Why does every freshly done 2023 interior now have these grey meme walls? It's EVERYWHERE
Why does every freshly done 2023 interior now have these grey meme walls? It's EVERYWHERE
Why does every freshly done 2023 interior now have these grey meme walls? It's EVERYWHERE
Did a double take. had to make sure it wasn't a photo / post of my own home.
grey, on grey, on grey, with grey and white accents. we have a black roof, just to change it up a bit. gott keep people like you, off kilter.
because they are ultimately allowing economy and money to influence their decision making. They aren't thinking "what do i like??" they're literally just thinking "what will be a safe financial bet?" it's disgusting. Nobody knows what they want they're just a bunch of prairie dogs looking at everybody else waiting for the next easy buck.
I like grey as a wall color it's better than the beige shit from a while ago. I use it as a wall color regardless of what's trending. I think 'greige' was the direction the rental market was moving in because of said, it's a safe bet, wider appeal to whatever cattle you're renting to.
this, it's "safe" because people treat their houses like an investment and want to make their house as sellable as possible.
whenever I try to tell people that house prices shouldn't ever go up they look at me like I'm the stupid one.
As they should, why should house prices stay the same while everything else increases in price?
>everything else increases in price
nothing should be increasing in price, that's the point I'm always trying to make. at this point in our technological development everything should be getting cheaper.
You are correct, houses are a consumptive good. Housing always going up is due to several aberrations in the economy including fractional reserve banking, loose lending, migration and zoning laws.
>at this point in our technological development everything should be getting cheaper.
Land is the primary determinant of house costs, and I'm not sure our land-creation technology has improved much lately
irrelevant
A mealy mouthed reply
>Land is the primary determinant of house costs
are you suggesting that it's now cheaper to build a house than it was in the 70's? (assuming that you already own the land)
Building a house to 2023 standards would probably be more expensive if you did it in the 70s yes
>supply and demand doesn't exist la la la la
another moron who skimmed the economics article on wikipedia and now feels qualified to engage in discourse
Is it any more stupid than stating "technology alone dictates price"?
Good Ice cream used to be rare, yet only 25¢. Now it is everywhere and multiple dollars.
See
Things should decrease in price relative to income. Because production methods get better, technology improves. But working class people gave away all their leverage in an economy that requires leverage to operate fairly. You can’t have a free market between a slave and a master, you can’t have one when one party is under duress. So wages stagnate while inflation rises, effectively working as a tax on all working and middle class people, expressly to the benefit of the wealthy. We need Teddy Roosevelt 2.0 (which could def happen) and for people to get off their fat asses and engage with their community beyond Uber-eats and Facebook (which probably won’t). And so the baby boomers will leave the economy worse than they found it, pillaging a social security program they didn’t fund as their last act of selfishness. And houses prices will just increase more
>Gave away
No, one rich fricker was able to shift the entire system by becoming president and having a Congress willing to do his will. Reagan destroyed the economy.
And people voted for him and let his policies flourish. “Greed is good” became the religion of all boomers and it has nearly destroyed the country. “Society isn’t real” “selfishness is actually a virtue” “the individual before all” and then they wonder why the world has become an atomized hellscape. The boomers sold your future for a bowl of soup and a bonus for Mr Shekelburg, they are the “me” generation.
>heh, frick everyone else MY house value needs to go up
>well I worked hard I deserve social security
>someone else is getting something I’m not!
Protecting the value of their homes is the only thing boomers considered, and that will be the law of the land until more young people vote them away
>Regan debased USD so hard we were forced off the gold standard
That was LBJ, and JFKs refusal to destroy the USD is what got him killed.
Threadly reminder that prices in real terms haven't risen, wages have just cratered and the USD shitcoin has been debased to hell, MEDIAN household income in 1970 was 235oz of gold, few doctors make that now
Reagan gutted the entire tax system purely for the benefit of the rich, and everything you're describing was caused by that key inflection point, because it also poisoned public discourse against raising taxes on the rich.
