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6 HOMES The Saturday Sun n SEPTEMBER 21, 2019 Taking a trip down design memory lane LINDA WHITE of your house. For instance, if you Special to Postmedia Network Designers not immune to decorating mishaps live in an arts/crafts home, then granite, soapstone and shale style When HGTV announced plans to stones would be most suitable. team up all six of the Brady Bunch Adding glossy white Carrara mar- siblings with its design all-stars to ble is not going to turn your transform the famous ranch home craftsman home into a modern that provided the 1970s-era show’s urban pad.” exterior shots for a new series, A Very Wooden mask art also raises Brady Renovation promised a trip Lohnes’s design ire. “I have one down memory lane that included rule when it comes to purchasing groovy design trends like orange decor items and art while travel- laminate countertops. ling: If it looks good in the hut, Of course, that begged the ques- leave it in the hut.” tion: What are some of the worst design trends of the last decades? Turns out, electronics manufacturer Samsung wanted to know too, com- missioning a survey of home design disasters to mark last year’s launch of TVs featuring technology that enables the TV to blend seamlessly into the home environment — thereby eliminating at least one home décor headache: a large, ugly blank screen. Toilet rugs and furry toilet seat covers, taxidermy and avoca- do-coloured bathrooms were crowned the biggest furnishing fails ANDREA COLMAN of the past 50 years. Some of our Principal designer and favourite designers accepted our owner of Fine Finishes Design Inc. invitation to comment on the trends. and a design lead on HGTV’s Property Brothers, season six “Gone are the days of grape- vines stenciled on your grand- mother’s kitchen. Stencils have come a long way, with fresh and HGTV’s A Very Brady Renovation series (Mondays 9 p.m.) is helping put the spotlight on past decorating trends. innovative designs to mimic wall- paper or tiles. While this can be a were the coolest kids on the block. I trends will one day rank as design DIY application, the attention to ended up taking them to my univer- fails. “I don’t think we’ll have as many detail required for the best results sity dorm and they were thrown out faux pas as our past decades, though I is better left to the professionals.” a window into a bin after I left.” do wonder if people will question Colman is also glad wallpapers Alcorn hopes she hasn’t been why we brought back teak furniture.” borders have had their time. “I’d guilty of too many design disasters much rather see architectural over the course of her career. “I’ve details, such as crown moulding.” JO ALCORN never done sponge painting; I’ve Nor is Colman a fan of shag Founder and principal designer of never wrapped fabric around a carpeting. “Good design for me Alcorn Home and Jo Alcorn Designs lampshade with a fabric bow and has to work for the way you I’ve never informed anyone to install live. Keeping the long pile free “We had oversized pink leather carpet in the bathroom.” from dirt and dust is too much recliner sofas when I grew up and Only time will tell if any current work,” she says. “Carpeted walls? KARL LOHNES Never. I do remember the flocked Design expert wallpaper we had growing up. DESIGN DISASTERS Texture can be achieved with “I once — and I emphasize stone, 3D tile, wood panels and, once only! — slept in a round of course, wallpaper like grass The top 25 worst home horrors • Animal print anything bed. It was in Las Vegas and there cloth, which can give dimension from the past 50 years, as identified • Inspirational quote art JANE LOCKHART was also a round mirror attached and visual interest to any room.” by a Samsung survey of U.K. home stenciled on walls Principal designer of to the ceiling above the bed. With Stone cladding can add visual design designers: • Carpeted or textured walls Jane Lockhart Interior Design, no edge to ground myself, my interest to a room but be selective • Beaded curtains TV personality and author body ended up winding around in your choice. “There are many • Toilet rugs/furry toilet seat covers • Living room bars the centre of the bed like the bad replicas out there which • Taxidermy • Bidets “OK. Guilty as charged when it hands of a clock. I woke up the should be avoided. If a good qual- • Avocado bathrooms • Round beds comes to painted wall techniques! I next morning exhausted. My ity product isn’t in the budget, • Floral ‘chintz’ furniture • Professional family portraits still have copies of the book, Paint a thought was, ‘Where would I ever don’t do it at all,” Colman says. • Waterbeds • Shabby chic anything Great Impression (1996, Benjamin buy round bedsheets?’” he says. Popcorn ceilings are one of the Moore Paints), if anyone is feeling nos- first things her firm removes • Artex walls and ceilings • Shag pile carpets “Stone cladding has always talgic. But look what’s been updated been a popular decorating when tackling renovations. • Carpeted bathrooms • Wicker furniture indoors • Rag rolled walls and on trend: shag carpet, oversized option. Many homeowners make “Rooms are brighter and reflect • Wallpaper borders florals, stone cladding, and animal more light on the flat surface.” • Tribal carvings, masks the mistake of choosing a stone • Curtain pelmets prints! I have a couple of questions: - And her take on avocado bath- and wall hangings that does not suit the architec • TV cupboards How did conversation pits not make tural style of the home they live rooms? “Let’s keep avocado lim- • Stone cladding • Stenciled walls or decals the list and why are we still having to in. The secret is to choose a stone ited to guacamole and smooth- deal with popcorn ceilings?” that matches the era of the home ies.”.

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