In the 90’s I remember a lot of Southwest Chic, with pine armoires, Navajo rugs and adobe clay toned walls, so again we were back to earthy, but a very different version of it where Santa Fe stole the spot light from Miami Vice, in another attempt to show that we were authentic. As we lived through this ever changing landscape of design fads and shifting concepts of how we wanted to be seen, somewhere in the early 2000’s, along came the home remodeling shows, which told us we must focus on resale value! Instead of trying to tell the world that we're earthy, or modern, or that we come from old money, we need to depersonalize because our house would be worth much more if it didn't look like anyone lived there. By getting rid of all traces of personality and painting everything a nice shade of white, you let the buyer imagine themselves living there (even if you're not selling)! Now I have to say, at first it felt like a breath of fresh air — getting rid of some of the unfortunate trends that didn’t age particularly well, but even that impersonal trend was, in fact, a trend.
