How to Create a Timeless, Trend-Proof Home Design
By Kylie
September 15, 2025
Are you tired of designing a room that looks outdated a few years later? Do you love trends but want to create a home with more longevity? Then this is the series for you!
The following links will take you to blog posts full of ideas to help you create the home of your dreams while keeping your more ‘creative whims’ at a minimum.
This blog post is a ROUND-UP, giving you access to my TOP 6 blog posts on creating a timeless home design (no more searching!).
PART 1 – THE TOP 10 MOST TIMELESS INTERIOR FINISHES
Whether it’s wood flooring, backsplashes, or fun patterns, learn which ones are the safest bets for the long term while still looking WICKED pretty in the short term.
The TOP 10 Most Timeless Interior Finishes
PART 2 – THE 3 MOST TIMELESS NEUTRAL PAINT COLOURS
This is a topic that is NEAR and dear to my own color-lovin’ heart. While I’m a sucker for color, I’ve learned that, in the long term, neutrals give me way more flexibility (and are also better for resale).
The 3 Most Timeless Neutral Paint Colors
PART 3 – HOW TO CREATE A TIMELESS HOME WITH PERSONALITY
Just because your home is timeless doesn’t mean it can’t have personality! In this blog post, you’ll learn ways to spend smart money and add personality to your home without diminishing its future resale value.
How to Create a Timeless Home with Personality
PART 4 – HOW TO FOLLOW TRENDS WITH NO REGRETS
Just because you want a timeless home doesn’t mean you can’t embrace a trend or two…that’s right, you can have the best of both worlds!
How to Follow Paint & Design Trends With No Regrets
PART 5 – THE MOST TIMELESS CABINET COLORS
Learn which cabinet paint colors are the most timeless —and which to avoid — when updating your kitchen.
The Most Timeless Kitchen Cabinet Paint Colors
PART 6 – The Most Timeless Kitchen Countertops
If you’re updating your kitchen countertops and want the most timeless finishes, this blog post has got you covered with several great options.
The Most Timeless Kitchen Countertop Ideas
Lastly, what makes Kylie M. the go-to expert on paint colors and timeless home design?
Experience. I’ve consulted on over 11,000 homes, locally and online. Between that and 600+ blog posts and 20+ years of experience, I know a thing or two.
I’m also ADHD, and paint colors and home updates/design are my hyper-fixation #alittleOCDobsessed.
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ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN 2021, UPDATED IN LATE 2025
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Meet Kylie
Do you need help, but aren’t quite sure what ‘help’ looks like? Are you drowning in paint samples and decision fatigue?
Does every color you like at the paint store look terrible in your lighting or pick up a funky undertone? I’d love to help.
Hi, I’m Kylie
For over 24 years I’ve helped 12,000+ homeowners and renters make more confident decisions on paint colors and affordable home updates using real home examples and practical, experience-based advice. My goal is simple: help you love the home you have.
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Homeowner’s Guide: White Kitchen Cabinets
This isn’t another ’10 Best Cabinet Colors’ list, because there is no SINGLE best white for every home and every kitchen.
Learn how to choose a white cabinet paint color that works with your countertops, backsplash, flooring, trim, lighting, and home—so you can rule out the wrong whites, sample fewer colors, and choose with confidence.
158-page PDF – Instant Download
$34.95Accent Colors – And How to Use Them
This isn’t about plastering your home in the ‘Color of the Year’ or following the latest trends (unless you really want to).
It’s about finding accent colors that work with YOUR home, YOUR style, and YOUR comfort level.
Because the best accent color isn’t one you love on a paint chip, it’s one that makes everything around it look better.
118-Page PDF – Instant Download
$34.95
Homeowner’s Guide: Exterior Paint Colors
Painting your home’s exterior is a BIG investment and choosing a color based on a tiny paint chip, a trend or the house down the street can be an expensive mistake.
Learn how to look at YOUR roof, YOUR windows, YOUR brick (or stone) and YOUR home as a whole so you can understand what colors make sense.
The goal? Less guessing, fewer samples and a lot more confidence before gallons of paint go on your home.
206-page PDF – Digital Download
$44.95Exterior Trim Paint Colors
This isn’t a list of ‘the best trim colors’, although you’ll get a ton of links to great shades!
You’ll learn how to look at your home and understand whether it needs contrast, repetition, connection, or a little visual peacekeeping to pull it all together.
Because trim might seem like a small detail…but spread it around all four sides of your home on multiple surfaces and it suddenly has a pretty big job.
118-page PDF – Instant Download
$24.95
Comments
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Holding up the BM Swiss Coffee in front of your bookcase made the yellow really stand out. What is the color of the bookcase as I really liked it, at least on my screen?
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That bookcase is just good old Ikea Hemnes!
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what about tarazio flooring? building a mid modern century home in florida
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