Illustration: Jianan Liu/HuffPost; Photo: Getty Images Millennials are seemingly allergic to color when it comes to home design. Why? A pop of color? Nah. For millennials , the default color palette for home interiors is 50 shades of gray.
Walk through a local open house. Click through your 30-something cousin’s Pinterest. Peruse your college roomie’s Instagram stories.
You’ll quickly discover that millennials are seemingly allergic to color when it comes to home design. Advertisement Many others ― younger Gen Z especially ― have big feelings about that. “Millennial gray [is] the sad depressive hue of the color gray which many millennials coat their life in,” is how one Urban Dictionary entry defines the term.
“The color reflects how millennials went from non-sense happiness, looking at cartoon network and Nickelodeon in the ’90s to Inflation and depression in the early 2020’s.” “May all the millennial gray house flippers that turn beautiful charming homes into soulless gray blobs stub their toe, never find parking or have another good hair day again, amen,” another person joked on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Advertisement On TikTok, some millennials are big enough to call themselves out for their drabby home design.
“Let me show you guys my house,” @victoria.thatsit says in one popular clip . “My bathroom: gray.
My floor: gray. My counters: gray. Our mat: gray.
That: gray. Our chairs: some type of gray. Our couches: gray.
Our do.
