Totally unrelated but I love how you still didn't quit youtube or tiktok yet by people on the internet stupidity. I am really impressed by your strength to hold on to your sanity and your one last braincell lol. Love the videos!!!! ❤️
Funky.... can you do an internet report about people pretending to be emo and depressed its very VERY infectious so wear a hazmat suit pls also love the content
This is what I also say about those people who buy antique furniture.... And then fizz paint all over, or cut the pieces up and then hizz paint all over. It's just disgusting and tasteless and omg, just pick up some crap from Ikea or wallllmart or whatever pppl do these days
Hearing that woman say she was gonna turn the fireplace from hobbitcore to cottagecore then show the most colored by crayon nastiest fireplace shook me to my WTFcore
The original fireplace was cottage core! Like if I say that in a house in the woods, I couldn't be shocked. It now looks like they just lazily smeared white paint over it. So chunky and ugly and mismatched.
What also kills me is that the house they destroyed also had a pool that wasn't used and was filled with dirt for a potential indoor garden, which sounds so pretty. THEY FILLED IT WITH CEMENT. I wanted to cry 💀 (Edit: nvm the pool was not the studio space, but you can see it for a second here 12:45 and imagine how pretty it would be if it was still a garden)
@@elf._.3825 I knooowww!! I saw another TH-camr cover these guys and watching the transition from the garden to the cement was heartbreaking. Like, it looked so pretty before!!!
Well.. We in Germany have a word appropriate for this situation: Verschlimmbessern. The act of trying to make something better, but making it worse instead.
As a fellow German I sadly have to use this work at least once a week while either seeing bullshit home renovations like this or about something that happens at work. It's actually quite painful at this point
A shed a literal tear over the spiral staircase removal. That was such a beautiful bit of interior architecture and they replaced it with the stair equivalent of raw oatmeal.
I "love" how they said the new stairs were more family friendly because a staircase without a banister that you could easily fall off of is so much safer.
My grandpa died last year and his kids ended up selling the like 100ish year old house to the next door neighbor, and today me and a bunch of relatives were invited over to see how the renovations were going and I could’ve wept tears of joy. The basics of the renovation consist not of ugly aesthetic changes but updating the plumbing and electrical. Hardwiring in new ceiling lights into the dark dining room. Ripping out the carpet that was everywhere to reveal to literally everyone’s delight gorgeous pine wood floors in perfect condition that they’re giving a natural stain and leaving exposed throughout the house. Preserving the integrity of various quirky rooms while giving them a new function like making this one weird platform + cabinet situation into a function daybed and set of bookshelves. They even preserved the old turtle bathroom wallpaper that everyone loved so they could frame pieces of it to hang back up. And the new owner was showing us all these wonderful secrets of the house she discovered as she was tearing out bathroom walls. It’s just so relieving that the person who bought the house gives and shit about it’s character and actually knows what they’re doing
EEEK this is so wonderful !! also turtle wallpaper sounds so cute omg and i love the idea of keeping a square and framing it !! that’s such a cute way to immortalize it
the light fixture on a foam beam is CRAZY. My grandfather was an architect and added on a living room to my home. Real wood ceiling beams and they still came loose with the weight of the fans since they weren’t made for them (my dad installed the fans years later). that foam beam is going to cause whoever owns that house tons of problems
I watched a show where a flipper left one of his “flipped”houses with a colony of bees, and sold it for almost double the original price. He was also mean to his wife so I didn’t expect the product to be good, but HOW DO YOU JUST LEAVE A HOUSE WITH BEES IN IT AND EXPECT PEOPLE TO LIVE THERE?
My childhood home, where my parents still live, had a horrible previous owner. My family just calls him ‘DIY guy’ and we complain about him constantly. My parents have lived there for over 20 years and are still fixing his mistakes. The worst thing found so far was the very important beam in the ceiling that he cut a chunk out of to fit a chimney for a wood stove. He braced the metal chimney to the remains of the ceiling beam. After my parents removed the stove, which was at the base of ladder stairs that were easy to fall down, the ceiling immediately began sagging.
I just noticed that they also don't hire nor consult professionals because not only would a professional charge them, they would also tell them "no". I really do wonder if these houses need to be deemed safe by some authority before they can be sold because that foam beam is definitely safety issue
As a gen Zer my biggest fear is that by the time I could aford my dream house, all of the old beautiful homes will have been overmodernised and utterly destroyed
The argument of "its their house they can do what they want" goes out the fucking window when you find out a lot of these people are just doing it to resell it.
I'm.sure there are lots of people who csn afford to buy houses who DON'T do this. They are just the ones who do not post pics and videos of every waking moment online..
There was this old French woman that lived on the corner of my street, super nice, and loved to work in her garden. She had this massive tree in her front yard, super thick and healthy. Would be quick to protect it if people were leaning on it, but was super nice about it. She passed this last year, they sold her house and the first thing the buyers did was cut the tree down. I’m devastated, that tree has been there since I’ve lived here. This woman told me in lengths how she loved that tree, I’m so upset that this is happening everywhere. That woman deserved better, and so did her tree.
our house had a huge tree before we moved in. Very beautiful. We saw it on google Maps. We show up to look at it. It's gone. Cut down with the stump left barely covered. Had no idea why they took it down.
In our backyard there was an amazing apple tree that gave the greatest shade every summer and I’d eat those apples almost every day. REAL apples. The most amazing apples. My godmother (our landlord) divided the backyard and the tree was on her side of the fence, and she just cut it down. It gutted me. That tree was beautiful, I sat beneath it for five years, and now it’s gone. I feel it’s absence too. Now it’s just a stump, a beauty stump mind you but still. Made me sad. Trees are amazing.
That pisses me off to no end; that's all I have to say, that just pisses me off. Same goes to the other stories of perfectly good trees being cut down because some Karen didn't want it in the replies here, that just pisses me off.
Imagine the beautiful arch doorway you could have put under the stairs. Plants, or even just fairy lights strung up. A fantastical garden theme would have done wonders for the green carpet and wood
I hate when flippers say “it’s our home, we can do whatever we want with it”, then sell the place. It’s not a home then, you don’t plan on living there.
@Lilbluedragon I know an awful person who just buys stuff from the thriftshop that looks exciting, gives it a whitewash, then chucks it back to the thriftshop. Everything ruined, instantly.
As they literally destroy cultural artifacts and heritage homes. Some of these places could genuinely have been and should have been put on heritage preservation lists. Just because you buy something doesn’t remove your responsibility of care. Capitalism rotting brains from the inside out 😩. Demolishing any semblance of culture and history is so tasteless
What angers me so much is that those woodworks, spiral staircases, ancient tiles etc are VALUABLE, they are elements that actually increase the price of the house, they're making their house LESS valuable and interesting by making it "modern" and minimalist. WHY WOULD YOU SPENT SO MUCH MONEY ON A UNIQUE HOUSE IF YOU'RE GOING TO DESTROY THE UNIQUE THINGS ABOUT IT??
Not only that it’s a historical part of the home and is important to architectural history. We went through this before in the 1970s making things more”modern” and now it’s near impossible (I’m being dramatic) to study 1940s and 1950s homes.
I’m honestly wondering if the point about the internet interaction and $$ could be a bigger factor here.. like the couple that did the many atrocities to that house literally admitted they made a profit off the engagement and then when funkyfrog brought up ppl doing that w furniture it makes me wonder if they’re actually making like a good amount of money from the outrage content even on the houses, to the point that could be more than the loss in potential profit of removing these features. If that makes sense? that would be even sadder if all this is happening in the name of social media outrage money
Bro they said it was their house, I thought they were going to LIVE IN IT. The moment they said that they sold it and are “onto their next flip” made me actually root for their downfall. Taking a perfectly good home and destroying it, while actively making hazards for the next poor victims living there feels like a crime. I mean, THE FOAM BEAM??? I was like “okay have fun dealing with that chandelier attached to a foam ass beam in the future” but then they pull a fast one and gtfo feels so dirty and wrong-
Yeah, foam beams are not meant to support anything. I have a a type of foam ceiling (it is pressed and painted/paintable to look like wood boards) that is suspended from the actual dry wall. (I hate popcorn ceilings and it was damaged so this was probably the least expensive way to do it.) And our ceiling fan and dining room chandelier are connected to the actual ceiling. (Medallions do wonders.) Unless it is structural, not strictly aesthetic, don't attach things to it.
They also got rid of a bunch of wooden lattices in the bedroom windows because they wanted to “brighten the place up” This house is in Florida. Those were there to keep the temperature down.
i literally cried when a beautiful mid century house (i couldn’t afford and wasn’t even thinking of putting an offer in for) sold, because i was just imagining what horrible things someone will probably do to it
people make their lovely victorian/older houses into total gray and beige dumps and ruin their homes and they’re like “this is so #minimalist #natural #beigecore” as if they didn’t put the neighborhood value down by like thirty grand 😭
@soloanima1 we're not just talking about selling houses though. There's the waste, the noise pollution, destruction of historical architecture, often health hazards from cheap renovations, etc
Turning beautiful Victorian houses into modern garbage dwellings is like shredding the Mona Lisa, taping the scraps back together and calling it a masterpiece.
Hi, German here! We do NOT approve of whatever happened to that poor fireplace. I personally do not want to be associated with it and would greatly encourage looking up what German Schmier should look like (it can be nice, I promise 😭)
House flippers are the reason why the market is so trash now. They use the worst material, kill the aesthetic of good homes, and then sell same homes for a million as if they somehow improved it.
It's true. I live in a low income area known for being "poor." The houses in the area are almosy all 100+ years old. This means that while there is a lot of gorgeous, historic architecture, there are also a lot of foundational issues in these houses. Ever since the housing market went crazy within the past few years, the area has been getting majorly preyed upon by flippers. These houses get listed for very cheap or are bought with cash through off market sales from predatory flipping agents (I get these ads in the mail constantly, offering me cash for my home), which are then gobbled up by flippers. The flippers then rip out all original charm (wood floors ripped out and replaced with vinyl plank, carpet placed over hardwood, wallpaper removed and walls painted gray, original wood fixtures and furnishings painted white, original kitchens and bathrooms gutted and replaced with cheap tile, cabinets, and appliances, the list goes on and on), but they fix none of the actual pressing (mostly foundational) issues with the home. While looking for houses, we saw houses where you could see light from the outside through holes in the basement walls, floors as uneven as a funhouse, giant cracks in foundation walls, walls visibly slanted at an angle, and so much more. You could see the purchase history of these homes, where they would be bought for $50-100k and relisted for $200-300k. I was house hunting for 2 years, and in that time I would constantly see houses go up on the market for an affordable price, only to be bought then relisted 1 month later for way more money in a way uglier state. It was an incredibly frustrating, depressing, disheartening experience. We finally managed to buy a house, but it was because we were able to buy it from someone who was actually moving, not a flipper. The house is over 100 years old, and while some of the original charm has clearly been removed over the years, we still have all of the original woodwork, and the original wood floors that were covered (not all of them were covered) are under the carpet, able to be restored. I was only 23 when I bought it (24 now), and my mortgage only costs $200 more than what I was paying in rent at an apartment. The fact that this affordable housing option is constantly taken away from people who would otherwise be able to afford it prior to the flip absolutely infuriates me. But yes, in conclusion, flippers are worthless leeches.
Facts. We brought an old home which needed to be redone - it had been redone some 10 years ago, and the tiles and paint just didn't vibe with us. At any rate, we mostly repainted, changed the tiles, put more power outlets. It's been a long project that we do mostly ourselves and it's expensive and tiring and frustrating. Sometimes my husband would start saying that we should've bought an already renovated apartment. But with all those flippers slapping a coat of paint on a mouldy wall, covering up leaky pipes and straight up selling "electronics included" that turn out not to work, I'm so happy I wasn't left at the mercy of someone's sloppy work, who charged me 25% more for it.
