Decor/layout trends in your area

need_an_answer

Bifold doors across the back of the house also seem to be "in " at the moment.

lovehols

Amanda_Cm wrote: »

An example from the Midlands. Lots of shiny white and greyge
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-47672790.html

I like the light over the stairs though.

cloo

Amanda_Cm wrote: »

An example from the Midlands. Lots of shiny white and greyge
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-47672790.html

That's what I'd call classic mid-range interior decorator style.

I agree with others that grey is the magnolia of this era. We have a large bedroom with big windows that I was keen on having a strong wall colour for, but husband vetoed as he worried colours would make it look 'pokey' (they really couldn't have) and the only one he liked was a pale grey, so I insisted on colourful curtains and bedspread to counteract it a bit.

I fear the woodburner trend will not age well.

Lauralou79

Wood burners are popular in these parts, shutters are a thing at the minute too tho I think some houses look too small for them. Mirrored furniture and crushed velvet type fabrics?
Grey is definitely a thing too, we haven't decorated our new house yet but it has none of the above!

hazyjo

Our woodburner (which was there when I moved in) costs a bloody fortune! £4.00-7.50 for a bag of logs which barely lasts 2 hours!


I'm with you cloo - I can't see it ageing well. The trend has been there for donkey's years, but I really don't know how they all afford them!

moneyistooshorttomention

My home area style (West Country city) is nearest to that in post 1.

Most definitely NOT "classical" - never ever seen anywhere in my city (we're far too future-oriented). We don't do "classical".

We do do lots of white walls. Fitted kitchens (probably not shiny). Coloured bathroom suites - never (except in the odd probate house that hasnt been touched since the 1970s). "Office blinds" as I call them - very rare. Floors - usual style = wood/wood laminate/neutral carpets. We're basically modern first and foremost - but not "cold" modern or very very minimal modern.

Current area (West Wales) - there's an awful lot of office blinds around/dark wood furniture/on the old-fashioned side/rarely minimalist and modern.

You can guess what my house has been renovated to look like = I've ripped out office blinds/ripped out coloured carpet/it's white walls everywhere/no dark wood furniture at all/very modern-looking (but not minimalist) and it's been described as "London style".

In my home city we are used to following the modern version of "London style" and chucking in a "bit more academic/less bothered with fashion" quirk with it (eg loads of books - many of which are non-fiction or "heavier weight" fiction). I assumed that was pretty much the style across the country - wrongly as it turned out. But it's extremely clear from the style I've got my house together what sort of place I'm from....:rotfl:(ie a Southern city).

EDIT; Just grinning to myself thinking of properties in Totnes for instance on the other hand - and any time I go online checking them out I am rather looking for = rather more colour/Buddhist prayer flags/generally rather more quirky - as that's how I understand Totnesian style to be for instance. Which I also rather like....and I'd be okay with...

moneyistooshorttomention

I think we should also mention gardens here.

So - very common in my home area is a square of grass with shrubs and/or flowers around the edge. Pretty frequent is a variation on that that is where things have gone slightly "wilder" (ie trees that have been allowed to "do their thing" etc).

Very common where I am now is "concrete gardens" OR some grass/few shrubs type gardens. A lot of concrete gardens (cheap paving stones and/or gravel and/or tarmac). I gather the word for it imo is = !!!!!!. You can guess what the first word is - with the second word being = ugly. I understand the logic of it - in an area where there is a lot of wind/lot of rain/higher average age group/a lot of Japanese knotweed and that other troublesome weed (ie horsetail) - but yuk and it's All Gonna Go (even though I found a bit of horsetail in my own garden - hopefully sorted now).

My garden is also going to say where I come from - once I get the money. As it's currently largely a concrete garden - but I loathe the tarmac/concrete/concrete paving stones with a passion and it's going to change to the "slightly wilder" type garden and I'm doing my best currently to move it in that direction. Imo - gardens should be interesting and/or attractive.

Amanda_Cm

The color of 2018 is pale lilac.

moneyistooshorttomention

A related question is as to whether people adapt their style if they move to a different area.

After moving here - I got a comment from my mother that I "ought to use grey" as a colour for decorating the house as "That's what people are using now" and got the response "I'm not going to use that in this area - there's so much grey here anyway - with the skies frequently being grey and with the grey chapels". On the other hand - I've chucked in some accents in red - to try and help "warm things up a bit" because of all that aforementioned grey.

One of the priorities for the garden is "masking" - masking nearby sights of concrete block walls and concrete tile roofs (so a bit different to how I'd do it in my home area - where I'm okay about brick walls and slate roofs) and trying to "windbreak" a bit in the garden (which I wouldn't need to do in my home area).

Davesnave

tori.k wrote: »

We've been looking at newer builds and lots have been retrofitted with woodburners, regardless of the style of property, not as if wood is even a cheap option if you have to buy it in nowadays

I laugh at most of the ones I see too, even in rural Devon where at least we have the excuse of no mains gas. If we had gas, we'd fit a gas-coal stove and it would fool most of the people most of the time, like our last one did.

But logs are 'free' here, and last night when it hit -5c we were snug all night, with nothing but the stove.