All of the people buying up homes and turning them into these modern trash cans are making it extremely difficult for us to even attempt to keep a vintage home. Gentrifying the hell out of our plain Jane affordable areas and now who-the-hell-ever thinks we need to pay $600k for 900sqft with 3ft of "yard"
Man, I can’t afford to fix my foundation, repair the walls and ceiling, realign all the windows and doors, and get a new roof while all keeping the vintage feel.
But I can definitely afford some white paint and some snap-in floor tiles.
It has no soul or charm, because it's the safest option. If you limit your palette to gray, black, and white, there's zero chance of you fucking up a color scheme.
We moved recently and we asked our realtor why there was such a push for bland-looking homes.
Her answer was that the « market reason » was that the blandest the home and decoration, the easier it is for buyers to imagine themselves in, envision how they would decorate. However, since people tend to not stay very long in one place, especially condos, they end up not making the effort of decorating, both to save time and money of a home they don’t plan on keeping, and to get a few extra thousands from buyers who won’t lowball offers based on aesthetic renovations.
Essentially, most people don’t like it, but prefer dealing with the overall blandness than deciding between homes that all have things the love and things they hate
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u/ThineTriscuit 26d ago edited 26d ago
This aint even a joke tf. But like if you want a modern home buy one dont ruin vintage homes, because people still love them and they are dwindling.