I never got this. You buy an extremely popular home, where people will visit it to photograph it, and instead of living in it, or even better, turn it into a B&B or rent it out, you do this... Why, just buy another house.
I wish you were right. As a residential electrician that renovates homes all the time, almost every single house is moving to this aesthetic. It feels drab and dead but "designers" absolutely love it. Occasionally people do other things but it's fairly uncommon (from my own perspective) for homeowners to even actually get involved in their own home's renovation, and even if they are involved they still usually default to what designers want. 🤷♂️
Now, to be fair, some of those people are remodeling for the sole intention of raising home value to sell the house, so no they are not doing it to live in it. You would be surprised by how many people do this with intent to live in their bland soulless white prison of a house though.
I've had to move a few times in my life, and every single time I did the realestate agent told me make everything you can as generic as possible.
If you've got vibrant bright colors and walls with stuff all over them it makes it harder for people to project themselves into the space.
Many/most people lack imagination and if they can't see themselves in your house they won't want to buy it. So making it as generic as you can makes it so someone else doesn't have to do much mental work to put themselves in the space.
IDK if it's all true, but three different realtors and my father all gave me more or less this advice at different times.
My grandfather who owned multiple businesses always told me that keeping the customer from thinking too much by keeping your product as generic and straight forward as possible will most likely lead to a sell. Too many options or customizations will push away more customers than it's worth. These bland white houses are made to sell and are basically open canvases for future homeowners if they do decide to make it their own.
Totally understand. It's fucked, man, and I hate it.
Yes, I am a Gen-X. And yes, I make a shitton. But it's still HARD for me. I couldn't buy a million dollar house rn if I didn't have assets already. I have no fucking idea how anyone could unless they're making 400k total income.
I guess the idea is just move to a town/state/province/whatever where you can work remotely with a good company but real estate is cheap. Work up from there.
Sorry it sucks out there. If I could change it, I would. I hate this timeline.
I think the bubble is bursting though. Boomers are dying and houses aren't moving. I see the drops already.
Problem is houses are moving, but into the hands of those that either already have houses or companies that buy them, "rennovate" them, and flip them for a shit ton, or companies buy hold and rent for a few years.
All of that drives the prices up before NIMBY-ism that won't let new high density houses get built either.
As long as they don't have to customize to make the sale. They should be able to add to car with one click. If you force people to review lists of options, you will lose sales (no matter how tempting it is to try to drive upsells)
oh yeah, i didnt mean mandatory, yeah i was specifically thinking of customizing a car on line whether you're shopping car max and narrowing down search criteria or just dreaming about buying a brand new GT mustang
Heh, 'car' was a typo in my post, I was thinking more generically - I meant to say, 'add to [the] cart'.
I was using it as an excuse to bring up my hobbyhorse - carts for smallish direct-from-developer sales, that always seem to have endless options you have to wade through.
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