The number of aesthetically pleasing homes that get bought up in my neighborhood, only to be torn down and replaced with plywood monstrosities...and if they aren't doing that they're painting over the brick work to make it bland and unappealing.
These people are spiritually poisoned and it makes me want to cleanse the world in fire to see them destroying that which I love.
When I first played Star Ocean: The Second Story R, I must have spent at least an hour in the first town of the game just walking around and taking in the little details that bring that world to life.
The amount of vinyl box houses going up in my area is astronomical. They bulldoze absolutely everything before building, and build everything way too close together. The neighborhoods look terrible right away and in 5 years are absolute trash with tarps on roofs, melted siding from the sun, dead trees, fetid retention ponds, etc.
The amount they charge for the shit construction is even worse. My neighborhood is better (brick, stucco, plank only) but it's hard to compete with all the new construction around here. I need to GTFO.
This must be a generational and/or a class thing, because my mom giving me little knick-knacks and hand-sewn ornamentals to cover every flat surface in my house is the only reason it doesn't look sterile like that.
In my community, pakis buy 2-3 story houses built in the late 70s, knock em down, and put up grey and black 4-story mcmansions that shade everything around them.
When I lived in Seattle it had started to become popular to tear down the nice little mid-century 2-story houses to build what I can only describe as "rectangle houses" (which look exactly like they sound and are the exact maximum dimensions the local building code allows them to be). These monstrosities stuck out like a sore thumb and are going to look horribly dated in 50 years.
Why are people doing that? I keep seeing it happen and it makes zero sense to me. They're deliberately making their houses uglier when if they were just lazy and did nothing they would look better. People are expending effort actively making their environment a worse place. It's insane.
It's the professional house flippers who are painting everything the same damn shade of gray. I have yet to see any actual homeowners in my neighborhood paint their house this color (or even paint over the brick in any color).
Not in my neighborhood it's not. These people have lived there for at least 3 years now with no signs of flipping. They just decided to ruin their own house for no discernible reason. Our whole neighborhood has all these beautiful red brick houses and these new people come in and just paint over it, ruining the aesthetic of the neighborhood. It's fucking awful and I hate it so much.
I dunno: all I can think about with that bathroom is what all the humidity and moisture will do to the wood if you actually try to use that bathtub regularly.
I had a house that had a nice soapstone(?) tile motif on the rear bathtub wall in the master bathroom, and if you didn't regularly seal it, over time the moisture seeped into the stone and disintegrated it. Major pain I was glad to be free of when I sold the place.
There are lots of ways to make wood waterproof, people have outdoor wood decks in rainy and humid climates after all. In tandem with a solid ventilation system it shouldn't be so bad.
gauche - lacking social experience and grace, lack of style
basically being a dumb bitch who scrolls instragram and knows nothing about period-correct style and good use of high-quality materials. just basic stuff like using quality tiles and woods.
and then filling your home depot-finished shitbox with the cheapest, shittiest furniture you can find that will never be worth anything because it's all shit and everyone will hate it in 5 years.
She's living in the house (i.e. not a flip or rental) and she's doing the demo work herself. Why does this Twitter rando care what she does in her own home?
My parents had a house with a Jacuzzi tub in the corner, which was never used and only served to hold their laundry hampers. It would've been nice to clear the area and extend the tiny shower or put a vanity or something, but they didn't want to spend the money nor labor to demo the tub.
Oh, and my ma accidentally bumped into the tub faucet and broke the old, calcified cartridge inside, leading to it spraying water everywhere and a panicked call in the middle of the night. Fun times.
The number of aesthetically pleasing homes that get bought up in my neighborhood, only to be torn down and replaced with plywood monstrosities...and if they aren't doing that they're painting over the brick work to make it bland and unappealing.
These people are spiritually poisoned and it makes me want to cleanse the world in fire to see them destroying that which I love.
When I first played Star Ocean: The Second Story R, I must have spent at least an hour in the first town of the game just walking around and taking in the little details that bring that world to life.
