Also, the tree-branch-shaped stickers above the fireplace made the fireplace look like a big tree trunk!!! The stickers were the leaves and highest branches of the tree... it actually could have looked magical if you would sit in front of it on a cozy night! And they removed it :''')))) This is how I know this is rage content and not genuine DIY/decor/renovation advice or just aesthetics or whatever, because there AIN'T no way you don't recognize that. You don't have to have studied design or engineering, it screams in your face - especially that the bathroom door was covered in a wallpaper bouquet of plants too. These people LOVED trees and greens that's why they had a huge garden and a little green-house-effect patio ffs!!
That always makes me so mad. People who can’t differentiate decades (ESPECIALLY when they conflate ‘80s with ‘70s and ‘90s. STOP PUTTING FLARED JEANS IN YOUR EIGHTIES INSPIRATION BOARDS!) make me SO upset. They say they love retro and then they can’t even differentiate the decades.
I don't even care what the fixture looks like she took out a CEILING FAN and didn't put a ceiling fan back in. THIS HOUSE IS IN FLORIDA. Jarvis had a good point about the things on the windows. The old owners had that stuff there and a ceiling fan for a reason 😂 I have a feeling the house flippers are not from Florida or don't care about the future buyers at least! @@ambiarock590
More especially in South Florida. When my sister and family first moved to Florida, they bought a house with no pool. Never had a pool before and didn't think it was a big deal. Well, it wasn't long before they sold and bought a house with a pool.
I bought a house and later found out it used to have a pool 😂. Sad times lol but they are also expensive to upkeep and I don’t live in an area where I could use it all year round anyway so not a huge deal.
My sister has a nice in ground pool and is thinking about filling it in, because it needs a plumbing repair. I'm pretty sure the cost to fill it in will be near the cost of the plumbing repair.
As an artist, what they did to that “artist studio” was so frustrating. You got rid of those beautiful and very useful shelves for an artist and replaced it with some commercial looking graphic. It’s like saying “this is the kind of art we think you should have” to an artist. The first thing I do would be to paint over that if I bought that house.
Yea that was so fucking weird they really think putting that new port richey mural on the wall is going to up the value of the home? I’d paint right over that shit WTF
The thing that frustrates me the most about it is that it doesn’t make use of the rest of the wall-space. It’s difficult for me to explain. It’s just such an awkward shape and awkward spot for it to fit. It really does just look like a sticker or something…
Agree. Let the people who want to live there decide what their house want to look like. It will make the house a more meaningful home for them. Plus whoever buying the house will know that the interior will be on the Internet for people to see and some people might find that uncomfortable. I cry for the fireplace. Not sure if their decision is reversible.
There are no “deals” in the current housing market. Someone buying the house to fix it up and sell it is completely fine, but that person should be a trained licensed contractor and there should be proper documentation and inspections on all work done.
@@FerociousPancake888 Yeah, so let's all LET people raise the price of the already expensive houses! YAY! Flippers are fucking over the housing market. Houses that are completely fine should be UNTOUCHED by anyone unless they wanna LIVE IN IT.
Everyone loves to rage at house flippers and landlords when you should be raging at your government. It is entirely their fault the western world is in a housing crisis. It is the government's damn job to regulate the market, not random upper middle class people. These house flippers are obviously idiots, but if there were more regulations it wouldn't be profitable, or necessary, to do so.
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 totally agree, there's a lot of really charming craftsman homes where I live and people are ripping them up all the time, they're more and more rare every year. Right now the one across the street is getting gutted and the one two doors down was totally demolished so the owners could have a new build - the old build was in great condition, too. It makes me really sad, mine is the same age, but one of my family members let it go for a while so it's not in good condition. No one values classic things.
@@kateh2893 I disagree in one way. I think most people value classic things, there is however a minority who have money and sledgehammers and are all too willing to destroy in the pursuit of profit. Or the turkey teeth types with peaky blinders painting on the wall and render the entire house get black windows and put a Fort Knox's gate on the front of a 3 bed semi detached
"Little area perfect for koi fish" NO. That is WAY TOO SMALL for koi carp. I even dare to say it's too small for goldfish. The greenhouse could have been for tropical plants or an indoor pond. What a waste
I’m glad you mentioned goldfish as well, because I wonder if they MEANT goldfish. There’s plenty of goldfish that have an elongated body with white and orange splotches…a me I always thing “oh that’s a koi” until I look a little longer
Trigger… A stupid ex friend of mine once made me buy a bunch of goldfish for her wedding centerpieces because she saw it in a magazine, but of course this was on a dime store budget (plus the pet store employees were high on paint thinner or something because I asked for a bigger bag and they promised it was all good) and the poor fishes were all dead the next morning, except for one. Spike lived a long and happy life. The narcissist fish-murderer is on her third marriage now I think.
Wait ...they renovated a 70s house in the 70s theme and changed the 70s house that was already there to make their own wrong version of what the 70s looked like?
ur actually right. Something abt this whole premise was confusing me and it’s this. The house is from the 70s already, what are they trying to 70ify???
The original fireplace was very 1970s, not a cute 1970s, but the home repair and decor around it would make it less of an eyesore and a more a part of the design scheme. Now with the beam, it's less 1970s nostalgia and more Beowulf banquet hall.
"So, we bought this 70's house to make it more into a 70s house!!" Proceeds to LITERALLY remove all sings of it being a 70s house. Talking about "leaning into the 70s charm" then doing the exact opposite is one of the true reasons why they SHOULD get bullied off of the housing market. They have no idea what they're doing and they are documenting it for proof. They most likely just look all over Pinterest and go "Oh, we could do that one!" then do it in the cheapest way possible. Disgusting.
Thats what i was thinking! You cannot say that you “just love 70s interior design so much” and then turn around and destroy any trace of funky wallapaper
Yeah like they wanted to make the fireplace “cottagecore” which is a MODERN aesthetic trend. Then they put the mural that looks like it belongs in a tourist trap inside the studio room. None of these choices remotely feel 70s inspired
Master Carpenter's daughter here: DO NOT hire anyone that flippers recommend, ESPECIALLY if it's for an inspector! They will straight up lie to you about the condition of the house bc their flipper buddies will pay them to do so. Also, make sure any work is done by a licenced and bonded contractor, landscaper, etc. Good luck!
The office I worked for had an inspector who would provide a clean inspection report for an extra $45 but he’d still give the buyer the actual full report and have them sign a hold harmless - some types of mortgages require a clear report in order to close - it was never anything structural, just little wood rot issues here and there that would interfere with closing and he made sure the buyer had full knowledge and usually they planned to fix it themselves after moving in.
@@krystal6137 Krystal, do you know what that's called? Fraud. That is some bs right there. You also don't know how much wood rot (or whatever else) is there until you actually start to remove it. All that has to be done is the buyer and seller both sign an addendum stating they are both aware and the buyer agrees to hold harmless and fix themselves after buying. Dude, I'm kinda surprised how casual you are about it.
That is an ancient technique and it just looks like that lol. In Europe (France specifically) that type of wall is very common and it just looks like that, imo it doesn’t even look that bad in the video so I don’t know what everyone is complaining about.
@@Aaaaaaarrrpirate But it does look bad... They did a bad job it's just that simple. All that fireplace needed was a little polishing and they just kind of ruined it.
Thank you for confirming to me that the reason it looks so wrong is because of the asymmetric shapes of the stones compared to the real German smear works 🥲
I'm living in Germany and I had to google what their "german smear" technique shall be because I have never seen something like their fireplace in new or historic buildings. It looks so completely different!
As an artist myself, that mural in the studio is getting painted over, it infuriates me. Who thought "New Port Richey" was a good idea? Like, just do plants, just do plants. Do some Bird of Paradise flowers, do a hummingbird, do plants, no need for weird ass text. And you moved that BEAUTIFUL SHELVING TO THE GARAGE??? I would fukin DIE to have shelving like that in a studio space!!! These people have no idea what they're actually doing. Like they don't think practically at all
You said exactly what I was thinking on all parts but I'm especially baffled that as people who post on social media so much they seem completely unaware of how cringy people generally find text on interior decoration even if it doesn't say "live, laugh love".
Removing beautifull, functional storage/display space in a studio is a cardinal sin in my book. Now any person that moves in WANTING to use that space as a studio will have to put up some other storage option, likely covering the mural.
The mural that says the name of the town is so obviously for an Airbnb. For people to take photos in front of to post where they are. It's so frustrating
Whaaaat? You mean *everyone* doesn't have the name of their town just plastered on their house somewhere? (Seriously, you right though. That seems like such a tourist attraction thing to do.)
Yes plastic that doesn't biodegrade and is notoriously difficult to recycle and reuse is better than that stinky heavy WOODEN BEAM. I hate house flippers
Same, especially when they destroy things that could have been easily recycled in favor of something worse then use "the environment" as an excuse when we all really know it's just for aesthetic.
Why did they even slab it over with concrete???? What is the buyer going to do with that??????? If it was left as dirt the buyer could decide what they wanted to do. Same with the mural. Why do these things that cost extra money??????? You are not the one living in the house, leave some things up to the buyer!!
Yeah, a greenhouse in Florida is very different from the outside. It is way hotter here than the rest of the United States, so you can’t grow a lot of things outside because they die. My family’s outdoor garden is limited to what won’t die in the heat here. A greenhouse can be temperature regulated for things that won’t survive outside
@@PointsofData literally all that thing needed was a rented tiller to un-compact that dirt and a little elbow grease I'm so pissed off lmao. Concrete over a fuckin greenhouse I can't believe these ppl I genuinely HATE flippers. capitalists suck the soul out of everything they touch
@@m_here1 Yeah, there's a lot about this take that I don't understand. Greenhouses are most useful in climates where you can't grow things outside year round. They let you start seeds indoors early to get them out and planted as soon as it's warm enough. And they usually don't have dirt floors, because you're not planting things in the ground. And big glass houses are hot as heck. I don't actually know WHAT you could do with that space in Florida. I wouldn't want to swim in a pool in there either.
What frustrates me the most about flippers is that they often do irreparable damage to the house, that looks looks like an upgrade at a first glance but after further inspection it turns out to be just putting makeup on a corpse. Like in the full video about the swimming pool they say that renovating it was too expensive, so they put literal tons of concrete over it and now if the buyer of the house actually wanted a swimming pool they would have to first invest thousands of dollars into removing the concrete. Literally giving the house the opposite of what it needs.
I would freakin love a swimming pool in my house. Shame they poured concrete all over it, painted a touristy mural on the wall, and moved the artsy shelves into a place where they can get damaged
I think that may be one of the points, make it so $$$ for average individuals that there’s no choice unless it’s sold to a corporation to “do the right thing and make repairs”. So it’s just an unflattering hostile cage that makes people want to sell for what they believe is a lot of $$$.
its a weird assumption to make "yeah nobody would want a swimming pool, lets clog it up". Something like a pool doesn't need to be flipped or removed, that is an option for the buyer to make
The thing is, if they were doing this do their house - I would say no one has the right to critique them taste wise. Someone wants a roofbeam but for any reason don’t want the real wood, it’s suppose to be purely aesthetic? Go off, do the foam one if u like it it’s your home. But if I went in, saw that and thought that it’s a house with a roof beam and then either found out or was told it’s just a foam for esthetics… man I’m walking off and not looking back. It’s unnecessary, unneeded and actually makes more work for new homeowners. The reason ppl buy “neutral” houses is that it’s the easiest to customize to u. If u want to make a house with character just leave the original character in! Fix the real issues for god sake. Again, if they would do it to their home, it would be fine. Do it. U like it u live in it, all good. But renovating something to their tastes, and asking bigger price for home that has fake purely aesthetic fixes is just scummy man… cos u know that in 99% of cases u would be putting more money in that house to change or fix some stuff after u buy it. That’s just off putting.
I think what makes everyone so upset is that we’re all broke and can’t afford a nice house yet wealthier people will come out and buy houses with lots of charm and character and do THIS to them
its not just that its also that theyre kind of scamming people, theyre basically trying to trick someone into buying a house thats shittier than they realize. doing everything cheaply which will probobly cause the person living there problems down the line.
@@BlisaBLisa ^^^^ the foam beam alone is a safety hazard when you consider the fact that they put a ceiling light on it, meaning they more than likely ran _electrical wires_ through _foam._
@@owl7072 god yeah. i also cant imagine the light fixture is very secure lol. theres a ton of shit in engineering you arent supposed to do that isnt intuitive (like apparently you shouldnt paint brick because it traps a lot of moisture and will erode the whole buildings structural integrity) and i dont think these people can be trusted to not create safety hazards or future expensive problems lol
YES! Your comment hits the fucking nail square on its head (please excuse my pun). I've seen a lot of people say stuff along similar lines where if you don't like the look of an older home that has a specific charm to it, then don't fucking buy that house! Buy a modern one that fulfills your wanted aesthetics instead of ruining the personality of an older home!!
Love the point about how Floridians want to leave the house darker - it's a great example of how house flippers can completely misunderstand local needs and hurt the housing market. I live in Houston and SO many house flippers neglect flood mitigation, causing more damage because of their misinformation.
man its almost like they just wanna spruce up a house in the cheapest quickest way. considering risks like floods, hurricanes, tornadoes takes too much time!!
So true. Previous homes many times (not every time lol) were built for florida life. Now they're getting flipped for the broadest possible audience and the *feeling* of new but pretty much go against comfort in the local environment.
i’m in coastal mississippi and we have a bunch of people severely injured because of elevators for homes on stilts. the salt degrades them terribly and no one comes around to maintain them.
when I lived in Florida, my family and I lived in the fuckin dark, we had to or else we'd boil alive, seeing the blockades removed had me spiritually feel the house temp raise a few degrees
Our house was “DIY’d” by the previous owners and it was awful. We had to replace the toilets because the lids were glued shut with liquid cement, there were tiles layered on top of other tiles, the electrical box was hidden behind the wall. Y’know, the switch we’d need to flip if there was an electrical fire or something. They put it BEHIND THE WALL! If you can’t do it, don’t. Also, house flippers are ruining the housing market and contributing to the cost of living crisis an insane amount. Literally, house flippers and landlords are killing the economy.
In my house i rent right now Its an Illegally converted Duplex (They put up a sheet of drywall in the middle of the hall way to divide the house not only the the Main electrical Panel Partially blocked By the hood fan and Cabients and your literally cooking right next to it but there is Wire ran not even the walls as there 14/3 Lumex wire running in front of my front door covered by a Plastic track and bolted down with Wood screws into the Flooring.
To be fair tiles on top of tiles is not that unusual, depending on how the tiles were laid, my house had tiles laid in cement but they were cracked and broken and it was much cheaper to tile over them. The rest of that though, that’s just awful lmao
i. ‘the artists studio was lacking the art’ YEAH BC THERE ISNT CURRENTLY AN ARTIST IN IT?? TF 😭 like as an artist i would never want an art studio with some random persons art on the wall whatttttttt
"Taking this fireplace from Hobbit Core to Cottage Core" is already a weird thing to say where I'm sitting... like, what's the difference? Is Hobbit Core just dirtier? Interior-wise, a Hobbit hole just looks like a very tidy cottage. Hobbits aren't like gremlins, they're not filthy mud-people, they're just tiny people who eat a lot. Their houses happen to be called "holes" because they're built into little hillsides, but Hobbits themselves are basically Irish-coded.
