WooHoo! This GenX-er approves😊

Oh that white and beige furniture is so cheugy!

The great thing about the brown furniture is that it can be had very inexpensivley on Craigslist and FaceBoo k. I’m helping out my cousin who moved to another state furnish a dining room and living room for under two grand total. I was able to mix in a few new items. He has bought the dining table and chairs and is working on the rest in photo # 2.

Love that brown furniture is making a comeback. I had always assumed it would be back but I had no idea how long it would be until it would be desirable again.

I recently read that somewhere too. It's about time. I also noticed when looking at some real estate listings for new construction that the interior selections were now beige-ish tones rather than gray. About time for that too. Next thing you know antiques will be back in vogue.

Love Grandmillenial Style!

I love browns and have been noticing warmer, more traditional rugs being featured on rug sites lately.

RIP gray and white geometric shag rugs.

Shhhhh! Dont’t tell too many until our grandkids figure it out.

Just kidding, sort of. I am actually happy to hear it it. I have had plans to give some of our things to grandkids as they graduate from college and start out on their own. I get that they have their own styles, but thought it would help to have a few useful items as interim spare bedroom pieces, dining room pieces or extra side tables for example.

You mean my classic fashion look, my pearls, and my brown furniture is back in style? Yeah! I need to get my button front shirts and pullover sweaters going again. Hello Ralph Lauren!

We were touring a triplex apartment in Boston today, all new interior. Very stark white and grey floors. I said to DH, this looks like Flip or Flop ... they really have to do better and at some point soon these grey "wood" floors are going to scream dated.

I actually do not dislike the look (I sure love white) but the whites are sooo cold, and anytime a trend becomes so ubiquitous, people start to get turned off.

OMG Mtn, don’t get me started on the stark kitchen and those floors. I told the realtor helping me on my home search that I’m at the point where I will not even entertain a look. I have no idea what the flippers might have bandaid-ed over in the small vintage homes of the areas I’m looking. It’s either that or the home owner buys three five gallon containers of gray paint and badly paints all the kitchen cabinets and walls. I’ll let you guess about the floors. Well, howdy doody, that there should fetch us an extra 150,000.

Please don’t.

I’m not paying extra for that you moron!

Rant over lol.

Terrific, Great-great-aunt Ida's bedroom set is in fashion again!

I've never been a fan of the all white look as it always leaves me feeling cold. DH loves wood...like so many men... and wanted our house to be cozy. The warm colors and tones were what we went with and I've never regretted it. Been waiting for all the gray to fade away, but it's taking more time than I thought...

I'll go against the crowd I guess. I do not care for and have never owned brown furniture other than a dark brown leather chair. We have many antique piece though, so maybe we'll be in style! I have my grandparent's first bed in a guest room. I've never cared for browns or any earth tones in my whole life. I would no more have furniture in those colors than i would wear them. It's just not "me". I need my blues and greens. Not to worry though, our home is not "cold". I've never gotten into the color "trends" as to what's popular at the moment and just done my own thing. I've never been one for the all white kitchens or the now popular gray homes, but I have seen beautiful examples of both. I strongly believe each person should decorate their home in the colors, etc. that make them happy!

I don't like painted brown furniture, but I DO LOVE stained wood furniture. There's a difference. The latter feels more REAL, and although technically brown, it honors natural good quality wood.

Most of my furnishings are not painted, As long as I own them, they never will be.

And yes, most of my painted walls are painted with colors, too. Not settling for just white or gray.

Well, just like there was a trend for a ubiquitous shades of grey decor, or grey punctuated by black, there was also a shades of brown trend, maybe punctuated by orange. I think that's what gives brown furniture a bad rap, when the furniture is brown, the shag rug is brown and the room has brown paneling . . . which just described the family room of my youth . . .

My mom had a distinct MCM vibe early on in her adult home life, a rejection of the overstuffed turn of the century taste of her mother. But late in life she returned to her Mom's style, chintzy and even had grandma's furniture recovered to use in the house. Out with the old worn "dated" MCM couch and in with country cozy.

@artemis_ma I also love stained wood. No brown upholstery, rugs, etc. for me.

To me, brown furniture refers to traditional stained mahogany or cherry case goods. It's what the kids call "Grandma style". It's not the muddy mocha and coffee finishes that you find at mid-range home stores.

I tend to keep the same case goods and switch colors with rugs, upholstery and pillows. I never liked the elaborate early American styles so most of my case goods flew under the "Grandma style" radar.

I went to a high end fabric store in Rhode island on Saturday and was told toile was back in. Yippee, i never knew it was out!

I want to clarify a bit on my comment above. When I say I won’t entertain a looky at a house with a stark kitchen, I’m talking about the obvious flipper kitchens. They are all the same and are usually very cheap quality. My hope is that I’ll find something priced right that will allow me to put my own kitchen in. That dream kitchen will be a two tone off-white and possibly white oak combo. My husband loves white kitchens so I’m open to a compromise. Sorry for the off topic…carry on.

Yay!! I think this style is very livable and makes a house feel good.

I still wear penny loafers! It's all classic decor with some floral thrown in. If you google both english country and grandmillennial decor, it's basically the same. You could even call it "Garage sale decor." Love all of it, it's the only decor that makes me feel comfy.

