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You guys like wallpaper?
I’ll agree the white is eh but burn the wallpaper, no fuckin thanks.
It was beautiful in the movie, but as someone who lived through that time, it feels pretty dated these days.
The new look is boring, sterile, and reeks of faux-minimalist wallet flexing. Not my thing either.
There’s got to be a happy medium between everything has extra detail and patterns and bad sci-fi set.
It feels so sterile. The first one actually looks like a family lives there, the second looks like a motel.
Because the first one is a set designed to look like a family lives fhere.
“House”. That thing is a fucking mansion!
They Millenial’d it.
They both kind of suck tbh. The first looks like a nightmare to acid trip in and the other looks like a wizard sucked all the colour out of it.
If have to stomach one more “driftwood” floor my eye is going to start twitching.
Think of it as a canvas.
Yeah these houses aren’t meant to stay like that they’re meant to be banal enough to easily project your own style onto. It’s not the seller’s fault you have no imagination and have to be told what to like.
Not going to lie, I like the clean look of the millenial house more. We collectively grew up in clutter, where your grandma would have weird porcelain dolls, or a cabinet to display her fine china.
My grandpa had a taxidermied pheasant, great horned owl, and a coyote pelt on his living room wall.
Nothing wrong with all that, it’s just weird as a kid.
Our parents generation hoarded shit, because their parents lived through the depression. That has its own value but it gets overwhelming.
Clean? As in sterile like a hospital?
I think your example is the other extreme, but a little bit of color and a few personal items is a huge improvement over the sanitarium look.
Clean lines and a warm color scheme might be a good middle ground. The old version’s wallpapers were a bit too busy and the new one definitely looks way too sterile.
But yeah, of I had to choose I’d go with the old one.
It’s definitely lacking some colour, but we keep our house very tidy.
As white as an operating room
I get that. It can quickly evolve to clutter. I grew up in clutter and couldn’t stand it if that happens in my house. I’m already frustrated that I have a few things on a coffee table at home.
I think there is a nice balance though, to make something feel more homey without all the dead, dusty pheasants.
Did someone say lifeless and sterile?
Egh… such a boring millennial aesthetic.
Ps. I’m also a millenial. Gray is the worst colour
I agree, what they did to this house does not look good and it feels like a hotel. I’ve been in hospital rooms that were warmer and more inviting than this.
Gray is one of my favorite colors. I’ve decorated my office using various shades of gray and grey-centric hues. It looks good because I made sure there’s plenty of contrast, especially under natural light.
I’d guess these photos were taken for a home listing and that the bright and neutral paint color was intentional. Repainting walls in white or light neutral tones is common advice from realtors because it makes rooms feel brighter and is easy to paint over.I agree.
but we’re both unpopular. popular opinion is that everything should look like hotel. and if it doesn’t, it’s shitty and disgusting and awful. it’s ‘unclean’. as you can see from other comments here complaining how awful the 1990s version is.
but i confess my mentality is not upper middle class corporate where the goal is to be as inoffensive and neutral as possible. and for folks with that mentality, anything that isn’t grey and white with flat lighting, is awful and terrible.
i live in an old building with real wood floors and trim. people tell me it’s ‘unclean’ all the time and how I need to remove all the flooring and trim and put up that fake grey shit to make it ‘look clean’. and when I say ‘no, i like it this way, that’s why i bought it.’ they basically never come back to my house, because you know, clearly I’m mentally ill and disturbed if I can enjoy real mapled stained wood.
also freaks them to that i have solid wood doors, cabinets and such, instead of hollow plastic ones you find in new construction.
New one looks like an Ikea. Old one looks like a home.
Blindingly white
Eh I much prefer the clean look. The older design looks cluttered and a bit tacky to me.
Before feels like Santa is real and I can almost feel the heat from the fireplace in another room… After is the brutal truth that Santa never existed in the first place, the child in you is dead, and a reminder that we live in a cold, corporate hellscape.
Photo 1: designed by Catherine O’Hara in Home Alone
Photo 2: designed by Catherine O’Hara in Beetlejuice