There's actually really nothing different, just the only difference I noticed is like cottage core architecture is more centered around more old European styles or like Colonial styles (like Tudor type homes) whereas Hobbit core is more centered around circles. Circle doors, entryways, etc. Like that's it. If you wanna be dirtier that's gremlin/goblin-core or crow-core. There's another 'core' I'm forgetting the name of that's like, in between these two but like in the same vein. You get the idea tho
Using foam is not recycling. You can literally get recycled wood that would’ve given them the same look that they were going for instead of using foam. The recycling bit it’s such a lie. These people have no idea what they are doing.
@@MichaelJEngelmann is wood not more stable than foam Edit: I was wrong on this one. The faux beam makes more sense because it's just decorative, although it does still look weird.
@@CryingPan not in the places they were placing foam... the beam could've put stress on the roof of the house to the degree it could impact the structural integrity of the home.
This video just makes me sad, the home was so magical and inviting, it was like a beautiful place that needed the slightest progression of cleaness and growth, and these flippers are just like "this home was SO dirty, everything was wrong, so i had to rip everything out and fix it" and i can hear the home screaming
They have zero imagination and clearly don’t have the skills to do what they are doing. I feel sorry for whoever buys this and to think what they could have had. It’s a 70s house… that pool area could have been a really neat sunken seating area… or anything. They literally paved over potential
the way they said homeowners can just use the outdoor space too ... just completely ignoring all the benefits of having a controlled environment to grow plants year-round that would die or just not grow outdoors bc of the local environment
Not only did they ruin the original beauty and character of a cozy 70's home but as Jarvis pointed out they are obviously amateurs if they can't even WEAR PROPER SAFETY EQUIPMENT. Where is the protective eyewear, gloves, masks and even hardhats when it comes to exposing fiberglass and mounting things on the ceiling? If they ever injure themselves one day from inexperience and not wearing safety gear it will be 100% their fault.
its like they think structural beams are there like, just for looks? like, they serve an actual architectural purpose, they arent meant to simply look nice. it's just a happy coincidence that exposed wood beams look nice.
People shouldn't do things such as this if they aren't trained properly, hire someone to renovate the house if you can afford it. I'm saying this because our house is currently being renovated and we know it will not only be nice but it also will be safe to use those areas after it has been finished!
A wood beam that goes right into the chimney. It's like someone gluing a fuel tank door onto the door of an electric car: no concept of function, only a vague sense of aesthetic.
And they say they went with a foam beam because they couldn't physically lift a real wooden beam. It's more likely that real wooden beams of that size, in addition to being heavy, are also expensive as hell. Like a beam of that size (looks at least 8"x8"x20'), that looks good enough to leave exposed, and with the correct color/finish, could easily be $1500 if not more. Not to mention the cost of strapping hundreds of pounds of wood to your ceiling so that it doesn't come crashing down on someone's head in 5 years.
The fact that they're flipping houses in Florida which was ground zero for the 2007 housing market crash and is ground zero for the current-day housing crisis in part due to houseflippers like them who never went away makes me livid!! It is not the 1920s anymore! There is no more Florida land boom! Even in the early 2000s Florida real estate was expensive and this is only making it worse!! Go away!!
not to mention like.... you're removing the dedicated storage space from the dedicated art studio? where, y'know, an artist could store a lot of supplies for easy access and it would look cool in the meantime? no, no, put that in the garage to get covered in dust and dirt for things you'll never use....
I mean tbf it looks like that garage wall is right on the other side of the studio wall, so they could potentially still keep their art supplies there.
The most offensive thing that this couple did was not the German schmear fireplace or the fake foam beam, but that they uncovered BLACK MOLD on the porch of the same home and simply covered it up with new drywall instead of actually fixing it. Which is very dangerous to just cover up like it doesn't exist!!!!
It was in their own house. BUT if they're willing to cover up black mold in their own home, I worry about what they would hide in what they intend to sell to others...
Why did they paint a mural on a house flip? That’s a decision you let the person who is living in the home do… because it’s for them… especially if they’re an artist. Like, if you are going to make a blank space for people to project onto, actually make it a blank space? They are absolutely not doing any necessary maintenance. They’re just “updating the aesthetic” to get more money.
As a designer, white walls are perfect: it is easier to take photos, you have better control of the light, you can distinguish colors better and, of course, you have a wall to paint or use as a display.
The concrete SLAB in that beautiful sun room is just ridiculous. That one makes me the angriest. I would kill for a beautiful sun room that came with a huge garden bed. If you can’t afford to reinstate the pool because that’s expensive af, then at least leave it with the most useful feature it could have. House flippers are the worst - just as bad as land lords. Usually to fix up the “flip” it costs far more than it would have cost in its original state!
Worse is that removing concrete is intensely difficult, time consuming, and expensive to dispose/recycle. Partner and I are still scarred from removing a small sidewalk in our backyard.
right???? wtf is even the point of ADDING concrete? if they wanted it to be an open room with more possibilities, i would have understood them taking out the walls of the pool/garden bed. now there is just a narnia looking sacrificial altar in their sunroom :(
"The art studio was missing something... the art!" My brother in Christ that's because no one lives in the home yet😭 like maybe this is just me but if I can ever afford a place with a studio for myself, I would Not want someone else's art in it. It's My studio for My art yknow? If an artist ever does live there, the mural is probably gonna get covered over with a whole bunch of other shit- materials, planning sketches, inspiration, their own actual art, etc. Idk. It feels like a waste of the muralist's time and skills imo
And if an artist ever does live there, one of the first things they'll do is add a bunch of storage for all their materials, kind of like that beautiful wall of shelving they decided to hide away in the garage 🥲
If I had the money to buy a house with an art studio, and like I was REALLY serious about getting a nice studio set up, I would be so incredibly picky about any murals on the wall. Might very well be the thing that makes me go for a different house on my list. It's something I have to look at everyday afterall, and if it doesn't make me happy then...nah. 😩 I wouldn't have the money, time or skill to redo it myself so if it's not something I like I'm not going for it. And hell no it ain't a studio (yet) if there ISN'T ANY STORAGE THERE LEAVE THE SHELVING JFC.
Man if I had a giant art studio space with white walls perfect for painting my own thing only for the best wall to paint on to have it's own thing on with words on it that's clearly someone's work idk if I'd feel too bad to paint over it and allow myself the enjoyment of doing my own thing, even if it would be worse it would be my own thing tho. I don't get them saying in general putting their own 'personality' in a home they don't intend to keep and not allowing the actual owners to develop their own personality in it, even if their personality wasn't cement gardens and poop coloured doors
It's funny to me how it's framed as "harrassment" when they ASKED people what they thought, and then 'surprised Pikachu face' when people absolutely hate it.
Real estate agent here- flippers suck and most people in the real estate industry dislike them. They have almost zero understanding and knowledge of what a house renovation requires. There’s about three businesses in my area that are INFAMOUS for pulling absolute crap like painting over water damage. To the point that if I know one of the groups was involved with a house on the market I don’t show it to buyers or steer them away from it.
I was there when this happened and I can confirm that the "harassment" were people asking why they would ruin the fire place, why didn't they get someone who actually knew how to do the German smear, and qualified inspectors and folk in real estate saying "Hey, that's a fire hazard." Nor to mention everyone rightfully pointing out that nothing about what they're doing is related to the 70s, at all. Literally everything you said they would have considered harassment. Oh, the comments also mentioned another flip they did where they covered up mold in a ceiling to hide it and make it look new instead of just fettingrid of the mold and cleaning what was there.
Especially because they asked. I just stumbled upon their video of the fireplace and when they asked so I shared my thoughts. Then all of a sudden everything was harassment? What the he'll guys, talk about fragile ego
The mold renovation was on their own home, not one they were flipping. Though that does make you question the quality of their flips if that is what they think is ok for themselves.
@@athena5573 taylor swift doesn't gaf about people thinking her music is mediocre lol. the "haters" she talked about were people slutshaming her for her dating history.
to be fair there are probably people who are harassing them in DMs too which we can't see, but even then most of the anger towards them is justified even if some people likely go too far with it which is pretty much impossible to avoid on the internet now
I’m sorry but there are defo people sending them death threats, especially since people have been sent death threats for waaaay less than what she does with her husband. In this day and age of the internet, people genuinely have no boundaries and will blow up over things like this to the point of death and r word threats.
@@arsena5209 I don't think anger is the right word here, because I'm not sure if anger is justified at someone doing something with their own property if nobody is hurt by it...but I would say the piss being taken is justified.
@@cloudism4928 I mean, it was true in the old and mid days too, people just cared less and there was substantially less content creators, as well as people that legitimately had no sense of hiding their actual identity / life. I used to play Minecraft when I was 12 and this group of teenage men tried to find my address / phone number to post on 4chan because they were mad at me for a MC build lol. They could not find it, however, as I knew internet safety. At some point you really open yourself up to the entire world and that is unfortunate but I think it sort of goes without saying we should be cautious online and offline.
For the beam, there's tons of ways to get around putting a whole heavy beam up there, including but not limited to hollowing out a beam, using a lighter type of wood and staining it, using veneer over ply, etc. There's so many other options that would look so much more convincing and would be structurally safer than foam. This isn't a theatrical production, this is someone's HOME. They should've put a little more consideration into this.
And veneer is super mid century. It can break down over time but it's on the ceiling so it's not as if it will get chipped from moving around and weather degradation.
Also, yknow...I'm no house engineer but the wood probably will hold the chandelier...at all. As opposed to the foam. Which I would wager will...eventually and very suddenly not.
Yes and the foam is one of the ways to get around putting a heavy piece of wood on your ceiling. They didn’t make it themselves, it’s a product you buy for this purpose. I like it personally. Hopefully there is actual wood or some supports behind the light to give it structural integrity.
The problem is when social media gives incompetent people the audacity and false confidence to think they’re experts in something or can do something. These flippers have no clue what they’re doing (and frankly have awful aesthetic taste). They’re just creating problems for the unfortunate future owners. Sometimes you need a healthy dose of internet harassment to humble yourself.
Some do and some don't. It depends on the flipper and the house they started with. There are a lot of new constructions that are absolute garbage too. More than anything you need to make sure you have the house inspected by a quality house inspector.
@@SayaCeline this as-well develop an eye for tacky work and finishes as-well as do ur research of the property. And as a framer who has built over 15 houses for major home developers new builds can have the same issues.
My house was "flipped" but it was a good house to begin with. The owners before the "flippers" took good care of it, one died the other got put in a nursing home. All the "flippers" did in my case was paint the walls. 🤷♀️
@@Supadawg1000 idk there is a lot of legal stuff that goes with buying a house, so i'm not vehemently opposed to realtors. landlords though? yeah fuck them
Some people do have to rent. Not everyone can buy a house. Especially in this market with interest rates. A good owner and/or management company is important.
I wonder if these kinds of people are self aware in any capacity. I'm curious if they understand how shitty their actions are or if they're willing to look past it for money.
"Were taking this old fireplace from hobbit hole to cottage core" as if they're not literally the exact same thing... also the light fixture running through a foam board just SCREAMS electrical fire to me. And yes if it's all done correctly it should be safe but look at these two objectively and tell me if you think either of them is a certified electrician, for Christ's sake she's working in sandals.
Trust me when you Go and do Service calls for houses you know right way is something is a Homeowner job or done by a Professional. These Flippers are just DIYers and nothing more. No professional would ever butcher the Fireplace like that.
as an artist I wouldn't want someone else's mural in my studio space. it just doesn't make sense to me to have that. it's not even good inspo because it's so basic in style and design
As a fellow artist the only reason I'd want someone else's mural in my studio would be if it's from someone I look up to and know personally. Not the random people who sold the house to me lmao
That likely hurts the resale value as well. It’s hot in Florida, and now they have this huge slab of concrete that is going to heat up like crazy and become unusable in the summer. They would’ve gotten more money out of the house if they had restored the pool. Private pools are huge feature of a Florida home that can really increase the price because you have a way to be outside in the summer without dying in a pool of sweat. Plus, it’s fun.
yeah this house is the opposite of a flip. they WILL NOT get their money back. the house will 100% NOT SELL. anyone seeing that backyard as a giant slab of concrete inside a now useless greenhouse with a giant turd on the ceiling is going to walk away.
Same. To me the worst thing they did was fill in the pool. A pool is a great way to relax and/or get some exercise in. I'd love a pool and/or a hot tub in my house
As an artist, I can 100 percent say that in the "art studio," I would've wanted the shelves, not the artwork. Don't get me wrong I love that they paid an artist for her work but if I was going to have a studio I'd want storage space and probably art on the walls that was created by me or gave me inspiration to my specific style of art. I feel as if that choice was limiting or pointless. I can see it being painted over for a normal family or having potential buyers turn away from it because it's not their personal style. If it wasn't a studio space it could be a family game room or beautiful sun room. Which I see happening if it's bought for an air bnb or for a family home.
(I know they're not 100% real, but) just look at shows like House Hunters. Potential buyers will turn down a house because the walls are a "weird" color let alone a mural that doesn't fit their style
@raven_moonshine39 the issue is there's a difference between people doing things for a tv show and practical marketing stuff. The type of people you would market the initial house to would probably prefer to fix it themselves, prefer an 70s aesthetic, and are the type to enjoy an artist studio and garden. The practical and cheaper option is testing for and removing asbestos & lead, cleaning grout and replacing caulking and treating/removing any mold hazards. The things they replaced it with are basically death traps or just drawing attention to the issues in the home. By doing all the uneeded things they can bump up the price and tack on a higher price tag on the listing thats going to be much more expensive for the buyer on top of the house issues that may already be there they're going to have to fix
As a fellow artist I completely agree, storage for art supplies and old artworks/sketchbooks would be so much more useful. Also, artists usually like to have art they aspire to or their own art in their studios and it differs so much person to person, I have no idea how they thought that having a canva looking mural was going to add to the value of the space....
Yeah I'm an artist and this mural in my studio would be a pain to deal with. You either feel guilty for covering it up cause it's precious wall space for storage or work (or cause it's just distracting if it's not your vibe) or it ends up getting worse with time because of paint splatters and stuff. Y'all, pretty art studios aren't realistic, it WILL get messy!
IMO, some of the rage about this flip comes from us Millennials and Gen Zers who have largely been priced out of the housing market. It enrages us to see houses stripped of character for profit - character we would have developed if we’d been given the chance. If I recall, OP also mentioned that the house was purchased explicitly as an investment property. It was never going to be sold to an actual homebuyer. And I will be shocked if it doesn’t end up as a rental or an AirBnB. People are mad because this is symptomatic of the housing market now. Homes aren’t made for people anymore, they’re made for investment corporations.
Flippers taking a potentially affordable home renovating it and it's now unaffordable for the people who used to be able to afford a liveable home makes me just a little bit feral. Between the housing market and my disabilities I've basically accepted that I'm never owning my own home and it's going to be a miracle if I can ever afford to live alone
You speak true and this us a worldwide problem. Im in europe and every second hand home is an absurd price and obviously meant as an investment and not a living place. Everyone seems to have 5 houses they dont use and dont care about selling, theyd rather let them rot than lose some imagined profit
Flippers don't fix the structural and important issues with a home, they just do some cute cosmetic changes and call it a day. The ONLY thing they care about is money. If they actually cared about this home, they wouldn't flip it. They'd update it and keep it as an Air BnB, a rental, or their own home. It's so frustrating when thousands of hardworking people can't afford to own a home and then we see stuff like this! That's why they're getting so harassed. I think our collective anger and frustration is just all on them!
