrome is OK but it can take a lot of cleaning. I do like stripes and geometrics. The colors are nice, but not me. I am a die hard cyan blue/ lime/ etc gal. Wallpaper as art is cool, but to save money just paint and roll or stencil a pattern on it. I admit I have a glass top dining table (wood base) and coffee table (wrought iron base), but I don’t barge around the place, so yeah. Plus I’m a neat freak. I thrift everything. EVERYTHING.

You know what’s starting to happen to me? When I think of a design choice that’s mmmh, ‘questionable’, I automatically flash to Nick’s mildly concerned and definitely disappointed face with the pursed lips like he has in boring house thumbnail. I burst out laughing when I saw it and did the DiCaprio snap point, there it is! The face!🤣 You’re my ‘how about no’, judgement fairygodmother.