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    • One of my sister’s friends has gone overboard with white.  Both her Michigan lake house and Florida house are all white inside, walls, kitchen, white carpet, white furniture, white trim, white dog…a bit much IMO.  
    • Big time concrete was the thing back in the seventies when the brutalist movement was in full force.  Certain buildings at University of Washington, UCSD, and the Salk Institute are like that, and I can't stand them.  It was even in the "Bambi and Thumper" custom house in the desert, where James Bond battled them! In more recent years, it's more of an L.A. thing to have nasty concrete walls in high end modern houses. Having white wall paint doesn't bother me too much.  I have a thing against white mill work in kitchens, and even in bathrooms, because it reminds me of the very few negative things about Atlanta.  I never leafed through a Southern Living magazine, but I've seen their covers in the supermarket, and it seemed like the locals aspired to that look and all that goes with it.
    • I can see black/gray thing being popular in the PNW with it's preponderance of gray skies and cloudy days (which I see a lot of here in Cleveland).  Colorful is out with cars also--all the boring whites, blacks and grays with black wheels, black out trim,  etc that is so trendy and so boring...   Maybe it is part of the overall gloom and doom pop cultural themes of the current era..zombies and post apocalyptic themes are everywhere.. I had my dark and gloomy phase in my early to mid 20s in the 90s with college and grad school beneath gray gloomy NE Ohio and SE Michigan skies, listening to a lot of goth, industrial, metal and grunge music..  But I still liked colorful cars like my red Mustang.  
    • Yeah, I like natural woods where possible..not too dark and gloomy.  Brick or stonework around fireplaces (not painted!)... the whole paint everything shades of gray or black aesthetic is so not me.     I also don't like everything bright white..the hospital aesthetic isn't for me either.  Or austere unfinished concrete walls..I've seen that in some modern design houses, hideous IMO.
    • While both my kids are into this black / industrial grey color palette, they grew up in a very warm home as all our furniture is natural dark oak, tan colored carpets and I even let them choose the paint color for their rooms kind of, which my son went with industrial grey for an accent wall, but the rest I painted warm white. Daughter went with a gold accent wall. So, the whole black / grey thing was never a big part of their life, so must be a younger person's rebellion thing maybe. Over all, the trend to have all fake wood floors which I find very cold is also not me, plush carpet and a proper quality rubber matt below the carpet as we sit on the ground Asian style allot. So warm and comfy.
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