Looks AI though. If one has the skill to take a picture in almost exactly the same position, with the same lighting, putting the rug exactly the same, they wouldn't have ruined that beautiful floor.
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Wouldn't surprise me. Everything OP posts is manufactured outrage.
Looks like a bot reposting from a subreddit or something (without disclosure)
Thanks I did not notice but it IS AI ! Damn I will have to stop using the internet I think. It's everywhere and I can't even notice it anymore sometimes.
As noted, this is almost certainly AI rage bait.
But, I don't like the old parquet floor. I wouldn't tear it out, though, because that would be a crime. I just wouldn't buy a house with such a floor in the first place. Or, I would sand and refinish it, then cover it with area rugs, or a floating floor that would leave the old floor intact.
I know better than to ruin an old, hardwood parquet floor just because I don't like it. Plenty of people do and it's an asset for the house and the next owners.
Cover it with rugs in the winter and put them away in the summer.
why would you refinish the floor and then put a floating floor on top of it
So you can juggle knives and hammers in the living room.
If they’d just stained it black, still straight to jail. It would take forever to sand that out. I hate the grey/black/white “palette”. It’s for people who think k their house is an asset, not a home.
Whenever I see lots of white/black/gray, I think "Flippers," and I know they used the cheapest crap possible, and used amateur labor to do it.
There's nothing worse than those gray fake wood interlocking vinyl floor planks.
These are what was freshly installed last year in my basement apartment by my landlord superintendent.
No sub flooring straight on the concrete. In the winter they have a gap between the plank ends of about 1/8 inch, in the summer they swell from the humidity and buckle up. They already look trashed, and I'm sure the landlord will keep my deposit because "I" damaged the floor boards.
I don't view my home as an asset. But I also don't consider it a public work of art. It's for me. Caring about what others think only matters if I'm trying to improve the value of an asset. If my preferences are tacky that's my problem.
If you don't view your home as an asset, you still gotta live in it and I don't prefer ugly if I've got a choice. Even if it's old ugly.
Back in the early 90s we bought a nearly 100 year old house, that had been owned by a couple who had lived there for decades, raised a family, and loved the oldness of the house, and never made any changes. That's what we loved about it.
As they aged, the houses maintenance suffered, and after she died, he smoked cigars in the house. When we sprayed TSP on the wallpaper to peel it off, the nicotine dripped down the walls. We repapered or painted every room, fixed cracks in the plaster, restored all the old stained woodwork, completely reconfigured the landscaping, installed a cast-iron, wood-burning stove, and lots more, doing it ALL ourselves. When we bought it, it was the Addams Family house, and easily the ugliest house/yard on the street. When we were done, it was a museum piece, and stood out as the most beautiful house on the street. We sold it for more than any house had ever sold for on our street, by a long ways. The neighbors appreciated the increase in their house values, but were sorry we were leaving.
I sold the house myself, without a real estate agent, and I was shocked at how many people asked why we never changed the windows from the original wood panes with the wavy, bubbly glass, to new modern windows. Clearly, they weren't the right buyers for this house. We needed someone who would appreciate the houses AGE.
I finally found a buyer in a young guy who worked in his dad's iron fabrication business, building iron gates and fences for old properties, so he appreciated the antique quality of our house. He brought his fiancee to see it, and she loved it, too. Then he asked if he could show it to his mother-in-law, who couldn't believe the stories of how nice the house was, and was sure the kids were being ripped off.
She showed up openly skeptical, but we just let the kids show her around their future house, and when she came back to us, she had completely flipped. She said it was obvious how much love we had put into the house, with such quality materials, and she was sure we were going to miss it.
And we have missed it. Easily the best house I've ever lived in. Not the fanciest, but the coziest.
Easily the best house I’ve ever lived in
In the day that was called a "home." If you individualize one too much these days you harm the resale value, assuming you're not in an HOA that restricts changes or renting so that you can get your kids into a certain school.
I miss the wavy glass of my youth. May have had the insulation value of an ice cube, but it sure did look good. I hate the perfectly flat planes that exist in modern architecture. Be it drywall or glass, it's unnatural. Give me plaster walls and wavy glass any day.
I live in the Philly area and a long time ago a lot of houses around here were built with curved windows that fit into turrets and cupolas and the like. Even 20 years ago you could still see these windows here and there, but they are completely gone now. You can still see buildings where they used to be, and the replacement flat vinyl windows look like total ass in curved window frames.
Holy moly they didn't even floor over it, it looks like they ripped it up. Rip.
Great visual for every time a film maker says they can reboot a classic for a modern audience.
Wow that original floor was beautiful. It belongs in a museum.
Such a shame there are so many greedy bastards out there destroying such craftsmanship to make it look "more modern," only for it to go out of style in ten years because "modern styles" are the antithesis of timelessness.
AI?
AI, or photoshop.
If you overlay the 2 images over each other... not only are they from the EXACT perspective, the carpet hasn't moved in any way.
While they may have done this, the before and after are the exact same photo.
Doesn't look like it. I've seen enough construction horrors to absolutely believe they ripped out that gorgeous old floor and laid lvp planks.
I don't know, find it weird to keep the same old carpet. Which is exactly at the same place and has other same creases and they'd have took the skirting boards out and back without any changes. 🤷🏻
And the camera position and angle are the same, too. Thinking this image is ragebait.
Yeah I don't doubt that there's a lot of people who would actually do something like this but this one's sus
Oh wow, you're right. Well done.
I like to think I'm skeptical, but I missed this very obvious thing.
Everything is in the exact same position in the photo, just a photoshop
More likely they just put the LVP on top of the original floor. It would be a lot of work to pull up the original, and the LVP isnt as thick so the baseboard would neep to be lowered so as not to leave a gap. Looks like they just butted the LVP up next to the baseboard and ran a thin bead of caulking along the crack.
AI could do better than that original flooring, oof.
That’s rare. Rich as fuck and no taste? Was this Trump’s home?
Why not just lay the plastic floor on top? What a waste!
How about pound me in the ass prison.
The old floor is a complicated piece of art!
And it looked like old and busy butt. I would put laminate over it too. Those triangle filler pieces from trying to put square pegs in round holes are straight fucking awful 🤮.
Laminate does have the benefit of being easier to repair and clean after flooding. Especially when you live in a garden level (half underground) and it won't stop fucking raining. Wood loves soaking up water.
It was recommended to me in Indiana as a better investment than hardwood for that reason. Basically our weather and humidity is too variable and the work for maintaining hardwood isn't worth it to most people.