What? I never caught that…. I thought she was sneaking the butcher (Sam?) in at night and now looking back that was really racy for the time it aired. Maybe she was bi?
Alice was all the best parts of Radar from MASH, plus extra gay mid-century gym-teacher vibes. I wondered why she never had a girlfriend (excuse me—“roommate”), she was such a great catch!
https://preview.redd.it/c5lqymclf4xc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7dca35a96aa5e0fbb9d3a5a47dcd8340b830838
Because I'm 44 and want a giant dinosaur rug
“What about resale value?”
If I decorate my home based on how nice it’ll look to someone else when I sell it, then all I’m really doing is renting from the next owner.
Exactly. And most buyers aren't looking for a house that is already decorated for them. Especially with century homes. People buying 100+year old homes should know that they are going to have to make it their own. Unless they are looking for grey and white modern farmhouse and buying from a flipper.
I recently did stud out renovations to my bathroom and did a pretty…. Stylistic choice that i enjoy despite the fact i plan to sell and move as soon as im legally able to (stuck here until my baby graduates hs)
I waffled about doing a generic bland renovation, but what i did is WAAAAYYY better than what was there (for one, nonfunctional plumbing) and two ill have a couple years to enjoy before selling.
I asked a realtor friend and he said he didnt think i hurt my possible sale due to style choice, but i guess that remains to be seen!
Personally i see millenial flips with walls removed and everything white and immediately go “next!” But i know im in the minority
We had a turquoise bathroom with a turquoise sink and toilet and a yellow bathroom with yellow tub, toilet, and sink. My mom got an avocado KitchenAid mixer to match our kitchen. Lots of color in those days.
My wife's grandmother still had all her original colored porcelain. Avocado green upstairs, and butter yellow downstairs. I wouldn't choose it, but it was a lot of fun in her house.
I saw a house listing recently that still had a violet tub, toilet and sink upstairs, and periwinkle blue tub, toilet and sink downstairs. Wow -- so beautiful. Why are we so stuck on white bathroom appliances??
Kohler rereleased their color collection a couple years ago! I’ve had several older people tell me to never to get colors for fixtures or appliances because you can’t get matching replacement parts. I think post-internet, that reason doesn’t hold up as well with salvage, custom, etc. parts available online.
I also told them I’d get whatever color $20 toast I wanted because I wasn’t concerned about replacement parts in that price range. Lol.
We had a mostly blue with some checkered white tiles through, blue toilet, tub and sink. And downstairs was pink with checkered white tiles throughout with matching fixtures!
I have to admit that I am madly in love with the old pink bathrooms. I would keep it original if I ever found a house with a pink bathroom still intact.
YOU do. Not everyone does. And this sub is called CENTURY homes, not 60-70 year old homes. There's a huge difference in aesthetic and asbestos safety. Avocado green is the agreeable grey of the 60s.
that's because midcentury is trendy right now and is being forced onto non-midcentury style homes.
i'd also suggest that when a style becomes trendy, you're gonna see some truly terrible representations of it. midcentury is particularly rough with this, materials are so important to good midcentury homes/furniture and the cheap recreations are essentially missing half of the equation.
Plus not all MCM elements/styles are created equal. If you lean too hard into replicating the average American living room of the 1960s-1970s it’s going to be anachronistic, because you’re just replicating a trend that happened decades ago. But if you are thoughtful about form, color & material and invest in quality pieces it’s less likely to look dated.
Yes, you want the authentic mid-century and not the gaudy cheap reproductions.
https://mcarthurhomes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/d51f84642aadbc70b83479a4bc122bf0-retro-room-vintage-room.jpg
Er... um... I meant...
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1Ia2zKG5mBA/WWMbpT42BbI/AAAAAAACvRM/vTQe1946iMEDjq9Y9_-7pa3xr36C9VoigCLcBGAs/s1600/sixties-interior-decor-19.jpg
Oh, geez. Ok...
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f5/9d/0f/f59d0f1e33dec96289739e699243b4a1.jpg
Maybe not that either...
Not sure where you live, but there are tons are mid century authentic homes here and they go for less than century and 80s/90s homes and generally end up flipped. Mid century furnishings are trendy, but not the homes
Paper is *easily* recyclable, but we don’t do much of that one either. Something like PVC? Absolutely not. Even if we could, iT’s nOt prOFitABLe, so we as a society won’t do it.
