Furniture walls, photo wallpapers, arched forms and other techniques from the past, which have become a sign of bad style, but now have a second life.

1 Self-adhesive film

Self-adhesive film is a good way to update the interior if you have a limited budget or the apartment is removable. The moisture-resistant coating will help literally transform the bathroom in one day, where a tile with dolphins was laid out twenty years ago. An ordinary white matte film will give a second life to a yellowed chipboard headset or grandmother’s lacquered sideboard in the living room. In the same way, you can update interior doors, colorful plastic planters, ink-stained desk or apron in the kitchen.

2 Photo Wallpapers

Useful life hack: when choosing wallpaper, write down twenty drawing ideas that come to your mind, and cross out the first ten. Most likely, these will be stories that you have repeatedly seen in a photo or at someone’s house: Paris, London, a beach, a watercolor forest or quotes about coffee and comfort in the house. When you find the original image, make sure that it will be printed in high resolution and will fit into the color palette and style of your interior. For example, in the scandi living room, an accent wall in cold tones and depicting northern nature will look organically. The nursery has detailed illustrations in restrained and deep tones. There are tropical motifs in the bathroom.

3 illuminated niches

Purposefully building a niche out of drywall to use it as a decoration is not worth it, this technique eats up the usable area, and is already visually outdated. But if it originally exists in the apartment or appeared as a result of redevelopment, emphasize it and use it as an accent. Install several shelves in the niche and arrange beautiful accessories on them (do not forget to leave free space between them!). Illuminate the entire composition with a self-adhesive LED strip or a pair of spotlights, inserting light bulbs with soft warm light into them.

4 Furniture walls

The difference between outdated and trendy furniture walls in the living room is in the design. Everything bulky, visually heavy, with rich decor on the facades and an implausible tree pattern is outdated. Does not add style and a huge number of accessories placed on the shelves. Such walls were popular in the 90s, when it was important to show prosperity in the house with the help of furniture that is difficult to buy. Now it’s the opposite: the storage system should attract a minimum of attention, merging in color with the finish. Then it adds depth to the space and helps to place the TV and books beautifully. For example, modular structures with a concise design look very stylish.

5 Accent fittings

Handles of interior doors and furniture do not necessarily have to be factory-made templates. They can be replaced and turned into a stylish accent. Simply, instead of curved gilded models with monograms that were popular before, choose modern accessories that will be combined with the overall style of the interior. For example, large handles in the form of a flat circle or rectangle look good in scandi. In contemporary and minimalism, matte rectangular. In boho or French style, voluminous round products with a pattern can play.

6 Beige palette

The whole secret is in choosing the right shade of beige and other colors that will be next to it. In the nineties, a thick warm tone was taken as a basis, which was often complemented by brown furniture and dark carpets. It turned out dark and ponderous. Now designers are building a beige palette based on light and light tones and shade them with cold white or gray. It is also important to use different textures of coverings, furniture and textiles in the interior so that the space does not look flat.

7 Arched forms

Arches of complex shape with excessive decor went out of fashion for a long time after the 90s, but gradually return to their former popularity, however, in a different version. Now they help to add clean smooth lines to the space and echo furniture with rounded corners, this is one of the main trends of 2022. Such a space looks original and minimalistic. 

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