Trying to follow fashion and acquire everything bright, beautiful and unusual into your home, it is important not to forget that some things quickly become anti-trends. If you want your apartment to always be stylishly and tastefully decorated, follow our recommendations. Today the HouseChief editors will tell you which 8 things in the interior are better to get rid of.
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- 1 Armchairs and sofas from one collection
- 2 Tulle curtains
- 3 Tiles on the floor and walls in the bathroom
- 4 Glossy multi-level ceilings
- 5 Arches between rooms
- 6 Wallpaper
- 7 Brick finish
- 8 Heavy classic style
- 9 Finally
Armchairs and sofas from one collection
Several years ago, the presence of armchairs and sofas from the same collection in an apartment was considered a sign of luxury and chic, but today everything has changed. If you do not want your apartment to appear "outdated", replace at least one of the chairs with another, or use furniture covers.
To make your apartment look truly stylish and modern, choose at least one bright fashionable armchair or sofa. They should not be combined with other pieces of furniture in color and style and can serve as a "bright spot" in the interior.
Also, designers do not recommend purchasing too expensive leather furniture - trends are changing rapidly, and it will be a pity to throw sofas and armchairs bought for a lot of money in 1-2 years. The ideal solution is furniture of the middle price category, you can choose decent options both in IKEA and in good designer stores.
Tulle curtains
Tulle curtains - another relic of the past. For many, they have survived from their grandmother and hang on the windows for years and decades, losing their color and making the apartment completely unstylish.
You don't have to give up tulle at all if you like this material, but look for bold original solutions. For example, if you have small rooms in the house, then the use of tulle will visually expand the space, but the curtains should be perfectly white and straight, without "flowers and ruffles."
If you do not live in a sunny region or in St. Petersburg, where you need to close the windows with blackout curtains in the summer, then you can do refuse heavy dark curtains, but choose beautiful modern minimalistic fabrics that will not turn your interior into "Grandmother".
Tiles on the floor and walls in the bathroom
It is possible and even necessary to put tiles in the bathroom, but just do not choose the same tiles for the floor and walls, but also bypass the model with flowers, fish, butterflies and strange images of geometric figures. Ideal if you choose monochrome options or lay out white tiles on the walls and brown wood-like tiles on the floor.
Glossy multi-level ceilings
When starting repairs in an apartment, give up stretch ceilings, today white or concrete is in trend. However, if you still want to save yourself from the need to plaster and putty the ceiling, choose the simplest, white and matte model, give up glossy layered options ceiling.
Also, give up complex curved lines and incomprehensible textures, the simpler the coating, the better. If the ceiling needs to be lowered for technical reasons, choose multi-level, but matte and as simple as possible models with straight laconic lines.
Arches between rooms
Such archesthat used to be in all apartments - large and well-visible, are no longer in trend. Even if you want to keep the unusual passageways between rooms, lay out part of the wall by rounding only the top part or leaving rectangular openings.
When decorating doorways, choose modern, stylish and unusual options. Designers advise to design the aisles concisely and simply.
You can choose one of the options you like:
- arch with tiles laid out along the bottom edge and sides;
- rectangular skirting board;
- arch niche;
- elliptical arch;
- trapezoidal arch.
Before starting the renovation, be sure to find images of your chosen model, print and use during finishing work as a guide. Do not try to simplify the task by rounding the walls and installing obscure plasterboard structures. A modern stylish arch looks like the best designers in the world have worked on it - add one simple one, but a stylish element - decorative skirting boards, unusual tiles or stones, and then the interior will sparkle with new paints.
Wallpaper
Use wallpaper, even the simplest and most beautiful, will not advise any designer who understands trends. An ordinary wall, painted with white or beige paint, can always be updated, and the photo wallpaper "interrupts" the interior, becoming a bright detail. If you choose this option, then you should be very careful in choosing additional elements and decor items so as not to make the interior tasteless and lurid.
Trends disappear and then come back again, and, probably, after a while, photo wallpapers will again be at the peak of popularity.
If you like this design option, follow a few simple rules:
- choose wallpaper with vinyl covering;
- give preference to models with pastel shades, as well as with simple but interesting patterns;
- try to fit the wallpaper into the interior - ideally if it matches the color of the furniture.
Stick wallpaper on only one wall, they already oversaturate the interior, and if you paste over the whole apartment with them, you can get an overly complicated and heavy interior.
Brick finish
A few months ago brick walls were at the peak of popularity and were in every home, but today this trend is gradually disappearing. You can choose this option, but on condition that the wall is correctly framed. It's best to just paint over it with white paint.
Heavy classic style
“Even good things shouldn't be too many” - this is a very important rule that should be adhered to when decorating an apartment. If you love expensive and high-quality things, be sure to purchase them for your apartment, but try to highlight only one or two bright details. Other things and decorative elements can only serve as an addition, but not as basic elements. The desire to use everything and immediately leads to the fact that the apartment is very overloaded with details, and it is hard to be in it for a long time. And in the case of the classics, an excess of gold, "silks" and expensive wood makes the apartment look like a museum.
A great way that allows you not to oversaturate the apartment with details is to purchase decor items gradually after the main repairs are completed. So you can understand when the decor is already enough. Choose only those things that you like and that will not spoil the interior, but will only favorably emphasize all its advantages.
Finally
Minimalism is in vogue today and the main rule that must be followed when purchasing things for the house is "less is better." It's not always worth trying to copy pictures from fashion magazines - trends become outdated as quickly as they appear. The ideal option is to create the main content of the interior, gradually adding and removing individual details.
Do you follow trends? Which of the following "anti-trends" are there in your apartment?