No, wages have been in freefall since '71, if debasement increased all prices equally and proportionally there would be no impetus to debase, debasement is a wealth transfer from illiquid asset holders (e.g. income earners, as labor is a highly illiquid asset) to liquid asset holders (oligarchs)
Wages were in a decline, sure, but Reagan ensured they'd never recover and facilitated one of the largest wealth transfers in our history.
No, there was no change, zero, in the downward trajectory in wages during ronnie raygun's term, stop falling for political theater, all the problems since '71 stem solely from fiat and the ease of debasement under trust-based currencies
>Source: a lolbertarian's ass
Yes, let's just keep cutting taxes, it's sure to work some day.
>direction-brained fool
Money injected into an economy works almost exactly like electricity flowing into a circuit, with how liquid an asset is being analogous to resistance, fiscal and tax policy is irrelevant, expansion of monetary base will always pump liquid assets more than illiquid assets (labor included), remember that around 2/3rds of total federal spending is social spending, where the money is injected is does not matter, monetary debasement is the driver of the income/productivity divergence, and the subsequent wealth concentration, seen since '71.
To reiterate, MEDIAN household income in 1970 was 235oz of gold ($450k in 2023 dollars), the problem is monetary, not political, keep falling for political theater and you'll keep being a slave.
>Full moron who measures things in volume of gold
Gold is not magical money sauce.
You seriously don't get that cutting top marginal tax rates is the cause that locked in the changes in wages vs productivity?
Having high marginal rates meant the rich weren't hoarding as much in personal wealth, they were taking far less money than they do now. Money that instead went into payroll and capital expansion is now your CEO's annual yacht bonus instead.
You're looking at the data and making a weird conclusion because you've got a weird sex thing going on about gold.
Do people who post this not realise that 12 cents in 1970 is worth about a dollar today, or do they just think everything has increased in price 9x since then
>Things should decrease in price relative to income.
No, they shouldnt.
Yes, they should. That’s how technology works. I’ve explained it twice now, how much more help do you need?
>That’s how technology works
No it isnt
>I’ve explained it twice now
No you havent.
>is a perfect mindless goy golem
Technology is always and only a force multiplier, literally explicitly what technology is
Cool story. You still havent explained shit.
Food cost was most of most peoples entire income for most of history, now it's what 10%? Why? Technology. Technology increases the output for a given human's input, which without perversions like fiat result in declining nominal prices and increasing quality of life
Thank you for explaining why things shouldnt necessarily decrease in price relative to income
If you’re too dumb to understand concepts from Econ 101 why insert yourself into the conversation?
moron
What a grossly simplified view to see technology as the only determinant of price, no wonder you're frustrated
we bought our house in the early 90's. we could barely addorf it at the time $59,000 refinanced 3 times and had a house payment in the early 2000's of $300. we doubled up on payments and payed it off 5 years early.
all the frickers from california drove up the market prices so it was worth $365,000 when we sold it. sold my wifes mother-in-laws house for $370,000 and bought an artificially high house that cost $485,000.
then put another $85,000 in it.
don't care about it as an investment, just want it to be nice, the next stop for us is either a luxury old peoples home or the grave.
>addorf
afford
This is true and as gay as it is, the rental spec npc grey is still waaaay better than having to tear out shiplap accent walls and postmodern industrial fixtures/features (Muh black pipe... muh edison bulb.. muh gigantic concrete kitchen island.. muh copper bowl on a live edge slab bathroom vanity)
>muh gigantic concrete kitchen island
That sounds kind of nice though. Like a pure utilitarian space to cook shit.
Absolutely nothing wrong with shiplap, anon. Solid wood is a choice building material and great as a wall covering. I don't know what you're on about. You're probably one of those shitty house flippers or something. You people don't know shit about nice things. You are like locusts.
>(Muh black pipe... muh edison bulb.. muh gigantic concrete kitchen island.. muh copper bowl on a live edge slab bathroom vanity)
if you seriously think flat grey paint is better than thise things then you are completely moronic
He’s right. I don’t want all this fricking garbage cluttering up my house. I don’t need raw lumber on my wall. Drywall is fine. Or plastered walls but you poor losers don’t know about that. Black pipes look tacky as frick outside of a workshop. Edison bulbs are tryhard just get regular lights you fricking NERD LOSERS
god you're pathetic
Eat shit frick face
Our last house was a technicolor, chintzy mess. Accent walls everywhere, a stack of half-empty paint cans in the garage, so much shit hung on the walls that after I removed everything there were several that looked like they'd been hit by a shotgun blast. So I insisted that our new, smaller home be uniform and a light gray was ultimately chosen. We aren't trying to increase resale value or be trendy, but like
says, versatility was important. And in a house where nearly every room is visible from standing in the hallway, I prefer coherence.
