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I don’t think this can be true. The house interiors in the movie weren’t filmed on location. They were custom sets built into a school gymnasium. So everything in the “before” photos are sets and set decoration.
I’m not Amerucan, but as far as I know, America often builds houses en mass. Often in factories. Everything is standardized, zo many houses look the same. It wouldn’t be weird if a set also looked exactly like a real, standardized, house. These “now” pictures could be from a look-a-like house.
Due to a weird law, in the USA manufactured homes must be built on a permanent chassis.
Most homes in the USA are built entirely on site.
And what you know is so wrong, lol.
Mobile Himes or Manufactured Homes are built in shops, but even with those the interiors can be vastly different.
Interior design is a thing, which makes every house different inside.
And the type of house in Home Alone definitely isn’t a manufactured home or even one built in a development where there are only 3 models, but a very old, custom-built house.
Thanks, I kind of expected this house to be old and custom build, like you say.
Is prefab parts not a common practice with newly build houses? Like, you get a truck with some walls and a roof, you stick them together, put in some wiring and plumbing, stick on some plaster and repeat for the next house?
Prebuilt homes, even prebuilt sections, not including trailer homes, are extraordinarily rare in the US.
You’re talking about a country that still uses chequebooks. They’re probably decades away from prefab construction.
They’re rare. When you see many identical houses in a neighborhood, it means one contractor developed the whole group. Usually through deforestation to expand the suburbs. They are still fabricated on site, not delivered/assembled
Very uncommon.
Eh, you’ll find neighborhoods where most or all of the houses share floor plans.
They’re not exactly manufactured on an assembly line but the same architects and contractors will end up doing an entire area, they’ll get a few designs approved and then they can just stamp them out. If your neighborhood is a warren of cul de sacs that’s probably you.
Then there’s the neighborhoods of Sears houses, which were literally ordered from a catalog.
That is not the same as prefab.
Sears houses as a percent of overall houses is extremely low.
I heard on the radio that the child actor is now potentially working with some people to make a new sequel where the same character has his own kid. I don’t think it’ll have the same shine and it’ll probably flop but time will tell.
Yes some people enjoy minimalism but most of the time you only see minimalism like this in real estate. The goal of minimalism in real estate is to allow you to see a blank canvas. There are two schools of thought. You can show a potential buyer what you think is a good use of the space to give them an idea of what to do with it. Or you can show them next to nothing and allow them to fill in the blanks with the furnishings and decor they would be bringing with them into the home. I much prefer the latter when looking at a space to move into. I couldn’t live in such a sterile place but I can much better visualize where all my shit is going.
I would like to see how the home looks after it’s bought. I think the fortunate people who can afford this house will hire an interior designer and make this blank canvas their own.
Did someone say lifeless and sterile?
Think of it as a canvas.
Yeah these houses aren’t meant to stay like that they’re meant to be banal enough to easily project your own style onto. It’s not the seller’s fault you have no imagination and have to be told what to like.
The new one is MUCH too white, but let’s be honest, the before pictures are pretty ugly too. That wallpaper is gaudy as hell.
I think if you literally just remove the before wallpaper and change nothing else, it would look perfect
I’m mourning that wainscoting.
Hallway wallpaper is great, bedroom one is definitely a bit ugly though I agree
The before pictures are bourgie and give a 90’s generational wealth ick, but at least it still looks like there’s a human being living there experiencing something nearly recognizable as a human emotion from time to time.
The thing is that the 90s shots are from a movie, the others are from a property listing. They have very different purposes. A movie needs to be visually interesting. A property listing needs to be as neutral as possible so people aren’t put off by the house before even looking at it.
Two completely different genres of photography.
I get your point but they’re both reflections of how the wealthy decorate in the different eras. The 80/90’s house would likely have been advertised with the same wallpapers and dressed up similar to the movie set by Realtors because that was the style.
Well said. The middle photo of the living room looks like white hell in the new version. Like one of those underground passages in the Hoth base with some Myst-era computer generated furniture spawned in the distance.
In 1990 that was the height of sophistication. Today, Millennial white/gray is the height of sophistication. What can we learn? Trends in home design/decor are bad. Stick to something timeless and you won’t think it’s outdated every few years.
Mudhuts will always be in. Don’t move with the flow, be the rock every drowning man needs.
I’m really sad as a Millennial that this aesthetic has been dubbed “Millennial gray.” I’ve watched some videos on it that make the case that it’s a backlash from the 70s aesthetic we grew up with combined with poor financial prospects in early adulthood, meaning we couldn’t buy a lot of or very nice furniture. Now that I’m firmly middle-aged, I can afford better stuff and my husband and I are slowly turning over crap particle-board furniture for nice solid wood pieces (often secondhand) in the craftsman style.
Been meaning to get into the Craftsman style, I’ve had a kind of shaker aesthetic going on with most of my projects.
There was a thread recently where someone called it “Flipper gray”, because it’s actually being done by boomers trying to flip houses.
Millennial gray is timeless!
You can decorate it with anything because it’s so neutral
Only partially joking
Milennial gray works when you buy like a couch or something in grey, and then install colored accents around it. Red curtains with blue table lamps. If you do the entire place in shades of gray you’re just…dead.
Millennial
you’re just…dead.
you’re just…dead.
Yes, I’m a millennial.
