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Trendsurfing the Style Waves

What’s the next big thing for home style?


Ahead: Neutrals with a punch. Here, Barbara Barry’s Bracelet chair.

Stumping on the trend trail can equate to long hours away from home. For Michelle Lamb, senior editor of the bimonthly trend newsletter “The Trend Curve,” it means anywhere from 20 to 30 days a year speaking at trade shows and conventions, but that doesn’t mean she feels disconnected from home. Two watches – one displaying the time zone she’s in, one displaying the time in Minnesota, where her kids are – is one of the ways she feels at home on the road.

“I love what I do and this is how you do it,” she says. “It’s all my kids have known.”

The trend trail recently brought her to the International Home Furnishings Market in High Point, N.C. Here is what Lamb says to keep your eyes open for in ’07 and ’08:

Color

• “Colorful” neutrals and skin tones. Think pink pearl, sheer peach, champagne, natural clay, nutmeg, cinnamon, French roast and cocoa.

• Browns and spice tones remain popular, but look for a focus on lighter hues, like toasted brown, acorn and linen. Taupe is even re-emerging as a bridge between brown and gray, another important color.

• Cooler, natural greens such as lime and olive.

Motifs

• Natural patterns, such as birds and branches, are being inspired by the eco-chic trend. Florals will turn to lighter shades and a “more liveable scale,” Lamb says

• Thin, delicate patterns, such as outlines, grillwork and lattices. Lines and silhouettes also are slimming down. “They’ve become less bold… less like a silhouette and more like a shadow,” Lamb says.

• Found wood: A raw look that’s smooth to the touch. Look for mahogany and an increased use of walnut in furniture.

Furnishings

• Glamour theme. Luxury fabrics in the skin-tone color palette and warm metallics, like gold, rose gold and copper. Mirrors and mirrored furnishing also are a part of this.

• Uptown/loft/metro theme. Clean, contemporary pieces that are leggy and low to the ground. Showing their legs gives the home more visual space and breathing room.

• Multi-function furniture. Such as a platform bed with storage below, like a drawer or bookshelves.

Lamb also says that eclectic decorating will be big. Decorating is becoming much more personalized, and people no longer decorate with a single style throughout the home, Lamb believes. “You don’t have to get everything at once,” she says, you get pieces that you love and work together – much more thoughtful consideration is being given to each piece.

“You may be young, but 10 years from now you’ll have the piece you don’t want to part with,” Lamb says. “Some piece that just works… it just functions for you.”

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