My house is 100 years old. The walls are bright green and ten feet high, and full of homemade art. I will never buy or live in a boring beige box again.
I'll never understand why people want to live in such mind numbingly plain spaces. We decorate our cars, we decorate our laptops, we have cute cases for our phones, but the walls of the house we live in must be grey, beige or off-white? I don't mind the architectural sameness. I understand its efficiency. But the lack of color, or any kind of self-expression, that's what I don't get.
Most people don't want to. Rentals and often even homes for sale take on these colors because they're the most inoffensive. Everybody wants some kind of color and character to their home, but nobody will agree on exactly which kind of color or character. As a result, those responsible for selling/renting these places have them take on a "neutral middle": something absolutely nobody loves, but you can't really hate either. Inoffensive.
And since so many people either a) Rent and aren't allowed to paint or make significant alterations (e.g. nails in the wall), or b) Move too often to feel it's worth the effort, lots of people don't bother to change it from the inoffensive, dull, soul-crushing middle ground.
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My house is 100 years old. The walls are bright green and ten feet high, and full of homemade art. I will never buy or live in a boring beige box again.
I'll never understand why people want to live in such mind numbingly plain spaces. We decorate our cars, we decorate our laptops, we have cute cases for our phones, but the walls of the house we live in must be grey, beige or off-white? I don't mind the architectural sameness. I understand its efficiency. But the lack of color, or any kind of self-expression, that's what I don't get.
Most people don't want to. Rentals and often even homes for sale take on these colors because they're the most inoffensive. Everybody wants some kind of color and character to their home, but nobody will agree on exactly which kind of color or character. As a result, those responsible for selling/renting these places have them take on a "neutral middle": something absolutely nobody loves, but you can't really hate either. Inoffensive.
And since so many people either a) Rent and aren't allowed to paint or make significant alterations (e.g. nails in the wall), or b) Move too often to feel it's worth the effort, lots of people don't bother to change it from the inoffensive, dull, soul-crushing middle ground.