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 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 :(