Remember when house flipping used to be buying houses that were uninhabitable, old, falling apart, and turning them into livable spaces ? Now it’s taking normal livable houses, doing this to them and then selling them at 10x the price you spent.
yeah, it went from a hobby/job that a handful of people who really enjoyed carpentry/construction wanted to do, to save money. Now a bunch of yuppies have found out they can pull a crypto - artificially inflate the value by fluffing up it's outward appearance using cheap tricks, without actually providing anything of value, then selling it before people realize that all they've bought is a house of cards and an empty promise.
it’s because houses that are in that state aren’t in the kinds of neighborhoods with lots of money. the people doing this don’t care to build livable houses for people who actually need housing, they’re doing it to make the biggest profit possible. and on the off-chance they do flip houses in poor neighborhoods, all they’re gonna do is gentrify the area to shit and push the poorer individuals out of their communities.
This has always been the case, it was just that back then not many people did this, and if they did they made it a Career so they had to make it up to regulation with the increase of scrutiny. Even then, if the laws weren’t in place they took dangerous short cuts, and even still deregulation is a problem.
Every example of the German smear has been with bricks???? If they're planning to flip a place, they really ought to consult an interior decorator before they ruin a house.
i was working as a transaction coordinator for a real estate company in southeast texas after harvey hit and ohhh boy, it was bad. people with absolutely no qualifications or experience were flocking to buy fully gutted houses so they could “flip” them cheap. the sheer amount of houses being sold (most commonly to first time homebuyers) with shoddy construction and horrible patch jobs was genuinely upsetting. and for whatever godforsaken reason, any amount of brick or stone was *always* covered with either german smear or whitewash. even on the exterior. i’ll never understand it honestly.
really the worst surface to use that technique on, when you need that large of gaps filled in between the stones it absolutely does not work. the smear is all about using a small amount of mortar its supposed to enhance the masonry not overpower it!!!!!!!
The biggest reason it doesn't look good is because those are not Bricks! They are stone and stone has a flow to it that was beautifully captured in the original fireplace. By covering it they blocked so much of the natural flow that it changed not only the color but the entire shape of the fireplace. Wow.
The Fake Beam is one thing when its your Own Home you intend on living in, but trying to sell it to someone as an Upgrade to the space? Disgraceful. Disgusting.
Legit. Like this is the kind of shit you make for props in your high school play, not a permanent installment in someone's home. It's absurd, the visual won't hold up under scrutiny, not to mention they undoubtedly mark up the price significantly on their sub-par DIY project.
@officerdeath oh so thats why all your comments are just copy pasted from the main one. keep up the good work bonus points for using female as an insult
People used to flip cheap, falling-apart houses and make them liveable and charming. Now, house flippers are taking liveable, charming homes and making them ridiculously expensive and falling apart
@@sami-tw7qk Do you joke about the cake looking like something else? My Mom's Yule Log cakes never look right lol they taste great tho, plus she does popcorn balls * stöllen. So she cool with me.
I worked in insurance property claims and see so many people with damage to their home caused by flippers doing shoddy work. Especially in the bathroom. They'll incorrectly install a tub not meant to be built in, and then suddenly it's leaking and causing mold and water damage. But then insurance says we can't cover it because it's due to improper workmanship, not a covered cause of loss. It's really upsetting.
Our realtor couldn’t say “don’t buy a house that’s been flipped” but she would keep say “This house is a flip” as we would walk through the house. After the second time of her saying that in the first house, I got the message and never considered another.
This is why it's really important to hire a good inspector before buying a house. Any house. Even if you THINK it looks good. Never trust outward appearances!
Yes. We bought our house in 2015, it had been a rental that the owners decided to spruce up & sell. We found out only a couple years in that every. single. renovation. they’d done was done BADLY. Mold absolutely everywhere in the main bathroom, as well as the drywall cracking. Everything was done so shoddily, and now that we want to sell soon ourselves, we have a massive uphill battle to fix all of it, correctly this time.
Yep, this is why I shun at “diy” projects that should be left to a professional, or someone with more knowledge on the topic. Sure, change your shower head, do decor DIYs, or furniture pieces, not actual electrician or plumbing work
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 board and rip it all out to be replaced with the cheapest plastic windows and plastic board, they'll paint everything white, split it into flats and then just sell it for a extra 100,000 and therefore locals can not afford anywehere in the town.
