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National home improvement style is stuck in the 70s!
The British are stuck in a 30-year rut inspired by their parents’ 1970s style ethic when it comes to their home décor choices, according to a new national study.
The national poll of 3,000 households across the UK by Crown Decorating Centres has revealed that almost six out of every ten British homes (57%) are painted either white, cream or magnolia inside.
Virtually the same number (51%) admits that their childhood or family homes were painted in exactly the same ‘off-white’ colour they choose for their own homes.
Not only has the UK remained in a 1970s-inspired interior design time-warp for more than three-decades but, when we do get around to re-decorating, our walls can remain untouched for up to ten more years.
A third of those homeowners polled say they haven’t re-painted any of their interior walls for around five years, while one in ten Brits re-paint their interior walls just once every decade.
When we do make a positive decision to take firm action and re-decorate we, like it or not, are often conditioned by the colours and style choices our parents made while we were growing up.
While four out of ten of us refuse to acknowledge our home décor choices are anything other than our own, 26% of us readily admit we are heavily influenced by our parents’ choice of home decoration.
Perhaps more telling is the fact that almost the same number of us, despite railing at our parents’ ‘old fashioned’ tastes, plump for exactly the same coloured interiors as we were used to seeing while growing up in the family home.
More information: www.crowndecoratingcentre.co.uk
