The grey and white aesthetic in home decor

What next, then?

We can't return to beige. Shit, especially not if we are white people!!

OP feel free to end the trend in your house at your earliest convenience. Is someone stopping you from redecorating your home in a style and color pallet that pleases you? Why do you care what the interior of other people's homes looks like? It's not like you are invited. Perhaps you should turn off HGTV and find something better to do.

I've always loved gray. It's been my go-to clothing choice for ages, but it's really becoming too much. Especially, Pergot floors EVERYWHERE.

There's so much of this in the real world in what used to be affordable neighborhoods. The starting price is about 5 million. They're hideous.

It has ended, some time ago. Design has moved on.

You are seeing the trickle-down effect that occupies TV home makeover shows, Home Depot, B&Q, mass market furniture and interior design products.

Look in real estate listings and mass market home products stores and you see the mudslide at the end of a trend. Look to the high end designers and design publishers and it's a different palette and a different, colorful world.

Grey and white...it's fairly unfuckupable, which accounts for it's mass popularity. But even fraud tire of the bandwagon they rode hard, and even they have grown tired of everything grey and white.

People are afraid to use colour. I love colour.

True. It's an easy palette to work around.

I don't care for grey and white, but a totally grey room accented by lots of colorful pieces is quite nice to me. I find it very calming.

Here in Los Angeles and maybe elsewhere, there’s a trend of new houses that are stark white with flat black window trim and black doors. I think it’s hideous.

White walls, they are of Satan, and should be banished from all painted surfaces. It is a color for people of no intellectual curiosity.

It’s funny, lately I find myself drawn to the warm earth tones of my 1970s youth. I love orange now. I’ll soon have an avocado fridge at this rate.

I’ve always loved white, gray, black and blue. I’m not changing what I like because the rest of the world went crazy with my favorite colors at some point, and I’ll still use those colors in my house in 50 years form now.

I agree with r5. The trend ended awhile ago. What I’m seeing from higher end designers is earth tones but done in a soft way. Muted contrast is still in from what I see. On the other end of the spectrum I also see bold use of color and pattern mixed with traditional style furniture and woodwork.

I’m not quite as obsessed with interior design/ decorating as I used to be. I found that it lead to a lot of envy, even jealousy on my end because I don’t have the budget or DIY skills to do all that I wanted. I’m wondering if anyone has experienced the same?

R11 Orange is a great color.

R9 Austin, too.

My yellow kitchen isn’t as cheery as hoped.

A friend of mine who has more money than taste recently redid her kitchen and dining room in all gray, white and silver. She calls it "Farmhouse Chic."

Apparently, Farmhouse Chic involves hanging corrugated metal sheets on the walls, putting a diner-type alphabet sign on the fridge door to spell out "GOOD MORNING" for the kids, and lots of chalkboard paint to scribble a fake shopping list.

Of course, there are also cannisters with "sugar" and "coffee" or whatever in weird scribble writing.

It's all stupid and she'll change it two or three years after the next thing goes out of style.

I still think grey and white is a nice starting palette. Real estate people like it because it's neutral which helps sell houses and people with little decorating experience like it because you can experiment with different colors and styles with committing to repainting everything. It's like stainless steel and granite, it's over, done, out, but people still use it because it's safe

R14 I agree, orange is wonderful. And yet I hated it (or thought I did, or acted like I did) when I lived in New York. It seemed like a tacky color. After I moved to LA, in that landscape I suddenly got it. It still needs to be used a bit carefully, of course.

50 Shades of Grey

^ Passé

I love grey with a hint of another color mixed in. Grey/green or grey/blue is lovely if done right.

I also hate the gray wood laminate floors.

I had a grey sectional when living in WeHo.

Best sectional ever. Grey hides spills and the occasional scuff mark.

Probably hides skid marks, too. 😂

Color...bring back color! I'm sick of everything white or grey.

Prints are good, too...like wallpaper, pillows, accessories.

