First look at home decor trends from the Las Vegas Market — PHOTOS

Millennials, those born between 1982 and 2000, number more than 75 million and represent more than one-quarter of the nation's population. As such, many in the furnishings industry are looking to this generation as their target market, according to Julie Smith Vincenti, owner of Nine Muses Media, a custom-content media company specializing in trend reporting and product pictorials for home furnishings brands.

The Las Vegas Market comes to town twice a year, bringing the latest in furniture, home decor and gifts to retail buyers who will add those items to their repertoire in the latter half of 2016. On Monday, Smith Vincenti gave her biannual First Look presentation about the latest trends in the furnishings market.

Baby boomers, formerly the largest living generation until the millennials recently surpassed them, are not being ignored. However, they are choosing to stay put in and are not downsizing as fast the housing sector or marketers had predicted.

Millennials, on the other hand, are now looking for a place of their own, but the Great Recession dramatically altered the economic landscape for them, especially when it comes to homebuying. Five years after the official end of the recession, millennials have lower levels of wealth and higher levels of debt compared to their parents at a similar age.

"The reality is that millennials are priced out of the housing market," Smith Vincenti said. And because of this, "they are choosing an urban versus suburban environment and then the lifestyle choices that go along with living in a big city."

She added, "Connecting with millennials means speaking to space constraints they have in their homes. ... Scale remains one of the important considerations moving into 2016."

Yet, despite their lower income levels, millennials have their own ideas on what their homes should look like.

"The truth is, millennials are very confident," Smith Vincenti said, "and that confidence comes across in many ways, not just in the way they decorate their home, but what they want to live in."

A popular decorating trend is what Smith Vincenti refers to as "the new bohemian" look: a mix of patterns, textures, furniture styles and colors.

Justina Blakeney is a leader in this trend and is the author of the best-selling book "The New Bohemians: Cool and Collected Homes." She was at the Las Vegas Market to share tips and resources for growing an engaged Instagram following to build brand recognition, drive sales and create meaningful relationships.

The L.A. based designer and blogger credits her multiethnic family, her degree from UCLA in world arts and cultures and extensive travel for her bohemian aesthetic. With a passion for color, pattern and plants, and Blakeney and her blog, TheJungalow.com, have quickly become the go-to sources for bohemian design inspiration.

"I believe that good design increases quality of life," she said. "I believe in vintage, organic and handmade.

Blakeney has joined with Loloi to create a collection of rugs and pillows that feature her lively aesthetic. The Fable rug combines flat weave and shag, and she pairs that with midcentury furniture, handcrafted textiles, tropical influences and a lot of houseplants to create her signature "jungalow" look.

The Modway Panache sofa lends itself to this trend as an example of time-tested furniture that holds up on both modern and classic forms. The tufted sofa, available in six colors, offers a reinvented midcentury style with a dash of vintage charm.

"It all about taking something traditional and making it fresh," Smith Vincenti said. That can mean changing up the pattern, changing up the texture and "definitely changing up the color."

"Incorporating leather and going a little bit industrial in this new bohemian environment, that's cool," she said. "And that's what's great about this incoming trend: It's extremely forgiving."

The Branton desk from Vig Furniture mixes high-gloss white, walnut veneer and matte black legs and hardware in a stark, contemporary design.

Millennials have grown up with recycling, are more likely to attribute global warming to human activity and are more likely to favor environmentally friendly policies like green energy development and tax incentives for hybrid vehicles.

"One way we can communicate our green cred to millennials and shoppers in general is to look to reclaimed materials," Smith Vincenti said.

The Olde Mercantile uses salvaged wood that dates back to the late 1880s to create designs such as its Lancaster cocktail table. D-Bodhi wall boxes are made from reclaimed Javanese teak and are sold in various sizes and finishes.

The safari trend has not gone away and brings its own textures and patterns to home decor. Grace & Blake's Hoops stool showcases hair-on-hide, so each piece is unique. The Naya collection from Eastern Accents presents a medley of earthy hues and exotic prints.

Smith Vincenti also discussed the announcements by trend forecasters on the hot new colors for 2016. For Benjamin Moore that color is Simply White, similar to Sherwin-Williams' choice of Alabaster.

"The story about these gray-kissed whites is about calm; it's about unplugged, palate freshening," Smith Vincenti said.

Castle Home Livings's Montreal sofa comes in a textured fabric called Geo White. The collection's pure form can take inspiration from many directions.

Pantone color forecasters went for a one-two punch in 2016, choosing co-colors Rose Quartz and Serenity. While Q Squared's new Palazzo collection of dinnerware combines soft pink and shades of blue, Smith Vincenti sees more designers using the colors on their own rather than together.

Amity Home offers sumptuous, rose-colored bedding with Gia block-printed quilt and pillow shams paired with Petal Pink Caprice linen shams and duvet cover. Pillows and ottomans in various shades of indigo give Castle Home Living's Montreal sofa a nautical theme.

Other design trends to look for in the coming months, according to Smith Vincenti, are fun florals, rose gold metallic, design alchemy (glass and metal with an otherworldly look and feel), matte black finishes and geometric patterns that are "looser, less precise and more artful."