Interior designers say that fashions and trends in interior design and home decoration usually last 5-7 years. This might seem rather long compared to the frequently changing fashion-scene that seems to recreate itself each season. If you consider that furniture are goods you´re not likely to change and replace as quickly as out-of-date clothes, it´s always clever to take a look ahead on interior design and furnishing trends!

New furniture – a fresh start

It´s undoubted: the things that surround us, our close-by environment tend to affect the way we´re feeling. That explains why we often long for changes in our private environment, we feel like the old things surrounding us, once dear and suitable, suddenly seem worn out and inappropriate. We often look for new furniture when our general living situation changes: the first place of your own when moving into a students appartment, then letting go off furniture once bought on a budget when you start your career after having finished the edcucational path, the first family home. Living conditions demand certain adjustments, in other words it always depends on our age and the situation we´re in what pieces of furniture (wikipedia.org) we find particularly interesting.

The latest trends

Vintage, shabby chic and new romance remain three of the main fashions in furnishing (Decorative arts by wikipedia.org). This rather romantic and playful look goes well with highly ornamented iron beds, with anything that looks a bit used and antique. Matching accessories would be ornamented frames in rather oldfashioned designs, mirrors and trendy patterns such as floral ones. Of course it´s possible to find a matching and great designer sofa for this kind of look, too, lighter shades of colour and romantic shapes tend to fit in well. Designer furniture from fashionforhome.com are also a fantastic match that emphasize the antique and burrough-like atmosphere of a romantically furnished home.