‘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.
You monochrome types should just use e-ink screens for your computer.
Change out the carpet, fine, but why that God awful laminate?Update the cushions, great. Paint the beams and fireplace, short term thinking to destroy something that will now forever need work and updating. I hope you drywalled over the wall panels and didn’t just slap paint on them. It is a current “look”. Will be out of date/trend in a couple years - far shorter than the other look that took 30 years to be dated and now would be retro.
That grey laminate flooring pisses me off like nothing else in cheap home remodeling. It’s embossed with wood grain but what fucking real wood is grey like that? It’s the 2020s equivalent of 1970s faux wood paneling.
Pretty much all untreated wood turns grey when exposed to prolonged sunlight?
That being said, I don’t like that look in flooring. On a weathered fence or log cabin it’s fine.
I’m very certain, that ChickenLady and Bubba know what real greyish wood looks like. You also know, it’s not like this.
Ancient abandoned barns in the countryside tend to have grey wood like that, usually full of holes though
Yeah I have no idea how people like no. 1 better, but you do you
The stone wall looks sooo much better and it being painted white just looks depressing
Love they left the structural fireplace CRT TV. god I’m tired of AI rage slop
I love how everyone thinks they hate modernism too when they see something like this, but it started out as mid century modern
It’s load bearing.
You never built a crt into your fireplace? It’s super effective. I stacked my vcr and dvd player on top into the chimney.
I think too many people are just being cintrariannbecause this style is popular now. I think it looks good.
The pic on the left looks lived in, just needed an update on the carpet and cushions. Pic on the right looks like the inside of a lich’s phylactery.
They painted the beams… they. Painted. The beams.
It looks like a prison.
My uncle used to design and build houses. Normally he didn’t work for anyone - he’d take out a loan, buy a piece of land, design a house custom fit to the contours of the land, subcontract some parts, but he did the carpentry with some hired help, and when it was all done, he’d sell it (he was a realtor too) and as far as I know always made a profit, though some did better than others…
One year I went to work for him. But he was doing it differently that time, some wealthy developer had hired him to build his own house. I remember him talking about what a big mistake that was turning out to be, the guy kept changing his mind about what he wanted when we were halfway done with something - for example when he saw the rough openings for the windows, he decided they weren’t big enough and he wanted bigger. Problem was, my uncle had already ordered the windows (custom sized of course) and they were already built, just not delivered yet… But the guy had money to burn, so he paid for both sets… Anywho, my uncle had designed the roof to be held up by some hefty beams, and had intended them to be unpainted, so had sourced the high quality (expensive) ones. After we set the beams- most by crane, but one short one was in such an odd position we had to do it by hand- heaviest thing I’ve ever lifted and I only had one end… a motorcycle engine was light in comparison… anywho, he brought his wife to look at the progress, she took one look at the beams and said “… and we’ll paint those lavender…” I could just about hear the steam coming from my uncle’s ears.
Beams? Mf, they painted the rocks!
I’m never hiring a home designer.
How very dystopian.
Anyone read that in Hank Hill’s voice? It even feels in character with how into that whole neighborhood parade of homes competition thing he was.
Dale, if it gets one shade more gray in here, I’m gonna kick your ass!
Levels, Jerry!
I like the height and thickness of the couch back pillows on the right. End of list of positive changes. Replacing the carpet was probably a good move too, but they did it wrong.
The modern obsession with hard flooring (in reality: laminate) is whatever. There is, however, something almost comical about surrounding a central pit with all smooth surfaces, and then choosing a hard, pointy, rectangular table as the centerpiece.
I think this soulless monochrome room could use a splash of red.
