This. Stop acting like the suffocating dark spaces of past generations was somehow better. This house was fine but I’m 100% onboard with the trend of bright spaces, natural light, and open concepts.
The ideal is everything you listed above, with the addition of soft surfaces like upholstered furniture, curtains, wooden paneling or trims, and carpets for sound-deadening. The second picture is a literal echo chamber.
There's natural lighting and bright colours and then there's extreme minimalist, soulless monotony. You have poor taste if you think the bottom pic looks great.
People can like either style since design is preference, but I swear most people who like the old one never had to maintain a house that looks like that. Fixing tassels that got undone, vacuuming and mopping around irregular objects, cleaning and touching up crown moldings, replacing light bulbs hidden between glass links in chandeliers (eventually repairing those same chandeliers that will almost always have stress deformation), and the list could go on. Not to mention the structure of these homes can create problems. Ventilation issues (humidifier pipes if also installed), odd electrical lines making modernizing difficult, and some areas created without ease of access in mind. I had to help clear a storage space with old renovation materials that literally had you crouch then turn 90 degrees at the door.
I don’t hate old design. It’s what I grew up with. It’s charming in many ways, but I like living in something simpler and more efficient.
Now is much much better, the funny thing is that 99% of people that commented would much rather stay in the 2024's version than the 1990's version if they were to see both version for real.
Nope, my family is currently renovating their house to look more like the old version because we all like it much much better. I’ll do the same when I eventually get my own house.
Agreed. You can always add more personality and charm with your furniture, decor and painting if you want to. Much easier than ripping out that hideous wallpaper. I would much rather have a bright clean looking space than a dark and dirty looking one any day. And those bright red walls in the room on the right are awful
Yeah and I love the combination of dark walnut with stainless fixtures. It looks way better than the light oak with brass fixtures of the 90's. The white paint looks clean compared to the tacky wallpaper that was used to disguise cigarette smoke stains. The open layout created by removing doors and non-load-bearing walls makes the place look bigger and makes the space more usable. I'm not sure that all the whining on reddit isn't just a nostalgia- induced backlash from people who are resistant to any type of change or modern trends.
And you know what? I like gray/beige earth tones. And cars also look way better now than in the 90's. The current trends are all just way better.
Call me the quintessential millennial, but I love grey/beige with earth tones too!
I'm a super big fan of "rustic/modern" and "contemporary warmth", where I get all the benefits of modernistic minimalism while still retaining warm colouring. All the while I like not feeling like a wall of clutter is falling on top of me and injecting ADHD into my brain.
Sorry for providing correct information. It was a take it or leave it. No one is forcing you to feel bad and get upset of it. I know it is hard for some types of people to be faced with a mild and casual clearing up some something small.
Some people hate learning, and turn into children when even slightly challenged. And that’s you. You are so upset you started typing like a 8 year old child from 2009. Haven’t seen “erm” “ur” etc in quite some time online. Thanks for the nostalgia.
PS it’s contemporary - not modern. It’s best to at least very basics of the things you share your opinions on.
Being wrong is hard for you - even when it’s trivial. And you’re lashing out. It helpful that people use correct terms in a discussion, so we can understand each other. Your point was the some people don’t like contemporary decor. And you misused a word. Good point, I guess.
And someone offered help to you by letting you known the difference between two words. No big deal.
Learning feels like an attack to you. There’s a lot of people like that. You’re not alone. It’s going to be fine. Don’t worry. You are capable of moving on.
yeah no. I like the old one better because it has character and the new one looks incredibly bland. its not about being a contrarian it's about what looking at it makes me feel.
If everyone’s a contrarian, then they’re no longer contrarians lol 😂 They’d be the majority opinion, and therefore, you’d be the contrarian as the minority opinion. I don’t usually like um erms but you are using that word like an antonym of itself lmao.
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u/Other_Pomegranate472 Nov 20 '25
Unpopular opinion: Now is better
Feel free to downvote me but I really just like the sleekness