>shitty image taken from pinterest or some similar slop trough>one line retarded question with no relevance to anything>because not only does not everyone do that>nobody's making anybody do anything>meaning you can decorate your house any way you want and nobody can stop you
>>2966226>meaning you can decorate your house any way you want and nobody can stop you>he doesn't know about hoas
>>2966230so don't live in one. problem solved.
All downstream of turning housing from shelter into speculation. Everyone wants to flip their house for more than they paid, everyone want to profit off some sucker, so ease of reselling is paramount.My boomer boss was bragging about his equity in his two homes and how his tenants paid off his mortgage etc.
>>2965962I guess this is the home design/decor thread. How the fuck do I design my apartment? It’s not a studio it has walls a bedroom a separate kitchen but it’s 400 square feet. It used to be a hotel once upon a time someone bought the building and converted the units. I have a lot of free range for upgrading, can paint walls etc it just has to look good.Do I just go with a white and get brown walnut furniture? It has white tile. I was contemplating getting that fake snap in place wood flooring for everything except the bathroom and kitchen. I’m not trying to do anything over the top just make this place feel like my homeWhat wood color for the floors?If I can get this done, the paint and floors to match it I could more easily get furniture that looks good. It’s currently got the landlord special with this nasty blue paint on every wall. I’m thinking white because if I don’t like it then that’s easy enough to decide on a new color and paint over
>>2965962soulless
>>2965962i like it everything looks well proportioned i don't hate grey it pleases my autism idk why people hate minimalism not that this one is minimalist a persian busy decor would be nuts
>>2965962nothing, as your pic show everything went right. now compare this to your average grandma house and tell me where you want to live?
>>2965962DUDE PILLOWS LMAO
>>2967079more pillow!
>>2965962>oh noes styles and tastes change!>wheres my onion belt?
>>2966230hoas cannot tell you how to do anything inside your home.
>>2969035Based Dort constructor
From an Australian perspective >shit building standards>no warranty on houses>tradies being the dodgiest people on this green earth>race to the bottom>housing crisis means anything will fly>uninspired architecture from an interior design perspective >people not knowing shit about decorating>not just choosing one style and sticking to itmy house was built in the 70s and has no structural issues whatsoever. double brick, decent windows, just needs insulation. no asbestos at all.interior was redesigned by an overly weathly engineer so it has blackbutt flooring, nice white walls, black marble countertops.my before is sticking to a Scandinavian theme but not just all IKEA, solid woods, white colours and multiple sources of lighting. in fact I would say most people don't understand how to light a house well and that makes a huge difference so in short>shitty build quality>clueless home owners who can't even follow a Pinterest image
>>2965962Capitalism.
>>2965962nothing that looks chill as fuck
>>2965962If we’re talking about interiors then consumers decided they would rather spend $3,000 on a matching living room set than hand select a $2500 couch and a $500 coffee table and and a $250 end table and a $1,000 media cabinet and 3 $400 bookshelves and 2 $400 floor lamps plus a $200 table lamp.as a result furniture companies optimized for pumping out said living room sets that were inoffensive to as many people as possible for as little money as possible.
>>2966274This, plus "renter mentality." If you're not going to live there more than 10 years, who cares if the house falls in after 20? Why spend a penny on maintenance or upgrades unless you have to?In terms of interior design, I blame HGTV convincing everyone that THEY, TOO can make a fortune by "modernizing" perfectly good housing. Flippers want stuff to sell fast and they want it done as cheaply as possible. This leads to cheap furnishings that lack any kind of personality.On a more fundmental level, it's also due to changes in material/labor cost ratios. Historically, skilled labor was relatively cheap and abundant, but materials were typically quite expensive. As a result, people tended to get as much mileage out of materials as they could, even if it was more labor intensive. For example, nice millwork and mouldings in a house require a lot of labor to make and install, but the materials aren't anything complicated. Today the opposite it true- labor is much more expensive than materials in most cases. This means that even "luxury" construction is often done poorly and lacks ornamentation that was once commonplace.
