Okay so my dad is 6ft 7 and he said he'd keep the spiral stairs 1. Leaving them Saves money 2. Leaving them adds value to the house 3. They add an 'atmosphere '
this!!!! honestly i hope more people realise that period features of a house will add value over time, whereas newer features depreciate if not maintained ! :((
Well I think stressing about monitory value is a but stupid as you should just make your house what you want it to be but don’t ruin it for people who will live there in the future
2:05 They just cleaned it. All the "gothic" look that old cathedrals have is the result of years uoon years of candle burning and the smoke staining the roof and walls. The white look is howbthey are meant to look/originally looked. That and the fact the newer look is much brighter so less shadows.
Hundreds of years of soot removed, it just got back to its original appearance. The "gothic" style the OOP talks about is uncleanness, layers over layers of soot and lack of maintenance that make the original colored highlights (mainly on the exteriors) disappear. The original gothic style was not grim in a grey/brown color, it was colored and the walls' main color was the local bedrock stone color. For example, the Clermont-Ferrand cathedral is in pierre de Volvic, a volcanic stone akin to basalt so quite dark: the cathedral is nearly black. For Paris, the cathedral is in white limestone, so the cathedral is white.
Quote from french newspaper Les Echos: "Thanks to the cleaning up of ‘150 years of filth’, they have brought back the bright colours intended by Viollet-le-Duc in the cathedral's chapels."
Why would anyone spend the money for a beautiful old house, then spend a lot more turning it into a different house? Just buy what you actually wanted.
In this world, there is this thing called money.. Sometimes people buy a project, so they can turn it into their dream home, because their dream home cost more... I hope this helps, little 10 year old.
One thing I can see with all these renovations is that people are moving from cozy, comfortable, protective, and rooms that just feel "lived in" to big wide open areas with a clinical feeling, more like an office building rather than a place where people live. I don't know if it is a need for open areas because people never go outside now, or if it is just trying to show up the jones' by making your house appear bigger inside. Probably a mix of reasons. Some of these give the impression that the homes are less used or lived in, as if the living room is an art installation rather than something you can actually use.
I think a big reason as to why areas are open and have a sterile feeling is because that way its easier to clean. Back in the day when women were stay at home moms and you could live on one income there was enough time to clean every little detail, but nowadays most women also work a full time job so its just more practical to have easy to clean surfaces and open spaces to go through. As for the bland look, cant answer that lol I guess thats just the aesthetic nowadays. I personally prefer some colour and would never go for a sterile white house.
It's the Biedermeier era all over again Little tldr, that was an era in german europe before ww1 that caused an overall cultural shift from public life to private family life due to growing cultural and political repression.
It's because people like minimalism and clean houses, so now everything is white walls, terrible geometrically shaped furniture and 3 colors max per room. Also because now that's the kind of thing that is expensive so people want to flex
I disagree. I will not be the person to destroy it unless it is so ugly that I have a duty to, but to each their own. I think buyers should just aboud cheap crap renovations
@@krismine99 What do you mean by ugly? How could a house be ugly. The only ugly houses are those stupid box shaped homes that rich girls would start salivating looking at.
@@retroryan838 nope, see taste are different. And how do you know they didnt inherited it? Also you are so dumb, that you dont realize that many times young people can only buy fixer upper and update it within years with hard work. Everyone is note tiktokker.
The reviewer in the "Stone Wall" section (13:31) is "Design Daddy", a Canadian who does both interior and exterior design. His reviews of TikTok's wannabe designers renovations are hilarious, but he also gives good advice as to what could have been done to make the space look better. He also said that putting all that stone on an interior wall could affect the structural stability as it weighs down the walls and could cause a problem further down the road.
theres a spoons about an hour away from me that is just an old cinema and they kept the old viewing galleries so i think they did a great job at preserving the history of the building
The problem with the spiral staircase one is they claimed to be building their dream house, as you hear her say in the video. They sold it a matter of months later... I wonder how many of those events she said she was going to have actually happened that benefited from not having those stairs there? I think the closest they got was walking an estate agent around the place. Edit; Sorry, an additional problem, the cherry on the turd cake, is that mentioned above.
the problem with most of these is that people take absolutely beautiful, perfectly fine homes that are no longer built in that style, and turn it into a modern pinterest house. Just buy an already modern house instead of ruining relics
there are some houses under protection in my country. You can only renovate with original stuff etc which is unbelievable expensive. You know what happens to those houses? They rot until some unhoused person accidentally burns them down.... same would happen to these houses. At least they get a new life for at least one more generation, become more energy efficient. Also you have no idea if the house was bought or inherited and then fixed up.
As someone who paints homes and cabinets it’s all about being “modern” shades of white and neutral tones. It’s sooo nice when we get to paint something different
My biggest problem with these kinds of renovations is, not that people change it, so its practical and modern, but that they choose property with character to do it on. Like, if you need to do so much changes to the house than dont buy it and buy a new one or renovate one without any character.