Oooooh, that's a good point about why they're getting hate. They really are doing the most and could learn actual DIY and fixing best practices and share THAT online
@@twitchy_bird well renting it out to people isn't horrible, some people can't afford to buy houses and depend on renting, but air bnb is terrible for the housing market.
One of the big backlashes they got which Jarvis didn't include was them literally just covering a moldy roof panel with a new panel... NOT REMOVING THE MOLDY PART OF THE ROOF, JUST COVERING IT UP! Like they hid the fact that the house has a health hazard that can be extremely dangerous if you live in a house with mold.
@@jermuhh3359 i think it came out that this clip was from their own house instead of this one that they're flipping, and they actually fixed the mold problem. not 100% sure but that's what i heard
On the fireplace they also removed the outer hearth which is there for a reason it's so burning embers drop onto it which is made of non combustible material and not carpet or something that is flamable. Edit : the outer hearth also acts as a demarcation to show do not put anything flammable past this point, getting rid of that means there is no physical warning.
I mean having seen the video, the stones were like coming up out of the ground, not flush to the floor, which can become a tripping hazard, so as long as it gets replaced with something equally fire resistant, like flat stone tile, there nothing inherently wrong with removing those; however, I don't have much faith in this couple to know what fire safety code even is
@@rexana_rexana I think they could have made it slightly smaller as it was large, but not got rid of it entirely it is important as you say they may have put something non computable as the flooring, but the outer hearth also acts as a demarcation to show do not put anything flammable past this point, getting rid of that means there is no physical warning.
The outer hearth being raised up is not necessary, it's actually often not in many homes. I've lived in a couple homes where the inner and outer hearth were level with the floor. Whether that is fire code now, I don't know, that's just what I've lived in, and I've never had a house fire. As long as the outer hearth is expansive enough and is fire proof enough, that is minimum requirement. If fire code nowadays requires an elevated outer hearth then that just goes to show how these house flippers shouldn't be doing what they're doing (and I also don't, but I don't build houses). If they're not following fire code they need to be shut down immediately
As a full time artist I can say that I’d paint over that straight the way. The point of having white walls in a studio is so we can see how are art looks with out interference from other colours from the surrounding space. It also mimics a gallery space plus all white walls allows the space to be as bright as possible for working in natural light.
As someone who lives in a flipped house (I didn’t know it was a flip. The owners that lived here hired flippers before they put it on the market) I fucking HATE IT. My house looked so nice for the first two months, but I have to turn off the water to my kitchen sink every night so it doesn’t leak, I can’t open my microwave without unplugging it because it trips a breaker, the wiring is all the rope wrapped wiring, corners are cracking bc they were painted over and there’s no hot water to my bathroom sink. First house I’ve ever bought and am currently in the process of suing the home inspector and the company they work for due to them not reporting the aspestos the outdated wiring and the lack of hot water to the bathroom.
I wish you the best with the lawsuit. Some inspectors are great in some don't care. Am so sorry you didn't get a good one. These kind of things are nothing to just not care about.
Damn. Best of luck to you, you deserve the money 100%, the repairs needed for that house is going to be one pain in the ass that you shouldn’t have to deal with in the first place.
Flipping a house should be about REPAIRING a house, not putting ugly band-aids on it.. Also, my parents fixed up our house and they used the stone in their counter to also make a dinner table that was wide enough to fit our big ass family and also it matched the kitchen and honestly my parents should flip houses..
I think that most people are hating on them because of the flex that is messing up a house. TikTok is full of a generation of people who will likely never own homes, and to watch some random people ruin a beautiful home in the name of marketability to investors and rental companies feels like a personal affront.
I think you nailed the reason why people are hating on this couple, partly because that's also exactly what made me hate this couple and I haven't even used tik tok in like 3 or 4 years
@@BeehiveBoy such a beautiful house too. some houses have that really nasty 70s aesthetic with shag carpets and brown everywhere but this house was almost perfect. it had style while still being somewhat modern. the open space, the white walls and kitchen, beautiful studio, massive backyard. it was a perfect home for a family and they just utterly destroyed it.
The internet is very passionate about a lot of things, but I think most people would ignore someone's questionable personal taste if they were at least making an effort to make something better. Attaching a foam beam to a ceiling and hanging a light off it is stupid, but easily fixable. Having a very generic "mural" painted in an art room where any artist is likely to want to showcase their own work is, again, stupid but easily fixable. Ruining a fireplace to the extent that the new buyer will have to tear the whole thing out themselves and filling a swimming pool that just needed some repair with concrete... less so. Then there's the fact everything they've done was cosmetic so why exactly was this house so unsellable? A lot of the time properties like this sit abandoned because they have severe structural issues, electrical issues or other very expensive problems that the average buyer is just not going to want to deal with. I think that's what the internet is really so upset about - another pair of slumlords doing the barest minimum to turn a profit and leaving behind a huge, expensive (and likely undisclosed - always have your own inspections done when buying a home!) mess for the buyer to put right.
@@oneiriceuthymia Like an apartment makes sense because it’s not a single building. Calling a house “cottagecore” makes no sense because that just *is* a cottage. It’s not cottagecore it’s a cottage.
@@DeathnoteBB Lmao you’re getting hung up on semantics. “Cottagecore” isn’t meant to be taken literally, it’s an aesthetic that really doesn’t have that much to do with cottages and is more about overall vibes of nature and cutesy, idealized rural living.
I am an interior designer and yes, faux beams are used often when budget does not allow for a real/box beam, but typically they 1. look better 2. are on higher ceilings so you can't see the snickers bar thing. Also, they should NOT have mounted a light to that. Those poor renters. Also landlords suck
The most heart breaking thing to me is that indoor garden. I was imagining putting a koi pond in there and how magical that'd be. And then she points to a teeny tiny pond that couldn't even hold 1 full grown koi and says it'd be perfect 🥲 please no.
Wow, this comment unlocked some random info I didn't even know I knew, lol. Koi fish are not small, some fish can get sunburned, and I believe there are some reported cases of fish developing melanoma actually. I don't think that's a good location for a fish pond in general. I would be worried about the effect of run off on the water quality. Apparently it rains a lot in southern Florida, so maybe it could be a cute, shallow little decorative pond instead.
And that fact that they seem to think that indoor garden space and outdoor garden space are equal “it’s okay that we destroyed a perfect greenhouse look how much dirt is outside”
I was thinking how amazing it was to have a garden space that was mosquito-free! I agree with the person whose comment was screenshot for the video that fixing the pool would've been a better investment than a concrete slab -- there's a reason screened-in pools are so common in Florida and it's because people want pools they can actually enjoy.
I don’t understand why so many people are calling it a greenhouse or thinking that space is indoors/not in the heat? Maybe this is just a Florida thing, but it is 100% outside. It is a concrete pool deck that has a screen around it. We call it a lanai. The only thing that’s maybe throwing people off is there is no pool because it was filled in with dirt, which is very strange. It must have got a crack in the foundation and was too expensive to fix and too dangerous to leave a giant empty hole so they filled it in.
Omg the fireplace with the stained glass stickers behind it looked so gorgeous. And that greenhouse, omg! Just leave the shelves there and keep the plants and you can do your art there. Instead now you have a mural that doesn’t look great and limits what you can do with that wall
they did not in fact lean into the 1970. 😭 the garden was a purposeful punishment . Nobody is gonna bake themselves alive in a fucking greenhouse in the Florida heat but the plants would’ve loved it 😭😭😭😭
@@tarettime9392 yes . I do not understand why people buy old homes and gut the parts that make them valuable or special just to opt for the most bland not up to code garbage
Obviously people shouldn't threaten/harass them, but if they choose to put this project onto a public forum, they are openly inviting discussions into their decisions. Just because those discussions are ripping them to shreds doesn't mean everyone is just a hater. You've presented work, and it's being judged. That's how that works.
You're 100% correct. The internet can be ruthless, but putting things out on a public platform is inviting criticism - which people attempting to sell a home should listen to if they are trying to appeal to buyers.
I agree and disagree, because something being online doesn't justify cruelty. However, something being online, you requesting other people's thoughts, and then wanting to also sell the thing for a profit? Yeah. You're gonna get some spicy responses
Yeah… this. Don’t say “what do you think?” And then get upset when people tell you what they think. Obviously bullying isn’t cool but none of the comments shown here are bullying, just roasting their choices and taste.
I say amateur flippers deserve every criticism they get. That goes for all of them. They don't add value to homes, they cause or cover up potentially life threatening issues within homes all the time, and frankly these people have no business trying to ruin more houses for profit. These types should be bullied off of public forums because the last fucking thing we need is more of these idiots running around playing contractor.
it’s infuriating that amateur house flippers with no construction or contracting experience buy perfectly liveable houses to make a profit when there are families who genuinely wants the house and can’t afford them because everyone thinks their foam beams and amazon stick on tiles are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in markup
FOR REAL As a Floridian myself, it pisses me off seeing this happen in todays housing market, everything’s so god damn expensive and here this bitch is sticking fake wood on a roof that doesn’t need it, and you know damn well she’s gonna sell that house as if that wood was real
That’s why it’s always worth while to send the sellers a letter! My bestie got her home over higher offers simply because she wrote a letter to the seller her intentions and how much she adored the home.
"replaced it with a more mid century light" IT ALREADY WAS A MIDCENTURY LIGHT! AND THEY TOOK IT OFF! TO REPLACE IT WITH A MINIMALIST CHANDELIER! OH MY GOD!
“They won’t have issues finding garden space.” Do they…. Think greenhouses are for plants suited to the natural habitat and only for the specific season they can grow? Do they…. Know what a greenhouse is………….
I guess, to be fair, it's Florida and it looks like there isn't a big climate difference between outside and a greenhouse? (I've never been to Florida, I'm guessing from the video) But it would have been way cooler to have an inside garden art studio with the nice shelves, I agree
@@InayaezaMost Floridian weather can be very turbulent and change quickly, a green house would keep the conditions a plant is growing in more constant, giving it a better chance to grow
That’s not a green house, that’s a screened porch so you can sit outside without the bugs getting to you or so your pool stays clean. The temp is the same because it’s literally a net around that structure. Y’all are ridiculous 😒
As an artist, I agree with the other artists in these comments. They did that studio space dirty. HOW DARE YOU PUT THAT BEAUTIFUL SHELF IN THE GARAGE OF ALL PLACES. and the phrase "new port richey" makes my skin want to crawl off my body.
@@cruztastrophe yeah, but who wants to live in a house that has the name of their town painted on the wall? the only people i could think that is for are tourists, airb&b patrons. no person is going to want to live in a house permanently that has text they didnt choose painted on the wall itself. guaranteed, if they somehow manage to sell this home, it will be promptly painted over
@@SailorMoonLogic some people are proud of where they live and like the references to it. I can see this one going either way. I wouldn't use it as an art studio and I would probably keep the mural up.
15:45 dude the area she said would be perfect for koi fish is actually so tiny. Kois can literally grow over a foot long, that could maybe fit like one baby and even then it’d probably be miserable and cramped You just know she thinks goldfish should be kept in a bowl
My family did this with beta fish growing up...I am so sorry to those poor fish. My mom has fish now but they're in a 55 gallon aquarium and have plenty of places to hide. They share the tank with a pleco (what I called "sucker fish" as a kid, because they stick to the sides of the tank and eat the algea) and the pleco has been in there for...7 years now! He's huge and my mom calls him Big John, I think 😅. I'm happy she's not keeping fish in small bowls anymore.
Dude this is actually so devastating because I want a charming colourful quant home not fluorescent lighting and white paint. Everyone is trying to "fix" these homes when I'd fight tooth and nail to have a home like this one day.
okay different comment but i was watchinf it anr they NO PPE WENT AFTER A POPCORN CEILINF??? THATS STRUAGHT ASBESTOS WHAT THE FUCK ok edit he wore a mask. nothing else. and WENT STRAIGHT INTO ASSSBESSTOOOSSSS.
Before these videos I was ambivalent to house flippers but now my hatred for them rivals my hatred for landlords. The removal of the window fixtures that were OBVIOUSLY SETUP TO MITIGATE HEAT AND HELP KEEP THE HOUSE COOL is what radicalized me. Like how unaware of the surrounding climate of the home can you be???
All I could think when she pulled off the trellis from those windows is "wow, those are some really ugly windows". The house already has a lot of natural light in other spaces including the art room and sun room, they just made the exterior look objectively worse.
I'm not sympathetic. It's hard enough finding affordable housing as it is, just for people like this to come in and ruin permanent, original features of a house while objectively just making it worse, just to rack up the cost of the house anyway. If I have money to blow on an expensive house, the last thing I'd want in it is poopy foam on a ceiling and a fireplace that looks like it's made out of plaster. You'd have to undo everything they just did, which would cost you more.
Lived in Spain for 7 years. The traditional buildings have tiny windows and no AC, for a reason. It's the only way to keep out the heat as much as you can.
That's the worst part about this. Setting all the design choices aside and chalking it up to personal tastes is whatever, but there are OBECTIVELY bad decisions here that lack any forethought or experience. Removing the shade from the windows and adding a giant concrete slab to a green house that will raise heating costs and severely limit what kind of plants they can grow, saying that tiny tub can house koifish, removing storage from a studio, putting a mural of your design on a wall, removing the outer hearth on the fireplace, constant unnecessary additions like structurally questionable foam. There is personal tastes, then there is just plain stupid. I'm sure somebody will buy it though and that's all they'll need to justify doing this even more.
they reduced the value of that fireplace by thousands if not tens of thousands, all the cost of undoing their shoddy craftsmanship. it went from a selling point to a cost for buyers.
As an artist myself, my soul bled when they decided to get rid of the much needed shelf to replace it with a useless mural. They could have chosen any other room for that mural and it would have been better. As an artist, you need storage room for a lot of stuff: paintings, drawings, canvases, paper, brushes, pencils, water cups ... There can't be enough storage room in a studio. So sad.
Add on top of that: most artists wouldn't be pleased having someone else's art take up an entire wall in their personal studio -- especially if it's someone's they don't know, and especially if it's a tacky mural with words
I am so genuinely upset that they RUINED the fireplace. It was so beautiful and would've looked great with a tile-wood flooring or something, but no. Now it's doomed to never be seen in it's full glory again.
Can’t wait for artisanal crafting like woodworking and stained glass to come back en masse when people want to undo these flipped houses back to their original style.
the people with creative perspectives can rarely afford it, not to mention the dunning-kruger effect. basically the people who could make it better often know that there are others who could do it even better, whereas skill-less hacks like this think they're gods at interior design.
Unfortunately most of the people who know how to do those techniques are dead by now, and the ones still practicing charge through the roof for materials and labor (justifiably so). So we will probably never get a Victorian revival. These architectural artifacts really are priceless; once destroyed, they can't be recreated without really extreme measures (if at all). Sometimes in life you only get one chance not to mess up.
As an artist, I'm CRYING at the loss of that incredible storage wall to be replaced with some coffee shop art 😭 And concrete in the greenhouse was just depressing
I’m an architect and this stuff drives me bonkers. You’d never see a real light fixture attached to the bottom of a real exposed beam bc where would the wiring go??? Where’s the junction box? If you’re going to fake it at least understand how real construction works bc that’s a dead giveaway! If you’re buying property look out for things like that and def avoid homes sold by house flipper types. Chances are they cheaped out on the reno and you’d be buying a lemon of a house.
