It is no secret that design trends do not always pass the test of the time. Sometimes shopping in a fleeting design trend can lead to great regret, especially if it is expensive or difficult to change.
Nobody knows better than interior designers themselves. They continuously work on the latest state of the interior design space and are aware of the trends that dominate the design world. It is not surprising that you have tried some trends in your time and not all of them were successful.
We asked interior designers to share the design trends that they regret and their answers were their eyes. Read on for three design trends who want design professionals that you have never tried it.
Meet the expert
- Maren Baker is the founder and main designer of Maren Baker Design, an interior design studio based in Boise, Idaho.
- Julia Newman is the founder and main designer of Julia Adele Design, a California, California, with full-service interior architecture based.
- Lesley Myrick is the CEO and main designer of Lesley Myrick interior design, an interior design with full-service interior fittings based in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Accent walls
Accent walls are a hot topic in the interior design world. You can be a great way to create a focus in a room and add some color, texture and personality.
But when it is finished without intention, accent walls can also be uncomfortable and out of place, which leads to an imbalance in a room.
The interior designer Maren Baker from Maren Baker Design learned this lesson on the hard tour by diving head catchers in accent walls in her own home.
“I bought it in front of my designer, but I was in the design – I learned that an accent wall is literally senseless when they emphasize a large flat wall, just like the other large flat walls in the room,” she says.
Essentially cover the brush and can of color and back. Painting a flat wall just no longer cuts an accent color in her room.
“Instead, if you take the entire color or wallpaper, you will find a different way to be interested in the wall, except that it is only the dry mouse troop, or skip the 'accent wall' and add a correspondingly scaled art.
Leather sofa
Have you brought a nice leather sofa for your living room in harmony? Perhaps you would like to think twice before you press the buy button, says Julia Newman by Julia Adele Design.
“Without a doubt, the biggest design error that I made in my own home – despite the look – was a leather sofa, she says.
While leather is excellent for accompanying pieces such as Ottomans, chairs or even chairs when it comes to large, frequently used pieces of furniture such as a couch, according to Newman, it is more effort than it is worth.
“It turned out that it was a high maintenance, and I don't think furniture should be something that should be worried about,” she says. “It was cold in winter, hot in summer, and finally I was relieved to switch to fabric.”
Save yourself the money and stress and skip this aesthetic trend for the practicality and durability of fabric.
Device starage with a lifting door
A device garden is essentially a customer -specific kitchen cabinet that stores small devices if they are not used, such as blender, air fryers, mixers and coffee machines.
Device carage are usually counter-height and make it easier to push in and out devices for fast use.
While these kept functions for most kitchens are a great addition to most kitchens, interior designer Lesley Myrick regret a few regret in the way the Appliance Garage designed in her house.
“A design selection that I met in my own kitchen that I would change if I could, is my device carage,” she says. “I still love the concept (it keeps my counter clean and my kitchen looks slim), but I didn't notice how much the design details would affect the end result.”
In particular, it is the depth of the cabinet and the style of the door that annoys it. While many new builds borrow space between the wall tunnels to enable beautiful, deep device alagen, due to the support and tree methods required in her home, she was flatter than she had imagined.
She also decided on the trendy hub-up door style that she regrets.
“The elevator style looks cool, but it swings to eye level and can feel that it is in the way when I use the room,” she says. “I would exchange the list door for double bag doors.”
Functionally, however, the room still works and it looks good. For Myrick it is a hard lesson that has been learned and it will not make the same mistakes for her customers.