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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not the matchy matchy (though that is also a passe look these days).  I think of pottery barn as the look that everyone tried to stuff their bland mcmansions with in the early 2000s to give an air of "fanciness" in a home that was otherwise devoid of any character .... And homes that needed tons of big furniture to try and fill the big rooms.  Brown leather everything, big brown couches, apothecary tables, dark wood stuff.  Lots of browns, sage green, beige, deep red.  Lots of candles, vases, and other junk that was clearly picked up at PB and not the antique market.  Crate and barrel was channeling that look a lot in the early 2000s also, though a bit more modern take on it.

D[b]ifferences today: lighter wall colors.  Blue/brown undertones in your color scheme rather than green/brown.  Wood finishes today are walnuts, washed out grey, teaks and other medium woods, instead of darker browns with that "painted on" look.  Much tighter lines on sofas today (i.e. lots of sofas with button back instead of big pillows and turned arms).  More metals in furniture right now.  Midcentury is huge, instead of say, the asian or tuscan look we saw in the 2000s[/b].  [/quote]

But in 5 years that look will be dated, too. That's why people should just go with what they like.

Personally, we are broke and most of our rooms are full of mismatched crap, Ikea and Craigslist finds. When the pottery barn catalog comes, I sit down with a cup of store-brand tea and fantasize about living in those rooms for a few minutes. The Pottery Barn look appeals to most people. [/quote]

+1  I don't have the $$ to update every time the interior decorating mavens tell me a new style is in.  But then again, I never had the full PB look anyway b/c I could not afford it!  So our stuff *IS* a mix of various diff. things![/quote]

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