Are CB2s bright colors and lower-priced home decorating accents the new trend for twentysomethings?
JANUARY 31, 2000: A newly married couple: She’s a lawyer in her first post-college job, he’s an engineer with a new Ph.D. and a post-doctorate university research job. Together their yearly income is enough to allow for comfortable, if not extravagant, living in downstate Champaign. They buy a condo and head upstate to shop for furniture. More precisely, they rent a mid-sized U-Haul and drive up to Schaumburg’s mecca of do-it-yourself Swedish décor, IKEA. After a day in the store, they load up enough to fill a living room, bedroom and office and drive home, knowing that with a few hours and an Allen wrench, their new furniture will be ready to go. It’s not that farfetched. If today’s twentysomethings are united on anything, it may well be the search for affordable housewares and home furnishings. After all, for the post-collegiates who have left behind the Salvation Army decorating phase, but are not quite able to drop thousands on department store furniture, the pickings have been sli