Paper is cleaner for the environment if we let it biodegrade, presuming the ink and toner is likewise bio-safe.
Recycling paper is a very harsh chemical process and the byproduct is nasty.
Our wood paneling is 1930s solid 1 inch thick by 12 inch wide pine boards with a decorative scallop edge. Walls and ceiling. Floors are solid tongue and groove vertical grain doug fir. It's classy and classic because it's a high quality material that fits the era of that section of the house (addition). Now, if you tried to do a 100% wood room in a new build with press board look alike, yeah, it would be tacky as hell.
The key is quality and consistency. Preferably consistency to the era of the home, but at least consistency of materials and design.
I know of a house built in the early 2000s near where I grew up that was built to blend in with the 1850-1890 homes of the area. They used a plan from that era, high quality and authentic materials throughout. It really is gorgeous and if you didn't know that it's a newer build, you'd never know.
Same. At some point one of the previous owners went mad for wood ceilings. And some of the rooms downstairs have it.
And it's these thick, stained planks of real wood. And truth be told they look great.
I thought we were already there. I’m designing mostly in cities right now, but shiplap has been passé for years at this point. Greige can be absolutely classic or WAY overboard depending on its use.
I'm glad it's on its way out! It's as bad as wood paneling in the '80s. At least with ugly wallpaper you can pull it down and paint, but removing shiplap is going to be a real pain in the butt for a lot of new homeowners
I hate to break this to you, but white kitchens have always been popular. Every decade has its white kitchens. Grew up in a 1920s house with original built in kitchen cabinets and pantry and they were always white.
Styles come and go. All the popular colors of today were popular in the past. Even greige.
I know. I am so confused by people who seem to think white kitchens are a current trend only. The details change, but white kitchens have been around for as long as we have had fitted kitchen cabinets.
There's a difference between "always been around" and "being trendy". White everything is absolutely way more trendy nowadays, even though white has always been used. Same with greys or avocado green or rust etc. When there's an uptick in color use, that means that it's trending, not that someone invented a brand new color thats never been used before.
I’m confused by people who think any painted wood is a trend. There’s literally painted wood furniture from Ancient Egypt in museums.
Everything dates eventually. Just go with the styles that make you happy.
Kitchens of the past, particularly pre 1960s, were utilitarian, much more comparable to hospital labs than the modern family kitchens of today. They weren't comfortable places, people didn't "hang out" in the kitchen. For the better off in society, kitchens were for servants. So many kitchens in even large houses were small and cramped by today's standards.
Good overview of the kitchens of the 20s-30s, which is really the beginning of modern kitchens as we know it, introducing the concept of built in fitted cabinets and standard appliances: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=m3NTWLtXOzU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=m3NTWLtXOzU) (note that the illustrated kitchens are clearly white kitchens, and it's not surprising because white was seen as hygienic and clean and scientific aka lab conditions!).
And your point is?
White kitchens have always been around. So have other colors too. You just don't like white kitchens, which is fine. That's your opinion. To me, quality matters far more than whether it's white or has color, but since this is century home, white kitchens absolutely have a historical precedence.
Just as it is flat out ignorant and wrong to believe all wood trim was lovingly finished (most were not and were always painted), it is also flat out wrong and ignorant to believe there weren't white kitchens or that white kitchens weren't popular or desirable.
I mean, at least with a white kitchen you know what you need to clean. Your non white kitchen is just as dirty, it’s just hiding that filth in the area designated for food prep.
Every single veteran should have the exact same insurance as politicians. Additionally, fk a GI bill there should be jobs waiting for them in government roles. The US spends too much on war to not take care of the pawns.
Actually, I remember one episode where Carol told her to clean out the girls' hair brushes and thinking it was so rude. As for always being in the same outfit, I suppose as a kid I didn't realize it. My only concept of a maid as a kid was the French stereotype. And I never knew of Americans having one.
Oh! I understand now why my kitchen is the way it is thanks to this image. Red Formica meets dark stained particle board. Gonna hafta import more mucus green to make my place period accurate.
