The Allure of the latest color trend in modern home design...

Jace

Jace

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Matte Black..is a popular color choice in home design due to its sleek sophisticated and timless aesthetic.

In the kitchen, appliances... can provide a sleek and stylish focal point that is sure to be a conversation starter.
Additionally, matte black fixtures, such as faucets and handles, can add a touch of elegance and refinement to a kitchen design.

In the bathroom, lighting and accessories can provide a look that complements a variety of tile colors and styles.

A low-maintenance color that is both durable and easy to clean. It does not show smudges or fingerprints..easily making it a practical choce for high-traffic areas.

Overall, incorporating Matte Black elements in your home design can provide a stylish solution creating a contemporary atmosphere.

Would you consider?

Or..do you already have?
 

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Personally, I don’t care for the trend. And I vehemently disagree with the claim that it’s low maintenance. Certainly in the kitchen it’s not. Any matte finish is going to be much harder to clean than an eggshell or satin. And matte black is going to really show up kitchen drips and spills.

For similar reasons I also don’t care for chrome or gold bathroom or plumbing fittings so we’ve gone with oil rubbed bronze.
 
Jace said:
Additionally, matte black fixtures, such as faucets and handles, can add a touch of elegance and refinement to a kitchen design.
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The last place it’d use it. It would show every water drop.

Instead of white frame on a window, I’ve seen black. It was very striking. The Property Brothers have used it a few times.

One place they used matte black was for on a cement block wall fence. I gather these are often used in California. It gave it a finished looked.
 

You are right about this giving a sleek, contemporary look. I did consider painting one wall in the living room matte black for
an elegant feel, but decided against it. My home is too small so I must stick to a light, warm color throughout.
For a kitchen, I never did like the marble countertops, and black, in a large sophisticated home would look like a showcase but
I wouldn't want to cook in a kitchen like that, or sit around and laugh and eat, but it would be beautiful to look at!
My kitchen is 1930's, white, cute, fun and cheerful, with 30's designs everywhere.

Ralph Lauren used black on walls several years ago and it was dramatic and sensuous! He used this with animal prints, bronze
sculptures, textural fabrics; that man is a genius with design!
 
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Black can look stylish in glossy magazine photographs, but I always think spoders would not show up well on a dark surface... and I want some warning of where those critters are.

By the way, in my experience black cars are really hard to get clean. Every mark shows on the paintwork if it doesn't dry just right..
 
Most people I know love white - they want light colors and open large windows. When we moved down to Texas from the north that's what we wanted - so tired of little windows that had to be draped and dark woodworking. But, its like anything else, in the right place black is probably fine, just not in our house though...lol.
 
Liberty said:
Most people I know love white - they want light colors and open large windows. When we moved down to Texas from the north that's what we wanted - so tired of little windows that had to be draped and dark woodworking. But, it’s like anything else, in the right place black is probably fine, just not in our house though...lol.
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There’s a current trend also of monochrome colors. Whites and grays, with splashes of color in accessories, throw pillows etc. Not a fan.👎

While we have some white cabinets in our kitchen, the contrast color (and predominant color because of its saturation) is a deep navy blue. That’s what the island is painted, and the pantry barn doors. And the backsplash has the same blue tints in it. And the various accessories in the kitchen are also blue and white.
 
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20 years ago...the fashion was for Matt Black furniture here. I had Black sideboard, black sofas... etc... black shows up every little bit of dust...

Currently the fashion for the last few years here has been grey. grey everything...flooring, curtains, blinds, bedheads, Rugs, Kitchen worktops and counters...UGH..horrible.. talk about a drab colour to have in your home...yet it's taken off in the last 6or 7 years like no other colour has..it's just boring, and drab. I would never have it in my home, much less in every room that so many people have it.

I've been looking for new houses this last few weeks.. and my heart sinks everytime I see a picture of grey stair carpets.. grey wooden floors, grey velour curtains, grey walls UGH!! :eek:
 
hollydolly said:
20 years ago...the fashion was for Matt Black furniture here. I had Black sideboard, black sofas... etc... black shows up every little bit of dust...

