Don't follow a trend, follow your heart. All very well to hear, but when it comes to beauty, fashion and décor, keeping up with trends is seen as extremely important.
But these five trends have been done to death over the past few years and really need to go:
Owls: The playful owl — in all sorts of shapes, forms and colours, has perched everywhere. Be it cookie jars, bed linen, tins, salt and pepper shakers, decals, even wallpaper.
Even on pillows, tables, mantels, lamps, candles, bric-a-brac. A design that has been done to death, it is also seen on stationery, drinking glasses and napkins.
Indian kitsch: There seems to be no letup in the love for Indian kitsch. Bollywood memorabilia, street art, metal and wood trunks, tiffin boxes, chai glass holders, kettles and household objects for everyday use have been happily repurposed as bright and blingy décor products for a couple of decades now.
Faces: Andy Warhol may have given a variety of celebrities more than their 15 minutes of fame, but we’ve had enough of celeb faces popping out at us unexpectedly in home décor.
Can we take a break from prints of Liz Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Che Guevara, Michael Jackson, and closer to home — Madhubala, Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan?
Ombre: The word is traced to the French word ‘ombrer’, which means ‘to shade’. The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines it as “having colors that shade into each other — used especially on fabrics in which the colour is graduated from light to dark.”
In recent times, ombre has taken over many modern homes via painted furniture, art, bedding, and accessories like shades, lamps, lampshades, and rugs.
Brass: This metal, be it antiqued, matt or shiny, has been the mainstay of many a home décor trend. Bed posts, railings, lamps, knobs, faucets and other hardware — there seems to be no getting away from brass. Time to make friends with a new metal? The on-trend copper, may be?
