Textured-grey, durable flooring: a life-saver when you have kids.
Really? I had to add flooring like that to match the horrible millennium gray carpets that were installed by the family before me. It is horrible with dirt. Dirt is more brownish than gray and it stands out like crazy.
Surely It’s easier to rip out the carpets than to install new flooring
No way, millennial grey carpets (brand new, mind you) all over the house and clashing vinyl in three bathrooms. The choice was really, replace all the brand new carpets AND the 30 year old vinyl, or just replace the vinyl.
I live in a 100 year old building and would kill for those appliances
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For real my house is falling apart and I’d love just to have a normal functioning house 😔
why millenials have no taste - Answer in Progress (bait title: they can’t afford to have taste)
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.
As a certified Old Fart™, it’s better than the colored porcelain bathrooms of the 70s and 80s…
Chrome was shiny & futuristic, so stainless steel appliances looked sleek and modern when they were first introduced, but now that they’re everywhere they look drab and sterile. I’m waiting for things to shift back the opposite direction where everything will have integrated LED panels and the whole kitchen will glow in RGB like a desktop computer rig. (Honestly, I don’t know if that would be terrible ore awesome.)
Eeyore is quite often purple or blue nowadays
For shame dragging Eeyore into this dingy millennial Epstein shit
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
I love carpet, just the ones that you can pull up and give a thorough clean to occasionally tho. Built-in carpets are nuts.
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.
at one point we had carpet in our bathroom
Are you guys really such a stranger to vacuuming? I want lavishly plush carpeting in my house. Especially the bedroom.
carpets in themselves are not the problem. even vacuumming wont get rid of all the dirt and possibly stains. thats why you have separate carpets on the floor you can take out and actually wash without having to rip out the entire floor
Are you a stranger to rugs that can be cleaned or replaced easily?
You must not have allergies/pets. Vacuuming does not get your carpets clean enough, and steam cleaning your carpets often enough is a big hassle and time consuming.
I have a cat and I don’t really see what the problem is, my carpets are fine. Yeah there is some cat fur when using the hoover, so what?
You’ve never replaced carpet have you? The amount of dirt and dust in it is insane. No matter how often, how good or how deep you clean, carpet is disgusting even after a couple of years.
Most were replaced when we moved into this house.
Vacuuming doesn’t achieve much.
no like bathroom
where the toilet is, as in it used to be carpet when you get out of the bath tub, and also carpet when you take a piss/shit
Oh no. Yeah, a piss soaked carpet is no good.
Helps retain heat. The solution is a throw rug in the winter that you hose off in the spring though.
sound/echo dampening.
One might wonder why this is not a problem pretty much everywhere that’s not North America.
I mean it is a problem, people just aren’t aware of it, or just live with it. It used to be much more common to have carpet in Scandinavia but for some reason fell out of vogue. Everyone’s living room is now horribly echoey and I have no idea how they put up with it.
A living room is only echoey if there’s nothing in it.
Do Danish people have empty living rooms?
Yeah a lot do actually. A lot of Danish people have combined open plan dining and living rooms with only two rugs in the vicinity of the couch and the dining table. There is then often a lot of unused space and hard surface around. The acoustics of my ex-girlfriend’s parents house was always horrible to me, you can tell when it was built in the 1970s it was fully intended to be carpeted.
WDYM sticks and paper are not appropriate building materials ?
There are better ways of doing that
Like textured ceilings, but people seem to hate those too 🤷
Again, impossible to clean.
Unless you’re a smoker, what needs to be cleaned with them?
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.
You could also just take off your wooden clogs and go barefoot.
Oh come on now, I don’t wear wooden clogs! They are entirely inappropriate footwear for the finish on my home bowling alley!
Bare feet would make the rest of my suit of armor look silly.
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.
Antebellum 2
They are made to look like steel, because good quality steel is expensive as compared to the materials they use in it.
The flooring?
IDK what that BS is. I’d rather have granite, which is again, a luxury because it is hard to machine.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”
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.
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.
I think the idea is that a light colour tends to make the room look bigger and “fresher” than a dark one. It’s also definitely a lot easier to paint over than a “Teal Ripple” feature wall. Neutral colours and basic but nice looking furniture also means a potential buyer isn’t put off by the current occupier’s decorative tastes.
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?
Pre-WWIII, that’s the big one, fatty!