This has me remember that buying property in my country, Austria, has very specific conditions to prevent house flipping and I'm starting to think that's a good thing.
Your country is right. If you are not planning on living in the house at all then don't touch all this stuff. Or at least fix actually meaningful things like roofs, get an electrician to make sure wiring is good, redo plumbing, etc. But that actually takes skill and money so why not just ruin everything and move on.
@@ambiarock590 In my country (Hungary) if you resell your house within 5 years after getting it (regarless from it being given to you as an inheritance, a gift or you bought it), you have to pay an INSANE amount of taxes from the price that you sell it for. I assume this is to prevent house flipping. I knew one couple who were doing this house flipping but they actually knew very well what they were doing and did an actual fix to the problems. But also, house flipping would be pretty hard and risky to do in Hungary because house prices in general are going up so fast (with renovarion and construction supply prices also skyrocketing) that you cannot work fast and cheap enough to make any profit on a house you try to flip
Person who caught the fireplace early on Instagram prior to comments being turned off, most of the comments on the fireplace were from regular people saying "honestly it looks like shit sorry", and experts from home design and construction pointing out reasonable flaws about the construction. My favorite is architects and interior designing living paragraphs about how awful it was and how "not seventies at all" the renovations were. Also, they were trying to moderate and clearly deleting comments before turning them off. They also only responded to positive ones, really didn't seem like that have thick skin, so take the "hate" with a grain of salt. 85% of it was genuine criticism. (Might be typoes tied this out quick before I forgot)
YES i remember this too!! people were saying stuff like "i wouldn't even comment something negative but you literally asked how it looked and i don't like it"
@@annamorris9595 Yup, I was also there when comments were turned on, and so many comments were "please know I mean this in a constructive way, but this looks really bad, sorry" like ??? So many people were being polite about it. I legit think they decided to buy a house to farm rage bait. Decided they'd make some of the worst possible choices, so that they could get tons of engagement from people that obviously aren't gonna like it.
I was one of the people commenting on the insta and yeah it was mostly people just saying it looked bad, it was when they started saying they got hate that people started being assholes. I remember people saying "you asked what we thought and we all thought it was shit"
They could have used all of their money to replace the stuff covering the windows with properly sealed windows, shutters, insulation and a modern air conditioning mechanism (or whatever is appropriate for Florida's climate) so they could have more light while staying comfortable. But that stuff is expensive and takes research and experts, and won't necessarily look aesthetic on social media, so they would rather make more money from selling it to a landlord who rents it to people who definitely won't be informed about the mould.
I despise flippers. Especially when they take an already livable house and add crap to it just to bump up the price. They're basically ticket scalpers, but pretend that to add value to a home with their renovations. In reality, most people care more about about the location of a home than it's style. But since we're in a housing shortage, people will buy the house, no matter how inflated the price is.
ticket scalpers that also charge 60% more of the original price because they put it an envelope. It'll be 80% more if they added a green or orange paperclip if there's more than one ticket
I think it's really interesting the way she speaks about the house. I get that a house might have issues and you might not be able to preserve everything, but starting out by saying "I promise we'll keep the house in the same style" and then ending up saying "no, but I swear we needed to get rid of this unique feature for a super good reason, pinky promise" a bunch of times is so strange. At that point just say you don't intend to keep the style.
it gives off the vibes that they just said it for views, in no way did they attempt to keep the style, the fireplace was fine, no one really pointed this out but they said it was too hard to clean? Grout is very cleanable though, also the fake stained glass was perfectly fine, it wasn't even like it was bold and obnoxious, it was in light colors and just added to the look of the house
Removing the popcorn ceiling the way they did is insane bc almost all popcorn ceilings from before the 80’s were FILLED with asbestos 💀 Idk if that little respirator would actually help all that much and now there’s asbestos dust everywhere
Asbestos was banned in 1973. Given where that house is located, it was almost certainly built after that. I know because my grandparents lived there in the late-70s and bought their house new.
@@KRAMITDFROG I have some depressing news for you in that just because something was banned doesn’t mean it wasn’t used. My college claimed we couldn’t possibly have asbestos in our dorms because of when it was put in. Ten years later when I was visiting my hometown they were fully remediating my old dorm because of the asbestos. My mom refused to test her plates for lead because of when they were made. I forced the issue by sending her lead tests and the plates had a ton of lead.
22:39 Just a little fact here, popcorn ceilings can possibly have asbestos in them. You have to get them tested before you take them down, and since this middle aged white woman didn't make her husband wear gloves or eyeware when he was cutting into the ceiling made of wall cotton candy (which can have fiberglass), I doubt she got anything tested. Good luck at the funeral!
OMG THANK YOU I went to a technical and design school and in the subject that could be picked to the third finals in was maths or design studies because it’s as much of a science
@@StormSoughtFalse Equivalency. Just because the parts of the whole can be objectively measured, does not mean the whole can be. See: Humans, unless you do not believe all humans are equal?
@@bobSeigar Okay so I said the techniques could be assessed objectively, and if you want to be joylessly pedantic, design is actually subjective as well, it's still about taste. Both of these things have objective and subjective elements. Humans, in regards to what?
The German Schmear technique seems like it's only supposed to be done on even-looking stone brick. Even white-washing, which I think is similar but uses thinner "schmear", works better on brick. Also, I'm pretty sure this is the same couple that also didn't like the tile in the washroom and poured CONCRETE on it, which is just a whole new awful thing to do because of how hard it would be to remove it. They really should have brought a contractor in to show them what needs fixing first, then do all the extraneous decor stuff after... they really don't know what they're doing I swear
your points about the schmear and whitewashing are correct. these techniques are not intended for natural stone, they were developed as construction techniques for brick
They are indeed the couple who poured concrete over a tile floor. And we still don't know if they bothered to have it sealed. Considering it's CONCRETE which is extremely porous, they could be looking at major cracks in the future, and be unable to easily remove it :)
You missed the one where they find black mold and hide it by gluing wood on top, so whoever buy that house will never know there's mold whiteout removing the wood panel
I hate that garbage. That makes me think that they also did zero repairs on an older home in an area that is in a flooding and hurricane zone. More than likely water damage and roof damage (and those are expensive to fix; likely why others passed over it.)
Decorative beams on the ceiling are an established thing that a lot of people install (and have done for ages). It's usually wood or plastic, but yeah, increasingly foam. No it is not in any way structural, and should not hold a light or any other load, other than some other small pieces of foam, and some paint. That said, you CAN cut a hole through the foam, and install a light into the ceiling, with the decorative cap on the foam beam, to give the impression that the light is installed on the beam (which if you think about it for even a second, proves that the beam is fake, since solid wood does not deliver electricity to chandeliers).
It was too expensive for flipping to fix the pool, so they made it more expensive for the home owner to fix the pool. Gotta be some of the most short-sighted and least empathetic individuals on the planet.
And yet they spent a ton of money on that stupid concrete stage or whatever it is supposed to be now. Concrete work is very expensive. And it wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't done right (which would cost a whole lot more) and will start to crack and delaminate.
@@bubba99009 Oh gosh you're right! Then it becomes a structural health and safety hazard. I swear these people are making instagram set pieces more than renovating a home.
@bubba99009 Yup. The civil engineer in me hates absolutely everything about filling and overflowing an empty pool with concrete and then trying to sell it as a... something, I guess 🤦🏼😅 And you're absolutely correct that it wasn't done right, because there isn't a "right" way to do that (other than actually demolishing the pool)
They are not saying they should've fixed the pool, just that they should've left it alone,made it a garden,not filling it with concrete...then,if the next owner felt like getting the pool done, it would've been more doable ...they probably won't even know there is a pool underneath all that.
I saw the comments before they got taken down, and pretty much 90% were begging her not to do the german schmear and or suggesting alternatives for the fireplace instead of the schmear
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They said the sticker on the window was "tacky" then proceeded to put a FOAM BEAM on the ceiling 💀💀
the sticker was actually so beautiful 😭😭
Tacky, and then hires a muralist to draw the most coffee shop level tacky mural
The whole concept of what they did to the houses was a sticker. In a year or 2 it will peel off and the new owners will see what they really bought.
Also, the tree-branch-shaped stickers above the fireplace made the fireplace look like a big tree trunk!!! The stickers were the leaves and highest branches of the tree... it actually could have looked magical if you would sit in front of it on a cozy night! And they removed it :''')))) This is how I know this is rage content and not genuine DIY/decor/renovation advice or just aesthetics or whatever, because there AIN'T no way you don't recognize that. You don't have to have studied design or engineering, it screams in your face - especially that the bathroom door was covered in a wallpaper bouquet of plants too. These people LOVED trees and greens that's why they had a huge garden and a little green-house-effect patio ffs!!
@@atherasdin the beam was made of foam??
the way they used "midcentury" and "1970s" interchangeably told me everything i need to know lmao.
bro midcentury isn't even seventies it's like 50s LMAO
@@BoxOfToasters well yea?? it's literally mid century lol
@@BoxOfToastersYeah, that's what this person meant
Mid century is more into the 60s though. 70s had some remnants of the style for sure. But they definitely did not use mid century correctly nonetheles
That always makes me so mad. People who can’t differentiate decades (ESPECIALLY when they conflate ‘80s with ‘70s and ‘90s. STOP PUTTING FLARED JEANS IN YOUR EIGHTIES INSPIRATION BOARDS!) make me SO upset. They say they love retro and then they can’t even differentiate the decades.
They really said "we love the 70s vibe" and proceeded to get rid of everything that made it have that 70s vibe
I liked the old disc-like light fixture that they removed in-place of something horrific.
Idk why she kept saying "mid century" when trying to keep the house 70s. Not the same thing
Also, it went from seventies to cheap, callous eighties.
@@screamthroughdreamsand not even mid-century half the time. Just saying words!
I don't even care what the fixture looks like she took out a CEILING FAN and didn't put a ceiling fan back in. THIS HOUSE IS IN FLORIDA. Jarvis had a good point about the things on the windows. The old owners had that stuff there and a ceiling fan for a reason 😂 I have a feeling the house flippers are not from Florida or don't care about the future buyers at least! @@ambiarock590
If I bought a house and found out later that it had a swimming pool, but the previous owner filled it with concrete, I’d be so upset.
More especially in South Florida. When my sister and family first moved to Florida, they bought a house with no pool. Never had a pool before and didn't think it was a big deal. Well, it wasn't long before they sold and bought a house with a pool.
I bought a house and later found out it used to have a pool 😂. Sad times lol but they are also expensive to upkeep and I don’t live in an area where I could use it all year round anyway so not a huge deal.
especially in florida! yikes
My sister has a nice in ground pool and is thinking about filling it in, because it needs a plumbing repair. I'm pretty sure the cost to fill it in will be near the cost of the plumbing repair.
As an artist, what they did to that “artist studio” was so frustrating. You got rid of those beautiful and very useful shelves for an artist and replaced it with some commercial looking graphic. It’s like saying “this is the kind of art we think you should have” to an artist. The first thing I do would be to paint over that if I bought that house.
Shallow people trying to be deep. Reminds me of how some people get into eastern religions because they're in tune with vibes or something
Yea that was so fucking weird they really think putting that new port richey mural on the wall is going to up the value of the home? I’d paint right over that shit WTF
"the artist studio is missing the art" is the most braindead thing i've ever heard for sure.
The thing that frustrates me the most about it is that it doesn’t make use of the rest of the wall-space. It’s difficult for me to explain. It’s just such an awkward shape and awkward spot for it to fit. It really does just look like a sticker or something…
The painting remind me of a Walmart shirt
I'm just heartbroken that house was bought by flippers.
Instead of a family that wanted it to be their home, and was able to get it at a deal. Smh
Agree. Let the people who want to live there decide what their house want to look like. It will make the house a more meaningful home for them. Plus whoever buying the house will know that the interior will be on the Internet for people to see and some people might find that uncomfortable.
I cry for the fireplace. Not sure if their decision is reversible.
@@Ao-vj9pzyou could essentially build a new fireplace, but it'll be expensive at today's prices. 😢
There are no “deals” in the current housing market. Someone buying the house to fix it up and sell it is completely fine, but that person should be a trained licensed contractor and there should be proper documentation and inspections on all work done.
@@FerociousPancake888 Yeah, so let's all LET people raise the price of the already expensive houses! YAY!
Flippers are fucking over the housing market. Houses that are completely fine should be UNTOUCHED by anyone unless they wanna LIVE IN IT.
Everyone loves to rage at house flippers and landlords when you should be raging at your government. It is entirely their fault the western world is in a housing crisis. It is the government's damn job to regulate the market, not random upper middle class people.
These house flippers are obviously idiots, but if there were more regulations it wouldn't be profitable, or necessary, to do so.
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.
This is why when you are looking for housing not to buy a flipped one forcing them to reduce the amount they sell for because no one is buying 😂
I totally agree, there's a lot of really charming craftsman homes where I live and people are ripping them up all the time, they're more and more rare every year. Right now the one across the street is getting gutted and the one two doors down was totally demolished so the owners could have a new build - the old build was in great condition, too. It makes me really sad, mine is the same age, but one of my family members let it go for a while so it's not in good condition. No one values classic things.
@@kateh2893 I disagree in one way. I think most people value classic things, there is however a minority who have money and sledgehammers and are all too willing to destroy in the pursuit of profit. Or the turkey teeth types with peaky blinders painting on the wall and render the entire house get black windows and put a Fort Knox's gate on the front of a 3 bed semi detached
I need them to stop before the housing market crash because i want an old beautiful home with character that i can buy for 100,000 lol 😂
WHAT THE FUCK???
"Little area perfect for koi fish"
NO. That is WAY TOO SMALL for koi carp. I even dare to say it's too small for goldfish.
The greenhouse could have been for tropical plants or an indoor pond. What a waste
Exactly what I was thinking too. But given how ignorant these people are it doesn’t surprise me that they have no idea how much space a fish needs
I agree, it’s definitely way too small
I’m glad you mentioned goldfish as well, because I wonder if they MEANT goldfish. There’s plenty of goldfish that have an elongated body with white and orange splotches…a me I always thing “oh that’s a koi” until I look a little longer
Trigger… A stupid ex friend of mine once made me buy a bunch of goldfish for her wedding centerpieces because she saw it in a magazine, but of course this was on a dime store budget (plus the pet store employees were high on paint thinner or something because I asked for a bigger bag and they promised it was all good) and the poor fishes were all dead the next morning, except for one.
Spike lived a long and happy life.
The narcissist fish-murderer is on her third marriage now I think.
@@LeahIsHereNowwow, she sure is going through those marriages like the pet shop fishies..
Wait ...they renovated a 70s house in the 70s theme and changed the 70s house that was already there to make their own wrong version of what the 70s looked like?
This is the wildest statement I've read today
Yes.
😂😂 I don’t know why anyone cares about this but your comment is really funny actually- good point 🎉❤
Next you’ll be telling me they are gonna bring me a birthday gift on my birthday to my birthday party on my birthday with a birthday gift.
ur actually right. Something abt this whole premise was confusing me and it’s this. The house is from the 70s already, what are they trying to 70ify???
IMO the original fireplace was like 1 billion times more “old world” feeling and just overall nicer
It looked cozy, and now I agree with Jarvis; it looks like it's still under construction.