I have a white kitchen with stainless appliances from the 90s (still going strong) with bright pink, yellow, apple green, orange, and red. The accents are a vintage red microwave and a vintage pink table and art work with all these colors. I need bright and cheery in the dreary PNW. The rest of my house is beige with colorful accents of art, pillows and found objects.

I love it: modern, clean, minimalist. It’s me

Sounds nice, R27. ^^ Colors cheer me up. The all white interiors are so sterile and cold. I think Americans are drawn to that. European interiors seem to have more color, prints and textiles. I prefer the European design.

I love it. And it’s a modern masculine aesthetic

My sense is natural tones are coming up. Tan, wood, green. More real farmhouse than modern farmhouse. The sterile 2000-era trend is dying.

It's putting Sherman Williams out of business!

Haha R17, I'm about to install some corrugated metal sheets in my place but it's an urban loft. My design is a crazy mix of industrial and glam, which sounds like it would never work together but it's coming along nicely. I mixed things like a "live edge" slab wood dining table & metal chairs, leather sofa, traditional area rugs, reclaimed wood coffee table, marble bistro table w/ iron base, a glam blue velvet chair, a desk with reclaimed iron pieces for the base w/ distressed marble top, a very glam leaner mirror w/ silver leaf finish, and a giant crystal chandelier in the middle of the room which has concrete floors. The kitchen area has poured concrete counters, wood cabinets, and very industrial light fixtures. It's a really cool mix. I say people should just do whatever works for them unless they're staging to sell soon.

It's your home. Whatever you like. That's all that counts.

I can’t wait until the millennials start discovering 1980s decor. Some will go Memphis, others will start painting their dining rooms deep red.

We'll probably just get a lot of that pastel faux Southwestern look, r35.

Ugh - I HATE Memphis. But I wouldn’t mind some classic Louis French furniture, fluffy silk curtains and real woodwork - a la Nan Kempner/Susan Gutfreund

How about some chintz?

R36, millennial pink, Acapulco chairs and succulents which were inescapable 5 years ago always struck me as a re-visit of the 80’s southwestern look.

The Grand Millennial aesthetic is very PBR budget Mario Buatta.

r35 r39 80s art pop through the critical lens of My Two Dads and Miami Vice.

I love it

Fifty Shades Of...

Human beings are like dogs, sniffing each other's asses.

Richard Meier knows how to use white.

I like white walls as a starting point when I move in. You can always paint them later,after you see how your things work in the room.I loathe greay and white with a passion. I used to love grey,but I just cant deal with it anymore. Its fucking everywhere.

Guilty. In October I had the masterbath done in blue gray floor tile and white tile on the wall. It's all matte, nothing shiny. I did give a thought to the colors, knowing I'm at the tail end of a trend. But, it's got a spa-like quality that I can live with..forever. It's very easy on the eyes which I need in a bathroom.

I still need the bedroom done and I think I'll go with a paler blue gray for those walls too because it's so relaxing. The furniture will not be gray. It's too much of a drag and OP has (rightfully) shamed me. I also heard that natural wood tones are back. Mushroom, earth tones etc -- back to the land because we burrowed in during the pandemic and came out in the 70s, something like that. Vive l'orange.

Oh no, R9. Those are cropping up all over NJ as well. Why? Most new construction are those. Are they cheaper?

My favorite room is laquered brilliant warm toned green. But it changes tone from morning to night. The walls are embossed art nouveau paper lacquered the green. I haven't changed it in 25 years. I don't remember the paint I bought except it was extremely pricy, on top of the paper. More than budget at the time. The paint hasn't faded. The walls are dusted 4 times a year and washed 1x a year. I just bought a new bizarre carpet in a psychedelic "african rough woven cloth" stripes pattern. It's like a meta representation of traditional cloth, magnified several times a natural scale. Let's see if it works. Waiting for easter to install it.

The frames and chandelier and appliqués are brass. Vaguely maritime.

I like middle gray to dark gray. Generally, I don't like light gray.

Suburban Minimalist Frau Passe.

Too much is never enough.

Blank walls are indicative of blank minds.