Walk through a local open house. Click through your 30-something cousin’s Pinterest. Peruse your college roomie’s Instagram stories. You’ll quickly discover that millennials are seemingly allergic to color when it comes to home design.“Millennial gray the sad depressive hue of the color gray which many millennials coat their life in,” is how onedefines the term.
In all those ’90s aesthetic trends, the through-line was beige. In many ways, millennials’ embrace of gray as their neutral of choice is just a repudiation of beige.“I think it’s a natural reaction for Millennials to be allergic to warm colors as a result,” Kreiss told HuffPost. “Furthermore, the rise ofThe interior of the Soprano house, pictured here, was Tuscan-inspired and maximalist, like many homes in the ’90s. A lot of millennials aren't interested in that.
“It’s like having one less thing to worry about in a world of uncertainties,” Chappell Marsh told HuffPost. “Keeping things simple can really help reduce stress and create a sense of order.”found that 60% of millennials “Neutral colors help avoid those old-school gender stereotypes, aligning with more inclusive and non-binary values that many millennial parents and couples support,” Chappell Marsh said. “They want their kids to grow up in an environment free from restrictive norms.”Gracie Loebs
“I’ve seen a shift towards maximalism and ‘grandma-core’ which I think might even be worse,” he said. “Think your grandmother in the English countryside, but hipster: stripes, checkers, and other cheekily ironic and contrived design choices. Everyone wants their house to look like it’s old now.”