@@Caldellayeah, it would have looked fine if they had LEFT THE SMALL STONES VISIBLE though
The original fireplace was very 1970s, not a cute 1970s, but the home repair and decor around it would make it less of an eyesore and a more a part of the design scheme. Now with the beam, it's less 1970s nostalgia and more Beowulf banquet hall.
They should've stained the brick darker and warmer would've made the space so homey and instead they made it cold and sterile 😢
And it’s actually way closer to German schmear, much closer than what they did. Like it was basically already German schmear lmao
"So, we bought this 70's house to make it more into a 70s house!!"
Proceeds to LITERALLY remove all sings of it being a 70s house. Talking about "leaning into the 70s charm" then doing the exact opposite is one of the true reasons why they SHOULD get bullied off of the housing market. They have no idea what they're doing and they are documenting it for proof.
They most likely just look all over Pinterest and go "Oh, we could do that one!" then do it in the cheapest way possible. Disgusting.
Thats what i was thinking! You cannot say that you “just love 70s interior design so much” and then turn around and destroy any trace of funky wallapaper
Yeah like they wanted to make the fireplace “cottagecore” which is a MODERN aesthetic trend. Then they put the mural that looks like it belongs in a tourist trap inside the studio room. None of these choices remotely feel 70s inspired
And then installing mid century lighting which is a different vibe entirely
@@Yviene311quite literally a different decade
I’m convinced that aside from the obvious ragebait they’re doing, their idea of 70’s is the Brady Bunch
Master Carpenter's daughter here: DO NOT hire anyone that flippers recommend, ESPECIALLY if it's for an inspector! They will straight up lie to you about the condition of the house bc their flipper buddies will pay them to do so. Also, make sure any work is done by a licenced and bonded contractor, landscaper, etc. Good luck!
The office I worked for had an inspector who would provide a clean inspection report for an extra $45 but he’d still give the buyer the actual full report and have them sign a hold harmless - some types of mortgages require a clear report in order to close - it was never anything structural, just little wood rot issues here and there that would interfere with closing and he made sure the buyer had full knowledge and usually they planned to fix it themselves after moving in.
@@krystal6137 Krystal, do you know what that's called? Fraud. That is some bs right there. You also don't know how much wood rot (or whatever else) is there until you actually start to remove it. All that has to be done is the buyer and seller both sign an addendum stating they are both aware and the buyer agrees to hold harmless and fix themselves after buying. Dude, I'm kinda surprised how casual you are about it.
There’s something so poetic about a house flipper defending a bad choice by saying “this technique has existed for centuries” and then doing it wrong.
Making people have to pay additional thousands for renovations after they buy this house is truly an ancient technique - don't question us.
the medieval people made it better than them lol
lol true
That is an ancient technique and it just looks like that lol. In Europe (France specifically) that type of wall is very common and it just looks like that, imo it doesn’t even look that bad in the video so I don’t know what everyone is complaining about.
@@Aaaaaaarrrpirate But it does look bad... They did a bad job it's just that simple. All that fireplace needed was a little polishing and they just kind of ruined it.
"this technique has existed for centuries" for use ON BRICK! People only use it on brick, and there's an obvious reason why!
She and her HUZZBIND have no idea what they are doing and need to stop.
Thank you for confirming to me that the reason it looks so wrong is because of the asymmetric shapes of the stones compared to the real German smear works 🥲
I'm living in Germany and I had to google what their "german smear" technique shall be because I have never seen something like their fireplace in new or historic buildings. It looks so completely different!
@@SomeoneNone123same I was so sure I misheard the name bc I couldn’t remember ever seeing anything like it on a fireplace
@@SomeoneNone123ich glaube das ist einfach nur spachteln 😅
As an artist myself, that mural in the studio is getting painted over, it infuriates me. Who thought "New Port Richey" was a good idea? Like, just do plants, just do plants. Do some Bird of Paradise flowers, do a hummingbird, do plants, no need for weird ass text. And you moved that BEAUTIFUL SHELVING TO THE GARAGE??? I would fukin DIE to have shelving like that in a studio space!!! These people have no idea what they're actually doing. Like they don't think practically at all
You said exactly what I was thinking on all parts but I'm especially baffled that as people who post on social media so much they seem completely unaware of how cringy people generally find text on interior decoration even if it doesn't say "live, laugh love".
I would have liked to have a greenhouse/garden space in my studio as well. That way having plant murals would actually make sense
Also that shelving they removed would have been perfect for pottery or glasswork. Or even just vases of flowers or potted plants.
Removing beautifull, functional storage/display space in a studio is a cardinal sin in my book. Now any person that moves in WANTING to use that space as a studio will have to put up some other storage option, likely covering the mural.
I screamed when they moved the shelf to the garage and painted an arch on the wall😭
The mural that says the name of the town is so obviously for an Airbnb. For people to take photos in front of to post where they are. It's so frustrating
Whaaaat? You mean *everyone* doesn't have the name of their town just plastered on their house somewhere?
(Seriously, you right though. That seems like such a tourist attraction thing to do.)
Turning what could have been some family's home into an overpriced pseudo-hotel for rich tourists. Yayyyyyy...
fake enviromentalists always give me the ick because they're always "lets replace this natural resource for plastic that does not biodegrade 🥰"
Yes plastic that doesn't biodegrade and is notoriously difficult to recycle and reuse is better than that stinky heavy WOODEN BEAM. I hate house flippers
@@rexana_rexana and not just with house stuff, i see this a lot with clothing, like "artificial leather". THATS PLASTIC STFU
Same, especially when they destroy things that could have been easily recycled in favor of something worse then use "the environment" as an excuse when we all really know it's just for aesthetic.
That foam will degrade, but not like degrade forever just degrade into microplastics and the light fixture fall down because of it
People who buy electric cars because they think they are green are fake environmentalists
"they're not hurting for garden space they have a half acre" it was a GREENHOUSE THATS OBVIOUSLY FUCKING DIFFERENT??? THAN THE OPEN OUTSIDE??
And isn't boiling lava hot!
Why did they even slab it over with concrete???? What is the buyer going to do with that??????? If it was left as dirt the buyer could decide what they wanted to do. Same with the mural. Why do these things that cost extra money??????? You are not the one living in the house, leave some things up to the buyer!!
Yeah, a greenhouse in Florida is very different from the outside. It is way hotter here than the rest of the United States, so you can’t grow a lot of things outside because they die. My family’s outdoor garden is limited to what won’t die in the heat here. A greenhouse can be temperature regulated for things that won’t survive outside
@@PointsofData literally all that thing needed was a rented tiller to un-compact that dirt and a little elbow grease I'm so pissed off lmao. Concrete over a fuckin greenhouse I can't believe these ppl I genuinely HATE flippers. capitalists suck the soul out of everything they touch
@@m_here1 Yeah, there's a lot about this take that I don't understand. Greenhouses are most useful in climates where you can't grow things outside year round. They let you start seeds indoors early to get them out and planted as soon as it's warm enough. And they usually don't have dirt floors, because you're not planting things in the ground. And big glass houses are hot as heck. I don't actually know WHAT you could do with that space in Florida. I wouldn't want to swim in a pool in there either.
What frustrates me the most about flippers is that they often do irreparable damage to the house, that looks looks like an upgrade at a first glance but after further inspection it turns out to be just putting makeup on a corpse. Like in the full video about the swimming pool they say that renovating it was too expensive, so they put literal tons of concrete over it and now if the buyer of the house actually wanted a swimming pool they would have to first invest thousands of dollars into removing the concrete. Literally giving the house the opposite of what it needs.
I would freakin love a swimming pool in my house. Shame they poured concrete all over it, painted a touristy mural on the wall, and moved the artsy shelves into a place where they can get damaged
I think that may be one of the points, make it so $$$ for average individuals that there’s no choice unless it’s sold to a corporation to “do the right thing and make repairs”. So it’s just an unflattering hostile cage that makes people want to sell for what they believe is a lot of $$$.
Please tell me if wasn't this same house. Poor house.
its a weird assumption to make "yeah nobody would want a swimming pool, lets clog it up". Something like a pool doesn't need to be flipped or removed, that is an option for the buyer to make
The thing is, if they were doing this do their house - I would say no one has the right to critique them taste wise. Someone wants a roofbeam but for any reason don’t want the real wood, it’s suppose to be purely aesthetic? Go off, do the foam one if u like it it’s your home. But if I went in, saw that and thought that it’s a house with a roof beam and then either found out or was told it’s just a foam for esthetics… man I’m walking off and not looking back. It’s unnecessary, unneeded and actually makes more work for new homeowners. The reason ppl buy “neutral” houses is that it’s the easiest to customize to u. If u want to make a house with character just leave the original character in! Fix the real issues for god sake.
Again, if they would do it to their home, it would be fine. Do it. U like it u live in it, all good. But renovating something to their tastes, and asking bigger price for home that has fake purely aesthetic fixes is just scummy man… cos u know that in 99% of cases u would be putting more money in that house to change or fix some stuff after u buy it.
That’s just off putting.
I think what makes everyone so upset is that we’re all broke and can’t afford a nice house yet wealthier people will come out and buy houses with lots of charm and character and do THIS to them
its not just that its also that theyre kind of scamming people, theyre basically trying to trick someone into buying a house thats shittier than they realize. doing everything cheaply which will probobly cause the person living there problems down the line.
@@BlisaBLisa ^^^^ the foam beam alone is a safety hazard when you consider the fact that they put a ceiling light on it, meaning they more than likely ran _electrical wires_ through _foam._
@@owl7072 god yeah. i also cant imagine the light fixture is very secure lol. theres a ton of shit in engineering you arent supposed to do that isnt intuitive (like apparently you shouldnt paint brick because it traps a lot of moisture and will erode the whole buildings structural integrity) and i dont think these people can be trusted to not create safety hazards or future expensive problems lol
@@owl7072 well, at least now there is evidence for the eventual lawsuit.
YES! Your comment hits the fucking nail square on its head (please excuse my pun). I've seen a lot of people say stuff along similar lines where if you don't like the look of an older home that has a specific charm to it, then don't fucking buy that house! Buy a modern one that fulfills your wanted aesthetics instead of ruining the personality of an older home!!
The fact the fake beam would’ve matched better with the before renovation fireplace 😭😭😭 LMAO
Love the point about how Floridians want to leave the house darker - it's a great example of how house flippers can completely misunderstand local needs and hurt the housing market.
I live in Houston and SO many house flippers neglect flood mitigation, causing more damage because of their misinformation.
man its almost like they just wanna spruce up a house in the cheapest quickest way. considering risks like floods, hurricanes, tornadoes takes too much time!!
So true. Previous homes many times (not every time lol) were built for florida life. Now they're getting flipped for the broadest possible audience and the *feeling* of new but pretty much go against comfort in the local environment.
i’m in coastal mississippi and we have a bunch of people severely injured because of elevators for homes on stilts. the salt degrades them terribly and no one comes around to maintain them.
when I lived in Florida, my family and I lived in the fuckin dark, we had to or else we'd boil alive, seeing the blockades removed had me spiritually feel the house temp raise a few degrees
Yes - I felt that from Texas as well and I live for my dark cavernous home! It's too damn hot for big bright spaces
Our house was “DIY’d” by the previous owners and it was awful. We had to replace the toilets because the lids were glued shut with liquid cement, there were tiles layered on top of other tiles, the electrical box was hidden behind the wall. Y’know, the switch we’d need to flip if there was an electrical fire or something. They put it BEHIND THE WALL! If you can’t do it, don’t.
Also, house flippers are ruining the housing market and contributing to the cost of living crisis an insane amount. Literally, house flippers and landlords are killing the economy.
Whoa. How exactly were the toilet lids glued shut? (I'm trying to imagine a scenario where this makes sense and I'm coming up empty.)
In my house i rent right now Its an Illegally converted Duplex (They put up a sheet of drywall in the middle of the hall way to divide the house not only the the Main electrical Panel Partially blocked By the hood fan and Cabients and your literally cooking right next to it but there is Wire ran not even the walls as there 14/3 Lumex wire running in front of my front door covered by a Plastic track and bolted down with Wood screws into the Flooring.
To be fair tiles on top of tiles is not that unusual, depending on how the tiles were laid, my house had tiles laid in cement but they were cracked and broken and it was much cheaper to tile over them. The rest of that though, that’s just awful lmao
My parents old house, had a room extension built over the septic tank, lovely when you need to empty it 💩
@MM-jf1me It's a decorative toilet... obviously 🙄
i. ‘the artists studio was lacking the art’ YEAH BC THERE ISNT CURRENTLY AN ARTIST IN IT?? TF 😭 like as an artist i would never want an art studio with some random persons art on the wall whatttttttt
"Taking this fireplace from Hobbit Core to Cottage Core" is already a weird thing to say where I'm sitting... like, what's the difference? Is Hobbit Core just dirtier? Interior-wise, a Hobbit hole just looks like a very tidy cottage. Hobbits aren't like gremlins, they're not filthy mud-people, they're just tiny people who eat a lot. Their houses happen to be called "holes" because they're built into little hillsides, but Hobbits themselves are basically Irish-coded.
There's actually really nothing different, just the only difference I noticed is like cottage core architecture is more centered around more old European styles or like Colonial styles (like Tudor type homes) whereas Hobbit core is more centered around circles. Circle doors, entryways, etc. Like that's it. If you wanna be dirtier that's gremlin/goblin-core or crow-core. There's another 'core' I'm forgetting the name of that's like, in between these two but like in the same vein. You get the idea tho
Shs has no idea what a Hobbit hole looks like that's why. Probably didn't even know it was an aethestic, just wanted a funny "awful" word to use.
not to mention a mix of those would be SO CUTE AAAAAA like a more european style with more circles and aaaaa
it is genuinely wild to me that they said that, made the fireplace look hella ugly, and then proceeded to go with a full "70s" theme
They've never seen the movies and they've never read a book
Using foam is not recycling. You can literally get recycled wood that would’ve given them the same look that they were going for instead of using foam. The recycling bit it’s such a lie. These people have no idea what they are doing.
I do think it’s better for the structure of the house tho
@@MichaelJEngelmann is wood not more stable than foam
Edit: I was wrong on this one. The faux beam makes more sense because it's just decorative, although it does still look weird.
okay this is frustrating me, she never said it was foam. she said foax… check her captions. it could literally be made of anything
@@sabrinamenges5910Granny Kokoro
@@CryingPan not in the places they were placing foam... the beam could've put stress on the roof of the house to the degree it could impact the structural integrity of the home.
Did she...did she call a greenhouse an "extremely private backyard"...?
Oh that? That's my little private backyard, only I'm allowed inside
I thought it was a sun room? Either way yes. Yes she did
It's not a greenhouse or a sun room. Florida houses mostly have screened in areas. The bugs would eat you alive otherwise.
@@NotKateHepburn Why can't it be both, the previous owners where clearly using it as a greenhouse space.
@@artemiishcaroline from stardew valley:
This video just makes me sad, the home was so magical and inviting, it was like a beautiful place that needed the slightest progression of cleaness and growth, and these flippers are just like "this home was SO dirty, everything was wrong, so i had to rip everything out and fix it" and i can hear the home screaming
The indoor garden become a slab of concrete really killed me inside, at this point they´re doing it to annoy future buyers
I know. It made me so so sad.
Thought it was originally a pool that was filled in before they ever got the place.
