Jazz Up Your Home Design with Terrazzo

In home design, history often repeats itself. “By reaching back for culture and forward for contemporary techniques, we combine the best of old and new,” says Katie Skoloff, principal designer and founder of In Site Designs, an interior design firm in Greenville, S.C. “People feel validated by heritage, especially as we age, and are always peeking into our ties from the past.”

Trends we once loved reemerge and are being enjoyed with fresh eyes. Homes are becoming design time capsules of a sort as ideas evocative of themes and styles from the past spring to life. “Everything old is new again,” says Julea Joseph, owner of Reinventing the Space, a home staging and interior design firm in Chicago.  One of these flash backs come forward is Terrazzo.

Terrazzo is a composite material made of up marble chips set into cement, and with its speckled, confetti-like designs it has become a big design star for 2019.  It can be traced back to ancient mosaics in Egypt. But in the 1920s and 1940s, it became popular as a flooring choice within art deco and modern homes. The latest terrazzo craze began last year: Pinterest found that in 2018 users saved imagery of terrazzo-designed spaces at more than triple the rate of the year before.Terrazzo is stretching beyond floors, appearing in a variety of locations, such as shower wall surfaces or countertops, as an alternative to granite. Terrazzo-inspired designs are also showing up in specked wallpaper, lamp shades, and kitchenware.

So if you’d like to jazz up your home design, try incorporating Terrazzo into your space.

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