“There has been a shift in the idea of open spaces,” says Levolor’s trend expert Jennifer Abernathy. “We saw homes become very open,” she says. Now, “people are turning back to wanting more intimate and personal interactions.”
Big Open spaces, with hard clean surfaces have been favored in the last few years, but issues of noise, loss of intimacy and textural comfort are challenging the residents. Interior designers, homeowners and architects are coming up with a host of solutions to create temporary nooks while keeping a big, open feel of a room.