It just pisses me off when people put down old interior design trends as hideous, nasty, tacky, or ugly.
It just pisses me off when people put down old interior design trends as hideous, nasty, tacky, or ugly.
It just pisses me off when people put down old interior design trends as hideous, nasty, tacky, or ugly.
people who don't really have opinions tend to be the ones who most strongly advocate for the opinions held by authority figures such as celebrities or people within any given industry. it makes them feel sophisticated.
forgot to add that these "authority figures" are usually financially incentivized to promote their own ideas and products thus shitting all over the thing that came before them as out of style etc.
Imagine a person who has done nothing with their life except doodle and be "idea man". They have no clue how to do carpentry or how to actually do art. However they happened to meet the right Heim at the right Time. That is your "authority figure" for interior design.
I hate painted knotty pine cabinets that just needed some sanding and shellac. I hate that stupid chalked "vintage" garbage paint shit people use on their old Ikea items as a coping mechanism for not just buying and fixing up old furniture. I hate walking into a living room and seeing recycled garbage, driftwood and barndoors where they should never be.
I hate how "design" has slowly turned into cherishing corroding old things because they look different than the sterile industrial counterparts they're mixed with. They also at least remind their older customers of the time when the actual old thing would have worked better, despite it not sctually doing that and being a new plastic piece of shit.
Please don't enable their pilpul rhetoric
>knotty pine
my favorite marketing shlock. "Knotty pine" marked up when it's literally garbage framing lumber lmao
Trends are inherently dated and tacky
i bet you thought that was an intelligent thing to post
It was. So if he did he was right
2 low iqs dont make a high iq
moron 80 + 80 is 160. 2 low make high lrn to math
It's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the board itself.
>hideous, nasty, tacky, or ugly.
hideous and ugly: carpet color, texture, step design, fricking tree trunks, and that bizarro scupture
tacky: the stupid pillows, especially the tubular one, and whatever that weird structure around the trees is supposed to be
OP left out "downright stupid" for the column right smack in the middle of the steps
nasty: OP's opinion
>step design
that's being too anal, stairs are stairs
tree is okay, rest is valid criticism, the palette is just ass and nonsensical
yeah frick that sculpture, reminds me of BeetleJuice
I just lean into it
Cheaper and easier than doing renos for aesthetic that might not age well
Plus i got a lot of beautiful mcm furniture for free
Based doggo with a “what the frick are you looking at” look.
this. My house will never not be MCM down to its bones so I embrace it. Unfortunately there's a lot of contemporary crap from the previous people to correct.
I hear you lad but ditch those frilly skirts on top of the curtains, those things are dust magnets that are impossible to keep clean unless taken down and washed every year or so
>trends
Well that's your problem, very few "trends" survive into becoming a classic design.
Same way the current trends will be considered hideous in a few.
Soulless
This would look good without all the fricking carpet everywhere. The only reason all these gross 70s houses had so much carpet was because it was cheaper to install than wood/tile. Now that we have better and cheaper materials there's really no excuse.
old carpet is kino idw the shit they make now
What once is old is new again
god that was cringey. not to mention that laugh tracks are the stupidest thing ever invented.
Spotted the avocado bathroom enjoyer
I'd rather be an avocado bathroom enjoyer than a laugh track aficianado
I love those.
I make a living cleaning houses and I've had nightmares about this.
At least it's not a shade of dry piss colored ochre.
Or chronic masturbator ochre.
>carpet in the bathroom
disgusting
I wish this were true because ive been looking to replace a cracked powder blue toilet and im not having any luck finding one
Are you that weak minded of the opinions of others, in a space you will live in?
People think they're hideous, nasty, tacky, or ugly it's because they're hideous, nasty, tacky, or ugly.
Not because they're old.
Hardwood floor will never go out of style. We'll have hardwood floors on fancy spaceships in the future.
>Hardwood floor will never go out of style.
They have before and they will again.
carpet may come back, though i dont know why anyone likes it because unless you put it in yourself its just going to smell like dog no matter how many times you steam clean it, but hardwood is classic. i may be biased against carpet though because my mom used to remove it and said that the amount of dirt that gets trapped underneath and cant be cleaned until its removed would be enough to make anyones skin crawl, i cant stand things that are difficult/cant be cleaned properly.
>hardwood is classic
"Classic" doesn't mean "always in style."
whatever you say man, but no ones ever going to walk into your house if you have it and think "wow this is so dated and ugly" unless of course you stained it grey for some reason, but thats usually all vinyl.
70s colors suck, sorry to break it to you. The floating stairs are fine. Carpet running up the step is... annoying to clean, but aesthetically fine.
But that color is hideous and you should feel ashamed for liking it
cringe
>70s colors suck, sorry to break it to you.
> second word in OP's picrel file name is "1960s"
Both decades used those colors. I was alive then.
So was I and *news flash* all those colors were used in all decades before and after the 1960s/70s...
Reminder that most homes don't get a remodel for a few decades at a time, so unless it was new-built it's probably older.
>Still see lots of wood-paneled rooms or even full houses on Zillow
Painting isn't remodeling and happens far more frequently. Even rental housing gets repainted more often than multiple decades apart, so your "reminder" is no sense.
Same with your comment about wood panelling, which is an ancient wall material/ finish. Even if you are just talking about the fake 4×8 panels associated with mid century tract house trends, those are still available and are seen in cheap housing to this day, and were around for years before becoming a major design trend.
god what I would do for a conversation pit in my living room, shit looks cash
Tripping hazard (always design for old age), dirt trap, gaudy. Lose the carpet and stairs, the rest is passable but that era wasn't really about comfort but art display. Stairs with the column in the center is a moronic location and unless made with stout steel supports the setup will be far too flexy.
Instead of the white/god wopshit a darker carpet and clear-coated wicker (which also sucks because it loosens under use, I grew up with that stuff when it was in fashion) would look better longer. Danish Modern is much more attractive in a white room of that sort.
Honestly imo "trends" are less what fail and more "Quality." If you have a 60s or 70s house with quality expensive furniture it's easy to make work with some change in blinds, paint, etc. Every hideous house from decades ago looks like a dated mess because the furniture is cheap shit, just like how a house today that is "soulless" is mostly because the furniture itself is probably cheap ikea garbage.
The worst modern trend is farm style interiors. Looks tacky and will look shit and old within a decade
Another one was from the early to mid 2000s of painting everything beige, magnolia!
We do that because they are hideous, nasty, tacky and ugly. For example, your pic.
I was gonna do white subway tile in my bathroom do you guys think its timeless? Its one part of the current remodelling trend that i really like
>timeless?
Nothing is. Current trend seems to be bland, joyless and cowardly. White tile fits would right in.
Why is there a post in the middle of the steps though
left is for you and the wife, right is for the butler
Greatest generation, man.