I drink coffee or tea every weekday, it’s part of my routine, and I always add oat milk. I like to use Califa Farms brand. The blend of oat milk with coffee or tea makes a brown color that I love. I want to paint my hallway this milky brown color with white baseboards and trim. I feel like it will be a very calming color that transitions well from my kitchen, bathroom and living room. I do have a small hesitation on pulling the trigger. Do I like the color or is it just the trend lead “Mocha Mousse” 2025 color of the year?

The colors are different tones, but the vibe is the same. I’ve pinned hundreds of interiors with this vibe. According to Google the vibe is described as “…warm, comforting, sophisticated, and grounding, evoking the rich, familiar comfort of coffee, chocolate, and natural materials like wood and leather.” That sounds delicious, of course I want comfort and sophistication, of course I want natural materials, it’s the perfect summation of what I want to live by.

I’ve been brainstorming on the next step for the evolution of my wardrobe. My goal aligns perfectly with comfort and sophistication. I’ve been re-thinking how many black items I own and inside my heart I wish I could dye some of them chocolate brown. I have too many black trousers, it’s embarrassing to count them, 8 months ago I was proud of my collection. I looked high and low for those black trousers and now I wish they were a different color. I recall the experience of finding the right pairs was more stressful than fun. Isn’t shopping supposed to be fun? I tried on trousers from all the stores from all the brands within my budget. It was exhausting and expensive and time consuming.

Today, this trend has me crazy on brown. I am actively having internal debates over black and brown. Almost every debate ends in, will I continue to purchase trousers depending on what’s trending? And every time my rebuttal “….no…but….” I am 75% convinced I don’t need any brown trousers and that 25% says but you do.  I want to make it clear that I don’t want to replace some of my black trousers with brown ones, I want to have both options.

Will I just end up asking myself every morning brown or black? It doesn’t sound so bad when I compare it with my morning coffee or tea decision. The question fits perfectly in my weekday routine. Or should I stand my ground and listen to everyone talking about over consumption?  Sending money to spend money, because I know I don’t really need chocolate brown trousers. Or do excuse my purchase by categorizing it as the “evolution of my wardrobe”? The debate is endless. The pros and cons pile up and I still don’t know if I should paint my hallway!

By the way, how many brown trousers do I really need?