They wrase all traces of uniqueness and act like they somehow made it 'better'. Modern houses all look lie the waiting room of a clinic, zero life, zero character, zero cosyness. Nothing but sterile IKEA showroom furniture, grayscale paint and cold light
when it comes to interiors, so many people are under the impression that you have to tear the whole thing down to make it better and add value, but just because a space looks outdated and sterile cause you haven’t put a single of your own things in it yet doesn’t mean it’s not good. tearing down genuine wood cabinets with panel detailings to replace them with laminated plywood is a huge loss in value and quality. switching the cabinet handles, painting the walls, changing the lights to something less yellow, taking out the old curtains and repainting the window frames, these are all minor jobs that can completely transform a room. if you have renovation money, invest it into a real nice new countertop and maybe retiling the floors. spreading that money thin to change the whole room is going to look cheap because it will be cheap. you gotta work with what you already have, not force the space into something it’s not
Not only that, but making it open plan will make the house harder to heat, which is especially important when the cost of energy is so high, and in the summer, if you have a room that has little light instead of the massive dustbin grey windows they put in now which makes the room hotter, you will have a cooler room to sit in. Sorry, it was nice to get off my chest 😂
If you want a white neutral modern house, buy a white neutral modern house!!! If you want an open concept farmhouse, buy an OPEN CONCEPT FARMHOUSE!! Stop "renovating" older homes that have character, there are people (me) who want to live in them.
@@retroryan838 want and getting is different thing. If you want and have money, buy it or if you think you get the money maybe in 10 years.. should the seller wait for you 10 years. People will get this cheaply. Why arent you buying and keeping it?
People who do that generally don't clean their own kitchens. Often they also don't do the cooking. That's why when they are picking colors they don't any voice of experience speak up in their brains saying "this is stupid and impractical". Those people won't ever even learn that that kitchen is a nightmare to keep nice. Only the person who cleans it will.
It's not for using it's for looking at. A great many of these things are just look-at renovations. I don't fully agree with taking out the spiral staircase, seems weird to get something with a main feature like that and just take it out, but at least they made the change because they want it to fit their life and not because it looks neat until you actually use it
ok so the home alone house wasn't designed like that because it was a Christmas film - that's just what houses looked like in the late 80s, and when they hired that house to film in - it probably already looked like that just without the actual Christmas decorations.
Surely if you were that tall you just wouldn't move into that house. That's kindof the main feature of the house so what could you possibly love about it outside of the spiral staircase. Also idk about more family friendly, the spiral staircase had a railing and the mew one doesn't.
The location, the room layout, the garden, the closeness of stores or the city.... If YOU buy a house only because of a set of stairs... you are a moron.
There is more clearance there than she's pretending. An architect just wouldn't build that staircase with unusually low clearance knowing it would be relied upon as a through point due to the home's layout. Even if it was a specific request, which is so utterly unlikely, they would try to talk the home owner out of it. Think. Doorways are built with significant clearance for average height people and more than enough for most tall people even. If he actually couldnt walk under at 6'2" then we would have to believe it was designed to have only a few inches of clearance for an average height man, none for a tall one and be unusable for anybody exceeding the low end of tall without ducking. She definitely just assumed that nobody would know that things like spiral staircases aren't built without any thought.
could love the price, the location from other amenities, the location from family, maybe it has a big garden, the house looked massive so maybe it's just because of the size of it all, many reasons they may buy that house and then remove the one part they didnt like
4:40 here’s the thing if he’s 6”2 n he struggles to get under the stairs isn’t he Also gonna struggle to get through door frames? Why get rid of the cool ass stairs n waste money when u can do a normally body function and duck for les than a second.
The house at 15:50... I feel the thing that pained me the most was the ruined garden. the house was pretty meh either way. But I HATE when they ruin pretty gardens.
5:16 no it fucking don't make sense. If you're tall and you have a BEAUTIFUL piece of furniture that is slightly shorter so you have to duck, YOU DUCK, you don't ruin such an awesome spiral staircase for a bullshit regular one.
I agree, I have to visit every Xmas (mother lives there and it's where I escaped from at 18), if it's a brewing day it's a doubly extra nice thing because not only are you leaving Burton but also you're escaping the smell 😂
Notre-Dame looks so much better honestly,it looks like it was originally and supposed to be like,I was there a few months before that fire and it was so dark inside you could hardly see anything in there...much improved...it's the same architecture,looks like only one of those stained glass windows over the altar survived which is a shame.the reconstruction was done from laser scans done years before,they made precise detailed maps from and they even had detailed measurements of the acoustics inside...they even got to clean the interior and do restoration on everything(including walls and pillars) that survived ...looks fabulous ...the only place that would really be different and made more modern is the attic area where the fire started and collapsed into the church and the altar is new because it was crushed..amazing job though...
people never think how it would have been originally. so many churches in Uk got vibrant panted stoneworks whitewashed over and statues literally defaced as faces broken off all part of stepping away from Catholic church. as yousay hundreds of years of candle and lamps cake the inside of buildings. I sang in Notre dame with a choir and some behind the scenes areas showed this kind of look but main building was so dark even with modern lighting
Not the biggest fan of Spoons, but they certainly have preserved and renovated some beautiful buildings tastefully. Then let untasteful punters in..... Spoons in Harrogate is a lovely converted chapel, in Redditch a 1930's art deco cinema....
People have got it into their minds that flat, square and white is the BEST because it's modern. But it's just so soulless and dead and boring. That kitchen was so pretty before!
