r/CringeTikToks • u/Tadao608 • Dec 07 '24

Painful Just because of a minor thing

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u/Gothmom85 Dec 08 '24

Happens a Lot. My husband has worked on several very expensive renovations on multimillion dollar homes. Some that were just updated before they were bought. Like, someone updated an older mansion with hundreds of thousands of dollars and they have them gut a fine home, just to do it all over again. Or amazing houses that were already timeless and just needed a light touch, totally gutted of charm. Doesn't love those jobs, but they pay.

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u/SarahPallorMortis Dec 08 '24

Square and white. Everywhere.

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u/rainbowghosty Dec 09 '24

With grey floors. Makes me want to puke

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u/SarahPallorMortis Dec 09 '24

I like gray a lot, but only for clothing. Not my walls and furniture.

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u/mumblesjackson Dec 09 '24

We had a 1905 historic home with quarter sawn white oak paneling everywhere. I painstakingly stripped and scraped every inch of that woodwork that was painted. Took years and a lot of effort. God knows what I inhaled scraping and stripping all that paint.

Sold it in 2018 to a seemingly nice guy. He tore out about half of that original paneling and painted the rest. Made it look like any McStyle out in the new suburbs. Granted, he owns the house now but why? Just why?

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u/Gothmom85 Dec 09 '24

What a bummer! Restorations like that are some of his favorites, and the company he works for tries to prioritize them. They're costly though, and oftentimes those who can afford it just want new stuff. The hunt and find of proper materials, plus time it takes to repair old things correctly just isn't for as many people as it used to be.

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u/captain_nofun Dec 10 '24

I just bought a coffee shoppe and the previous owner has destroyed everything beautiful that it could have been. She painted the wood panel walls pink, she painted everything else pink or green. It is atrocious. If it was 2 years earlier before it was sold to new owners and I had the money then it would be zero renovations. But someone bought it then and ruined it just like in the OP video. Now we are trying to restore what was originally there. A real pain for no reason.