Subtle, patient perversion.. Ponder this very carefully! This is NO ACCIDENT!
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Got it. I have basically stopped watching the property shows. The popular "color" for the past few years is GRAY!
I get neutral, I do not get gray. It is depressing! All the walls, gray, the cabinets and counters, gray. SHEESH!
They also take out all the walls for an "open concept" such there is no coziness in any room, just one giant "space". Noise reverberates in open space. No cozy dining room with dim lighting, to dine; instead a giant island in the kitchen space area. No cozy parlor or living room or library for quiet conversation, a fire in the fireplace, or reading.
Spaces of not an intimate, human scale, along with dead colors . . .
Gray is also a depressing color mentally
That is for sure, so why is it now the color of these times to be put into people's houses?
Counting Crows due Adam sings in 'Mr Jones' that "gray is my favorite color..."
He's not depressed... right? Nope, not "round here" (love that song when feeling 'blue' kek)
I painted my office a gray colour, it works well with amber lighting and reduces eye strain from reflections.
Doesn't mean I would have it in the house though.
I get what you are saying but it is in a group of colors that is psychologically depressing. It can really effect people's moods They claim it is a bad color choice for a work environment
Agree! I hate the open concept living. My kitchen is my sanctuary, cooking is therapeutic. While I don't mind company in the kitchen I don't want my kitchen in the middle of the living room. All the cooking mess and smells intermingled in living space? Nope.
I see the single downvoter, is quite busy.
Gray must be their favorite color.
Yup. Every open concept remodel I've visited has a messy, dirty, smelly kitchen. No thanks.
I love my separate kitchen space. Which I do keep clean because I'm old school and dislike cooking or eating in a dirty environment.
Quite right! A helper or two in the kitchen, maybe. To me though, the dining room is the sanctuary, AFTER the kitchen! Low lighting, cozy seating, candles, wine, good food, good company! The dish washer quiet, very quiet, not intruding.
Yes!!
how hard it that? ; )
Open plan houses get cluttered very easily I have found, never again.
I like grey, and blacks really, but I also like bright and deep wood.
I also prefer open floor plans, because I end up feeling quite claustrophobic in smaller kitchens. I also can do a lot more in terms of decor in a large room.
Extra bonus for a large and open floor plan is that I can add a secret room, and THAT'S my idea of a sanctuary.
Open floor plan is a failure and lets be honest was invented to make smaller houses seem bigger than they are...a house with a defined kitchen space whose noise doesnt interfere with peoples activities in the living room or dining room is where its at.
And it succeeds at that, offering more room for those who either can't afford a larger house or who can't get land in an area close enough for commute.
Open floor plans also simplify central air conditioning, requiring fewer ventilation ducts on the main floor.
Acting as if anyone is wrong for their preferences while asserting your own is weird.
If you want a house without an open floor plan, great! But some of us like an open main floor.
Bro were talking floor plans and youre taking things way too serious lol
The open floor concept was pushed by HGTV because they figured they could get more male viewers if they featured segments where they take a sledgehammer to the walls.
Oh I hated those demo days!
Very ‘1984’ color scheme.
That is something I’ve actually noticed with Restaurants. Very few are built with a unique design or style anymore. Just a generic Brick.
I’ve been told by an architect that it’s because it’s easier to sell off the building if the Restaurant goes bust. As you have an appeal to a wider market.
Eh, there it is. Yes, people's tastes are fickle, they're only into the current thing nowadays.
I like the classics, but not the cheesy 70’s to 90’s colors. I think in some cases the more modern looks are better, but in truth, where are the truly beautiful buildings excluded from these photos. Castles or farmhouses or rainbow row in Charleston. Colonial houses from the 1800’s, etc.
Kinda makes me respect the confidence of 1980s Pizza Hut
So many restaurants have removed all the soft furnishings, meaning voices echo and cutlery/crockery noises are horrendous.
All it takes is for one buffoon to try to impress the whole world with how loud their laugh is and what an amazing time they're having to ruin it for everyone else.
