The truthful answer is not really.

This is not because I dislike new ideas. Some fashions disappear quickly, while others eventually become traditions. Victorian geometric floors were once fashionable. Subway tiles were once fashionable. Everything old was once new.

The difficulty, in my opinion, is that buildings and fashions move at different speeds.

Whenever I work on an old house, I am reminded that I am only the latest person to make decisions there. Other people lived in these rooms before me and other people will live in them after I have gone.

I think it is useful to possess some sense of history and time.

Buildings usually outlive the ideas that created them.

A fashionable room has to survive long enough to outlive the fashion that created it. Long after magazines, television programmes and social media have moved on to something else, somebody will still wake up to that room every morning.

Perhaps this is why I rarely become enthusiastic about trends.

I know that I will eventually leave the project. The room will remain.