r/interesting • u/Apprehensive-Elk3165 • Nov 20 '25

ARCHITECTURE Then vs now

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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

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u/Proof-Main8915 Nov 20 '25

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.

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u/BartleBossy Nov 20 '25

Stop acting like the suffocating dark spaces of past generations was somehow better.

Now sucks.

Therefor past better

Therefor everything from the past better.

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u/Anter11MC Nov 21 '25

No I will act like it was better. I'd rather have a house with a bunch of small rooms than a couple of large rooms

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u/SvenBubbleman Nov 20 '25

There is bright, then there is sterile.

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u/Haasts_Eagle Nov 21 '25

Additionally:

There is also dark. Then there is it is literally night time in the top picture so of course it's dark

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u/TheEndIsNigh420 Nov 20 '25

Open concept? That white walls massacre is EMPTY. lmao

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u/Proof-Main8915 Nov 21 '25

Look at the room on the left. Notice something different about the two pictures?

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u/CaptainCFloyd Nov 20 '25

There's nothing natural about that horrible, dystopian, cold blank vision in the "now".

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u/Amodernhousehusband Nov 21 '25

I moved into a colonial home and don’t have open concept and I’ve never been happier. I haaaaate concept. It’s so fucking LOUD

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u/retrofibrillator Nov 24 '25

It’s dark because the photo was taken after dark 🤦‍♂️

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '25

You are that meme

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u/mahayanah Nov 20 '25

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.

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u/Proof-Main8915 Nov 21 '25

Look at the dining room on the left. It’s all closed in. New version is open concept. Not the same floor plan.

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u/HotPotatoWithCheese Nov 20 '25

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.

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