When I bought my childhood home from my Dad, I stripped MILES of shiny, vinyl wallpaper in those colors from the kitchen/dining room. What a project!
But my Mom was House Proud and trendy for the times!
Remember this Tupperware set?
This drives the marketing industry, especially clothing, but even remodeling, furniture, even paint colors.
Everyone feels the need to keep up with the *new* and *latest* fashion trends.
When we remodeled our kitchens, we ignored the current trend of gray. We did the first one in one house in natural maple, with Pergo flooring and a light colored countertop. We just happened to look online and the house recently sold, and it still has the same 25 year old kitchen that still looks great from the pictures.
The last house we sold also used natural maple cupboards and a dark countertop as contrast and it fits the old house very well. A modern kitchen in an old house just wasn’t going to work.
We never cared about style. That way nothing every goes out of style. Nobody is going to buy the house and grumble about the kitchen being gray that it’s so 2000’s, like the blue, pink, and yellow bathrooms from the 50’w and 60’s, or that horrible harvest gold, burnt orange, avocado green from the 70’s.
When I bought my childhood home from my Dad, I stripped MILES of shiny, vinyl wallpaper in those colors from the kitchen/dining room. What a project!
But my Mom was House Proud and trendy for the times!
Remember this Tupperware set?