Denise McGaha, founder of M Designs in Dallas, Texas, is our guest blogger this week.  After a first career as a buyer for Neiman Marcus, Denise decided to pursue her true love, interior design.  In less than a decade, she has built her business into one of Dallas’s top design firms serving both commercial and high-end residential clients.  Denise’s design team includes registered architects and accredited designers.  Her blog is one we enjoy reading (see www.mdesignsinteriors.com/blog) so our thanks to Denise for this post today.

Denise McGaha

I am often asked what the new color trends are, and when I mention grey, clients sometimes cringe.  Grey has been given a bad rap....prison walls, Seattle rainy weather, depression.  But why?  Furniture designers, paint manufacturers and textile designers have found ways to incorporate this great neutral tone into almost every aspect of design over the past few years.

Lillian August for Hickory White

Just like black in the eighties, grey has become the new basic.  While at High Point Furniture Market in October, many of the manufacturers showed shades of grey.  We saw everything from grey pickled finishes on wood, grey walls, to stone colored paint finishes and more.  

Legacy Home

Hickory Chair

Restoration Hardware has bought heavily into this scheme with the introduction of their Swedish inspired furniture, taking it mainstream.   

Take the opportunity to use grey in your next project or room design and accent it as some of with bursts of color, and you will see sophisticated, elegant and vibrant rooms.......a far cry from prison walls.  

M Designs- Denise McGaha