I certainly hope so!

Trending? No. But still in use? Absolutely.

I hope it's time for something else. Many houses in my neighborhood were painted gray over the past few years and it's starting to look rather depressing. (And I am a BIG fan of gray....but too much is too much).

Trends/change usually start at the coasts with paint and furniture companies and designers. It takes a while for the middle class Midwest to catch up. Younger folks (under 40) here still like grey for interiors. You do see more blues and greens being mixed in. Bright colors, purples, corals, yellows, greens are seen online, but not truely accessible here. Maybe when Joanna G. embraces less neutral colors, (and I do like her and the show made livable design available to a large, ready market) we'll see more color. I think exterior colors have more variety by region depending on sunlight and colors in the environment. Although again we are limited by manufacturers of mass materials. I need new storm doors and don't like the mainline Anderson, Pella, Larson colors. And yes, with hot summer sun and freezing winter snow, I must have storm doors. Function has to come before style in this case.

for who likes a depressive color will be a forever trend

IMO, gray is way past saturation. There is a newish (2-3 YO) subdivision not far from me...flyover country, Wisconsin...and Every. Last. House. is gray/ black rock & gray Hardie board on the exterior. In Wisconsin, I repeat, where the sun can disappear for two weeks at a time. Gray house; gray sky. I don't know how those homeowners can find their way home. Unless they are just too depressed to leave home in the first place.

I'm seeing a lot of dusty rose and purples lately

I would look at Maria Killam's Color me Happy blog for her take on gray and greige and new colors. I think she is a bit ahead of the trends, but not by much.

Neutral colors

Light gray walls or flooring are popular colors for luxury homes. In fact,gray is the most popular color for bathroom walls and floors across most homes, according to [1,144 U.S. homeowners surveyed by Houzz[(https://www.houzz.com/magazine/2018-us-houzz-bathroom-trends-study-stsrsivw-vs~115981815). Gray cabinets are also gaining popularity, climbing from a 10 percent share in 2016 to 16 percent in 2018.

My house (exterior) has been gray for 20 years, but after my next-door neighbor and the neighbor across the street painted their houses gray this year, I'm choosing something else when we repaint next year. Our imposing 1910 home doesn't lend itself to bold or frivolous colors though, so I think we have decided on a muted mid-tone blue. One data point is not a trend, but that's my act of rebellion against gray.

What I have noticed is that people don't understand "warm" and "cool". Hard to put a Cool grey with Warm white or any other warm color- can be done, but not easy. Also Warm grey with Cool colors can also be a challenge.

If resale is not a consideration I say you should use paint colors that you like and not worry about "trends". But if resale within the next 5 years is a consideration, then a different consideration might need to be contemplated.

Gray is still a mass appeal color. It’s harvest gold in 1977. The clock is ticking, but not evertone has noticed yet. To be clear, my thinking is about gray used indiscriminately, as opposed to gray used thoughtfully.

grey is popular because it's so neutral, I personally love it. it's the more modern replacement for beige. if you want something different, maybe look for greige (warm grey)? or, many of my favorite trendy design blogs really are just going with gorgeous whites these days, such as Swiss Coffee.

for a rental or for selling a house, I would choose neutrals only. so many colors can be polarizing. I once rented a gorgeous old house that was painted pale pink in every room. barf. I asked the landlord if I could paint.

if you really want a color, I read that sage is making a comeback. my last apartment was painted in a couple of shades of very pale greyish-green (from restoration hardware's silver sage collection), and even though sage wasn't techically "in" at the time, I absolutely loved it. I feel like sage is practically a neutral, it's so forgiving.

As long as we have black and white, gray, the mid-way, will be a constant.

Consider: gray hair; concrete; winter sky before a storm; a cat’s eye. One of the most beautiful grays…B.M. Bunny Gray. Grays will always be current.

The "trend" that was gray is way over. But with every trend, it takes a while before everyone stops doing it. That one was so big and so all consuming that I think it will take a while before there is another one of that magnitude. As with most things, when the pendulum swings back, the backlash will either be the direct opposite of it or a variation of it. To some degree we've seen the opposite in terms of people really stretching out to vivid color. On the other hand, I think we will continue to see variations of it in metallics such as pewter.