In Germany for old Houses, there is this wonderful thing called „Denkmalschutz“ and it practically forbids you to change anything into modern and strict rules for renovation.
Haha so true, I go to so many homes being flipped and walk out just so disappointed in the low quality facade of bland building materials slapped all over like it’s dollar store makeup.
As a german with a father that's a professional craftsman, the "german smear" had him in tears and then showing his coworkers to maximize and share the suffering he experienced.
Agree it was gorgeous but let's be honest the Cullen's house in twilight is not victorian but a mostly midcentury. And their stairs were boring as hell
I'm a millennial and I absolutely HATE this type of renovation. Literally destroying something that is rare and unique and usually can't be brought back, just to make something cheap and common. Usually for profit. I'd be so beyond grateful to have what these renovators don't appreciate at all.
@@Maidenstear god same, like after living in apartments my whole life I'd consider it my honor to cherish that staircase and house the way it deserves lol
Seeing that beautiful princess bathroom being destroyed marked the death of my inner 5-year-old. And then there was the flippers who turned the real 70's house...into a themepark version of a 70's house. It's like they are so used to mockery that they'd rather have that than the REAL THING!!! AND WHY DO THEY ALL SOUND LIKE THEY'RE THE SAME WOMAN ON DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS???!!!!
i can't believe that woman said "this is our dream house" but then destroyed the most beautiful feature of the home with that staircase. i would kill to have such a gorgeous staircase and she just ripped it out with no remorse
The way the couple replaced the BEAUTIFUL spiral staircase with a PLAIN wooden staircase shocks me Edit: Basically if they didn’t like the staircase THEN LOOK FOR A DIFFERENT HOUSE
german as well. They destroyed the look of the fireplace by using a (in germany) "poor-peaple-technique" (which they gave a name no german understands [I had to google it...]) Just so sad!
Seeing that "million dollar bathroom" DESTROYED absolutely broke my heart..like you just have to be objectively bad at interior design, house flipping, selling, etc to think getting rid of that was a good move
I love how they started the fireplace video with saying that they want to make it look cottagecore while pointing the camera at the most cottagecore fireplace I have ever seen before completely ruining it.
A group of flipper nutsacks destroyed my late grandparents' 103 year old house. When my aunt sold it to them, they promised to respect the house and preserve it's vintage appeal and then immediately did the complete opposite. They gutted it and it is now a minimalist, sterile looking, blinding white nightmare. Actually made me ill.
That's very unfortunate. This is only somewhat related, but I read the book "Isprinsessan" (in English: The Ice Princess) by Camilla Läckberg, and the main character is afraid of her childhood home being sold by her sister and her sister's mean husband. I can totally understand why, now. More so than I already did understand.
Literally had the same thing for my grandparents house. They even took down all of the TREES, like they were perfectly healthy fruit trees that my grandad grew himself and they were all gone in under a week.
As someone who lives in a place with a lot of beautiful victorian town houses I hate flippers, they see original stained glass, sash windows, wood carved fascia boards, elegant fire places and stunning hand made plaster work and rip it all out to be replaced with the cheapest plastic windows and plastic board, they'll paint everything white, then replace a nice garden with asphalt and fake grass, split it into flats and then just sell it for a extra 100,000 and therefore locals can not afford anywehere in the town.
I would literally rather have thousands of those victorian houses than any of those weird, blank 'hotel lobby' houses flippers always seem to leave behind..
For example my flat is a beautiful Edwardian brick property and I have even have a turret, where I can sit and watch the world go by. However, it's had the landlord special, all the Fireplaces have been removed, the plaster work has been covered over by Wood chip, there is no garden anymore. I can see a slither of the original plaster work between a banister and it is gorgeous it has these panels with Greek style vases and Beeding made of plaster flowers along the edge. They haven't bothered to remove anything from past so I have 3 different plug types going back to the 1930s. Random wires all of the place and the taps have been put on backwards and the cheapest doors I have ever seen. The staircase is luckily original however has random paint marks and lots of scuff marks. The wood fascia boards, with beautiful detailing are also original but falling apart but I don't want to say anything as I'm too scared they'll take them off and replace then with plastic.
Every time I see these renovation videos, I just think of that one scene from beetleguise. The couple has this nice, old timey style house and the new family turns it into some kids Lego project
I’m an artist, and them getting rid of the cool shelves that hold ART SUPPLIES in the ART STUDIO ROOM damaged my soul. Also if I lived there, I’d 100% paint over that hobby lobby looking design
If that lady tries to sell that house I would be LIVID. I would be like "So I need to replace this staircase with the original one?" and then to not start fights I'd be like "Who decided to remove the staircase that was a stupid decision. The person who did it had no brains in their head." hopefully she'd be at least smart enough to know I'm talking about her, but I doubt it.
@@th1rt3n_tn49 The only time I would ever think to remove wood from a room if the thing feels like a 1930s man's smoking room. I would rather concrete prison cell.
fr, plus its smaller so if multiple people/kids are trying to get up/down at the some time there's a much higher chance they'll trip over each other and fall
Personally I enjoy minimalism for the reason of sensory problems I like not having much to look at or anything when stressed. However minimalism the aesthetic is just to get people to pay more for less
The American version of minimalism is so cold and soulless. It's unforutnate because there are minimalist styles like Scandinavian that give you a clean, uncluttered interior that still has character and feels homey.
Those people have no idea what "minimalist" is, they confuse actually existing design style with ugly utilitarian nonsense due to lack of education in that field and too much of self-absorbtion. People should stop thinking they can renovate houses just because they did it in the sims and it looked satisfiable enough for them, or because "minimalism looks easy". Playing the game doesn't require actual knowledge or skills. Paint a picture looks easy, but it's not. They disconnected from reality and common sense, and they're doing harm. Very sad.(((
That last little skit about Darla demolishing the bathroom wall just got me thinking these ppl need to play the Sims. They can do all the renovations they want there.
I was convinced Darla was going to talk about open bathroom being the new eroticism (it is real by the way. There is a craze to have open bathroom where you can watch your significant other wash and do other stuff from your bed. With all the moist of the shower going in the bedroom. I absolutely hate it)
Omg my Sims house was 3 stories and each had a colour coordinated bathroom 😅 it also had a disco room/music room and a hot tub 😂 I wish I could see it again to see how ugly it probably was.
I am German. I come from a family who's been commercially building and renovating houses for 96 years. Watching this fireplace getting slowly, graphically mutilated like this was more than I could take. Please excuse me while I grab myself a beer, a cigarette and a therapy appointment. Tante Edit: Du sagst ein Mal irgendwo auf irgendeiner Sprache dass du deutsch bist und einfach 50% der Antworten so "Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der BRD." Immer wieder schön. 🤣🤣
I completely agree. When I bought my house the downstairs wood paneling in the bedroom was cool wood grain.. but got painted a dull grey. And I hate modern vibe.
I'm an architecture grad student (specifically heritage and historic preservation) and we talk about the damage from people who do shit like this all the time. One thing about all these flippers is they almost all have no background in construction or architecture so beyond the aesthetic issues, which there's a lot, they also cause structural and material damage. There's a reason we don't just slap cement straight on wood, it makes the wood underneath rot
Exactly! My moms house was previously owned by a man who considered himself a DIY electrician. Within the first five years of moving into the house we had 6 different electricians tell us how lucky we were not to have died in a house fire because of how bad the wiring is. It's now been over 40 years in the house and we are still finding problems to this day. What the DIYs don't understand is that huge part of learning with any of the building, designing, planning, etc., fields is learning what not to do and why. It isn't enough to just know what you should do or knowing how it should look, you also need to learn what you do not do and why you do not do it to actually understand what you're doing.
@@magic1623I'm an electrician and I get cheaper rent for a few years because my partner and I agreed to do the rewiring ourselves. Looking at what was here before I'm also regularly surprised that this building didn't catch on fire yet. I'm pretty sure some neighbors still have this old wiring and it makes sleeping at night a tiny bit harder.
@@magic1623 My daughter-in-law almost burned down the house my architect grandfather designed and built by rewiring the basement and having two of her kids by a previous marriage sleep down there. One left a charger plugged in next to a pile of papers, and there was a fire. Thank God we didn't lose the house, and the insurance paid for an entire rewiring that was up to code. She likes to demolish walls, too, and her esthetic choices are questionable to say the least. I wish people had at least some education in architectural history before destroying beautiful period details in older houses.
That mansion that those influencer destroyed for a profit. Blueprints for homes still exist and I hope someone someday will be able to get ahold of it and maybe rebuild one
I studied woodwork for five years and as I learnt how difficult it is to make stairs I can tell you that the freaking beautiful stairs that this girl destroyed were a piece of art and my heart is bleeding now 💔
That staircase broke something in me. I would've done a more dark academia esthetic to embrace the houses' gorge wood tones. It was so well cared for. Bfr, I can't believe they didn't put in a wide or grand staircase. They just threw a Sims starter staircase in the corner.
my anger comes from that these unique houses are getting more rare and these influencers are destroying them. Why not just buy the modern house, there are so many of them out there.
@robertmancuso4383Are you trapped on a loop or something? Stop talking about accepting "modern change". People can be upset about stuff, it's called having an opinion
@robertmancuso4383 you are allowed to have a free opinion we are allowed to call your opinion shit also cut the bs with "this is the label you have chosen you must now do all the things that are this label"
House flippers are just awful. My dad owns a constuction company and he loves them because they fuck up so much shit that he always has local sidework fixing the houses they "Improved".
I rehab houses and get royally pissed when people call me a house flipper bc I do my houses right. Sure, I don't make near as much money bc I have to spend more money and time on each property, but, as a former architect, I have a strong desire to keep the original character of any home. I even give out my personal cell number I've had for 25 years at every closing so they can call if they run into any problems. I know I'm not legally obligated to fix anything, but I feel it's the right thing to do if I somehow missed something in my process and I'm certain of the quality of my work so it's rare to receive a call anyways (only happened once in the last decade and I got it fixed for them free of charge).
Not that I want to take away a great source of income from your dad, but *any* type of construction work should require some kind of professional qualification.
All they had to do was rotate the stairs so they weren’t in the way Instead choosing to just chuck the whole thing out,completely trashing the entire vibe they were probably going for anyway
I'm like 90% sure those spiral stairs were actually added in the 80s or something. There was a long post about it and people explained more why they ere getting rid of them. I'm also willing to bet that the new stairs they showed weren't finished.
@@MollysDevice Yes, they weren't finished. However, unless they literally put those up to access the second story and then were going to entirely replace them... yeah no, give me an elegant spiral over some boring sideways ladder any day.
My family bought this 150ish year old house that we had to do some work on. Sadly the floors were too rotted so they had to be replaced, but the ceiling is a beautiful old wood we kept. We put in a stained glass window, kept the walls rustic, some walls also had to be replaced but we painted them with lots of colour and even added some painted designs. We kept the old footed bathtub, and found some rustic counters that fit everything perfectly. We also had to replace the stairs but we did so trying to replicate the old ones best we could. I love this old house and hope to own it in the future. We couldnt save alot of the character, but we tried to replicate it and keep the house beautiful and unique. This video makes me so happy we got our hands on this house and not some lifeless flipper.
God, as someone who paints, I can tell ya that art studio wall with all those shelves would have been amazing if you were going to use it as an ACTUAL ART STUDIO. You know how much crap an artist has to store, how much material???? The paints, brushes, oils, inks, books, etc. It would been incredible to have all that storage space.
I’m not an artist, but I’m someone who loves to read, collect books, and does scrapbooking/paper crafts. I would’ve paid top dollar to have an open sunroom with that shelving!! Why on earth would that flipper couple think it’d be a good idea to rip the shelving out and plaster that “art” onto the wall?!? 🤬
@@rachel_sjthey did that because they are not an artist but thinks they are picasso. God I hate these minimalist bullshit TH-cam videos. I am not American and I am not familiar with American architectures and it still hurts.
