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There’s definitely new trend regarding interiours that has been growing more and more: The ‘ let´s show the homes as they are’ feel, no styling, no cleaning, just the homes as they trully are, homes with real people and their everyday life. Is a bit like ‘reality t.v.’ but in interiours. It all started with The Selby, a huge success, now in bookstores. It´s a reflection that people got a bit tired the dreamy, unrealistic houses featured in magazines and books.

(photo: the selby)

There’s also Apartamento Magazine, the so called  post-materialist interiors magazine. It´s raw, filled with naked truth ( or at least it seams that way ), it´s an interiours manifesto in itself. It’s beautifully designed, in every little detail.

(photos: Apartmento Magazine)

Today, Holly of Decor8 was talking about the gap between the interiour magazines imagery and the reality of most of our homes, specially regarding a specific style from a country or city.

Most of us ( interiour design geeks and freaks, eye candy consumers , addited to these images ), sometimes forget that not every house in Sweden, for example, is perfectly decorated nor everyone is born with the sense of style. It´s easy to think otherwise if we’ve never been there, with all the overwhelming images that we see all the time in blogs, magazines and books. I for once, love the swedish ( and i’m not refering to ikea) and the french style.

Anyway, this new wave is actually reminding us to forget ‘perfect’ and embrace a more ‘imperfect, real, not thinking to much’ way of homeliving. Don’t get me wrong, i still love my perfectly styled magazines, but this trend is here to give us some balance. Dream vs. Reality.

It’s the home’s soul that matters after all.