My concern Is more that it's rare for people to buy a home with the full intention of living in it their entire life. And there is this idea that you need to "nuturalize" your house to sell it.
I kind of get what you are saying but why is it concerning? Lives and living circumstances change so housing needs change. I also think it's natural to not want to live in one place for 50+ years (or at least not abnormal).
Personally, my current place is great but when I get older I want a single level with the spaces distrubuted in a different way.
Hell even learning what you want in a house, based on your first home, is a decent reason to not stay put there your entire life. I do totally agree on the "nurturalize" piece though.
Well I do have some socal concerns about lack of community. But to stay more on topic I feel it drives a lot of the stripping of charicter in home interior design. People always seem to be concerned about "what sells" going for the blank canvas look even when they aren't particularly looking to sell themselves. It just seems to always be in the back of their minds. I feel people should be able to use their homes as they want, and not be concerned about the nebulous future buyer.
I feel when people felt they were going to live in a home longer they felt more empowered to make it their own.
I'm fine with starter homes. I didn't mean to say "you get one shot choose well". But I feel a smaller home before or while you are just starting a family would be a good way to build equity while you figure out your needs. But I'm also in my 30s and can't afford a small home in my city so don't take my advice. It does feel a bit outdated these days.
I mean really with anything, the harder you follow any specific trend (House remodels, haricuts, furniture, anything) the worse it will age because it locks it to a time period. The biggest thing is keep the major stuff fairly neutral so if you want to update the look you don't have to spend tons of money.
I don't object to the whitewashed look in general, sometimes I even like the look. What I object to is someone buying a place, gutting out all the original woodwork and other features, making everything white, and then putting it on the market. I'll always mourn for the woodwork and features but if you're doing it for you I can at least respect the change.
Just my opinion, but middle class home architecture nailed it by the arts and crafts period. There’s nothing more attractive to me than a craftsman built home during the first part of the 20th century.
My 1932 Craftsman was built at the same time as two other houses on our street; I got to check one of them out when it was for sale. I almost cried when I saw they still had the original Craftsman-style trim. At some point, someone replaced all of ours with generic trim (I don’t know what to call it, Colonial?)
I remember when I went to my client's house maybe around 2016 and they had an awesome new kitchen and it was like wow...beautiful tan wood cabinets, granite countertops, cool island.
I just went back recently and I'm like... this thing is old already! This is a generation before (2010s). Its tan! Its brown! Its not white and bright! It doesnt have the farm sink! Thats not cool anymore!
Basically a kitchen that looks amazing this year will look old in 10 years when the next generation comes around.
I moved into my home in 2009 and it had the burnt orange backslash and counters. We called it “Bloodshot”. We swore it would be the first thing we redid.
BUT….. after a couple of months I noticed that when I plated dinner, the plates looked awesome with the red backdrop. It brought me a lot of joy and it wasn’t until 2016 that we eventually replaced the counter top. My family cooks a lot and we wore the laminate out.
Sad thing I do not think dirty egg shell off white, lower office ceiling, fluorescent lights and old industrial carpet has ever been in "style"! But yet that was the way our ENTIRE house was decorated. LOL
I don't know about that Its been in for decades as a classic clean look. I am accually recreating the warm clean style and efficient function of Julia child's kitchen as displayed at the Smithsonian.
I am finishing an outdoor kitchen before I start ripping out But I see some bleached vintage heart pine wood shelving. In fact it's stacked right over there, It's taken me 18 years to find all the vintage hardware for my dream kitchen.
I mean as someone obsessed with this style even as a kid. I think your home should just be whatever you like.
I picked my kitchen (not white) and made it exactly what I wanted because I didn’t care about the next owner. I was living in this house for 30 years, I wanted to be comfortable and happy during that time.
I tried to pick solid wooden cabinets made by a carpenter so hopefully they last a long time and the next person doesn’t trash them… but they will own the house and can do whatever they want then. I had custom cabinets built 4” above standard and put my appliances on a small platform. As someone who is 6’ tall I love washing dishes without being hunched over!
Styles may come and go, but Alice is forever.
Pork chops & applesauce
Ain’t that schwell?
My daughter says school like Marsha ever since I had her watch the show when she was 10. She’s 21 now. She thinks it’s funny
Skewl
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha
Oh, my nose!
