CB2 paid for an artical promoting their products as a future trend without actually mentioning their name?

I always love your posts April :-) However I cannot imagine living with a high gloss lacquer wall! That article is just another blah blah pushing the latest and greatest trends that perpetuate short term decorating for those who need to remain constantly "on trend". Maybe flippers and stagers?

ah..I didn't click on anything that was highlighted..okay irritating even more. or the same? I don't know

maybe it's an inadequate reaction, to be upset about stupid articles. But wasn't Domino highly prized at some point, and then went out of business and everybody was upset(or that's what I read..I started reading at a point they were out of business), and then they came back..and I excitedly bought first magazine..then a second one..there it ended for me, for their print version, but they still send me their email notifications. Sometimes I look, mostly I don't. Today made a mistake and looked because I woke up too early. So that's their big comeback I suppose. If they were good-why to change for worse?

Don't get it

(lacquer walls can be amazing melle..if you have a very skilled painter doing 7 to 9 levels of this high gloss sanding slightly in between..and a house where it will look wonderful...and usually a combo of having such a house and having funds to enlist such a painter is rare..as far as I can judge..)

"They weren't collectors, they were purchasers." I love this.

I have a friend who is both. I never looked at it this way, but somehow, a somewhat long time ago (like more than 20 years,) she became a purchaser of the things she likes to collect. And I mean this because she has a huge primary house and a large secondary vacation house and both are very full of stuff. Some of it is very old and she inherited it but I know a lot of it she has just bought. She can certainly afford it and she is very generous and not the least bit snobby buy I just can't relate in any way.

Sorry-off topic.

Mario Buatta used to do some pretty fabulous lacquered walls in the 80's. But, these were professionally done, using layer upon layer of lacquer, not just high gloss enamel paint. If the wall is not absolutely flawless, it will be magnified a jillion times.

This look works well in a small room in a large pre-WWII NYC apt that is huge, and where money is no object. It does NOT translate well to DIY.

The article itself says that the trends are important primarily if you are considering selling your home - it does not say that you need to redecorate your home in a particular style if you are not selling. I'm not selling, and so I'm not paying attention, but it does bother me when there are annoying trends when I want to consider buying or moving.

We had some high-gloss walls in the last place I lived in San Francisco, which was a Victorian railroad flat. Yes it showed the flaws, but there were so many of them that they became part of the charm - at least to me. All of the rooms were relatively small (by today's standards), and having a high gloss or semi-gloss finish made the rooms seem a bit larger. Our dining room had peach walls with a silvery gray trim. In most of the rooms, there was so much going on that I did not pay much attention to the walls. Most of the walls were covered with art, and the art stood out better against a gloss background. I wish I had taken photos of it before I moved out (Nov 1984).

I liked Domino because of the lengthy resources with links to catalogs I don't get and dont normally look at.

I guess what irritated me weren't trends mentioned-this buzz is allover, "this in!" "This out!"

One gets used to it and maybe somebody can get encouraged by it or to learn something new(not that I found there anything new though) or be amused by it or otherwise just do a bit of time structuring ..like I was trying to do. Also can be helpful on occassion.

I also love many things regardless whether they're trends or not, including high gloss and wallpaper. and it's a bit unclear to me why they're made it sound so unexpectedly new but whatever.

now what made me upset was this heavy stress on obtaining stuff that photographs well..

"“Just because something is discounted or was given to you by family or friends, that doesn’t mean it’s a fit for your home."-true

"So, reminding yourself of the idea that everything could be a photo opp will help you narrow down a design that’s right for you and your space.”

It might.

But it does treat vast majority of readers like, sorry, idiots, who wouldn't be able to connect to something personal, beautiful, unique, whatever, without thinking first "But how it will look on my Instagram"

they say it's democratizing design, as far as I understood

no it's not. They're not making sources of knowledge or resources available to people. Not in this message. They don't really encourage them, they don't really educate them, they don't really inspire them. They reduce them. By telling people this particular "why" on how they should elevate their decor they somehow just reduced them. That takes special skill I believe-to spin things in such a way that you take uniqueness out of unique and claim you did the opposite.

Or..maybe they themselves miss the mark so to say, and don't even notice. That's a second possibility.

I don't know which is sadder.

I would be less upset if I didn't read for years how inspiring they were before.

I hear you, April, but I wonder how old their target audience is? Because, for many-- how something looks on Instagram is a top priority.

Your choice of words... reducing people... yes. Profoundly true. And it's across the board, isn't it? In every aspect, people are being reduced to cliches. All in the name of marketing.