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A few features have come to define the all-American look: White walls, salvaged architectural elements, industrial lighting, vintage or hand-painted signs, neutral furnishings, and of course, Joanna’s signature shiplap walls.
These days, the mom of five isleaning into colorful contrast, like her favorite paint color “Weekend Blue,” and has opened up about how scared she was to try out new styles after finding success with “farmhouse modern.”
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“Because I was so afraid of messing up, I wasn’t willing to take a chance on myself,” Gaines wrote in the summer 2019 issue of her and husband Chip’s magazine,Magnolia Journal. “There was this continual, underlying dread that any one of those decisions that I was trying to pull out of thin air could be the one that proved once and for all that I was no good at this work.”
As she gained confidence, she branched out. “I will always love a timeless design style, and without fail, there will be classic elements that make their way into nearly any project that I undertake.” But, she adds, “Nearly every day, something new and unexpected catches my eye, something I had never considered before. More than keeping to any specific aesthetic, our homes should evolve, just as our families do.”
The other top-ranked styles of 2019, according to Google, are surprisingly diverse. Colonial style came in at number two. While Cape Cod, Spanish and Art Deco round out the top five.
Other search terms that made the list include, Japanese, Craftsman, transitional, Prairie, and modern.
The trends run the gambit from minimal and clean (Japanese, modern) to artful maximalism (Art Deco).
The variety seems to speak to an even larger trend: Americans getting excited, educated and inspired to decorate their homes.
source: people.com
