Grandmillennial Style

[Anonymous]

Ben Pentreath isn't "grandmillenial" he's "English country house."

They're different aestheics.

Grandmillenial is southern and girly. Lots of skirted sofas and beds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ben Pentreath isn't "grandmillenial" he's "English country house."

They're different aestheics.

Grandmillenial is southern and girly. Lots of skirted sofas and beds.

I agree. English country house is a little rustic and unassuming despite lots of florals. Think Cotswolds.

Grandmillennial doesn't have a rustic or unassuming edge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ben Pentreath isn't "grandmillenial" he's "English country house."

They're different aestheics.

Grandmillenial is southern and girly. Lots of skirted sofas and beds.

I agree. English country house is a little rustic and unassuming despite lots of florals. Think Cotswolds.

Grandmillennial doesn't have a rustic or unassuming edge.

yes and yes. agreed.

[Anonymous]

My house is decorated like this (the main pic on this page is more fussy than most of this style). Key is I mix very modern pieces like modern art, modern light fixtures, modern sofas, and modern paint colors (white or greige walls) with vintage pieces. No one wants a vintage family room sofa from the 60s. If it was actually used, it would smell. I love the modern white sofas in performance fabric. I do have quite a few vintage chandeliers, but they're mixed in with newer pendants, drum lights, etc. "Modern" art is more pieces from the 1960s- present. I don't like still lifes or pasturals. Portraits and block art are some of my favorites.

Grandmillienial is very similar to Hollywood Regency in my mind. It's a descendant of that. I'm 33 and I've been loving bamboo furniture and Chinoiserie since I was a teenager. My grandma had beautiful 6ft tall Chinese vases and gorgeous mahogany furniture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My house is decorated like this (the main pic on this page is more fussy than most of this style). Key is I mix very modern pieces like modern art, modern light fixtures, modern sofas, and modern paint colors (white or greige walls) with vintage pieces. No one wants a vintage family room sofa from the 60s. If it was actually used, it would smell. I love the modern white sofas in performance fabric. I do have quite a few vintage chandeliers, but they're mixed in with newer pendants, drum lights, etc. "Modern" art is more pieces from the 1960s- present. I don't like still lifes or pasturals. Portraits and block art are some of my favorites.

Grandmillienial is very similar to Hollywood Regency in my mind. It's a descendant of that. I'm 33 and I've been loving bamboo furniture and Chinoiserie since I was a teenager. My grandma had beautiful 6ft tall Chinese vases and gorgeous mahogany furniture.

nah Hollywood Regency has a pronounced glamour to it that Grandmillenial lacks. HR has a lot more glass and metals and hard edges mixed in. Grandmillenial is much frumpier, though it can be pretty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She has on her table, essentially books, candles (which she uses) and blue and white china (one of which is holding her remotes, there is a tv in this room). It is not just random stuff. But yes the table is full. I love her style.

You say blue and white china as if that's a normal thing to litter everywhere. There is a pointless bowl sitting on the table with nothing in it, some type of cake tray with a lid on it (is she storing cake in the living room?), some kind of bell-shaped thing in case the call to prayer needs to be made and you can't leave the living room to retrieve your bell, and let's not miss the TEN GALLON PITCHER. Is grandma's ashes in that? Grandma must have died from decorating this room.

This was funny. Look she digs that stuff, maybe she likes the shape and color, who the hell knows? My point was just it was her collection. It's personal to her and i appreciate her displaying personal things. Some of it has a purpose. And It's not like she walked in to home goods. She collects. That can be part of that style. Even f it untrendy stuff like china. That was all i was saying. She does serve food on that table so the tiered tray is functional sometimes but i get she does not have many fans here. I feel old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ben Pentreath isn't "grandmillenial" he's "English country house."

They're different aestheics.

Grandmillenial is southern and girly. Lots of skirted sofas and beds.

I agree. English country house is a little rustic and unassuming despite lots of florals. Think Cotswolds.

Grandmillennial doesn't have a rustic or unassuming edge.

+1 I agree with the poster who thinks this looks 80s American. Break out the Gunne Sax dresses and let's all drink pink lemonade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She has on her table, essentially books, candles (which she uses) and blue and white china (one of which is holding her remotes, there is a tv in this room). It is not just random stuff. But yes the table is full. I love her style.

You say blue and white china as if that's a normal thing to litter everywhere. There is a pointless bowl sitting on the table with nothing in it, some type of cake tray with a lid on it (is she storing cake in the living room?), some kind of bell-shaped thing in case the call to prayer needs to be made and you can't leave the living room to retrieve your bell, and let's not miss the TEN GALLON PITCHER. Is grandma's ashes in that? Grandma must have died from decorating this room.

