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5 Designers’ Favorite Furniture Trends for 2018
Velvet, mixing materials and the return of game tables are among the new ways to update rooms.
Look around your room. What’s missing? If it’s a piece of furniture, check out these designer takes on interior trends for 2018 before you start shopping or embarking on a DIY project.
Pulte Group
Amy Youngblood
She’s excited about: Raw wood mixed with cement for an edgy artisan look, furniture with Lucite legs, sheepskin on the tops of benches and more dramatic colors. For example, she used bright orange swivel chairs in a contemporary condo in downtown Cincinnati.
E.P. Grundner
“The mid-century modern pieces are very in this year as well,” she says.
For example, her firm, Amy Youngblood Interiors, paired a brown leather and metal Barcelona chair and Lucite footstool in a recent room.
Amy Youngblood Interiors
Phoebe Howard
She’s excited about: A love affair with color, especially blue, and the return to game tables.
Phoebe Howard
“I think it’s a part of a resistance to technology,” says Howard, who owns a design firm and two boutiques — Mrs. Howard and Max & Co. “I see a lot of my clients using puzzles and games and squeezing game tables into breakfast rooms and family rooms and using them.”
Duckworth Interiors
Kate Duckworth
She’s excited about: Velvet—especially in warm, saturated colors like watermelon, rust and wine—and fringe. “Recently, I used it around the bottom of a leopard print settee and it really took the piece to another level,” she says. “I plan on using it more in 2018.”
Duckworth Interiors
Duckworth Interiors
She’s also seeing classic chairs reinvented in bright colors, like the porter chairs by Brabbu. “I would put these around a rustic farm table,” says Duckworth, owner of Duckworth Interiors.
Angela Nuessle
Pulte Group
She’s excited about: Raw, natural materials such as wood and concrete, mixing chrome with wood and coffee tables with marble or onyx. “Concrete, onyx and marble have a strong presence,” says Nuessle, a designer with Pulte Homes.
Velvet, seen in statement sofas and club chairs, as well as drapery and accent pillows, also is at the top of her list of furniture trends for 2018.
“Velvet also lends kind of a nice, warm texture to the interiors and so I was surprised by really the velvet movement and the strong kind of graphic floral statements that are still going to be popular,” she says.
Jason Oliver Nixon and John Loecke, Madcap Cottage
They’re excited about: Patterns such as florals on upholstery and bold hues, such as green and yellows. “What I think you're seeing now is much more loosely interpreted floral,” Loecke says. "They have more hand-blocked look to them.”
Matt Odom Photography
There’s also a swing back to decorator details, such as trim and pleating, along with more attention paid to the look of welting, flanges and zippers, say the duo, who own Madcap Cottage.
“There's a thoughtfulness to design now of ‘Let's create some of that sparkle and differentiate ourselves,” Loecke says.
