Interior designers in the Chattanooga area take a look at home trends for 2023

Interior design trends come and go as often as the seasons change. Just look back at color fads through the decades: avocado green, vintage gold, dusty blue and mauve — and greige, that popular mashup of gray and beige.

Design magazines have made several predictions in recent issues about what will go out in 2022 or come in with the new year. We took three of these and asked four local interior designers to weigh in on them. Disagree, there are no right or wrong answers, just their perspectives on whether they see these trends happening locally. The fourth question is their prediction of upcoming trends.

The four interior designers are Marsha Yessick, owner of Yessick Design Center; Steve Walker, owner of Stephen Walker Interiors; Kris Keith, designer with Classic Cabinetry; and Brandon Hood, assistant interior designer at Nell’s Home, Gifts & Interior Designs.

OPEN FLOOR PLANS

1. The open floor plan will end, a direct result of the pandemic after families spent more than a year cooped up at home with little or no privacy or space of their own. Southern Living, Veranda and Architectural Digest magazines have published articles making a case for the demise of connected living spaces.

— Yessick: I disagree. People still really enjoy the open floor plan. You can have many guests in and they are not cramped in a small space. They can enjoy games, get together, enjoy each other’s company while cooking, and everyone can be together.

— Walker: I’ve noticed that people still like the open concept, but not to the point where it’s all open. It’s hard to put furniture in – you have a 30 by 30 foot room that you still need to divide into sections.

— Keith: Open floor plans are still appearing in new builds and are still requested in renovations, so I don’t see them going away. People enjoy the flow, the connectivity and multi-purpose spaces that open floor plans provide, which I think makes it a timeless layout.

— Hood: Open floor plans are here to stay, at least for a while. Given the current lifestyle working from home, as many do since the pandemic, one finds a space for silence and something with an interesting background for a zoom.

ALL WHITE KITCHEN

2. The all-white kitchen has run its course and is on its way out; kitchens will include darker colors for warmth and coziness. Better Homes & Gardens, KitchenInfinity.com and Southern Living have all suggested this trend is falling out of favor.

— Yessick: The all-white kitchen is still very much in demand; I see this in all the new homes I do. It is so uplifting, light and bright. It doesn’t have to mean that everything is white. The key is that the island is sometimes painted an accent color or white with wood tones for contrast.

— Walker: People have been saying for 30 years that the white kitchen is going out of style, and it just isn’t. But I do a lot of kitchens in Agreeable Gray (Sherwin-Williams), which is almost like a white kitchen, but has warmth because it has a brown undertone. People used to hear gray and think warship, but this is not it. This works especially well if you have a brown floor and don’t want to change your floor.

— Keith: Yes, the all-white kitchen is being replaced with kitchens with colored wood and two-tone kitchens of warmer whites paired with medium and darker wood colors. Additionally, more striking paint colors are becoming more popular than white.

— Hood: White kitchens give way to light kitchens with cabinets in natural oak or cerused alder, with more modern profiles. Many have an accent color on the island.

FORMAL DINING ROOMS

3. The formal dining room returns. In its case in favor of the formal dining room, Southern Living called the lack of a dining room a “casualty of the open floor plan” and expressed the belief that “now people are tired of eating in the kitchen that also lives is. room and family room.”

— Yessick: The formal dining room is coming back, but that doesn’t mean the open floor plan is going away. Many people who build houses have dining room furniture and want to keep using it. Two, when people entertain they want to sit around a table away from the kitchen, away from dishes in the sink.

— Walker: It’s definitely coming back. Most people want a dining room for family and holiday gatherings.

— Keith: While the designated dining room may not make a complete comeback, I think the long dining table will return or possibly even replace smaller islands with seating as people return to hosting larger gatherings and dinner parties.

— Hood: No, formal dinners are a thing of the past. Relaxed and easy table settings suit our current lifestyle.

THEIR PREDICTIONS

4. Trends that the local designers predict for 2023. On their lists are bolder colors, wall coverings, casual window coverings, stained woods and custom millwork.

— Yessick: I see color coming back. We had a lot of white walls and while it’s refreshing and light and airy, color comes back. Blue is forever — not aqua, but soft sky blue, navy blue. I’m a big fan of wall covering, and I see it in a resurgence. Man, does that make a difference! It gives certain rooms personality.

— Walker: The brown colors are coming back, especially in tiles. People said brown would never come back, but brown and gold are back in fabrics everywhere. People do less curtains and choose panels in a nubby fabric that hang from rings from a metal pole, which drops from above the window to the floor.

— Keith: Along with the use of more stained wood and different paint colors in kitchens, I also expect an increase in the use of custom millwork in cabinetry and design. The simple mission or shaker door style may be starting to be replaced by flat panel door styles with a few more trims or molding detail. Some more custom design details like special hardware, wall or metal door inserts or even fabric can be included to add visual interest and texture to kitchen design.

— Hood: Color is the theme of 2023. No more white-on-white. Colorful cushions, throws and curtains wake up and excite all scenes.

Email Susan Pierce at spiercentn@yahoo.com.

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