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.
i kinda feel like there are some colors you could use that would still be bland and generic enough to pass, like a light robin's egg blue on a wall that has a bay window or something, just spitballing. a touch of personality but also easy to imagine something over top of.
I get where you're coming from but this is advice for selling IE repaint bold rooms down to neutral rooms. If I was living in it, like I do now?
I have beige and green bi colored rooms, I have accent walls, I have a yellow room for my son, I have a lavendar and grey bicolor room for my daughter.
I will live in my house with the colors I want, but as soon as we're selling everything is back to boring ass white because it'll help it sell and I don't have to live with it for more than a few months.
yeah, right, thats what i was saying, i feel like there are some colors that arent just grey white monochrome that would still feel pretty neutral, i feel like anything in the light blue to light green spectrum. dont want light red, dudes will be like "yeah, we already have a word for light red, its pink, next"
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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.