Grey, the next magnolia?

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I love the new grey colours, but concerned that very soon it'll be out of fashion. Grey kitchens seem the 'only' answer, grey floors, tones of grey on the walls, grey tiles, and grey carpets.

Is this the natural wood kitchens of the 90's, magnolia walls etc of previous eras?

I feel as if grey started about 8 or 9 years ago and we are now in peak grey. If I fit a grey kitchen, I'll be out of date all the sooner.

I've got nearly 90m sq of flooring to fit and I'm so undecided about colours. I love a limestone look, but concerned this is old hat too! Big space means a possible big mistake.

Opinions please.

I agree re the grey but think any natural materials and finishes are classic. Eg even stained pine is lovely stripped back!

I don’t think magnolia was ever actually in fashion though was it? Just sort of a default choice by builders to put in new builds before we all became more visually aware /educated. I remember choosing a kitchen clock with my mum in the 80s, everything was magnolia/ cream background with naf bunches of grapes and flowers and too many curly bits. I longed for something more habitat, but it was way out of budget.
Things could be really ugly in the 70s and 80s.
The grey thing is much more style/ design driven and has filtered down fromexpensive brands.
But yes it will date, but not in the same way.
I love it, but do wonder if we have reached peak grey?

Here in the States, I think it has already become a decorating cliche. I like some of the pale grays, but not the darker ones. Overdone, gray can look very sterile and cold.

I think you're right and grey will be over soon. Although I'm still seeing a lot of dark colours on walls.

I can’t abide grey so went with a cream shaker kitchen which I also know many people hate.

I find most greys cold - and they do nothing for me when viewing a house. I particularly hate grey carpets.

I think they will eventually fall out of fashion.

the new grey colours - where have you been OP? The grey trend has been with us for the best part of a decade. It's already being usurped by white (a non colour) via the Scandi influence.

As long as brown furniture doesn't come back into fashion, I'm safe.

Seneca what's the new trend?

wow I think I said in my OP 8 or 9 years so I think I've been round and about

i've just put a new kitchen in and went through the same thought process. I decided in the end, to buy white units, white tiles and to paint the walls white. To offset this i went with natural wood floors and a walnut worktop. It looks great. It's fresh, modern and neutral and won't date.

To add character i have duck egg blue, pink and gold bits and pieces (kettle, tea/coffee cannisters etc). These are very much the trendy colours right now and will be easily replaceable as new colour palates ascend in fashion.

I'm doing a house up and am following a lot of interior designers on instagram. The new trend is for coloured bathroom ware and brass taps. So,my 1980s green bath with knackered gold taps is actually a style-leader and design trailblazer.

Missed it, sorry OP. Def not new though.

OP, to answer your question, there is still a lot of gray around, but where I live (the Deep South) pale greens and lavender seem to be popular right now. We are in the process of painting our master bedroom (it's still the US version of builders magnolia, a sort of light taupe color), and I think we're going to use a pale green that veers toward blue.

I tend to think of green as a neutral color anyway. Think of all the colors in a flower garden. Green is always the backdrop.

Interesting Seneca.

Perhaps my dark yellow bathroom is bang on trend too

MIL will be happy with coloured bathroom suites coming back. She won’t have to change her burgundy bathroom and avocado green downstairs loo!

At the end of the day everything dates. And them comes back into fashion somehow.

We have a lot of grey in our house but we renovated it 8 years ago.

A family member has just done a kitchen and used grey but says she is finding it hard to find accessories now as everything is ‘cashmere’. Although I can’t say I’ve noticed that.

I think grey is a neutral, goes with most colours, so as a colour in itself no I don’t think it will date, but how it’s used will date, for example if you walk into a new build show home they are pretty much grey floor, furniture, walls, kitchen, you name it, it’s grey, it’s total over kill, but grey as a neutral back drop I think is lovely.

The right shade of grey in the right environment won't date, but grey for the sake of grey is a bit old now

I can't ever bring myself to choose coloured bathroom ware - I'm having white for ever and ever and ever

Yes, I think grey is on the way out. It's definitely the modern equivalent of magnolia.

I'm another one who hates grey carpets; it really limits the colour of furniture & decorating.

I prefer a neutral flooring so I have more choice of how to do a room.

We've only just got grey carpet for the opposite reason - most of our rooms are either done in blues or reds and there are very few carpets that go with both, it is basically a choice of brown or grey.

Grey is on the way and being replaced with colours like deep blue and cream. I've even seen programmes where a "modern magnolia" (just magnolia, really) is being used to replace the grey.

For flooring - if it's going to be a hard surface, then something natural (wood or tile) in a natural shade, that fits the style of your house.

grey is on the way out - sorry

I don’t think grey will totally go away, as it’s a neutral. I do agree that it’s often overused and I see why some people say they don’t like it. I think it’s all the new builds where people do grey carpets, grey curtains, crystal and silver grey everything. Probably from Laura Ashley and Next.

Anything can look nice in moderation, anything can eventually look dated.

@VanillaSugar can you suggest some interior designers to follow on Pinterest please? Thanks :)

We're moving to a new build house with light grey carpets and light grey tiles in the wet areas, all white walls, white kitchen, and are getting busy planning the decorating. I do think grey hit its peak a while ago and can't abide the instagram accounts where literally everything is grey, black and white, but I do think as a neutral base it'll be here for a while longer.

I love natural wood, pops of soft colours (pinks, purples, blues) and different textures, real plants and large pictures hung on the wall. I'm rarely 'on trend' but it's what we like and can change easily. I think that's the key really, people have jumped on grey and everything has to be a shade and 'showhomey', whereas a backdrop of grey can be calming and cosy if you accessorise it that way.

Just done kitchen. Gloss white handle-less units. Oak worktop. Grey laminate floor.

Had no idea grey was on its way out. Bugger!

Your floor will be fine oblomov it’s a neutral within your kitchen, where it goes wrong and overdone is if you had grey units as well, wall tiles etc.