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Molly Kidd

This Once-Forgotten Design Trend Is Back – and As a Designer, I Rely on It for Softer, More Beautiful Rooms

Wood joinery with silver door handles and nickel jugs displayed inside.

Interior designer Molly Kidd is one of Homes & Gardens' new Editors-At-Large for By Design, sharing her thoughts on decor through her lens of soft light, vintage pieces, and a sepia-tinged palette. See the rest of her articles here.

They say history repeats itself, and in design, the rhythm is familiar: finishes fall out of favor, resurface years later, and are rebranded as the next new interior design trend. Yet every so often, a material doesn’t so much return as quietly remind us it was never gone. Nickel is having that moment now – not as a revival, but as a reaffirmation.

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