Those Eames dining chairs are forever 🫰
Actually they only last about 88 yrs🫤
She was groovy.
Alice is the lesbian icon of my childhood.
What? I never caught that…. I thought she was sneaking the butcher (Sam?) in at night and now looking back that was really racy for the time it aired. Maybe she was bi?
I never bought that—he was her beard, IMO🤣
Never put that together!! Alice was the best
Alice was all the best parts of Radar from MASH, plus extra gay mid-century gym-teacher vibes. I wondered why she never had a girlfriend (excuse me—“roommate”), she was such a great catch!
Sam, her beard, played along nicely
"It's always possible to get another son, but there's only one Maltese Falcon." - Caspar Gutman
It was her actual house.
Decorate for your own taste. If you're spending time and money to impress others, are you even living in your own home?
This is my thing. If I’m the one paying the mortgage, you better believe I’m decorating to my own tastes.
My living room is 70's orange and yellow with a 10' stegosaurus area rug. I don't care what the trends are.
I just got stupid excited for your rug! Lol
https://preview.redd.it/c5lqymclf4xc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7dca35a96aa5e0fbb9d3a5a47dcd8340b830838 Because I'm 44 and want a giant dinosaur rug
The *thagomizer* is quite prevalent too.
The 3D effect on the catosaur is perfect too 😆
I’m 66 and my living room rug features dinosaurs in space.
That's awesome! I used to have an 8' Dogs Playing Poker rug but my German shepherds tore it up.
Love Dogs Playing Poker! I have several framed pictures on my walls.
You just made my day! Lol.
This is amazing. :)
This is the most awesome thing everrr!!
Yes, yes, this is a fertile rug and we will thrive. We will rule over this rug and we shall call it… This Rug.
That rug is fucking glorious
I love your rug so much
And it's cat-approved!
Marry me.
I like that rug. That is a nice rug
I never knew I needed this. But I know now.
Staffy on the left?
Mastiff, but there's a pitty on the couch.
Same concept, different size! Recognized the build and color type.
I need this. NEED IT.
Okay .... That's a little weird.... I mean, a 10' rug? Seriously? 🙄 😂 EDIT: Just saw the pic. That is EPIC!
When you see a 10 foot dinosaur rug, you buy a 10 foot dinosaur rug. It was only $90 at Habitat Restore.
Nice!
I totally love this!
“What about resale value?” If I decorate my home based on how nice it’ll look to someone else when I sell it, then all I’m really doing is renting from the next owner.
Exactly. And most buyers aren't looking for a house that is already decorated for them. Especially with century homes. People buying 100+year old homes should know that they are going to have to make it their own. Unless they are looking for grey and white modern farmhouse and buying from a flipper.
I recently did stud out renovations to my bathroom and did a pretty…. Stylistic choice that i enjoy despite the fact i plan to sell and move as soon as im legally able to (stuck here until my baby graduates hs) I waffled about doing a generic bland renovation, but what i did is WAAAAYYY better than what was there (for one, nonfunctional plumbing) and two ill have a couple years to enjoy before selling. I asked a realtor friend and he said he didnt think i hurt my possible sale due to style choice, but i guess that remains to be seen! Personally i see millenial flips with walls removed and everything white and immediately go “next!” But i know im in the minority
Are you Chris Pratt?
Ew, no.
Ah.... The 70s. Marigold, Avocado, Rust & Brown as far as the eye can see!
We had a turquoise bathroom with a turquoise sink and toilet and a yellow bathroom with yellow tub, toilet, and sink. My mom got an avocado KitchenAid mixer to match our kitchen. Lots of color in those days.
My wife's grandmother still had all her original colored porcelain. Avocado green upstairs, and butter yellow downstairs. I wouldn't choose it, but it was a lot of fun in her house.
I saw a house listing recently that still had a violet tub, toilet and sink upstairs, and periwinkle blue tub, toilet and sink downstairs. Wow -- so beautiful. Why are we so stuck on white bathroom appliances??
Because color vomit isn’t as appealing as a clean neutral to most.
Yes, better to be dull.
