I’m sort of sad. I’m taking the wallpaper border down out of a hallway. This hallway is off my FR. The garage, Laundry, guest bath and at the very end our home office/den.
About 20 years ago we wallpaper the den and guest bath in coordinating wallpapers. They still look updated today and I love them. To tie it all together, we put the coordinating border in the hallway. It looked very nice pulling it all together as you looked down the hallway.
Unfortunately, wall borders didn’t stand the test of time, it looks very outdated having one. I have to take it down as we need to repaint the walls anyway. But it makes me sad, as it was so pretty and did what it was intended to do.
Other things I miss are lots of green plants. Any things you were sad to see go as you redecorated or freshened things up?
When I first started working Craftsman style was all the rage. I still really like the look. I can’t wait for white and gray kitchens to go out of style. (BTW I did my kitchen 5 years ago and painted the walls celery green. Cabinets are white, counters are a dark soapstone or butcher block. Everyone seems to really like the way it looks, but are scared to just do what they like.)
My house that I sold six years ago had wallpaper borders and I liked them, but realize they are no longer “in.”
However, this is the first I have learned that real green plants are not in vogue? I have lots of green plants in my current apartment, and I’m not a millennial. I have very large windows and there is a shelf built in lower down at the bottom of the windows and I have plants along this shelf as well as hanging plants.
I have a friend who is an interior decorator who just posted photo of a ledge of live plants in one of her client’s spa bathrooms. I have live plants all over. Fake plants out of style, yes. Live ones, no
I mean fake plants, sorry. Actually one here or there is still fine according to a decorator.i talked to. But 20-25 years ago, lots of fake ficus teees, ferns, plants of all kinds in corners, filling up space…not in.
I have a celery kitchen too. We have lots of windows in there so green light is kicked in by the outside world, and I like the color a lot!
We also have some wallpaper borders that the previous owner put in, sometime in the 90’s and only in the bathrooms. They are very high up and quite ornate so they don’t seem dated but maybe I’m dreaming, lol.
Rag rolled -painted the entire house. It still looks right in this mountain cabin southwest style. But, last year got rid of all the carpet and replaced it with hardwood. Still using wreaths on the outside door and some inside- are they still in?
We are getting our house ready to sell. We are doing the following:
remove heavier window treatments, into the trash they went. (sad, as they were homemade)
replace all brass doorknobs and light fixtures. We are going with brushed nickel to match other things we are not replacing, but realtor said the hot finish is antique bronze
I worked outdoors for years so I loved the rustic log cabin type decor that was popular a couple or three decades ago. I’m over it, but I wish there were less rustic nature related decor items, specifically bedding. All I can find are unremarkable or gaudy florals and the old style with bears and deer/plaid and nothing really in between.
For example, why can’t I find something like this pattern in bedding?
You’re probably going to get some “There is no such thing as out of style-it’s just a conspiracy between decorators and home goods outlets.” But I disagree. You had to remove the wallpaper and border anyway, according to your post. So yeah, have a moment to grieve a lovely idea whose time is past. Then move on to something new and fresh.
The people who say never change anything you’ve loved: Do they keep the same hairstyles they wore and loved in the 80s? Buy the exact same clothes styles they rocked in the 70s? I doubt it.
There’s nothing wrong with going in a new, stylish direction as long as you love what you are changing to. And remember that yes, some styles do circle back around. SOME. Not all. I hope to never see avocado green appliances or harvest gold again. And glass blocks-yuck. We just got rid of an entire shower wall made of glass blocks in our remodel. Turns out that in addition to dating the house, they leak. The entire wall is completely rotted out, as is the entire wall in the wet bar where they were, as is the entire wall in the breakfast room that has them. Some things age poorly, and some were never a good idea to begin with.
6 of 54, but not willing to change quality flooring or quality countertops. Knew they would eventually be outdated.
Am I the only one still with wreaths?