Oh lord, the 100+ year old house i live in was sold to us with white paint globbing up all the windows and balcony doors, the doors were near impossible to open, and many of the windows are still stuck!!! Awful awful awful. There are still globs and strings of paint dried in the cracks
@@ebenezer-scroogewasnt a flipper but we sold my childhood home with a nice front and backyard, turns out they completely paved the front yard and added a pool in the backyard 🥲 ik its not my house anymore but damn is it sad
I saw a gorgeous Victorian MANSION in downtown Detroit under construction and they ripped out the ENTIRE back and replaced it with floor to ceiling windows on all three floors. I felt my heart break in real time
I was genuinely distraught when they even mentioned doing anything to the fireplace I’m lowkey sad this couple has ruined the centerpiece of that house just to sell its for 5x what they spent on it
Exactly, like hello?? Second breakfast? They have so many fun little meals and they just chill. Unproblematic and in their lane, undeserving of this slander
The foam wooden beam is just weird. Its not a movie set, this is a place some ones going to live. if we can tell its fake on camera its going to be really obvious to people actually there. its tacky, whats the point?
rachel maksy actually put a foam beam in her house but she painted and sculpted it and it looks so much better than this monstrosity 🫠 still absurd to try and sell but they could've at least tried jfc
@officerdeathis this the new bot strategy? Doesn't really make sense tbh. If someone was reading and liking replies they would be able to tell you just steal
I have moved a lot in my life. The first thing I noticed about this house is that the fireplace looks odd because there's no furniture in the room. The walls are white. If you put in a few pieces of furniture and put something on the wall and lay down some carpets, the original fireplace would look like it was part of a room. You don't want to redo a fireplace based on how it looks in an empty room. Of course it stands out. It's the only thing in the room! Don't try to fix it.
Honestly i thought the original fireplace would had looked a lot nicer if they had put wood panneling on the walls or somthing, bringing the colors of it into the rest of the room.
house flippers combine the immortality of landlord messing up both homes and the housing market, with the terrible tact and taste of people who buy up all the good furniture at thrift stores, slap cheap paint and ugly hardware on it, and sell it for 5× the price
I genuinely think house flippers are worse than landlords. Ultimately a middle class person should be able to buy a home, that's what single family houses are supposed to be for. Flippers cause regular people to be priced out of the market for those houses.
Corporatization. Everything striving to live in a capitalist system gets watered down and washed out until it's stripped of all individuality or vision. People don't do it on purpose but to fit into the culture of such a space they copy everyone else. It's anticulture culture.
They applied it so incorrectly too. Just cover the whole thing with a thin layer and wipe off the bricks or rocks you want to pop out. She basically just grouted the rocks and it looks like she forgot to clean it off before it set
What annoyed me the most about this whole thing is that they end their videos or put in the caption, "What do you guys think?" or something to that affect but then would be annoyed when people didn't like it? I can understand being frustrated if you didn't ask for opinions, but explicitly asking for opinions then being annoyed when people give them is just... dumb
Also, why put this out to begin with? Why can't these people just be happy making a fckton of money by being parasites leeching of the housing market, why do they need to be internet famous too?
@@soymilkman But getting a million views on TikTok pays like 20-40 dollars. How on earth is it worth it making that many people hate you for pocket change, especially since they probably already make a loooot by flipping houses
Lol seriously. The thing is that normally people ask that in order to increase engagement, good or bad, yet these people TURN THE COMMENTS OFF. Like, they're just mindlessly copying what they hear other content creators say 🙃
There was this one house flipper that actually restored Victorian houses in America. Instead of gutting them with cheap, new materials, she would usually find actual antique wood and glass etc and use that to replace damaged features. And anything that couldn't be replaced with a contempory original piece, was restored using well crafted, solid pieces made to mimic the time the house was built in. It was really beautiful. And it actually used to be my dream to restore an old Victorian house in that same way, but now that sounds like an absolute money pit to me. I actually like the totally opposite style for myself now, which is midcentury modern. I know it's not as popular as it was a few years ago, but I still love it and it's an easier way to scratch that restoration itch
Yes! Did you ever see the old Rehab Addict show? Not sure if she is who you’re talking about but she renovated homes in Detroit (I think) with such love and care!
Last year, a home a family member built themselves in the 70s got renovated by someone and it was made super modern. It honestly was really sad. Seeing the home I used to go to every Thanksgiving turned into a modern nightmare. They were also using the family member who had died recently at the time’s story of building the house to gain exposure on social media because of his story
God what a scummy thing for them to do, no respect for his story, just looking to profit. RIP to your family member and I’m so sorry they ruined something he worked so hard on.
