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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.

Differences 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.  [/quote]

Pretty much everything described in your second paragraph is currently being sold at Pottery Barn.[/quote]

It may be being "sold" at Pottery Barn, but it is certainly not the look Pottery Barn is selling.  Case in point. I challenge you to visit just the home pages of:

www.potterybarn.com

and

www.roomandboard.com

And tell me with a straight face that Pottery Barn's look includes lighter colors, midcentury styling, blue undertones and light colored woods.  [/quote]

Yes, I can say it with a straight face.  Go from the home page which is selling fall and holiday décor to the furniture page.  Plenty of blue undertones and light wood.[/quote]

Here's the link to the furniture page: http://www.potterybarn.com/shop/furniture-upholstery/?cm_type=gnav

You may be able to find some examples of blue undertones, but everything they are selling is heavy wood on that page. Heavy dark wood and leather. Look - [b]there's not even a PB in DC-proper anymore, [/b]because the only people shopping there are 45-65 year old suburban moms who didn't realize this trend died (and periodically you'll see a 30 year old couple in there, who are clearly shopping for stuff for their first house - and don't know anything about furniture other than what they see at their mom's house).  [/quote]

Because .....DC proper is known as a nationwide cutting edge shopping destination ?  Bahahaha!

Fwiw I see plenty of people of every age group at PB, and the business is doing very well, whether you like it or not.[/quote]

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