Like fast fashion, where there are now 52 micro-seasons, and electronics, where last year’s phone is now a brick not worth having, home goods are now subject to fashion trends.
Wait, gray walls are out. Or are they? Traditional style is declining, which seems weird. Isn’t traditional always traditional? Now it’s transitional I guess?
Grown kids no longer want their parents’ bone china and antiques, after generations of passing down high-quality heirloom items. Because fashion.
Like fast fashion in clothes, fashion in home goods is meant to put people on an endless cycle of desire, fulfillment, discontent, and more purchases. But, like all other forms of manufactured happiness, it doesn’t satisfy us where we live.
As they say, you can never get enough of the wrong thing.
Of course, there’s a huge environmental cost, in addition to the cost to your budget and emotional well-being.
How can you fall in love with your house again so you can relax and enjoy the home you have? Just as it is, imperfections and all.
It’s the same as enjoying where you are in all the other parts of life. Your relationship, your body, your wardrobe, your job, and all the other things we critique and take for granted every day.
What if you could shift your mindset to love the home you’re in, without feeling like there’s an endless list of things you have to do before you can relax?
I’m not saying do nothing or change nothing, since that’s not fun either. But how can you enjoy the process and relax in your home in the meantime?