@@deltasaves No he's doing it up & down the page on a bunch of threads. A few things he's answered as a real comment have been really aggro. He deploys "female" as a slur against someone else who asked if he was a bot or ok our what so compassion might be something you should be wary about with this one. It's usually my first impulse too but sometimes sh-theads will sh-thead.
@@Polyeurythane There were viral 90s Business Motivation people dumdum destructive folk like Oprah pushed that used this as a strategy. She's responsible for some bad sh-t.
I still hate flippers but I guess it's not totally immoral if you live there during Renos & it's being done by a qualified person. Not all contractors are skilled/qualified people tho. I mean lots of other people have had to FIX contractor projects. My good friend is the Green Builder equivalent of the 2nd plastic surgeon someone sees -- the one you go to for brutal honesty & a Fix-It Plan that's detailed + lengthy + well reasoned, & will hold your hand while you tremble with fear reading it, & go thru the pricing, steps, what has to be done when & what can be put off, & how to budget + prep for it. She almost exclusively makes a living off fixing grievous errors another "qualified contractor" made. A fraction is from DIY. A lot of people get mislead by contractors.
That fireplace is already cottage core tho??? Immediately i thought about lining the walls with bookshelves, replacing the flooring with wood slats, putting plants everywhere. Like an actual cottagecore mixed with witchy vibes look, why do flippers have to ruin everything with white...
I genuinely think it’s because most of them write up a script instead of just talking off the cuff in their video. Then, they read the script trying to sound normal but it just sounds like this garbage instead
@@rob-tt3hb I also get massively triggered by the Tik Tok voice as well, it just hits the rage button for some reason lol. Same with the ASMR voice that is very popular now and the combination Tik Tok ASMR voice (this is the worst imo).
I don't understand why it is so hard for some people to read from a script and not have the most stilted pacing and flat affect. Kids in school, okay, they're still learning. But grown adults? Influencers need to level up their voice acting and literacy.
It's called the "influencer accent" and it derives from the most annoy accent in the world, the valley girl accent. It's mean to keep people interested but when I hear it I know the video has nothing of value and swipe.
The room my sister, who is allergic to mold, lives in had mold covered up and she became very ill without any clue of what was causing it. It was only after a lot of severe health issues and bills we found out there was mold. It's a serious issue
Destroying a classic fireplace, adding a foam beam, and hiding mold to sell a cheap but beautiful house for more expensive is just classic flipper. But most do nothing, just sit on it (usually unoccupied), change nothing, & resell it months to a year later for huge profit with NO work. It's depressing. They go for the lowest rung of the price range, which is what poorer people need, so I wish these flippers would stop. The "our own house" update is imo do what you want. But buying a house to make your kitchshy sh!t is annoying.
Nothing quite gets to me like destroying old natural materials. Wood gets to me because it makes me think of human history and everything that had to go into that tree's life, harvesting, and finishing. But stone gets to me even more because it is often older than we can fully conceptualize and had to have the exact perfect circumstances to look exactly as unique and special as each rock does. You can get a similar vibe with newly purchased stones, but it will never be that same rock again I'm less attached to some of the man-made materials, especially ones that were low cost and never meant to last, but I still find value in making a conscious and collective effort to save some of those materials. They represent advancements in technology, design, economy, personal/cultural values, and they're such a cool time capsule to see a snapshot of what we were like generations past
This is so beautifully put. It hurts so much to see all of that energy wasted. Resources used to produce objects, just so they can be discarded while still perfectly fine. Where did it grow? How old was it? Where from? Did anybody consider the repercussion to nature, of removing said materials? Has that energy returned to the place, to nourish species and provide shelter? Who has made this? How much effort has been put into it? Do we really think, at this rate, we can do this forever? I hate our wasteful and careless nature.
i'm genuinely concerned about the foam beam having electric wires put through it... like, it will not support that chandelier for very long either, but did they consider how hot wires get when theyre left on for a long time? like they would be if they were the main light source in a public room of the house???
what kind of tiny garbage wires do yall use in the us jesus cables shouldnt even get warm to the touch, even under 24/7 load unless your wires are undersized then again i dont trust these people to properly size cables either
@@LuluTheCorgi Even if you use a specific size of wire, you shouldnt put live wires through foam. Its just. Asking for a Real Bad Time. Physics will always win!