This was funny. Look she digs that stuff, maybe she likes the shape and color, who the hell knows? My point was just it was her collection. It's personal to her and i appreciate her displaying personal things. Some of it has a purpose. And It's not like she walked in to home goods. She collects. That can be part of that style. Even f it untrendy stuff like china. That was all i was saying. She does serve food on that table so the tiered tray is functional sometimes but i get she does not have many fans here. I feel old.

How do you figure? There's barely any room to put down a can of soda with all the stuff on the table.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She has on her table, essentially books, candles (which she uses) and blue and white china (one of which is holding her remotes, there is a tv in this room). It is not just random stuff. But yes the table is full. I love her style.

You say blue and white china as if that's a normal thing to litter everywhere. There is a pointless bowl sitting on the table with nothing in it, some type of cake tray with a lid on it (is she storing cake in the living room?), some kind of bell-shaped thing in case the call to prayer needs to be made and you can't leave the living room to retrieve your bell, and let's not miss the TEN GALLON PITCHER. Is grandma's ashes in that? Grandma must have died from decorating this room.

This was funny. Look she digs that stuff, maybe she likes the shape and color, who the hell knows? My point was just it was her collection. It's personal to her and i appreciate her displaying personal things. Some of it has a purpose. And It's not like she walked in to home goods. She collects. That can be part of that style. Even f it untrendy stuff like china. That was all i was saying. She does serve food on that table so the tiered tray is functional sometimes but i get she does not have many fans here. I feel old.

If you look at her website and her professional projects, you will see that these are not her personal things. She puts these in all of her projects. They are all roll-arm sofas and blue china vases.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She has on her table, essentially books, candles (which she uses) and blue and white china (one of which is holding her remotes, there is a tv in this room). It is not just random stuff. But yes the table is full. I love her style.

You say blue and white china as if that's a normal thing to litter everywhere. There is a pointless bowl sitting on the table with nothing in it, some type of cake tray with a lid on it (is she storing cake in the living room?), some kind of bell-shaped thing in case the call to prayer needs to be made and you can't leave the living room to retrieve your bell, and let's not miss the TEN GALLON PITCHER. Is grandma's ashes in that? Grandma must have died from decorating this room.

This was funny. Look she digs that stuff, maybe she likes the shape and color, who the hell knows? My point was just it was her collection. It's personal to her and i appreciate her displaying personal things. Some of it has a purpose. And It's not like she walked in to home goods. She collects. That can be part of that style. Even f it untrendy stuff like china. That was all i was saying. She does serve food on that table so the tiered tray is functional sometimes but i get she does not have many fans here. I feel old.

If you look at her website and her professional projects, you will see that these are not her personal things. She puts these in all of her projects. They are all roll-arm sofas and blue china vases.

This is interesting because "random crap from Home Goods" is exactly the vibe I get from this table. The two giant glass containers that look just like what all the Kardashians store candy and cookies in? None of it reads meaningful personal collection, just "two or three matching things near two or three different matching things." This is the next iteration of Live, Laugh, Love to me.

[Anonymous]

Hollywood regency has an exotic, glam edge. I expect it to house a badass woman of a certain age who has some great stories and had some exciting men and continues to do so in her current age. Joan Collins or something.

Grandmillenial is way more suburban and safe. I expect it to house a woman who has lived a pleasant and comfortable but dull life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ben Pentreath isn't "grandmillenial" he's "English country house."

They're different aestheics.

Grandmillenial is southern and girly. Lots of skirted sofas and beds.

I agree. English country house is a little rustic and unassuming despite lots of florals. Think Cotswolds.

Grandmillennial doesn't have a rustic or unassuming edge.

+1 I agree with the poster who thinks this looks 80s American. Break out the Gunne Sax dresses and let's all drink pink lemonade.

That was me! And heck yeah to the Gunne Sax dresses. Jessica McClintock for life.

Anyway, it's funny seeing the stuff of MY youth picked up by the youngs as a new trend. Honestly I never thought that 80s decor would ever be stylish again. But it is a nice change from severe Scandi-style stuff, I guess!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a cusp GenX Millennial and I am completely here for Grandmillennial style. I think it’s hard to do well but so beautiful when it is. Better than buying the same Article couch and west elm pillows and succulents that everyone seems to have

I am exactly your age, and we agree! I have been trying to decorate in a modern Southern Living style for the past 15 years, and it’s been tough. I always thought that the hardest part was that the inspiration photos in magazines have been so modern. Now that the magazines match my vision, I am disappointed to learn that this look takes a keener eye than basic modern rooms.

[Anonymous]

i like it. i've been following her for a while on instagram. it's just southern traditional. I don't know they have to rename it grandmillenial.

[Anonymous]

To me "grandmillenial" looks very close to english country or some version of more formal American country for that matter.