No one is told to do anything. I was perfectly capable of not following the grey trend. It was a trend. Which means people saw it and liked it, and more and more started doing it. That’s what a trend is. People like Mrs hinch had it, and it influenced folks to do the same. But they went too far.
many people really aren’t confident in their own tastes, or lack Imagination, or any form of creativity, as such they took it too far, followed ir blindly and often went for cold hard greys , dark greys, steel greys, blue toned greys, and then put it absolutely everywhere. Walls, floors, lamps, sofas, kitchens, the lot.
and what started as something that was quite nice, if done in small amounts in warm yellow toned greys, and that people if they liked it, could pick and chose bits of, in those warm tones, it became something disliked, as it went everywhere.
its like say now, navy or green being popular. And someone having a navy sofa, navy flooring, navy walls, navy lamps, navy chairs, and navy kitchen. It just becomes too much, and not nice.
but no one was told to do it. Even influencers were not giving it do your whole house grey,