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 You're almost deliberately missing the point in order to be pedantic to try and win points. The comment was explicitly replying to "did they consider how hot wires get when theyre left on for a long time" and the CORRECTLY pointed out that NO, your wires should NOT be getting hot REGARDLESS. But you needed to feel superior and to prove to everyone how intelligent you are didn't you? Unfortunately you've done the opposite. Remember, better to remain quiet and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
@@kezia8027 ... Did you sleep okay you seem rather tetchy? This is a sincere question. Like. You jumped immediately to the worst conclusion and are like. Super aggressive about it?? To a complete stranger online. So uh. You doing... Okay there??
In a traditional German schmear, you cover most or all the area and then remove some of the mortar from the rock face (think: splatter paint), so this actually isn’t timeless at all. Took me two minutes to confirm that.
"fixer upper" and it's the most divine, pristine house with no problems whatsoever. The one thing I don't like is the tile flooring, but even then it literally just needs a big rug
The way I sat here like a veteran getting war flashbacks whenever they did ANYTHING to that house. Oh my God, put these people on a list of "Do not let buy interesting houses."
On top of disliking house flipping for it increasing the prices of houses, in a market where a majority of people cannot afford a house, this couple also has 0 idea how to do a good job.
If I was a house selling agent or whatever I would definitely bully these guys so they'd sell this house to my client for under 200 dollars due to the renovation ruining most things that were in there
Damn that "schmeared" fireplace reminds me of the time my dad let his apprentice practice pointing on the back of our house. Little did I know this newbie was following centuries of tradition
My partner bought a house where the previous owner did all the renovations himself, and they were very halfassed. The foam beam and the fireplace seems like something that would've been my partners house "before" and what my partner would've had to fix. Ofcourse, his house was so much worse but it's definietely the same genre. (Example of home reno: a DIY bathtub that was too big for the bathroom so a door couldnt fit. Yeah, there was no door to the bathroom... The bathrub was also in front of the window!! omg)
Ah, this reminds me of how UK houses are built these days. :,) I live in a house that was built in mid 90s. (I guess it's 30 years old now, but I can assure you such practices, and even more outrageous ones, are happening to this day) When we decided to get a new bath tub, it turned out the old one was 5cm longer than the space for it. Builders cut out a bit of plaster board and stuck it into the wall. xD
We've bought 2 houses in 30 years. My husband refuses to buy any house except newly constructed. He grew up with his parents constantly buying old homes from the 1700's and renovating them. He hated that his house was always having something done. But the homes he lived in were gorgeous. They were in magazines like House Beautiful, Homes & Gardens, etc. We even got married at his parent's home. But he insisted he didn't want to have to do a any renos.
I will say, based on the orangey color, that fireplace might be covered in nicotine. But just thoroughly cleaning it would have been way better than whatever the FUCK that is 😭😭😭
It feels like people competely forget the amount of effort and talent that goes into making a house ESPECIALLY with features like stonework. As someone who grew up in homes made by my immigrant family (literally my grandparents house has both a beautiful stonework fireplace and actual wooden beams in the same room) I was able to learn and appreciate the effort that goes into crafting and constructing a house. House flippers and landlords are treating these places as set dressings instead of an actual fucking home that you live in. When my grandparents pass om im NOT letting ANY house flippers or renovaters near it even with a ten foot fucking poll cause I don't even wanna imagine how terribly they would mess up all the hard work my family did to make it. I'll do it my goddamn self cause I actually know what makes the house beautiful and homey.
They are making such a terrible experience for the buyers of these homes that could actually ruin lives. Not just the mold thing, but actually giving the impression that something has structural stability that clearly doesn’t. That light installed on the foam beam is definitely going to fall on someone’s head btw
House flippers will always choose the cheapest methods. The foam beam issue is a good example of that. They didn't want to spend money on an actual piece of wood and the labor it would take to put it up. Even if they are just doing it to challenge themselves, they are still doing a sub-par job and are still doing it for a profit. House flippers in general do things for profit.
My parents house was built in the 70s, and it’s got this absolutely beautiful custom wood built in furniture, and my mom has redone a few rooms to make them more “modern” but the wood furniture has stayed because it’s just actually timeless. It looks amazing against the gray that my mom painted the walls, it leaves the room looking a bit more modern, but still makes the wood pop. If someone came into my parent’s house and tore up all of the wood and replaced it with cheap shit like this, I’d lose it.
The one that got me about the fireplace was there was even a more before than this, where there was some faux stained glass on the windows above the fireplace that made the whole thing look like a tree. I was so devestated once i saw the sterile white aftermath.
I'll come across these kinds of videos occasionally and as an Older Millenial I have to say I HATE all this painting over of natural stone and brick, I hate the painting of natural wood, I hate everything being WHITE and GRAY and BEIGE! In ten years' time, everyone will be kicking themselves for ruining all these perfectly lovely natural fixtures in their homes!!
