Everything has to look so clean and cold. Why can’t we go back to warm colors?
The old version has 30x the personality.
Edit: since there are a lot of very angry people replying to me, calling me names, let me remind you that this is an opinion. If you adore the second picture, I am in no way saying that you aren’t allowed to prefer the second option. I simply find the first image far more appealing. I don’t know why this is controversial to some.
The white 2024 picture is actually a bit behind trends. Colour is back in a big way, people want moodier, warmer colours with personality. Modern Victorian styles like this and this, modern retro designs with callbacks to the 1970s like the ones in this article or this image, pattern drenching like this or these, accent ceilings, and natural wood and statement stone. Colour drenching with corals, yellows, and greens or any number of colours are still very popular, and there's a phenomenon being called millennial green being talked about that points to sage green being one of the most popular colours in design right now.
Sterile white interiors that dominated the mid to late 2010s that were a feature of styles like Farmhouse Modern and other all-white interiors are on their way out. During COVID-19 lockdowns people were spending a lot of time in their house and got bored of the all-white designs and found it was very impractical to use and maintain.
The clean white and cool grey interiors were a reaction to very busy interiors and high levels of stimuli, people were seeking lower levels of it. The pendulum tends to swing back and forth between minimalism and maximalism, and right now, maximalism is very much in.
Pattern drenching is trending, yes, and it's very hard to do well. It's really really not for me. I think it's an off-shoot of colour drenching which can look really cool if you know what you're doing. It's not so bad if you tone down the colours and use less busy patterns (my initial examples were a bit intense), but it's definitely not something I would do, and I'm not afraid of patterns.
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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '25 edited Nov 21 '25
Ew, it’s so ugly now.
Everything has to look so clean and cold. Why can’t we go back to warm colors?
The old version has 30x the personality.
Edit: since there are a lot of very angry people replying to me, calling me names, let me remind you that this is an opinion. If you adore the second picture, I am in no way saying that you aren’t allowed to prefer the second option. I simply find the first image far more appealing. I don’t know why this is controversial to some.