OK, I had to google it. Some of it is very traditional while some is a cottage look, which I have always loved. Then I'm reading this article and see several things I like/have - such as ARMOIRES! LOL

I had never heard the "brown furniture" term and I was going by the brown sofa pictures shown above.

interesting article

What, no ubiquitous white painted deer heads or antlers? Back in my day, we picked up these kinds of pieces at auctions or antique stores . . . so now I'm garage sale chic?? Years ago we had a garage sale and an antique dealer waited outside the house until we opened, and picked up one advertised dish set and left. It was red depression glass, which at the time was valuable I guess to antique collectors, not to our neighbor who got it probably during the actual Depression. Not sure if you could even give it away today, but hey, it could be coming back. I could see it gracing one or two of the rooms featured in those articles . . .

I just happen to like depression glass, and I can get it now pretty cheap if I can find the pieces I'm looking for to match what I have already.

Whatever is cheap but high quality on the resale market is always poised to be the next big thing.

Meet my Room of Abundance. 😛

@Oakley your mention of penny loafers made my feet hurt! Oh the memories of breaking them in - ouch!

I remember going to a baby shower in 1979. At the time I had thrift shop decor, and I was so impressed with the hostess's apartment - everything was brown and cream.

I'm thrilled! I was just looking at all of my mother's beautiful antique furniture and wondering what might happen to it. I feel better knowing there will be someone out there to love it.

The article doesn't explicitly state "brown furniture". Could the term be misleading some in picturing overstuffed brown leather sofas and recliners? It's quality antique or vintage wood furniture pieces in their original stained or veneered state that are "coming back". And I say this appreciation has been ramping up for the past ten years.

From the article:

"The posh look first took root in form of the "grandmillennial" vibe that some millennials gravitated towards pre-pandemic, rich in porcelain figurines, English antiques, chintz wallpaper, and brocade curtains. They were seeking décor inspiration everywhere from English country houses to neo-preppy brands like Rodarte."

@palimpsest is bang on: "Whatever is cheap but high quality on the resale market is always poised to be the next big thing."

Just last week, Vogue had an article on the floral sofa is coming back. Everything old is new again. Every forty years. :) I do wonder if people educated their eye and sensibilities to see the inherent value and beauty of well-made things throughout the ages, there would be less "trends". Or a need to validate one's taste?

The photo of the young woman lounging on the antique sofa with the caption "Vintage furniture is hot right now." is what suggested this to me. Over the past several years, I've seen a number of posts on G'web forums about the value of what's termed 'brown furniture' with responses saying young people don't want it any more.

On the whole, most people will continue to follow the HGTV look, current or future. You are not going to convince the farmhouse people to go with mahogany, mohair, and Minton.

So tired of the Gaines' "farmhouse" look. Genuine farmhouses don't look like that!

There is a lag of several years between innovators and the majority of people when it comes to design. So people even in forums like this where people are interested in design but not necessarily enough to really keep up with the predictors and innovators are often going to be dismissing things have already come back into fashion, and still doing things and suggesting things that people who are ahead of the curve have long tired. And people who don't pay the closest attention are going to be lagging behind even more. Innovators started collecting and using midcentury modern furniture (in addition to the never out of production pieces) probably 25 years ago already and people are acting like it's still a recent interest--it is, but you know what I mean.

It doesn't really matter what you do if you are over 50. You are dead to the younger people.

If you actually are on their trend, you're a sad wanna be and if you do your own thing, a weirdo.

Doesn't matter.

I know that I bring these particular pieces up every so often and they are routinely called hideous and so forth. And they are not "brown furniture" per se, they are pieces of studio furniture, but there is a point here.

I first saw one of these in the late 1990s. By the time I did my thesis project for design school I used one of these pieces in the residential portion of the project because part of the brief for my "clients" was that they were collectors.

Around this time I could have bought one of these for maybe around $5000 or 6000 but of course I didn't have that in discretionary income at the time.

Fast forward to now, and these sell regularly for north of $300,000, often above $400,000. So they are only bought by wealthy people who have seen them around as an object of desire, and I am not sure they are the true collectors because they are very late in the game It's hard to say whether they will retain this sort of value or not since they are unique pieces.

Examples #2 - I own these. I did not pay $6000 -9000 a pair. My first one was $69. I have had it for more than 20 years.

Now Restoration Hardware makes reproductions. I still like mine, but I would not collect them now, their time has passed as far as I am concerned. I don't care about them being trendy, they look good in my house (it's a matter of opinion, they are kind of ugly.)

My point is that really people are all over the place on the cycle and the cycle may be almost over in some markets before it is even fully established in others.

Brown is my least favorite color, and English style is my least favorite style, except for farmhouse. I don't hate it, but I would never want to live with it. It seems too stuffy for me and sometimes too formal. I strongly dislike the farmhouse style, and that never appealed to me, whereas English style does not offend me but does tire me.

I much prefer Mediterranean and tropical styles, probably because of the climates where I have lived. I like bright colors and simple lines.

I also have no intention of ever playing golf, but I do love tennis. There are lots of golf courses around me where I am now, but I have no interest in them and only hope that they are not wasting water. I do dress in all white when playing tennis and prefer to use white balls.

I am happiest in places like Mexico and Italy, although I do also love Vancouver and British Columbia.