You're 100% right, not giving you confirmation bias, all ppl can do is defy the dull trend. And light yellow and aged golden yellow are great in the right places
I blame capitalism. A house is no longer a home that you pass down the to your children. A house is now an asset that you are supposed to sell for a profit very few years. And the more bland looking an asset, the less likely it is to offend potential buyers.
5:12 I live here too; not really a thing with me with rain. No, what brings on the seasonal depression is something I'd be hit with anywhere in this latitude: the CONSTANT DISSONANCE WITH THE TIME CHANGES WROUGHT WITH DST. STOP THE MENACE OF DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!
One, i think grey is cozy, but thats just me. Two, the last housing market implosion was directly preceded by an overwhelming beigification of people's houses for resale value reasons as well. So, not a great sign.
I think the specific shade can make a big difference, there's somehow a difference between "a grey that could have been on an old house" and uh "weird clay looking modern car colour grey"
True, people see their houses as investments than as homes. I think’s the same reason the vast majority of cars are white, black, or gray. They believe to it will help make their cars more saleable. People are afraid their creativity could cost them a lot of money in the future. All the pink and yellow houses I see in my neighborhood are very old and often run down.
I thought you may have had a few more points than you did on the TikTok vids, but my god you just proved that gray feels like the favorite color of corporate homeowners associations across the board. Great point though on it being acceptable if it's alongside big ol' skeletons or the gargoyles. If we bring back gargoyles, then maybe I'll be more on board with the color.
I've seen a few houses painted grey with really vibrant trim like safety green or magenta. I think that's cool, but yeah, grey with a neutral trim is awful.
I've seen this color all over my state, it was the first color offered up when we put new siding on my house (and the cheapest) I've been joking referring to it as "gentrifier grey"
There are so many dark grey and black houses in my town, and all painted those tones in the last five years or so. I can only think that when this trend finally goes, they are all going to look so dated, like the houses that stuck yellow brick on their exteriors in the 70s and 80s.
At an apartment I used to live in, the complex next door had this really appealing earthy red brick with deep green trim color scheme. Some months before I moved out they renovated and repainted all the buildings to this awful black brick with blue trim scheme (think the Carolina Panthers jerseys)
Yeah, grey is the anti-colour colour. When I was in university in the late 1970s early 80s, I painted houses in the summer. Made OK money. I remember this one place we painted - very modern, boxy, flat roofed looking place located on top of a hill. It had a large blue square at the top front above the window. The exterior walls were recently redone in external panelling, vertical lined. The owner said he wanted it stained with beechwood stain. Seriously. Beechwood. So we went to the paint store and got I forget how many gallons of beechwood stain. My painter partner, Jimmy, and I - we both knew this was a fantastically BAD idea. We had enough stain to do the house, but we only did one wall to see how it looked. It looked like Paul Bunyan sneezed all over the wall. It was gross. We took the rest of the day off and agreed to come back at dinner time to talk to the owner. So, I went to my friend's house, drank beer, smoked a bale of weed and watched game shows with the sound off and listened to seriously deranged music. (listening to "I Pity Inanimate Objects" by Godley and Creme at full blast while watching the Price Is Right while you're baked AF is not for the weak hearted. Weak minded? Sure.) Anyway - we get back to the house and the owner arrives. He asks "how did it go?" we just said, "Follow us." We took him around the back and just pointed at the wall. "Oh. My." So, we blasted the entire house with grey primer. HE LIKED THE PRIMER. So, we got a similar colour of exterior grade finish paint and painted it grey. Like a Battleship. FUCKING HIDEOUS. The money was good, but this thing was a blight. The ugliest housepainting job I ever did.
