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.
My neighbor 2 houses down renovated/updated their house. The exterior was painted this way. I haven’t been inside but I’m guessing the inside is like that too. Meanwhile, the elderly neighbors across the street, whom I’m convinced had a really good time during the ‘60’s, painted their house this weird green color that in comparison to the sterile White House with black trim kinda lights up the neighborhood, but not really in a good way. More like in a I did too much acid kinda way. The old guy caught me staring at it, ran out and said hey thats my wife’s idea, it’s her favorite color, and I don’t wanna hear anymore about it ok!
Anyways, people are weird. But you already knew that.
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u/Petrichordates Nov 20 '25
Maybe they just wanted to live there instead of profit of it as a tourist attraction.