Just me or traditional home designs/styles dead? (floor plans, window, paint)

[Aery11]

Go to Lowes or Home Depot. There is usually a long rack right beside the entrance which has DIY type books. Check out the many 'Home Plan' books (which I bet few order plans from or actually build from, but, we do 'dream' from them or use them as 'idea generators', etc.) but you will see that there are indeed still MANY traditional home styles shown there. If people didn't still love those, the plan books would most likely contain many more 'contemporary' plans than they do.


Look at resale houses outside of a built up downtown core (though there still are many brownstones and the like there too in many cities) and see what is selling/what sold recently.


Yes, many like more traditional home styles (inside and out - décor and design-wise) still. Recently I even read that the trend of opening up all rooms to each other is going away too. Millennials are often influenced first by having to settle in or near major cities for work, not having kids yet, and hectic lifestyles outside of work hours (they have the energy for it still and they are still in many cases seeking partners which seems to mean they want to be 'in the thick of things') - and finally by the 'Joneses' of their generation. I think many don't yet even have a 'personal design' sense or know what they want - they 'dress' to impress mostly. Some millennials however still want the comforts of a home that reminds them of their childhoods - and I think that will be even more prevalent as they age into their 30s and have kids.

[riaelise]

I'd hate to live in a boxy, modern house! Clean lines make me vomit.
Love, love, LOVE my traditional home with pocket doors, defined rooms, and details.
My design style is contemporary but as far as architectural style, traditional all the way.
Gen X (I'm 41, so I guess that's what I am) here.

[jasperhobbs]

Originally Posted by unknown00

Quick background

• I am a millennial. This post is directed more towards millennial
• I dabble in real estate - developer/investor, so have a large sample
• I know traditional can mean a lot of different, so my definition of traditional = not contemporary modern.

To me, it seems like young adults these days when they buy their first house, everyone wants a new contemporary modern home. They want sleek/boxy designs. Everyone wants their color scheme to be grey/white. The days of brown are gone. In my sample, I don't know a single person aged 25-35 who has purchased/renovated a brand new home in 2016 that has chosen a brown finish with classical designs. Everything is light and shades of white. Does anyone see traditional making a comeback?

Recently bought a home with gray/white color scheme. Repainted entire interior of house with tan/brown earth tones and some light green in bedrooms and yellow bathroom. I prefer classic colors and avoid trendy.

[elhelmete]

News to me that white and gray are trendy. White?

I'd save that description for stuff like the 'cinnamon accent wall' or the hunter green border...

[slyfox2]

Originally Posted by unknown00

Quick background

• I am a millennial. This post is directed more towards millennial
• I dabble in real estate - developer/investor, so have a large sample
• I know traditional can mean a lot of different, so my definition of traditional = not contemporary modern.

To me, it seems like young adults these days when they buy their first house, everyone wants a new contemporary modern home. They want sleek/boxy designs. Everyone wants their color scheme to be grey/white. The days of brown are gone. In my sample, I don't know a single person aged 25-35 who has purchased/renovated a brand new home in 2016 that has chosen a brown finish with classical designs. Everything is light and shades of white. Does anyone see traditional making a comeback?

Everyone watches HGTV. HGTV is setting the standard for everything. People in the 25-35 don't have much of a clue how to renovate a home, and they believe HGTV. They fail to understand that gray and white is what you have to have to sell the house not to live in it.

[elhelmete]

What is it with peoples' obsessions on hating HGTV?

Color popularity ebbs and flows all the time, long before HGTV existed.

HGTV didn't create the ubiquitous avocado or harvest gold colors for appliances decades ago.

Or the well-known trends of hunter green...mauve...you name it.

Navajo White anyone?

(OK, maybe I'll blame HGTV for the over-use of glass mosaic tile for backsplashes, LOL)

[blueherons]

It REALLY depends on what part of the country you are in as to what is traditional.

Mid Century Modern is traditional in Palm Springs.

Spanish is traditional in South Florida.

A Single House is traditional in Charleston.

Adobe is traditional in the Southwest.

Shotgun is traditional in New Orleans.

See where I'm going with this?

[homeonthelittlemountain]

Originally Posted by blueherons

It REALLY depends on what part of the country you are in as to what is traditional.

Mid Century Modern is traditional in Palm Springs.

Spanish is traditional in South Florida.

A Single House is traditional in Charleston.

Adobe is traditional in the Southwest.

Shotgun is traditional in New Orleans.

See where I'm going with this?

Yep. You're absolutely on target.

[homeonthelittlemountain]

Originally Posted by elhelmete

News to me that white and gray are trendy. White?

I'd save that description for stuff like the 'cinnamon accent wall' or the hunter green border...

When it's overdone.....when all your rooms are painted gray....it will get old. In 10/15 years, gray walls will look like hunter green does today. But who cares if you love it?

[slyfox2]

Like I said..... all these neutral everything is what you do to sell your house. Vibrant colors turn many people off because they either can't imagine it with a different color or they simply don't want to change it.

When we renovated our house to sell, everything went to white and very very light pastels, and then we removed 80% of the furniture.

People don't paint gray to live in, they paint it to sell it.