Today: Entertaining, Cooking and Staying Home Are Now The Trend

Stores like Target, Kohl’s, etc., are popping up every day and are making it possible for people to get fabulous, designer items and well-thought-out designs for their homes and closets without spending an arm and a leg.

Indeed, home is big. It used to be fashionable to be out and about, but after herpes, AIDS and STDs made the sexual freedom of the 60s a far and distant memory, behavior modified and everyone started spending more time where it was safe — at home.

In fact, the home itself has changed. Now, more houses have kitchens that open into family rooms so that the family living spaces are more featured than ever before. Martha Stewart and other living room entrepreneurs became multi-millionaires because they were onto something new, and the food network took off like never before making Rachel Ray, Bobby Flay and Emeril Lagasse household names and consumer brands. Entertaining, cooking and staying home are now the trend.

It would be impossible to imagine that someone wouldn’t want to capitalize on this home trend — and that’s what we’re all seeing when knock offs of designer furniture, wallpaper and hardware can be found for a fraction of the cost at lower price point stores like Target and Wal Mart.