>>2969213This has been the style for 20 years now, retard
Reliance on increasingly narrow building materials which though initially very cost effective, then became scarce and expensive. Builders who's skill sets became too narrow, unable to build with alternative materials. Market factors strongly leaning to fast constitution time regardless of material cost. A kind of sunk cost into cheap builds, credit crunch for builders, owners forced to sub-prime build with tissue paper materials. I'm just constantly butting heads with owners who want things done fast regardless of the long term valuation of their builds, MBs who don't want to fool around sourcing materials. Even trying to get a load bearing brick wall built. >why does it need to be load bearing>why can't we dry wall the whole building>why can't we clad a 2×4 wooden wall>why not build the floor from MDF>why not tar paper the roofBecause those materials are now poor value. There's too much demand for the cheapest materials, so they're no longer a sound investment. The cost of repairing them in ten years is greater than the cost of building them. Ffs
And this extends to plan build design. Built it facing the wrong way, can't be bothered altering the plan to orient the porch/deck sensibly, can't be bothered moving windows so they actually face something, can't be bothered facing the roof pitch against prevailing wind. Gutters always overflowing, no drainage at ground level, turn the site into a bog, cheap stumps and floor rot.No interest in steel tensile, no interest in tandem foundation, no interest in internal load bearing walls or steel frame, no interest in floating walls.Too hard, just buy the same plan as everyone else in the suburb. And then we have issues where so many cardboard buildings are built next to each other that strong wind, heavy rain, fire actually destroys buildings that are up to code. Massive issues with suburban storm water, fire clearance inadequate. Hail destroys roof, cement slabs crack and walls just pull up at the corners. Years of bog, plaster, mold, roof leaks.The houses of yore were often not built as single structures, they weren't ranches. They were built so the foundations and drainage supported each other in a unified building overlay. Why can't we go back to 2-4 row houses with two cement walls, steel girders, double facing blocks, twice as much frontage, and false walls for fire fighting?You just cut doorways between properties, cinder block them up so the structure could be 2, or 4 residential dwellings? Why do they insist on building pylon on steep slopes, so the house on the top falling down will domino every house below it. Condo-lanche. Same with beach front dwellings.Yes it's very expensive to ingratiate steel foundations on a slope, but that's why terrace houses were always for millionaires. They were worth integrating
>>2965962Grey minimalism with THIS plastic-ass floor. Fucking unimaginative fuckers theses days. Complete nonces.
>>2965962they were homes then, now they're investments and showrooms for social media
I hate millennial grey, the stupid coffee tables that are so far away and difficult to move that I have to risk slipping a disc just trying to grab my cup and I hate the need to overfurnish a room.Maybe I'm a boomer at heart but I like warm woody tones, furniture with legs, tables I can bring closer easily and I like my rooms with the minimal viable clutter in them.
>>2965962Minimalism. Minimalism is an assault on all that is beautiful and is specifically constructed to demoralize. It's gotten so pervasive that even the ultra rich who can afford beauty or even just opulence have fallen for it, modern mansions exist which are just concrete and glass cubes with stark, nearly colorless interiors.
>>2969324Ah yes, communism is known for the beautiful buildings and their elegant interiors.
>>2970802>elegant interiorsYes actually
>>2970802A leashed and muzzled capitalism built the shitty suburban post-war expansion, but those houses are still in decent shape because they were building them to be homes.What we have now is feral capitalism with nobody punishing it for its evils and excesses."Communism" is not the only alternative to "let the capitalists have all the money and power they want with no restraints" that we have right now.
>>2970791>I hate flipper greyFTFY. Most Millennials can't afford a house.
>>2965962FUCK>>2966226FUCK YOU
>>2970884>"Communism" is not the only alternative to "let the capitalists have all the money and power they want with no restraints" that we have right now.All roads lead to the same destination, retard. There will ALWAYS be the haves and the have nots, the keptocrats, plutocrats, and autocrats and the cattle. ALWAYS
>>2965962>What went wrong with modern homes?Securitized and financialized. A lot of people sunk their entire life's earnings into a home so it acts like a retirement account for them.
>>2970460>If you're not going to live there more than 10 years, who cares if the house falls in after 20?I can't help but think that people are going to be sitting on worthless houses in the next few decades. I wonder if houses can depreciate like Japanese homes.
>>2970899>Full retard absolutistWe had a much better position right after WWII where we taxed the rich properly, average people had it much better, and there was less abject poverty. The economy was also far more stable because the people had spending power, not a bunch of sociopathic hoarders trading billions between each other to get a higher score.
>>2970924There were almost zero turd worlders in the country at that time and our greatest ally didn't exist yet. All roads lead to the same place dumb commie.
>>2970938Nice of you to admit you're a brainwashed moron.
grey and white
My apartment has the same gray LVP floors as all the photos in this thread. I haven't furnished my living room yet. Any tips? Right now I'm pretty much living that "men will unironically live like this" meme. Just a bed, desk, and office chair.
>>2970938>There were almost zero turd worlders in the country at that time You're a lying fuck. A third of the population was Italian>and our greatest ally didn't exist yetOK you have me convinced. Carry on
>>2971240Get a nice rug so there's less of it to look at.
>>2971240Get more office chairs so there's less of it to look at.
>>2969214In the USA, you can be arrested for being naked in your living room.
>>2970802Have you seen the moscow subway?
>>2970885"Millennial homeownership milestone: Over 50% of millennials now own homes, but they reached this milestone later than previous generations."https://www.fool.com/money/research/millennial-homebuying/
>>2972530GLORIOUS COMRADE GLORIOUS XDDDDDDDDD RESPECT THE SHITNIKS
>>2970802Why jump to the other extreme?Anon is right, capitalism did ruin interior design, fashion etc etcIt's not about making the best product, it's about making the best profit margin and if that means producing cheap one-size-fits-all garbage and convincing the consumer it's good then by jolly let's go
>>2972530surprisingly beautiful. Now show the buildings
>>2972570Because he thinks he's a capitalist, and not just a prole. Which is a common mistake the capitalists use to gain power.
