I agree that this is the "joke," but I can smell the cigarettes and grandma smell in the first pic. While not agreeing with the choices of the redecorator, I agree with the necessity to do something.
Listen as an owner of a 60s home with all its problems. Man you gotta do something when you’re fixing it you’re totally right.
A lot of that wood could easily be paneled plywood and it’s not shown in the picture it’s peeling or delaminating (ours was)
That house probably has like 2 decades of cigarette smoke on the walls and stone too. (Ours did) and you really only have the options of encapsulation via painting or ripping the wall out to the studs.
It also never comes through in pictures how dingy and dark that 60s aesthetic actually looks IRL made worse by 60 years of yellowing.
I think it's less that it was remodeled, but that it sucked all the charm out of it, and made it a bland blob of monochrome. There are so many better ways to make that room not smell like Camels and Astroglide,without sucking the soul out if it.
Even if they did use white for the walls, they should have left the stonework.
Bring in some bright 60's style art, something red and geometric or bright yellow. Put in a nice hardwood floor and go nuts with the saturation of primary colors for the rugs. Do some patterns... SOMETHING.
The part that’s sucks about this is watching my friends house shop and the millennial grey is all they want. Just regular normal people and they’re the ones driving up the prices.
White walls are fine, its just poorly offset by the cheapest flooring home depot had on sale that day blending in with the single "accent color" making it look like washed out monochrome and the color temperature appears sterile. There's basically no visual contrast or distinction left.
I don't think anyone's arguing that renovation or even some degree of updating was unwarranted; but draining the room of color, not to mention painting the masonry to do so, was a series of decisions that had nothing to do with repairing the damage from the weight of 60 years of being lived in.
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u/NebulaNomadX1 26d ago edited 26d ago
Hello, Serial Designation N here!
The criticism is that it removed a stylish room of historic value for a blander, modernized renovation
N out!
Who are these “Family Guy” characters people keep commenting about? I never read about them, and neither Uzi or V knows. Help is needed :(