I just don't understand the modern decorating trend. It seems so impersonal, so boring. Everyone is making their homes look like something out of a magazine. We recently visited someone's house and, not to be rude, but all of the decorations were just generic stuff like you find at Target. But that is what everyone is doing! It's funny because they have almost a whole wall filled up with the big letters spelling, "Home". Dd commented to me later, "Yeah, we know it's your home!" It was exactly my thoughts. I just feel bad for artists these days. Putting their heart and souls into beautiful, original and interesting artwork, that actually means something. Meanwhile, everyone is wasting money on factory made, boring, unartistic, uncreative, meaningless letters. Words like "Home", "Family", "Love", "Peace", etc. I just don't get it. It's just words, where is the art?
My biggest pet peeve are the Eiffel Towers everywhere. Pictures and little statues on mantels. I could understand if you took a trip to Paris, and were decorating with souvenirs you bought there. But you can just walk into Target and buy these, they're meaningless junk. I just don't get it.
I've never been big into fashion, though, so maybe it's just me? People probably think my walls are hideous. We have paintings, family portraits, and framed artwork that the kids did, on the walls. That's normal, to me. One wall is a large painting of the ocean that belonged to my grandparents. Another is a painting that my grandpa did, and some paintings of local forests and streams in the area, that my parents have had forever, and were painted by local artists. Aren't these more interesting to look at, than generic manufactured letters? Why do so many people think that is fashionable or interesting?
I wonder what the next trend will be.
Maybe people will return to art someday, and my walls will be fashionable?
I haven't gotten around to finishing the painting in the livingroom so my only real "done" room is my bedroom. In it i have a rather common pic from the 80's, i think. It still goes with my decor and i still like it so it stays. Then we have a framed pic of a t-shirt with "The Last Champion" on it (from the movie i'm in!) 
and a framed poster of a band dh was in. Oh, there's a quilt square of a cross between those. In "my" corner i have "A Girl with a Watering Can" by Renoir which i like a lot and kept from some homeschool curriculum about art appreciation. And then my favorite painter - a winter pic of kids making a snowman. The mat covers the name of the painter and i always forget his name, but i found it in a second hand/antique store in a small town near here. 
Each one means something, except maybe the first one that was more "fashionable" at the time. 