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Another victim of big Small
big small
It’s not the size that counts, it’s how you use it.
(for some reason it’s failing to upload, but insert the meme of the guy crying behind a smiling mask.)
Every time I see that movie I think how it shaped my idea that having such a nice and big house was normal and achievable, along with like 6 kids, and it was the average normal family… I’m not even American.
I’m so much closer to the robber’s reality.
To me it is the number of children. All the happy family movies had families with multiple children, and it feels like only child families are portrayed overwhelmingly as dysfunctional and tragic.
I’m trying to work through this mindset because we only have one child, but it is hard because subconsciously, I feel like a failure, like I cannot live up to this expectation and my child is doomed to this gloomy, sad existence.
If anyone is reading this, I beg you, prove me wrong. This isn’t a challenge, I just desperately need picture perfect single child family portrayals.
You can also see this on cars share i live. Next time you go outside, see what percentage of cars that are white, gray or black. Its the absolute majority. And then you have maybe 20% with different colors.
Its because people have been told that white, gray and black are elegant and you won’t get tired of those colors.
Im so tired of those colors.
No, it is because most are lease cars for companies, and they require them to be a neutral color so they keep their resale value for when they get changed to a newer model.
Could be actually. In my country, white Teslas are everywhere and most are company cars.
The new one is MUCH too white, but let’s be honest, the before pictures are pretty ugly too. That wallpaper is gaudy as hell.
The before pictures are bourgie and give a 90’s generational wealth ick, but at least it still looks like there’s a human being living there experiencing something nearly recognizable as a human emotion from time to time.
The thing is that the 90s shots are from a movie, the others are from a property listing. They have very different purposes. A movie needs to be visually interesting. A property listing needs to be as neutral as possible so people aren’t put off by the house before even looking at it.
Two completely different genres of photography.
Well said. The middle photo of the living room looks like white hell in the new version. Like one of those underground passages in the Hoth base with some Myst-era computer generated furniture spawned in the distance.
In 1990 that was the height of sophistication. Today, Millennial white/gray is the height of sophistication. What can we learn? Trends in home design/decor are bad. Stick to something timeless and you won’t think it’s outdated every few years.
Millennial gray is timeless!
You can decorate it with anything because it’s so neutral
Only partially joking
Milennial gray works when you buy like a couch or something in grey, and then install colored accents around it. Red curtains with blue table lamps. If you do the entire place in shades of gray you’re just…dead.
Millennial
you’re just…dead.
I’m really sad as a Millennial that this aesthetic has been dubbed “Millennial gray.” I’ve watched some videos on it that make the case that it’s a backlash from the 70s aesthetic we grew up with combined with poor financial prospects in early adulthood, meaning we couldn’t buy a lot of or very nice furniture. Now that I’m firmly middle-aged, I can afford better stuff and my husband and I are slowly turning over crap particle-board furniture for nice solid wood pieces (often secondhand) in the craftsman style.
There was a thread recently where someone called it “Flipper gray”, because it’s actually being done by boomers trying to flip houses.
Egh… such a boring millennial aesthetic.
Ps. I’m also a millenial. Gray is the worst colour
I agree, what they did to this house does not look good and it feels like a hotel. I’ve been in hospital rooms that were warmer and more inviting than this.
Gray is one of my favorite colors. I’ve decorated my office using various shades of gray and grey-centric hues. It looks good because I made sure there’s plenty of contrast, especially under natural light.
I’d guess these photos were taken for a home listing and that the bright and neutral paint color was intentional. Repainting walls in white or light neutral tones is common advice from realtors because it makes rooms feel brighter and is easy to paint over.I agree.
but we’re both unpopular. popular opinion is that everything should look like hotel. and if it doesn’t, it’s shitty and disgusting and awful. it’s ‘unclean’. as you can see from other comments here complaining how awful the 1990s version is.
but i confess my mentality is not upper middle class corporate where the goal is to be as inoffensive and neutral as possible. and for folks with that mentality, anything that isn’t grey and white with flat lighting, is awful and terrible.
i live in an old building with real wood floors and trim. people tell me it’s ‘unclean’ all the time and how I need to remove all the flooring and trim and put up that fake grey shit to make it ‘look clean’. and when I say ‘no, i like it this way, that’s why i bought it.’ they basically never come back to my house, because you know, clearly I’m mentally ill and disturbed if I can enjoy real mapled stained wood.
also freaks them to that i have solid wood doors, cabinets and such, instead of hollow plastic ones you find in new construction.
What a bizarre way to think, that just because you have wood floors it’s unclean? That is mind-boggling that people actually think that
i live in a city full of people who grew up in 6000 sq ft designer homes and they think anything that is older than 10 years old is ancient and shitty and trend-following is like their sole source of self-esteem.
so yeah, they think anything that isn’t grey or white is shitty and gross. and if the aesthetic changes in another 5-10 years they will hate on grey and white.
one lady i dated, had a beautiful condo, that clearly had been redone like less than ten years ago. but it had like 2000s style, with the light wood floors and trim and marble countertop and she went on and on and about how HORRIBLE it was and how she had to tear it all up and make everything grey and white, including the crappy shiplap stuff. i told her it was a horrible idea nad her home was beautiful and she told me I was a stupid piece of shit who lived in a trashheap.
also she whined insistently about how expensive owning a home was… yeah that’s how life works…