Oh let me guess, beautiful mid century house gets turned into a clinical millennial mcmansion. Goody. Edit: Oh my god this was so much worse than I anticipated.
Man, I just now found out that by removing the hearth around the fire place is a downright horrendous idea because the hearth is there to protect your home from fire hazards caused by the fireplace.
FOAM WITH LIVE WIRING RUNNING THROUGH IT??? ARE THEY INSANE?? Edit: I saw them covering up the mold. Nevermind. They are insane. You dont just cover up mold and hope it goes away
The mold drama reminds me of the opposite happening with Brazilian house flippers painting fake mold to give old house vibes to your mass produced apartment
We used to fix up uninhabitable homes, make them into homes and sell them for dirt cheap because the goal wasnt to make a ton of money it was to get people who needed homes into homes
She shit on hobbit core even tho the original german castles with smear technique are the coziest, most charming real life equivalent to hobbit core in historical architecture. The hobbits would be so impressed at by the sight of that craftsmanship & natural stonework!!
this is why you are one of my favorite youtubers when it comes to weighing in on “drama” bc lots of people just react to the public reaction as is and don’t do like, any research or look for proper context whatsoever
The "smeared" fireplace just looks like they attempted to try and regrout the tiles and then just.... Gave up before they wiped away the excess. I honestly thought they were just regrouting it when I first saw that video. It'd have looked better than the actual result.
Maybe it’s because I’m a hardcore Sims 3 simmer and a millennial but I love the 70s houses and if I was ever lucky enough to move into one I would only refresh it and bring it back to its glory. I could never destroy its charm. 😭
I'd be livid if i decided to buy a place and then during inspection found out that parts of the house were made out of foam. This is maybe something you do if you plan on renting it out, since in that case the tennant shouldn't be messing with beams anyways and just having something for the sake if aesthetic makes sense. But to sell? Absolutely not
I am German and have never heard of the "German Schmear" technique. If anything it should be German Schmier. I´d like to see some actual historical examples of that on a German castle. It gives Italian or Portoguese barn. In very specific areas of Italy or Portugal.
I been doing my bachelor for interior design and I heard one of my teacher say something that has stuck to me. "everyone these days want to be a designer. What will set you apart from them is that you will focus on sustainability". A lot of diyers with no educational experience will utilise the cheapest option on the market. The foam beams just showed that 😭 they look like chocolate bars 😂
i think the worst part about this is that this is a house from, like, the past. it was built in a certain way 50 years ago and seeing someone destroy it like this feels the same as when a company tries to put a road through Stonehenge. it completely ruins history and stamps over it with shoddy, fake... everything
That fireplace was in fact FULL COTTAGECORE, like, it was the pop of dark tone that balances the whole room out, and they made it look like a sick jirafe. I literaly teared up when I saw it 😭
They dont require licenses to renovate houses as a flipper because they count as HOME OWNERS not real estate or contracting or some such. Basically, because the flippers are actually the people who buy and own the houses while the renovations are occurring, there is no required regulations (other than whatever the place they build in is required, like zoning and such permits if the location requires for anyone). This is because there's nothing that says "WE ARE GOING TO FLIP AND RESELL" when they buy and no way to tell the flippers from the genuine home owners (not on paper and not as far as the gov't is concerned until a resale happens). Basically, the gist of it is this: *_They cannot regulate the flippers without also regulating what you do with your own home as a regular home owner... because flippers are not required to either give notice when they buy a property that they intend to flip and resell, nor are they required to stick to such a declaration if they DO make it._* Meaning that they are indistinguishable from any other home owner who renovates FOR THEMSELVES and then like 10 years down the line or whatever ends up selling the house they renovated (for whatever reason). It's a loophole the flippers use, I mean. They exist as "home owners" not business people or building contractors etc. So they are not governed by the same safety regulations and licensing. *_THIS IS WHY, IF YOU BUY A HOME, YOU ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS HAVE YOUR OWN HIRED GUYS GO THROUGH FOR INSPECTIONS BEFORE YOU FINALIZE ANYTHING._* Because THAT is the only way to protect yourself from bad renovation jobs and people covering up mold.
something rly gets me abt "from hobbitcore to cottagecore" like... lol. i also can't believe ppl r still using "triggered" like that in 2024. anyway yeah that fireplace is... Tragic
At least one of the dogs showed up in the video where they were dealing with the popcorn ceilings in the 70’s house. I thought it was wild to see them in full PPE working, while their dogs were free to run across the room.
