Are you furnishing your new home and are you afraid that expensive furniture will go out of style soon? Your concerns are justified. Here are our tips for choosing furniture that you will be happy with for a lifetime.
Ignore the trends and choose your tastes
If you want a house that looks like it came out of a catalog, then your fears will probably come true. It is only natural that furniture retailers and various home lifestyle magazines rely on fads. It is thanks to these, in fact, that they can increase their sales.
And it is precisely the efforts of retailers to grow that have caused that, today, furniture is becoming a consumer good. In the stores you can find a multitude of affordable furniture whose real life, however, is only a few years. And not only from the point of view of the latest trends, but also of physical wear.
For this reason, rather than on a "catalog" house, focus on what you really want. It can be a completely timeless material or design element. But if you really like it that much, then it will never get old. There are no limits to the imagination and so in the living room, instead of the classic sofa, you can even have one armchair hanging from the ceiling.
A skilled carpenter can create completely customized original furniture for you. Honest craftsmanship never gets old.
Look back at history
Instead of choosing according to the assortment of retailers, for a furniture that remains “in” for a long time, let yourself be guided by past. Take a look at the older houses and see which design elements could be used even today. If something has survived decades of trends, it will likely continue to do so.
An example above all is the parquet floor. You will surely find many other items that ignore fashions altogether.
Bet on quality materials
As already mentioned, retail chains push customers to behave like consumers even when they buy furniture. This explains why the furniture has an affordable price but is also short-lived.
Defending is simple - choose more expensive solid wood furniture and instead of plastic furniture give precedence to metal ones. Such furniture will last incomparably longer both in terms of design and resistance to damage.
Themes and motifs choose them with caution
If your goal is to have interiors that look good for a long time, you should choose colors and patterns carefully.
Colored walls in the interior come to boredom much faster than neutral white. The same also applies to coatings and other surfaces. Again this holds true what is simple is also beautiful. Give priority to soft colors and simple patterns rather than embarking on uncertain experiments.
If, on the other hand, you insist on more complex decorations, try to find a uniform style that will be replicated throughout the apartment. In fact, if your interiors have too many varied styles, it is quite likely that, at least in part, they will come to you relatively soon.