>>2972530fuark
>>2972603And also being convinced that they are locked up in some culture war, so they don't have to become conscious of the class struggle. I'm far from a communist, but it's plain as day that ALL of us are being fucked left right and center by people richer than god and it's the most annoying thing about this historic moment we're living in, how people support and vote for people whoa re clearly acting against their interests in order to stick it to the lefties
>>2972663It's what happens when a country deliberately under-funds education and has billionaire funded propaganda news networks. The oligarchy spreads.
>>2972846Also I feel the internet has absolutely wrecked our ability to hold nuanced opinions. I personally am very left wing on some topics but right leaning on others and even then I can sometimes at least understand why the people I disagree with might hold certain opinions. But so many people give off the impression that they think you have to commit full on to one of the extremes and everyone who isn't on your team is the enemy. This shit is going to get us a lot of irresponsible people elected in the 2030s, I'm not looking forward tot it
>>2972846The problem with education is not the funding.Ironically a very capitalistic way of thinking of you.
>>2973013>>2973013>The problem with education is not the funding.Have you ever asked a teacher?
>>2973046School funding has been growing a lot, even adjusted for inflation. This implies the lack of quality you are seeing is not due to lack of money.The issues I hear teachers complain about it are different.Destroyed attention span.(caused by phones/tablets)Lack of teachers meaning classes get bigger and you can't give each child enough attention.(This does not imply you need more money but rather a refocusing on what you spend your increasing budget on)Kids who act up in class and ruin it for the restAdministrative pressure, the need to document and measure everything
>>2973054>This impliesDude you fail at math.
>>2973056dude just pump more money into it
>>2973054>School funding has been growing a lot, even adjusted for inflation.Pretend that schools need 100m but they are only receiving 60m. They are at 60% of the funding level necessary to offer world class education. Pretend that inflation is at 5%. Education gets double that as an increase, 10%. So now education is at 66m but they need 105m. In other words, education is only receiving 63% of the funding they need.And I very much get the impression that school boards know they'll never get adequate funding, that they aren't making friends if they keep repeating it, so they are concentrating on things they might hope to improve.
>>2973062Only Luxembourg, Norway, Austria and South Korea spend more money per student.I can guarantee you there are better ways to get better results than just throwing money at it.
>>2973063>spend more money per studentDoes that include charter schools and private schools?
>>2973064No, just public schools.
>>2973054This biggest problem is the No Child Left Behind system still in place from Bush Jr.It has completely reoriented schools to focusing on passing Standardized Tests instead of actually learning. Especially because it's built around penalism instead of as a means of testing what schools need more aid.
>>2973064Charter school systems only serve to dilute public funds and make public schools worse. Same with Private school vouchers that almost entirely go towards making such schools free for rich people who can already afford to send their kids there.
>>2973054>>2973062>>2973063Loom up what Mississippi has done to fix their public schools (yes, Mississippi.) Their reading and test scores were almost dead last in the nation until they got rid of all the DEI LGBTQ bullshit and retrained their teachers on how to actually teach students to read, instead of just memorizing shit. They're now ranked 9th after just ten years of overhauling the program IIRC and still aren't spending anywhere near what liberal sitholes like Illinois or California spend per student. Increasing budgets for schools just means fatter pensions for teacher's unions regardless of whether or not student outcomes are improving.
>>2973095>DEI LGBTQDon't lie. That had nothing to do with it.
>>2973095>>2973097In that case, I'd say it concerns any parts of the curriculum that prioritizes self-esteem at the expense of proper results.>Yes, Billy, learning is hard>No, Billy, you ain't special>Now shut up and learn how to read.
>>2974010In other words, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
>>2973095Ah yes, they went from near last to 10th place in fourth grade reading. They also hold back third graders who can't read until they reach a fourth grade level. I'm so glad they manipulated the statistics by force so that little 4th grader Deshawn(18yr old) can read the very hungry caterpillar.
>>2974065>Schools fund mainly by property taxes>Because of Redlining majority black schools are typically in property tax dead zones
>>2965962I think this post is meant to be about the aesthetics of the room. But the real issue IMHO, is that when energy became cheap in the early to mid 20th Century housing and buildings were designed and standardized with cheap energy in mind. So houses/building often cartoonishly large windows, they are more standardized. In the past homes/buildings were made of different ceiling heights, building materials depending on the climate of their given region to give the maximum passive heating, cooling and air circulation possible. https://x.com/wrathofgnon/status/1013941701293928449"Before the International Style (modernism) in architecture, our ancestors knew how to adapt the room heights according to the climate, achieving maximum effect (comfort) for the least effort (energy). Today we trust in the grid and so build 8-9 ft rooms from Bermuda to Reykjavik."
