Thread 2937623

When did millenial grey interiors come into being and can we put whoever started it in a brazen bull

These are the real problems

>>2937623 (OP)
Millennials don't own anything. Can't blame them. It is probably their corporate landlords that are having all of this shit installed.

>it's neutral so you can add your own color
>don't want to offend a potential buyer or renter

the ridiculous house flipping economy is what makes people do this stupid shit

>>2937623 (OP)
it's called "agreeable" grey.

I dunno, I kinda like it. The decor seems to be the problem, not the walls/floor.

casting couch

Taupe and tricorn black trim

>>2937623 (OP)
>When did millenial grey interiors

I'd say i started noticing this around 2016-2017, working in flooring sales I'd see the vendors adapt their colours to varioys shades of grey. Must have hit it's prak during the Chinese Bat flu bullshit period where everyone was renovating in 2021.

>>2937671
I like the floor needs to contrast a lot more as a rule but people who act like their entire personality depends on the wall color are weird. Fill the room with stuff that reflects your interests and no one notices the walls.

The gray trend was really started by Martha Stuart when she revealed her new kitchen in 2010. It took five years for the mass production stuff to get out there. For 5 years you could only touch gray kitchens by a high end custom cabinet shops. After that every Tom dick and Harry could get it.

>>2937623 (OP)

This is middle to upper class boomer shit. The kind that try to go with the trends for their own homes and to "raise the value" of the properties/apartments they rent out. Any combination of whites and greys works, it's cheap, it looks techy in an indiscernible manner, and it "goes with everything" as my parents love to say in regards to their own depressing grey boxes. Millennials are either beige-ing everything or going maximalist in some niche style or decade, if they can afford to decorate with intent. Only a few young single women like white boxes.

>>2937623 (OP)
My neighbor converted his house to look like this, then rented it out.
According to him it makes it easier to review and clean in between tenants.

>>2937623 (OP)

It's easier for rental or resale purposes to use netural colors.

It's also a response to the 80s and 90s where everything was made in bright vivid colors.

>>2937628
the crap on the walls is just dumb regulations.
thermostate must be on an interior wall
bottom looks like a whole house vacuum port
door bell is a meme unless thats an apartment
light switch is okay.

>>2937623 (OP)
Landlord practice. It's easier to white glove the white walls.

>>2937623 (OP)
im 35 and like this style

>>2937623 (OP)
>>2937628
idk why people are always so opposed to using furniture to divide rooms

I would just move the couch forward a bit. you could easily put a desk or bookshelf or something behind. at least walking up to the window is nice.

>>2937650
I had to listen to my dad call me a retard for about 6 months straight because my renovations 'would hurt the resale value'. Apparently I should leave an unused 2nd bedroom in a 700sqft house as is, sacrificing a quarter of my living space so I could squeeze out an extra 10k in what, 15-20yrs, IF I even decide to ever sell.

>>2937623 (OP)
>can we put whoever started it in a brazen bull
I would fully support this.

>>2937623 (OP)
My wife jokes that she's surrounded by shit because of how brown I've made our home. Walls are eggshell white from when we moved in, but couch is brown, floors are light brown (we both picked), curtains are brown, coffee table is brown, I like wood idk.

>>2938718
I paid for the whole room ill use the whole room!

>>2937623 (OP)
They're to look at not live in, like their preceding meme of white and gold 1970s guinea shit.

I concur on the brazen bull but the flooring and walls are not an issue with different furniture.

>>2938773
I don't buy for resale either since that's an interruption in life I don't need.

>>2937623 (OP)
How does someone else's house affect you?

>>2937654
we make big batches of it. I don't even really like the color, it's too dark and red.

>>2937623 (OP)
I think it's by design. All color and personality removed from everything. You vill be demoralized and you vill not be happy

>>2938773
people live their whole lives accommodating some phantom future hypothetical home buyer they will never meet or care about

>>2939378
yes and it's very sad, just one of the many retarded boomer mindsets that I hope goes away in my lifetime.
>improve your home to your liking, suited to you and your family's needs, making the most with what you got
or
>turn home into generic corpo bugman box #10,658,278 for some extra monopoly money to blow on cruises and casinos and not leave to your kids
Truly one of the toughest choices

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>>2939386
OOf I live in Canada and when I bought my house in 2018 I had idiots tell me that painting my walls tropical colours was "weird, no one does that" and that "You will have to repaint when you resell". I lived in Mexico for 6 months and was inspired by their bright happy interiors in many of their homes. Canadians spend A LOT of time inside in the winter so why make your interior depressing?
>just make everything boring beige or institutional grey.
>tropical colours? how could you look at that all day!?
>live in a boring bug box all winter that makes you wanna rope yourself.
What's messed up is these friends and family come over now and compliment how nice it looks.

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>>2937623 (OP)
>Live 7 years in Student dorms
>Always white wall
>Cheapest B2B furniture
It makes you go insane.
That's why I painted my room in a wonderful orange tone, I ain't watching a fucking white prison wall no more.

>>2939483
Your friends probably love it because they don't have to live in it. Busy loud colors is distracting for people with busy stressfull lives. Glad you like it though, do what you want

>>2938367
>thermostate must be on an interior wall
Isn't thermostat supposed to be vertically aligned with a return vent? Which I don't see anywhere in the picture above or below.

>>2937623 (OP)
wow this pic is shittier than the usual instances, also no millenial owns or would want to own a black leather couch that big, this looks like a doctor's waiting room, with the shitty print painting on the wall and all. Also what the fuck is up with that lighting on the corner and the lack of it on the ceiling, this room would look like a 2014 minecraft build after the sun sets, also the warm light looks really bad with the rest of the colors and materials in here.
Tbf white-ish colors are cheap af and they paint it over after every rent (i own appartments, not in the US, that i rent for minimum ~3 years at a time so i do paint them again after each renter leaves)
All in all this is a boomer trend that sums up the peasants' idea of what modern architecture looks like and is also really cheap to flip and maintain for renting.

>>2938386
This. It corporate culture overflowing into domestic space, like Uber eats is corporate catering gone into takeaway space and lease vehicles is corporate originated. Commercial paint also increasingly use spray gear and now on houses which means don't want to be switching colors at all if possible. Cream cream and cream whole of house, volume commercial reno etc.

Millennial here, this is my place

>>2941588
Dog ate my image

>>2941589
none of the furniture really strikes me as something that fits, even the two seating areas out side but as a blank space it would be cool to decorate and i like that there's a lot of green and it doesn't look super manicured to the point of being cookie-cutter.

>>2941628
Fits what exactly? The furniture doesn't fit into the space it's occupying? Doesn't fit (match) with each other?

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind criticism, but I legit don't understand what you're trying to say.

ESL here, so maybe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Just have to say that you do run into buyers who are so incredibly lazy that they will, in fact, be quite happy with a house except that they don't like the paint color in that one room. Because as we all know, it costs so much money to apply a couple coats of Ben while the room is completely empty.

>>2937623 (OP)
>millenial
Flipper grey, nobody actually likes it, it's just a not-beige neutral that flippers have been painting everything in because it sells at higher prices than actual colors.