I'm most concerned about the fact that they said the fireplace "grout" was impossible to clean, so they covered it in a layer of cement. What was going on there? Was it a problem they needed to properly address, or an aesthetic that wasn't to their liking? What were they unable to clean off?
I dont like the idea that theres much difference between hobbit core and cottage core. Hobbits live in a serene green wooded area with a small tight knit community with relatively 0 societal pressures bearing down on them. If anything hobbit core is everything cottage core is AND MORE.... and better ... And cooler also....
My neighbor is a contractor. He bought his house around the corner from me and spent years fixing it up and then sold it for over twice what he paid. They got a deal!!
I knew a lady who slept in a tent because she had such a horrible reaction to mold and no way to afford a move. People have a right to be upset if they think flippers are intentionally hiding it.
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Remember when house flipping used to be buying houses that were uninhabitable, old, falling apart, and turning them into livable spaces ? Now it’s taking normal livable houses, doing this to them and then selling them at 10x the price you spent.
yeah, it went from a hobby/job that a handful of people who really enjoyed carpentry/construction wanted to do, to save money. Now a bunch of yuppies have found out they can pull a crypto - artificially inflate the value by fluffing up it's outward appearance using cheap tricks, without actually providing anything of value, then selling it before people realize that all they've bought is a house of cards and an empty promise.
it’s because houses that are in that state aren’t in the kinds of neighborhoods with lots of money. the people doing this don’t care to build livable houses for people who actually need housing, they’re doing it to make the biggest profit possible. and on the off-chance they do flip houses in poor neighborhoods, all they’re gonna do is gentrify the area to shit and push the poorer individuals out of their communities.
People who buy houses just to make money when the average person can't afford a place to live are so evil
This has always been the case, it was just that back then not many people did this, and if they did they made it a Career so they had to make it up to regulation with the increase of scrutiny. Even then, if the laws weren’t in place they took dangerous short cuts, and even still deregulation is a problem.
WHOOMP, there it is.
Every example of the German smear has been with bricks???? If they're planning to flip a place, they really ought to consult an interior decorator before they ruin a house.
german smear on uneven rocks on an uneven shape too, everything about this is terrible lmao
i was working as a transaction coordinator for a real estate company in southeast texas after harvey hit and ohhh boy, it was bad. people with absolutely no qualifications or experience were flocking to buy fully gutted houses so they could “flip” them cheap. the sheer amount of houses being sold (most commonly to first time homebuyers) with shoddy construction and horrible patch jobs was genuinely upsetting. and for whatever godforsaken reason, any amount of brick or stone was *always* covered with either german smear or whitewash. even on the exterior. i’ll never understand it honestly.
a german what? ive never seen this garbage here lol
really the worst surface to use that technique on, when you need that large of gaps filled in between the stones it absolutely does not work. the smear is all about using a small amount of mortar its supposed to enhance the masonry not overpower it!!!!!!!
Search “Stone wall made of erratics and bricks”
I Think thats what they were going for?
The biggest reason it doesn't look good is because those are not Bricks! They are stone and stone has a flow to it that was beautifully captured in the original fireplace. By covering it they blocked so much of the natural flow that it changed not only the color but the entire shape of the fireplace. Wow.
Yeah, when she piped the new grout between the stones I was like "even it out and it'll look good" - I wasn't expecting _that_ result!
@@rolfs2165if that’s all she did the fireplace would have looked fire.
YES every other sample has bricks and even then the look isn't faboulous
If they used half or a quarter the grout, it would have brightened the gaps a bit, but they just layered it on like icing.
Also the thick grout she added made the stones look to spaced out and have way to many negative space between each stone
The Fake Beam is one thing when its your Own Home you intend on living in, but trying to sell it to someone as an Upgrade to the space? Disgraceful. Disgusting.
Legit. Like this is the kind of shit you make for props in your high school play, not a permanent installment in someone's home. It's absurd, the visual won't hold up under scrutiny, not to mention they undoubtedly mark up the price significantly on their sub-par DIY project.
@officerdeathbad comment bot, go think abt your programming
@officerdeath oh so thats why all your comments are just copy pasted from the main one. keep up the good work
bonus points for using female as an insult
that foam beam is gonna chip and throw foam dust in some years
It's insane even for the place your living in! Support beams aren't something to be taken lightly, that shit could kill people.
