The Color Recession
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Here’s a great article in the Atlantic about the proliferation of gray, beige, and greige in houses, interior and cars.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/colorless-gray-products-houses/688174/
Or here https://archive.is/M47pS
And an antidote, San Francisco houses painted by Dr. Color:
https://drcolor.com/gallery/We don’t live in an HOA neighborhood and this neighborhood was built before the gray-invasion. So the housing exteriors around here are not super uniform. Nothing shocking, but enough variation that it makes the neighborhood nice IMO. Also our house (1990) has the original (and very nice/pretty) wood trim around the windows and very nice wood doors etc., and the walls are a nice warm, off-white color. Then we get our bursts of color through furniture and artwork (especially in my piano room). But we don’t have any “accent walls” or dramatic interiors.
BTW when I lived in Japan and bought a car new for the first time, here’s the Subaru I thought I would buy:
And here’s the Subaru I actually bought:
The car we have now is that boring gun metal gray color
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