I meant more that you can do the walls, ceilings and floors in bland neutral colours and then furniture, curtains, etc, can be changed out as the current popular style or your own taste changes. So you don’t have to rip out the floors and repaint the walls to change the color scheme.
Also that it’ll be easier for your (grand)kids to sell the place when you’re dead because it’s easier for the new owner to redecorate around the grey than around what’s on the “before” pictures here. I was originally gonna comment that but left it out because the world’s morbid enough without my sense of humour.
The 1990 looks like 1890. I’d suggest that makes it the timeless decor.
I prefer rustic cottage theme. I never get tired of it and if someone else thinks it’s ugly… Cool, don’t live with me then.
Wanted to say that. The new one could use a few colored highlights, while the top one is stuffy and overloaded as hell.
The all white aesthetic can be appealing in a “clear slate, calm mind” kind of way, but this works way better for me when it has a few gentle touches like rounded corners, plush furniture, warm lighting, and natural wood accents. No sharp edges or cold lighting or it veers into “ice razors” territory fast.
In isolation the new ones are ok, I think. But an entire house without an accent colour in any room is crazy.
I find the old ones kinda gross.
I might do a solid color on the walls rather than the textured wallpaper. The shot of the bedroom in particular, the wallpaper is just too busy.
I like the now substantially more
I like the now equally not.
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I agree, it looks way better and more comfortable to live in to me.
It’s just fashion, it comes and goes. We like novel things, out with the old, in with the new. “Maxxing” is coming around now, because “influencers” realized they could sell more crap if they showed more crap. Hold tight, we’re heading back to a version of the before style.
I get it, though. The before style is very busy, especially the wallpaper. I like the warm tones, but not the busy patterns.
The after pictures look like a house being staged for sale, which means any colour and details that used to exist would have been removed to give buyers a “blank slate” look to work with. That’s why you keep seeing this same look in house listings, while very few people ever actually live in an interior that looks like that.
Look’s fine?
Now it really looks lonely.
So the one with the grandma wallpaper that is famous for a little kid being all alone looks less lonely to you?
Yes.
One looks cozy, the other institutional.
This isn’t cozy, it’s overbearing, at least for me. The second one can be fixed by introducing colored highlights and pictures on the walls, while the first one is unsalvageable.
I’d paint the walls but other than that I would take the “before” any day of the week
Yeah, I agree that wall paper is not the greatest but and you can paint walls to create a welcoming and cozy environment.
But all white? Tell me you paid 10000 dollars for some nepo baby interior designer to tell you to use 3 different shades of eggshell white to offset the plain white in the hall.
You don’t paint everything beige because you like beige.
You paint everything beige because it helps people looking at the house imagine themselves living there.
At least that’s what my real estate agent told me before I had to repaint my entire house because I like color.
See I don’t get this, you can’t look at something that’s not beige and imagine it some other way? Have people lost the ability to have imaginations now?
I had all white walls in my apartment when I moved in. The landlord always paints them all white before someone moves in.
I get why they do it, and it was easy to paint over, but if you keep them white like that it’s gotta be so depressive. It looks so stale, and boring.
When putting a house up for sale, you don’t paint the house white because of a shitty interior designer, you paint it white so that the buyer can easily paint it what they want. If, for example, you paint the walls red, and the buyer wants white, it’s going to take forever to get the red to stop bleeding through the white. Going from white to another colour however, is very quick and easy.
A house with fresh paint is a no-go for me when looking to buy.
Too much shit can be easily hidden behind layers of latex paint.
Unfortunately, I know from experience how much mold can be hidden by paint.
Eh, when I bought my house I specifically stayed away from houses that were painted a single colour on the interior.
When I bought me house, I remarked that I appreciated that it wasn’t freshly painted (there were dings in the corners) because I told me they weren’t trying to hide something under new paint.
I don’t understand this mindset of changing your house to the most boring plain thing because people have no imagination if your house has color in it already. Can people not walk into a space and look into their brain and imagine it different colors?
And that’s how we end up with all white/grey houses and cars. Everyone is more concerned about resale value than living.
Well not everyone because assets aren’t distributed evenly.
I hate it. I hate how there’s no colour in the world any more. Houses are black and white, cars and black and white, clothes are black and white.
Why do people hate colour?
People in developing countries don’t hate color, I swear the classism has to be part of it. Go to almost any place in South America and it is so colorful. Go to Africa everything’s full of color, and I’m sure that goes for a lot of other countries. But any country that is supposedly wealthier has gotten super boring.
Advertising made people prefer those colors. IPhones, tech gadgets, speakers, televisions, computers, desks, chairs…
Its not generic, it’s programming of our minds. And now, when a new color MacBook appears, we feel it’s amazing and we want it. Right? Absolutely ridiculous.
I would argue that it’s not just advertising. It’s also a lot to do with how many people grew up in really terribly design homes with terrible hoarding situations.
A lot of millennials seem to course correct to the other extreme. Add to that the rental market where neutral is better because it can be customized without clashing with what renters already own.
generic taste of modern house, copy and paste.
Barf.
It was beautiful in the movie, but as someone who lived through that time, it feels pretty dated these days.
The new look is boring, sterile, and reeks of faux-minimalist wallet flexing. Not my thing either.
There’s got to be a happy medium between everything has extra detail and patterns and bad sci-fi set.
The happy medium is beige colored walls, one accent wall and warm lighting
