Apart from the garish turquoise carpet, I think the original looks timelessly vintage.
Whereas the one on the right looks fashionable, but has almost no character of its own - kind of like those rich people houses you see on YouTube listed for millions, but nobody actually ever seems to buy.
Right side looks great.
Who puts a fucking square Table into a circular seating arrangement!? Fecking lunatics who are apparently also scared of color.
Unless someone has more information on this, I’m going to chalk this up to AI-generated rage bait.
The kitchen area still has the same items on that shelf, there’s an ugly hole where the old CRT TV is (despite the room being “finished” looking), the reflection on the TV is still the same, and the patio turned into an office meeting room. I’m not going to spend time on perspective calculations, but something about the beams on the roof and the placement of the railing look off.
It was the legs on the table in the pit that stuck out to me first
It was the corners on the square table that stuck out to me.
Bangs knee - dammit!
Who puts a fucking square Table into a circular seating arrangement!?
This person: “Let’s play a game…”
and they replaced the pretty hand rail with whatever they found at home depot that was black
*and they fucked up the dimensions of the seating
**fuck
'Muricans
The closest thing they have to culture is the stuff growing between their toes
Say that to any restaurant in Chicago watch them invent a whole new cuisine with what’s left of your body lol
One of the most pathetic things about Americans is them claiming to be a part of other cultures
I remember when I was running a bar in Scotland, and a stupid Yank said “oh, I’m Scottish”
I asked him a few questions, and it transpired that his great grandfather was Scottish
Not him.
This was the same for Yanks claiming to be French, Irish, and all sorts
The closest any got was German.
America had culture for thousands of years, then some white shit heads did their best to kill it, and they still know deep down that they are stupid barbarians, so they pretend
It’s pathetic.
I was running a bar in Scotland
it transpired that his great grandfather was Scottish
Not him.
America had culture for thousands of years, then some white shit heads did their best to kill it
Aren’t the “white shit heads” in this case from your culture though?
Look, I get it, the US sucks and we are terrible people. But it gets really tiring being shit on by the same people who sent over all the “white shit heads” in the first place.
I’m not from the UK.
If you’re from Western Europe I guarantee your ancestors’ countrymen and women were all up in here, too. Eastern Europe probably also, just a little later.
Scottish people aren’t white? You’re not Scottish? I was talking about the irony that you’re referring to the American in question as a “white shit head” when he’s literally descended from your culture.
But whatever bro, honestly I’m just blocking you and moving on. I just don’t have the patience to play 20 Questions with you.
You’re viewing US culture from another country, where you’re only getting the corporate monoculture that dominates our popular culture. But visit the more urban parts of any city in the US and you’ll be confronted with the reality of a more complex local culture
I spend a lot of time in the US
I’d rather not, but that’s just a part of my life at the moment
It’s a truly warped place.
Again, the US isn’t one single place. Where are you visiting?
Ight that’s it, you’ve lost your jazz, blues (inc. blues derivatives), and hip-hop privileges
They painted natural wood and stone. I am having a panic attack over how much irreversible damage they inflicted on that historic space.
Hey a fuckpit’s a fuckpit. By the looks of it, they have the money for someone to clean off that upholstery. More bothered by that “landlord style” painting of the stone wall. Would have been a great accent.
idk, that floor looks like vinyl planking from costco
I hope they replace the 80s Colour TV with a monochrome medical display just to bring it all home.
It’s a 90s TV, the chassis is gray plastic. It probably has S-Video so worth keeping. (Reminder that almost all European TVs from 1990-2010 have SCART, which is unwieldy thick but SD RGBA, and are PAL- and NTSC-compatible)
Laminate flooring from the discount aisle of the home improvement store. White base paint from the discount aisle of the home improvement store. Imitation leather from the… You get the point
That gray laminate is an instant no.
If houses had red flags, that gray flooring is one.
The clear, obvious message I receive every time I see that flooring is that someone went for cheap, cookie-cutter shit over every possible other option. They didn’t care, didn’t think things through, and have certainly hidden problems or improperly installed other parts of their cut-rate flip.
I miss colors. In everything.
SO MUCH THIS!
The soul of everything has been sucked out, we get greys and whites. And if we’re particularly bougie: stainless steel and black enamel.
Cars, appliances, furniture, flooring, etc.
I want the world to have CHARACTER again!
The original version was so peak, though. Now, it looks depressing :(
The first one has character, it has SOUL.
The second one went with soulless landlord chic. It has no character anymore.
Nice dentist’s waiting room you’ve created, you soulless ghouls.
Only issue with the left photo is the carpet. Replace it with plank/tile and it’s all good.
Wood paneling needs to go too
Wood paneling is so pretty though!
Meh, it can be in the right setting. Not sure it is here.
I’m fine with the 2010s era minimalist decor.
But painting over stone and high quality wood panels is crazy. If you want the minimalist look, then this wasn’t the house you start with. Fucking Beetlejuice ass joists.
Fucking Beetlejuice ass joists.
LOL i knew the room reminded me of something!
For someone who is not on the usa. How does this structure look like beneath? Is there really space wasted to have some part of the room at a little lower level?
I’ve never been in a house with a conversation pit, almost no Americans have actually seen one. They’re a leftover from the 60s and 70s when people were high on coke or “weight loss” pills.
My dad had one years ago - house was built in the mid 60s. Phoenix area. No basement. Concrete slab. So yeah, the slab was poured with that pit in it, under it was just dirt.
They are both ugly. The only thing worth preserving is the stone wall and the beams. The wood paneling on the walls is most likely just veneer. I’m not really a fan of lacquered wood paneled walls unless they have some eye catching feature. The smoothness makes them look like a floor.
Really? The only ugly thing on the left is the carpet and its color.
I’d personally keep a carpet but go with an olive rather than the blue-green that it is in the left pic
Carpet is a horrendous material.
I do agree with you that carpet is awful, but that mustard yellow or olive green carpet combined with the conversation pit just hit me right in the nostalgia.
I would say go with a wood floor (not the landlord-chic-nightmare in the picture) but with the wood panel walls it’d be a bit much on the wood.
I have memories of some kind of hard orange carpet with a strange texture that consisted of regularly spaced knobs of material. It was impossible to get clean with my Mom’s weird stick vacuum and I played on the ground a lot and saw all the debris left between the knobs.
Is the second photo black and white?
Bullshit. Someone just used an ai filter on a picture for internet points.
The AI even kept the CRT TV in the “after” pic lmao
Holy shit indeed… The reflection on it is identical too…
Nothing says Modern Decor like a CRT TV
What do you guys use for a TV stand?
CRTs are peak for retro gaming
But I can’t imagine the kind of person who would love retro gaming would destroy such a beautiful room like this
