New Design Trend: People Downgrading 'Smart' Homes to Analog 'Dumb' Homes, Some with Landlines and Offline Appliances

'People are creating 'dumb homes,'' the VP of research at the Global Wellness Institute, tells the web site Axios.

Some are swapping NASA-style setups for old-fashioned buttons, switches and knobs. Others are designing digital detox corners — all part of a bigger 'analog wellness' movement...

The return to analog hobbies and spacesis about more than nostalgia for pre-internet times, researchers say. A home where 'technology is always in the background, working and listening, feels anxiety-producing' instead of restorative, architect Yan M. Wang tells Axios... Design media brand Dwell named the decline of smart homes a top trend for 2025 and beyond.

Wealthy Los Angeles house hunters have started shunning WiFi-enabled, voice-activated appliances 'to escape the $100 billion home-automation industry,' according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Meanwhile, landlines have found new fans — many of them parents who want to keep their kids off screens, the Washington Post reports.

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