The last one and the spiral staircase one makes me so mad, because i get if you don't like these details but why buy a house that has these unique details just to destroy them?! If you want to renovate why not buy a more toned down house in the first place? I'm sure someone else would have appreciated that beautiful kitchen and hallway
I dunno about that. What I do know is one of the pictures looks much better than the other. One of these pictures would make me want to go there, and the other makes me want to go somewhere else.
i dont get people who buy houses with so much personality and turn them into something so dull and boring. like why not just buy an already dull and boring house and leave the fun beautiful houses for the people who actually want them? it makes no sense.
in england, there is actually law around building extentions onto old buildings. The extrensions are not allowed to match the original building so that in future when sold, people cant be lied to about the house being all original and made to pay more.
you honestly think that if you buy 100 years old house there have never been renovations? You cannot be that naïve. Things get old and break, there have been tons renovations and will be in the future, welcome to life.
I just don't understand why they by houses with unique features that they DON'T LIKE just so they can spend a ton of money changing everything. Just buy a house that matches your aesthetic! Especially when it's the same "modern" look everyone else is doing!
11:38 nah but white kitchens and bathrooms make sense to me cause you want to have strong lighting to see what you are doing and to easily clean the surfaces.
The Home alone house. The interior shots were filmed on constructed sets at a local disused high school in their gym. Little of the real house's interior was used in the film.
Can't help but think had they gone with the movie design they could have gotten more instead of the modern. How many people with bank accounts grew up dreaming of that movie and house.
What annoys me about modern home renovation is you're making it a blank slate for the next owners. Why not enjoy the space while it's yours? Have an accent wall or put up some colorful decor?
My thing with modernizing certain spaces (not all), especially homes, is that it ends up feeling so cold and less like a home. It doesn’t look bad and there are some that I do like but a lot of what I see just gives off that cold, not lived in feeling.
I grew up in the 70s, and one of the few things I don't miss about the time period is the garish, pseudo futuristic decor. Even as a young child it felt like a throwback to the 60s. Made all of the adults look 15 years older than they were, and made us children (myself, at least), feel like we were living in some weird time capsule. At least that one doesn't have the requisite Formica and avocado green. What a weird decorating period.
I think the notre dame renovation is actually a bit better than how it looks prior to the renovation because notre dame is an actual gothic cathedral, not neo gothic, which most people think is the same thing just later. Most gothic cathedrals were painted white on the inside, much the same as many building during the 1100s, and it was actually architects during the 1800s looking at faded original gothic architecture that made neo gothic architecture so dark and foreboding rather than light and quite bright as it was intended to be when built. The light aspect of the church was because of the belief at the time that light was the best way to represent God, which is why they also have absolutely huge windows, so I actually don't think it's that bad
Notre Dame did look like that when it was first built - as did every other cathedral! The patina we see is all soot, oils, and grime that couldn't be scrubbed off evenly with the tools of the day. (They didn't exactly have power washers.) It was also left on as part of the building's story. But with so much soot being damaging to stone, as with the fire, they got rid of it in favour of continuing the building anew.
Why buy a gorgeous building if you're just going to rip out all of its charm? The house with the spiral staircase looked stunning, if the stairs is a concern... Why buy it...? This video is just really depressing. I really, really hate this modern, sterile architecture. I can't wait until it is inevitably out of fashion.
The entry way they turned all white is proof some people didn't understand that THX-1138's detainment center was not supposed to be used for decorating advice.
2:33 I actually screamed 😭😂 When we renovated our kitchen, the first thing my mom said was “I do *not* want an all white kitchen.” We went with white top cabinets, white marble countertop, but kept the brown tile and painted the bottom cabinets green! I love it 🥰
4:05 they have NOT done the garden up better!!! the original is green and lush and there are things actually living there. the new one is a flat plain of monoculture grass. fair enough if you're gonna call it a yard or a lawn but you cannot tell me it's still a garden.
The Gaumont Palace wasn't renovated, it was demolished after being sold because the cinema wasn't making its money back It was build in the 1900' as a hippodrome first, then transformed to a concert hall, then a cinema before being destroyed. The parking close to it is still called the hippodrome
Modern extensions are often because some places state when you add to a historic/old building, the extension/new addition has to be distinct to avoid confusion.
It's in Princes Street, Edinburgh. I walk past it everyday and yes that is true. Personally i love the 70s and 80s concrete brutalist buildings and its a shame so many are gentrified and/or demolished
there is a house in my town with massive and i mean massive windows and they have no curtains at all. you can just see everyone sitting down watching the telly and it irritates me so much
The most magnificent spoons I have been to was a one in Glasgow called the counting house. It used to be a bank and has this giant whimsical dome ceiling. Absolutely majestic.
7:48 man, that looks so cool, i agree with George that there is an excuse to "normiefy" it if you will. But man, its like smth out of the prewar from fallout, it also has a cozyness to it. would live in honestly
that first house could have looked ok if they went all in on the idea. Go half the house traditional, then half the modern block. Doing it in thirds with the modern in the middle made it look like poo
Gothic is a builing style meant for light, it was designed in a way to maker the cathedral full of light. most cathedrals are darker tgough because of centeries of candle ash condesing on the stone
I get replacing doors and windows on an old home for energy efficiency and to make a house less drafty. I also get updating the plumbing and electrical in a house so the house can be safer and up to code. I get bringing old houses up to code for health, safety, live ability reasons. But I don’t like it when all the charm and character are completely removed from an old house. Then again if it is not my house it is none of my business. I do not get having adequate lighting in room like bathrooms, living rooms, dining rooms. Have u ever been I an a bathroom that has lighting but it is so dim u need a flash light to see what u are doing? Like when I see pics of homes where it looks like u need a flashlight to take a shower because there is no light in the shower even with the bathroom lights on.