It works well, opens up the space, and color/interest can be added through curtains or decor.
I'm moving into my house soon and need to decide on paint. I took home the sample book for warm and cool colors. I left the neutral gray there because I don't want to see bland soulless walls all day. I'm thinking a nice blue for the bedrooms/living room and a light green for the bathroom. A tasteful green, not a 70's lime green.
dont you know the meaning of "trend"? thats it, its this era trend, some homosexual ses this and then a lot of other homosexuals imitates that, thats why, there you have your answer
hate grey paint. hate lvp. simple as
Here its all white walls and white/grey tile. Looks all the same. And its all built by hindus
I'm ok with the one or two whites used on walls and trim. It gives you a clean shot to go as big as you want with your colors everywhere else. Monochrome everything is peak npc though. It's as bad as beige.
>Why does every freshly done 2023 interior now have these grey meme walls? It's EVERYWHERE
Cause "Modern" interior is suppose to be cheap as frick to design. And like usual npcs fall for the sterile and clean look and pay premium dollar for this shit. Only hucksters like flippers and interior designers can get away at selling $5,000 of materials for 5x the price, this is also why you see morons selling half of million dollar homes in areas where they sell for 200k.
That is a shit-ton of unnecessary mdf crown moulding.
My house doesn’t have it because it was designed to cover the inevitable cracks where the horsehair plaster wasn’t continuous like the ceiling/roof interface.
I guess they forgot what it was for again, or it’s covering earthquake damage.
I like the grey walls, it’s like a prison cell.
> victorian time trends
Yeah, instead of a tesla, I’m going to invest in a horse and carriage.
You'd get more use out of the horse and carriage. Tesla have shit build quality. The Amish will buy/build a buggy and it will last them their entire lives.
Its HGTV gray.
Not too dark
Not too light
Just right
shot of black
walls: off white of your choice
trim: glossy pure white
It's that easy
You VILL paint ze walls Agreeable Gray and you VILL be happy
>every single common design feature in anything ever is described as le heckin' memerino
God, could you imagine having PrepHole in the 40s, 50s, 60s, etc?
Works for my rentoids.
White was a pain in the ass when my kids were still toddlers, but after they were old enough to not do stupid shit like somehow find play-doh and smear it everywhere it became a lot more manageable. Same with my furniture though, almost everything in my house is Mahogany that I stained a dark shade.
I vill have my comfy rustic
>Termites enters the chat
Don't live in a shit state and it's not a problem
Yidds will rip all that wood out and replace it with modern stickersheet fake wood and directly painted over drywall. Of course in the bathroom though the walls will be covered in wallpaper that'll peel off when subject to moisture. Then they'll take your security to pay for the damages.
For me, it's SW City Loft. Reads white, but hides all the dirt better from my kids and dogs touching the walls. My wife picked it out though, I can't tell any of these colors apart.
Kek. I literally do work through a company that does work for giant israelite companies that are buying everything up and we paint everything Sherwin-Williams agreeable Gray
i hate agreeable grey. recently sold my childhood home and the realty company painted my purple bedroom the ugliest shade of grey (it looked very white in the pictures). sad to see
Same happens with cars. Compare old photos of highways with recent ones. Now almost every car is either black, white, grey or silver. It's crazy.
Yeah I think everyone just wants to be in that car chase scene from the Matrix Reloaded
matrix is actually real?
I bought my place and it had disgusting beige walls.
I painted them all white. Not off-white, just pure white, with same colour ceilings. Contrasts well with my dark brown furniture and wooden floor.
My car is teal, second shade fromt he left.
Frick greys. Frick grey houses, frick grey cars and FRICK those new houses that come in constrasting white and dark grey on the outside walls.