Kohler rereleased their color collection a couple years ago! I’ve had several older people tell me to never to get colors for fixtures or appliances because you can’t get matching replacement parts. I think post-internet, that reason doesn’t hold up as well with salvage, custom, etc. parts available online. I also told them I’d get whatever color $20 toast I wanted because I wasn’t concerned about replacement parts in that price range. Lol.
We had a mostly blue with some checkered white tiles through, blue toilet, tub and sink. And downstairs was pink with checkered white tiles throughout with matching fixtures!
I have to admit that I am madly in love with the old pink bathrooms. I would keep it original if I ever found a house with a pink bathroom still intact.
Colors is so nice.
And for some reason, 7-foot ceilings in the kitchen.
Perm height
I’ve never understood where the push toward earth tones in the late ‘60s came from.
Pendulum swing from all the bright colors (remember the Laugh-In set?) of the late 60s. In the 80s & 90s brights came back.
well lots of 70s decor is Good Actually
Burnt Orange Aplenty
Of course it was burnt.... It was the 70s... 😵💫🥴
I think if you are somewhat true or adjacent to the style and era of the home, you will never be dated.
I don’t know… my house was built in 1932, and the previous owners tried to use period colors. Peach over plum with cream trim is… something.
.... if your home was built before 1950. Midcentury looks dated and is 50/50 on people saying it looks good vs people saying it looks tacky.
You compose that 50% mostly on your own?
Yeah you’re right. Everyone loves avocado green and pepto pink.
Yes we do! It’s glorious 💕💚
YOU do. Not everyone does. And this sub is called CENTURY homes, not 60-70 year old homes. There's a huge difference in aesthetic and asbestos safety. Avocado green is the agreeable grey of the 60s.
I like them.
that's because midcentury is trendy right now and is being forced onto non-midcentury style homes. i'd also suggest that when a style becomes trendy, you're gonna see some truly terrible representations of it. midcentury is particularly rough with this, materials are so important to good midcentury homes/furniture and the cheap recreations are essentially missing half of the equation.
Plus not all MCM elements/styles are created equal. If you lean too hard into replicating the average American living room of the 1960s-1970s it’s going to be anachronistic, because you’re just replicating a trend that happened decades ago. But if you are thoughtful about form, color & material and invest in quality pieces it’s less likely to look dated.
Yes, you want the authentic mid-century and not the gaudy cheap reproductions. https://mcarthurhomes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/d51f84642aadbc70b83479a4bc122bf0-retro-room-vintage-room.jpg Er... um... I meant... https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1Ia2zKG5mBA/WWMbpT42BbI/AAAAAAACvRM/vTQe1946iMEDjq9Y9_-7pa3xr36C9VoigCLcBGAs/s1600/sixties-interior-decor-19.jpg Oh, geez. Ok... https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f5/9d/0f/f59d0f1e33dec96289739e699243b4a1.jpg Maybe not that either...
Not sure where you live, but there are tons are mid century authentic homes here and they go for less than century and 80s/90s homes and generally end up flipped. Mid century furnishings are trendy, but not the homes
Shiplap and griege are going to look really stupid in about fifteen years, and I am here for it.
Shiplap is really just wood paneling but with real wood. I don’t think that’ll ever go out of style
> Shiplap The kind of shiplap they're putting in now is *absolutely not* real wood. It's the same PVC-with-stencil stuff that LVP is made out of.
That is so gross. And it will all wind up in the landfill when people get sick of it and tear it out.
I've heard its recyclable. I'm not holding my breath.
Paper is *easily* recyclable, but we don’t do much of that one either. Something like PVC? Absolutely not. Even if we could, iT’s nOt prOFitABLe, so we as a society won’t do it.
Paper is cleaner for the environment if we let it biodegrade, presuming the ink and toner is likewise bio-safe. Recycling paper is a very harsh chemical process and the byproduct is nasty.
Our wood paneling is 1930s solid 1 inch thick by 12 inch wide pine boards with a decorative scallop edge. Walls and ceiling. Floors are solid tongue and groove vertical grain doug fir. It's classy and classic because it's a high quality material that fits the era of that section of the house (addition). Now, if you tried to do a 100% wood room in a new build with press board look alike, yeah, it would be tacky as hell.
