This is why you need a good friend who is not afraid to tell you you have bad taste lol.
Imagine spending 15,000 dollars to not have a dishwasher. That kitchen is trash even if you don’t account for the color scheme. I don’t even see a way to plug in appliances.
Am I wrong or are the cabinets way too low? How would you even fit a dish rack with dishes on the counter?
There’s a single double-socket outlet a little to the left of the sink! Good luck :3
Probably not even GFCI lol
I love purple but I would hate this kitchen.
My living room walls are purple but less intense than this and offset with blues and off-white. You have to be careful with purple. It gets overwhelming quick.
lol what a waste of money.
Ok but it’s hideous and I love it. I’m the one they’re trying to sell to apparently.
Fr, was super confused/surprised to see all the comments agreeing that it sucked. I saw it and immediately wanted it.
Ah, I understood immediately how ugly it was. It’s my kind of ugly and I’d never tire of it, but I understand. Purple is a lot, especially such a bold purple.
Someone was really into Saints Row 2.
Would probably change the cabinets to a lighter color but I love it.
Not sure about others but I like this color scheme
Well they can always take solace in the fact that kitchen would be an interesting place to do mushrooms.
I like it tho. Purple is a rare color.
I kind of like it too. When I was 12 my parents asked what colour I wanted my bedroom painted. “Purple.” They painted it off-white. I’m over 70 now and still have never had a purple room. My kitchen is pale grey ffs.
Off to look at paint charts …
Do it. Do it now.
Bro you’re 70, paint that shit whatever you want and when you die in that house it’s the next owners problem not yours. It’s not an investment at your stage like it is people in their 30s painting everything white or grey so they don’t offend future buyers.
The thing is though, I might want to sell before I die. I’ve got a good 20 years in me!
Okay this is sick as fuck, though. I wouldn’t pay for it but it’s sweet.
Pretty sure the text in the image is satire
Perhaps. I’m honestly not sure how this kitchen could have cost anywhere near 15 grand. The cabinets are all just repainted and the stove doesn’t look particularly extravagant.
Maybe if the floor is real marble/granite?
Pretty sure it’s poured resin or the like…
Could have worked if the purple was SO MUCH DARKER but they went with probably the worst shade imaginable.
A pastel purple would have worked well too.
I like the purple but that’s some cheap ass tile on the backsplash
Yeah, like I said here, the problem isn’t that they went too far, it’s that they didn’t go far enough.
If you’re gonna go extravagant, don’t stop halfway.
Honestly I love that kitchen.
Silence is violets
I wish I could do original things with my gaff but you gotta be conservative because housing is a commodity.
If you’re gonna go for the unusual, you have to fully commit to it. Don’t stop halfway, because it’s gonna be cringe. But if you go all the way, they will call it art, and they’ll pay you multiple times over what you paid for it.
With art, there is an inverse relationship between the number of people who will buy it and how much they’ll pay for it. Art everyone wants is cheap, niche art is expensive.
If you go full send, you can charge more if the stars align and you can find a buyer.
Well, to bring it back to the OP, the problem here is they clearly didn’t go full send. It’s definitely tacky, but not tacky enough. How about some gold fixtures and doorknobs? What’s up with that hideous tiling behind the stove? Why is there a regular old ceiling light and not a friggin’ Svarovski chandelier? Spend another 15 grand on those and you might find someone who’s willing (and high enough) to pay you 20% over ask.
It’s gonna be drug money, but they’ll pay.
What I’m saying is that it’s a tradeoff. The fuller the send, the harder it is to find a buyer, but the more they’ll pay.
Conversely, the emptier(???) the send, the more buyers will be interested, but the less you can charge.
I think going tackier would let them charge more if they found a buyer, but it would make it even less likely to find a buyer. This is already a full enough send the they’re struggling to find anyone interested, send it any harder and there would be no chance.
Yes, but that sorta implies that it’s a linear relationship, which it likely isn’t.
I’m thinking it’s probably more like the uncanny valley, with a trough in the middle where your send is neither full enough nor standard enough to find ANY buyers at all. Then again, there were quite a few commenters here who said they love it so perhaps I’m wrong about that.
We’re both just speculating here. I’d be interested if anyone has done any studies on this, I doubt it. Not really something useful for society.
I was basing my speculation off of the very little I’ve learned about the sale of art (paintings, etc) where art with a broad appeal doesn’t go for much, but niche art will sell for much more if you can find a buyer. But I’m sure there are depths to that of which I’m completely unaware, and I’m sure it can’t just be applied to home renos just like that. I just get a gut feeling that there are some parallels.
Well, yes. The Wikipedia article I linked does indeed say that this is a hypothesis, which means it hasn’t been conclusively proven yet. But it does also list a number of reasons that lead to this hypothesis being proposed, and there’s a long-ish paragraph on the research that has been done on it. But yes, as long as it’s a hypothesis, it’s still in the realm of speculation.
It seems however that your experience does somewhat back that up, judging by the “if you can find a buyer”. Basically, what I’m saying is, that if depends on or determines whether an artwork falls into the uncanny valley. If you can find one, it was on the other side of it. If you can’t, then it was in it.
Basically, picture the graph from that article, but instead of “human likeness”, we label the x-axis “artistic appeal”, and the y-axis “amount sold for”. Get rid of the dotted line, and on the solid line we replace “stuffed animal” with “broad appeal” and “corpse” with “niche appeal that doesn’t sell”, and the far end of it we label “niche appeal that DOES sell” and place it much higher up, to where “healthy person” is. Hope that makes sense.
