Trends & Styles

Interior trends are the most over-claimed corner of decor writing, so this archive starts from a stricter brief: a trend earns coverage only if it's visible in production catalogues from at least three serious manufacturers and meaningful in real rooms — not just on Pinterest. Everything else is filed as "speculative" and either skipped or flagged.

Colour palettes get the deepest treatment. Each palette piece pairs the headline colour family (clay, sage, lichen, mushroom, warm stone) with the under-tones that make it work, the lighting temperatures that keep it warm rather than chalky, and the materials it pairs with naturally. Style essays cover the broader looks — slow living, modern English country, Japandi at its less-glossy edges — with attention to which elements travel well into smaller homes and which only really work at scale.

Read this archive when you want the editorial line on what's worth adopting now versus what's safe to ignore for another season. We update entries as the underlying evidence shifts; if a take here ages badly, it gets a public correction.