Currently the fashion for the last few years here has been grey. grey everything...flooring, curtains, blinds, bedheads, Rugs, Kitchen worktops and counters...UGH..horrible.. talk about a drab colour to have in your home...yet it's taken off in the last 6or 7 years like no other colour has..it's just boring, and drab. I would never have it in my home, much less in every room that so many people have it.

I've been looking for new houses this last few weeks.. and my heart sinks everytime I see a picture of grey stair carpets.. grey wooden floors, grey velour curtains, grey walls UGH!! :eek:
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Yes, ⬆️here, too☹️
 
I've heard gray is on it's way out and being replaced with earth tones. If so, it seems my decorating taste is coming back in style! As they say, if you wait long enough, everything comes back in style.

Also, marble countertops are not being used much anymore since they have been found to be porous and rather fragile. Quartz is now recommended.
 
T Y, All..I wouldn't have it either(Bl.matte)..I like light colors.
My kitchen cabinets are a 'blonde' wood.
I 'could live with' grey..if I had to..it's rather neutral.
 
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Thinking about grey, I looked around. Other than stainless steel appliances, I don’t have any in the house except for a throw that I had made years ago. It also has blue and cream specks it. It was made to tie together my blue couch with a beige carpet.
 
hollydolly said:
20 years ago...the fashion was for Matt Black furniture here. I had Black sideboard, black sofas... etc... black shows up every little bit of dust...

Currently the fashion for the last few years here has been grey. grey everything...flooring, curtains, blinds, bedheads, Rugs, Kitchen worktops and counters...UGH..horrible.. talk about a drab colour to have in your home...yet it's taken off in the last 6or 7 years like no other colour has..it's just boring, and drab. I would never have it in my home, much less in every room that so many people have it.

I've been looking for new houses this last few weeks.. and my heart sinks everytime I see a picture of grey stair carpets.. grey wooden floors, grey velour curtains, grey walls UGH!! :eek:
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I am a huge fan of color, as my living room shows! 😂 We do have charcoal and white in the laundry room, but it’s a big room with lots of light and lots of plants, and it works out well and doesn’t look drab at all!!
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Ronni said:
I am a huge fan of color, as my living room shows! 😂 We do have charcoal and white in the laundry room, but it’s a big room with lots of light and lots of plants, and it works out well and doesn’t look drab at all!!
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this is very similar to my livingroom. I have lemon on 3 walls ... white under the Dado rail. One big feature wall has red wallpaper, and my sofas are burgundy wine colour . I insisted on these colours because my soon2Bex was a Beige Fan.. everywhere else aside from the kitchen has been painted in beige... I hate it. ...with matching Latte carpets...
 
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Daisy the Dog said:
There is a trend too of matte black for exteriors, too. I think it’s awful. Very depressing.
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Black? I can sort of see it on extremely modern type houses...it definitely makes a statement. But there would have to have some other colors incorporated to offset the black, like doors, colorful landscaping...something. And to use it on other style homes seems out of place to me.

But I do like black barns.
 
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Paint, I've always loved emulsion, sheen, no sheen, oil, water based.

Which means I dislike wallpaper with a passion. In the 70s, a flat considered had the kitchen walls in orange on 3 walls, the fourth black. Weird? Yes!

In previous house, colours were a darker mixture. We all had each rooms with a colour suitable to our moods.

Our latest home, as it was going to be, OAP Pad, we went with much lighter shades. Living room is a gorgeous shade of beige, so relaxing with light to medium wood furniture.

Bathroom is currently blue (water) but also in honour of son's preferred colour. Daughter went slightly darker, thus time, with a mauve instead of pink in her bedroom.

Our bedroom, we went trendy at the time, senior bedroom style, silver on the walls, dark carpet, black iron bedframe, black storage shelving with all solid wood open closet with black panelling curtains.

Kitchen? Man, hubby chose this amazing Moroccan yellow, which is superb when the sun shines in. Finally, alway linking everything is a lovely shade of Sage.

In conclusion, I don't follow trends for interior home decorating, which means that I've to dig around to find duvets and curtains, even towels, to match what everyone feels at the time 🤣🤣🤣
 
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I had a black kitchen set bought used. After I spent hours and hours sanding down, priming and going white paint there is no way I would return to black.

I like lighter colours and refuse to give into fads which come and go. Pick what YOU can live with, not what some fancy arse designer tells you is "in"
 

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