I don’t read a lot of decorating blogs anymore. I used to read them every day, but it got tiring—you know, like coming home from work and WORKING. I have moved on to a more esoteric topic that winds me up just enough to be relaxing.
I do read a few, and most are not written by other decorators, but by lay people, renovating their own homes.
I discovered something. Apparently, if you blog, (or at least, if you blog and I read it) you must use white subway tile.
From Door Sixteen
From Addicted 2 Decor
From Making it Lovely
From Decorno (The picture that made me notice this whole trend.)
From Young House Love
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GUILTY!!! That must be true – blogging and subway tile go hand-in-hand. I’m sure there are others you have missed as well. I love how it looks but I often wonder whether interior designers and other people,including me, will look back one day and say how subway tile really dates a house, like avocado and harvest gold, or like pickled wood and flowery chintz. But what can you do? Trends are trends. Hopefully it’s plain looking enough that it won’t scream “turn of the century” in another twenty years!
I love the way they look, too. When you want white, clean, classic, and cheap, there’s no better option.
And I hardly see how subway tile could date a home, seeing that it’s been around since the early 1900′s. There’s nothing “trendy” about it. It’s classic.
On the other hand, all of this tumbled marble and granite countertops that are being used now will most certainly date homes in the coming decades.