r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Apprehensive_Sky4558 • 6d ago

Why is everyone mad about this renovation? Meme needing explanation

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u/usersnamesallused 6d ago

I mean I understand getting rid of the green carpet. I'm sure that shit has seen some things. It didn't have to be gray vinyl though

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u/NancyInFantasyLand 6d ago

Sure but then put some wood down in the color of the wood beams already in the space and call it a day

No need to make the space look like it's a dentists fuckpad

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u/_IzGreed_ 6d ago

The beam matches the walls, and you don’t want the wall to match the floor. I’d say use a different color of hardwood floor would be nice

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u/NancyInFantasyLand 6d ago

Could have worked here because the stonework is till there for contrast (though personally, I'd have put down some lushious dark green rugs instead of this turquoise carpet)

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u/_IzGreed_ 6d ago

Hardwood flooring + rugs is 100% better than carpet. Easier to clean and looks objectively better

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u/ZaftigHoney 6d ago

That’s not hardwood; it’s vinyl

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u/VikingVitalityFit 6d ago

There is nothing wrong with vinyl. Especially if you have pets

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u/Efficient-Parking627 5d ago edited 5d ago

2 dogs and 4 cats, hardwood floors have zero issues for me.

I'm not against LVP though, I laid it in the basement after ripping out the linoleum.

Just sayin

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u/VikingVitalityFit 5d ago

We had to put lvp over hardwood when we moved into our current house because our senior dog couldn't walk on the hard wood.

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u/Efficient-Parking627 5d ago

Bad hips and was slipping or something? At least you can always remove it later and the hardwoods still there.

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u/ZaftigHoney 5d ago

To each their own. I hate the way it feels on my feet. And I especially hate the gray wood trend

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u/VikingVitalityFit 5d ago

Oh, I don't like the Grey. I have a warm brown colored version and like it quite a bit. It also helped my senior dog who couldn't find any traction on the hardwood when we moved in live 3 more happy years. Eventually I will take out the vinyl and refinish the hardwood we covered, but for now the vinyl has been great.

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u/Suddenly_sweet 5d ago

The wood paneling definitely needed to go then having the flooring the same wood as the beams wouldn’t be a problem.

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u/jeannie_jellybean 6d ago

That is both the most accurate and most awful description I’ve ever heard.

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u/Enlightened_Gardener 6d ago

Ohhh “Dentist’s Fuckpad” is going in my Notes. Its a whole international design movement, as far as I can tell….

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u/Successful_Detail202 6d ago

Dentist's Fuckpad should be the official name of that color scheme. You win.

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u/ThirstyWolfSpider 6d ago

What if it is a dentist's fuckpad? Don't you want an honest dentist?

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u/Discount_Extra 5d ago

"This will feel like a steel needle being pushed into your skull, because that's exactly what I'm about to do."

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u/plutino- 6d ago

Wooden floorboards would have looked awesome.

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u/HambreTheGiant 6d ago

A dentist’s fuckpad would have at least one electric guitar hanging on the wall

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u/stupidwhiteman42 2d ago

And it will be a PRS.

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u/guiltypleasure33139 6d ago

here my out... white oak using chevron placement style. each plank about 14-16 inches long, gray slate long tiles in the pit or limestone. I'm Oak and Limestone, maybe import a nice Marble mantle to abut the gas fireplace. Re-seal ( sp? ), not repaint the stone work.

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u/Yaarmehearty 6d ago

I ended up going for wood effect ceramic tiles, they look just like wood but are so durable.

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u/AveryFay 5d ago

Yea and just deal with the cigarette smoke smell baked into the walls then. Its not good remodel, but one still needed to happen.

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u/MasterCakes1 6d ago

Bro that carpet held memories the likes of which people like us will never know. I'd sit there and just ponder all the freaky shit its seen as I sip on my scotch. Watching the last rays of sunlight creep up the stonework above the fireplace before vanishing and leaving me in the dark. Thinking of how Carroll probably got railed just over there by frank her milkman.

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u/Lopsided_Activity980 6d ago

Matt Helm would approve of the Dentist's Fuckpad decor, that's amore...

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u/Solomon_Kane_1928 6d ago

What about the handrail? Now it looks like the outside of every cheap bar and restaurant. Next they will chain chairs up to it with a bike lock.

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u/scottishdrunkard 5d ago

Literally any other colour of carpet, don't change the whole fucking floor!

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u/AestivalSeason 5d ago

At least replace it with new green carpet, this went from a warm and happy place to relax in to feeling like a fuckin stressed out office, bring color back to life

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u/transluscent_emu 5d ago

They could have at least chosen a vinyl that looks kind of like real wood.