Favorite decor trends of the 90's?
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Comments (20)Another example of marketing media creating a new need for customers. It's common to promote new fashion and design trends to make people want to ditch perfectly good and functional but "dated" things and spend money on trendy and up-to-date stuff. "Creating a need" is one of the basic tenets of marketing and advertising. It keeps the fashion, home improvement and beauty care industries afloat by making people replace their stuff often and buy things they wouldn't normally think of buying. Customers spend their money on the stuff because, under all the media and peer pressure, they start thinking they actually need it. Once I learned that in my marketing class at biz school, it was liberating to distance myself from the trends. The MCM resurgence is the proof that the notions of "dated" amd "trendy" are highly subjective. I enjoy leafing through old interior design magazines because I'm free of the bias against "dated" looks. If I have brass and it looks good in my interior, I don't care if the current trend calls for nickel, chrome or bronze. It isn't relevant to me and my wallet. On the other side, I might just as well as go for chrome hardware when the marketing media is telling everybody to put in brass or bronze....See MoreDecorating the Christmas tree by trend or tradition?
Comments (41)I always decorated our tree in a theme. Always had it planned well in advance. Then we started having kids. I still tried to decorate the tree in a theme. It worked for awhile. Then the kids started going to preschool and bringing home all of their crafts. Each one I cherish and keep. They started putting them on the Christmas tree. I moved them to other places. They kept bringing home more. And more. And more. Year after year. And year after year I kept giving each one a special ornament that they might like on Christmas Day. I never really thought about why. It just seemed like what you do. Their 'bought' ornaments would go on their trees in their rooms the following year - preserving my perfect tree. So we found a work around. We would decorate the tree my way and as each day went by they would add their stuff until Christmas Day our tree would be an explosion of kid craft. Well our kids are now 11, 8 & 6 and last Christmas while we were decorating the tree it finally hit me. I watched as they pulled their ornaments out of boxes and recounted the stories of how and when they got them to each other and to me. It was perfect for me. We saved all of the Christmas craft ornaments for the end. I take a few pictures and then they put all of their stuff from years past on the tree. And It Really Is Perfectly Perfect ! A perfect mess of all of our likes and memories....See MoreDecorating Trends -- What's in & What's Out
Comments (50)"In" is whatever you see in magazines, period. "Out" is whatever was in magazines a generation ago. Everything else is in between. Some people enjoy being "in". Whether it is the show off factor or flighty tastes or just enjoying the vicissitudes of fashion, they want to be in. That's fine, it comes with a price tag. The price tag depends on how genuinely "in" you want to be or if you are happy to fake it. Trying to be classic is extraordinarily difficult. The entire building and decorating industry is working full time trying to make every little facet of your home look "out". They carefully edit the colors and styles of what is available to buy, so that in subtle ways you are stamping everything you do with a date, whether you chose to or not. Your best hope is to buy things that are not made by US corporations. Buy abroad, by handmade, by antique. That can help keep you from being "out", but it won't make you in, either. If its trendy and inexpensive, i go with the flow and don't worry about it. If its trendy and costly, I try to buy things that I really like. But sometimes it is hard to tell if something really speaks to you or if you are still responding to a trend!...See MoreFavorite decor trends of the 80's?
Comments (42)Arcy, it was not the 80s when the interest in antiques became huge - it was the 70s. In the early 70s there was a huge interest in Art Nouveau; in the 80s there was a renewed interest in Art Deco. At least that's what I noticed in San Francisco and northern California in those decades. In fashion, there was an interest in clothes from the 40s in the 1970s and in clothes from the 50s and early 60s in the 1980s. I noticed that antiques were much more popular in the 70s than in the 80s, but that varied geographically. Antiques have always been popular in places like New Orleans and Charleston but less so in places like Houston, where new and modern were more appreciated. In the early 1970s Houston received a lot of antiques from Europe because there was a lot of money in Houston at that time from the oil boom, and Europeans thought they could sell their antiques there, but there was little demand, and therefore you could get European antiques for very low prices. If you went to New Orleans at the same time, the prices for antiques were considerably higher because the demand was higher. One thing I especially liked about Houston was the way it embraced new and modern design and styles in art and architecture. Another of my favorite designers from the 80s was Nathalie du Pasquier....See MoreSaypoint zone 6 CT
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