And forgot, kid's room has one wall a slightly darker shade of teal mished with a bit of green, because he likes the car's colour and wanted it on he wall. It looks great.
>Hunter green was popular in the mid 90s
>Now it's non existence
What the frick happen? At least firetruck red is making a come back.
for some reason I kept checking the legend as I was reading this chart.
Why the frick was silver so popular in the early 2000s?
A direct response to the overly-colorful 90s
Primer grey is the worst trend ever.
This color looked kind of cool on like the first Dodge Charger SRT I saw it on, and then horrible every time after that.
The new desert tan color you see on some new Tacomas and stuff though, I don’t hate it, looks decent with black wheels and a black brush guard.
no one really wanted your opinion
I like it on some cars.
Maybe because it feels like a spin off to the typical silver metallic color, looks like something new without trying too hard to stand out from the crowd, like some bright ass colors or matt.
Have any cars actually come out of the factory as matte? I remember most of those being wrapped. Why are all trends so vile?
The only impression I want people to have based on my car is that I don't want them to have any impression of me based on my car.
I think black and white cars are soulful. They seem more professional and not like a kids hot wheels car.
Think back to pre 1950 when everyone's car was black or a very dark shade of blue/red if any color.
I'd love to know the source of the mental illness that makes people think having literally any color at all in the world is a childish, unprofessional thing.
I wish I could even get a car in green
black white, and grey are probaly the cheapest colours thats why
>grey meme walls
it's versatile. Could go with any color furnishings/rugs/etc.
As soon as you go with a more "unique" color it immediately limits the contents of the room to what "matches" or "goes" with the wall color.
Can confirm, had to repaint the whole downstairs when I got this house last year. Upstairs is still that color, I’ll repaint when I rip the carpet out.
People design their houses now with reselling in mind so they just do bullshit bland designs that normies eat up
subway tile is my current pet peeve
my house has green, yellow, blue, brown, red and very very light grey/white walls. Was entirely sky blue interior when i bought it. the old 5 gallon special.
That’s the room I poured hot oil into Kevin Van Dam’s gushing ass pussy
I hate extensive greys and whites. Completely sterile looking and it's a 90% chance the homeowner is worried about resale, living for someone they've never met, or is utterly lacking in imagination and simply follows the herd and tries to be as inoffensive as possible. There's no such thing as a wrong color, it's easy to repaint, so have a little fun, do something you like, after all you're the one that's going to be staring at it for years. I'm gonna do an old time blue and brown color scheme in my room because frick it, I think it would look cool.
>There's no such thing as a wrong color
>Except greys and whites
For the same reason like 90% of new cars are white, black, or some shade of grey in between. People are NPC's.
Agreed. But those trims are sexy though.
Is that a heckin liminal spacerino? AAAAAAA I'M GOING INSANE.
bit too much ceiling trim on that IMO, and the I always do a beige color when painting rooms in my house as I find it comfy as a house should be.
Going off-topic here, but I've been noticing something similar, involving vehicles. I've NEVER seen so many brand-new, expensive-model cars and trucks painted fricking primer gray, with a clearcoat for shine. I think people are literally afraid to choose any color that might affect the resale value or offend someone and as a result, they're driving a 4-wheeled yawn.
at some point they decided white gray and black were the future, and also the cheapest product for CONSOOOOMERS
Should be pretty easy to paint over that gray. White trim is in, which means white walls are out, so the next best thing from a neutral standpoint is some shade of gray. Colors can be polarizing, so fresh builds or soon-to-sells are going to pick something akin to a clean slate, which is what gray is. Let the homeowner make it their own.
Back in the day, painted trim was not very popular. It was all about stained trim, so you got a lot of white walls because of that, but you really can't do white trim on white walls and white is such a good color for trim that wall color had to evolve. The beige did have its day, but beige is about as polarizing as gray, so what the heck are you gonna do.
