A hundred years ago found many of our grandparents immigrating to this country, packed into huge ocean liners with dreams of a better life. Postwar couples indulged themselves in the American Dream in huge numbers in the late 1940's and the 1950's. It is interesting to ponder what people entering the next turn of the century will say about our current leap into the new millenium when it comes to the American home. Interior design trends must ultimately depend on demographics common to the new American homebuyer.
New homebuilders are undoubtedly aware that buyer profiles are changing.
Those days of capturing the typical Beaver Cleaver family profile somehow disappeared long ago. Add to this the trend for buyers to look for homes where their interests, and not their age, is the key factor, and the result is a dramatic shift in homebuilding and design trends. Doris Pearlman, founder of Possibilities for Design in Denver, Colorado, specializes in market-driven interior space merchandising and trend setting designs for new homebuilders. Builders have always known about the needs of young couples leaving rental life for their first modestly priced home, but to this group we may now add the Full Circle component. Although shrinking, this group is not disappearing.