" Every time original hardwood floor are replaced by gray board vinyl radical a year is taken from my living . "
I don’t know about you, but I am certainly on #RenovationTok (if that’s a thing?). I loooove looking at home renovations — it’s so cool to see people get creative and turn lemons into lemonade! Like, this mom “DIY-ed” her whole kitchen, and it’s super impressive:
That being said, over here on the renovation algorithm, there’s a fair share of disappointment. Sometimes, people completely gut out the charm, history, or quality in favor of soulless fixtures and walls — or worse, “millennial gray” — making for some heartbroken onlookers.
It made me wonder if millennial grey and white is really all this era will be known for. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing, but I kinda loved the design chaos of the early 2000s. Growing up, I remember the Tuscan-style kitchens, the shabby-chic farmhouse style, and the zebra and hot pink bedrooms (which I unfortunately possessed until age 25).
I thought I’d snoop through the Internet to see how everyone’s renovating their homes these days. I’ve seen so much hate on many white and millennial grey renos; I needed to see if that’s really all that’s going on.
This TikTok physically wound mepic.twitter.com/xKusiqg7E6
Soooo, let’s jump right into everything I found. Here’s how 11 people recently renovated bathrooms, kitchens, and more in their homes:
1.Here’s this person’s updates to their dated kitchen and living room:
2.This couple made many modern updates to the kitchen in their 1920s New England bungalow:
3.I went “wowowow” at this this person’s modern bathroom reno:
4.Possibly controversial — these people updated their funky retro bathroom to a “clean contemporary” look:
5.Here’s how these people DIY’ed a complete kitchen renovation in their 1870 farmhouse:
6.This person made some very minimalist Kim Kardashian-esque updates to their bathroom renovation, and people had thoughts:
7.Here’s how this person updated their very pink (counter, toilet, bathtub, and all) 1970s bathroom:
8.If you love historic charm, you might be pleasantly surprised to see that this person added BACK the old charm to their 1900s Victorian bathroom:
9.Possibly controversial — this person updated their living space by painting their brick fireplace white:
10.These homeowners updated their cabin-like bathroom to be a bit more modern and minimalist:
11.This new homeowner painted their knotty pine bedroom grey, which received some mixed reviews from Reddit’s peanut gallery:
12.And lastly,the peopleofr/centuryhomesweren’t too thrilled to see this modern update to a 1909 home’s bathroom…
That’s a wrap for my findings! Personally, I am a maximalist when it comes to design (if you couldn’t already tell), so I was pleasantly surprised that noteverythingwas bland, boring, or skewing minimalist. However, if I were to pinpoint a big 2020s home trend, I’d say it would be lots of white (sooo much white) and contrasting black or grey accents.
Let me know what you think of all the renovations, though! And what home designs do you think we’ll look back on and say, “That’s so 2020s”? (I apologize for already painting that picture in your mind.)
