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re: Can we stop doing this to houses?

Posted on 6/21/26 at 3:21 pm to
Posted by honeybadger07
The Woodlands
Member since Jul 2015
4431 posts
Posted on 6/21/26 at 3:21 pm to
Looks pretty nice compared to your double wide
Posted by Dixie2023
Member since Mar 2023
5675 posts
Posted on 6/21/26 at 3:23 pm to
Yeah, definitely boring.
Posted by jasonbr1975
Lafayette, LA
Member since Sep 2024
2498 posts
Posted on 6/21/26 at 3:25 pm to
Ughh. The black windows. And people think that looks good.
Posted by Dixie2023
Member since Mar 2023
5675 posts
Posted on 6/21/26 at 3:27 pm to
Looks like a DR Horton home.
Posted by Robin Masters
Birmingham
Member since Jul 2010
36811 posts
Posted on 6/21/26 at 3:29 pm to
That place looks way nicer than my house.
Posted by Cheese Grits
Wherever I lay my hat is my home
Member since Apr 2012
62940 posts
Posted on 6/21/26 at 3:49 pm to

I did black and white in my first home a long time ago. High gloss black and Ultra bright white. Looked great at first, then your realize how hard it is to keep clean. Saw the same thing with the stainless steel appliance folks in what the 90's, just sat back and waited.
Posted by Shorts Guy
BR
Member since Dec 2023
937 posts
Posted on 6/21/26 at 3:59 pm to
quote:

She deserves some of the blame


And in her defense, she always added lots of natural elements. Whether it be exposed wood or leather, etc. I never remember her doing anything that looked operating room sterile and shiny.
Posted by Mariner
Mandeville, LA
Member since Jul 2009
2697 posts
Posted on 6/21/26 at 4:37 pm to
quote:

The bland outside wasn't enough for these people, so they decided they wanted their lives to be void of all color.


For the past four years I have worked with an architect and the architect's interior designer on a few projects.

When you see all that white on the interior, its because the owner is too cheap to hire a real designer, his wife is doing it herself, he has champagne taste on a beer budget, or is indecisive on what to do so they just go all white as its safe and it can re-sell.

If you think that what you see in these pics are expensive, a designer that has unique tastes and skills to design each room with a theme, proper flow, color schemes, etc is through the roof.

What pisses me off the most is a so called luxury custom home which has basic exterior features and little to no landscaping/hardscaping/lighting.

Posted by NorthstarinLA
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2020
2718 posts
Posted on 6/21/26 at 4:45 pm to
That looks like the Toll Brother houses in the Canopy in Houston. If you put the garage on the right and made the staircase round that was our house and floor plan.
Posted by HubbaBubba
North of DFW, TX
Member since Oct 2010
52588 posts
Posted on 6/21/26 at 4:45 pm to
Two of my neighbors, several blocks away, did this. The homes had beautiful brick and stone exteriors, now they look like shite.
Posted by NoSaint
Member since Jun 2011
12795 posts
Posted on 6/21/26 at 4:46 pm to
LINK

Frequently reference this or some of its peer articles about the drastic loss of color across a ton of metrics
Posted by Arthur Bach
Member since Jul 2016
3310 posts
Posted on 6/21/26 at 4:51 pm to
Out of curiosity-why would this bother you?

What other people do to their own homes.
Posted by GeauxTigers123
Member since Feb 2007
3826 posts
Posted on 6/21/26 at 4:57 pm to
I feel like the Gaines houses were more farmhouse tin roof with shiplap than what your picture shows.

But I agree with you otherwise, all over the richest parts of Dallas they are tearing down old homes and building this big new white stucco homes. Idk how well they will last.
Posted by Pendulum
Member since Jan 2009
8165 posts
Posted on 6/21/26 at 4:59 pm to
Black windows are pretty dumb in a place where there's endless uv. The black window fad really hurts my soul, turning homes into commercial looking buildings, and increasing the cost of your own upkeep, all so you can copy off every other cheeseball.
This post was edited on 6/21/26 at 5:00 pm
Posted by jmarto1
Houma, LA/ Las Vegas, NV
Member since Mar 2008
39186 posts
Posted on 6/21/26 at 5:18 pm to
Women are really that fickle. Whole industries sre built on that and female competition. How many Stanley cups do you have?
Posted by Dr Rosenrosen
Member since May 2006
4342 posts
Posted on 6/21/26 at 5:27 pm to
It appears she is headed to UT-Austin
Posted by UKWildcats
Lexington, KY
Member since Mar 2015
20555 posts
Posted on 6/21/26 at 5:29 pm to
I'm with you OP. Just so sterile and incredibly uninviting. Has zero "home" appeal to me.

The trick is to marry a woman who isn't completely obsessed with whatever the latest stupid trends are and who has a little common sense about what looks are timeless, and wants to make a house feel like a home for family, not a show piece to impress her friends.

Good luck.
Posted by Strannix
C.S.A.
Member since Dec 2012
54171 posts
Posted on 6/21/26 at 5:36 pm to
I hate it
Posted by Everyday Is Saturday
Member since Dec 2025
2661 posts
Posted on 6/21/26 at 5:59 pm to
I have underwear with more color than that house’s interior, to my wife’s chagrin.
Posted by NPComb
Member since Jan 2019
28713 posts
Posted on 6/21/26 at 6:22 pm to
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This post was edited on 6/21/26 at 9:47 pm
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