By Will Parker | January 28, 2020

Home-price growth accelerated in November, in the latest sign the home-sales market is picking up steam after a slow start to 2019.

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index, which measures average home prices in major metropolitan areas across the nation, rose 3.5% in the 12 months to November, up from a 3.2% annual pace the prior month.

After a long period of price deceleration, if the current pace of price growth continues, it could offset some of the decreased costs home buyers are otherwise seeing with low mortgage-interest rates.

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Photos by Amy Berry, River Spencer and Becky Boyle

By Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful

Dallas-based designer Amy Berry says she's seeing more and more of her own young clientele returning to old-school design. “After watching everybody do neutral, transitional rooms for so long, we’ve had several younger clients come to us in the past year asking for things like chintz and treillage and bright colors, and I’m thrilled about it,” says Berry, who opened her own shop, Amy Berry Home, last December. “It’s been surprising to see the types of things our twenty- and thirty-something customers are going crazy for—Fermoie pleated lamp shades, botanical prints, framed Gracie wallcovering panels we can’t keep in stock.”

While grandmillennials point to social media as a cause of the design monotony they're seeking to upend, it's also true that those same platforms have played a crucial role in helping the movement grow and flourish. Consider the recent renaissance of needlepointing—one of the granniest of all hobbies—among the IG set. To read the full article on this new (but old) trend click here.

By Caroline Alkire, HGTV

Chipper Hatter

The news is in! Pantone’s 2020 Color of the Year is Classic Blue (19-4052) — a rich, dreamy, dark, beautiful shade of azure — and we’re just basking in the wonderful simplicity of it all.

In case you didn’t know, Pantone Color Institute is the go-to source when it comes to color. Pantone experts study global culture and societal trends looking for color influences that will affect home design, fashion, textures and more. To read the full article click here >>> https://bit.ly/2RxZaeE