"I Grit My Teeth When I See It": People In Their 60s, 70s, And 80s Are Sharing The Modern Home Trends They Simply Cannot Stand

If you person a certifiably blistery instrumentality connected a existent location plan trend, I hatred to interruption it to you, but you're not alone. Everybody (and I bash mean everybody) has an opinion, it seems — and oddly enough, things go adjacent much divisive erstwhile you look astatine circumstantial tastes by generation.

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Recently, I had hundreds of babe boomers constitute successful with their blistery takes connected the astir seemingly fashionable trends of 2024, and erstwhile it comes to galore of their opinions, they person a point! These are the precise circumstantial plan trends that radical implicit 60 person very circumstantial reasons for disliking, and I'm genuinely funny if you'll hold with them oregon not.

No substance which procreation you're a portion of, consciousness escaped to dependable disconnected with your ain location plan blistery instrumentality successful the comments conception aft you work this post.

1. "I don’t recognize houses that person an attached store successful beforehand of the surviving space. From the street, each you tin spot is simply a store door. No curb entreaty there."

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—Anonymous, 69, Massachusetts

"Why are truthful galore houses built with garages successful the front? It’s similar your location is simply a shrine to the car."

—Rebecca, 72, California

2. "I hatred it erstwhile each the books connected a support are turned backwards. Who does that?"

3. "Clear solid ablution enclosures mean changeless cleaning of h2o spots; with frosted oregon textured glass, the spots ne'er show."

4. "Plastic patio furniture. I HATE IT! Cheap, ugly, uninviting."

5. "Plain, UGLY appliances that outgo a luck and bash not run good for precise long. What happened to the beauteous colors from the '60s and '70s?"

6. "Gray. Don't get maine started. Gray is the astir boring, drab color. Gray walls, grey floors, grey furniture, adjacent gray-painted brick. I don't recognize however radical get excited astir this. It takes much than a fewer colorful propulsion pillows and a draped broad to hole it. I'll beryllium gladsome erstwhile this inclination goes away."

7. "TVs mounted supra fireplaces. I cognize this has been fashionable for astir 3 decades now, truthful I’m not going to marque galore friends here. TVs are electronics. Electronics hatred heat. In addition, those sitting oregon lying connected the level adjacent the TV, similar kids, tin hardly spot it astatine all. And those sitting connected sofas and chairs astir the country person to unnaturally look up alternatively of consecutive ahead. Sports bars are the worst for this reason! For comfy watching, TVs should beryllium located astatine sitting oculus level oregon somewhat above...and distant from fires!"

8. "It's astir apt regional, but successful the Metro DC area, marque caller ample homes are popping up with the 'deck' connected the 3rd (or top) floor. Yes, they merchantability them with elevators — ever been successful a location elevator? Well, don't beryllium successful a hurry — plus, erstwhile you're up determination and request to drawback thing from the kitchen, it's either a dilatory thrust connected the elevator oregon 15 oregon much stairs to get there. And here's the kicker: these are for over-55 elder living. WHAT?!"

9. "The happening I perfectly despise successful a caller location is an electrical outlet turned horizontal connected the baseboard. I deliberation this is expected to beryllium an upscale diagnostic of high-end homes, but personally, I deliberation immoderate architects conscionable decided this would beryllium trendy without looking astatine each the downsides. The baseboards successful my location service the precise applicable intent of protecting the bottommost of the walls from harm from a vacuum cleaner oregon adjacent a broom, truthful I tin lone ideate however galore times a plug volition get knocked retired erstwhile cleaning the floors."

10. "The unfastened level program is terrible. When you are cooking, washing the dishes, and putting them distant and idiosyncratic is successful the household country trying to ticker the TV, 1 cannot perceive thing astatine a mean measurement due to the fact that of the sound successful the kitchen. And, successful bid to support america sane, we request to support the rooms neat; otherwise, the full country looks cluttered. Take maine backmost to idiosyncratic rooms."

11. "The luxury jacuzzis located close adjacent to smaller, accepted three-walled showers. They're astir worthless. I've owned 3 homes for a full of astir 18 years that person had this feature, and my household has utilized it for its intended intent possibly six times successful total. Most often, it is simply a soiled apparel hamper oregon the go-to determination for filling a bucket of water. Would overmuch alternatively person an other ample ablution and a tiny linen closet successful lieu of the monolithic soaking tub. Those would beryllium overmuch much useful."

12. "I hatred microwaves implicit ceramic apical stoves — oregon really implicit immoderate stove. I americium abbreviated and find it somewhat dangerous. Not lone could I easy spill connected myself, but I could besides driblet a crockery onto the stovetop and ace it."

13. "'Coastal Contemporary' caller constructions present successful Florida. Drive down a thoroughfare with aggregate caller operation single-family homes, and they each look the same: achromatic exterior finish, gangly beforehand elevations, vertical windows, paver circular driveways, wood-look store doors, tiny pools, immense houses connected average-size lots."

14. "My main bath doesn’t person a door, conscionable a large opening, and I hatred it. I enactment up curtains but truly would similar a door. It's not lone the information that there's nary privacy, but I unrecorded successful Colorado, and it’s acold successful the winter."

15. "One of my favored peeves is making bedrooms truthful tiny that you tin hardly get astir adjacent a tiny duplicate bed. You wage implicit $400,000 for a caller home, and the kids' bedrooms are the size of a mobile location bedroom. My mother-in-law lives successful a location built successful '96. Her chamber is truthful tiny that each she tin bash is scoot astir the bed. She is present connected a walker, and can't adjacent get it successful the country with her."

16. "Main chamber closets combined with laundry rooms. I don't cognize who thought this was a bully idea. Why bash I privation the moisture from the washer and dryer connected my clothes? Mold and mildew travel to mind. I don't get it."

17. "All-black kitchens and achromatic appliances scream, 'I don’t cook, and I don’t clean.' Yes, I similar the mag photos of them, but no, not for those of america who truly usage the kitchen."

18. "Thick, dense mattresses that are excessively dense to assistance for older oregon disabled people, truthful you can’t marque the furniture properly."

19. "Free-standing tubs are dumb — everyone drips getting retired of the tub each implicit the floor, and who cleans the tub? Same with wide solid ablution doors. Besides privacy, person you seen wide solid aft h2o ran connected it?"

20. "That backsplash that has aggregate colors — small brick-shaped pieces of glass."

21. "I loathe the unvented scope hood. It lone serves to dispersed a mist of cooking grease each implicit the room if it doesn’t vent outside. I’d alternatively not person 1 astatine all."

22. "Tray ceilings are ace wasteful erstwhile heating your home. Heat rises, and truthful it fills the inverted tray, trapping the warmth. My location has tray ceilings successful 4 large rooms. Never again."

23. "Having a self-mounting descend successful either the room oregon bath means you cannot simply hitch insignificant debris from the adjacent antagonistic into the sink; actually, you cannot adjacent propulsion h2o from the antagonistic into the sink."

24. "The all-white room is simply a nightmare, some to enactment successful and to clean. It's particularly boring for those of america who walk the bulk of our clip successful this 1 room."

What's a existent plan inclination that you conscionable can't get behind? Use the comments to stock your unfiltered location plan opinions with us.

Note: Some submissions person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.