India, Nov. 4 -- Gen Z love their beiges and creams - but they enjoy an erratic splash of colour just as much. Erratic to say that it's a very intentional kind of nonchalance. It's the same kind of attention to detail millennials put into selecting their sofa throw blankets, times hundred.

You may not find an awful lot of Gen Z's who are proud homeowners, but their sense of belonging comes from a hyper-personalisation of the space they're inhabiting, with or without their name on the deed. A sprawling space or half a room, it's about eliciting the comfort of nostalgia from a space that's entirely new - even if the lease ends in the next six months. In terms of visual impact, it's easy to box the generation of 20-somethings as just 'colou...