Individuality Rose Above Trends – Mally on Trend

What Design Trends Defined This Decade?

By Hadley Keller | Content reposted from House Beautiful Nov 27, 2019

II. Individuality Rose Above Trends

If the early era of Instagram was about the same aesthetic everywhere, many designers saw that paradigm shifting towards the end of the decade. Hillery notes that the more collaborative work style afforded by the internet’s unprecedented access makes for “a room or a home or a space that is more in tune with what the homeowner wants.”

Mally Skok agrees. “With the advent of blogs and Instagram over the last decade, it meant that the public became aware of new and off-beat design ideas that were previously only available to them through the lens of the media,” she points out. “Slowly, people felt emboldened to experiment with fresh and interesting new ideas for their homes.”

“The past decade has been a golden era for eclecticism, from whimsical classicism to bohemian chic; layered textures and patterns and diverse mixtures from antiquity to modernity,” argues Sean Leffers.

Designer Cathy Austin sees one possible reason for that: politics. “Interiors are more important than ever as a source of comfort during the political and economic roller coaster of the past ten years,” she says. “At the beginning of the decade, many preferred anonymous and neutral spaces evocative of a hotel room.” Now, though, she notices, “people are yearning to be uplifted through joyful colors, soothing textures, and bespoke items that have been commissioned uniquely for them.”