Why Your Home Deserves a Story

The aesthetics dominating interior design today aren't arbitrary. Mid-century modern, Japandi, maximalist Victorian revival: each emerged from a specific cultural moment, a worldview made physical. When we reach for those aesthetics now, we're borrowing someone else's answer before we've thought to ask the question ourselves.

Design strategist and Yellowtrace founder Dana Tomić Hughes calls this "The Great Flattening." At Storey & Stone, we call it the starting point for a different conversation entirely.