People used to flip cheap, falling-apart houses and make them liveable and charming. Now, house flippers are taking liveable, charming homes and making them ridiculously expensive and falling apart
like those 1 dollar italian houses
you buy it as a project
the fireplace looks like an amateur baker tried to make a cobblestone pathway out of cake and frosting
Idk I give amateur bakers more credit 😅
this is killing me because i was just thinking the ceiling beam looks like the yule log (log shaped cake) my mom makes for christmas every year
Peeta Mellark?
This is so accurate, the "celing beam" to.
@@sami-tw7qk Do you joke about the cake looking like something else? My Mom's Yule Log cakes never look right lol they taste great tho, plus she does popcorn balls * stöllen. So she cool with me.
I worked in insurance property claims and see so many people with damage to their home caused by flippers doing shoddy work. Especially in the bathroom. They'll incorrectly install a tub not meant to be built in, and then suddenly it's leaking and causing mold and water damage. But then insurance says we can't cover it because it's due to improper workmanship, not a covered cause of loss. It's really upsetting.
Thats...awful
Our realtor couldn’t say “don’t buy a house that’s been flipped” but she would keep say “This house is a flip” as we would walk through the house. After the second time of her saying that in the first house, I got the message and never considered another.
This is why it's really important to hire a good inspector before buying a house. Any house. Even if you THINK it looks good. Never trust outward appearances!
Yes. We bought our house in 2015, it had been a rental that the owners decided to spruce up & sell. We found out only a couple years in that every. single. renovation. they’d done was done BADLY. Mold absolutely everywhere in the main bathroom, as well as the drywall cracking. Everything was done so shoddily, and now that we want to sell soon ourselves, we have a massive uphill battle to fix all of it, correctly this time.
Yep, this is why I shun at “diy” projects that should be left to a professional, or someone with more knowledge on the topic. Sure, change your shower head, do decor DIYs, or furniture pieces, not actual electrician or plumbing work
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 board and rip it all out to be replaced with the cheapest plastic windows and plastic board, they'll paint everything white, split it into flats and then just sell it for a extra 100,000 and therefore locals can not afford anywehere in the town.
cant forget turning perfectly fine front gardens into sad, grey asphalt pathing
@@ebenezer-scrooge oh god yeah forget about that, it's terrible for that here as well
Oh lord, the 100+ year old house i live in was sold to us with white paint globbing up all the windows and balcony doors, the doors were near impossible to open, and many of the windows are still stuck!!! Awful awful awful. There are still globs and strings of paint dried in the cracks
@@ebenezer-scroogewasnt a flipper but we sold my childhood home with a nice front and backyard, turns out they completely paved the front yard and added a pool in the backyard 🥲 ik its not my house anymore but damn is it sad
I saw a gorgeous Victorian MANSION in downtown Detroit under construction and they ripped out the ENTIRE back and replaced it with floor to ceiling windows on all three floors. I felt my heart break in real time
If I had accidentally defiled a 50 year old fireplace, I would delete the video evidence. Not put it on TikTok
I’d delete myself bro that’s a crime what they did to that gorgeous fireplace 😭
What's that line from The Big Short?
"Why are they confessing?"
"They're not confessing. They're BRAGGING."
hobbitcore is literally the PEAK of cottagecore?? I strive to be able to just eat my baked goods in a little well decorated hole house :(
Just live in a block of cheese
@@martian8987good idea
This is why I hate this woman. Hobbiton is the pinnacle of cottage life: it's beyond perfect
I was genuinely distraught when they even mentioned doing anything to the fireplace I’m lowkey sad this couple has ruined the centerpiece of that house just to sell its for 5x what they spent on it
Imagine thinking Hobbitcore and cottagecore are not intrinsically related. Like????
not only is hobbitcore VERY similar to cottagecore, but Hobbits literally live the dream life like who wouldn’t want that???
Hobbit Leaf & 2nd breakfasts.
How DARE she suggest Hobbits are anything other than perfection :(
Yeah, plus Hobbits are kinda Fairycore/Cottagecore already
Exactly, like hello?? Second breakfast? They have so many fun little meals and they just chill. Unproblematic and in their lane, undeserving of this slander
hobbits are peak top tier cottage core as it is.. makes no sense lmao
You can NOT disrespect hobbits like that. My dream home is a hobbit hole-
Hard agree. Pass the Hobbit Leaf on the left hand side & let's go stare at the clouds. Clouds won't behold themselves. someone's gotta do it!
The foam wooden beam is just weird. Its not a movie set, this is a place some ones going to live. if we can tell its fake on camera its going to be really obvious to people actually there. its tacky, whats the point?
