Fashion, in all its shapes and forms, is something that concerns everyone, all over the world. It impacts the clothes we wear, the words we speak, the way we style our hair, and how we decorate our homes. A core part of fashion is that it is constantly evolving and ever-changing, never staying the same for long. Yet people still have the privilege of deciding how to embrace every fleeting fashion trend, and whether to move on from it before it’s in decline or hold on to it for a little longer than everyone else once it has been collectively declared obsolete.
When it comes to the fashion trends of home decor, different decades have seen different prevailing interior designs, each with a unique style and personality. Not all that long ago, the most popular home decor fashion was about keeping your environment as minimalistic and neutral as possible–white, black, beige, or grey furniture, accompanied by colorless, drab walls, and anything else that matched what many people liked to refer to as a ‘clean aesthetic’.
Millennials, the generation responsible for this trend, were clearly desperate for a minimalistic environment. Almost certainly because they grew up surrounded by quite the opposite in their homes: warm colors, dark-brown wooden furniture, and a whole heaping load of clutter. They, quite simply, needed to escape that environment and differentiate their own lives from their parents’ as soon as they were able, shaping their own spaces into something new, simplistic, and peaceful. Beyond their childhood homes, the reality of young adults was so chaotic that their need for simplicity likely solidified even further. Who’s to say, but maybe they simply liked the way it looked, and all this surmising means naught. Either way, the ‘Millennial Beige’ aesthetic was the holy grail to every young household, and it was here to stay.
Or so we thought.