How are people so uneducated on Notre Dame😂 They restored it to the charm that it had when it was originally constructed😅 They even said that when they started the project
You can't live in the past, but you can live somewhere else? Why buy an old/historical place just to wreck it within an inch of its life, just buy a fecking modern house then!
Sameee!! Like I’m all for colorful things but I just personally can’t get behind a tacky 70s bathroom. Just looking at one makes me uncomfortable for some reason. 💀
I live in a neo Tudor house built in the early 1930s and it's just as wonky as a proper Tudor house built several centuries before it, so yeah - they don't make any sense ackchilly.
11:25 The design was ok. A bit sparse to the left, with a tiny island. Liked the warm colours. What I'd do is paint the walls cream, put in slightly lighter colour wooden cabinets while making use of the space to the left, with a bigger island. Renew the window if possible. Add under cabinet lighting, some spotlights above the island, and a couple of plants too. If the floor tiles are non slip then they can stay, otherwise replace with similar ones that are non slip. What I wouldn't do, is turn it into a fake marble white abomination with a boring grey floor while removing the window that was letting all that natural light in. Leaving us in a dreary off white room of despair.
Notre Dam... I agree. The yellow lights are way more cozy and fitting (imo) than bright, modern white lights. I think it's just the lights though, nothing else, really.
Those chandeliers in the kitchen ugh. They are gonna be filthy in no time! Unless they just have the kitchen for show and dont plan on using it to cook in. And all white surfaces look dirty way faster than other colours. Im with you on the need for some colour.
Im guessing Tudor style not genuine Tudor, as those are typically listed and doing that to one would be next to impossible. Wouldnt be surprised if that first one wasnt even in the UK.
Okay so my dad is 6ft 7 and he said he'd keep the spiral stairs
1. Leaving them Saves money
2. Leaving them adds value to the house
3. They add an 'atmosphere '
this!!!! honestly i hope more people realise that period features of a house will add value over time, whereas newer features depreciate if not maintained ! :((
Well I think stressing about monitory value is a but stupid as you should just make your house what you want it to be but don’t ruin it for people who will live there in the future
Your dad is tall. And I would keep the stairs because they look so cool.
my dad is 6 ft 8 and he said he'd get rid of the spiral stairs and also said your dad smells
@@ItsMeBarnaby what about that gap that's not under the stairs
2:05 They just cleaned it. All the "gothic" look that old cathedrals have is the result of years uoon years of candle burning and the smoke staining the roof and walls. The white look is howbthey are meant to look/originally looked. That and the fact the newer look is much brighter so less shadows.
Hundreds of years of soot removed, it just got back to its original appearance. The "gothic" style the OOP talks about is uncleanness, layers over layers of soot and lack of maintenance that make the original colored highlights (mainly on the exteriors) disappear. The original gothic style was not grim in a grey/brown color, it was colored and the walls' main color was the local bedrock stone color. For example, the Clermont-Ferrand cathedral is in pierre de Volvic, a volcanic stone akin to basalt so quite dark: the cathedral is nearly black. For Paris, the cathedral is in white limestone, so the cathedral is white.
Quote from french newspaper Les Echos: "Thanks to the cleaning up of ‘150 years of filth’, they have brought back the bright colours intended by Viollet-le-Duc in the cathedral's chapels."
@@jugatsumikkabro just rewrote the original comment
it genuinely just looks like the lighting is different
Ye, Gothic architecture was origionally meant to fill the vast spavce with light
Why would anyone spend the money for a beautiful old house, then spend a lot more turning it into a different house? Just buy what you actually wanted.
People with money are used to doing whatever they want. They choose a prime location, buy a property and transform it as they please.
Property values, house layout and whether or not they want a house in the city
In this world, there is this thing called money.. Sometimes people buy a project, so they can turn it into their dream home, because their dream home cost more... I hope this helps, little 10 year old.
@@drinmer1 wow someone woke up on the wrong side of mummy and daddy's bed this morning
@@drinmer1 give your mom her ipad back🙏
One thing I can see with all these renovations is that people are moving from cozy, comfortable, protective, and rooms that just feel "lived in" to big wide open areas with a clinical feeling, more like an office building rather than a place where people live. I don't know if it is a need for open areas because people never go outside now, or if it is just trying to show up the jones' by making your house appear bigger inside. Probably a mix of reasons. Some of these give the impression that the homes are less used or lived in, as if the living room is an art installation rather than something you can actually use.
I think a big reason as to why areas are open and have a sterile feeling is because that way its easier to clean. Back in the day when women were stay at home moms and you could live on one income there was enough time to clean every little detail, but nowadays most women also work a full time job so its just more practical to have easy to clean surfaces and open spaces to go through. As for the bland look, cant answer that lol I guess thats just the aesthetic nowadays. I personally prefer some colour and would never go for a sterile white house.
It's the Biedermeier era all over again
Little tldr, that was an era in german europe before ww1 that caused an overall cultural shift from public life to private family life due to growing cultural and political repression.
It's because people like minimalism and clean houses, so now everything is white walls, terrible geometrically shaped furniture and 3 colors max per room.
Also because now that's the kind of thing that is expensive so people want to flex
@@NerzJansch2 The reasons we do things as a culture are pretty neat, especially the psychological reasons.
@@yasininn76 the thing is why white it will just make the home look more dirty
If you don't want to live in an old house, don't buy an old house. Leave the old houses for people who will appreciate them.