Cozy isn't allowed any more.
I’d go crazy in a 70s home with all the yellows and oranges.
And the green shag carpet and pink tiled bathroom lol
Don’t forget the ‘mirrored’ wallpaper and avacodo colored appliances…LOL
Or the green shag carpet in the bathroom.
With the shag carpet toilet seat cover!
its because they want colors to be associated with the alphabet crowd so its more appealing and attractive to more folks.
I like this take
Might be as you say.
Or, it might be a subconscious reaction to the '70s when appliances and indoor paint schemes tended toward avocado green and sunshine yellow.
That was an ugly time to be alive.
Yeah, I'll take drab over most color schemes from that era...
Haha, everything goes in cycles/fashion fads etc.
An old landlady (85+ when I lived there years ago) of mine frequently talked about how people back in her day got married later in life and that getting married in late 20s to early 30s wasn’t seen as late at all. I always thought it was a newer thing to be getting married in that age range, just assumed that average age of married has a essentially always increased over time
I have a chair with the lovely olive green eagle on it - mom recovered it back in the day when we had the ever so lovely olive green eagle print sofa and love seat - celebrate 200th 4th of July 1976 lol
We had that wallpaper in Dad's den.
Lol, thinking about your dad den I believe we had the wall paper also lol Like stripes with lovely olive green eagles and gold dashes - kinda ? Been quite a few years since I've seen it in person lol
Reminds me of this excellent video by Paul Joseph Watson on modern architecture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GapUEKYLE1o
I need to read The Fountainhead again.
Good video showing examples of the architectural abominations the demons have stained the landscape with - and the nefarious intentions of societal destruction behind them. The history behind some of it is good, too. Despite the fact that a vast majority of people are opposed to these projects, the demons push them out anyway. I truly hope I live long enough to see the eradication of these beasts from this world.
I have noticed this everywhere. Have you stayed in a hotel recently. Minimalist, colorless decor. Clothing choices only offer muted colors for several years now. Home decor went all out on the color gray. Bulidings are ugly as they can make them. Everywhere everything is ugly and depressing.
I have always been all about seeing colors. Appreciating how colors interact with one another and how they influence our moods. What they have done is entirely deliberate and it is ghastly.
Hilton has a new hotel. We stayed for one night. It was minimalist jail cell styling. Absolutely no services and no comfort. No place to put your suitcase, no coffee maker, no ice bucket. Cheap? Nope. Almost $140 in nowhere NC. Off I95.
As regards color, I fell for Williamsburg, mt Vernon 60 years ago and still love them. The colors are gray blue and gray green, teals. I just bought two gallons of gray to go in a room that will have silver blue, Scalamandre blue silk drapes which change according to the light and will clash with every blue I have tried. Exquisite fabric. There are some colors I will never use as a wall color including orange, bright yellow, red and purple. Sorry, but I have had many colors of cars, but my fav has always been black.
Scalamandre! 💕
Yup. And I didn't pay $800 a yard for it. My source has closed, but I paid under $50.
Wow! You were meant to have that fabulous fabric! Godwink! I was trying to envision your room ...you had my attention when you said Williamsburg! 😺
One thing about loving 17th and 18th century furniture is that it never goes out of style. My BIL told me a few years back that I needed to get rid of my Virginia Metalcrafters and Baldwin Brass accessories, candlesticks. I told him I would get rid of them when the White House and Mt Vernon got rid of theirs.
Those artisans are gone. I have explained to my son that he shouldn't sell my treasures at a garage sale...they could help put the kids through college (grin).
Absolutely! Wish Americans valued our artisans like others do. Hopefully we'll have things like Craft Guilds when POTUS returns officially.
Car color choices are just ridiculous.
They offer two shades of black. A grey. Two shades of white. And one grey-blue, and a Red.
In the 90's you get cars in lovely forest green. Try to find a green car now.
