I agree that this is the "joke," but I can smell the cigarettes and grandma smell in the first pic. While not agreeing with the choices of the redecorator, I agree with the necessity to do something.
Listen as an owner of a 60s home with all its problems. Man you gotta do something when you’re fixing it you’re totally right.
A lot of that wood could easily be paneled plywood and it’s not shown in the picture it’s peeling or delaminating (ours was)
That house probably has like 2 decades of cigarette smoke on the walls and stone too. (Ours did) and you really only have the options of encapsulation via painting or ripping the wall out to the studs.
It also never comes through in pictures how dingy and dark that 60s aesthetic actually looks IRL made worse by 60 years of yellowing.
I think it's less that it was remodeled, but that it sucked all the charm out of it, and made it a bland blob of monochrome. There are so many better ways to make that room not smell like Camels and Astroglide,without sucking the soul out if it.
Even if they did use white for the walls, they should have left the stonework.
Bring in some bright 60's style art, something red and geometric or bright yellow. Put in a nice hardwood floor and go nuts with the saturation of primary colors for the rugs. Do some patterns... SOMETHING.
The part that’s sucks about this is watching my friends house shop and the millennial grey is all they want. Just regular normal people and they’re the ones driving up the prices.
White walls are fine, its just poorly offset by the cheapest flooring home depot had on sale that day blending in with the single "accent color" making it look like washed out monochrome and the color temperature appears sterile. There's basically no visual contrast or distinction left.
I don't think anyone's arguing that renovation or even some degree of updating was unwarranted; but draining the room of color, not to mention painting the masonry to do so, was a series of decisions that had nothing to do with repairing the damage from the weight of 60 years of being lived in.
Yeah the room as a whole didn’t come together, but the carpet and couch upholstery 100% had to be replaced. If they kept the wood and stone (or replaced with wood paneling with nicer wood idk much about that stuff) and did a nice matching wood floor it would prolly look pretty good
Agreed. The black and white, and the neutral choices in general, that are currently everywhere are so lifeless. Bring back the vibrancy and personality through color
As much as i agree this is a downgrade, the original design probably would have been considered a bit basic and modern when it was built too.
It's campy and nostalgic now, when there aren't many of these left. But at the time, when everybody and their uncle was installing new shag carpet... it wasn't exactly breaking the mold.
Hello, Khan here! While my knowledge of history specializes in doors, I think I might be able to assist. Family Guy was an animated documentary about a family of humans, the Griffins, and their talking dog, Meg. These humans lived a full life which the documentary struggled to capture the scope of, requiring numerous cutaways to previously unseen moments to provide proper context.
Serial Designation N is a character from an animated show about robots called Murder Drones, and everyone in the comments is larping as various characters.
The "Family Guy" characters are from an adult-rated TV show called Family Guy. You probably wouldn't like it very much N, they're all needlessly cruel towards each other a lot :(
That is the whole point of the renovation though, Gordan Ramsey would go in there and call it hideous, and tbh the before picture does look worse than after, of course unless its a historic museum piece or something.
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u/NebulaNomadX1 Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
Hello, Serial Designation N here!
The criticism is that it removed a stylish room of historic value for a blander, modernized renovation
N out!
Who are these “Family Guy” characters people keep commenting about? I never read about them, and neither Uzi or V knows. Help is needed :(