The one in the left definitely needed an update. The carpet is awful, the railing is outdated, the wood paneling is dreary. But the “remodel” (ai?) is not great either. Pergo flooring looks cheap. Solid black & white everything makes it look like a store at the mall. There’s no life to it.
Is the second photo black and white?
‘Modern’ always seems to boil down to ‘drain all the color’.
went from cozy to clinical
ever since the 90s, theres been a concerted effort to delete Whimsy from design, aesthetics, and style, and reduce everything to black, beiges, greys and white.
Lmao. Not a single person in this whole thread has ever sold a house
Apart from the garish turquoise carpet, I think the original looks timelessly vintage.
Whereas the one on the right looks fashionable, but has almost no character of its own - kind of like those rich people houses you see on YouTube listed for millions, but nobody actually ever seems to buy.
White wall at the wood panelling, natural wood color for the exposed beams, leave the fireplace exposed, normal colored oak floors, with a Persian rug… That would probably all work on updated but not sterile bullshit way
Laminate flooring from the discount aisle of the home improvement store. White base paint from the discount aisle of the home improvement store. Imitation leather from the… You get the point
That gray laminate is an instant no.
If houses had red flags, that gray flooring is one.
The clear, obvious message I receive every time I see that flooring is that someone went for cheap, cookie-cutter shit over every possible other option. They didn’t care, didn’t think things through, and have certainly hidden problems or improperly installed other parts of their cut-rate flip.
They are both ugly. The only thing worth preserving is the stone wall and the beams. The wood paneling on the walls is most likely just veneer. I’m not really a fan of lacquered wood paneled walls unless they have some eye catching feature. The smoothness makes them look like a floor.
Really? The only ugly thing on the left is the carpet and its color.
I’d personally keep a carpet but go with an olive rather than the blue-green that it is in the left pic
Carpet is a horrendous material.
I do agree with you that carpet is awful, but that mustard yellow or olive green carpet combined with the conversation pit just hit me right in the nostalgia.
I would say go with a wood floor (not the landlord-chic-nightmare in the picture) but with the wood panel walls it’d be a bit much on the wood.
I have memories of some kind of hard orange carpet with a strange texture that consisted of regularly spaced knobs of material. It was impossible to get clean with my Mom’s weird stick vacuum and I played on the ground a lot and saw all the debris left between the knobs.
Natural materials people! And then leave them to age naturally and gracefully!
Everyone bitches about how fake everything has become. And then they go and do things like the right hand picture. Idiots. Idiots, the lot of them.
Yeah, painting the old wood and painting the brick is just too much. My home is pushing 100 and I have big old molding everywhere, but I’ve seen other houses in my neighborhood where folks have painted the big old molding - white obviously, because that’s apparently the only “color” - and to me it just begs to be burnt to the ground.
An old house deserves to live as it is. I hope you get to grow older alongside your home!
I’m fine with the 2010s era minimalist decor.
But painting over stone and high quality wood panels is crazy. If you want the minimalist look, then this wasn’t the house you start with. Fucking Beetlejuice ass joists.
Fucking Beetlejuice ass joists.
LOL i knew the room reminded me of something!
Bullshit. Someone just used an ai filter on a picture for internet points.
The AI even kept the CRT TV in the “after” pic lmao
Holy shit indeed… The reflection on it is identical too…
Nothing says Modern Decor like a CRT TV
CRTs are peak for retro gaming
But I can’t imagine the kind of person who would love retro gaming would destroy such a beautiful room like this
What do you guys use for a TV stand?
Hey a fuckpit’s a fuckpit. By the looks of it, they have the money for someone to clean off that upholstery. More bothered by that “landlord style” painting of the stone wall. Would have been a great accent.
idk, that floor looks like vinyl planking from costco
You monochrome types should just use e-ink screens for your computer.
They left the CRT TV in the wall? Even though they’re obviously not retro fans?
at least it isn’t too high
Yeah, and you can finally play some Super Nintendo as if you were sitting in a cheap furniture store.
You think this is more than “hey grok, beautify this room”?
Nope, not at all.
so… “hey grok, beautify this room”?
edit: nvm tricked by double negative
The TV even kept the same reflection on it
