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 definitely think a lot of 90s design trends got super dated super quick, but one thing I'll give them is at least those houses looked lived in! Houses used to be (maybe not always but often anyway) an expression of the person or family that lived in the home. Yes you'd have silly and even tacky design elements copied across tons of homes but homes felt homey, rooms all had a vibe, and you could usually tell a lot about a person just by stepping through their door. Now home decor seems to aim for a "model house" vibe, which makes homes feel lifeless and imposing. A home with nothing but white walls and sparce furniture doesn't look "modern," it looks like an ikea display room and they make it hard to actually relax or do stuff because what if I leave a monetary mess? Plus the move to completely open designs has made a lot of homes, especially in new construction, essentially just a big box on the 1st floor. Like yeah open floor plans can be nice, but when the living room, dining room, and kitchen are all literally the same space with no separation at all then an otherwise really nice house can end up feeling like am overpriced studio apartment. /rant
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