I disagree. I will not be the person to destroy it unless it is so ugly that I have a duty to, but to each their own. I think buyers should just aboud cheap crap renovations
@@krismine99 What do you mean by ugly? How could a house be ugly. The only ugly houses are those stupid box shaped homes that rich girls would start salivating looking at.
@@retroryan838 nope, see taste are different. And how do you know they didnt inherited it? Also you are so dumb, that you dont realize that many times young people can only buy fixer upper and update it within years with hard work. Everyone is note tiktokker.
The reviewer in the "Stone Wall" section (13:31) is "Design Daddy", a Canadian who does both interior and exterior design. His reviews of TikTok's wannabe designers renovations are hilarious, but he also gives good advice as to what could have been done to make the space look better. He also said that putting all that stone on an interior wall could affect the structural stability as it weighs down the walls and could cause a problem further down the road.
does he have a TH-cam? really liked his vibe ty for naming him
it honestly could’ve looked ok if she just… HIRED A PROFESSIONAL.
I love Design Daddy so much! A few months ago I spent weeks bingeing all of his content on TH-cam and it was so educational I was shocked
Spoons save saved so many nice old buildings, can't understand people who have a problem with that
I’m starting to think food is just an income, and their real passion is keeping old buildings beautiful.
A bar in a church seems a bit in bad taste. But yeah, the renovations looked great.
@@wilfreddvbeering up is a holy endeavour is it not
@@Stainobaino I think wine is the preferred ecclesiastical tipple. So a Wine Bar would probably be fine...
theres a spoons about an hour away from me that is just an old cinema and they kept the old viewing galleries so i think they did a great job at preserving the history of the building
The problem with the spiral staircase one is they claimed to be building their dream house, as you hear her say in the video. They sold it a matter of months later... I wonder how many of those events she said she was going to have actually happened that benefited from not having those stairs there? I think the closest they got was walking an estate agent around the place.
Edit; Sorry, an additional problem, the cherry on the turd cake, is that mentioned above.
the problem with most of these is that people take absolutely beautiful, perfectly fine homes that are no longer built in that style, and turn it into a modern pinterest house. Just buy an already modern house instead of ruining relics
there are some houses under protection in my country. You can only renovate with original stuff etc which is unbelievable expensive. You know what happens to those houses? They rot until some unhoused person accidentally burns them down.... same would happen to these houses. At least they get a new life for at least one more generation, become more energy efficient. Also you have no idea if the house was bought or inherited and then fixed up.
As someone who paints homes and cabinets it’s all about being “modern” shades of white and neutral tones. It’s sooo nice when we get to paint something different
"I'm guessing you're American, bcos we don't have schools like this in the uk" Just misses the US flag entirely hahah
tbf there were like 5 pixels of it
I liked the skandinavian style in the 2010s but I’m so over all the white grey and beige.
My biggest problem with these kinds of renovations is, not that people change it, so its practical and modern, but that they choose property with character to do it on. Like, if you need to do so much changes to the house than dont buy it and buy a new one or renovate one without any character.
They wrase all traces of uniqueness and act like they somehow made it 'better'.
Modern houses all look lie the waiting room of a clinic, zero life, zero character, zero cosyness. Nothing but sterile IKEA showroom furniture, grayscale paint and cold light
2:40 isn't that where Harry Potter talked to Dumbledores ghost?
I knew it looked farmilliar 😂
when it comes to interiors, so many people are under the impression that you have to tear the whole thing down to make it better and add value, but just because a space looks outdated and sterile cause you haven’t put a single of your own things in it yet doesn’t mean it’s not good. tearing down genuine wood cabinets with panel detailings to replace them with laminated plywood is a huge loss in value and quality. switching the cabinet handles, painting the walls, changing the lights to something less yellow, taking out the old curtains and repainting the window frames, these are all minor jobs that can completely transform a room. if you have renovation money, invest it into a real nice new countertop and maybe retiling the floors. spreading that money thin to change the whole room is going to look cheap because it will be cheap. you gotta work with what you already have, not force the space into something it’s not
Not only that, but making it open plan will make the house harder to heat, which is especially important when the cost of energy is so high, and in the summer, if you have a room that has little light instead of the massive dustbin grey windows they put in now which makes the room hotter, you will have a cooler room to sit in. Sorry, it was nice to get off my chest 😂
If you want a white neutral modern house, buy a white neutral modern house!!! If you want an open concept farmhouse, buy an OPEN CONCEPT FARMHOUSE!! Stop "renovating" older homes that have character, there are people (me) who want to live in them.
Exactly!
@@retroryan838 want and getting is different thing. If you want and have money, buy it or if you think you get the money maybe in 10 years.. should the seller wait for you 10 years. People will get this cheaply. Why arent you buying and keeping it?
11:50 who wants an all white kitchen?! Its gonna look dirty 30 seconds after cleaning it!
and so boring and cold. it’s aesthetically pleasing or whatever, but i want something warm and lived in 😭
People who do that generally don't clean their own kitchens. Often they also don't do the cooking. That's why when they are picking colors they don't any voice of experience speak up in their brains saying "this is stupid and impractical". Those people won't ever even learn that that kitchen is a nightmare to keep nice. Only the person who cleans it will.
