What I want for you is a timeless home you’ll love forever. And if a timeless aesthetic is my ideal – one you don’t have to renovate until it’s worn out – you might wonder, why do I go on about trends??
Because the only way to truly know what is timeless is to know its opposite – what’s trendy.
When design is not your main wheelhouse, what’s trendy is less obvious than you might think. I’ve been through several major trend cycles now in my career. So I have the long view that I can see clearly. And this is exactly how I can help.
Getting to know the trend cycle
There are overarching macro trends that can most easily be characterized by the popular neutral colours everyone is defaulting to. And within those there are more minor micro trends, often in accent tiles and trendy patterns.
The trend timeline of the last few decades looks like this (below).
My timeless tips
Today on Youtube I’m sharing how we are shifting from the black and white trend that’s at least 8 years in, to a new warm neutral trend.
If you avoid these top 3 design trends from the waning trend cycle, you’re going to be way ahead of this crazy trend game!
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Preach it sister! Right there with you, I have been telling my clients the same thing. Nothing gives me joy like walking into a home I designed 15-20 or 30 years ago to see that it still looks fantastic! Yes, we might update a few accessories, but overall, the space could still pass for being designed yesterday. Thank you for all you do to educate pros and consumers both!!!!
Please share with us what your timeless kitchens look like? What color/ material are the cabinets? What counters and backsplashes?
I moved to a teeny town in the midwest that is on the upswing, with cute but dilapidated little homes getting bought and fixed up and new cottages being built. Living in a spot that is among the last to adopt trends is hard since I’m 10 years ahead of them. I just want to broadcast your channel into the living rooms of the people choosing siding and roof and trim! Of the five or six that have been done/built on the main streets this year, four are some variation of black & wood or white & black. There was one classic cream home that seemed to dodge that bullet through week after week of contractors, until one day, the beautiful orange-beige natural stone foundation – which they CORRECTLY and astonishingly color matched with the brick they added around the new porch – got slathered in the same cream they had painted the house, as did the brick… and all the window trim and porch posts got black paint, waaahhh!! I think someone came in midstream to make the home look more “current” much to its detriment.
However one homeowner painted their dull gray cottage a beautiful hydrangea blue this year, and I keep thinking I should drop a thank you card in their mailbox!
This is soooo right on! I almost fell for the ‘warm neutral’ trend. I’m sticking with your timeless doctrine! Thank you, Maria!!
-Rachelle
When I see orange timber, I think of the burgundy and forest green window shutters of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s. The orange will get dated SO fast.
There are exceptions. I drive by a new build that has a very traditional, classic white-sided exterior with orange timber shutters and a few other subtle details. It looks great because the orange isn’t large and bulky.