Ah yes, the installation of “millenial gray” because obviously what matters about houses is your ability to sell it 🙄
If you look at the proportions on the railings and windows, it is very clearly not the same house. Stairs and a foyer is a really common layout.
I had to make sure my eyes are looking at the supposed interior, uh, “refresh” isn’t something made with ChatGPT.
I bet the owner of this house also has a, ugh, Tesla in the garage.
I’d rather choose the more iconic tacky but more identifiably human and warm interior design over that horribly sterile aesthetic.
From warm to cold.
You do know that the inside of that house in the movie was built on a sound stage. That only the exterior of the house was shot for the movie.
Some shots were done on a sound stage but I’m pretty sure this part is from the actual house. https://www.atlasofwonders.com/2023/01/home-alone-house-location.html?m=1
A lot off tmes this happens. Nice and personal… Soulless. All those housingreality is the same. O we have a nice home… Lets make it ‘unitysoussage’ white with some accents.
Watch any of the current house remodel/building shows and you see how many people want this asthetic. It’s terrible and bland. I hate it.
Nice and personal… Soulless.
Is a black/white color actually scheme soulless? Or is it merely the absence of clutter, no accumulation of wear-and-tear, and the blue filter used for the lighting?
Put six people in that black/white house for a week and it’ll be a cluttered mess. Throw a yellow-filter on the lighting and it’ll look more warm and inviting.
The problem isn’t the color scheme by itself. The problem is that there are 350,000 houses identical to this one all over the country. It’s soulless because they turned them all into cookie cutter copies of each other
The first one is interesting, as it shows that they have vastly extended the house to the rear. The door under the stairs led to a half-bath (toilet and sink), and that was the buildings’ end.
If you ask me how I know that: I got the original house plans from the net and plan to - one day - build a proper LEGO model of it. Not the shrunken one they offer as a set, but built to scale from those plans, with the driveway, the garage, the garden with the tree and tree house.
I mean, yeah, the new one is white and awful.
But the old one also has the most disgusting wallpaper to ever exist.
Did modern houses get super bland? Yes
Do I miss those awful wallpapers? No
I thin we can all agree there is a happy middle ground where the furniture and walls aren’t monochrome but also don’t assault our eyes with information
I thin we can all agree there is a happy middle ground
I don’t think there IS a middle ground. These are two very distinct historical styles. And if you tried to find a spot in the middle, everything would clash and it would look horrendous.
I get what you’re saying, but switching my gaze between the two is like turning a siren off when I see the “after” pic. It’s desolate and boring, but it’s not AWOOOGAAAA
Good. That place needed a renovation. It was a regular death trap!
Careful what you wish for, what with the paint cans and all.
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.
The primary red and primary blue always on offer are worse.
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.
Our car is white because that’s what they had in stock when we needed a car. I don’t give a shit what color my car is as long as it can fit and move my family and my stuff.
Yeah, it could be that a lot of people don’t care about the color too, that’s true.
I cared a lot actually, even turned down a car because it was black. I have a very nice blue color on my current car and it’s so nice to see it every time in the parking lot.
I’m surprised the interior was shot in a real house
Yes in the northern suburbs of Chicago, should check it out after visiting the Obama presidential center in Jackson Park.
The outside of the house was filmed there. The inside was a set.
The Netflix show “The movies that made us” has an ep9sode about it.
I hate it. I hate how there’s no colour in the world any more. Houses are black and white, cars and black and white, clothes are black and white.
Why do people hate colour?
People who grew up outside vs people who grew up inside.
A mind grown in the cacophony of nature, literally formed to use it as substrate for thought and inspiration, finds the stimulation necessary. They are made of it.
One grown inside, finds it overwhelming and uncomfortable. For them, stimulation must be confined to a completely controlled experience.
People in developing countries don’t hate color, I swear the classism has to be part of it. Go to almost any place in South America and it is so colorful. Go to Africa everything’s full of color, and I’m sure that goes for a lot of other countries. But any country that is supposedly wealthier has gotten super boring.
Advertising made people prefer those colors. IPhones, tech gadgets, speakers, televisions, computers, desks, chairs…
Its not generic, it’s programming of our minds. And now, when a new color MacBook appears, we feel it’s amazing and we want it. Right? Absolutely ridiculous.
I would argue that it’s not just advertising. It’s also a lot to do with how many people grew up in really terribly design homes with terrible hoarding situations.
A lot of millennials seem to course correct to the other extreme. Add to that the rental market where neutral is better because it can be customized without clashing with what renters already own.
generic taste of modern house, copy and paste.
So it now looks like the inside of a refrigerator. Interesting.
