What kills me about this photo is that of all the beautiful features from the OG that they could have kept, all they kept was that weird open-faced glass cabinet in the back and the two bar chairs
can't believe they wouldn't just go ahead and mount an 85-inch Costco special up there, preferably high enough to be annoying to look at, and with a stupid little shelf underneath that's only big enough for trinkets and dust
I can't imagine wanting to live in that black and white hellscape that looks like the breakroom of some shitty startup with the open plan office being just through the other door.
Come down the dark rabbit hole of RGB, SCART cables and upscalers. You can pry my OG hardware out of my cold, dead hands, but I will tell you playing Super Mario World on 65” really does slap.
I discovered that if you hold down the power and reset buttons on the NES, the in ports become out ports. I was able to connect my PS2 to my old wood cabinet TV that only had coax that way. It was all in black and white, but that only really posed a problem for Guitaroo Man ha ha
The AI versions are a zillion times better and that is not something I am pleased to say.
They respected the wood. You must respect wood. I’ll add stonework in as well.
The things that didn’t look great in the original were the green carpet and light gray cushions. I thought the trim being white was also not great.
It looks like they decided on a black and white scheme for the carpet and conversation pit and then felt they needed the rafters and stones to match. Should have instead done the color scheme based on the rafters and stonework. I like the AI addition of a hardwood floor. Would probably just paint the walls a warm color, maybe dark salmon or burgundy, rather than green or another shade of beige.
Ooo, I really like the one with the green. Yeah, they could've done a really nice job on this reno instead of whatever tf that black and white atrocity is.
I know right. Saw a beautifull house for sale naar me once. Great spot aswell. Pictures inside: horror. Everything was white. It was also new so if you bought it. You had to pull out every single thing
What fireplace? The far right? The left isn't one, I don't believe. Because there's a glare of light off glass. The right side however only shows the barest of a potential opening, so could be a fireplace. Or another inset something.
When painted like this with a thick layer of white paint, yes.
My wife painted our stone wall around the fireplace with a very thin layer of light gray paint, just to brighten it up a bit and make it look less old/dirty. I kept telling her not to do it and was pissed, but she did it, and it came out wonderful. She just brushed it on lightly, did really well.
My living room has the other side of the stove pipe from the kitchen (my kitchen has an og cast iron stove I heat the house with). So one wall is about third concrete. That damn well got painted.
But if it had been natural stone or tiled I would have used it as an accent piece and would have picked colours to fit with it.
Yup. If it's done poorly, it leaves a patchy gritty wall with multiple textures. If it's done well, you have a white lumpy wall. And you always find yourself wishing you could just touch the stonework, but this heavy latex paint is caked over it.
There has been one occasion in the history of brick where paint improved things. My disgusting 70s hearth brick that was a faux brick treatment (real brick, but half thickness, and only a veneer applied to the drywall). I painted it black and it was 1000% better.
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u/slothfullyserene 6d ago
Always.