@@toriladybird511 It was originally filled in with soil so you could use it as a greenhouse area for plants
They have zero imagination and clearly don’t have the skills to do what they are doing. I feel sorry for whoever buys this and to think what they could have had. It’s a 70s house… that pool area could have been a really neat sunken seating area… or anything. They literally paved over potential
the way they said homeowners can just use the outdoor space too ... just completely ignoring all the benefits of having a controlled environment to grow plants year-round that would die or just not grow outdoors bc of the local environment
Not only did they ruin the original beauty and character of a cozy 70's home but as Jarvis pointed out they are obviously amateurs if they can't even WEAR PROPER SAFETY EQUIPMENT. Where is the protective eyewear, gloves, masks and even hardhats when it comes to exposing fiberglass and mounting things on the ceiling? If they ever injure themselves one day from inexperience and not wearing safety gear it will be 100% their fault.
"This ceiling was begging for a beam"
No it wasnt.
If it was, there would have been a beam there to begin with.
its like they think structural beams are there like, just for looks? like, they serve an actual architectural purpose, they arent meant to simply look nice. it's just a happy coincidence that exposed wood beams look nice.
People shouldn't do things such as this if they aren't trained properly, hire someone to renovate the house if you can afford it.
I'm saying this because our house is currently being renovated and we know it will not only be nice but it also will be safe to use those areas after it has been finished!
A wood beam that goes right into the chimney.
It's like someone gluing a fuel tank door onto the door of an electric car: no concept of function, only a vague sense of aesthetic.
And they say they went with a foam beam because they couldn't physically lift a real wooden beam.
It's more likely that real wooden beams of that size, in addition to being heavy, are also expensive as hell. Like a beam of that size (looks at least 8"x8"x20'), that looks good enough to leave exposed, and with the correct color/finish, could easily be $1500 if not more. Not to mention the cost of strapping hundreds of pounds of wood to your ceiling so that it doesn't come crashing down on someone's head in 5 years.
GAHAHAAAHA!!! 😂
The fact that they're flipping houses in Florida which was ground zero for the 2007 housing market crash and is ground zero for the current-day housing crisis in part due to houseflippers like them who never went away makes me livid!! It is not the 1920s anymore! There is no more Florida land boom! Even in the early 2000s Florida real estate was expensive and this is only making it worse!! Go away!!
not to mention like.... you're removing the dedicated storage space from the dedicated art studio? where, y'know, an artist could store a lot of supplies for easy access and it would look cool in the meantime? no, no, put that in the garage to get covered in dust and dirt for things you'll never use....
My eye started twitching lmao. I could fit ALL of my stuff in that
It was such an artsy furniture as well 🥲 It would fit in almost any of the artists' studios, meanwhile the mural is a very personal choice.
Ikr!! I would kill for that much storage space!
I mean tbf it looks like that garage wall is right on the other side of the studio wall, so they could potentially still keep their art supplies there.
@@aarishowton8037Then the dang mural could have gone there too
The most offensive thing that this couple did was not the German schmear fireplace or the fake foam beam, but that they uncovered BLACK MOLD on the porch of the same home and simply covered it up with new drywall instead of actually fixing it. Which is very dangerous to just cover up like it doesn't exist!!!!
WHAT
I watched another video about them, and the mold was on their own house, so at least there's that. 🤷♀
It was in their own house. BUT if they're willing to cover up black mold in their own home, I worry about what they would hide in what they intend to sell to others...
The artist studio is the one place that I’d argue for neutral colors to you know… allow the artist to decorate it with their own style
So they gave it the landlord special I see .
Why did they paint a mural on a house flip? That’s a decision you let the person who is living in the home do… because it’s for them… especially if they’re an artist. Like, if you are going to make a blank space for people to project onto, actually make it a blank space?
They are absolutely not doing any necessary maintenance. They’re just “updating the aesthetic” to get more money.
Also, why would I essentially want a logo with the name of where I live on the wall?
As a designer, white walls are perfect: it is easier to take photos, you have better control of the light, you can distinguish colors better and, of course, you have a wall to paint or use as a display.
I hate the bougie "I be living in a city I am in" vibe get out of here
Building inspection who ? 🙈🤡 regrouting/recaulking where? 🗺👀
This is rich people's hobby tbh
They’ve probably realised online rage bait is a better get rich quick technique than house flipping
Ah yes, foam. The most perfect thing to use in hot and humid florida. Wont rot at all!
The concrete SLAB in that beautiful sun room is just ridiculous. That one makes me the angriest. I would kill for a beautiful sun room that came with a huge garden bed. If you can’t afford to reinstate the pool because that’s expensive af, then at least leave it with the most useful feature it could have. House flippers are the worst - just as bad as land lords. Usually to fix up the “flip” it costs far more than it would have cost in its original state!
literally heartbreaking
Dude SUCH A GOOD POINT
Worse is that removing concrete is intensely difficult, time consuming, and expensive to dispose/recycle.
Partner and I are still scarred from removing a small sidewalk in our backyard.
I forgot what video this is and tought that concrete slabs are going to be in minecraft 🤣
right???? wtf is even the point of ADDING concrete? if they wanted it to be an open room with more possibilities, i would have understood them taking out the walls of the pool/garden bed. now there is just a narnia looking sacrificial altar in their sunroom :(
"The art studio was missing something... the art!" My brother in Christ that's because no one lives in the home yet😭 like maybe this is just me but if I can ever afford a place with a studio for myself, I would Not want someone else's art in it. It's My studio for My art yknow? If an artist ever does live there, the mural is probably gonna get covered over with a whole bunch of other shit- materials, planning sketches, inspiration, their own actual art, etc. Idk. It feels like a waste of the muralist's time and skills imo
And if an artist ever does live there, one of the first things they'll do is add a bunch of storage for all their materials, kind of like that beautiful wall of shelving they decided to hide away in the garage 🥲
If I had the money to buy a house with an art studio, and like I was REALLY serious about getting a nice studio set up, I would be so incredibly picky about any murals on the wall. Might very well be the thing that makes me go for a different house on my list. It's something I have to look at everyday afterall, and if it doesn't make me happy then...nah. 😩 I wouldn't have the money, time or skill to redo it myself so if it's not something I like I'm not going for it.
And hell no it ain't a studio (yet) if there ISN'T ANY STORAGE THERE LEAVE THE SHELVING JFC.
Man if I had a giant art studio space with white walls perfect for painting my own thing only for the best wall to paint on to have it's own thing on with words on it that's clearly someone's work idk if I'd feel too bad to paint over it and allow myself the enjoyment of doing my own thing, even if it would be worse it would be my own thing tho. I don't get them saying in general putting their own 'personality' in a home they don't intend to keep and not allowing the actual owners to develop their own personality in it, even if their personality wasn't cement gardens and poop coloured doors
if an artist lives there, I would hope the first thing they'd do is fucking repaint it lol.
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It's funny to me how it's framed as "harrassment" when they ASKED people what they thought, and then 'surprised Pikachu face' when people absolutely hate it.
Real estate agent here- flippers suck and most people in the real estate industry dislike them. They have almost zero understanding and knowledge of what a house renovation requires. There’s about three businesses in my area that are INFAMOUS for pulling absolute crap like painting over water damage. To the point that if I know one of the groups was involved with a house on the market I don’t show it to buyers or steer them away from it.
I was there when this happened and I can confirm that the "harassment" were people asking why they would ruin the fire place, why didn't they get someone who actually knew how to do the German smear, and qualified inspectors and folk in real estate saying "Hey, that's a fire hazard." Nor to mention everyone rightfully pointing out that nothing about what they're doing is related to the 70s, at all.
Literally everything you said they would have considered harassment.
Oh, the comments also mentioned another flip they did where they covered up mold in a ceiling to hide it and make it look new instead of just fettingrid of the mold and cleaning what was there.
it gives taylor swift complaining about "haters" when talking about people who find her music to be mediocre
Especially because they asked. I just stumbled upon their video of the fireplace and when they asked so I shared my thoughts. Then all of a sudden everything was harassment? What the he'll guys, talk about fragile ego
@@athena5573 When did she do that?
The mold renovation was on their own home, not one they were flipping. Though that does make you question the quality of their flips if that is what they think is ok for themselves.
@@athena5573 taylor swift doesn't gaf about people thinking her music is mediocre lol. the "haters" she talked about were people slutshaming her for her dating history.
i like how the woman is acting like people are sending her death threats when 90% of the comments are just "TIME FOR SOME MORE CEMENT HUH?"
to be fair there are probably people who are harassing them in DMs too which we can't see, but even then most of the anger towards them is justified even if some people likely go too far with it which is pretty much impossible to avoid on the internet now
Either way, this destructive ass behavior deserves being bullied off any platform. Flippers and landlords are a cancer upon humanity.
I’m sorry but there are defo people sending them death threats, especially since people have been sent death threats for waaaay less than what she does with her husband. In this day and age of the internet, people genuinely have no boundaries and will blow up over things like this to the point of death and r word threats.
@@arsena5209 I don't think anger is the right word here, because I'm not sure if anger is justified at someone doing something with their own property if nobody is hurt by it...but I would say the piss being taken is justified.
@@cloudism4928 I mean, it was true in the old and mid days too, people just cared less and there was substantially less content creators, as well as people that legitimately had no sense of hiding their actual identity / life. I used to play Minecraft when I was 12 and this group of teenage men tried to find my address / phone number to post on 4chan because they were mad at me for a MC build lol. They could not find it, however, as I knew internet safety. At some point you really open yourself up to the entire world and that is unfortunate but I think it sort of goes without saying we should be cautious online and offline.
For the beam, there's tons of ways to get around putting a whole heavy beam up there, including but not limited to hollowing out a beam, using a lighter type of wood and staining it, using veneer over ply, etc. There's so many other options that would look so much more convincing and would be structurally safer than foam. This isn't a theatrical production, this is someone's HOME. They should've put a little more consideration into this.
And veneer is super mid century. It can break down over time but it's on the ceiling so it's not as if it will get chipped from moving around and weather degradation.
Also, yknow...I'm no house engineer but the wood probably will hold the chandelier...at all. As opposed to the foam. Which I would wager will...eventually and very suddenly not.
Yes and the foam is one of the ways to get around putting a heavy piece of wood on your ceiling. They didn’t make it themselves, it’s a product you buy for this purpose. I like it personally. Hopefully there is actual wood or some supports behind the light to give it structural integrity.
@nellier3468
Fam I don't think they put anything but foam up there. They would have said otherwise, or shown us...
Flippers and consideration are like oil and water
The problem is when social media gives incompetent people the audacity and false confidence to think they’re experts in something or can do something. These flippers have no clue what they’re doing (and frankly have awful aesthetic taste). They’re just creating problems for the unfortunate future owners. Sometimes you need a healthy dose of internet harassment to humble yourself.
Anytime you purchase a flipped house assume they did NOT use quality products and that the house is probably not worth the money.
Some do and some don't. It depends on the flipper and the house they started with. There are a lot of new constructions that are absolute garbage too. More than anything you need to make sure you have the house inspected by a quality house inspector.
They spend all their money on the right shade of beige and polyester "wood" beams.
@@SayaCeline this as-well develop an eye for tacky work and finishes as-well as do ur research of the property. And as a framer who has built over 15 houses for major home developers new builds can have the same issues.
My house was "flipped" but it was a good house to begin with. The owners before the "flippers" took good care of it, one died the other got put in a nursing home. All the "flippers" did in my case was paint the walls. 🤷♀️
@@RUclipsThrowaway-lj9vy They're not called flippers, they're just looking after the place. "Flippers" are self-taught renovators.
As a former real estate agent, every house flipper deserves to be bullied into finding a real job
🤣🤣🤣🤣 My brother and SIL are realtors and agree with you. I have heard many rants from them.
i agree
Every real estate agent and landlord should be bullied into finding a real job
@@Supadawg1000 idk there is a lot of legal stuff that goes with buying a house, so i'm not vehemently opposed to realtors. landlords though? yeah fuck them
Some people do have to rent. Not everyone can buy a house. Especially in this market with interest rates. A good owner and/or management company is important.
I wonder if these kinds of people are self aware in any capacity. I'm curious if they understand how shitty their actions are or if they're willing to look past it for money.
"Were taking this old fireplace from hobbit hole to cottage core" as if they're not literally the exact same thing... also the light fixture running through a foam board just SCREAMS electrical fire to me. And yes if it's all done correctly it should be safe but look at these two objectively and tell me if you think either of them is a certified electrician, for Christ's sake she's working in sandals.
Honestly, I would t even trust these two to watch a child. The stubborn incompetence is insane.
And without safety goggles… yikes
It's less of an electrical fire hazard and more of a structural hazard --electrician apprentice
Trust me when you Go and do Service calls for houses you know right way is something is a Homeowner job or done by a Professional. These Flippers are just DIYers and nothing more. No professional would ever butcher the Fireplace like that.
It's funny because Tolkien spends the first several paragraphs of Book 1 saying a Hobbit Hole is homey as fuck.
as an artist I wouldn't want someone else's mural in my studio space. it just doesn't make sense to me to have that. it's not even good inspo because it's so basic in style and design
uninspiring tbh
Imagine everyone visiting your ART STUDIO and asking "did you paint that?" pointing at the wall, and having to say "no" lol.
As a fellow artist the only reason I'd want someone else's mural in my studio would be if it's from someone I look up to and know personally. Not the random people who sold the house to me lmao
literally looks like average coffee shop mural which isnt bad but looks terrible in a house
also why would i want it to state the city im in lol. it would be a cute t shirt design or tourist attraction ig but this is my dwelling??
I get having different tastes but filling that old indoor swimming-pool-turned-garden with concrete is just objectively depressing
That likely hurts the resale value as well. It’s hot in Florida, and now they have this huge slab of concrete that is going to heat up like crazy and become unusable in the summer. They would’ve gotten more money out of the house if they had restored the pool. Private pools are huge feature of a Florida home that can really increase the price because you have a way to be outside in the summer without dying in a pool of sweat. Plus, it’s fun.
it would've been a stunning greenhouse type thing
@@m_here1 Holy shit, I didn't even think of how hot that concrete is going to get.... That's going to cost so much to cool down that house.
yeah this house is the opposite of a flip. they WILL NOT get their money back. the house will 100% NOT SELL. anyone seeing that backyard as a giant slab of concrete inside a now useless greenhouse with a giant turd on the ceiling is going to walk away.
Same. To me the worst thing they did was fill in the pool. A pool is a great way to relax and/or get some exercise in. I'd love a pool and/or a hot tub in my house
As an artist, I can 100 percent say that in the "art studio," I would've wanted the shelves, not the artwork. Don't get me wrong I love that they paid an artist for her work but if I was going to have a studio I'd want storage space and probably art on the walls that was created by me or gave me inspiration to my specific style of art.
I feel as if that choice was limiting or pointless. I can see it being painted over for a normal family or having potential buyers turn away from it because it's not their personal style.
If it wasn't a studio space it could be a family game room or beautiful sun room. Which I see happening if it's bought for an air bnb or for a family home.