When I tell you I actually got mad at that, I did. Like who the hell does this? It's a artists studio, the art gets added by the artists. They could've added different shelves and it would've looked better. Hell I know I would've paid my arm and leg for that room before they added the art - I have a feeling whoever they sell the house to is going to paint over that art. They could've added so much - like a new shelfing unit probably with cool stuff - not that. Agh just makes me so mad people with money have such bad ideas.
As a realtor, I'm always wary of a flip. Fix and flip is a dirty word in my industry because of people like this. What'll happen when the buyers discover the beam is foam or the counters are painted to LOOK like stone but aren't?
@shoguncato84 any seasoned realtor Will definitely recommend lowering the price or canceling the deal entirely. With fix and flips, it's not just the aesthetics but what if the electrical is badly done and it catches fire? What if there is a massive plumbing problem that costs the buyers a ton of money shortly after because it was DIY or done poorly? I've seen a ton of dangerous stuff fix and flippers have tried to pass off as acceptable. It's wild
Not to mention if the more fanatic “house flippers” knock down pillars and walls that provided important structure or weight support to the house, so 5+ years in the future the house risks caving in
This literally happened to my old house, we lived in an original 1800s home and we spent hours and hours redoing original pine flooring. Not just that we had also collected little trinkets from the backyard over the years, pottery shards, hand made nails, and antique tea spoons. We left our collection with the house so it could stay with its history, and not two weeks later we find out the installed carpet over our vintage flooring and thrown away the collection of antiques.
And the new staircase is arguably less family friendly than the first one. The slat design is basically asking for a kid to slip on the way down, get their foot hooked under a slat and end up with a twisted ankle.
My favorite was "this staircase is in the way and is visible from every doorway"....so they took it out and put an UGLIER staircase IN THE SAME PLACE. I thought maybe they were gonna knock down even more wall and make the kitchen twice the size/open plan but NOPE. They just murdered a beautiful staircase.
I have such an irrational fear that by the time I buy a house they'll all be "modernized" like the houses in this video, and I desperately want an old, stunning victorian house.
Omg same. Literally all I want is a beautiful vintage home that has like pretty unique tiles in the bathroom and kitchen, and pretty stain glass lamps and details on the windows. I'm scared by the time I have enough money and am old enough to buy a house, they all will be gone
my father just bought a beautiful 60s home and we are not changing it one bit there will be good ones but in good spots ? now that’s where it gets tricky
brooooo this happened to my childhood home. it was built in the 1930s and my mom did a lot of work to actually restore it with vintage lighting fixtures, upgrading the kitchen with baseboard and cabinet details matching the era, etc….. then the first thing the new buyers did was slap a GIANT ugly freaking master bedroom extension onto it (and likely strip a lot of the inside based on all the signs of interior construction). broke my mom’s heart after she spent so much time restoring it, and even adding beautiful landscaping and leaving her vintage lighting in the house for the next owners and stuff
OMG! One has to understand why a house is built a certain way. People with this style of Victorian house did not want their guests to see the family areas unless you were very close friends or entertaining in the “garden”. It was considered bad form for guests to see your messy family areas. That staircase was so expensive crafted by skilled craftsmen to replaced by a cheap, tacky staircase built by amateurs! This is so painful to see happen.
I thought that the replacement staircase would at least still be a craftsman style one, just straight, but I was shocked to see the basic bland thing they went with, it felt like it was some temporary staircase sitting there until the real one would be put in.
Agreed! The staircase was an architectural beauty! It didn’t have a newel (pole in the middle) and it wasn’t just connected to the walls (unlike the “modern” stairs that were put in). That’s not easy to build!! Especially since the house was built so long ago, so with older tools! Seeing it destroyed made me want to scream at the lady! That staircase was the centerpiece of the whole foyer! It was beautiful!
Seeing stuff like this makes me more and more grateful I live in a historic location. It has a combination of modern and historical buildings, but there is some old shit here that you can tell is from a specific time period and it's so so beautiful.
I actually almost cried when I saw the spiral stairs gone. If I had a house like that, I’d probably just spend time on the stairs pretending to be a lady descending to the ball being hosted at my home with everyone staring at me in awe like it would be so much fun to have 😭 and they just tore it out 😭
As someone actively trying to buy an old house and continuously being outbid by flippers who trash them and immediately relist them.... this speaks to my rage.
I went to the Pittock Mansion today which is a property bought by the City to maintain for tours which is leagues more interesting then downtown which is minutes away that makes me wanna crash my bike into a tram
Wait, so the people who were like "You can criticize me all you want but it's MY house!" weren't even buying it to live in it, they were buying it to sell it to someone else?! Hooooly shit.
"We love it sooo much, this is literally going to be our dream home, we can't wait to spend the rest of our lives raising our family here!" six months later: "omg sold our house yay!!"
Someone should make a counter video and utterly replace and “modify” what these flippers do. Give ‘em a taste of their own medicine! Hopefully they learn to step away from their bad taste 😈
What I hate is how all those renovation are improperly done. Like painting fake marble counter tops is in fact dangerous because future owners might assume it is real marble therefore put straight up raw meat on there and think it will be sanitary afterwards. The foam beam could also be a potential source of fire, and I assume they haven't told the people they sold it to that it was fake.
Well assuming that the beam is not fake and they were dumb enough to insert electric wires into an actual wooden beam doesn't make it any less horrible
Seeing my actual real dream house be demolished to look like a bland hospital waiting room that's been sanitized once every 30 minutes. Lord, give me strength.
At this rate, I’ll have to build my own dream house, because all the houses that are in the architectural style that I want have all been violated into a ‘ctrl-c, ctrl-v’ abomination.
At 9:55 when she was saying the artist studio space could use some art, I was actually on board because some interesting art could look good there. Then they just had to go with the most boring art imaginable.
It will be a structure and a structure alone. The inside will be so white that you’ll walk into the walls. Sorry bud. Also your profile name being soot sprite makes my inner ghibli fan go crazy.
legit. btw my home is old ( not victorian ) like 1970's but the bedrooms have a camo patterened floor and pee coloured walls. is that something you would keep? 😭
@@zxoe Nobody said that designers of the past were infallible. Only that flippers are giving every home 'The Landlord Treatment", taking out everything unique and painting it white.
honestly my favorite trend recently has been people doing the exact opposite of these renovators: buying a house and going out of their way to make it unique and interesting, then living in it for many, many years. it's genuinely so nice to see people taking these "modern" houses and making them truly feel like a home.
Same! I don't remember this creator's name, but she's been doing a series on TikTok about demodernizing her home, and imo the best/prettiest parts are the dust cover thingies for her stairs and the finger plates for the doors!
I was wondering to myself while watching this if there are people doing the opposite of this, or if we'll see people taking homes that have gone through this..."modernizing" process and see them be demondernized again. It makes me very happy to know that that is in fact a thing :)
@@meganclow6959Bonjour, vous auriez des noms ? Je suis français, nous avons pas le même phénomène que les usa, le pire des rénovations, c'est maison à vendre et encore c'est du qualitative à côté de toutes ces maisons.
THe house we bought had some funky cut timber tree trunks, stripped of bark, all curves and knots, in awkward places that you hit your elbows and knees on and we thought "does that have to go?". Turns out it's structural. Really really crucially holds-the-roof-on kind of structural. So we then said, "Actually it oddly goes with the shale paver stone walls". Not stone walls - hand collected inch-to-two-incho shale stones, replete with lichens and stains, fascia mortared to the fibro walls. Asbestos fibro walls. That's a definite "do not disturb" on our budget. Turns out all we needed was a change in thinking on our choices of furnishings and suddenly it all makes sense! Our house is an influencers renovation dream house, which is why none of the buggers will ever touch it!
I mean they succeeded in making it look ‘cottagecore’ yeah, the cottage from the 1850s that was a bakery for the peasants that got mortar randomly slapped on it to keep it going anytime a rock fell off……..
bro fr lotr's set design is so beautiful!!! also there this artist called chris scott sava and he has art studio which fits hobbitcore so real its beautifullllll
And the real tragedy is that after claiming they bought their dream home to make memories in, they ended up giving it a 180 degree makeover and didn’t even end up keeping their supposed “dream home”
Can't confirm that as well, but it would make sense. Buy a dream house, ruin a dream house, notice they ruined it...sell it quickly before anyone notices it
@@Bi.StanderXO true. Sure if it's their house and they can do what they want with it...but it's pretty clear they don't see any value in some constructions, so it's worthless for them and change it to something they have no idea about what they are actually doing. If you go at it with a professional scale and you know what you are doing, no one would complain. If I would knock my head on the staircase all the time it would annoy me...but I would try to find a solution...and if in the worst case it would need to go I would not take the cheapest option from home depot
My cat indirectly died because when my house was renovated the family diy-ed the plumbing and filled the house with mold. One of my childhood memories is selecting which stuffed animals should be thrown away because we couldn’t get the mold out of all of them. My neighborhood is in a constant state of parking hell because every time someone moves ( which happens every year or so ) the house must be renovated because in 2023 we didn’t have stoves or cement so all those old houses are so outdated
alot of homes in my area are being sold and boughten, two homes near me were sold, flipped into an actual really nice modern houses, and then sold back to other families
Not to mention the practice is predatory because it often takes place in low-income neighborhoods, jacking the price to higher than the people living there can afford. This increases homelessness and inflates the housing and economy.
WHAT?!?!?! So these imbeciles are both ruining awesome looking houses AND making it so more and more people can't find any actual house to live it seems, which, in a way, is also causing many other issues in the world such as climate issues because of the amount of wasted material.
That spiral staircase was a freaking crime. Noooo!!! 😭 And the paint swatches? Ah yes, let's see...whitest, whiter, drywall white, and my favorite...spackle. 😂
There is a minimalist woman in my neighborhood who happens to HATE the blue color on our house and everytime we talk she mentions the color of it and says stuff like “so when are you gonna paint that ugly blue off?” 😔
She seriously needs to get some sort of life. I can't imagine being that obsessed with another person's house and tactless enough to constantly insult it in front of them. I'm sure your house looks fine, a lot of blue ones are really pretty!
I audibly gasped at the "remodeled" stairs of that one house. That spiral staircase was BEAUTIFUL! They could have easily kept it and still have given it a modern touch. Honestly the only thing I didn't like in the house was the carpet, everything else looked SO good!
@@DeplorablesGarbagedidn't she even say in the video "the stairs pull all the focus" or something 😅 yes gurl thats the point!! Why buy a house when you don't like the main character 😢
literally like even as someone who’s quite tall, i would NEVER take those stairs out, they are just STUNNING!! and i like the carpet but i think it being all throughout the house was too much, i’d probably leave it in just one or maybe two rooms
Tbh, the overmoderization of houses makes the world seem rlly dull, were only here for a limited time, why not have fun with our houses instead of making them aesthetically appealing :(
People don't see the emotional, and sentimental value in a house. They only see it as a way to produce income. Not everyone would want a spiral staircase, but many people can work with a straight one. It's incredibly sad and shows that houses aren't seen as a right, but a luxury and source of income.
The grey and dull ones aren’t aesthetically pleasing they’re just nothing of course nothing works with nothing of course nothing clashes. But nothing may look ‘clean’ but not nice. You’re right if we’re only here for a limited time so instead of making nothing your impact could be so much by having a personality and colour even if it’s doo doo it’s not dull!.
Taking out the staircase actually hurt, it was so pretty and was MEANT to be the centerpiece of the house, I don't understand why they would buy it if they didn't like the thing that made the house so beautiful and unique.......
i died on the inside for that one-- it was the exact type of bathtub i would've loved to have in my house!! seeing the columns knocked down and the tub painstakingly ripped out felt like i was getting shot and stabbed at the same time 😭😭
i straight up screamed i’m not even joking. i’d pay any price for a bathroom like this (js maybe different color than pink) and this woman smashed it to pieces with a hammer like it’s nothing…..no words
For the "modern farmhouse look" house I gotta say getting rid of the carpet is fine. Carpet is crazy to deal with and also with kids it's gonna be a hassle. BUT THE STAIRCASE? THE WALLS? It was so beautiful and had so much texture.