That's why many people are putting wraps on their cars. Gives you the opportunity to have gorgeous colors! Recently we were driving next to a rose gold coral car and behind that on a Margarita green car. When we stopped at a traffic light i rolled my window down and told her how much I loved the color of her car! She said it's a wrap and that's my daughter ahead of me in the Coral gold car! She told me her husband's truck is sapphire blue and their driveway looks like a box of crayons!
I'm in total agreement with u/ArmyLady and u/Emyrylde about gray, black, drab colors & open plan. There is a new gray color on cars now that looks like primer! I realize it a marketing ploy to drive sales but i prefer classic style, not fads.
yes, it looks like primer, ugg
Jeeps have forest green but it really depends on the model of car. Boring cars typically have boring colors. Go look at the new Corvette colors. You’ll find plenty of bright vibrant colors. The brighter colors are also usually an up charge now. Velocity yellow tintcoat on my Corvette was an extra $800
2023 Ford Mustang has green. Second car I checked.
Count green cars in a parking lot and compare to white, black, grey.
Oh, you meant out in the world? My area has a fair bit of various greens, like Jeeps in my area have a lot of the dark green. We also have some "lovely" pastel pinks, purples and even some vibrant, lime highlighter.
Go to any parking lot. Count the white, black, grey, blue, red cars, and the green cars. I'm looking at a view of the Wegman's parking lot right now with 100+ cars. Not a single green one.
Just look at the modern Dodge Line-Up. Really cool color options!
I'm looking at the Dodge RAM 1500 Big Horn color options right now.
Two black, a grey, a super dark navy blue. A muted grey-blue, a dark maroon, a bright red and a white.
No green.
No exciting blue
nothing interesting. Same ole, same ole.
Well, I thought of the charger and challenger. Purple, Green, shades of red, orange and even purple. Really great options.
Muscle cars are tiny fraction of the market, and have no bearing on OP's point. I've been very frustrated over the lack of choice in car colors, which is why I spoke up.
Next time you are in a big full parking lot, count the cars with colors that are not white, black, grey, dusty-grey blue, silver etc. You'll see some red ones. That is the only color that we are allowed, apparently.
Back in the day the British racing team had green colour as a brand and manufacturers tried to leverage this to sell civilian cars. It failed. The reason for no green cars is that they just don't sell.
I am a fan of muted colours in human spaces because "you can't please everyone" which is to say maybe I like a colour but you hate it. Our corporate brand is red but when they refurbished our offices it was awful working in a red hell all day.
My favorite act president trump signed was the beautiful building act (don’t remember the actual name of it).
This is part of communism.
{Although I disagree about the color gray which can look magnificent with a bright white counterpart}
Communism is about dispiriting the population. Original architecture gets put into boxes, literally. Everything is a box. Everything looks the same. Uniformity.
Colors are muted and nothing catches the eye. {though I'm quite certain red is still one of the most popular car colors)
Enjoy it, comrade!
It's what I say whenever a new movie ad plays, especially if it's Christopher Nolan or Zack Snyder.
"Remember when movies were made in color?"
Game shows too--Who Wants to Be a Millionaire comes out and suddenly EVERY show has to look like it. At least WWTBAM made up for it with its incredible music package.
Not to mention Bollywood movies
This is moving from a Renaissance focused society to a communist/tribal society. This is something people don't understand about the piercing/tattoo fad as well. Used to be the only cultures wherein the masses of the people would mark up and destroy their bodies were those third world tribal nations of primarily South Africa. Remember the old National Geographic Magazine showing the black African tribes with their ear and lip gauges, tattoos and weird piercings? Now...American society has lowered itself to these very low I.Q. tribal practices. Very sad and just another example that America is no longer a Christian nation, but has become worse than the worst South African tribe!
What about ugly bright ass white houses? I hate those.
They reflect sunlight and make perfect sense in warmer climates.
I noticed, maybe not so applicable, a few years back, when walking thru the masses in transit to DC the lack of color in what people wore. I was always the brightest hen as I tried to wear color. I think it’s a chi thing. They try to kill your chi in so many ways.
