And you're better off mixing styles within rooms than, say, having a contemporary kitchen, a French country bedroom and a traditional living room. "It's all about flow," says interior designer Ann ...

Turn a living room into a cosy and chic country cottage retreat. Use warm colours, light floorboards and soft lighting to brighten up a small cottage living room and turn it into a light ...

Kendall Wilkinson, an interior designer at Kendall Wilkinson Design, told Insider that people are opting for "layered" living-room spaces ... Bay said. The shabby-chic trend is fading.

Jeanne Barber, founder of Camden Grace Interiors, and lead designer Julia Zajac opened the living room to the kitchen ... t want the scheme to veer shabby chic,” Barber says.

“With this kind of rustic country ... embracing the shabby chic pieces can help your apartment look like it was designed over time. The character might even make your living room more unique ...

Succinctly put, minimalism writ large has come to mean a combination of modern design and the ethos of living ... popular “country kitchen” of the ‘90s, categorized by shabby chic furniture ...