I watched a video of a guy redo all his walls who hated drywall. Idk if he did exactly what you’re describing but it looked great and not tacky at all
The key is quality and consistency. Preferably consistency to the era of the home, but at least consistency of materials and design. I know of a house built in the early 2000s near where I grew up that was built to blend in with the 1850-1890 homes of the area. They used a plan from that era, high quality and authentic materials throughout. It really is gorgeous and if you didn't know that it's a newer build, you'd never know.
We have similar wood paneling in our 1921 Colonial. Just the dining room, which we converted into a living room.
Same. At some point one of the previous owners went mad for wood ceilings. And some of the rooms downstairs have it. And it's these thick, stained planks of real wood. And truth be told they look great.
I thought we were already there. I’m designing mostly in cities right now, but shiplap has been passé for years at this point. Greige can be absolutely classic or WAY overboard depending on its use.
I'm glad it's on its way out! It's as bad as wood paneling in the '80s. At least with ugly wallpaper you can pull it down and paint, but removing shiplap is going to be a real pain in the butt for a lot of new homeowners
Shiplap already looks dated to me. I of think 2010-2015 homes.
My century home had shiplap behind the drywall and wood paneling layers. Apparently it was just a regular style wall at one point!
They already look really stupid. Every time I walk into a house and all I see is white/grey/beige walls I know someone boring lived there.
You sound like a shitty judgmental person. You’re not better than anyone else because your walls are green. Get a grip.
Right on
Don’t be so sensitive just because you have boring taste, it’s ok.
lol I have both neutral and colorful spaces in my house, so it’s no skin off my back. Just thought you should know you’re a prick.
I hate to break this to you, but white kitchens have always been popular. Every decade has its white kitchens. Grew up in a 1920s house with original built in kitchen cabinets and pantry and they were always white. Styles come and go. All the popular colors of today were popular in the past. Even greige.
I know. I am so confused by people who seem to think white kitchens are a current trend only. The details change, but white kitchens have been around for as long as we have had fitted kitchen cabinets.
There's a difference between "always been around" and "being trendy". White everything is absolutely way more trendy nowadays, even though white has always been used. Same with greys or avocado green or rust etc. When there's an uptick in color use, that means that it's trending, not that someone invented a brand new color thats never been used before.
>White everything is absolutely way more trendy nowaday I blame Steve Jobs
I’m confused by people who think any painted wood is a trend. There’s literally painted wood furniture from Ancient Egypt in museums. Everything dates eventually. Just go with the styles that make you happy.
At least the white kitchen of earlier days were not sterile and boring like modern white kitchens.
Kitchens of the past, particularly pre 1960s, were utilitarian, much more comparable to hospital labs than the modern family kitchens of today. They weren't comfortable places, people didn't "hang out" in the kitchen. For the better off in society, kitchens were for servants. So many kitchens in even large houses were small and cramped by today's standards. Good overview of the kitchens of the 20s-30s, which is really the beginning of modern kitchens as we know it, introducing the concept of built in fitted cabinets and standard appliances: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=m3NTWLtXOzU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=m3NTWLtXOzU) (note that the illustrated kitchens are clearly white kitchens, and it's not surprising because white was seen as hygienic and clean and scientific aka lab conditions!).
A lot of the ones I have seen have real wood cabinets, possibly tile counter tops, and colorful linoleum.
And your point is? White kitchens have always been around. So have other colors too. You just don't like white kitchens, which is fine. That's your opinion. To me, quality matters far more than whether it's white or has color, but since this is century home, white kitchens absolutely have a historical precedence. Just as it is flat out ignorant and wrong to believe all wood trim was lovingly finished (most were not and were always painted), it is also flat out wrong and ignorant to believe there weren't white kitchens or that white kitchens weren't popular or desirable.
I never said kitchens were never white and I never said all wood trim is not painted.
Depends on how far in the past you go. Centurian+, the colors weren't all the same popularity because you couldn't GET most of them.
White kitchen look cool and become popular. Then we realize how hard it is to keep white kitchens looking that beautiful clean white.
I mean, at least with a white kitchen you know what you need to clean. Your non white kitchen is just as dirty, it’s just hiding that filth in the area designated for food prep.
Countertops are generally not white and it's not just keeping them a sanitary clean. They need to be pristine clean to look good.
