Why the obsession with resale value (granite, appliances, house, brand)
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I blame the current mentality of constantly wanting to "update" on HGTV. I don't remember the obsession with new bathrooms and kitchens and floors years ago. Maybe it's also because people move more often now and are constantly thinking of re-sale.
When I bought my house I couldn't wait to tear out the "new" Home Depot light fixtures and replace them with vintage ones or to repaint the hideous colors. I even had to put it in the contract that, if the seller painted the woodwork, I wouldn't buy the house.
So what you are saying is that you are entitled to have preferences about what your house looks like, and make the changes necessary to make your house fit those preferences but people who have a different opinion about how they want their house to look aren't allowed to have their own preferences when they differ from yours?
So what you are saying is that you are entitled to have preferences about what your house looks like, and make the changes necessary to make your house fit those preferences but people who have a different opinion about how they want their house to look aren't allowed to have their own preferences when they differ from yours?
I blame the current mentality of constantly wanting to "update" on HGTV. I don't remember the obsession with new bathrooms and kitchens and floors years ago. Maybe it's also because people move more often now and are constantly thinking of re-sale.
When I bought my house I couldn't wait to tear out the "new" Home Depot light fixtures and replace them with vintage ones or to repaint the hideous colors. I even had to put it in the contract that, if the seller painted the woodwork, I wouldn't buy the house.
Totally agree. Just the other day, my wife was watching "Property Brothers", and one of the brothers walked into a house and said "eewwww, this kitchen is soooo 2005".
I blame the current mentality of constantly wanting to "update" on HGTV. I don't remember the obsession with new bathrooms and kitchens and floors years ago. Maybe it's also because people move more often now and are constantly thinking of re-sale.
When I bought my house I couldn't wait to tear out the "new" Home Depot light fixtures and replace them with vintage ones or to repaint the hideous colors. I even had to put it in the contract that, if the seller painted the woodwork, I wouldn't buy the house.
People have been updating their homes for as long as there have been homes. My parents updated their kitchen after living in there for 20 years or so. They built the house, choosing cabs and appliances. I well remember the looong afternoon when my mom debated whether to choose an electric cooktop.
Fast forward to when I was married, and suddenly they were updating their kitchen.
I personally have remodeled two kitchens: we did one in 1980 and another in 1999.
I don't think I am unique.
You get to choose what you want to do with your house. I take it you improved it by ripping out what you did not like and adding what you did. This is not so different from what others do. They rip out what they do not like and add what they do.
I'm just saying people's "taste" is usually some generic version of a trend they see on HGTV. It's not original or unique or timeless. It's just the current fashion. The reason everything ono HGTV looks alike is because the companies that sell all of the stuff are their advertisers, not because of great design.
I'm just saying people's "taste" is usually some generic version of a trend they see on HGTV. It's not original or unique or timeless. It's just the current fashion. The reason everything ono HGTV looks alike is because the companies that sell all of the stuff are their advertisers, not because of great design.
People buy what they can find to buy. If a certain style is on trend, it can be purchased. If it isnot on trend, it is really hard to find it to buy.
Case in point: a period specific wingback chair. They are not on trend, so that style is hard to find.
I'm just saying people's "taste" is usually some generic version of a trend they see on HGTV. It's not original or unique or timeless. It's just the current fashion. The reason everything ono HGTV looks alike is because the companies that sell all of the stuff are their advertisers, not because of great design.
Your opinion. That doesn't mean the things you like are automatically any more original or unique or timeless, they just happen to be what you like.
Well, our kitchen was brand new in 2011 and we did a major renovation in 2017.
We wanted the appliances and layout that met our desires.
We could afford it.
We are mentally amortizing the expense over 20 years.
A year+ later, I think it was worth it.
I'm just saying people's "taste" is usually some generic version of a trend they see on HGTV. It's not original or unique or timeless. It's just the current fashion. The reason everything ono HGTV looks alike is because the companies that sell all of the stuff are their advertisers, not because of great design.
Your opinion. I have not watched HGTV for as long as I can remember. We built/remodeled five homes around a painting. 6x8 acrylic, similar to John Nieto and now it has two cousins.
Your opinion. That doesn't mean the things you like are automatically any more original or unique or timeless, they just happen to be what you like.
My house was originally designed by an architect as his own house so it is definitely unique. I specified when I was house hunting that the number 1 criteria was the architecture. I didn't even look at any houses built after 1980.. As far as decor I have mainly classic modernist furniture (Corbusier sofa, Barcelona chairs, Pierre Cardin). No one who knows anything about design will ever look at it and go "it's so 90's" or 80's...70's maybe!
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I don't think they said that at all.
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