It's not for using it's for looking at. A great many of these things are just look-at renovations. I don't fully agree with taking out the spiral staircase, seems weird to get something with a main feature like that and just take it out, but at least they made the change because they want it to fit their life and not because it looks neat until you actually use it
ok so the home alone house wasn't designed like that because it was a Christmas film - that's just what houses looked like in the late 80s, and when they hired that house to film in - it probably already looked like that just without the actual Christmas decorations.
Surely if you were that tall you just wouldn't move into that house. That's kindof the main feature of the house so what could you possibly love about it outside of the spiral staircase. Also idk about more family friendly, the spiral staircase had a railing and the mew one doesn't.
The location, the room layout, the garden, the closeness of stores or the city.... If YOU buy a house only because of a set of stairs... you are a moron.
There is more clearance there than she's pretending. An architect just wouldn't build that staircase with unusually low clearance knowing it would be relied upon as a through point due to the home's layout. Even if it was a specific request, which is so utterly unlikely, they would try to talk the home owner out of it. Think. Doorways are built with significant clearance for average height people and more than enough for most tall people even. If he actually couldnt walk under at 6'2" then we would have to believe it was designed to have only a few inches of clearance for an average height man, none for a tall one and be unusable for anybody exceeding the low end of tall without ducking. She definitely just assumed that nobody would know that things like spiral staircases aren't built without any thought.
could love the price, the location from other amenities, the location from family, maybe it has a big garden, the house looked massive so maybe it's just because of the size of it all, many reasons they may buy that house and then remove the one part they didnt like
George at 10:23 : "I'm guessing you're American"
American Flag : 🇺🇸 👁 👄 👁 🇺🇸
Just about saw that 😂😂
You can barely see that. Also that could be a Malaysian flag
@@goldenfiberwheat238 sorry i play geoguessr, not tropical enough for malaysia
bloody love watching gorge mimulois
couldnt spell it wronger if you tried
@@bigman5405 really mate? i honestly didn’t notice so thanks for pointing out mr bigman5405
@@bigman5405 Ok how about meehmyouloos
Gorge
yu seriosli ned spel in lesones yu mayt
4:40 here’s the thing if he’s 6”2 n he struggles to get under the stairs isn’t he Also gonna struggle to get through door frames? Why get rid of the cool ass stairs n waste money when u can do a normally body function and duck for les than a second.
The house at 15:50... I feel the thing that pained me the most was the ruined garden. the house was pretty meh either way. But I HATE when they ruin pretty gardens.
You already know they're gonna replace it with a massive concrete driveway with some metre high black brick wall surrounding it.
5:16 no it fucking don't make sense. If you're tall and you have a BEAUTIFUL piece of furniture that is slightly shorter so you have to duck, YOU DUCK, you don't ruin such an awesome spiral staircase for a bullshit regular one.
Exactly. And walking a couple meters longer to go around it is no effort.
Americans are known for being lazy though lol
I think you’ll find Burton Station is actually one of the nicest things to see in Burton
cause it's how you get out of burton?
@@giddycadet😭
Real
I agree, I have to visit every Xmas (mother lives there and it's where I escaped from at 18), if it's a brewing day it's a doubly extra nice thing because not only are you leaving Burton but also you're escaping the smell 😂
Can relate i live there
Notre-Dame looks so much better honestly,it looks like it was originally and supposed to be like,I was there a few months before that fire and it was so dark inside you could hardly see anything in there...much improved...it's the same architecture,looks like only one of those stained glass windows over the altar survived which is a shame.the reconstruction was done from laser scans done years before,they made precise detailed maps from and they even had detailed measurements of the acoustics inside...they even got to clean the interior and do restoration on everything(including walls and pillars) that survived ...looks fabulous ...the only place that would really be different and made more modern is the attic area where the fire started and collapsed into the church and the altar is new because it was crushed..amazing job though...
people never think how it would have been originally. so many churches in Uk got vibrant panted stoneworks whitewashed over and statues literally defaced as faces broken off all part of stepping away from Catholic church. as yousay hundreds of years of candle and lamps cake the inside of buildings. I sang in Notre dame with a choir and some behind the scenes areas showed this kind of look but main building was so dark even with modern lighting
Not the biggest fan of Spoons, but they certainly have preserved and renovated some beautiful buildings tastefully. Then let untasteful punters in.....
Spoons in Harrogate is a lovely converted chapel, in Redditch a 1930's art deco cinema....
People have got it into their minds that flat, square and white is the BEST because it's modern. But it's just so soulless and dead and boring. That kitchen was so pretty before!
that kitchen was cramped, ugly and dark. I know, my mom has one. Really dark and uninviting.
It was that horrible 90s yellow pine look. Just as generic as the all white kitchen.
The last one and the spiral staircase one makes me so mad, because i get if you don't like these details but why buy a house that has these unique details just to destroy them?! If you want to renovate why not buy a more toned down house in the first place? I'm sure someone else would have appreciated that beautiful kitchen and hallway
Give it about 10 years and people will be ripping out that streaky marble. It's 2034's avocado bathroom.
Houses build after 1900 < Modernization
Houses build before 1900 > Modernization
2:10 Yeah it's literally just because it's not real candles/yellow light anymore, plus now you see stuff better anyway.
They also washed the stone work.
I dunno about that.
What I do know is one of the pictures looks much better than the other.
