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Home decorating is ever dynamic, never static, ergo, what was a hit 3 years ago will be a miss tomorrow. This year has taken the Kenyan home décor consumers by storm. We became more aware of what a good space needs to feel like and more people embraced DIY. While we do not advocate for buying new home items every season, some trends however should not see the light of January 2018.
1. An overdose of orange and green walls
These have got to go! Orange is a great colour and so is green but the two colours together, side by side and in one room are a big no. If anything orange is best friends with blue and green is paired with red by colour consultants. Avoid your space looking like an orange fruit orchard by keeping these two colours as far apart as you possibly can.
2. Sprayed wine bottles
One, two or three bottles of wine that are repurposed with spray paint and used as centerpieces are cute and even classy. On the other hand, one hundred sprayed bottles of wine in the same house are an indication of a problem, albeit a decorating one. The less the more; you do not need a sprayed bottle in every room.
3. Vitambaa
These are also known as doillies and they belong in the sixties. Unless your space is shabby chic stay away from buying doillies, giving doillies as gifts or accepting doillies as gifts.
4. Water dispenser in the living room
We cannot keep these in the living room either. Water dispensers only look OK in an office lounge and not in a living room. If you must have one, then find a way to disguise it. Water dispensers just like refrigerators are not meant to be in living rooms.
If you must have ice cold water on hand, buy a refrigerator door glass pitcher and fill it constantly with water.
5. Butterfly sofas
Butterfly sofas are also known as merry widow couches and they were a hit in 1930. These should be in a museum of Natural History in 2018 and not in your home. Refuse to have butterfly sofas in your house in the coming year. If we let great wall televisions go, we can let these butterfly seats fly. Are we together?
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