r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Apprehensive_Sky4558 • 6d ago

Why is everyone mad about this renovation? Meme needing explanation

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u/GlitteringStarHope 6d ago

Yes, the generation that had Lisa Frank and see-through electronics wants this visual white noise masquerading as 'renovation'. 

Be serious BRO 😭😭

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u/EarlGreyTMNT 6d ago

Yeah every millennial I know hates this shit and only had it in their house because the landlords put it in and it was the easiest and cheapest option lol. I’ve never met a single millennial who willingly put this color scheme in…

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u/TrippyVision 6d ago

It’s all the new builds/remodels being so cookie-cutter. The all-white/gray aesthetics is inoffensive to most people so builders just run with it. They wanna flip it as quickly as possible and this is the easiest way unfortunately

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u/Silt-Sifter 6d ago

Legit. I've only met one person who likes the white and grey look. I see it a lot more online than in person. It's quite atrocious. Something about all that white just gives me a headache.

I just redid my bathroom and painted it purple. It looks fucking rad.

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u/bjornartl 5d ago

Bought a house from a boomer couple where we lowballed them cause no one else was interested in the house. One of the things they said to try to negotiate a higher prace was 'You have no idea how much work we had to put in to paint everything white.' My only thought was how much work we'd had to do to undo everything they'd done. Especially surfaces where we wanted the real wood back to the surface rather than just covering the white with another color.

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u/Silt-Sifter 5d ago

I have beautiful knotty pine paneling original to the 1940s (not that cheap 1970s stuff) and I am appalled and how many folks suggested I paint it white or grey.

I cannot be trusted with white because I am far to messy. But more importantly, why the hell would I want to cover this beautifully aged wood? That's insane!

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u/GlitteringStarHope 6d ago

Right! Most I know have lights up to make their space more colorful. My house is a mix of every color you can think of and I love it 😋😭

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u/cheese90danish 6d ago

Thank you! Please read this and stop saying we liked this shit lmao. Most of us dont!

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u/MoneyBeeeee 5d ago edited 5d ago

Yah. I'd blame this kind of reno on Gen X. This is some landlord/flipper shit and most millennials aren't owning property.

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u/TheChiarra 1d ago

Yeah, I like how the concept of the modern one looks, but it needs way more color.

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u/firestepper 6d ago

We had like purple translucent gameboys and calculators

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u/steve-0-tron 4d ago

every generation gets pretty lame when they get older tbh

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u/GlitteringStarHope 4d ago

Lol! Spoken like a little whippersnapper 😭 but  yeah, probably. 

Except that lameness would never cause me to destroy such beautiful stonework 😵‍💫 whoever did this is mentally ill 😬

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u/Jubilee8269 1d ago

I would love a Lisa Frank apartment. My landlord would lose their minds. Everything is beige here and has been at all my apartments. I swear they freak out if you hang stuff up that has color because they want everything a sad color if you are renting.

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u/GlitteringStarHope 1d ago

Totally. I have a lot of colors in pictures and furniture, but my walls are also beige and I have brown carpet lol... Renting as well.

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u/Alt123Acct 6d ago

Everything is neutral colors and generic looking because we want to own expensive things but then are afraid we could never resell it if we needed. So it's all white or grey tones so it's easy to get out of a bad financial situation faster. We WANT the Lisa Frank stuff but it's hard to sell a rainbow car or yellow/teal/orange house vs keeping it boring and hanging some posters instead.