Similar trend where I live (east coast) -- but instead of various shades of gray it's entirely white, with black roof/trim. Saw it first in strip malls but it's spreading to houses. A very "unused coloring book" look
This is absolutely dystopian. Let's not mince words. I'm pretty sure all of this drab, focus-group approved lack of color is the tag team partner of the houses that are all clones of the same boring suburban duplex that you see going on for miles and miles. I just watched a longer video on the enshittification of everything a few days ago, and yeah. I'm convinced it's by design to lull us into a stupor. Here in the 313, we had something called the Heidelberg Project that fights against this very thing.
I live in the southwest where most of the houses are made of stucco and are made vaguely in the Pueblo style, so the grey just makes it look like they had to do a patch and kept going.
6:13 Funny you mention the RPGs...remember an in-universe conspiracy theory from the Planescape days about grays being the medium thru which the yugoloths of _the _*_Gray_*_ Waste, the EVIL Evil plane,_ invoke their influence at a distance...
You're exactly right. Moved into an apartment and its builder's-grade-landlord's-special greige on the outside and patchy bad paint on the inside. I do what I can to use the interior as a backdrop to pop some really bright and colorful mid-century furniture and decor, but grey houses and greige and blandscapes are all just signs of lowest-viable-product flips and capitalism run amok. Bit of a stream of consciousness as my grey-hate took over in the end
Completely agree & can't stand the interior "Modern Penitentiary" aestethic. Soulless, depressing. Nailed it on houses being no longer homes for families to live in, but commodities to "appreciate" in value. (Even though they're not "going up", the value of our money is going down.) Especially depressing when it's a beautiful old house. Also hate the trend of BRIGHT WHITE overhead LED lights
Our neighbourhood has some fairly old houses with a nice colour variety (in fact ours _used_ to be grey but is now red!) And then one of the houses decided to partition their yard, and on that new cramped plot they built a _solid black cuboid_ It's not directly on our street but it pokes out from behind the other house like some kind of untextured minecraft mob. And supposedly the rich owners barely even live there!!!
All the grey houses I see in Switzerland are due to age, wooden exteriors that are like a hundred years old. I don't see anyone painting their houses grey, although, give it 10 to 15 years, Switzerland will hop on that Bandwagon eventually :D
@@MagdalenRose Yep, been here for over 20 years. Getting a Job here isn't easy, you have to speak at least one of the official languages fairly fluently for most people to even look at your CV.
americans are aesthetically very unadventurous for the most part, my conspiracy theory is that not having compulsory arts education like most other countries makes it harder for us to develop real taste, which also makes us better consumers. my favorite quote from my friend Ceciley was "You haven't made it in this country until people with no taste like your stuff" XD
I mean, not everyone has their own style. Most people just want to blend in, and that's why everyone is painting their houses grey. The same reason you keep seeing those ugly-ass putty-colored cars - they think if they are bland enough, the apocalypse will ignore them. It's emotional camouflage for their scared, sad souls.
Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes made of ticky-tacky Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes all the same There's a gray one and a gray one And a gray one and a grayish one And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same And the people in the houses All went to the university Where they were put in boxes And they came out all the same And there's doctors and lawyers And business executives And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same And they all play on the golf course And drink their martinis dry And they all have pretty children And the children go to school And the children go to summer camp And then to the university Where they are put in boxes And they come out all the same And the boys go into business And marry and raise a family In boxes made of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same There's a gray one and a gray one And a gray one and a grayish one And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same
Gray houses look like absolute dog water. I'd never in a million YEARS paint my house like that. 🤢 Light grey as an accent shade is acceptable, but that would be it. I need pops of color in my life, or I'll die. 🌈
You're 100% right, not giving you confirmation bias, all ppl can do is defy the dull trend. And light yellow and aged golden yellow are great in the right places
I blame capitalism. A house is no longer a home that you pass down the to your children. A house is now an asset that you are supposed to sell for a profit very few years. And the more bland looking an asset, the less likely it is to offend potential buyers.
so angry i messed up the timing of the graphics XD
5:12 I live here too; not really a thing with me with rain. No, what brings on the seasonal depression is something I'd be hit with anywhere in this latitude: the CONSTANT DISSONANCE WITH THE TIME CHANGES WROUGHT WITH DST. STOP THE MENACE OF DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!
