Sustainability will be the focus of the year ahead, but coronavirus lockdowns will make way for "unbridled frivolity"  in interior design, says Michelle Ogundehin in her trends report for 2022.

2021 was thus not a year for trends. It was a year of uncomfortable truths. At the end of my last trends report, I proposed 2021 as "the year for the interiors equivalent of speaking your own truth" understanding "that the best homes are about the feeling they give you not the stuff they contain, the 'right' colours or 'hot' looks."
The most poignant of these was that we are all products of our environment. And we were making a right mess of ours. Not just on the wider climate scale, but also domestically. I'd even written a book drawing a direct line between our homes and our health: Happy Inside: How to Harness the Power of Home for Health and Happiness. It was published as the first waves of Covid hit UK shores, but conceived way before the word pandemic had entered the popular lexicon. Its message was simple: what surrounds you affects you. And while many of us know this intuitively, for the scientifically inclined, there's a Stanford University study that proves environment is more important than genetics in determining the strength of your immune system.
Most fashionable trends are simply manufacturer dictated newness
All grist for the mill of intentional personal space creation. In other words, homes that reflect an occupant's authentic likes...