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[Desert Lily]

You've seen them on TV home shows and in online home magazines ... Feature Walls.

They create interest and are the focus of the room.

Feature walls might include designs made of wood, tile, stone, wallpaper, a painted design, or other textured materials. They can be quite creative & unique.

But, I'm wondering what will happen to the feature wall trend in the future.

Will feature walls go the way of shag carpet?

Will the next generation say, "What were they thinking?!" Will the next generation buy a home that has a feature wall and spend a lot of $ tearing it apart?

And will the generation after that one think of feature walls as vintage and carefully restore them?

What do you think of feature walls?

[Sooner]

@Desert Lily We had them before shag carpet when I was growing up.  We had a rectangular den and the shorter wall was where the tv went.  My mom always painted it a deeper color.

The den walls were Navajo White Lucite paint (I know because a number of summers I painted them).  The feature wall was sometimes a mid-tone warm coral (with some brown in it--between coral and rust), sometimes sage, once (for about a month) a butter color.  We loved it and had fun with them.

I am all for a feature wall--just one or two per house please. 

[Bonkers1]

I'm not crazy about adding wood or stone to a wall.  I do love a wall painted a different color than the rest of the room - it's an attention getter.

[Janey2]

Like everything else it will become "old" in the future. Something else will take its place. That is how the industry keeps us buying new things. By the way I changed my bedroom carpet to shag carpet about 2 years ago. It is different than the shag of years ago. It never looks flat, always stands up. It adds some texture to the room.

[CANDLEQUEEN]

I think they can be very well done. I have seen them a lot on House Hunters and reno shows on HGTV. Just saw one last night on House Hunters, and I thought it was really pretty!

[CANDLEQUEEN]

[Nonametoday]

I got a big-time sale on some wallpaper (very expensive brand) used in a multi-millionaire home and several rolls were returned.  My neighbor, at the time, who owned the "best" decorator/paint/wallpaper/carpet store in town always let me know if they had something interesting  in returns.  I had used these returns, especially when I did my dining room back wall and my foyer in real grass cloth.  

I looked through the bin and for $15/roll I got what had been more than $100/single roll at the time of purchase.  It was only enough to do three walls of my bedroom and since ordering the other rolls to do the one remaining wall, I just did three.  I was never satisfied with the "coordinating" lesser expensive wallpaper for that wall, so I ended up matching the background color of the wallpaper and painting the one wall that color which I placed my bed against and I liked it but those are the only walls I have ever done that in that I liked.  I have done it many times to my house and friends' houses who used to get me to hang paper and paint for them in my spare time.  

You have to be careful when doing a feature wall and I would never do one in stone or any permanent-like materials.  Wallpaper and paint are very temporary.  

[Marsha2003]

I think feature walls can add interest, especially when it's a wall with a fireplace, but I also think they are usually very taste specific, enjoyable for the homeowner, but not necessarily something that will appeal to buyers.

Will feature walls become passé?  Of course!  Doesn't everything?  I think it's amusing to watch trends and favored styles come and go.  I thought we were never going to get past the grey/greige trend, but finally, the tide seems slowly turning.

[stevieb]

Is this the new parlance for what, a few years ago, were referred to as 'accent walls'? When done well, I like a brick wall in a traditionally outfitted room. Have seen pretty stone and panelled walls in a room that is otherwise plastered or drywalled. I also find a single wall of wallpaper to often be appealing, I don't, however, tend to find one wall painted differently from the rest to be particularly desirable, other perhaps than in a more public setting such as a lobby.

[Regal Bee]

I'm not a big fan of feature walls but if the homeowner loves them...go for it.

I always decorate with what I love and don't worry about a year from now or ten years down the road. Living with what you love is one of the true joys of life.