One, i think grey is cozy, but thats just me. Two, the last housing market implosion was directly preceded by an overwhelming beigification of people's houses for resale value reasons as well. So, not a great sign.
I think the specific shade can make a big difference, there's somehow a difference between "a grey that could have been on an old house" and uh "weird clay looking modern car colour grey"
True, people see their houses as investments than as homes. I think’s the same reason the vast majority of cars are white, black, or gray. They believe to it will help make their cars more saleable. People are afraid their creativity could cost them a lot of money in the future. All the pink and yellow houses I see in my neighborhood are very old and often run down.
I thought you may have had a few more points than you did on the TikTok vids, but my god you just proved that gray feels like the favorite color of corporate homeowners associations across the board. Great point though on it being acceptable if it's alongside big ol' skeletons or the gargoyles. If we bring back gargoyles, then maybe I'll be more on board with the color.
BBG : Bring Back Gargoyles 😎
I've seen a few houses painted grey with really vibrant trim like safety green or magenta. I think that's cool, but yeah, grey with a neutral trim is awful.
I've seen this color all over my state, it was the first color offered up when we put new siding on my house (and the cheapest) I've been joking referring to it as "gentrifier grey"
There are so many dark grey and black houses in my town, and all painted those tones in the last five years or so. I can only think that when this trend finally goes, they are all going to look so dated, like the houses that stuck yellow brick on their exteriors in the 70s and 80s.
Goths like things that look old so there will probably always be a market for them.
Thank goodness we live in mostly brick homes in my area. Our bricks still have a nice variety of colors. Or different shades of orange and brown.
At an apartment I used to live in, the complex next door had this really appealing earthy red brick with deep green trim color scheme. Some months before I moved out they renovated and repainted all the buildings to this awful black brick with blue trim scheme (think the Carolina Panthers jerseys)
Yeah, grey is the anti-colour colour. When I was in university in the late 1970s early 80s, I painted houses in the summer. Made OK money. I remember this one place we painted - very modern, boxy, flat roofed looking place located on top of a hill. It had a large blue square at the top front above the window. The exterior walls were recently redone in external panelling, vertical lined. The owner said he wanted it stained with beechwood stain. Seriously. Beechwood. So we went to the paint store and got I forget how many gallons of beechwood stain. My painter partner, Jimmy, and I - we both knew this was a fantastically BAD idea. We had enough stain to do the house, but we only did one wall to see how it looked. It looked like Paul Bunyan sneezed all over the wall. It was gross. We took the rest of the day off and agreed to come back at dinner time to talk to the owner. So, I went to my friend's house, drank beer, smoked a bale of weed and watched game shows with the sound off and listened to seriously deranged music. (listening to "I Pity Inanimate Objects" by Godley and Creme at full blast while watching the Price Is Right while you're baked AF is not for the weak hearted. Weak minded? Sure.) Anyway - we get back to the house and the owner arrives. He asks "how did it go?" we just said, "Follow us." We took him around the back and just pointed at the wall.
"Oh. My."
So, we blasted the entire house with grey primer. HE LIKED THE PRIMER. So, we got a similar colour of exterior grade finish paint and painted it grey. Like a Battleship. FUCKING HIDEOUS. The money was good, but this thing was a blight. The ugliest housepainting job I ever did.
Similar trend where I live (east coast) -- but instead of various shades of gray it's entirely white, with black roof/trim. Saw it first in strip malls but it's spreading to houses. A very "unused coloring book" look
This is absolutely dystopian. Let's not mince words.
I'm pretty sure all of this drab, focus-group approved lack of color is the tag team partner of the houses that are all clones of the same boring suburban duplex that you see going on for miles and miles.
I just watched a longer video on the enshittification of everything a few days ago, and yeah. I'm convinced it's by design to lull us into a stupor.
