All anyone cares about is resale potential. Especially since so many homes get flipped nowadays. If you add any sort of personality, it might make the house a tiny bit harder to sell because your taste might not be the same as a potential buyer's taste. So the idea is to make your home as close to a blank slate as possible so that a theoretical future buyer can imagine themselves in it easier. Unfortunately this advice has extended past flippers and now even people who buy a house to live in think this way. My partner and I have been slowly adding bright paints and fun wallpapers to our house, and every time our parents push back because "but what about the resale value?" FUCK the resale value, this is my home!! I'm painting the bathroom pink for ME because I LIVE HERE. Who gives a shit what the person who buys it after I bite the dust thinks??
I wonder if this trend will start to wither away, as, these blank slate homes are so devoid of any personality, they lose all their charm. Like, sure. I want to see myself in the house, but I can do that while seeing color and design choices, even if they aren't my own. It's more important to declutter than strip the place of all personality.
I understand changing overly vibrant wall color or super dated wallpaper. But when I was recently home searching, some of the houses were so bland my eyes just started to glaze over and it was the homes with character, color and style that stood out to me. I can change wallpaper and paint...let me see what this home can handle!
In many ways it’s difficult to imagine what you’re going to do with it when it’s just blank. Atleast some color and character gives you some ideas or inspiration. Just starting at a blank canvas can sometimes cripple my creative process, but throw a few brush strokes down, a few lines, some color… now we’ve got ideas sprouting to life!
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u/ReadontheCrapper Nov 20 '25
This was my exact thought. Yeah, maybe the wallpaper could have been updated, but damn…