Curious about what millennials are expecting from home design? We’re talking with designer Courtney Rogers about designing for millennials. Join us!
Will Millennials ever move out of their old bedroom or parents’ basements? Do they, as Generation Y, have a chance moving-on-up like their parents did? Or is it perpetual adolescence for those born between 1980 and 2000?
Super designer Courtney Rogers—herself a celebrated Milennial as part of the National Kitchen and Bath Association‘s illustrious 30 under 30 and Remodeling Magazine’s 40 under 40—is designing for Milennials and sees them not McMansion-ing, but instead, moving where the action is. Is the formal dining room going away? How about gone?
Millennials prefer the more open floor plan. They also prefer a blend of warm residential and tougher industrial looks. Their homes tend to be smaller and take up a larger chunk of their income than their parents’ homes, so storage is important too.
They also choose neighborhoods not for their keep-up-with-the-Jones’ wide streets and cul-de-sacs but they tend to move to edgier, more social neighborhoods. Milennials—the generation that starts designs with a Pinterest page and can say how awesome or awful a design is to millions in seconds—are looking for streamlined looks and homes that can be lived in.
“I’m a passionate, driven, and supremely organized over-achiever who loves my family, my Georgia Bulldawgs, and my creative outlet… design,” –Courtney Rogers
Check out our hangout with Courtney Rogers and share your questions and suggestions about Designing for Millennials at myfixituplife@myfixituplife.com. We want to hear from you!
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