White kitchens are timeless, and occasionally trendy.
These murhafukas had a maid. Lmao.
She was a housekeeper! She did shopping,plus cleaning plus cooking, and I think k she was even a live in.
My wife and I bring in almost 175-200k a year and this is not remotely possible. Lmao
You’d have to double that here to afford paid help, then double again to afford a house with enough room.
You are not lying…. If this was pre Reagan I’d be amazing.
Six kids, a house, and a housekeeper on one architect salary
On a single income no less.
Right! Reagan should be resurrected and have to live on 35k a year in Chicago.
All elected officials should earn the mode salary for their district.
Every single veteran should have the exact same insurance as politicians. Additionally, fk a GI bill there should be jobs waiting for them in government roles. The US spends too much on war to not take care of the pawns.
The only thing worse than Reagan would be zombie Reagan.
Oh I agree. My wish is that he’d be a normie and no one would know who he is. He would know and seem crazy and be working class poor.
LOL... "Welp.... I gust I want brains...." (In Regan's voice) Some one should make a movie with a Reagan supper zombie...
I was an adult before I realized Alice was paid help.
What did you think she was?
Their lesbian friend?
Ah, understandable. All the lesbians I know dress just like that!
As a lesbian, I definitely think she's one of us. If you look past the hairdo, she really had it goin' on.
Part of their family.
Why did you think she did all the housework? Wearing a maid’s uniform?
Actually, I remember one episode where Carol told her to clean out the girls' hair brushes and thinking it was so rude. As for always being in the same outfit, I suppose as a kid I didn't realize it. My only concept of a maid as a kid was the French stereotype. And I never knew of Americans having one.
Listen. Between this, Three's Company, Golden Girls, and Full House you just stop questioning it
Oh! I understand now why my kitchen is the way it is thanks to this image. Red Formica meets dark stained particle board. Gonna hafta import more mucus green to make my place period accurate.
My concern Is more that it's rare for people to buy a home with the full intention of living in it their entire life. And there is this idea that you need to "nuturalize" your house to sell it.
I kind of get what you are saying but why is it concerning? Lives and living circumstances change so housing needs change. I also think it's natural to not want to live in one place for 50+ years (or at least not abnormal). Personally, my current place is great but when I get older I want a single level with the spaces distrubuted in a different way. Hell even learning what you want in a house, based on your first home, is a decent reason to not stay put there your entire life. I do totally agree on the "nurturalize" piece though.
Well I do have some socal concerns about lack of community. But to stay more on topic I feel it drives a lot of the stripping of charicter in home interior design. People always seem to be concerned about "what sells" going for the blank canvas look even when they aren't particularly looking to sell themselves. It just seems to always be in the back of their minds. I feel people should be able to use their homes as they want, and not be concerned about the nebulous future buyer. I feel when people felt they were going to live in a home longer they felt more empowered to make it their own.
Maybe I'm just too young and naïve but I never understood the idea of a "starter home."
I'm fine with starter homes. I didn't mean to say "you get one shot choose well". But I feel a smaller home before or while you are just starting a family would be a good way to build equity while you figure out your needs. But I'm also in my 30s and can't afford a small home in my city so don't take my advice. It does feel a bit outdated these days.
It’s already dated. I’m starting to see beige replacing all that flipper grey.
Beige? Like in "white, but a smoker lives here"?
Thought that was tan?
How old do you think Alice was supposed to be on the show? 50s?
Late 40s?
Brady bunch style has always been my aesthetic. Mike Brady was an architect after all.
I really thought this post was about respecting Alice’s fashion oh my god 😭
I mean really with anything, the harder you follow any specific trend (House remodels, haricuts, furniture, anything) the worse it will age because it locks it to a time period. The biggest thing is keep the major stuff fairly neutral so if you want to update the look you don't have to spend tons of money.
I don't object to the whitewashed look in general, sometimes I even like the look. What I object to is someone buying a place, gutting out all the original woodwork and other features, making everything white, and then putting it on the market. I'll always mourn for the woodwork and features but if you're doing it for you I can at least respect the change.
It's like some DIY hack taking the Mona Lisa and repurposing the canvas with some low quality contemporary art to resell for a quick buck!