(I know they're not 100% real, but) just look at shows like House Hunters. Potential buyers will turn down a house because the walls are a "weird" color let alone a mural that doesn't fit their style
@raven_moonshine39 the issue is there's a difference between people doing things for a tv show and practical marketing stuff. The type of people you would market the initial house to would probably prefer to fix it themselves, prefer an 70s aesthetic, and are the type to enjoy an artist studio and garden. The practical and cheaper option is testing for and removing asbestos & lead, cleaning grout and replacing caulking and treating/removing any mold hazards. The things they replaced it with are basically death traps or just drawing attention to the issues in the home. By doing all the uneeded things they can bump up the price and tack on a higher price tag on the listing thats going to be much more expensive for the buyer on top of the house issues that may already be there they're going to have to fix
As a fellow artist I completely agree, storage for art supplies and old artworks/sketchbooks would be so much more useful. Also, artists usually like to have art they aspire to or their own art in their studios and it differs so much person to person, I have no idea how they thought that having a canva looking mural was going to add to the value of the space....
100% this
Yeah I'm an artist and this mural in my studio would be a pain to deal with. You either feel guilty for covering it up cause it's precious wall space for storage or work (or cause it's just distracting if it's not your vibe) or it ends up getting worse with time because of paint splatters and stuff. Y'all, pretty art studios aren't realistic, it WILL get messy!
IMO, some of the rage about this flip comes from us Millennials and Gen Zers who have largely been priced out of the housing market. It enrages us to see houses stripped of character for profit - character we would have developed if we’d been given the chance. If I recall, OP also mentioned that the house was purchased explicitly as an investment property. It was never going to be sold to an actual homebuyer. And I will be shocked if it doesn’t end up as a rental or an AirBnB. People are mad because this is symptomatic of the housing market now. Homes aren’t made for people anymore, they’re made for investment corporations.
Flippers taking a potentially affordable home renovating it and it's now unaffordable for the people who used to be able to afford a liveable home makes me just a little bit feral. Between the housing market and my disabilities I've basically accepted that I'm never owning my own home and it's going to be a miracle if I can ever afford to live alone
You speak true and this us a worldwide problem. Im in europe and every second hand home is an absurd price and obviously meant as an investment and not a living place. Everyone seems to have 5 houses they dont use and dont care about selling, theyd rather let them rot than lose some imagined profit
Flippers don't fix the structural and important issues with a home, they just do some cute cosmetic changes and call it a day. The ONLY thing they care about is money. If they actually cared about this home, they wouldn't flip it. They'd update it and keep it as an Air BnB, a rental, or their own home. It's so frustrating when thousands of hardworking people can't afford to own a home and then we see stuff like this! That's why they're getting so harassed. I think our collective anger and frustration is just all on them!
Honestly using it as a rental or air bnb is bs as well, just not quite as bad as the flipper bs.
Oooooh, that's a good point about why they're getting hate. They really are doing the most and could learn actual DIY and fixing best practices and share THAT online
@@twitchy_bird well renting it out to people isn't horrible, some people can't afford to buy houses and depend on renting, but air bnb is terrible for the housing market.
One of the big backlashes they got which Jarvis didn't include was them literally just covering a moldy roof panel with a new panel... NOT REMOVING THE MOLDY PART OF THE ROOF, JUST COVERING IT UP!
Like they hid the fact that the house has a health hazard that can be extremely dangerous if you live in a house with mold.
@@jermuhh3359 i think it came out that this clip was from their own house instead of this one that they're flipping, and they actually fixed the mold problem. not 100% sure but that's what i heard
“We’re gonna add some character to this house” *strips away anything and everything that makes the house unique and beautiful*
On the fireplace they also removed the outer hearth which is there for a reason it's so burning embers drop onto it which is made of non combustible material and not carpet or something that is flamable.
Edit : the outer hearth also acts as a demarcation to show do not put anything flammable past this point, getting rid of that means there is no physical warning.
I mean having seen the video, the stones were like coming up out of the ground, not flush to the floor, which can become a tripping hazard, so as long as it gets replaced with something equally fire resistant, like flat stone tile, there nothing inherently wrong with removing those; however, I don't have much faith in this couple to know what fire safety code even is
@@rexana_rexana I think they could have made it slightly smaller as it was large, but not got rid of it entirely it is important as you say they may have put something non computable as the flooring, but the outer hearth also acts as a demarcation to show do not put anything flammable past this point, getting rid of that means there is no physical warning.
I read the comments on the original video and they said it was a gas fireplace so embers weren’t a problem.
@@bluebird_618 are good that was lucky, although wouldn't but it past these two to try and use it as an actual fireplace
The outer hearth being raised up is not necessary, it's actually often not in many homes. I've lived in a couple homes where the inner and outer hearth were level with the floor. Whether that is fire code now, I don't know, that's just what I've lived in, and I've never had a house fire. As long as the outer hearth is expansive enough and is fire proof enough, that is minimum requirement. If fire code nowadays requires an elevated outer hearth then that just goes to show how these house flippers shouldn't be doing what they're doing (and I also don't, but I don't build houses). If they're not following fire code they need to be shut down immediately
As a full time artist I can say that I’d paint over that straight the way. The point of having white walls in a studio is so we can see how are art looks with out interference from other colours from the surrounding space. It also mimics a gallery space plus all white walls allows the space to be as bright as possible for working in natural light.
no one cares 🫵🤡
@@NoSaysJo who asked you?? 💀💀
@@NoSaysJo clown emoji users refusing to give up on their tired, boring insult
@@NoSaysJo 325 people disagree!
@@NoSaysJoI actually hate you
As someone who lives in a flipped house (I didn’t know it was a flip. The owners that lived here hired flippers before they put it on the market) I fucking HATE IT. My house looked so nice for the first two months, but I have to turn off the water to my kitchen sink every night so it doesn’t leak, I can’t open my microwave without unplugging it because it trips a breaker, the wiring is all the rope wrapped wiring, corners are cracking bc they were painted over and there’s no hot water to my bathroom sink.
First house I’ve ever bought and am currently in the process of suing the home inspector and the company they work for due to them not reporting the aspestos the outdated wiring and the lack of hot water to the bathroom.
asbestos???? Jesus christ sue the hell out of them!!
I really, really, really, REALLY! hope you sue the shit out of them and win, because holy shit?!?! that's fucking criminal, what the fuck
I wish you the best with the lawsuit.
Some inspectors are great in some don't care. Am so sorry you didn't get a good one. These kind of things are nothing to just not care about.
it's really sad that we live in a world where house value is based on how it looks and not how it functions...as a house
Damn. Best of luck to you, you deserve the money 100%, the repairs needed for that house is going to be one pain in the ass that you shouldn’t have to deal with in the first place.
Flipping a house should be about REPAIRING a house, not putting ugly band-aids on it..
Also, my parents fixed up our house and they used the stone in their counter to also make a dinner table that was wide enough to fit our big ass family and also it matched the kitchen and honestly my parents should flip houses..
I think that most people are hating on them because of the flex that is messing up a house. TikTok is full of a generation of people who will likely never own homes, and to watch some random people ruin a beautiful home in the name of marketability to investors and rental companies feels like a personal affront.
I think you nailed the reason why people are hating on this couple, partly because that's also exactly what made me hate this couple and I haven't even used tik tok in like 3 or 4 years
Yes!!! It's like a slap in the face. Like you could afford to buy this house and THIS is what you choose to do with it??
@@BeehiveBoy such a beautiful house too. some houses have that really nasty 70s aesthetic with shag carpets and brown everywhere but this house was almost perfect. it had style while still being somewhat modern. the open space, the white walls and kitchen, beautiful studio, massive backyard. it was a perfect home for a family and they just utterly destroyed it.
I wonder what could be causing people to not be able to afford a home. [Looks at landlords and house-flippers jacking up house prices]
The internet is very passionate about a lot of things, but I think most people would ignore someone's questionable personal taste if they were at least making an effort to make something better.
Attaching a foam beam to a ceiling and hanging a light off it is stupid, but easily fixable. Having a very generic "mural" painted in an art room where any artist is likely to want to showcase their own work is, again, stupid but easily fixable. Ruining a fireplace to the extent that the new buyer will have to tear the whole thing out themselves and filling a swimming pool that just needed some repair with concrete... less so.
Then there's the fact everything they've done was cosmetic so why exactly was this house so unsellable? A lot of the time properties like this sit abandoned because they have severe structural issues, electrical issues or other very expensive problems that the average buyer is just not going to want to deal with. I think that's what the internet is really so upset about - another pair of slumlords doing the barest minimum to turn a profit and leaving behind a huge, expensive (and likely undisclosed - always have your own inspections done when buying a home!) mess for the buyer to put right.
From hobbit core to cottage core- WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE THOSE ARE THE SAME THING. ALSO IT WAS ALREADY COTTAGE CORE.
Calling a house cottagecore is wild though. Like it’s not a cottage and if it was a cottage it wouldn’t be “cottagecore” it would be a cottage
@@oneiriceuthymia Yeah I’m aware, I’m saying calling a HOUSE housecore is illogical
@@oneiriceuthymia Yeah I know it’s not what I said, I used different words to try and explain what I said in a different way
@@oneiriceuthymia Like an apartment makes sense because it’s not a single building. Calling a house “cottagecore” makes no sense because that just *is* a cottage. It’s not cottagecore it’s a cottage.
@@DeathnoteBB
Lmao you’re getting hung up on semantics. “Cottagecore” isn’t meant to be taken literally, it’s an aesthetic that really doesn’t have that much to do with cottages and is more about overall vibes of nature and cutesy, idealized rural living.
"We wanted to add some character to the house."
*proceeds to remove all the character*
"We were able to remove the old wallpaper from the door and expose that beautiful wood!" *Proceeds to cover it in beige paint* 🤦♀🤦♀
I am an interior designer and yes, faux beams are used often when budget does not allow for a real/box beam, but typically they 1. look better 2. are on higher ceilings so you can't see the snickers bar thing. Also, they should NOT have mounted a light to that. Those poor renters. Also landlords suck
+1
The beam doesn’t look good honestly
they honestly could have made a hollow beam with wood, but no they used foam...
@@sup8668 not to mention the beam looks so thick
I would never have that in my artists studio... Shelves are useful, wall paint is not.
The most heart breaking thing to me is that indoor garden. I was imagining putting a koi pond in there and how magical that'd be. And then she points to a teeny tiny pond that couldn't even hold 1 full grown koi and says it'd be perfect 🥲 please no.
Plus, you wouldn't have to be outside in the crazy heat to enjoy it.
Wow, this comment unlocked some random info I didn't even know I knew, lol. Koi fish are not small, some fish can get sunburned, and I believe there are some reported cases of fish developing melanoma actually. I don't think that's a good location for a fish pond in general. I would be worried about the effect of run off on the water quality. Apparently it rains a lot in southern Florida, so maybe it could be a cute, shallow little decorative pond instead.
And that fact that they seem to think that indoor garden space and outdoor garden space are equal “it’s okay that we destroyed a perfect greenhouse look how much dirt is outside”
I was thinking how amazing it was to have a garden space that was mosquito-free!
I agree with the person whose comment was screenshot for the video that fixing the pool would've been a better investment than a concrete slab -- there's a reason screened-in pools are so common in Florida and it's because people want pools they can actually enjoy.
I don’t understand why so many people are calling it a greenhouse or thinking that space is indoors/not in the heat? Maybe this is just a Florida thing, but it is 100% outside. It is a concrete pool deck that has a screen around it. We call it a lanai. The only thing that’s maybe throwing people off is there is no pool because it was filled in with dirt, which is very strange. It must have got a crack in the foundation and was too expensive to fix and too dangerous to leave a giant empty hole so they filled it in.
Omg the fireplace with the stained glass stickers behind it looked so gorgeous. And that greenhouse, omg! Just leave the shelves there and keep the plants and you can do your art there. Instead now you have a mural that doesn’t look great and limits what you can do with that wall
they did not in fact lean into the 1970. 😭 the garden was a purposeful punishment . Nobody is gonna bake themselves alive in a fucking greenhouse in the Florida heat but the plants would’ve loved it 😭😭😭😭
Not to mention the dirt and plants would’ve helped to cool the area whereas the concrete is a literal heat sink.
@@tarettime9392 yes . I do not understand why people buy old homes and gut the parts that make them valuable or special just to opt for the most bland not up to code garbage
Obviously people shouldn't threaten/harass them, but if they choose to put this project onto a public forum, they are openly inviting discussions into their decisions. Just because those discussions are ripping them to shreds doesn't mean everyone is just a hater. You've presented work, and it's being judged. That's how that works.
You're 100% correct. The internet can be ruthless, but putting things out on a public platform is inviting criticism - which people attempting to sell a home should listen to if they are trying to appeal to buyers.
Also houseflippers do this work to be able to charge more. Ppl i guess are mad they pay 100k more for turd styrofoam on the ceiling 😂😂
I agree and disagree, because something being online doesn't justify cruelty. However, something being online, you requesting other people's thoughts, and then wanting to also sell the thing for a profit?
Yeah. You're gonna get some spicy responses
Yeah… this. Don’t say “what do you think?” And then get upset when people tell you what they think. Obviously bullying isn’t cool but none of the comments shown here are bullying, just roasting their choices and taste.
I say amateur flippers deserve every criticism they get. That goes for all of them. They don't add value to homes, they cause or cover up potentially life threatening issues within homes all the time, and frankly these people have no business trying to ruin more houses for profit.
These types should be bullied off of public forums because the last fucking thing we need is more of these idiots running around playing contractor.
it’s infuriating that amateur house flippers with no construction or contracting experience buy perfectly liveable houses to make a profit when there are families who genuinely wants the house and can’t afford them because everyone thinks their foam beams and amazon stick on tiles are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in markup
FOR REAL
As a Floridian myself, it pisses me off seeing this happen in todays housing market, everything’s so god damn expensive and here this bitch is sticking fake wood on a roof that doesn’t need it, and you know damn well she’s gonna sell that house as if that wood was real
That’s why it’s always worth while to send the sellers a letter! My bestie got her home over higher offers simply because she wrote a letter to the seller her intentions and how much she adored the home.
"replaced it with a more mid century light" IT ALREADY WAS A MIDCENTURY LIGHT! AND THEY TOOK IT OFF! TO REPLACE IT WITH A MINIMALIST CHANDELIER! OH MY GOD!
“They won’t have issues finding garden space.” Do they…. Think greenhouses are for plants suited to the natural habitat and only for the specific season they can grow? Do they…. Know what a greenhouse is………….
I don't think they know anything
I guess, to be fair, it's Florida and it looks like there isn't a big climate difference between outside and a greenhouse? (I've never been to Florida, I'm guessing from the video) But it would have been way cooler to have an inside garden art studio with the nice shelves, I agree
@@InayaezaMost Floridian weather can be very turbulent and change quickly, a green house would keep the conditions a plant is growing in more constant, giving it a better chance to grow
As someone who wants to garden that part genuinely upset me
That’s not a green house, that’s a screened porch so you can sit outside without the bugs getting to you or so your pool stays clean. The temp is the same because it’s literally a net around that structure. Y’all are ridiculous 😒
As an artist, I agree with the other artists in these comments. They did that studio space dirty. HOW DARE YOU PUT THAT BEAUTIFUL SHELF IN THE GARAGE OF ALL PLACES. and the phrase "new port richey" makes my skin want to crawl off my body.
New Port Richey is the name of the town.
@@cruztastrophe yeah, but who wants to live in a house that has the name of their town painted on the wall? the only people i could think that is for are tourists, airb&b patrons. no person is going to want to live in a house permanently that has text they didnt choose painted on the wall itself. guaranteed, if they somehow manage to sell this home, it will be promptly painted over
@@cruztastropheI know where I live, I don’t need my house to tell me!