As someone with no carpet, dry floors are also a hassle. With dry floors you have to regularly mop especially if it's a lighter colored floor, and especially with kids where they're going to run inside with dirty shoes. The floor can also get scuffed and scratched if not being careful especially if large furniture accidentally gets pushed, and with certain materials like wood, waxing can sometimes be required to get it to shine and not look dull. Personally I don't like how it feels to walk on them barefoot compared to carpet either. Large rugs I think are a good medium ground where you can get both the benefits of carpet and dry floors, since they cover the floor, and also can be easily thrown into the washing machine when they get dirty, which you can't do with carpet.
I need a creator dedicated to buying these ruined homes and restoring them then selling them for tremendous profit or giving them away to families in need or something I'd watch that all day
Sorry I am not camera material. I do actually work restoring an old community of old Victorian style houses. Along with a few other really nice older style houses. We are currently working on a Mexican villa inspired house built in 1952. The new home owner is upset that the interior was “modernized.” It used to have this beautiful terracotta floor. Someone glued vinyl flooring to it. We don’t think we can save it.
my husband and i are currently looking 100 year homes to move into, because we love original character… and let me tell ya. some of these flippers are HORRENDOUS. they make me wanna vomit because they’re all gray and BEIGE. these people wanna paint over anything that gives homes soul…
As someone who's gone to school for electrical, mounting the light onto a foam beam is definitely a catastrophe waiting to happen and every time it's on screen it stresses me out
@LivLuvsCats The "renovated" fireplace was a monstrosity in its own right, but I can't help but think how I'd feel if I bought that house thinking I had some nice wood beams, only to find out it's foam. Freakin' foam.
Almost like these were gorgeous stairs and the POINT was that not every person visiting you should walk straight to the kitchen. These people have no respect for history. It was very unusual to let people get to your kitchen, of course you are supposed to go there only in a round-about way and go to the living room and dining room first, thats where you entertained your guests.
@@AlexisHiemis The history is that the house as built in the 70s, and the oversized staircase as added in the 80s. It's awkward for the space and doesn't work. If the house had originally been designed to show off the staircase that would have been one thing, but it wasn't. It's really obvious the more you look at the pictures.
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Totally unrelated but I love how you still didn't quit youtube or tiktok yet by people on the internet stupidity. I am really impressed by your strength to hold on to your sanity and your one last braincell lol. Love the videos!!!! ❤️
I'm surprised that you still have some braincells after watching these people on the internet
Please make a video on the tragedeigh baby names next!
Funky.... can you do an internet report about people pretending to be emo and depressed its very VERY infectious so wear a hazmat suit pls also love the content
“IF YOU WANT A MODERN HOUSE BUY A MODERN HOUSE STOP RUINING ALL THE PRETTY ONES I WANNA LIVE SOMEWHERE COOL SOMEDAY” is this exact video summarized
This is what I also say about those people who buy antique furniture.... And then fizz paint all over, or cut the pieces up and then hizz paint all over. It's just disgusting and tasteless and omg, just pick up some crap from Ikea or wallllmart or whatever pppl do these days
@@AmaltheaVimes
I'm in a Facebook group for that. "Jesus Christ, Karen, what did you do to that dresser?"
@@Kevin15047 Now I really want to be in that group, but I can't find it 😂
@@gloriagi9499
Sorry, I didn't realize the group is hidden.
Kimmi was so real for that
Hearing that woman say she was gonna turn the fireplace from hobbitcore to cottagecore then show the most colored by crayon nastiest fireplace shook me to my WTFcore
I don't think she even knows what cottage core is, she just heard it and just equates it to “good”
The original fireplace was cottage core! Like if I say that in a house in the woods, I couldn't be shocked. It now looks like they just lazily smeared white paint over it. So chunky and ugly and mismatched.
legit looked like it was straight out of skyrim at the end
What also kills me is that the house they destroyed also had a pool that wasn't used and was filled with dirt for a potential indoor garden, which sounds so pretty. THEY FILLED IT WITH CEMENT. I wanted to cry 💀
(Edit: nvm the pool was not the studio space, but you can see it for a second here 12:45 and imagine how pretty it would be if it was still a garden)
@@elf._.3825 I knooowww!! I saw another TH-camr cover these guys and watching the transition from the garden to the cement was heartbreaking. Like, it looked so pretty before!!!
Well.. We in Germany have a word appropriate for this situation: Verschlimmbessern. The act of trying to make something better, but making it worse instead.
Ah, we can always count on Germans to have the perfect word for any given situation.
I love the German language so much! 😍
Schon ewig nicht mehr gehört, muss ich wieder in meinen aktiven Wortschatz bringen
As a fellow German I sadly have to use this work at least once a week while either seeing bullshit home renovations like this or about something that happens at work. It's actually quite painful at this point
Pfuscher Verschlimmbessern halt alles 😅😂😢
A shed a literal tear over the spiral staircase removal. That was such a beautiful bit of interior architecture and they replaced it with the stair equivalent of raw oatmeal.
RIP the stairs, thanks god the green carpet was ripped out
I "love" how they said the new stairs were more family friendly because a staircase without a banister that you could easily fall off of is so much safer.
The people that built that staircase are spinning in their graves like fucking BeyBlades...
Personally I like it more cause the staircase made it seem a bit more crowded to me? But oh JESUS CHRIST was it gorgeous tho
It didn’t even solve the problem of the stairs being the focal point, they’re still a focal point just an ugly one now
My grandpa died last year and his kids ended up selling the like 100ish year old house to the next door neighbor, and today me and a bunch of relatives were invited over to see how the renovations were going and I could’ve wept tears of joy.
The basics of the renovation consist not of ugly aesthetic changes but updating the plumbing and electrical. Hardwiring in new ceiling lights into the dark dining room.
Ripping out the carpet that was everywhere to reveal to literally everyone’s delight gorgeous pine wood floors in perfect condition that they’re giving a natural stain and leaving exposed throughout the house.
Preserving the integrity of various quirky rooms while giving them a new function like making this one weird platform + cabinet situation into a function daybed and set of bookshelves.
They even preserved the old turtle bathroom wallpaper that everyone loved so they could frame pieces of it to hang back up.
And the new owner was showing us all these wonderful secrets of the house she discovered as she was tearing out bathroom walls.
It’s just so relieving that the person who bought the house gives and shit about it’s character and actually knows what they’re doing
EEEK this is so wonderful !! also turtle wallpaper sounds so cute omg and i love the idea of keeping a square and framing it !! that’s such a cute way to immortalize it
This is the good news I needed. Hats off to them. Condolences for your grandfather's passing
gives and shitted when it found some secret hacks in the bathroom
Oh my, bless that neighbour for having good taste!
Hearing this is SO relieving after this video!
the worst part about flippers is that they cut corners, dont know how to properly do anything, and use the cheapest materials possible:/
the light fixture on a foam beam is CRAZY. My grandfather was an architect and added on a living room to my home. Real wood ceiling beams and they still came loose with the weight of the fans since they weren’t made for them (my dad installed the fans years later). that foam beam is going to cause whoever owns that house tons of problems
I watched a show where a flipper left one of his “flipped”houses with a colony of bees, and sold it for almost double the original price. He was also mean to his wife so I didn’t expect the product to be good, but HOW DO YOU JUST LEAVE A HOUSE WITH BEES IN IT AND EXPECT PEOPLE TO LIVE THERE?
My childhood home, where my parents still live, had a horrible previous owner. My family just calls him ‘DIY guy’ and we complain about him constantly. My parents have lived there for over 20 years and are still fixing his mistakes. The worst thing found so far was the very important beam in the ceiling that he cut a chunk out of to fit a chimney for a wood stove. He braced the metal chimney to the remains of the ceiling beam. After my parents removed the stove, which was at the base of ladder stairs that were easy to fall down, the ceiling immediately began sagging.
I just noticed that they also don't hire nor consult professionals because not only would a professional charge them, they would also tell them "no". I really do wonder if these houses need to be deemed safe by some authority before they can be sold because that foam beam is definitely safety issue
The lack of carpentry/painting skill makes me RAGE. RAGE
As a gen Zer my biggest fear is that by the time I could aford my dream house, all of the old beautiful homes will have been overmodernised and utterly destroyed
My fear is that houses will be flipped so poorly that everything falls apart a few years later.
Same. Same. 😢
@Lilgoat.1 It’s already happening but will get even worse
My family built our house and my dream is to do the same
i know right!
"Guys we just had to buy it! It's literally are dream house! We just hate the walls a...and the floor and the staircase and the!"
The argument of "its their house they can do what they want" goes out the fucking window when you find out a lot of these people are just doing it to resell it.
And trying to upsell it too 😂
Yet buyers are still buying..
Yooo catlinkoiiii
@@shortypikemp1 People need homes, Richard.
It's almost as though the housing market is at the mercy of those who are SELLING THE HOUSES, Brandon.
I'm sooo bitter that the people who can actually afford to buy houses are the people with 0 taste and enough motivation to destroy it.
Exactly. Like that million dollar bathroom you’re JOKING YOURE ACTUALLY JOKING
@@AvesmacK FOR REAL!! MY JAW DROPPED WHEN I SAW THE AFTER MATH OF THE BATHROOM!😭😭
@@AvesmacK Im buying it back just so I can get rid of their awful renovations...
This! I'd do anything for a period home 😭
I'm.sure there are lots of people who csn afford to buy houses who DON'T do this. They are just the ones who do not post pics and videos of every waking moment online..
There was this old French woman that lived on the corner of my street, super nice, and loved to work in her garden. She had this massive tree in her front yard, super thick and healthy. Would be quick to protect it if people were leaning on it, but was super nice about it. She passed this last year, they sold her house and the first thing the buyers did was cut the tree down. I’m devastated, that tree has been there since I’ve lived here. This woman told me in lengths how she loved that tree, I’m so upset that this is happening everywhere. That woman deserved better, and so did her tree.
our house had a huge tree before we moved in. Very beautiful. We saw it on google Maps. We show up to look at it. It's gone. Cut down with the stump left barely covered. Had no idea why they took it down.
In our backyard there was an amazing apple tree that gave the greatest shade every summer and I’d eat those apples almost every day. REAL apples. The most amazing apples. My godmother (our landlord) divided the backyard and the tree was on her side of the fence, and she just cut it down. It gutted me. That tree was beautiful, I sat beneath it for five years, and now it’s gone. I feel it’s absence too. Now it’s just a stump, a beauty stump mind you but still. Made me sad. Trees are amazing.
Reading this makes me glad that the big mango tree in my yard got taken out by natural disasters and not assholes ruining a home
the por tree
That pisses me off to no end; that's all I have to say, that just pisses me off.
Same goes to the other stories of perfectly good trees being cut down because some Karen didn't want it in the replies here, that just pisses me off.
Imagine the beautiful arch doorway you could have put under the stairs. Plants, or even just fairy lights strung up. A fantastical garden theme would have done wonders for the green carpet and wood
I hate when flippers say “it’s our home, we can do whatever we want with it”, then sell the place. It’s not a home then, you don’t plan on living there.
Agreed. If they're not even planning on living there, then it's not even THEIR home!
@Lilbluedragon I know an awful person who just buys stuff from the thriftshop that looks exciting, gives it a whitewash, then chucks it back to the thriftshop.
Everything ruined, instantly.
As they literally destroy cultural artifacts and heritage homes. Some of these places could genuinely have been and should have been put on heritage preservation lists. Just because you buy something doesn’t remove your responsibility of care. Capitalism rotting brains from the inside out 😩. Demolishing any semblance of culture and history is so tasteless
@@Widdekuu91 why even do that?? 😭
@@alim.9801Because they have no other hobbies and they need better, less destructive ones
What angers me so much is that those woodworks, spiral staircases, ancient tiles etc are VALUABLE, they are elements that actually increase the price of the house, they're making their house LESS valuable and interesting by making it "modern" and minimalist. WHY WOULD YOU SPENT SO MUCH MONEY ON A UNIQUE HOUSE IF YOU'RE GOING TO DESTROY THE UNIQUE THINGS ABOUT IT??