One of these pictures would make me want to go there, and the other makes me want to go somewhere else.
yeah light color is extremely important in interior decoration
I really hate it when everywhere is just filled with white lights like it attracts insects
@@WashedHavertz Hmm, turns out warm LEDs are the best for avoiding attracting insects.
i dont get people who buy houses with so much personality and turn them into something so dull and boring. like why not just buy an already dull and boring house and leave the fun beautiful houses for the people who actually want them? it makes no sense.
in england, there is actually law around building extentions onto old buildings. The extrensions are not allowed to match the original building so that in future when sold, people cant be lied to about the house being all original and made to pay more.
Yeah but surely it doesn’t have to be THAT jarring
it doesn’t quite work like that!! lol
Hmm, I'm thinking that that is a rather stupid law.
@@Nemrai in theory it was a good idea, in practice, horrific
That is legit most stupid law I have heard of
10:50 went from "kids get killed in there" to "a cult lives there"
There is so many modern houses people buy old houses snd change the characteristics that made that house and history.
I hate the white everywhere it feels cold and stains easily like we redone our sitting room and wr have a warm pain and blue sofas xD
you honestly think that if you buy 100 years old house there have never been renovations? You cannot be that naïve. Things get old and break, there have been tons renovations and will be in the future, welcome to life.
Worst House Renovations
Worst House Renovations
Worst House Renovations
Worst House Renovations
Worst House Renovations
Worst House Renovations
I just don't understand why they by houses with unique features that they DON'T LIKE just so they can spend a ton of money changing everything. Just buy a house that matches your aesthetic! Especially when it's the same "modern" look everyone else is doing!
11:38 nah but white kitchens and bathrooms make sense to me cause you want to have strong lighting to see what you are doing and to easily clean the surfaces.
The Home alone house. The interior shots were filmed on constructed sets at a local disused high school in their gym. Little of the real house's interior was used in the film.
Can't help but think had they gone with the movie design they could have gotten more instead of the modern. How many people with bank accounts grew up dreaming of that movie and house.
What annoys me about modern home renovation is you're making it a blank slate for the next owners. Why not enjoy the space while it's yours? Have an accent wall or put up some colorful decor?
My thing with modernizing certain spaces (not all), especially homes, is that it ends up feeling so cold and less like a home. It doesn’t look bad and there are some that I do like but a lot of what I see just gives off that cold, not lived in feeling.
I grew up in the 70s, and one of the few things I don't miss about the time period is the garish, pseudo futuristic decor. Even as a young child it felt like a throwback to the 60s. Made all of the adults look 15 years older than they were, and made us children (myself, at least), feel like we were living in some weird time capsule. At least that one doesn't have the requisite Formica and avocado green. What a weird decorating period.
3:35 Burton - my hometown, 100% ruined architecturally in many ways.
Burton on trent mention!!! The 4 of us are thrilled
I think the notre dame renovation is actually a bit better than how it looks prior to the renovation because notre dame is an actual gothic cathedral, not neo gothic, which most people think is the same thing just later. Most gothic cathedrals were painted white on the inside, much the same as many building during the 1100s, and it was actually architects during the 1800s looking at faded original gothic architecture that made neo gothic architecture so dark and foreboding rather than light and quite bright as it was intended to be when built. The light aspect of the church was because of the belief at the time that light was the best way to represent God, which is why they also have absolutely huge windows, so I actually don't think it's that bad
Notre Dame did look like that when it was first built - as did every other cathedral! The patina we see is all soot, oils, and grime that couldn't be scrubbed off evenly with the tools of the day. (They didn't exactly have power washers.) It was also left on as part of the building's story. But with so much soot being damaging to stone, as with the fire, they got rid of it in favour of continuing the building anew.
Why buy a gorgeous building if you're just going to rip out all of its charm? The house with the spiral staircase looked stunning, if the stairs is a concern... Why buy it...? This video is just really depressing. I really, really hate this modern, sterile architecture. I can't wait until it is inevitably out of fashion.
That last kitchen change is actually the worst change i've ever seen, in what world is that not a downgrade lol
Im still so mad at the removal of that spiral staircase
The entry way they turned all white is proof some people didn't understand that THX-1138's detainment center was not supposed to be used for decorating advice.
9:43 is a two types of minecraft buildings
The old buildings with the "modern" boxy add-ons just make me think of a really nice Lego set finished with Duplo.
Ha! Princes Street Boots in Edinburgh lmao. Yeah that place looks shocking.
2:33
I actually screamed 😭😂
When we renovated our kitchen, the first thing my mom said was “I do *not* want an all white kitchen.”
We went with white top cabinets, white marble countertop, but kept the brown tile and painted the bottom cabinets green! I love it 🥰
4:05 they have NOT done the garden up better!!! the original is green and lush and there are things actually living there. the new one is a flat plain of monoculture grass. fair enough if you're gonna call it a yard or a lawn but you cannot tell me it's still a garden.
The Gaumont Palace wasn't renovated, it was demolished after being sold because the cinema wasn't making its money back
It was build in the 1900' as a hippodrome first, then transformed to a concert hall, then a cinema before being destroyed. The parking close to it is still called the hippodrome
Modern extensions are often because some places state when you add to a historic/old building, the extension/new addition has to be distinct to avoid confusion.
Love you George
Secind
They really did that last kitchen dirty.
nice video
6:03 this was probably built in the 50s or 60s when brutalism was popular, as it was cheap while recovering from ww1 and ww2
I read "botulism" at first glance, and somehow that also fit.