The "trend" that was gray is way over. But with every trend, it takes a while before everyone stops doing it. That one was so big and so all consuming that I think it will take a while before there is another one of that magnitude. As with most things, when the pendulum swings back, the backlash will either be the direct opposite of it or a variation of it. To some degree we've seen the opposite in terms of people really stretching out to vivid color. On the other hand, I think we will continue to see variations of it in metallics such as pewter.

IMO gray is not a depressing color at all I love my gray walls in all the shades we have. It is neutral works with my furniture and art and I really have never cared what colors are on trend, maybe because I have no plan to paint every year to be “on trend” For crying out loud paint your house a color you like.

In fairness, the OP did not ask what color she should paint. She asked more if we've hit the end of the Everything Must Be Grey fad.

I'm not sure we've hit the end of it, no. (*sigh*) Judging from what's happening in most of the shelter sites and magazines, I'd guess things are going to warm up at least a little. Greige, beige, peach, white all seem to be on the rise. OTOH, I don't think any ONE color is going to be as ubiquitous as grey. I suspect we're going to go through one of those intercalary periods between major color trends.

And while that happens, the greyness will go on in the mainstream, just because there isn't anything with enough mass appeal to replace it.

I don't know if we're quite tired enough of cool to go back warm, since there is still an awful lot of Tuscan gold left. But there seems to be more pink/peach/red/deep green than soft blues and aquas or other cooler tones.

I'm not sure that grey is quite as neutral as everybody says. It has its own tendency to tip one color or another and there's really not a lot you can do to fight that. And tones of grey don't always play well together if they aren't chosen carefully. Now, it's more flexible than pinky-beige, so it has that going for it.

Jay, IL and WI are merely stepping stones to God's Country - MN :)

In the world of the design conscious, gray has trended out and been replaced with much warmer colors. Millineal pink is making a big inroad, as well as blues and greens. In the world of "I I want something safe because I don't have any design sense, gray still strong.

Different grays belongs to different color families, and most people don't understand this. They think it's a neutral, do it goes with everything. Far from it. There are hundreds of "gray dilemmas" titled, "how do I warm Up my gray room?" Or "my gray carpet/walls/sofa/drapes/chairs clashed HORRIBLY with my gray chairs/drapes/sofa/walls/carpet!" and "my cream/white cabinets look so yellow against my gray walls!" Coming soon will be, "my gray wood floors are so outdated and don't go with ANYTHING zen modern at all".

Gray is a fashion. All fashion has a cycle. Gray has passed its peak and is on the downswing.

"...flyover country, Wisconsin..."

Hey, let's knock it off with the Midwest insults!

Jay, IL and WI are merely stepping stones to God's Country - MN :)

shhhh

There is no color on earth that doesn't have a warm or cool capability. It is the temperature of colors that trends. The gold tone of a couple decades ago, morphs to a citrus yellow in a mid century home. The steely gray of the early eighties, warms to "greige rage". Mossy green, cools to jewel like emerald. They all were, and will remain on the wall of chips in your favorite paint store.

I grew up in the 50's in a dark gray house with pink trim. The walls and wall paper were either pink or light gray. My mom painted it all white and got gold shag rugs at one point but the dark gray almost black with pink trim remained until they passed. I was never a fan of beige. I liked the gray trend in the start. But surely when surveying the 100s of gray paints of different manufacturers, I began feeling it was too absurd. But before I had the rental painted, I asked two painters I knew the colors they are using most, they both told any color of gray there is. So I caved in used. Yes it looks contemporary but blah. I am in the outer SF Bay Area, gray and fog are alive and well here.

Just so you know, I used Bher Close Knit and Ultra Pure White for ceiling and trim. BM is tough to get here. My painter uses Bher and I got a discount for Ultra Pure what because it is what he uses most. But he says the most common gray he uses is Bher Dolphin Fin which was a little too I don't know khaki (maybe is the right word) for my taste.

They did a good job photographing. Two applicants to choose from. Yup, next round I remove the fluorescent light box in the kitchen https://www.krystleproperties.com/listings/detail/0c369817-a64a-4e07-bc5f-d161753fd63a