Not only that it’s a historical part of the home and is important to architectural history. We went through this before in the 1970s making things more”modern” and now it’s near impossible (I’m being dramatic) to study 1940s and 1950s homes.
I’m honestly wondering if the point about the internet interaction and $$ could be a bigger factor here.. like the couple that did the many atrocities to that house literally admitted they made a profit off the engagement and then when funkyfrog brought up ppl doing that w furniture it makes me wonder if they’re actually making like a good amount of money from the outrage content even on the houses, to the point that could be more than the loss in potential profit of removing these features. If that makes sense? that would be even sadder if all this is happening in the name of social media outrage money
That spiraled staircase was gorgeous 😭 rip beautiful staircase
I felt physical pain watching those stairs go
Right?! And it’s cheaply done too. It literally won’t hold up the market for resale, let alone in 4 years.
Bro they said it was their house, I thought they were going to LIVE IN IT. The moment they said that they sold it and are “onto their next flip” made me actually root for their downfall. Taking a perfectly good home and destroying it, while actively making hazards for the next poor victims living there feels like a crime. I mean, THE FOAM BEAM??? I was like “okay have fun dealing with that chandelier attached to a foam ass beam in the future” but then they pull a fast one and gtfo feels so dirty and wrong-
Yeah, foam beams are not meant to support anything. I have a a type of foam ceiling (it is pressed and painted/paintable to look like wood boards) that is suspended from the actual dry wall. (I hate popcorn ceilings and it was damaged so this was probably the least expensive way to do it.) And our ceiling fan and dining room chandelier are connected to the actual ceiling. (Medallions do wonders.) Unless it is structural, not strictly aesthetic, don't attach things to it.
They also got rid of a bunch of wooden lattices in the bedroom windows because they wanted to “brighten the place up”
This house is in Florida. Those were there to keep the temperature down.
Foam beam? You mean fire hazard
At least they posted their crimes on the internet! Let’s hope the people who bought it saw the videos!😬
FOAM. Fucking FOAM. In Florida. Do they even know the mold trap that beam is?????
i literally cried when a beautiful mid century house (i couldn’t afford and wasn’t even thinking of putting an offer in for) sold, because i was just imagining what horrible things someone will probably do to it
people make their lovely victorian/older houses into total gray and beige dumps and ruin their homes and they’re like “this is so #minimalist #natural #beigecore” as if they didn’t put the neighborhood value down by like thirty grand 😭
Your biggest concern is property value...?
@@msjkrameyit’s a pretty big concern, you know.
@@msjkrameyproperty value is one of, if not THE most important parts of selling your house
@soloanima1 we're not just talking about selling houses though. There's the waste, the noise pollution, destruction of historical architecture, often health hazards from cheap renovations, etc
@@msjkramey *eh, you can’t acknowledge that if you’re too broke when you’re old*
We call them "askholes"
They ask for everyone's opinion and then don't listen to anyone.
Oooo I'm keeping that.
@@HiddenDarkHMditto
Nein
Aka my lil sis when she doesn’t know what to draw😂
Oh I need this word thank you!
Turning beautiful Victorian houses into modern garbage dwellings is like shredding the Mona Lisa, taping the scraps back together and calling it a masterpiece.
modern art lol
Damn it don’t give them ideas!!!
That fireplace in particular is giving me that one repainting of Jesus Fresco vibes
Well painting over the mona Lisa with white paint and throwing away the frame
At least you can make an argument that it's modern art and a statement piece.
0:10 Most hilarious part of the video 😂
Mood
facts
Hi, German here!
We do NOT approve of whatever happened to that poor fireplace. I personally do not want to be associated with it and would greatly encourage looking up what German Schmier should look like (it can be nice, I promise 😭)
As a fellow german, I agree with you.
We do NOT want to be associated with whatever this is and they called 'german schmier'. 😬
Deutsche Tränen tränken die billigen Click laminat Böden in dieses "modernen" "Häusern"
Hi, I'm German too and I totally agree!!
Another German here, I totally agree with you. That fireplace is a crime against humanity for it burns my eyes with it’s ugliness
Another German here- totally agree
House flippers are the reason why the market is so trash now. They use the worst material, kill the aesthetic of good homes, and then sell same homes for a million as if they somehow improved it.
It's actually not.
It's true. I live in a low income area known for being "poor." The houses in the area are almosy all 100+ years old. This means that while there is a lot of gorgeous, historic architecture, there are also a lot of foundational issues in these houses.
Ever since the housing market went crazy within the past few years, the area has been getting majorly preyed upon by flippers. These houses get listed for very cheap or are bought with cash through off market sales from predatory flipping agents (I get these ads in the mail constantly, offering me cash for my home), which are then gobbled up by flippers. The flippers then rip out all original charm (wood floors ripped out and replaced with vinyl plank, carpet placed over hardwood, wallpaper removed and walls painted gray, original wood fixtures and furnishings painted white, original kitchens and bathrooms gutted and replaced with cheap tile, cabinets, and appliances, the list goes on and on), but they fix none of the actual pressing (mostly foundational) issues with the home. While looking for houses, we saw houses where you could see light from the outside through holes in the basement walls, floors as uneven as a funhouse, giant cracks in foundation walls, walls visibly slanted at an angle, and so much more.
You could see the purchase history of these homes, where they would be bought for $50-100k and relisted for $200-300k. I was house hunting for 2 years, and in that time I would constantly see houses go up on the market for an affordable price, only to be bought then relisted 1 month later for way more money in a way uglier state. It was an incredibly frustrating, depressing, disheartening experience.
We finally managed to buy a house, but it was because we were able to buy it from someone who was actually moving, not a flipper. The house is over 100 years old, and while some of the original charm has clearly been removed over the years, we still have all of the original woodwork, and the original wood floors that were covered (not all of them were covered) are under the carpet, able to be restored. I was only 23 when I bought it (24 now), and my mortgage only costs $200 more than what I was paying in rent at an apartment. The fact that this affordable housing option is constantly taken away from people who would otherwise be able to afford it prior to the flip absolutely infuriates me.
But yes, in conclusion, flippers are worthless leeches.
Facts. We brought an old home which needed to be redone - it had been redone some 10 years ago, and the tiles and paint just didn't vibe with us. At any rate, we mostly repainted, changed the tiles, put more power outlets. It's been a long project that we do mostly ourselves and it's expensive and tiring and frustrating. Sometimes my husband would start saying that we should've bought an already renovated apartment. But with all those flippers slapping a coat of paint on a mouldy wall, covering up leaky pipes and straight up selling "electronics included" that turn out not to work, I'm so happy I wasn't left at the mercy of someone's sloppy work, who charged me 25% more for it.
@@jnicole2440 Elaborate?
I think flippers definitely contribute but I think it's landlords and rental corporations that are the biggest problem
In Germany for old Houses, there is this wonderful thing called „Denkmalschutz“ and it practically forbids you to change anything into modern and strict rules for renovation.
we sweds have something simular
Heck, even in Brazil we have something like that, called Iphan.
Italy has something similar as well
Moin :3
i'm pretty sure a mayor was literally fired for making an adaptment to his historical house here in the netherlands
Haha so true, I go to so many homes being flipped and walk out just so disappointed in the low quality facade of bland building materials slapped all over like it’s dollar store makeup.
The studio space one hurt the most. Literally took out the ONE thing any artist wants- storage space.
And they just used a random decal to replace it. Horrible that house was so beautiful
I have to say I agree.....that was ultimate goals for studio......
as an artist, can confirm !!! we need places to store our 10000000 unfinished pieces 😭
i wanted to cry when they took out that built in midcentury bookcase.... like why would you do that. it's so beautiful.
@@hiboudeluxeno kidding I actually did shed a tear cuz it was so beautiful I loved it and would love a house like that that hurt my heart.
they took that fireplace from "hobbitcore" to "caveman themed restaurant core". That thing looks like it belongs in a flintstones movie
A very campy Flintstones movie from the early 90s that's later seen as a 'guilty pleasure'
Hey, theres a fly on you!
It didn't look finished at all once they were "done" with it. 😮
Nein.......It is so fcking ugly
As a german with a father that's a professional craftsman, the "german smear" had him in tears and then showing his coworkers to maximize and share the suffering he experienced.
Der arme Kerl...
Mein Beileid...
...Are they emotionally okay?
I think if I showed it to my German grandfather if he was still around he might have jumped in his truck and committed a crime.
Ich weine mit euch
the 1st house original stairs was gorgeous!!!!! SO gorgeous, like a house you'd see in Twilight, with the rich vampires
Agree it was gorgeous but let's be honest the Cullen's house in twilight is not victorian but a mostly midcentury. And their stairs were boring as hell
I'm a millennial and I absolutely HATE this type of renovation. Literally destroying something that is rare and unique and usually can't be brought back, just to make something cheap and common. Usually for profit. I'd be so beyond grateful to have what these renovators don't appreciate at all.
Fellow mellenial here, completely agree. Like the loss of that beautiful staircase makes me so sad.
@@Maidenstear god same, like after living in apartments my whole life I'd consider it my honor to cherish that staircase and house the way it deserves lol
I agree. I think it's because when we were growing up the 70s look was tacky and outdated. It's like fake wood paneling PTSD. Lol
I wouldn't even say paint is necessarily bad but they take out any life. If you absolutely have to paint something at least give it colour!
Gen alpha here, believe it or not. I just learned about this type of renovation and it sucks.
Seeing that beautiful princess bathroom being destroyed marked the death of my inner 5-year-old. And then there was the flippers who turned the real 70's house...into a themepark version of a 70's house. It's like they are so used to mockery that they'd rather have that than the REAL THING!!! AND WHY DO THEY ALL SOUND LIKE THEY'RE THE SAME WOMAN ON DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS???!!!!
The ripping out of that corner bathroom made me audible gasp. I want that bathroom
I cried seeing that
‘Tis the “36 year old white influencer” accent at its finest.
@@TotallynotredtailBAHAAH
ONG THOUGH
i can't believe that woman said "this is our dream house" but then destroyed the most beautiful feature of the home with that staircase. i would kill to have such a gorgeous staircase and she just ripped it out with no remorse
dream house and the centerpiece got demoted to basic a... stairs
Yeah, their dream house that they sold, for a profit!
Let’s just hope that in the future when they move out the house is loving restored and made proud of its history again
She was just loving all white houses ....lord
The people defending her blow my mind
Holy shit love you for this. I’m professional painter/carpenter and I literally gasped when I saw that staircase turn white
The way the couple replaced the BEAUTIFUL spiral staircase with a PLAIN wooden staircase shocks me
Edit: Basically if they didn’t like the staircase THEN LOOK FOR A DIFFERENT HOUSE
Ikr my soul died 💔 🥲 I'd love that fairy tale staircase.
Minecraft stairs...actually people can make way better houses in Minecraft.
It's not even a good staircase either 😭 it's built like a sideways ladder
The stairs the floor the walls were buthiful 😢
But they removed it😢😢😢😢
as a german with no renovating experience, i think we can all agree that the fireplace looks like shit
They should have called a German smear job
german as well. They destroyed the look of the fireplace by using a (in germany) "poor-peaple-technique" (which they gave a name no german understands [I had to google it...]) Just so sad!
Why did they paint over the oak wood?! It really complements the walls and they just painted it grey?!?!
@@archs1ay3r3No, cement. The grey fireplace wasn’t paint she actually cemented it! Crazy!
@@Ruby_2470 That's even worse! I didn't have my volume all the way up.
As a carpenter myself i cry in hours and craftsmanship for the spiral staircase. How can someone destroy such a beautiful piece
I mean at least disassemble it and sell it to someone.
