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Interior Trends for 2018

8 years ago

My wife, the decorator, showed me a most interesting piece this morning, just a week old, from an English newspaper reporting on a study by Houzz (UK), cousin of our host.


Among a lot of other things, it pretty much suggests (in its very English English) that Minimalism is on its way out and Chintz is coming back.


It seems spot on (there's some more of that English English) when it speaks of the color trends now being talked about here in the States. Overall it suggests that those of us who are drawn to antiques (although one still mustn't use that word) might just find our stuff coming back into style.


Here at home we still have one piece of soft furniture in chintz (something we've had probably since the last Ice Age) and three or four years ago we had moved on to the colors finally being called "trendy" (this is what happens when your wife is a decorator) but the suggestion, implied though not stated, that furniture from periods when its decoration was as important as its form might come back into favor during my lifetime, now this is news that makes me want to stick around a little longer.


So, if you're inclined, read this piece in The Telegraph. It's not about antiques per se, but it is interesting. Will its prophesies come true (there or here)? I have no clue, but it will be fun to find out.

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