Yes, I'm old. I can't believe it's now just over 20 years since I started my first job on the interiors desk of a glossy women's magazine in December 2004. I knew little about interiors (I still don't know how I talked my way into the role) and so learned fast. I absorbed everything I read in the style press, pored over pages of magazines, and scoured the early internet for what little advice it had.
It was a very different aesthetic to now, and there are many moments from then that have long been consigned to the garbage of design trends gone by (I really don't miss vinyl wall decals or Chesterfield couches). But there are a few ideas from back then that have stayed with us – growing, changing, and evolving – but proving their worth as timeless decor ideas that seem to never go out of style.
