That table is going to demand so many legs in sacrifice…

Also notice that the handrail in the original photo has turned into a divider in the makeover. It’s a subtle perspective change but one that wouldn’t make sense in reality. AI wouldn’t be able to discern that properly.

100% an AI edit

You can use the cross-eye trick like everyone does to cheat on spot the difference puzzles. The two images have perfectly identical perspectives that you could only achieve if you mounted a camera perfectly and never touched it throughout the entire construction process.

Definitely. But unfortunately, flippers (and people with awful taste) do this all the time. So at least LLMs and they have something in common — soullessness.

And those two chairs with the criss-cross backrests are the same and in the same place.

Why would they keep the hole with the CRT TV in it?

RETRO CRT nook (GAMING (RARE!)) ofc

Good catch. Some items are positioned exactly as per the previous picture.

ever since the 90s, theres been a concerted effort to delete Whimsy from design, aesthetics, and style, and reduce everything to black, beiges, greys and white.

The AI even kept the CRT TV in the “after” pic lmao

It’s load bearing.

You never built a crt into your fireplace? It’s super effective. I stacked my vcr and dvd player on top into the chimney.

I love how everyone thinks they hate modernism too when they see something like this, but it started out as mid century modern

That grey laminate flooring pisses me off like nothing else in cheap home remodeling. It’s embossed with wood grain but what fucking real wood is grey like that? It’s the 2020s equivalent of 1970s faux wood paneling.

I can at least understand the kitchens. It’s nice to know a surface is actually clean. Drives me insane the amount of kitchens I’ve seen with countertops that constantly look spattered with food.

My uncle used to design and build houses. Normally he didn’t work for anyone - he’d take out a loan, buy a piece of land, design a house custom fit to the contours of the land, subcontract some parts, but he did the carpentry with some hired help, and when it was all done, he’d sell it (he was a realtor too) and as far as I know always made a profit, though some did better than others…

One year I went to work for him. But he was doing it differently that time, some wealthy developer had hired him to build his own house. I remember him talking about what a big mistake that was turning out to be, the guy kept changing his mind about what he wanted when we were halfway done with something - for example when he saw the rough openings for the windows, he decided they weren’t big enough and he wanted bigger. Problem was, my uncle had already ordered the windows (custom sized of course) and they were already built, just not delivered yet… But the guy had money to burn, so he paid for both sets… Anywho, my uncle had designed the roof to be held up by some hefty beams, and had intended them to be unpainted, so had sourced the high quality (expensive) ones. After we set the beams- most by crane, but one short one was in such an odd position we had to do it by hand- heaviest thing I’ve ever lifted and I only had one end… a motorcycle engine was light in comparison… anywho, he brought his wife to look at the progress, she took one look at the beams and said “… and we’ll paint those lavender…” I could just about hear the steam coming from my uncle’s ears.

Beams? Mf, they painted the rocks!

I’m never hiring a home designer.

The colors of neutrality so you don’t actually live there and can leave it that way to sell it. The “real estate ad” color palette.

as it should be :)

I personally use a lot of monochrome on any fixed surfaces, e.g. floor, walls, doors, trim, hardware, etc. so that i have flexibility in colorful decorations.

For example, I installed a medium-dark warm gray vinyl plank flooring, white trim, white doors with black hardware, and I stained closet doors from tan to warm dark grayish brown, and then use bright colors everywhere else for decorations and accent walls. This gives me a bit of flexibility in changing colors without having to repaint, or worry about something clashing.

Like you, I can’t stand a complete lack of color, but i do use that “modern look” as a base.

That and the landlord’s favourite - “Trade Magnolia”

It’s not an ugly paint colour, but it’s boringly neutral and inoffensive, devoid of any character whatsoever.

Once I own a place of my own, I swear to god I’m avoiding that colour like the plague.

People actually paint bricks, and it disturbs me. Bricks are so porous, and so unpainting them is an ordeal to say the least. I never understood painting brick. Brick looks nice. They made them look nice right from the brickyard.

Yeah, painting the old wood and painting the brick is just too much. My home is pushing 100 and I have big old molding everywhere, but I’ve seen other houses in my neighborhood where folks have painted the big old molding - white obviously, because that’s apparently the only “color” - and to me it just begs to be burnt to the ground.

Fucking Beetlejuice ass joists.

LOL i knew the room reminded me of something!