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"

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?!

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.

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

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

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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