@@SailorMoonLogic some people are proud of where they live and like the references to it. I can see this one going either way. I wouldn't use it as an art studio and I would probably keep the mural up.
I was born in new port richey 🥹
15:45 dude the area she said would be perfect for koi fish is actually so tiny. Kois can literally grow over a foot long, that could maybe fit like one baby and even then it’d probably be miserable and cramped
You just know she thinks goldfish should be kept in a bowl
I keep fish, and I can't believe I didn't even think about that.
Environmentalists my ass
My family did this with beta fish growing up...I am so sorry to those poor fish. My mom has fish now but they're in a 55 gallon aquarium and have plenty of places to hide. They share the tank with a pleco (what I called "sucker fish" as a kid, because they stick to the sides of the tank and eat the algea) and the pleco has been in there for...7 years now! He's huge and my mom calls him Big John, I think 😅. I'm happy she's not keeping fish in small bowls anymore.
Dude this is actually so devastating because I want a charming colourful quant home not fluorescent lighting and white paint. Everyone is trying to "fix" these homes when I'd fight tooth and nail to have a home like this one day.
THEY ARE LITERALLY JUST RIPPING THE PERSONALITIES OUT OF THESE HOUSES AND IT MAKES ME SO SO SAD
yea like i love how they say that "oh we know that this house has a 1970 vibe and where gonna lean hard into that" and just never did that lol
@@dusk2308Who needs personality and character when you have gray?
@@ILikeCornYouKnow it goes with everything! 😄
Not using PPE and letting insulation fall right onto your face is wild. I'm gonna guess they didn't test for lead paint or asbestos either
its genuinely so dangerous for them and others 💀
okay different comment but i was watchinf it anr they NO PPE WENT AFTER A POPCORN CEILINF??? THATS STRUAGHT ASBESTOS WHAT THE FUCK
ok edit he wore a mask. nothing else. and WENT STRAIGHT INTO ASSSBESSTOOOSSSS.
Hate to say it, but they won't be flipping for much longer with this lack of basic safety.
iirc they also painted over dark coloured mold in the "indoor porch" ceiling without even batting an eye or considering getting it tested 🥴🥴
it’s natural selection at this point
Before these videos I was ambivalent to house flippers but now my hatred for them rivals my hatred for landlords.
The removal of the window fixtures that were OBVIOUSLY SETUP TO MITIGATE HEAT AND HELP KEEP THE HOUSE COOL is what radicalized me. Like how unaware of the surrounding climate of the home can you be???
All I could think when she pulled off the trellis from those windows is "wow, those are some really ugly windows".
The house already has a lot of natural light in other spaces including the art room and sun room, they just made the exterior look objectively worse.
I'm not sympathetic. It's hard enough finding affordable housing as it is, just for people like this to come in and ruin permanent, original features of a house while objectively just making it worse, just to rack up the cost of the house anyway. If I have money to blow on an expensive house, the last thing I'd want in it is poopy foam on a ceiling and a fireplace that looks like it's made out of plaster. You'd have to undo everything they just did, which would cost you more.
Lived in Spain for 7 years. The traditional buildings have tiny windows and no AC, for a reason. It's the only way to keep out the heat as much as you can.
That's the worst part about this. Setting all the design choices aside and chalking it up to personal tastes is whatever, but there are OBECTIVELY bad decisions here that lack any forethought or experience. Removing the shade from the windows and adding a giant concrete slab to a green house that will raise heating costs and severely limit what kind of plants they can grow, saying that tiny tub can house koifish, removing storage from a studio, putting a mural of your design on a wall, removing the outer hearth on the fireplace, constant unnecessary additions like structurally questionable foam. There is personal tastes, then there is just plain stupid. I'm sure somebody will buy it though and that's all they'll need to justify doing this even more.
they reduced the value of that fireplace by thousands if not tens of thousands, all the cost of undoing their shoddy craftsmanship. it went from a selling point to a cost for buyers.
As an artist myself, my soul bled when they decided to get rid of the much needed shelf to replace it with a useless mural. They could have chosen any other room for that mural and it would have been better. As an artist, you need storage room for a lot of stuff: paintings, drawings, canvases, paper, brushes, pencils, water cups ... There can't be enough storage room in a studio. So sad.
put it in the garage. Leave the shelves where they were, maybe add more
Yes, I would have loved having that shelving unit to decorate and placing my art supplies on!
Those shelves are a dreammmmm i audibly gasped at how sick they r and how much stuff I could fit in so annoyed
Add on top of that: most artists wouldn't be pleased having someone else's art take up an entire wall in their personal studio -- especially if it's someone's they don't know, and especially if it's a tacky mural with words
RIGHT! An art studio is meant for MAKING art, not VIEWING art. I would have loved to have a studio!
I am so genuinely upset that they RUINED the fireplace. It was so beautiful and would've looked great with a tile-wood flooring or something, but no. Now it's doomed to never be seen in it's full glory again.
Can’t wait for artisanal crafting like woodworking and stained glass to come back en masse when people want to undo these flipped houses back to their original style.
this is my biggest hope for the future
the people with creative perspectives can rarely afford it, not to mention the dunning-kruger effect. basically the people who could make it better often know that there are others who could do it even better, whereas skill-less hacks like this think they're gods at interior design.
I think houses should only be modified if you plan on living in it yourself, no one will want this house
Unfortunately most of the people who know how to do those techniques are dead by now, and the ones still practicing charge through the roof for materials and labor (justifiably so).
So we will probably never get a Victorian revival. These architectural artifacts really are priceless; once destroyed, they can't be recreated without really extreme measures (if at all). Sometimes in life you only get one chance not to mess up.
21:21 "we replaced this modern ugly lamp that gives no light with an even uglier even more modern light that gives even less light"
And blinds you at many angles. I hate lights like that
And it's not even "mid century"! It's extremely modern and is gonna look extremely dated in like, five years
I don't even think the old lamp was ugly. I actually quite liked it.
@@parrot998 Same. The old lamp looked cool. I would have loved it
As an artist, I'm CRYING at the loss of that incredible storage wall to be replaced with some coffee shop art 😭 And concrete in the greenhouse was just depressing
I wouldn’t care if they did this to their own house. Crazy to flip this pos
I’m an architect and this stuff drives me bonkers. You’d never see a real light fixture attached to the bottom of a real exposed beam bc where would the wiring go??? Where’s the junction box? If you’re going to fake it at least understand how real construction works bc that’s a dead giveaway!
If you’re buying property look out for things like that and def avoid homes sold by house flipper types. Chances are they cheaped out on the reno and you’d be buying a lemon of a house.
To be fair even though its a fake foam beam there probably still isn't any kind of junction box...
Would you see a lot of wooden beams running directly into the updraft of a fireplace?
This has me remember that buying property in my country, Austria, has very specific conditions to prevent house flipping and I'm starting to think that's a good thing.
I think we need that here in the States too. There are quite a few house flipping shows on TV and I'm starting to hate house flippers
Limiting housing as a commodity? Le gasp
Your country is right. If you are not planning on living in the house at all then don't touch all this stuff. Or at least fix actually meaningful things like roofs, get an electrician to make sure wiring is good, redo plumbing, etc. But that actually takes skill and money so why not just ruin everything and move on.
@@ambiarock590 In my country (Hungary) if you resell your house within 5 years after getting it (regarless from it being given to you as an inheritance, a gift or you bought it), you have to pay an INSANE amount of taxes from the price that you sell it for. I assume this is to prevent house flipping. I knew one couple who were doing this house flipping but they actually knew very well what they were doing and did an actual fix to the problems. But also, house flipping would be pretty hard and risky to do in Hungary because house prices in general are going up so fast (with renovarion and construction supply prices also skyrocketing) that you cannot work fast and cheap enough to make any profit on a house you try to flip
maybe ill move to hungary or austria. at least i wouldnt end up with plastic countertops and foam beams
Person who caught the fireplace early on Instagram prior to comments being turned off, most of the comments on the fireplace were from regular people saying "honestly it looks like shit sorry", and experts from home design and construction pointing out reasonable flaws about the construction. My favorite is architects and interior designing living paragraphs about how awful it was and how "not seventies at all" the renovations were.
Also, they were trying to moderate and clearly deleting comments before turning them off. They also only responded to positive ones, really didn't seem like that have thick skin, so take the "hate" with a grain of salt.
85% of it was genuine criticism. (Might be typoes tied this out quick before I forgot)
thank you so much for the context for the now turned off comments!! you're a blessing truly
@arsena5209 you're welcome! I watched this mess when it first started and love to share my knowledge.
YES i remember this too!! people were saying stuff like "i wouldn't even comment something negative but you literally asked how it looked and i don't like it"
@@annamorris9595 Yup, I was also there when comments were turned on, and so many comments were "please know I mean this in a constructive way, but this looks really bad, sorry" like ??? So many people were being polite about it. I legit think they decided to buy a house to farm rage bait. Decided they'd make some of the worst possible choices, so that they could get tons of engagement from people that obviously aren't gonna like it.
I was one of the people commenting on the insta and yeah it was mostly people just saying it looked bad, it was when they started saying they got hate that people started being assholes. I remember people saying "you asked what we thought and we all thought it was shit"
They could have used all of their money to replace the stuff covering the windows with properly sealed windows, shutters, insulation and a modern air conditioning mechanism (or whatever is appropriate for Florida's climate) so they could have more light while staying comfortable. But that stuff is expensive and takes research and experts, and won't necessarily look aesthetic on social media, so they would rather make more money from selling it to a landlord who rents it to people who definitely won't be informed about the mould.
I despise flippers. Especially when they take an already livable house and add crap to it just to bump up the price. They're basically ticket scalpers, but pretend that to add value to a home with their renovations. In reality, most people care more about about the location of a home than it's style. But since we're in a housing shortage, people will buy the house, no matter how inflated the price is.
ticket scalpers that also charge 60% more of the original price because they put it an envelope. It'll be 80% more if they added a green or orange paperclip if there's more than one ticket
I think it's really interesting the way she speaks about the house. I get that a house might have issues and you might not be able to preserve everything, but starting out by saying "I promise we'll keep the house in the same style" and then ending up saying "no, but I swear we needed to get rid of this unique feature for a super good reason, pinky promise" a bunch of times is so strange. At that point just say you don't intend to keep the style.
it gives off the vibes that they just said it for views, in no way did they attempt to keep the style, the fireplace was fine, no one really pointed this out but they said it was too hard to clean? Grout is very cleanable though, also the fake stained glass was perfectly fine, it wasn't even like it was bold and obnoxious, it was in light colors and just added to the look of the house
Removing the popcorn ceiling the way they did is insane bc almost all popcorn ceilings from before the 80’s were FILLED with asbestos 💀 Idk if that little respirator would actually help all that much and now there’s asbestos dust everywhere
hopefully it works fast s/
That shit is fucking terrifying like seriously 😨
My sister had to get rid of asbestos and it required a true remediation team. It gets everywhere and you need pros to get rid of it.
Asbestos was banned in 1973. Given where that house is located, it was almost certainly built after that. I know because my grandparents lived there in the late-70s and bought their house new.
@@KRAMITDFROG I have some depressing news for you in that just because something was banned doesn’t mean it wasn’t used. My college claimed we couldn’t possibly have asbestos in our dorms because of when it was put in. Ten years later when I was visiting my hometown they were fully remediating my old dorm because of the asbestos. My mom refused to test her plates for lead because of when they were made. I forced the issue by sending her lead tests and the plates had a ton of lead.
22:39 Just a little fact here, popcorn ceilings can possibly have asbestos in them. You have to get them tested before you take them down, and since this middle aged white woman didn't make her husband wear gloves or eyeware when he was cutting into the ceiling made of wall cotton candy (which can have fiberglass), I doubt she got anything tested. Good luck at the funeral!
😂😂😂
ART is subjective. DESIGN has clearly defined rules and techniques.
OMG THANK YOU I went to a technical and design school and in the subject that could be picked to the third finals in was maths or design studies because it’s as much of a science
art does as well, taste is subjective, but art forms too have techniques that can be very objectively done well or poorly
@@StormSoughtFalse Equivalency.
Just because the parts of the whole can be objectively measured, does not mean the whole can be.
See: Humans, unless you do not believe all humans are equal?
@@bobSeigar Okay so I said the techniques could be assessed objectively, and if you want to be joylessly pedantic, design is actually subjective as well, it's still about taste. Both of these things have objective and subjective elements.
Humans, in regards to what?
@@StormSought Oh, you're one of those.
Enjoy the relativism.
The German Schmear technique seems like it's only supposed to be done on even-looking stone brick. Even white-washing, which I think is similar but uses thinner "schmear", works better on brick. Also, I'm pretty sure this is the same couple that also didn't like the tile in the washroom and poured CONCRETE on it, which is just a whole new awful thing to do because of how hard it would be to remove it.
They really should have brought a contractor in to show them what needs fixing first, then do all the extraneous decor stuff after... they really don't know what they're doing I swear
your points about the schmear and whitewashing are correct. these techniques are not intended for natural stone, they were developed as construction techniques for brick
They are indeed the couple who poured concrete over a tile floor. And we still don't know if they bothered to have it sealed. Considering it's CONCRETE which is extremely porous, they could be looking at major cracks in the future, and be unable to easily remove it :)
You missed the one where they find black mold and hide it by gluing wood on top, so whoever buy that house will never know there's mold whiteout removing the wood panel
I hate that garbage. That makes me think that they also did zero repairs on an older home in an area that is in a flooding and hurricane zone. More than likely water damage and roof damage (and those are expensive to fix; likely why others passed over it.)
Oh my gosh, so the one creative project I didn't hate was just to hide mold -- how despicable!
Decorative beams on the ceiling are an established thing that a lot of people install (and have done for ages). It's usually wood or plastic, but yeah, increasingly foam. No it is not in any way structural, and should not hold a light or any other load, other than some other small pieces of foam, and some paint. That said, you CAN cut a hole through the foam, and install a light into the ceiling, with the decorative cap on the foam beam, to give the impression that the light is installed on the beam (which if you think about it for even a second, proves that the beam is fake, since solid wood does not deliver electricity to chandeliers).
It was too expensive for flipping to fix the pool, so they made it more expensive for the home owner to fix the pool.
Gotta be some of the most short-sighted and least empathetic individuals on the planet.
And yet they spent a ton of money on that stupid concrete stage or whatever it is supposed to be now. Concrete work is very expensive. And it wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't done right (which would cost a whole lot more) and will start to crack and delaminate.
@@bubba99009 Oh gosh you're right! Then it becomes a structural health and safety hazard. I swear these people are making instagram set pieces more than renovating a home.
@bubba99009 Yup. The civil engineer in me hates absolutely everything about filling and overflowing an empty pool with concrete and then trying to sell it as a... something, I guess 🤦🏼😅 And you're absolutely correct that it wasn't done right, because there isn't a "right" way to do that (other than actually demolishing the pool)
…it’s their house. And how are they supposed to magically get the money to do something they flat out can’t afford?
They are not saying they should've fixed the pool, just that they should've left it alone,made it a garden,not filling it with concrete...then,if the next owner felt like getting the pool done, it would've been more doable ...they probably won't even know there is a pool underneath all that.
I saw the comments before they got taken down, and pretty much 90% were begging her not to do the german schmear and or suggesting alternatives for the fireplace instead of the schmear