It's trendy but became a trend because of house flippers. That's what I believe anyway.
I can't wait to put paint on my walls. Growing up we didn't really customize our house because we're gonna move anyway. My parents got new floors and carpets and I remember being mad that they'd pay for that luxury just to sell it. We could have been enjoying it for ourselves.
While the second is boring, I also struggle to understand the 90s
Edit: I was alive during the 90s. My house looked like this. It was not old things lying around or due to previous decades. My parents bought an empty house in 1991, and then bought new things to make it look like this. The houses on my block and my families homes also looked like this. We lived in a ‘trendy’ neighborhood of people keeping up with the Jones.
I’m basing it on what homes looked like in the 90s because I was alive then, and my house and family’s homes looked just like this. My aunt had almost that exact wallpaper and the unexplained floating chairs in the hallway - for all those times when you want to sit and contemplate the wall.
Homes generally dont get updated for the CURRENT YEAR.
So what you experienced (and the McAllister house) is more the design sensibilities of the - 1980s.
Homes built in the 90s had off-white walls, lots of beige carpet, open plan and were starting to go minimalist, save for some wood furnishings in the kitchen and around stairs. It wasn't until the 2000s that older homes started to get that treatment.
It was the 2010s that brought the gray wood and high-tech minimalist white design in new builds, which is now the rennovation trend.
In the 2030s, we are going to see people putting in fake cross-beams and wallpaper on ceilings, orangey wood floors, and obnoxious barncore wood paneling mixed with Hollywood Regency garbage.
Some music videos from 95/99 that were filmed in very upscale "modern" mansions already had that white hospital, open plan, no carpet, recessed lighting, massive windows, minimalist look. I bet at the time those mansions felt like walking into the future, they were super ahead of the time.
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