By Emily Siwek, Director of Architectural Design
As wood finish trends shift from white oak to warmer variations, another treatment has popped up on our radar. Lately we’ve been seeing fresh examples of tinted wood stains that bring a dose of color along with comforting grains.
Here are a few examples crossing our desks lately:
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By Riann Henkel Sphere Trending Trend Futurist, Director of Interior Home
The theme for the month continues as we delve into different ways that today’s consumers are mixing up design styles, materials and elements to create a personal mix. The lines between indoors and outdoors continues to blur, but think bigger than just seamless living.
Materials that we see on the outside of the home, such as the (unfortunately named) hog fence are being used for modern elements on interiors, while exteriors are borrowing pops of pattern and bold materials to brighten outdoor living areas.
The lines between indoors and outdoors continues to blur, but think bigger than just seamless living.”
Riann Henkel, Sphere Trending Trend Futurist, Director of Interior Home
At the 2023 HGTV Smart Home, the outdoor kitchen spaces takes cues from interior inspired details. Patterned backsplashes and artwork bring interior influences outside.
Despite often appearing on ‘what’s out’ lists, open plan living is not fading away. But mixed materials in the home are bringing in architectural elements such as exterior-inspired sliding doorwalls to create purposeful zones floating within the open plans.
Even the use of space becomes a personal choice, such as the increase of garages as hang-out spaces, complete with unique paint and décor and comfortable interior-inspired features. Often overlooked as utilitarian and functional, nothing is off limits in the new residential remix.
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