Is Your Living Room Stuck in 2010?

Decorating Tips and Tricks

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Arts, Design, Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Is your living room stuck in the past? If it is, we're here to help you update it.

Move away from the cold gray color!

Make sure your furniture isn't all 'matchy-matchy.'

Use flexible seating

These are just a few of our tips from the episode today.

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0:00.0	Hey there, I'm Colter. I'm Kayla and I'm Lauren and we host relationship advice, a show that is
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0:29.0	Are you stuck?
0:42.6	Hi, I'm Anita Joyce here with Kelly Wilkins, and this is Decorating Tip Centrix.
0:51.2	Today, we are talking about the living room, and more specifically, is your living room stuck in 2010?
1:00.2	Kelly, a lot has changed since 2010. Oh, yeah, it certainly has. Some people's rooms haven't, so we are here to help. Things do change over time, and we want you to keep up with the times.
1:06.8	Yes. Don't get left behind. We're here to bring you into 2026 and beyond. So living rooms have and are,
1:17.8	and should be, moving away from stiff match sets, gray on gray everything, and rooms arranged
1:25.4	only around the TV. So we're going towards a more relaxed elegance, layered,
1:31.4	textures, furniture that encourages conversation, personality, and collected objects. Do you know what
1:38.7	just hit me? The Nancy Myers episode we did that I thought, oh my goodness, she just described that.
1:44.9	Yeah, that was such a fun episode to do.
1:47.4	If you haven't listened to that and you're hearing us right now, definitely go back.
1:52.3	Anita, can you link that one?
1:53.5	Yes, I will.
1:54.3	It's easy to find.
1:56.2	Comfortable sophistication, elegance, that's approachable, all very...
2:03.6	Nancy Myers, all very decorating tips and tricks.
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