Consider this design revival before updating your bathroom.
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As with fashion or beauty,decorating trendsare entirely personal.
When matchy-matchy window treatments andwallpaperswung back into style, one crowd of design-lovers rejoiced while another groaned.
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For some decorators, its a welcome repriseand perhaps even an expected one.
In design I always attempt to pull from all different times.
Meet the Experts
Jena Salmonis aninterior designer in Dallas.
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Olivia Westbrooks is aninterior designer in Atlanta.
Pros of the Glass Blocks Trend
Salmon says the design feature is a smart, win-win solution.
Glass blocks get a bad rap in my mind, she says.
We all have glassshowersnowadays.
Not sure about you, but I don’t really like being completely vulnerable all the time.
Shes currently working on a project in which she calls for glass blocks in the bathroom and sauna room.
I love how the light dances from behind the glass blocks, says Salmon.
They look fabulous in a modern bathroom but also in a more traditional one.
Plus, she notes, theyre an affordable way to add another decorative and textural element in place ofsheetrock.
Atlanta designer Olivia Westbrookss response, for instance, is tepid at best.
Im not sure if its because glass blocks remind me of bad 80s movies.
I cant help but to imagine baggy suits and weird mullets whenever I see this architectural element.
Some things are better left in the design graveyard.
