Trend Blasts From the Past: 5 Old Met Home Trend Watch Trends
I spent last week away from the computer, on my annual beach week with friends. At the house where we stay (in Bethany Beach, Delaware), my favorite feature is the big chest full of old shelter magazines. It's full of hundreds of back issues of House & Garden, House Beautiful, and Metropolitan Home.
This year, I spent a lot of time with the old Met Homes. One of my favorite features is the very last page of the magazine - the "Trend Watch" feature. I can't get enough of checking out what was trendy ten years ago.
As it turns out, many of those "trends" are either still popular, or they're popular again (in some way). I thought it would be fun to look at a few of those trends and to see if Houzz has any photos of current incarnations:
This year, I spent a lot of time with the old Met Homes. One of my favorite features is the very last page of the magazine - the "Trend Watch" feature. I can't get enough of checking out what was trendy ten years ago.
As it turns out, many of those "trends" are either still popular, or they're popular again (in some way). I thought it would be fun to look at a few of those trends and to see if Houzz has any photos of current incarnations:
The complicated tangle of color on the wall of this home office is reminiscent of the mess of wires an untrained eye might see inside a hard drive.
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