ever since the 90s, theres been a concerted effort to delete Whimsy from design, aesthetics, and style, and reduce everything to black, beiges, greys and white.

That grey laminate flooring pisses me off like nothing else in cheap home remodeling. It's embossed with wood grain but what fucking real wood is grey like that? It's the 2020s equivalent of 1970s faux wood paneling.

It’s load bearing.

You never built a crt into your fireplace? It's super effective. I stacked my vcr and dvd player on top into the chimney.

My uncle used to design and build houses. Normally he didn't work for anyone - he'd take out a loan, buy a piece of land, design a house custom fit to the contours of the land, subcontract some parts, but he did the carpentry with some hired help, and when it was all done, he'd sell it (he was a realtor too) and as far as I know always made a profit, though some did better than others...

One year I went to work for him. But he was doing it differently that time, some wealthy developer had hired him to build his own house. I remember him talking about what a big mistake that was turning out to be, the guy kept changing his mind about what he wanted when we were halfway done with something - for example when he saw the rough openings for the windows, he decided they weren't big enough and he wanted bigger. Problem was, my uncle had already ordered the windows (custom sized of course) and they were already built, just not delivered yet... But the guy had money to burn, so he paid for both sets... Anywho, my uncle had designed the roof to be held up by some hefty beams, and had intended them to be unpainted, so had sourced the high quality (expensive) ones. After we set the beams- most by crane, but one short one was in such an odd position we had to do it by hand- heaviest thing I've ever lifted and I only had one end... a motorcycle engine was light in comparison... anywho, he brought his wife to look at the progress, she took one look at the beams and said "... and we'll paint those lavender..." I could just about hear the steam coming from my uncle's ears.

Beams? Mf, they painted the rocks!

I'm never hiring a home designer.

That table is going to demand so many legs in sacrifice...

The AI even kept the CRT TV in the "after" pic lmao

I can at least understand the kitchens. It's nice to know a surface is actually clean. Drives me insane the amount of kitchens I've seen with countertops that constantly look spattered with food.

They painted natural wood and stone. I am having a panic attack over how much irreversible damage they inflicted on that historic space.

Unless someone has more information on this, I'm going to chalk this up to AI-generated rage bait.

The kitchen area still has the same items on that shelf, there's an ugly hole where the old CRT TV is (despite the room being “finished” looking), the reflection on the TV is still the same, and the patio turned into an office meeting room. I'm not going to spend time on perspective calculations, but something about the beams on the roof and the placement of the railing look off.

And those two chairs with the criss-cross backrests are the same and in the same place.

Also notice that the handrail in the original photo has turned into a divider in the makeover. It’s a subtle perspective change but one that wouldn’t make sense in reality. AI wouldn’t be able to discern that properly.

People actually paint bricks, and it disturbs me. Bricks are so porous, and so unpainting them is an ordeal to say the least. I never understood painting brick. Brick looks nice. They made them look nice right from the brickyard.