house flippers & the home renovation obsession | Internet Analysis

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these houses just look so sterile...like do you WANT to live in a hospital waiting room??

When I get my own place, I'm painting the walls teal blue and having an early 2000s dolphin aesthetic and no one can stop me.

21:10 I can’t remember where I read this, but someone said “If you make decisions based on resell value, you’re not owning, you’re renting from the future buyer”

i found a rental with a pink tiled bathroom n felt so blessed bc i've literally complained about how i'll never be able to get one bc everybody flips them. she's so cute

only a few mins in, but i think a factor in why so many people hate the gray flipped aesthetic is due to feeling increasingly alienated in our lives. the internet is less personal, we are oversaturated with similar looking homes, fashion, and people. We enjoy a house with character built into it because its not more of the same boring, impersonal, corporate slop that we get everywhere else. Preserve what little authentic personality is left in the world instead of slapping a sad impersonal veneer over it.

I wrote my undergraduate dissertation on this exact topic! I find this style so captivating in its blandness, austerity, and placelessness😭

Literally. My parents recently bought a beautiful historical house, and I, sad work-at-home millenial that I am, moved with them. But a joke me and my mum now have is how every time we have a guest or friends stay over, they tell us how we should renovate it. It has a very small kitchen, which is already tastefully modern, but everyone says how we should extend it into the next room, how we need a kitchen island, about how the largest room in the house should be the kitchen actually. It's so automatic, and everyone is so insistent that it's honestly hilarious and we just laugh. I LIKE our teeny kitchen! It's so small that other people can't comfortably stand around annoying you while you're trying to cook or make tea 😂 Decorate your own darn houses! We've only just got here, let us enjoy it!!!!

I feel like part of the "millennial grey" trend was a responce to stated trends form the 90s and early 2000s. It was trying to make things "timeless" so that we didn't have to constantly keep up with timely trends. Turns out it just became a dated trend itself, and the culture wheel keeps turning.

My husband and I felt so deeply, incredibly privileged and grateful to be able to buy his family home from his parents when they retired a few years ago. So many of my friends are resigned to the idea that they'll likely never own a home or even be able to retire. The pressure for our home to look "pintrest perfect" has never once crossed our minds. We feel far too lucky to even have a home to get sucked into social media bullshit. However, one of my friends from a wealthier family immediately asked us when we were going to "make the place your own" under the assumption that we bought the family home out of convenience rather than preference. She assumed we were going to gut the place and redo everything like she was accustomed to her mom doing every couple years. I tried to explain that my in-laws already put years of work into renovations that we actually like - lots of warm wood, cool tone slate tiles, and colorful walls - so the only adjustments we may make in the future are small details like replacing the couch when it falls apart or repainting the spare room when we need a nursery. She was stunned by our contentment, and I think that's part of the problem. Does anyone know how to be content anymore?

So I like wood panelling lol, but if someone thinks "I should become a flipper" they made a video game for that. You dont have to do it irl and contribute to the already cluttered housing market.

The thing that really gets me about the "why would you paint it that color?" especially when said about WALLS of all things is people acting like you can't just.... re-paint the walls white after you move out. Or let the next owners re-paint it to whatever color they want

My childhood home recently has been put back on the market, after they removed the sunroom, took out all privacy hedges, removed the garage, took out the 40 plus year old peony tree, The blueberries, the cherry tree and all the built-in, the pantry and the linen closet, the original 1940’s light fixtures and painted all the brick. And are charging twice what my family sold it for. ETA: they had to drop the price, but it’s still listed as 350k above the Redfin estimated price.

Ironically enough, the sad grey home is gonna be so dated. In the future, that shiny hard grey resin floor might well be the knotty pine of our time.

As an interior design student the most hilarious thing about the houses on Zillow isn't even the renovation but the fact that none of the "photos" are real they are just (poorly done) renders

This is why I just build and renovate houses in the sims. I can curate my aesthetic and decorate a cute space without consequence! It really gets the “I need to go to ikea” urge out of my system.

We bought a house from a flipper. It was painted white, they put grey LVP over the 120-year-old hardwoods, terrible black doors everywhere, cheap grey carpet, and badly fitting vents. Our home was built in 1900, so it still has some character, unfortunately, a lot was lost. We are currently ripping out the LVP and restoring our hardwood floors, changing out all the lights, and fixing the shoddy electrical and plumbing mistakes. Unfortunately, it was the only home we could afford that offered what we wanted in the area we wanted to live. Luckily, the home will be beautiful once we are done, but it will take a lot of work to de-flip it.

When watching shows like ugliest house in America I feel a lot of the homes were just made by people to be what they liked without caring about resell bc they weren't planning to move anytime soon and I respect that.

"I have low standards; maybe that's just the renter in me." I've never related to something more haha.

Preservationist here! Thank you so much for this video! The terrible lack of preservation in the interiors is very much a US problem. In other words a cultural effect of the concept of freedoms and personal privacy. There are many pros to these cultural concepts and many cons… such as the gutting of amazing historic structures… again thank you for this video!