Also cars. Next time you look at traffic, try to see the amount of white, gray or black cars. It must be at least 80%.
I have a nice blue volvo and it's beautiful because it has a fucking color. :)
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Millennial here, I remember hunting for apartments and the staff of one place proudly said let me show you the upgraded unit. I went in and couldn't hide how I much I disliked the greyscale upgrade. They were then like well we have one unit that hasn't been upgraded. Showed me that unit and I was like "oh wow this is way better". At that point they were super angry as if they upgraded their home the same way and I just said they had the ugliest home.
Me as a cabinetmaker 20 years ago when everything went white everywhere. Why would you throw away these nice maple cabinets for this white melamine?
Yeah, I've seen a few of the modern home improvement shows where the first thing they do is paint bricks in the house with a thick white latex paint. That's not an improvement. There are other ways to brighten up a place like installing lights...
Honestly if they replaced stuff with higher quality stuff that needs less maintenance and lasts even longer it would be cool, but it's almost always a net loss of quality over the old stuff.
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It already has a name
Uff, the picture used in the article is from the Epstein Files.
Image source: FBI lol
Convenient because afaik all images produced by the US government are automatically in the public domain.
Lol thats cray
I think that makes perfect sense in an article titled Millennial Gray
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I love how the cover image is from the Epstein files, would've never expected it lmao
I remember the yuts raking millennials for their passion for grey.
I think the decades of stagflation makes everyone think they can resell whatever and it must be neutral to facilitate this eventual sale and escape from poverty.
I have served in the industry. This is exactly the rationale. I heard this one all the time: "But this isn't our forever home. We're only going to be in this house 20, maybe 25 more years. What if the new buyers don't like it???? We have to make the safe choice."
No statement. Only grey. Never mind that all four of those craptastic Frigidaire appliances in the picture will be scrap within six years anyway, if not less.
Also, people in niver neighborhoods than me have seemingly forgotten that stainless preceded the avocado and yellow appliances. Fashion is a flat cycle.
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Same thing with cars.
They used to be really colorful and fun. Now I'm surprised when I see a red car.
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My wife and I call this "sad beige"
at one point it was even in the article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Millennial_grey&diff=prev&oldid=1365776291
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When we sold our house in the city 4 years ago, the realtor suggested we paint over our accent wall, and have all the walls in the house painted "reliable gray." Apparently that's the color that sells houses to white people.
i call that 'zillow gray'
“Landlord Greige”
It presents possibilities. I can't tell you the number of times I've seen people shut down a listing based on the current color.. Changing it from puke green to... Anything else is apparently more work than changing from gray to anything.
I'm obviously washing over needing to reprime the walls depending on the color and quality of paint but it's not just white people. White is too sterile but gray strikes the right balance. Same with staging furniture. Sets too many expectations for people sometimes.
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I have either rented or lived in family homes for my entire life.
Ever since my dad gave me a fake option of room colour, I wanted nothing more than to own my own fucking house so I could be in my black room.
I got rejected for a mortgage a few years ago, and the lack of being able to paint the walls in my environment is STILL something that depresess me.
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Fuck me that's literally the exact vinyl plank flooring in my apartment right now
Huge upgrade over the carpet I had originally though... Fuck carpet
Yeah carpet is nuts.
Why would you not want to cover your floor in something to trap all the dust and soak up any liquid which is impossible to clean.
City apartment dweller here. My lease requires having carpet or rugs over a certain percentage of the floor area. It's a basic necessity to avoid aggravating one's neighbors on the floor below.
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Carpet has a lot going for it. It's relatively cheap, easy to install, forgiving of subflooring issues, pleasant to walk on, and dampens sound. That's not to say it has its downsides - mostly keeping it clean and that it shows wear, but I can see why its popular.
Helps retain heat. The solution is a throw rug in the winter that you hose off in the spring though.
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To dive deeper into the question why everything looks the same and is boring I recommend the videos of Design Theory. Many of these videos are very insightful.
Some time ago I watched a video that also did try to explain thy question of How Did The World Get So Ugly?
Pre-war?
This country has been in a constant state of war since I was 14, I'm 38 now. We were out of war for like what? 6 months to a year before we started this clusterfuck?
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I live in a 100 year old building and would kill for those appliances
Older buildings are so beautiful but living in them if not maintained is a literal nightmare. My old apartment building was 100+ years old with pipes that banged like crazy against the walls and the waterlines were so badly corroded they shut the hot water off for a week to fix them (which got them a complaint from the health department because they didn’t offer us alternate lodging).
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Pre War is not good enough for such luxury. What you need is:
antebellum
"Wow, this vinyl flooring. SO Antebellum!"
Even RVs and campers are like this, its cancer. Mine was built in the early 90s and has such a awesome vibe.
I grew up using a 1975 fifth wheel trailer as a cottage and it was cozy as shit. The new ones are really uncomfortably reminiscent of the “studio” condos they’re building all over the country. Why do people think anyone wants to camp in that atmosphere?!
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I am eager for faux wood vinyl planks to go out.
I don't mind vinyl, but just find the attempt to imitate wood makes it feel obviously like cheaping out.
In general, making things look like something it's not just feels wrong. Unironically painting plaster walls to look like stone or brick comes to mind - you're ruining the plaster.
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It’s just missing the thinnest granite countertops you’ve ever seen.
This was the answer to all beige/"off white" of the preceding decades.
When you sell a house, it needs to be as generic as possible, to appeal to as many people as possible. The staging furniture is suppose to take up the style slack. Except we made all the furniture gray, too. And, cars, for some reason.
Fucking gray cars, WTH?
Gray is the color you get when you mix all colors together. It's literally the average of all colors. The least interesting, exact center of blandness. It's the definition of "normal". But, it also doesn't distract from your phone. So, that's a plus... for people trying to sell you crap.
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No heart. No soul. Appliances built to fail.
and unlike art deco - this kind of luxury is dirt cheap.
I'm not a fan of this, but I'm also not a fan of things that are so fashionable that I will not be able to look at them after a year or 2. So... I don't know if I care enough.
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Ugh - I can't express how much I hate this. It's not clean or sterile, just... straight lines dingy. Eeyore as an interior design aesthetic.
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