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Outdated home decor trends to leave behind in 2024
Someone had to break the news of the outdated home decor trends that are getting the boot in 2024. It’s a new year, and it’s time to make some adjustments, right? We’re looking forward to an interior refresh and shaping our space to our needs, but that means some things can’t stay. We spoke to interior designers about styles and pieces shoppers should avoid, so you’ll want to take note. As you begin to compile a list of the latest small space interior design trends to try, here’s what to nix, according to the pros, and what you should consider instead. We have a feeling you’re going to be relieved with…
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How to Decorate Living Room Spaces in an Instant
The living room is where you probably spend the most time kicking back and entertaining guests, so it’s always important to come in with a plan before you decorate living room spaces or rethink your setup to ensure that it feels as unified and inviting as possible. On AD’s first episode of “Re:Design”—a series where designers take turns putting their spin on real spaces that desperately need a refresh—we focused on a some unfocused living rooms. We enlisted the help of New York–based interior architect Darren Jett, who knows a thing or two about punchy living spaces. As he previously told AD on a tour of his splashy Brooklyn apartment,…
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US real estate market will be ‘very ugly’ next year, Howard Lutnick warns
The CEO of a top financial services firm is sounding the alarm over a “very ugly” real estate market in the next two years. Speaking to FOX Business host Maria Bartiromo at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick said a “generational” shift was on the horizon, warning of a massive default in loan sales. REAL ESTATE INVESTOR WARNS US IS ENTERING THE ‘GREATEST’ CORRECTION OF HIS LIFETIME A foreclosure sign sits in front of a home on a hillside in San Clemente, California, on Aug. 25, 2010. “I think $700 billion could default… The lenders are going to have to do things with them. They’re…
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Downturn in Home Remodeling May Bottom Out in 2024
Spending for residential improvements and repairs is expected to shrink this year for the first time since 2010, but signs point to some easing of declines by year’s end, according to the Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA) released today by the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. The LIRA projects that declines in annual homeowner renovation and maintenance expenditure will worsen through the third quarter of this year before moderating slightly to -6.5 percent by the end of 2024. “Home remodeling will continue to suffer this year from a perfect storm of high prices, elevated interest rates, and weak home sales,” says…
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‘Looking forward to seeing this perform’
Rain gardens have exploded in popularity in recent years among both homeowners and businesses as people realize their numerous benefits. One landscaper got asked to install one at a church and posted the results for all to admire in the r/NativePlantGardening subreddit. A video of the finished project revealed a beautiful rain garden next to the children’s playground complete with several varieties of plants, river rocks, and boulders carved into a narrow section of soil to help funnel and absorb excess rainwater. “Procured some local glaciated boulders and native plants for this past week’s install. Looking forward to seeing this perform with the next rainfall,” the Reddit user captioned the…
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Inside an Exceptional Dallas Home That’s Filled With Antiques and Vibrant Hues
The gut remodel of what is now a vibrant, welcoming home for six in Dallas’s Highland Park neighborhood was a truly multi-family affair. A second-generation leader behind Sees Design, Corbin See—alongside his wife Sara and brother Ross—worked in collaboration with Harris Briggs, a second-generation principal at Dallas-based firm William S. Briggs Architect. The goal? To bring Catalina Gonzalez Jorba and Santiago Jorba’s dream home to life. Catalina, the founder of children’s clothing brand Dondolo, came into the collaboration full of ideas about how to ensure that the home would suit her personal aesthetic as well as her family’s entertaining needs. (Catalina was familiar with See’s style—which she had admired at…
