High Point Market never disappoints when it comes to gorgeously decorated showrooms and amazing hospitality! Here are the top trends we spotted this Spring!
10 | Bird Motifs
Tricia, my Director of eDesign quickly noticed bird motifs everywhere because she is adopting a baby lovebird this coming week. There were birds in wallpaper, textiles and case goods. We particularly loved the vintage parrots tucked into fresh spring florals at Highland House (above).
Tricia Firmaniuk, Director of eDesign and Kristy Robb, Director of Marketing
9 | New Tuscan
This New Tuscan look by Tara Shaw for Century was a standout. The Tuscan metal pieces, tapestries, earthenware pots and curvy furniture looked fresh and elegant with none of the stodgy heaviness of the brown on gold on brown Tuscan trend of 20 years ago.
8| Blue-greens
It’s pretty hard not to love lovely blue greens – and they were very well represented in several showrooms. Wall colours similar to BM HC-140 Prescott Green and BM HC-143 Wythe Blue. A little fresher and more romantic than the earthier sage greens we’ve seen a lot of recently.
7| Moody greens and sage greens
The moodier and muted greens were also well represented of course. Like in this deep green display at Century (below). You can find my curated collection of greens on Samplize!
6| Coral
The fresh and happy colours of spring were well represented, pastel greens, blues and pinks. But coral was a standout theme we saw everywhere like in this pretty display at Highland House (which always has the most colourful showroom and is a favourite!).
5| Walnut wood tones
The weathered ashy wood tones that have persisted from the recent grey trend are definitely gone. The trending wood tone throughout the market this spring was deep, unapologetically brown, walnut. There was still some lighter cerused oak pieces, but rich walnut was everywhere. This pretty corner dinette and gallery wall was at Taylor King.
4| Skirted bench seating
Banquettes and benches were featured everywhere. And not only for the breakfast room. Full dining sets were surrounded by bench seating. Most often skirted, sometimes with a scalloped edge or fringe. A clever way to eliminate the visual clamour of too many chair legs for sure, but I do wonder at how functional they are really for dinner parties?
3| Burgundy and mauve
We spotted some retro colour combinations that I haven’t seen for a long while. Like this apricot, mauve and burgundy arrangement at Hickory Chair.
2| Gaming & plaid
Did you notice the touch of plaid in the room above? Well plaid really was everywhere – more than you would expect for a Spring market. Kristy has a particular love of plaid and spotted it everywhere. Along with games as accessories. You can see both in this Hickory Chair set up below (see the basket of billiard balls? Such a cute styling idea!).
1| The trending neutral of the moment?
Conspicuously absent was grey anything. And black and white rooms were so rare that they seemed jarring the few times we met one. So what was the trending neutral this spring? CREAM.
All the neutral upholstery and paint finishes on furniture were cream. Mostly in the realm of “antique” cream. The creams that are actually the very palest of the beiges if you look at them with my neutral colour wheel.
We noticed that many of them were warmer than the usual green beige “antique whites”, showing instead orange beige undertones. So yes, it’s time to get to know the palest of the beiges in my system, you can get them from my curated collections at Samplize here.
We always love touring the Antique market. This year, I fell in love with the charming folk art pieces of Mary Maguire and carted a couple pieces home!
I ran in to so many of you! Thanks for stopping to say hi!
How to decorate with colour…
so you can ditch the 60-30-10 rule.
Then on Monday afternoon I spoke at Universal Furniture:
Now it’s time to get ready for my True Colour Expert Training in Chicago in just a couple of weeks! Can’t wait to meet many of you there!
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Love this round up, Maria!
And how affirming that the woman who taught me so much about color fell in love with an artist I e been following for a while, Mary Maguire.
As always, I look for your High Point highlight. Thank you!
I’m happy to hear that walnut is coming back. I’m doing a white kitchen with walnut island and adjoining dry bar/buffet. It seems very classic and timeless to me! Now I need to decide if I can get over years of disliking the shiny brass in my previous home and go with brass hardware in one of today’s finishes to warm everything up!
Antiqued brass sounds like it would be lovely!
Sounds like BM Navajo White could be used for open floor plan situation?
If you do a white backsplash with white oak cabinets and soapstone countertops; and used BM Navajo White on the walls to continue from living room…what color of white tiles would work? Off white, cream? Or would they need to be a very pale orange beige complex cream?
I’ve decorated my home in pale blue-greens, so it’s great to be a trendsetter! I’m actually currently renovating my dollhouse, and I’ll be using pale blues and greens in there, too. But the dollhouse bathroom is already classic black and white tile, so I will simply wallpaper in black and white toile. It’s fun decorating on a tiny scale, but also hard because my hands are big in comparison to the rooms.
I love all of this. I just painted my living room BM Antique Jade and have been looking for a coral armchair. Your observations bode well!
…just had to reply to your query regarding how functional skirted seating could possibly be …for a dinner party … or anything else. Though I no longer have this I most certainly can attest to it being absolutely necessary when you live in a small place (think 542 sqft NY apt)….you can easily hide/store things under chairs, benches..plus it makes the place appear larger, cleaner … no so many leg lines to deal with. When one is just starting out and one’s career is one’s focus, having skirted seating is so much easier to care for too…..unless one has a shedding pet. Thanks for the update.