Month: December 2022

By now, it’s likely you’ve heard the news: Pantone’s 2023 Color of the Year has officially been announced as Viva Magenta 18-1750. It’s a decision that’s sparked much debate (as is usually the case). Yet while there are plenty of reasons to both love and doubt this choice of hue, there’s one thing that’s impossible to deny no matter where you fall on the matter: The raspberry-like shade isn’t the easiest to use in decor. Sure, pink has seen a surge in popularity lately thanks to Barbiecore’s rise. However, that doesn’t detract from the fact that Viva Magenta decor is a tricky thing to incorporate naturally into most homes.

That said, interior designers and experts have confirmed that it’s on the up — so it’s a color worth trying this year. “We have been seeing more saturated colors, and in 2023 I’m expecting to see this heavily especially in

Amhad Freeman, an interior designer based in Nashville, reports that clients are reclaiming tables from their previous temporary incarnations as ersatz work desks and bringing back a trusty old favorite: the dining room. “Why is it a room that just kind of sits in the corner?” he asks. “Our attitudes can change. It can be formal, but it doesn’t have to be.”

Orlando Rodriguez of New York City–based firm Whitehall Interiors has been advising clients to reinvent unused areas, creating amenity spaces like podcast rooms. “The room is a small, simple space with acoustic treatments, a counter which houses microphones and speakers,” he says. “It taps into the social media zeitgeist of our time, while enabling the utilization of cramped spaces that would otherwise be ‘dead spaces.’”

Little Wing Lee’s clients similarly want to

Here’s a number to kick things off: 780. That’s three articles a day, five days a week, 52 weeks a year—a guesstimate of the stories Business of Home will have published over the course of 2022. That’s a lot of words—but sometimes it’s helpful to cut right to the numbers.

To capture the moment, we collected stats, dollar signs and figures from around the design world. Collectively, they paint a picture of an industry transitioning from three chaotic-but-lucrative years into an uncertain (yet hopeful) future.

The percent that Ikea raised prices on key pieces.
in October, Retail Week found that the Swedish giant had hiked prices as much as 80 percent on key merchandise in the UK market, raising the cost of items like the Jokkmokk dining table (which skyrocketed from 99 pounds to 179 pounds over the past year). Although the increases were specific to the UK, Ikea’s British