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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Was it in style?  It’s been around forever.  If you have a house that fits this style, it’s always fine.

This board and the constant conversations about what will be dated are kind of weird to me.  [/quote]

It has not been around forever. The hint is in the name. [/quote]

Forever means your grandparents bought it when they were young or great grandparents for today's young people just starting out.  We still buy designs that were new in 1850, so its a safe bet to say that people will be buying things that were designed in 1950 in 2050, thats pretty timeless. Upholsered furniture designs usually only truly last for 200 years or so and then they become uncomfortable. Plain wooden furniture designs have a better chance of being actually timesless- as in you can buys them 400 years after etc.. its why its relatively simple toby antique chinese furniture, most of it had removable upholstery.

Going back to the OP's question- go through images and find ones that speak you and then try to figure out what it is that you want to replicate and go from there.  Right now there is a backlash to matched interiors and people are going back to a layered look, that is also b/c there are a whole hell pf a lot of millennials and we are pretty old now and have accumulated a lot of stuff and have heirlooms and stuff that we have to stick somewhere.All of the major designers right now are at this stage in life, people's parents are dieting or downsizing, so this drives images that we are inundated with. Another thing to keep in mind is the anxiety around climate change and consumption so there is more of a waste not mentality. Images that we keep seeing have also taken the monochrome, minimalist thing to the extreme- aka Kanye west's weird a$$ monastery house.

You should buy what touches a chord with you and buy expensive pieces slowly, otherwise you'll be 40 with a houseful of expensicethings you don't want to give up but that dont' harmonize with each other either. [/quote]

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