16 Interior Design Trends You'll Definitely See in 2016
Here's what the editors at House Beautiful predict everyone will love in the coming year.
Will redecorating be one of your New Year's resolutions this time around? Start here — we've scoured all of our best design resources to predict what you'll want in your home in 2016.
The "Glamily" Room
What's an immaculate aesthete to do with a dog around — or a Doritos-loving tween? Let her living room go? Hardly! Turn to hardworking-yet-fabulous fabrics paired with sexy silhouettes.
Monthly Clubs
It's decor at your door! And will make you count the hours 'til mail drop. Here are a few of our favorites:
THE BOUQS CO.
Sustainably grown, artful floral arrangements of your choice (we're partial to the ranunculus). From $40 a month, bouqs.com
GLOSSYBOX
Brands in this Berlin-based beauty-by-mail service: Everyone from La Prairie and Bulgari to Essie. $21 a month, glossybox.com
GLOBEIN
Expect tagines from Tunisia and Oaxacan baskets are among the goods in these ethically sourced care packages. From $30 a month, globein.com
Boutique Showrooms
Indie upstarts are the newest sources for designer textiles. Supply, a treasure-filled 1930s bungalow in Austin, Texas, helmed by New York expats, is the latest.
Bed Linens With Pizzazz
This year, we're taking a hiatus from plain white sheets thanks to Bailey McCarthy's Biscuit, which puts dozens of covetable patterns in play — all made in the U.S. of A.
Boudoir shams & Cotton Sateen. $60 each, biscuit-home.com
Pretty Pendants
We love our chandeliers, but 2016 is the year of the statement pendant.
1.Link Porcelain Quad Light. $8,000, apparatusstudio.com.
2. Paloma Lantern. $2,400, coleenandcompany.com.
3. Clover Square Lantern by E.F. Chapman for Visual Comfort & Co. $987, circalighting.com.
4. Goodman Pendant. $1,195, serenaandlily.com.
5. Pagoda Lantern by VanCollier. $2,375, shopcandelabra.com.
Perky Pedestals
Another star, ideal for your sparest corners: The tall, handsome pedestal, primed to exhibit a sculpture, a plant, or even the house cat (who likely considers himself worthy of it anyway).
1. Wood Column. $269, ballarddesigns.com.
2. Milo Pedestal. $1,500, olystudio.com.
3. Churchhill Pedestal. $575, chelseahouseinc.com.
4. X Pedestal. Through a designer, curatedkravet.com
5. Marble-Rose Gold Tall Pedestal Table. $199, cb2.com.
The Return of the Desk
The honeymoon period for working on your laptop in bed is officially over. In 2016, we're reserving the bedroom for more important things. New styles of the once-humble desk are downright Beyoncé'd (case in point, this office designed by Sam Allen). We've previewed dozens of high-gloss, high-power versions, all ready to help you make this year your most productive yet.
Traditional Tableware
Consider this a doting note to grandmothers everywhere: You were right. Gravy boats and footed bowls are necessary members of the tablescape — especially now, with their au courant edge.
Top, from left:
Tommy Footed Cups. $420 each, saintlouis.com/en; Paradis Soup Tureen by Raynaud. $1,200, devinecorp.net
Bottom, from left:
No. 2 Footed Bowl with Medusa Handle. $350, francespalmerpottery.com; Renaissance Gold Gravy Boat and Stand. $150 & $95, wedgwood.com; Lawrence Gravy Boat. $35, crateandbarrel.com
A Matcha Moment
Green juice is so 2015. We're sipping on the elixir of 11th-century Japanese Zen priests: antioxidant-rich matcha green tea, with a ceremonial brewing process (and cool tools) that feels Zen in itself.
From top left:
Matcha Love Starter Gift Kit including Matcha Bowl, Bamboo Whisk, and Usucha Matcha, $45, itoen.com; Copper & Brass Tea Strainer, $66, abchome.com
Mixed metals
Platinum, gold, copper, steel — as long as they've got metallic sheen, they go together in our book. It's bling like you've never seen before.
Left, top and bottom:
Modernist Two-Light ADA Sconce, $876, corbettlighting.com; Clayton Embroidery in 953 by Hodsoll McKenzie and Viscose Blend on Linen, zimmer-rohde.com; Ponti (4790) in Sandstone Polyester, pindler.com
Fabric Wall Art
Attention, all designers: Robert Allen is paper-backing almost all of its textiles for a flat fee, from silks to damasks.
From top: Glintwood, Sakura Stripe, Glamorous, and Greek Stripe, robertallendesign.com
Design-Trepreneurs
A new rising trend is designers by day who pursue other passions with equal verve, from custom accessory lines to movie-set styling. Here's an abridged rundown of the side gigs keeping them up at night:
1. Amber Lewis
A custom furniture line; a brick-and-mortar store in Calabasas, California; a big-time design blog.
2. Brad Ford
Showroom owner; founder of Field + Supply, a makers' craft fair in upstate New York.
3. Mark D. Sikes
A fabric collection; set design on Nancy Meyers's flick The Intern; fashion brand MDS Stripes.
4. Mat Sanders
Editor at large for My Domaine; co-owner of Consort, a contemporary-design shop in Los Angeles.
5. Mark Zeff
His lifestyle brand, Black-barn, includes a restaurant, book, home-design store, and real-estate group.
A Delft Touch
The pottery of choice from 17th-century Holland is every bit as coveted today, thanks to its charming depictions of country life — forever preserved in inky blues and soft whites.
Clockwise from top:
Primrose & Columbine linen blend fabric in Delft Blu by Morris & Co, stylelibrary.com; Old Amsterdam wallpaper in Blue by Sparrow King, studioprintworks.com; Hand-painted pottery by Jill Rosenwald and Erin Gates from $72 each, jillrosenwald.com; Writing Desk with One Drawer in Antique White, $1,132, chelseatextiles.com
Better Sleep
Blackout curtains and lavender sachets get you only so far. And while this San Francisco bedroom is super serene, there are a few things (other than a calming atmosphere) you can do to maximize your zzzs, like opt for pillows technologically designed to do the best possible job. Because the future is now, and it's making us tired.
Tempur-Countour Side-to-Back
If you wriggle around all night, this is the pillow for you — it's specifically contoured for both side and back sleepers. $129 for queen, tempurpedic.com
Fresh Start
Call us shallow, but the best part of this memory foam pillow is that it looks just like a regular one. Bonus: It's super comfy (thanks in part to the bamboo cover), easy to wash, and USA-made. $40 for standard, brentwood home.com
Therapedic Trucool Side Sleeper
Run hot? This headrest incorporates airflow technology into the memory foam to keep you cool at night. $70 for standard, bedbathandbeyond.com
Guatemalan Fabrics
Textile gurus often find muses in indigenous artisans the world over and collaborate to great effect. Trending presently is Guatemala, where colorful weaving has been part of the fabric of Mayan life for thousands of wildly vivid years.
Textiles and leather goods. From $32, furbishstudio.com
Consignment Now
In lieu of life after Craigslist, here are three websites to help you buy and sell furniture and accessories worry-free:
1. Viyet
Luxury furniture and accessories from Knoll, Holly Hunt, and more at up to 80 percent off retail — with white-glove delivery.
2. Chairish
A highly curated treasure trove of 65,000 vintage and new finds — all of which ship to the continental U.S., with two-day returns.
3. Move Loot
Want to get that old armoire out of your house, stat? They'll pick it up, consign it, and pay you seven days later. Presto chango, indeed.
Vintage Pattridge Dresser by Morris of California. $825, viyet.com
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