If you are going into Chi, You might as well consider Feng Shui. Then color is dependent on your birth date.
I do agree there is a homogenizing force at work that transitions into uniformness and soulessness. We are people to live out our uniqueness, not as the fake trans-agenda, forced mass immigration to artificially enhance diversity based on superficial differences.
The way we were reared, the schooling, the economic environment all are geared towards the denial of our true uniqueness. It is like Marx wrote: nihilism. This is the essence of communism. Homogeneity on this basis is merely the precursor in a state of socialism.
Yep. I’m all in to Feng Shui. Chinese seem to have something going with their beliefs in that and some of their herbal remedies, I must say.
I am mad about lead being removed from paint. It had a benefit...blocking electromagnetic frequencies. No wonder they banned leaded paint.
Shipping container home: problem fucking solved.
white's been available for decades, and those cabinets are retro, or a revival of old colors. nothing new. In fact those nasty pressboard 70s cabinets are better gone. As for McDonalds, it's more the arch that's gone.
And add to it that they’re trying to take over the rainbow and make it look very disgusting to us.
Or maybe to make their lifestyle more appealing/alluring because THEY get to be colorful. Sounds completely insane but I feel there isn’t a single aspect of life that hasn’t been schemed out at this point and not a single angle that’s been overlooked in order to simply F us up on any and every conceivable level.
The new McBurgerTown's look exactly like where an NPC meme would eat.
🎶 Mmmmm bada bop bop baaaa, I'm non emphatic reactioning it. 🎶
Bright colors in McDonalds was psychological marketing in action. It attracted children, but being around bright colors for more than a short period made adults want to leave.
Or, come eat; then leave. McDonalds didn’t have adults sit and talk over coffee for hours. People came, ate and left. It wasn’t by accident
Now contrast this to any coffee shop, or bar, where people sit and chat after a meal. There is a reason for everything
They are saving money on color pigment doing this with cars also. Many reds are special order.
Depends on brand. But red draws eyes and there were statistics that showed that cops target red cars more, and whether it was true or not that started pushing people towards other colors.
So in that respect, that makes sense; if people aren't buying, there's no reason to make that color.
I read that red cars get pulled over more & get more tickets. White cars are the least likely to get pulled over
Architecture is also becoming intolerable and bland. I see modern houses and I go "what the fuck is that?".
I just read a news item over the weekend from someone who was complaining about how color is being removed from my capital's city center. It used to be full of many small, vastly colorful buildings - but one by one the houses are turning either white, black or grey, with the occasional brown.
Another way Russia and the USA are headed in opposite directions. All the old Soviet stuff looks like it’s an animated black and white photo, and the new stuff is what’s colorful. My first glimpse of a Moscow intersection was breathtaking this way, both were visible at once.
Gray cars. Start paying attention people. Why pay the massive amount of money for a GRAY CAR???!!! Primer is gray. DUH! Just more programming.
Loxism. It is by design.
This
Socionomics, always happens when society moves through cycles. All these things follow. Markets down , miserable movies (admittedly that is all lately) dark clothes dark cars etc
RIP red cars
Looks very colourful in Ads.
Rainbow mafia enters the chat
They made Henry wear a navy blue superman suit? That's just disheartening.
What no one is really saying is that 'they' are going back to black-and-white TV. They're just being sneaky about it. Just like once upon a time we went to the moon, but now we no longer have that technology. Colored TV is going the same way. We will some day soon get to watch astronauts going to the moon again, but in black-and-white............ Just kidding. I have no idea what it means. You have made a great observation.
Look at the older buildings, Detroit had an almost Gotham feel to the architecture, it was beautiful. Now modernism makes stupid squares and rectangles. Same with cars, stupid simple buttons all looking the same. No one pays for beauty anymore. Just ugly eyesores.
You can't even buy a "dumb" car now. They have to have backup cameras by mandate. It's so stupid.
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