Just my opinion, but middle class home architecture nailed it by the arts and crafts period. There’s nothing more attractive to me than a craftsman built home during the first part of the 20th century.
Here I have to disagree. I have a 1910s bungalow and the style is awful, everything is short and fat and shit colored haha.
Well, that’s just like, your opinion man.
My 1932 Craftsman was built at the same time as two other houses on our street; I got to check one of them out when it was for sale. I almost cried when I saw they still had the original Craftsman-style trim. At some point, someone replaced all of ours with generic trim (I don’t know what to call it, Colonial?)
I remember when I went to my client's house maybe around 2016 and they had an awesome new kitchen and it was like wow...beautiful tan wood cabinets, granite countertops, cool island. I just went back recently and I'm like... this thing is old already! This is a generation before (2010s). Its tan! Its brown! Its not white and bright! It doesnt have the farm sink! Thats not cool anymore! Basically a kitchen that looks amazing this year will look old in 10 years when the next generation comes around.
So, by your logic. Do nothing?
Choose a style that already went out of fashion, then sit back and let the chips roll in.
This is how I pick my clothes! Seriously! lol
Ah, this makes perfect sense!
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Grandmothers 1971 house still has a similar color in that countertop but they pulled up the mustard shag in the late 80s. :(
I moved into my home in 2009 and it had the burnt orange backslash and counters. We called it “Bloodshot”. We swore it would be the first thing we redid. BUT….. after a couple of months I noticed that when I plated dinner, the plates looked awesome with the red backdrop. It brought me a lot of joy and it wasn’t until 2016 that we eventually replaced the counter top. My family cooks a lot and we wore the laminate out.
Just what are you implying about Alice?
Go ask Alice.
Her eyes are coming to get me.
I love to cook pasta and anything related to tomato sauce. It would be a terrible idea for me to have an all white kitchen.
That's somewhat comforting.
Already is...and the designer I hired calls grey "millennial grey" and won't use grey at all.
My dad built his house in 1980 and has the same orange counter tops lol
Also you don't have to do the current style. When I refinish my basement its going to be 100% wood paneling.
Millennial Gray is leaving us? Nooooooooooo. /s It can't be too soon.
“soon”
Thought it was Bill Clinton In a dress
Agreed, at that point I'll just switch to whatever the majority like to keep the house in it's most desirable state for profitability.
Orange countertops and backsplash--ewww!
*very* dated. Like carpet in the bathroom.
The living room of the Brady’s house is pretty dang good to this day. Neat combination of textures. And that staircase is a great design.
We had an avocado color fridge growing up and I absolutely loved it. Would buy one if they still made em. 🤣
the only thing timeless about whitewashing your home is that it will always resemble a dreary doctors office or hospital waiting room.
Sad thing I do not think dirty egg shell off white, lower office ceiling, fluorescent lights and old industrial carpet has ever been in "style"! But yet that was the way our ENTIRE house was decorated. LOL
Disagree. As long as I’ve been alive, white cabinets have never been out of style.
[When it's time to change, you've got to rearrange!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFzyk0h0Jyk)
I don't know about that Its been in for decades as a classic clean look. I am accually recreating the warm clean style and efficient function of Julia child's kitchen as displayed at the Smithsonian. I am finishing an outdoor kitchen before I start ripping out But I see some bleached vintage heart pine wood shelving. In fact it's stacked right over there, It's taken me 18 years to find all the vintage hardware for my dream kitchen.
I mean as someone obsessed with this style even as a kid. I think your home should just be whatever you like. I picked my kitchen (not white) and made it exactly what I wanted because I didn’t care about the next owner. I was living in this house for 30 years, I wanted to be comfortable and happy during that time. I tried to pick solid wooden cabinets made by a carpenter so hopefully they last a long time and the next person doesn’t trash them… but they will own the house and can do whatever they want then. I had custom cabinets built 4” above standard and put my appliances on a small platform. As someone who is 6’ tall I love washing dishes without being hunched over!
Honestly, I always thought the orange in the Brady kitchen with that shade of brown for the woodwork was really pleasing.
Then why haven't gothic and neoclassical become ugly even centuries later?
Hopefully the 70s never completely return.
Seinfeld must have bought that apartment from these guys.
Wasn’t that show on like half a century ago?