That could be worth a lot of money to the right person.
@@bugermcking4968Good luck finding a place that would work in though.
Dude i just saw it and it looked so majestic 😭😭😭 how could they?!?
That one physically hurt to watch
The spiral stairs were the core feature that made the empty house look less bland.
Now the house is bald all from some dumb explanation they had.
Seeing that "million dollar bathroom" DESTROYED absolutely broke my heart..like you just have to be objectively bad at interior design, house flipping, selling, etc to think getting rid of that was a good move
I love how they started the fireplace video with saying that they want to make it look cottagecore while pointing the camera at the most cottagecore fireplace I have ever seen before completely ruining it.
And they didn't even make it cottagecore, they just made it bad lmao
I do not approve of what they have done, in no single metric. Sincerely,
a German.
@@DapperGhstright 😭 they have NO idea what cottagecore is
@@ilovedoomedyaoi exactly!
Not only that they also said later on they wanted to emphasize the 70’s vibe… WHICH IS IT??
A group of flipper nutsacks destroyed my late grandparents' 103 year old house. When my aunt sold it to them, they promised to respect the house and preserve it's vintage appeal and then immediately did the complete opposite. They gutted it and it is now a minimalist, sterile looking, blinding white nightmare. Actually made me ill.
that’s so horrific omfg😭😭😭 i feel so bad for her
They should be send to jail for that, shame on them.
That's very unfortunate. This is only somewhat related, but I read the book "Isprinsessan" (in English: The Ice Princess) by Camilla Läckberg, and the main character is afraid of her childhood home being sold by her sister and her sister's mean husband. I can totally understand why, now. More so than I already did understand.
that's just sad
Literally had the same thing for my grandparents house. They even took down all of the TREES, like they were perfectly healthy fruit trees that my grandad grew himself and they were all gone in under a week.
As someone who lives in a place with a lot of beautiful victorian town houses I hate flippers, they see original stained glass, sash windows, wood carved fascia boards, elegant fire places and stunning hand made plaster work and rip it all out to be replaced with the cheapest plastic windows and plastic board, they'll paint everything white, then replace a nice garden with asphalt and fake grass, split it into flats and then just sell it for a extra 100,000 and therefore locals can not afford anywehere in the town.
Renovating Victorian houses should be a WARCRIME against humanity, like you ruined a work of historical art.
"In their rational self intrest" - Ayn Rand
I would literally rather have thousands of those victorian houses than any of those weird, blank 'hotel lobby' houses flippers always seem to leave behind..
For example my flat is a beautiful Edwardian brick property and I have even have a turret, where I can sit and watch the world go by. However, it's had the landlord special, all the Fireplaces have been removed, the plaster work has been covered over by Wood chip, there is no garden anymore. I can see a slither of the original plaster work between a banister and it is gorgeous it has these panels with Greek style vases and Beeding made of plaster flowers along the edge. They haven't bothered to remove anything from past so I have 3 different plug types going back to the 1930s. Random wires all of the place and the taps have been put on backwards and the cheapest doors I have ever seen. The staircase is luckily original however has random paint marks and lots of scuff marks. The wood fascia boards, with beautiful detailing are also original but falling apart but I don't want to say anything as I'm too scared they'll take them off and replace then with plastic.
@@ravelterthetraveler in a heartbeat
Every time I see these renovation videos, I just think of that one scene from beetleguise. The couple has this nice, old timey style house and the new family turns it into some kids Lego project
I’m an artist, and them getting rid of the cool shelves that hold ART SUPPLIES in the ART STUDIO ROOM damaged my soul. Also if I lived there, I’d 100% paint over that hobby lobby looking design
I know right?! My potter heart died a little. Do these people not realize artists have TONS of supplies that require STORAGE?
I know right! I died watching what they did. Like at the very least put in shelving!
I thought they were gonna replace it with boring ikea shelves but it was so much worse
Those shelves _were_ art!
Even as a non artist
I COULD USE THOSE SHELVES
I have so many nicnacks, comics and toys that I would DIE to have those shelves 😅❤
I HATE people who destroy perfectly good houses and “renovate” them. They make it SUCH a down grade😭
even phil dunphy couldn't sell these houses
If that lady tries to sell that house I would be LIVID. I would be like "So I need to replace this staircase with the original one?" and then to not start fights I'd be like "Who decided to remove the staircase that was a stupid decision. The person who did it had no brains in their head." hopefully she'd be at least smart enough to know I'm talking about her, but I doubt it.
Everytime i see anything victorian/dark academia get erased i lose 5 years off my life
@@th1rt3n_tn49 The only time I would ever think to remove wood from a room if the thing feels like a 1930s man's smoking room. I would rather concrete prison cell.
Me too.
"this is much more family friendly" doesnt add any railing whatsoever
Fr tho if a small child lives there Ik they’re gonna fall off and get hurt eventually 😭
I don't think it was finished
fr, plus its smaller so if multiple people/kids are trying to get up/down at the some time there's a much higher chance they'll trip over each other and fall
Ope, toddler overboard
The whole having a construction zone in the house part seemed extra family friendly /s
These DIY flippers are making my building techniques in games look godly by comparison.
The word "minimalist" is just a fancy buzzword for "we did less so you have to pay us more"
Personally I enjoy minimalism for the reason of sensory problems I like not having much to look at or anything when stressed.
However minimalism the aesthetic is just to get people to pay more for less
As a Designer that's 100% true and sad
Or "We want to hide how boring we are by calling it minimalism."
The American version of minimalism is so cold and soulless. It's unforutnate because there are minimalist styles like Scandinavian that give you a clean, uncluttered interior that still has character and feels homey.
Those people have no idea what "minimalist" is, they confuse actually existing design style with ugly utilitarian nonsense due to lack of education in that field and too much of self-absorbtion. People should stop thinking they can renovate houses just because they did it in the sims and it looked satisfiable enough for them, or because "minimalism looks easy". Playing the game doesn't require actual knowledge or skills. Paint a picture looks easy, but it's not. They disconnected from reality and common sense, and they're doing harm. Very sad.(((
That last little skit about Darla demolishing the bathroom wall just got me thinking these ppl need to play the Sims. They can do all the renovations they want there.
Maybe we should just introduce the sims 4 to all of these house flippers.
I was convinced Darla was going to talk about open bathroom being the new eroticism (it is real by the way. There is a craze to have open bathroom where you can watch your significant other wash and do other stuff from your bed. With all the moist of the shower going in the bedroom. I absolutely hate it)
They doooo
I’ve literally made open-concept bathrooms in The Sims 2 as a joke 😅
Omg my Sims house was 3 stories and each had a colour coordinated bathroom 😅 it also had a disco room/music room and a hot tub 😂 I wish I could see it again to see how ugly it probably was.
German speaking up here: We don't claim the German Shmear. Never heard of or seen something like this here.
As a fellow German, I endorse this message!
And I wonder whether the word they were looking for was "schmier" ...
As a german: I agree
Im sure it wouldn't look too bad if they knew how to do it right, but they messed it up horribly and made it so god awfully ugly
Not a full German here: I am shocked and horrified. I was appalled by what they did to the fireplace. Disgusted even.
The fellow Germans agree
Omg the opening voice sounds just like that character from Tuca & Bertie - "maybe SOME women are body positive but not me" XD
I am German. I come from a family who's been commercially building and renovating houses for 96 years. Watching this fireplace getting slowly, graphically mutilated like this was more than I could take. Please excuse me while I grab myself a beer, a cigarette and a therapy appointment.
Tante Edit: Du sagst ein Mal irgendwo auf irgendeiner Sprache dass du deutsch bist und einfach 50% der Antworten so "Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der BRD." Immer wieder schön. 🤣🤣
I am so sorry you’ve experienced this horror, but I must compliment your Catra pfp
@@Mazygolucky, I second both sentiments
I completely agree. When I bought my house the downstairs wood paneling in the bedroom was cool wood grain.. but got painted a dull grey. And I hate modern vibe.
As another German, we do not claim that Schmier.
Furchtbar! Niemand in Deutschland würde das machen...
Seeing those spiral stairs disappear almost made me cry. Those were the most beautiful stairs I have EVER seen.
It did make me cry.
Some designer and carpenter got together and built that beautiful piece of art, and they ripped it out because 'it was inconvenient'.
@crosshairs007 and it was their "dream home" if it was your dream home they would've stayed
Exactly! Thats like the soul of that house .
Same 😢
I'm an architecture grad student (specifically heritage and historic preservation) and we talk about the damage from people who do shit like this all the time. One thing about all these flippers is they almost all have no background in construction or architecture so beyond the aesthetic issues, which there's a lot, they also cause structural and material damage. There's a reason we don't just slap cement straight on wood, it makes the wood underneath rot
Exactly! My moms house was previously owned by a man who considered himself a DIY electrician. Within the first five years of moving into the house we had 6 different electricians tell us how lucky we were not to have died in a house fire because of how bad the wiring is. It's now been over 40 years in the house and we are still finding problems to this day.
What the DIYs don't understand is that huge part of learning with any of the building, designing, planning, etc., fields is learning what not to do and why. It isn't enough to just know what you should do or knowing how it should look, you also need to learn what you do not do and why you do not do it to actually understand what you're doing.
@@magic1623I'm an electrician and I get cheaper rent for a few years because my partner and I agreed to do the rewiring ourselves. Looking at what was here before I'm also regularly surprised that this building didn't catch on fire yet. I'm pretty sure some neighbors still have this old wiring and it makes sleeping at night a tiny bit harder.
@@magic1623 My daughter-in-law almost burned down the house my architect grandfather designed and built by rewiring the basement and having two of her kids by a previous marriage sleep down there. One left a charger plugged in next to a pile of papers, and there was a fire. Thank God we didn't lose the house, and the insurance paid for an entire rewiring that was up to code. She likes to demolish walls, too, and her esthetic choices are questionable to say the least. I wish people had at least some education in architectural history before destroying beautiful period details in older houses.
That mansion that those influencer destroyed for a profit. Blueprints for homes still exist and I hope someone someday will be able to get ahold of it and maybe rebuild one
We desperately need architects who know about beautiful buildings. We are surrounded by “ugly”
Heroin dealers often deliberately reduce the potency and sell at a higher price. Most do not claim they've improved it.
I studied woodwork for five years and as I learnt how difficult it is to make stairs I can tell you that the freaking beautiful stairs that this girl destroyed were a piece of art and my heart is bleeding now 💔
That staircase broke something in me. I would've done a more dark academia esthetic to embrace the houses' gorge wood tones. It was so well cared for.
Bfr, I can't believe they didn't put in a wide or grand staircase. They just threw a Sims starter staircase in the corner.
@@SaintShion
The Sims doesn't even Have spiral staircases
Rest in peace your happiness
Also like.... the new stairs are dangerous for the kids. These parents don't seem to care at all.
@@IrregularityRowan Im talking about the stairs they put up after they teared down the spiral stair case.
my anger comes from that these unique houses are getting more rare and these influencers are destroying them. Why not just buy the modern house, there are so many of them out there.
when I went to one those prebuilt home lots wow quite tiring when you go through more then a few
@robertmancuso4383Are you trapped on a loop or something? Stop talking about accepting "modern change". People can be upset about stuff, it's called having an opinion
@robertmancuso4383you definitely think linoleum on hardwood floors is an improvement
@robertmancuso4383 you are allowed to have a free opinion
we are allowed to call your opinion shit
also cut the bs with "this is the label you have chosen you must now do all the things that are this label"
Because then they can't resell it at an ungodly amount
"Flippers threatening low income neighborhoods with both kinds of white washing"
Holy fuck that came outta nowhere im dying
Gah! Exactly what's happened to my town 😢
16:25 this is the most devastating one for me. That was absolutely GORGEOUS
House flippers are just awful. My dad owns a constuction company and he loves them because they fuck up so much shit that he always has local sidework fixing the houses they "Improved".