Here in the 313, we had something called the Heidelberg Project that fights against this very thing.
We could have Star Trek and they're trying to give us East Germany 😭
@@MagdalenRose Is it sad that my first thought was "We gotta go through WW3 first to get to Star Trek"?
I live in the southwest where most of the houses are made of stucco and are made vaguely in the Pueblo style, so the grey just makes it look like they had to do a patch and kept going.
6:13 Funny you mention the RPGs...remember an in-universe conspiracy theory from the Planescape days about grays being the medium thru which the yugoloths of _the _*_Gray_*_ Waste, the EVIL Evil plane,_ invoke their influence at a distance...
This is the only explanation
I’ve never agreed with a video more in my entire life
You're exactly right. Moved into an apartment and its builder's-grade-landlord's-special greige on the outside and patchy bad paint on the inside. I do what I can to use the interior as a backdrop to pop some really bright and colorful mid-century furniture and decor, but grey houses and greige and blandscapes are all just signs of lowest-viable-product flips and capitalism run amok.
Bit of a stream of consciousness as my grey-hate took over in the end
I live in a blandscape myself. It sucks 🥲
Where I live bright yellow houses is the trend and I hate it, my goth soul longs for the gray trend to reach my area.
you're right and you should say it #engagement
Same with cars. Why would you pay $50,000 for a primer grey car? A glossy primer grey car?
Completely agree & can't stand the interior "Modern Penitentiary" aestethic. Soulless, depressing. Nailed it on houses being no longer homes for families to live in, but commodities to "appreciate" in value. (Even though they're not "going up", the value of our money is going down.) Especially depressing when it's a beautiful old house. Also hate the trend of BRIGHT WHITE overhead LED lights
Our neighbourhood has some fairly old houses with a nice colour variety (in fact ours _used_ to be grey but is now red!)
And then one of the houses decided to partition their yard, and on that new cramped plot they built a _solid black cuboid_
It's not directly on our street but it pokes out from behind the other house like some kind of untextured minecraft mob. And supposedly the rich owners barely even live there!!!
All the grey houses I see in Switzerland are due to age, wooden exteriors that are like a hundred years old. I don't see anyone painting their houses grey, although, give it 10 to 15 years, Switzerland will hop on that Bandwagon eventually :D
Bro you live in Switzerland?? That's so cool! I applied for a job there once hoping to escape America 😅
@@MagdalenRose Yep, been here for over 20 years. Getting a Job here isn't easy, you have to speak at least one of the official languages fairly fluently for most people to even look at your CV.
americans are aesthetically very unadventurous for the most part, my conspiracy theory is that not having compulsory arts education like most other countries makes it harder for us to develop real taste, which also makes us better consumers. my favorite quote from my friend Ceciley was "You haven't made it in this country until people with no taste like your stuff" XD
I mean, not everyone has their own style. Most people just want to blend in, and that's why everyone is painting their houses grey. The same reason you keep seeing those ugly-ass putty-colored cars - they think if they are bland enough, the apocalypse will ignore them. It's emotional camouflage for their scared, sad souls.
No shit, I nearly t-boned one of those putty cars the other day because it blended in completely with the background. 😳
neoliberalism did this
You're not even wrong but that's another video 😉
Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky
Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes all the same
There's a gray one and a gray one
And a gray one and a grayish one
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same
And the people in the houses
All went to the university
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same
And there's doctors and lawyers
And business executives
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same
And they all play on the golf course
And drink their martinis dry
And they all have pretty children
And the children go to school
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university
Where they are put in boxes
And they come out all the same
And the boys go into business
And marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same
There's a gray one and a gray one
And a gray one and a grayish one
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same
Gray houses look like absolute dog water. I'd never in a million YEARS paint my house like that. 🤢
Light grey as an accent shade is acceptable, but that would be it. I need pops of color in my life, or I'll die. 🌈