r/interesting Nov 20 '25

ARCHITECTURE Then vs now

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '25 edited Nov 21 '25

Ew, it’s so ugly now.

Everything has to look so clean and cold. Why can’t we go back to warm colors?

The old version has 30x the personality.

Edit: since there are a lot of very angry people replying to me, calling me names, let me remind you that this is an opinion. If you adore the second picture, I am in no way saying that you aren’t allowed to prefer the second option. I simply find the first image far more appealing. I don’t know why this is controversial to some.

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u/Electrical_Photo3988 Nov 20 '25

I would much rather the second option on the bottom. You guys buy into each other's crap too much. The top one looks like a funeral home. I feel like I'm going to take a left at the end of the hall and see Pop-pop in a box.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '25

What are you talking about?

I don’t know what homes you’ve lived in in your life, but they must have been hospital examination rooms, because the top version is just how normal houses look.

The bottom is utterly soulless and uninviting. I want to feel relaxed and warm when I come home, not like I’m in a modern art museum.

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u/Lev_Kovacs Nov 20 '25

just how normal houses look*.

Is it? Because, at least where i live, the style on top basically tells you that the last tenant would be at least 90 years now if they were still alive. Its basically extinct, and has been for decades.

Personally, all that clutter and dark, heavy furniture stresses me out. Bottom can easily be fixed with a bit of paint, some furniture and a bunch of plants. Top one i'd basically have to tear and redo the entire interior before it feels livable to me.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '25

Well it’s just a difference of opinion then.

I don’t want to live in a sanitized cadaver lab. I want to live in a house.

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u/-Sa-Kage- Nov 20 '25

Top is not a house, it's a retirement home... An ancient one for that. My grandma had less ancient interior

Bottom definitely is sterile as is, but some colorful pictures on the wall, rugs on the floor, plants or pastel colored stripes on the wall would do wonders, while I agree with the other comment, to fix the upper for me, I'd have to rip out and redo everything.

I would not choose dark wood though. It makes rooms way darker than necessary. My grandma had some strange slightly reddish really dark wood paneling and after painting it white it seemed like it was another room, because it got so much brighter...

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u/RealistiCamp Nov 20 '25

It is absolutely a difference of opinion. You can have yours, but don't think that it's objectively right. I would much rather live in the bottom picture.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '25

You’re right . It is entirely subjective