With over a million ‘boomerang kids’ in the UK living back with their parents, returning to the family home after university has become the new normal for Gen Yers. And many of them don’t expect to get their own place anytime soon, despite the tensions such living arrangements can create.

Financial difficulties have led many Gen Yers to forgo home-ownership, marriage, and kids for the time being – but that doesn’t mean they’re without a rich family life. Instead of following traditional life paths, they’re embracing plants, pets, and friends to feel a sense of domestic fulfillment.

Starcity is a housing start-up that is creating one thousand affordable co-living spaces in the city of San Jose. Driven by astronomical price of housing in the city, Starcity instead offers 'vertical living' – or co-living – which is both social and affordable for the area's disparate youth.

The simple, uncluttered aesthetic of minimalism has become the de rigueur for interiors around the world, with brands such as IKEA appealing to consumers who want functional, simple and stylish pieces. So how did minimalism rise to such predominance and have people finally had enough of it?