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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Eleanor Richardson

What's Making a Home Look Dated in 2026? Interior Designers Reveal What to Leave Out This Year – and What to Do Instead

Colorful kid's room with blue painted cabintery, bespoke shelves decorated with toys.

We are living in a time of comeback trends. Interior designers are increasingly looking to the past for inspiration, and that’s resulted in once-popular styles from the last decade starting to look dated and bland.

The most stylish spaces in 2026 are all about color and character, so aesthetics like ultra-minimalism, all-gray everything, and homes that slightly resemble a showroom – while once considered very on trend – are now making spaces feel dated.

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