Rooms that blend different wood tones are trending and can ultimately be the most interesting from a décor perspective, Ms. Caan said.
“After all, if everything in a room is the same tone, you wouldn’t really see anything,” she said. “It’s nice to mix raw blonde woods with black stained woods and even medium tones like walnuts. I love mixing in an old piece or a reclaimed piece of wood furniture in a home office. It often becomes the ‘character’ the space needs.”
The days of bringing heavy brown furniture into your home should be a thing that’s relegated to the past, said Liz Caan, an interior designer in Boston. “Yes, there are beautiful desks out there that are collector’s pieces and they’re an investment,” she said. “But you need to really think if you need such an oversized desk with multiple drawers and whether it’s too office-y for your space.”
In fact, designers are seeing that storage can just as easily be relegated to a closet located right near your desk. “Since you scan to the cloud, think about how few paper files you really use on a day-to-day basis,” Ms. Caan said. “I’d rather a homeowner tuck away the wireless router, the shredder and paper for the printer.”