I think we should go back to stain-grade work, but unfortunately builder skill is in the pits. Production carpenters (mostly mexicans) wouldn't be able to slap that shit up fast enough and nobody could erase their shoddy-ass work with caulk and bondo. So now you have all these dwellings that look good for like 3-4 months. Then the caulk starts to recede and everything warps from the all of the settling as the spongy, young dimensional lumber framing that sat uncovered through rain, snow and sunshine pulls that cheap, bullshit OSB every which way. Modern production builds are a terrible joke.
Everything went to white with gray highlights if necessary at least 10 years ago, for cost and convention real estate purposes. Then someone needed to be be different but all the hue was gone (deleted/impossible no paint production competitiveness) so gray was where it was at
Sellers don't want to put-off potential buyers because they hate a certain color.
The other part of it is for decoration. You can change the "feel" of the room with all the crap you bought from Marshalls/HomeGoods and Ikea. Fill it with certain colors and now you match the season or your mood ring or whatever.
On the other hand, I've seen old houses with rooms where it seemed like a bored housewife took a class at the local paint store that showed them how to 'texture' the walls decades ago. Or maybe it was a trend because a few houses in that neighborhood apparently had the same shit. It was caked on so bad that it would've been faster to rip out the drywall to redo that disgusting garbage because it took a rotary sander forever to get down to the drywall paper.
>Sellers don't want to put-off potential buyers because they hate a certain color.
This is the biggest one. All I hear on those HGTV shows from the wife is "I don't like that color". It could be the absolute perfect home for them, but because of one color, they won't buy it. It's super moronic, but it's real.
I hate gray.
Born in wrong time, fren.
"I don't like that color"
so paint it something else
why are women so fricking stupid
>why are women so fricking stupid
they will barely qualify for the house, so won't have any money left to pay for paint.
we painted our houses white. semi gloss white. goes with anything, can be easily painted over.
Modern women don't have any practical skills so they are totally clueless about basically everything.
My wife found out the the previous owners wife died in the house of incurable cancer 2 years earlier and was sleeved out by it. I told her, do you really want to lose our deposit for this? She was like, "no but hmmm." I was about to skip her.
Also for renting. I've bought and started decorating my first place and I've decided it's for me, frick whatever a prospective buyer would think, I'm having a blue room and a floral carpet
in the 70's it was navajo white (think unwashed flat white walls). my mom loved it. our old house had it.
we immediately painted everything semi gloss white. except the bedroom which was ice blue.
It's a neutral coat so buyers can easily paint it with whatever gay ass color they want
It's a psyop to keep you accepting blandness and thus stifling free thought. Now suck on your bong and cintinue watching big brother.
The way I look at it, paining the walls a neutral color allows them to be a blank slate, which allows for the decor to make more of a statement. I personally like to decorate for the seasons, and if I painted the walls a brighter color that would work for spring and summer decor, it may not look as well when I decorate for autumn and winter. with the walls painted a neutral color, I can seamlessly decorate how I see fit, and the walls remain a blank canvas for whatever occasion I want to decorate for.
t. 25y/o zoomer who just bought and is fixing up a house
It also instantaneously reduces the light levels in the house significantly. People sometimes complain pure white looks too clinical. It's stark when the room is empty but that's why you add other items with colour to it after. The echo also instantly reduces as soon as any furniture is placed in the room.
>People sometimes complain pure white looks too clinical.
They also complain when it's not just a chip anymore and is actually applied in a room and then takes on the colors of the light reflected off of hardwood floors that turns the walls pink or yellow, or when light reflecting off of exterior foliage makes the walls green.
Gray absorbs a lot of that light and stays more consistent under different lighting types and conditions.
It's also way easier to cover with another color than white, which is why gray primer is a thing.
To make it look bigger than it is.
I don't think the paint does that. when we were looking for a new house 2 years ago, we would look at a listing, then go there and everything was smaller than it looked in the pictures.
That's because the photogays use israeli optical tricks to make the room look bigger than it really is. Same shit girls use to make their faces look skinner.
All of these pictures look the same size wise. Maybe this fools a moronic woman and her "feels" but the window gives away the size consistency between themm
Those are different sized rooms chosen so that the paint negates the difference, making them look the same e.g. room painted to look longer is shorter than the "baseline" white room
No they aren't, they're the same photo of the same space with the gray digitally "painted" on. Look at where the ceiling lights and window and floor/ceiling-to-wall lines register in the frame, they're all the same shot.
