I know the TV series isn't Decorating Cents everyone's cup of tea or vibe at best & just downright horrible eyesore for some others; that sigh gets a lot of almost uncalled-for levels of hate & really rude jokes about others' homes, & that's coming from someone who loves to watch America's ugliest homes, but I do agree that in that HGTV series, not all of the homes are great-looking, even just
Truly ugly, in my opinion, but not all of them; some are just too out there & most are too dangerous to live in. But I'm here for the series Decorating Cents, not America's ugliest homes. I'll post my opinions about that later, after seeing how you all think about this post. Okay, I think some 90s/early 2000s home decorating styles can be cool and interesting, even, heaven forbid, for saying this,
tasteful. In my opinion, not all of it was good-looking; even kinda stupid, but I do think some of it is just too out there for me, & I think there's nothing wrong about it, but I kinda hate how there are many YouTubers & house decorating experts calling it stupid or just ugly & shows, no matter how hard they try, & yes, many of those people are likely millennials or Gen Z arguing over older shows for the lack of taste or too much of something, or it's just bad all around: bad ideas, bad designs ....
Too much color for the sake of color & the age-old comment that pale yellow walls look like pee or different versions of pee comments & too many patterns. I do see that point, but not all of them were bad or ugly just way too busy, in my opinion. But remove those patterns & it wouldn't be too bad; maybe pare down some of the patterns to keep the look & style & the hate or annoyed comments about something looking cheap or actually being cheap, but bad design ideas & it's so outdated & how we improved over the years since then. I'm not a boomer; I'm a younger millennial
who likes retro stuff or classical stuff, even weird, off-the-rails fashions & actual vintage things, like around 100 years old, & not calling something vintage because it's 10 or over 10 years old, but please understand I'm not against other millennials who love & prefer Paige & the many different ranges of Paige's black &, whites, & grays palettes in homes; in my opinion, done right, it can be great-looking, even though not all Paige's gray, black & white homes are bad, but it hurts
When I see shows like Decorating Cents get ripped apart for being of its time, I remember being born in the 90s & when I started to learn about home decorating in the late 90s & early 2000s. To this day, I was actually very, very young to start noticing that stuff, & I loved late 90s home styles, both the Decorating ideas not perfect but trying their best & even accepting the messy & learning
to love it for what it is & what it isn't, even when they wanted to look "perfect," & not every home is open-plan. Made some homes back then where very close to being open-plan, even having some extra walls around the area, but still manages to have some rooms apart from each other & still leave options like having big French doors with windows in them & used blinds that are made for those kinds of doors so the parent can still hear their kids or hear them but still get the extra
privacy they need it's not a totally Win win in some situations but it still counts but at least it's a 8/10 in ways for privacy okay before i forget are their any millennials or gen z who likes Decorating Cents out there because i feel honestly alone here in this opinion we do not talk about the hate at the 90s outdated we can even laugh about it if you find some of the shows designs that look bad but lets be kind about it or at least not bad mouth about to hell & back again their are some bad designs or just pieces of it's time i want be honest but be kind about it
you can leave links to videos you like from older shows like Decorating Cents & others tv shows of the 90s or older one i gotta warn I'm not a 80s girl for designs but it your taste & you can totally love it & maybe even bring up your older magazines names even name brands from back in the day or even modern ones even i heck even find odd interesting designs homes Decorating looks that aren't cookie cutter Decorating ideas that push it outside lets be to each other i mean it where are my people who are in 30s & 20s who like or love retro actually vintage like over 100s or depending on what it is 50s old & older & people who love modern home Decorating you tubers who push against the Paige & gray black & whit trends or put a twist with at least with it
& sidenote: just because I'm into 80s styles or some types of 80s house plans doesn't mean I don't like some 80s stuff, okay? Still like some things from the 80s; I like that the 80s didn't shy away from being creative & not saying sorry for it, but maybe I don't like the extra-big hair, or maybe I don't like the insane levels of patterns that they double down on. The 90s had their issues, like a lot of them, & I do know what it's like to live in the 90s & have seen homes with strong 70s/80s decorating still strong. I used to live in my grandma's very, very
old late-60s taller home for 14 years until two 2 years ago; up to this point in 2026, it was a mix of decades in different styles & just making do with what she still has mentally, but the base style was 70s/80s; I didn't live in those decades, but I grew up with a lot of that stuff: the reruns on TV, the jokes, & a lot of opinions of the 80s more then so the 70s & grow up watching a lot of 70s TV reruns & before that era was well okay a lot of those
inside jokes or a lot people telling me what it was like to live those eras are not completely lost on me when telling stories about them i even try tell them small things i renumber as a very small young child i still renumber or i understood to be important back then by connecting the dots of what i actually do renumber what i felt was interesting to me as a kid & as adult & what i understand into those small things that mattered to my older millennials & older generations & something are more or less it's honest 50/50 sorta lost on me
because i didn't grow up in those times like the 50s 60s 70 80s i didn't even grow up the same way as some millennials did in the 90s because was born into 90s & I'm aware that no one is attacking me here i just feel like once you say into something like say the 80s but still see why people love it or younger people who do love it or people me who like it enough to still like the charm of the 80s may still highly protective of it or give the age old because i hit a nerve by mistake or unless you lived in it you know of nothing of it period no acceptations ... but it's never that black & whites but i made this post before i wen to bed i want to cover anything else i forgot.