Uff, the picture used in the article is from the Epstein Files.

I love how the cover image is from the Epstein files, would've never expected it lmao

I remember the yuts raking millennials for their passion for grey.

I think the decades of stagflation makes everyone think they can resell whatever and it must be neutral to facilitate this eventual sale and escape from poverty.

My wife and I call this "sad beige"

Our house at first looked like this, mostly because we couldn't agree on colors. The bedroom area is still quite desaturated, but the living area and kitchen are much more colorful now.

I've been calling it 21st Century Blah. Is there a name for the architecture that goes with it? They rebuilt the Taco Bell down the road and looks likes this inside and outside.

I'm a millennial and it does appeal to me. It looks clean. Though I prefer the Nordic look.

The house I bought three years ago has those fake wood gray planks in the living room. I deliberately left the floor uncovered during renovation on the assumption that it would be destroyed and I'd have to replace it with something I actually like. Unfortunately, that shit is indestructible.

Pre-WWIII, that's the big one, fatty!

Hate to tell you but the Gulf war was going on before you were fourteen.

Yeah carpet is nuts.

Why would you not want to cover your floor in something to trap all the dust and soak up any liquid which is impossible to clean.

I love carpet, just the ones that you can pull up and give a thorough clean to occasionally tho. Built-in carpets are nuts.

i call that 'zillow gray'

It presents possibilities. I can't tell you the number of times I've seen people shut down a listing based on the current color.. Changing it from puke green to... Anything else is apparently more work than changing from gray to anything.

I'm obviously washing over needing to reprime the walls depending on the color and quality of paint but it's not just white people. White is too sterile but gray strikes the right balance. Same with staging furniture. Sets too many expectations for people sometimes.

I have either rented or lived in family homes for my entire life.

Ever since my dad gave me a fake option of room colour, I wanted nothing more than to own my own fucking house so I could be in my black room.

I got rejected for a mortgage a few years ago, and the lack of being able to paint the walls in my environment is STILL something that depresess me.

painted “reliable gray.” Apparently that’s the color that sells houses to white people.

that and "swiss coffee"..

"neutral sells" is an old real estate truism.

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Me as a cabinetmaker 20 years ago when everything went white everywhere. Why would you throw away these nice maple cabinets for this white melamine?

Our house was built in the 60's and pretty much untouched since the 80's (except for motor shutters and security doors put in the 2010's). Fucking love it.

(Although we did paint (WITH COLOURS) and remove the 50 year old carpet)

I grew up using a 1975 fifth wheel trailer as a cottage and it was cozy as shit. The new ones are really uncomfortably reminiscent of the “studio” condos they’re building all over the country. Why do people think anyone wants to camp in that atmosphere?!

All the colour in the ink cartridge was used up in the 70s and 80s, now it's just black ink left, and not much of it.

So you mean if things got bland and boring it's again because of greed?

I really like these kinds of designs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIAqyVSp-xA

It feels old timey, but somehow specific to geographical area/country. I guess, what I'm trying to say is that I like designs that have "character" whatever that means.

In general, making things look like something it's not just feels wrong. Unironically painting plaster walls to look like stone or brick comes to mind - you're ruining the plaster.

that shit has a layer that is literally printed onto a thin sheet of vinyl.

Polished concrete is way underrated.

TBH, I'm a sucker for the ceramic tiles that have a bit of wood grain. I think it's because you can easily tell it's not real wood because it's cold, but the ceramic gives it a comfy hefty and the wood look gives visual interest and a texture that improves texture.

The plastic fake wood is convenient. It came with my kitchen and is both water resistant and easy to clean. I'm not sure what I'd go with if I redid my floor.

Wood is not good for longevity, especially in a hot and humid location near the ocean. These full vinyl planks will survive a lot of abuse in addition to the environemnt. Do they have to lool like wood, no, but what should they look like?

As a certified Old Fart™, it's better than the colored porcelain bathrooms of the 70s and 80s...

Chrome was shiny & futuristic, so stainless steel appliances looked sleek and modern when they were first introduced, but now that they're everywhere they look drab and sterile. I'm waiting for things to shift back the opposite direction where everything will have integrated LED panels and the whole kitchen will glow in RGB like a desktop computer rig. (Honestly, I don't know if that would be terrible or awesome.)

Eeyore is quite often purple or blue nowadays

For shame dragging Eeyore into this dingy millennial Epstein shit

Yayyyy Volvo

Got my first gray car this autumn, but also my first used car, so I had less of a choice. It does have two shades of gray and black rims, so it breaks up the grayness. Otherwise I have always had blue cars.

Older buildings are so beautiful but living in them if not maintained is a literal nightmare. My old apartment building was 100+ years old with pipes that banged like crazy against the walls and the waterlines were so badly corroded they shut the hot water off for a week to fix them (which got them a complaint from the health department because they didn’t offer us alternate lodging).

For real my house is falling apart and I'd love just to have a normal functioning house 😔

rentals in the u.s. generally include stovetop and oven (or combined 'range') and refrigerator (with freezer), and microwave if it's 'built-in'.

Good to know, but how exactly would someone accidentally get in a situation where a car is driving in their kitchen on the third floor of an apartment building? Edit: oh you mean even simply placing a disembodied tire onto the surface of grey laminate flooring will burn tire tread right into it? 🤔 How about putting something like a moving blanket onto the floor first, (update: I couldn't finish writing my thought because my phone keyboard switched to Russian and wouldn't let me switch back to English so I had to restart my phone. I'm back now. Keyboard back in english now thank goodness.)

Really? I had to add flooring like that to match the horrible millennium gray carpets that were installed by the family before me. It is horrible with dirt. Dirt is more brownish than gray and it stands out like crazy.