Sadly, whoever did it and added the captions had no clue WTF they are doing or talking about; the all white space in pic 1 looks less spacious than #s 5&6 (counting L-R) because dark colors recede and lighter colors appear closer, visually speaking.
Room surfaces appearing closer = the effect of a smaller room.
Same with dark ceilings...commercial spaces paint ceilings black to make the place appear more spacious, not "bring the ceiling down". Nobody looks into a black, starless sky and feels like there's a lid over them, or looks into a dark space and thinks , "wow, this seems really cramped" based on that visual alone, quite the opposite.
you motherfricker I had to fricking check
It's a good color for trying to sell your home because it is a neutral color. Easier for people to imagine their trash in the room.
It's worse, here in the uk people are painting the exteriors and window frames with it.
It'll go out of fashion, soon, as quickly as it came into fashion. Basically as soon as the paint sales peak.
Don't forget the $500 hospital waiting room style grey upholstered chairs.
that looks like a very shit implementation though, everything else is also boring and gray
mom mixed this paint up with a friend (they are both art school morons)
Because it is one of the least shitty colors to use with the garbage laminated MDF nu-furniture that is everywhere these days. Enjoy your doors and cabinets that will last 5 years max and your completely gray rooms, I will keep my white walls and real wood, thanks.
I literally painted my living room like this, because its a neutral colour that makes whatever painting/poster i hang, look better
I'm not crazy about grey walls, but when I look at that room the biggest blunder is that stupid amount of crown molding, and secondly the floor looks pretty awful, but that might be an unflattering photo.
your tastes are 75% what everyone else likes at the time
I always paint my walls pure white because I want MAXIMUM light in my rooms to make them feel as airy as possible. Decoration deals with making things look not sterile just fine. Grey walls just eat up light. They are literally useless (apart form NPC resale homosexualry)
this but darker earth tones for the opposite reason. i want my room to be a dank dungeon and to really FEEL indoors so it's nicer when i go out and isn't so uncomfortably bright at night and i have a screen on
Makes me want to hang some wallpaper.
honestly not as bad as the oxford blue girlboss cabinets everyone was doing a couple years back
oh who am I kidding it's precisely as bad because it's meant to appeal to precisely the same people
>girlboss cabinets
So that's a thing?
I thought it was just an evolution of the whole minimalism meme that appeals to applegays, techgays, medical practitioners and Kim K.
I don't like the color but I e loved that style of cabinet with the frosted class I set since I saw it on an old episode of New Yankee Workshop decades ago
I was told it's the new hotness back when I was buying a house in 2016
>have white wall
>wall is dirty
>use sponge
>wall is clean
>have grey wall
>wall gets dirty
>time to repaint!
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/interior-design-greige-capitalism/
Flipper special, hides mold stains.
I'll never understand why everyone seemed to come together and say pastel colours are shit. I like how bright it makes rooms without drawing attention.
almost all the renos in my neighborhood since i've been here went with grey / grey+blue / grey+white exterior facades
it's an anti-style, an affront to aesthetics
everyone suggesting the cause is financial, like offwhite paint would break the budget(???), is a mentally moronic coincidence theorist
Landlords and developers will usually paint the walls a bright, neutral color to make the space seem "cleaner" and "bigger". Grey is more "modern" or something I guess, but serves the same purpose- it helps sell the space.
>OMG I NEED this boring grey, beige, or white that I don't actually like for when I sell the house
Let me guess, you don't frick your girlfriend because your want to save her for the next man?
too many homosexual morons in this thread b***hin about boomers to cover for their own failings. the real enemy are the homosexual morons who paint their homes grey to appeal to homosexual morons that hate boomers. homosexual morons
learn the ONE secret home renovators HATE
white walls and orange ceiling just works. Goes well with lots of styles, and the warm colors boost mood to be around
Looks weird, but I don't hate it
It does look strange but I do feel attracted to it. Wouldn't be surprised if that became a trend some time
The key are brightly colored walls and a cream ceiling
for me, its a bathroom painted blue