I rehab houses and get royally pissed when people call me a house flipper bc I do my houses right. Sure, I don't make near as much money bc I have to spend more money and time on each property, but, as a former architect, I have a strong desire to keep the original character of any home. I even give out my personal cell number I've had for 25 years at every closing so they can call if they run into any problems. I know I'm not legally obligated to fix anything, but I feel it's the right thing to do if I somehow missed something in my process and I'm certain of the quality of my work so it's rare to receive a call anyways (only happened once in the last decade and I got it fixed for them free of charge).
Not that I want to take away a great source of income from your dad, but *any* type of construction work should require some kind of professional qualification.
I love how the family with the stairs wanted it to be more “family friendly” and then replaced the stairs with a thin death trap with no railing
The old stairs were sooo magical and beautiful
All they had to do was rotate the stairs so they weren’t in the way
Instead choosing to just chuck the whole thing out,completely trashing the entire vibe they were probably going for anyway
I'm like 90% sure those spiral stairs were actually added in the 80s or something. There was a long post about it and people explained more why they ere getting rid of them. I'm also willing to bet that the new stairs they showed weren't finished.
@@MollysDevice Yes, they weren't finished.
However, unless they literally put those up to access the second story and then were going to entirely replace them... yeah no, give me an elegant spiral over some boring sideways ladder any day.
I could NEVER. The original 1940’s-ish hardwood floors were one of the reasons we love our current house. 😭
I have my parents original wood log cabin and I will NEVER sell it for as long as I live. I thank god every day for it lol.
My family bought this 150ish year old house that we had to do some work on.
Sadly the floors were too rotted so they had to be replaced, but the ceiling is a beautiful old wood we kept. We put in a stained glass window, kept the walls rustic, some walls also had to be replaced but we painted them with lots of colour and even added some painted designs. We kept the old footed bathtub, and found some rustic counters that fit everything perfectly. We also had to replace the stairs but we did so trying to replicate the old ones best we could. I love this old house and hope to own it in the future. We couldnt save alot of the character, but we tried to replicate it and keep the house beautiful and unique. This video makes me so happy we got our hands on this house and not some lifeless flipper.
God, as someone who paints, I can tell ya that art studio wall with all those shelves would have been amazing if you were going to use it as an ACTUAL ART STUDIO. You know how much crap an artist has to store, how much material???? The paints, brushes, oils, inks, books, etc. It would been incredible to have all that storage space.
It hurt to watch that storage be torn away. I never have enough room for my supplies
I’m not an artist, but I’m someone who loves to read, collect books, and does scrapbooking/paper crafts. I would’ve paid top dollar to have an open sunroom with that shelving!! Why on earth would that flipper couple think it’d be a good idea to rip the shelving out and plaster that “art” onto the wall?!? 🤬
@@rachel_sjthey did that because they are not an artist but thinks they are picasso. God I hate these minimalist bullshit TH-cam videos. I am not American and I am not familiar with American architectures and it still hurts.
you just know the next buyer is gonna paint over this mural 😅
When I tell you I actually got mad at that, I did. Like who the hell does this? It's a artists studio, the art gets added by the artists. They could've added different shelves and it would've looked better. Hell I know I would've paid my arm and leg for that room before they added the art - I have a feeling whoever they sell the house to is going to paint over that art.
They could've added so much - like a new shelfing unit probably with cool stuff - not that. Agh just makes me so mad people with money have such bad ideas.
Tearing up that bathroom that USED to be called ‘The Million Dollar Bathroom’ is the most CRIMINALLLL thing anyone could ever do when redoing a house.
As a realtor, I'm always wary of a flip. Fix and flip is a dirty word in my industry because of people like this. What'll happen when the buyers discover the beam is foam or the counters are painted to LOOK like stone but aren't?
Dude if I'm buying a home and the material isn't even real and is just paint. I'm demanding a lower price, how does someone justify that
@shoguncato84 any seasoned realtor Will definitely recommend lowering the price or canceling the deal entirely. With fix and flips, it's not just the aesthetics but what if the electrical is badly done and it catches fire? What if there is a massive plumbing problem that costs the buyers a ton of money shortly after because it was DIY or done poorly? I've seen a ton of dangerous stuff fix and flippers have tried to pass off as acceptable. It's wild
Not to mention if the more fanatic “house flippers” knock down pillars and walls that provided important structure or weight support to the house, so 5+ years in the future the house risks caving in
i dont even know how the houses pass inspection at that point
@ahstiasummers5583 I actually had this happen with a client. Super messy. Thankfully it was discovered and repaired before anyone was hurt
This literally happened to my old house, we lived in an original 1800s home and we spent hours and hours redoing original pine flooring. Not just that we had also collected little trinkets from the backyard over the years, pottery shards, hand made nails, and antique tea spoons. We left our collection with the house so it could stay with its history, and not two weeks later we find out the installed carpet over our vintage flooring and thrown away the collection of antiques.
That staircase was so beautiful and elegant. Instead they destroyed it and put in the most bland staircase i've ever seen.
And the new staircase is arguably less family friendly than the first one. The slat design is basically asking for a kid to slip on the way down, get their foot hooked under a slat and end up with a twisted ankle.
i GET WHY they removed it
BUT THEY CHOSE THE WORST ALTERNATIVE ;-;
The staircase now looks really cheap, these people arent capable of more than mixing white with white and following current catalogues
The new staircase also probably wasn't finished when they showed it. The wall certainly wasn't
My favorite was "this staircase is in the way and is visible from every doorway"....so they took it out and put an UGLIER staircase IN THE SAME PLACE.
I thought maybe they were gonna knock down even more wall and make the kitchen twice the size/open plan but NOPE. They just murdered a beautiful staircase.
I have such an irrational fear that by the time I buy a house they'll all be "modernized" like the houses in this video, and I desperately want an old, stunning victorian house.
We will do what we can to restore the house to its original glory 😢
Omg same. Literally all I want is a beautiful vintage home that has like pretty unique tiles in the bathroom and kitchen, and pretty stain glass lamps and details on the windows. I'm scared by the time I have enough money and am old enough to buy a house, they all will be gone
my father just bought a beautiful 60s home and we are not changing it one bit there will be good ones but in good spots ? now that’s where it gets tricky
Sadly it's not actually irrational 😅
brooooo this happened to my childhood home. it was built in the 1930s and my mom did a lot of work to actually restore it with vintage lighting fixtures, upgrading the kitchen with baseboard and cabinet details matching the era, etc….. then the first thing the new buyers did was slap a GIANT ugly freaking master bedroom extension onto it (and likely strip a lot of the inside based on all the signs of interior construction). broke my mom’s heart after she spent so much time restoring it, and even adding beautiful landscaping and leaving her vintage lighting in the house for the next owners and stuff
OMG! One has to understand why a house is built a certain way. People with this style of Victorian house did not want their guests to see the family areas unless you were very close friends or entertaining in the “garden”. It was considered bad form for guests to see your messy family areas. That staircase was so expensive crafted by skilled craftsmen to replaced by a cheap, tacky staircase built by amateurs! This is so painful to see happen.
I thought that the replacement staircase would at least still be a craftsman style one, just straight, but I was shocked to see the basic bland thing they went with, it felt like it was some temporary staircase sitting there until the real one would be put in.
Agreed! The staircase was an architectural beauty! It didn’t have a newel (pole in the middle) and it wasn’t just connected to the walls (unlike the “modern” stairs that were put in). That’s not easy to build!! Especially since the house was built so long ago, so with older tools!
Seeing it destroyed made me want to scream at the lady! That staircase was the centerpiece of the whole foyer! It was beautiful!
Its pretty much a prone ladder 😭
@@GenericUsername1100 I actually thought it was a temporary one 😅
Sigh, like she said they do it for ragebait and profit. Making everything minimalist, unsafe and cheap as hell for a profit.
Seeing stuff like this makes me more and more grateful I live in a historic location. It has a combination of modern and historical buildings, but there is some old shit here that you can tell is from a specific time period and it's so so beautiful.
I actually almost cried when I saw the spiral stairs gone. If I had a house like that, I’d probably just spend time on the stairs pretending to be a lady descending to the ball being hosted at my home with everyone staring at me in awe like it would be so much fun to have 😭 and they just tore it out 😭
Omg that's what I was thinking. I would have bought an evening gown just to pretend this. 😂
As someone actively trying to buy an old house and continuously being outbid by flippers who trash them and immediately relist them.... this speaks to my rage.
I went to the Pittock Mansion today which is a property bought by the City to maintain for tours which is leagues more interesting then downtown which is minutes away that makes me wanna crash my bike into a tram
Same.
Wait, so the people who were like "You can criticize me all you want but it's MY house!" weren't even buying it to live in it, they were buying it to sell it to someone else?! Hooooly shit.
That makes it even more sad 😢
"We love it sooo much, this is literally going to be our dream home, we can't wait to spend the rest of our lives raising our family here!"
six months later: "omg sold our house yay!!"
Someone should make a counter video and utterly replace and “modify” what these flippers do.
Give ‘em a taste of their own medicine! Hopefully they learn to step away from their bad taste 😈
@@Kirramagicwouldnt do anything because they’re doing it for attention not for actual criticism or else theyd care that they get so much hate
@@kentuckysmoose Yeah, I guess? But it would make me feel better, at least! Splashing colour over what they bleached and ruined!
the fact that youve played the bakers wife in a production of into the woods just makes me love you more
As a person living in Siberia, I am offended by your statement. Our prisons look much more colorful than these bleached houses.
LMAOO
Ngl they probably do 💔
Lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You win. Period.
What I hate is how all those renovation are improperly done. Like painting fake marble counter tops is in fact dangerous because future owners might assume it is real marble therefore put straight up raw meat on there and think it will be sanitary afterwards. The foam beam could also be a potential source of fire, and I assume they haven't told the people they sold it to that it was fake.
This is why it's so important to have good inspectors. Just ask @CyFy
Not to mention for the fake marble you have to use a glaze to create it and depending on the glaze it isn't safe for ingestion 💀
Well assuming that the beam is not fake and they were dumb enough to insert electric wires into an actual wooden beam doesn't make it any less horrible
Oh most buyers know fake from real.
@@weirdlittlesister Where's the problem with putting wires through wooden beams?
Seeing my actual real dream house be demolished to look like a bland hospital waiting room that's been sanitized once every 30 minutes. Lord, give me strength.
At this rate, I’ll have to build my own dream house, because all the houses that are in the architectural style that I want have all been violated into a ‘ctrl-c, ctrl-v’ abomination.
At 9:55 when she was saying the artist studio space could use some art, I was actually on board because some interesting art could look good there. Then they just had to go with the most boring art imaginable.
It sucks because by the time i can afford a victorian house the inside will be mindless, stripped of everything that made it special
It will be a structure and a structure alone. The inside will be so white that you’ll walk into the walls. Sorry bud. Also your profile name being soot sprite makes my inner ghibli fan go crazy.
and to find such victorian furniture now is either expensive, it no longer exists or it was painted white
legit. btw my home is old ( not victorian ) like 1970's but the bedrooms have a camo patterened floor and pee coloured walls. is that something you would keep? 😭
@@zxoe Nobody said that designers of the past were infallible. Only that flippers are giving every home 'The Landlord Treatment", taking out everything unique and painting it white.
@@ameliaduncan3236 yea but i'm just wondering if i should cherish the old patterns in my home too
the girl who painted over her GRANITE countertops in the kitchen that she was RENTING still haunts me to this day
She shall not get her deposit back. And should be fined
Soda blasting will get it off. It's still terrible though.
Omg I have that same shelf in my room... Also housing my stuffed animals! ❤❤
@robertmancuso4383That's stupid-talk, treating it as an all or nothing thing is just dumb in every way.
