It’s safe to say this bedroom, courtesy of Ayla Antiques and Furniture, transcends trends.
“Six Bedroom Styles That Are Going Out of Style” read the subject line of an email from an online design publication. The article it linked to had the same headline, with the addition of “According to Designers.”
Per the article, this neutral bedroom by @homebymaddy is passé. Apparently if you’re a person who finds colour overly stimulating, particularly at night, you’re supposed to add some anyway?! As someone who needs colour, I could never relax in this room, but it’s very beautifully thought out, with myriad textures and tones providing oodles of visual interest.
Among the bedroom styles deemed “on the way out” are all-neutral rooms, Hollywood glam, boho, and coastal. Um, what?
Would this neutral bedroom from House Nine Design pass muster? The stripes make it work for this avowed neutral-hater. The extended and scalloped headboard definitely leans more trendy than timeless, however… though if you love it now, you’re apt to love it for years to come.
Personally I don’t love any of the above styles. But what I love doesn’t matter, anymore than what a magazine decrees is out of style does—especially when it comes to the bedroom. Your bedroom is your sanctum. You should design it exclusively to your aesthetic (fine, your aesthetic and that of anyone you share the room with—unless that person’s aesthetic leans toward football regalia. I kid… or do I?).
I very much doubt that the owners of this waterfront home care that a website declared coastal-style bedrooms out of fashion. Room by Swank by Design.
Magazines and professional tastemakers pronounce sweeping declarations about decor, fashion, beauty, and other lifestyle trends primarily to sell stuff. Yes, sometimes there are other factors in play—the Covid pandemic directly influenced a swing toward organic textures and soft nature-inspired palettes, for instance. But were it not for the powers-that-be insisting that A is now outré and B is an absolute must-have, sales of B would be minuscule.
I do understand why one might not want to flaunt, say, avocado-green appliances and a harvest-gold backsplash in a kitchen where you regularly entertain company.
Then again, you might want to. @gibsongirlvintage certainly does.
But your bedroom is where you should indulge in your design pleasures, be they guilty or innocent. I am not ashamed to have flannel bedding adorned with cartoon penguins as well as a flock of penguin figurines, some rather kitschy, atop the rosewood Art Deco vanity that serves as my nightstand. I also have several Alphonse Mucha prints I bought years ago after visiting his house/museum in Prague. They are definitely out of fashion now, but I still love Art Nouveau, and I still love waking up to Mucha. The relatively few other people who have spent time in my bedroom don’t seem to mind the penguins or the juxtaposition of Arts Deco and Nouveau, and I wouldn’t care if they did anyway.
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Whether this bedroom by Lucinda Sanford Design is in or out of style doesn’t matter, because it’s utterly fabulous.
Trends can be fun, especially when you’re looking to refresh a space you’ve tired of. But the whims of fashion are irrelevant to the bedroom, decor-wise and otherwise.