Because beauty matters.
The amount of vinyl box houses going up in my area is astronomical. They bulldoze absolutely everything before building, and build everything way too close together. The neighborhoods look terrible right away and in 5 years are absolute trash with tarps on roofs, melted siding from the sun, dead trees, fetid retention ponds, etc.
The amount they charge for the shit construction is even worse. My neighborhood is better (brick, stucco, plank only) but it's hard to compete with all the new construction around here. I need to GTFO.
It's missing "live laugh love" motifs on every wall and shelf.
This must be a generational and/or a class thing, because my mom giving me little knick-knacks and hand-sewn ornamentals to cover every flat surface in my house is the only reason it doesn't look sterile like that.
In my community, pakis buy 2-3 story houses built in the late 70s, knock em down, and put up grey and black 4-story mcmansions that shade everything around them.
I hate them so much.
When I lived in Seattle it had started to become popular to tear down the nice little mid-century 2-story houses to build what I can only describe as "rectangle houses" (which look exactly like they sound and are the exact maximum dimensions the local building code allows them to be). These monstrosities stuck out like a sore thumb and are going to look horribly dated in 50 years.
It's not women who are painting over the brick houses in my neighborhood with NPC gray.
Why are people doing that? I keep seeing it happen and it makes zero sense to me. They're deliberately making their houses uglier when if they were just lazy and did nothing they would look better. People are expending effort actively making their environment a worse place. It's insane.
It's the professional house flippers who are painting everything the same damn shade of gray. I have yet to see any actual homeowners in my neighborhood paint their house this color (or even paint over the brick in any color).
Not in my neighborhood it's not. These people have lived there for at least 3 years now with no signs of flipping. They just decided to ruin their own house for no discernible reason. Our whole neighborhood has all these beautiful red brick houses and these new people come in and just paint over it, ruining the aesthetic of the neighborhood. It's fucking awful and I hate it so much.
Yeah, that's pretty enraging.
I will say, the one thing I do like, is that's a nice deck.
But what they did to the bathroom is unforgivable.
I dunno: all I can think about with that bathroom is what all the humidity and moisture will do to the wood if you actually try to use that bathtub regularly.
I had a house that had a nice soapstone(?) tile motif on the rear bathtub wall in the master bathroom, and if you didn't regularly seal it, over time the moisture seeped into the stone and disintegrated it. Major pain I was glad to be free of when I sold the place.
There are lots of ways to make wood waterproof, people have outdoor wood decks in rainy and humid climates after all. In tandem with a solid ventilation system it shouldn't be so bad.
Where I am in soggy WA I have to re-seal my wood deck every year or two or it starts to rot.
There are ways to make it more waterproof than that, but it's not always done; and I would probably have to rip out the entire deck to make it so.
The HGTV gray box is the new wood panels
gauche - lacking social experience and grace, lack of style
basically being a dumb bitch who scrolls instragram and knows nothing about period-correct style and good use of high-quality materials. just basic stuff like using quality tiles and woods.
and then filling your home depot-finished shitbox with the cheapest, shittiest furniture you can find that will never be worth anything because it's all shit and everyone will hate it in 5 years.
tldr, low-class dumb bitch
Why do you keep responding to yourself?
She's living in the house (i.e. not a flip or rental) and she's doing the demo work herself. Why does this Twitter rando care what she does in her own home?
On the one hand, people should be allowed to do with their property as they wish.
On the other hand:
My parents had a house with a Jacuzzi tub in the corner, which was never used and only served to hold their laundry hampers. It would've been nice to clear the area and extend the tiny shower or put a vanity or something, but they didn't want to spend the money nor labor to demo the tub.
Oh, and my ma accidentally bumped into the tub faucet and broke the old, calcified cartridge inside, leading to it spraying water everywhere and a panicked call in the middle of the night. Fun times.
Who wants to be that she's a Minions fan? Or that she drives something hideous like a Kia Soul?