@robertmancuso4383 Now you're just devolving into nonsense, are you having a psychotic break or something?
honestly my favorite trend recently has been people doing the exact opposite of these renovators: buying a house and going out of their way to make it unique and interesting, then living in it for many, many years. it's genuinely so nice to see people taking these "modern" houses and making them truly feel like a home.
Same! I don't remember this creator's name, but she's been doing a series on TikTok about demodernizing her home, and imo the best/prettiest parts are the dust cover thingies for her stairs and the finger plates for the doors!
I follow a few creators that do this! It is so refreshing, feeds my soul!
I was wondering to myself while watching this if there are people doing the opposite of this, or if we'll see people taking homes that have gone through this..."modernizing" process and see them be demondernized again. It makes me very happy to know that that is in fact a thing :)
@@meganclow6959do you have any suggestions??1
@@meganclow6959Bonjour, vous auriez des noms ? Je suis français, nous avons pas le même phénomène que les usa, le pire des rénovations, c'est maison à vendre et encore c'est du qualitative à côté de toutes ces maisons.
THe house we bought had some funky cut timber tree trunks, stripped of bark, all curves and knots, in awkward places that you hit your elbows and knees on and we thought "does that have to go?". Turns out it's structural. Really really crucially holds-the-roof-on kind of structural. So we then said, "Actually it oddly goes with the shale paver stone walls". Not stone walls - hand collected inch-to-two-incho shale stones, replete with lichens and stains, fascia mortared to the fibro walls. Asbestos fibro walls. That's a definite "do not disturb" on our budget. Turns out all we needed was a change in thinking on our choices of furnishings and suddenly it all makes sense! Our house is an influencers renovation dream house, which is why none of the buggers will ever touch it!
IM SORRY THE WAY THEY TURNED A PRETTY FIREPLACE INTO SOMETHING I CAN ONLY DESCRIBE AS A MISTAKE AND CALL IT "A good final product" IS CRAZYY
I loved what they called "hobbit core"
Heck, I'd love anything hobbit core
It looks like they tried to mummify it and it came alive
I mean they succeeded in making it look ‘cottagecore’ yeah, the cottage from the 1850s that was a bakery for the peasants that got mortar randomly slapped on it to keep it going anytime a rock fell off……..
I can't get over the fucking foam "beam"
They’re allergic to any colour warmer than a pale grey
They called the fireplace “hobbitcore” like it’s a bad thing.
Right!! It would be such a dream to live in a hobbit hole ☺️
I had to stop for a minute and then shout, "Hobbitcore is still Cottagecore dippy!!!"
Right?!?! How dare she. How dare.
bro fr lotr's set design is so beautiful!!! also there this artist called chris scott sava and he has art studio which fits hobbitcore so real its beautifullllll
As a 5’ 1” (155 cm) tall Hobbit woman, I agree! I want more Hobbitcore features!!
And the real tragedy is that after claiming they bought their dream home to make memories in, they ended up giving it a 180 degree makeover and didn’t even end up keeping their supposed “dream home”
They didn’t keep it?? I didn’t know that part 😭
Can't confirm that as well, but it would make sense.
Buy a dream house, ruin a dream house, notice they ruined it...sell it quickly before anyone notices it
@@mammutMK2 if I was the new owner, and I saw how the house looked BEFORE the catastrophe, I’d go insane 😭
@@Bi.StanderXO true. Sure if it's their house and they can do what they want with it...but it's pretty clear they don't see any value in some constructions, so it's worthless for them and change it to something they have no idea about what they are actually doing.
If you go at it with a professional scale and you know what you are doing, no one would complain.
If I would knock my head on the staircase all the time it would annoy me...but I would try to find a solution...and if in the worst case it would need to go I would not take the cheapest option from home depot
Can we just ban people from renovating houses at this point?
Change my mind IF U WANT AN MODERN VIBE/HOUSE RENOVATE A MODERN HOUSE NOT A OLD HOUSE, also 6:35 the stairs being the vocal point WAS THE POINTT😭
My cat indirectly died because when my house was renovated the family diy-ed the plumbing and filled the house with mold. One of my childhood memories is selecting which stuffed animals should be thrown away because we couldn’t get the mold out of all of them. My neighborhood is in a constant state of parking hell because every time someone moves ( which happens every year or so ) the house must be renovated because in 2023 we didn’t have stoves or cement so all those old houses are so outdated
Bro, I'm so sorry. I think y'all could've sued. Well aware it's too late now but if you ever come across something like that again, sue.
alot of homes in my area are being sold and boughten, two homes near me were sold, flipped into an actual really nice modern houses, and then sold back to other families
10:47 I literally paused the video and said out loud “Rebbeca, its not a wood beam if its made out of foam”
True lol
They’re killing the value of the house and making it so fucking tacky 😭
A fauxm beam.
Not to mention the practice is predatory because it often takes place in low-income neighborhoods, jacking the price to higher than the people living there can afford. This increases homelessness and inflates the housing and economy.
THANK YOU
WHAT?!?!?! So these imbeciles are both ruining awesome looking houses AND making it so more and more people can't find any actual house to live it seems, which, in a way, is also causing many other issues in the world such as climate issues because of the amount of wasted material.
YES EXACTLY
I WILL FOREVER BE GENTRIFICATION'S NUMBER ONE HATER
That spiral staircase was a freaking crime. Noooo!!! 😭 And the paint swatches? Ah yes, let's see...whitest, whiter, drywall white, and my favorite...spackle. 😂
There is a minimalist woman in my neighborhood who happens to HATE the blue color on our house and everytime we talk she mentions the color of it and says stuff like “so when are you gonna paint that ugly blue off?” 😔
She seriously needs to get some sort of life. I can't imagine being that obsessed with another person's house and tactless enough to constantly insult it in front of them. I'm sure your house looks fine, a lot of blue ones are really pretty!
You need to tell her since she keeps mentioning it you're thinking of going bright pink.
On the flip side, someone in my neighborhood recently painted their house blue and I absolutely love it. It looks 1000x better than it did before.
Paint it Pepto bismol pink instead out of spite😂 she’ll be begging for you to paint it back blue again.
Blue is like the least offensive color! How is she mad about blue!?
I audibly gasped at the "remodeled" stairs of that one house. That spiral staircase was BEAUTIFUL! They could have easily kept it and still have given it a modern touch. Honestly the only thing I didn't like in the house was the carpet, everything else looked SO good!
I did like the staircase and carpet, but I am old school.
I thought I would replace the carpet with hardwood and rugs but those stairs were the soul of the house.
@@DeplorablesGarbagedidn't she even say in the video "the stairs pull all the focus" or something 😅 yes gurl thats the point!! Why buy a house when you don't like the main character 😢
holy fuck the new stairs are so fucking ugly man
literally like even as someone who’s quite tall, i would NEVER take those stairs out, they are just STUNNING!! and i like the carpet but i think it being all throughout the house was too much, i’d probably leave it in just one or maybe two rooms
Tbh, the overmoderization of houses makes the world seem rlly dull, were only here for a limited time, why not have fun with our houses instead of making them aesthetically appealing :(
People don't see the emotional, and sentimental value in a house. They only see it as a way to produce income. Not everyone would want a spiral staircase, but many people can work with a straight one. It's incredibly sad and shows that houses aren't seen as a right, but a luxury and source of income.
They are not making them aesthetically appealing tbh
Really fits the trend of making remakes of popular movies and completely butchering them. That's about as modern as it gets.
The grey and dull ones aren’t aesthetically pleasing they’re just nothing of course nothing works with nothing of course nothing clashes. But nothing may look ‘clean’ but not nice. You’re right if we’re only here for a limited time so instead of making nothing your impact could be so much by having a personality and colour even if it’s doo doo it’s not dull!.
FR
Taking out the staircase actually hurt, it was so pretty and was MEANT to be the centerpiece of the house, I don't understand why they would buy it if they didn't like the thing that made the house so beautiful and unique.......
seeing that pink bathroom with the columns being destroyed KILLED ME. those roses were so cute.
i died on the inside for that one-- it was the exact type of bathtub i would've loved to have in my house!! seeing the columns knocked down and the tub painstakingly ripped out felt like i was getting shot and stabbed at the same time 😭😭
That's the sort of bathtub that would make you feel like a princess every time you stepped into it. RIP beautiful corner princess tub 😢
I rebuilt that corner tub in the Sims because i was so mad they destroyed it 😂
I'm not going to lie I genuinely cried during that T-T
i straight up screamed i’m not even joking. i’d pay any price for a bathroom like this (js maybe different color than pink) and this woman smashed it to pieces with a hammer like it’s nothing…..no words
For the "modern farmhouse look" house I gotta say getting rid of the carpet is fine. Carpet is crazy to deal with and also with kids it's gonna be a hassle. BUT THE STAIRCASE? THE WALLS? It was so beautiful and had so much texture.
So many renovation people suck and unfortunately the market wants ugly with no character
As someone with no carpet, dry floors are also a hassle. With dry floors you have to regularly mop especially if it's a lighter colored floor, and especially with kids where they're going to run inside with dirty shoes. The floor can also get scuffed and scratched if not being careful especially if large furniture accidentally gets pushed, and with certain materials like wood, waxing can sometimes be required to get it to shine and not look dull. Personally I don't like how it feels to walk on them barefoot compared to carpet either.
Large rugs I think are a good medium ground where you can get both the benefits of carpet and dry floors, since they cover the floor, and also can be easily thrown into the washing machine when they get dirty, which you can't do with carpet.
I will never get over the staircase…. These people have no taste.. none
@@sardonicus1739 this. I love wood floors but some rooms need a comfy rug
@@sardonicus1739 i'd hope the floors for any house are regularly cleaned if a family is sharing it 💀
I need a creator dedicated to buying these ruined homes and restoring them then selling them for tremendous profit or giving them away to families in need or something I'd watch that all day
If only I had the money 💔
Sorry I am not camera material. I do actually work restoring an old community of old Victorian style houses. Along with a few other really nice older style houses. We are currently working on a Mexican villa inspired house built in 1952. The new home owner is upset that the interior was “modernized.” It used to have this beautiful terracotta floor. Someone glued vinyl flooring to it. We don’t think we can save it.
@@rjgaynor8I’m so sad to hear about the destroyed terra cotta, but thanks for giving homes the respect they deserve for the next owners!
Let me know when you find them. Preferably in the Seattle area. I need a house for my family and it's incredibly tight housing here.
The second empire strikes back. The amount of paint stripping her has done. Enjoy.
my husband and i are currently looking 100 year homes to move into, because we love original character… and let me tell ya. some of these flippers are HORRENDOUS. they make me wanna vomit because they’re all gray and BEIGE. these people wanna paint over anything that gives homes soul…
As someone who's gone to school for electrical, mounting the light onto a foam beam is definitely a catastrophe waiting to happen and every time it's on screen it stresses me out
I was thinking this!! i feel so bad for the people who bought that house
@LivLuvsCats The "renovated" fireplace was a monstrosity in its own right, but I can't help but think how I'd feel if I bought that house thinking I had some nice wood beams, only to find out it's foam. Freakin' foam.
"Through every door you come through the stairs are the focal point" uh, yeah, almost like that was the point.
Right?! It's called a "grand staircase" for a reason FFS!
Almost like these were gorgeous stairs and the POINT was that not every person visiting you should walk straight to the kitchen. These people have no respect for history. It was very unusual to let people get to your kitchen, of course you are supposed to go there only in a round-about way and go to the living room and dining room first, thats where you entertained your guests.
Also it’s so expensive to build a staircase, why would you not just spend that money on moving the kitchen?
@@AlexisHiemis The history is that the house as built in the 70s, and the oversized staircase as added in the 80s. It's awkward for the space and doesn't work. If the house had originally been designed to show off the staircase that would have been one thing, but it wasn't. It's really obvious the more you look at the pictures.
anytime a victorian house gets blanked modernized a queer person cries
Real 😭
Can confirm I cried
I'm not gay, yet I cried
Me fr, I cry everytime one of those house get destroyed
ME. IM CRYING SO HARD RN