@seigeengine haha
It's in Princes Street, Edinburgh. I walk past it everyday and yes that is true. Personally i love the 70s and 80s concrete brutalist buildings and its a shame so many are gentrified and/or demolished
@@IvorDooks Brutalism can be good looking, but mostly it's just hideous and of questionable practicality.
Spoons along with mcdonalds can be ever so whimsical
I've never understood using marble on surfaces because it really just looks like poop stripes
there is a house in my town with massive and i mean massive windows and they have no curtains at all. you can just see everyone sitting down watching the telly and it irritates me so much
6:35 THATS ME WHAT THE FUCK I LOVE YOU GEORGE
The most magnificent spoons I have been to was a one in Glasgow called the counting house. It used to be a bank and has this giant whimsical dome ceiling. Absolutely majestic.
We have a beautiful one in Cardiff
1:16 It looks like they bought a pre-made addition and just parked it right next to their house.
Why can’t people just buy a house they like instead of ruining charm and history?
14:13 Did that voice catch anyone else off guard? 😂
7:48 man, that looks so cool, i agree with George that there is an excuse to "normiefy" it if you will.
But man, its like smth out of the prewar from fallout, it also has a cozyness to it. would live in honestly
that first house could have looked ok if they went all in on the idea. Go half the house traditional, then half the modern block. Doing it in thirds with the modern in the middle made it look like poo
8:14 i think that’s the best interior I’ve ever seen
Love 70s stuff
9:20 I cant be the only one that noticed that right? left side of the screen lol wtf
The trouble with painting your bricks grey isn't so much how it looks now, its then when you do it you can never go back to brick.
Hello memulous. Your videos are the best. Your videos make me happy through the times where I struggle to be. Thank you for making my day
The new Notre Damme is what the old Notre Damme would have looked like when it was new.
Gothic is a builing style meant for light, it was designed in a way to maker the cathedral full of light. most cathedrals are darker tgough because of centeries of candle ash condesing on the stone
I get replacing doors and windows on an old home for energy efficiency and to make a house less drafty. I also get updating the plumbing and electrical in a house so the house can be safer and up to code. I get bringing old houses up to code for health, safety, live ability reasons. But I don’t like it when all the charm and character are completely removed from an old house. Then again if it is not my house it is none of my business.
I do not get having adequate lighting in room like bathrooms, living rooms, dining rooms. Have u ever been I an a bathroom that has lighting but it is so dim u need a flash light to see what u are doing? Like when I see pics of homes where it looks like u need a flashlight to take a shower because there is no light in the shower even with the bathroom lights on.
George really gives of 40yo british mum vibes whenever he does the house videos
How are people so uneducated on Notre Dame😂 They restored it to the charm that it had when it was originally constructed😅 They even said that when they started the project
That last one was a crime
You can't live in the past, but you can live somewhere else? Why buy an old/historical place just to wreck it within an inch of its life, just buy a fecking modern house then!
I always find it funny when people on twitter lose their minds over the ugliest, tackiest 70s bathrooms getting ripped out.
Sameee!! Like I’m all for colorful things but I just personally can’t get behind a tacky 70s bathroom. Just looking at one makes me uncomfortable for some reason. 💀
Tudor from 1920s factually doesn't make any sense acshchually
I live in a neo Tudor house built in the early 1930s and it's just as wonky as a proper Tudor house built several centuries before it, so yeah - they don't make any sense ackchilly.
The people that put stones on their wall cause it was plain white, now it’s just a white wall with extra steps
11:25 The design was ok. A bit sparse to the left, with a tiny island. Liked the warm colours.
What I'd do is paint the walls cream, put in slightly lighter colour wooden cabinets while making use of the space to the left, with a bigger island. Renew the window if possible. Add under cabinet lighting, some spotlights above the island, and a couple of plants too. If the floor tiles are non slip then they can stay, otherwise replace with similar ones that are non slip.
What I wouldn't do, is turn it into a fake marble white abomination with a boring grey floor while removing the window that was letting all that natural light in. Leaving us in a dreary off white room of despair.
Notre Dam... I agree. The yellow lights are way more cozy and fitting (imo) than bright, modern white lights. I think it's just the lights though, nothing else, really.
It isn't the light, hundreds of years of soot was removed, the white stone underneath it was cleaned.
I think i live near the one at 8:36 but its such a common thing that i cant tell if i have just seen so many houses like that lol
5:55 the after pic looks like some building from the soviet union
It's brutalist architecture made in concrete it was popular after the war because concrete was cheap, personally i love the style
btw i live very near to that building
12:13
she's so proud
3:14 i saw that on a funky frog bait video
Those chandeliers in the kitchen ugh. They are gonna be filthy in no time! Unless they just have the kitchen for show and dont plan on using it to cook in. And all white surfaces look dirty way faster than other colours. Im with you on the need for some colour.
10:36 the new one looks like Disney did the remodel, person saying the soul is gone is entirely correct
Re the stairwell with a house so big there's no way they couldn't think of a way to knock down a wall or something to improve the layout.
Loving the daily grind George, fuelling my daily GeorgeM addiction
Im guessing Tudor style not genuine Tudor, as those are typically listed and doing that to one would be next to impossible.
Wouldnt be surprised if that first one wasnt even in the UK.
That’s my local spoons 😂😂😂😂😂
the reason people like white kitchens is if it is bright it makes people happier
I do wish people who buy these older houses, want it to look like an older house - Just clean it up a bit. Not earase it all together!
15:20 that was my submission 😭