Fatty? Certainly making some assumptions there lol.
But okay, even if it is WW3, with WW1 and WW2 we weren’t in a continuous near 30 year state of war leading up to those wars.
Well usually if someone says “before the war” they are likely talking about the most recent big and significant one. So here that would be WW2. In Ukraine it would be the one that is going on right now.
Yes because almost 30 years continuous isn’t worthy of being significant enough.
When its normal, its hardly significant.
It was a King of the Hill reference
Never heard of the Indian Wars, huh
Who does the president work for lol? We’ve been in WW3 for a hot minute.
Don’t worry, we could all probably lose a bit around the waist.
Who does the president work for? This one? Pretty much anyone that bribes him.
Nah lol, I was in a motorcycle wreck that damaged my intestines. I genuinely have a hard time getting enough calories due to pain pretty much anytime I eat solid food. So as far as schoolyard insults go, swing and a miss.
The president is a Russian asset and I was just poking fun because nobody on the Internet knows that you are a dog. It’s always sort of funny when people forget that. It’s better to brush that stuff off. Less a swing (as that’s nonsense) and more of a nudge nudge remember we are here to have fun.
But I do apologize if that was a trigger of some sort. Remember that everyone you’re talking to could be a statical probability. OP was using the word fatty as a little joke and doesn’t really know how much you weigh.
When you have issues with food people bringing up weight can be a bit of a trigger. Not that it bothers me, it is just a school yard insult.
He was referencing Cotton from King of the Hill. He wasn’t actually referring to your weight my dude.
i know quite a few folks (myself included) who could probably stand to pack on a bit around the waist, but sure okay
That was implied by your username.
The American education system is worse than I imagined
It’s intentional, or they’d be on civil war nine by now.
One day we’ll accept the seven years war as ww1.
Hate to tell you but the Gulf war was going on before you were fourteen.
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.
All the colour in the ink cartridge was used up in the 70s and 80s, now it’s just black ink left, and not much of it.
The aesthetic of whatever will replace fallout games of the future.
It already has a name
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.
Same thing with cars.
They used to be really colorful and fun. Now I’m surprised when I see a red car.
…I painted my car grey. Although to be fair I did it with Monstaliner, in their “quartz grey.” That was because the thing used to be silver, and I was too lazy to pick a color materially different from original for all the twiddly little bits in the doorjambs, etc.
I do, however, laugh at rock chips. Laugh, I tell you.
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.
give me earth tones, stained hardwoods, shag carpets, swag lamps, and bead curtains on doorways (and real drapes over windows) over this millennial shit… and yes, those glorious avocado green appliances!
Bead curtains sound terrible for holding heat. I like my thick solid wood doors. Keep the living room nice and warm in winter. Agree to carpets/rugs though.
those don’t go on “all” doorways, obviously. the house we had when i was a little kid had several of them but not as doors to bedrooms or bathrooms. that house had hot water radiator heat, so heat in any room was absolutely not a problem.
We also have hot water radiators but it would be wasteful to heat the hallway when we don’t need to
I’m a millennial and it does appeal to me. It looks clean. Though I prefer the Nordic look.
there are dozens of us! haha I’m just glad I’m not the only one.
though the criticisms of the aesthetic are valid. I just like my surroundings to be as non-distracting as possible and that overlaps with largely unimaginative design lol
My wife and I call this “sad beige”
U-taupe-ia
at one point it was even in the article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Millennial_grey&diff=prev&oldid=1365776291
The house I bought three years ago has those fake wood gray planks in the living room. I deliberately left the floor uncovered during renovation on the assumption that it would be destroyed and I’d have to replace it with something I actually like. Unfortunately, that shit is indestructible.
Our house at first looked like this, mostly because we couldn’t agree on colors. The bedroom area is still quite desaturated, but the living area and kitchen are much more colorful now.
I love how the cover image is from the Epstein files, would’ve never expected it lmao
I’ve been calling it 21st Century Blah. Is there a name for the architecture that goes with it? They rebuilt the Taco Bell down the road and looks likes this inside and outside.
Uff, the picture used in the article is from the Epstein Files.
I think that makes perfect sense in an article titled Millennial Gray
The trump files.
Gross
Image source: FBI lol
Convenient because afaik all images produced by the US government are automatically in the public domain.
Lol thats cray
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?!
Thanks HGTV.
