The latest trend in home decoration has become the furniture accessory. What looks like a large charm bracelet is just that, a charm to accent your jewelry and to “make the bed into who you want her to be,” says Judi Roaman.

The idea that furniture should wear jewelry may strike some people as, well, nuts. But the notion behind it — that the kind of personal style associated with fashion can and should be expressed through home accessorizing, in ways that go far beyond throw pillows — has become a guiding principle of the furnishings industry.

Decades after that industry began routinely drawing inspiration from fashion, the boundaries between the two worlds are starting to erode, as their philosophies, vocabularies and materials become increasingly hard to tell apart. Fashion and home design are “collapsing into each other,” said the New York furniture and interior designer Celerie Kemble, who has described her curvy new side tables as having “the insouciant kick of a flared hemline.”

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