The foam beam is whatever. Looks tacky. What scared me is that they drilled a fuckin chandelier to it and think it's gonna hold up
@Fairygoblin777 this house is going to end up back on the market when that chandelier drops on the next owner😭
rachel maksy actually put a foam beam in her house but she painted and sculpted it and it looks so much better than this monstrosity 🫠 still absurd to try and sell but they could've at least tried jfc
@officerdeathwhy did you copy someone else’s comment?
@officerdeathis this the new bot strategy? Doesn't really make sense tbh. If someone was reading and liking replies they would be able to tell you just steal
I have moved a lot in my life. The first thing I noticed about this house is that the fireplace looks odd because there's no furniture in the room. The walls are white. If you put in a few pieces of furniture and put something on the wall and lay down some carpets, the original fireplace would look like it was part of a room. You don't want to redo a fireplace based on how it looks in an empty room. Of course it stands out. It's the only thing in the room! Don't try to fix it.
its almost like...the statement piece was....making too much of a statement
Honestly i thought the original fireplace would had looked a lot nicer if they had put wood panneling on the walls or somthing, bringing the colors of it into the rest of the room.
@@zofyroseI love that look 😮❤ these flippers destroying beautiful midcentury modern for no reason
@@zofyrosesomething with the windows too. Like make it have a dark trim going. Wooden floors ugh light carpet oooooghhh!
“i have never flipped a house nor have i ever been flipped by a house”
Two valid things.
Being flipped by a house sucks
@@STIR-FRIED-SUBWAY-RAT Then some girl & her dog comes along & steals your shoes while you've been flipped by a house!
Being flipped by a house just had me imagining the wizard of Oz.
What about being flipped off by a house?
We just moved into a 1963 house and have defined our decorating style as mid-century Hobbit
Beautiful I’d love to live in a mid century hobbit house
house flippers combine the immortality of landlord messing up both homes and the housing market, with the terrible tact and taste of people who buy up all the good furniture at thrift stores, slap cheap paint and ugly hardware on it, and sell it for 5× the price
Add in the vanity + attention seeking & you've built the best description of this odious scam type I've ever seen!
I think you meant immorality not immortality lol
God, I hope landlords aren't immortal.... 👀😂
@@Sleipnirseight If you look at history when people get too desperate because of them, landlords are definitely very much mortal.
I genuinely think house flippers are worse than landlords. Ultimately a middle class person should be able to buy a home, that's what single family houses are supposed to be for. Flippers cause regular people to be priced out of the market for those houses.
I find it funny that they added wood and foam beams that matched the old fireplace. Why even change it to white, when your accents match the old look.
I had to pause the video to vent about that because it ticked me off so bad.
Why do all these TikTokers sound the same? They have the same tone of voice and same cadence when explaining things.
I hate it, it makes me irrationally angry
They're all mass-produced in a factory
Proof: I work there
Corporatization. Everything striving to live in a capitalist system gets watered down and washed out until it's stripped of all individuality or vision. People don't do it on purpose but to fit into the culture of such a space they copy everyone else. It's anticulture culture.
it’s the same as “RUclipsr voice”, i feel like it’s subconscious at this point
I feel like its because they usually read through a script haha
3:16 I would point out that is there for a reason it's so burning embers drop onto it and not a carpet or something that is flamable
Future fire Hazard, lovely
Yesss
Manchester-by-the-sea core
That is true but I saw this before they turned the comments off and she said it’s a gas fireplace now so they don’t have to worry about that.
@@bluebird_618the sun is a gas fireplace, have you ever seen a carpet near it? An unburnt carpet, next to the sun?
They applied it so incorrectly too. Just cover the whole thing with a thin layer and wipe off the bricks or rocks you want to pop out. She basically just grouted the rocks and it looks like she forgot to clean it off before it set
What annoyed me the most about this whole thing is that they end their videos or put in the caption, "What do you guys think?" or something to that affect but then would be annoyed when people didn't like it? I can understand being frustrated if you didn't ask for opinions, but explicitly asking for opinions then being annoyed when people give them is just... dumb
It's classic tiktok bait. They know people will react negatively which gives them more outrage views. It's all part of the formula
Also, why put this out to begin with? Why can't these people just be happy making a fckton of money by being parasites leeching of the housing market, why do they need to be internet famous too?
@@soymilkman But getting a million views on TikTok pays like 20-40 dollars. How on earth is it worth it making that many people hate you for pocket change, especially since they probably already make a loooot by flipping houses
Lol seriously. The thing is that normally people ask that in order to increase engagement, good or bad, yet these people TURN THE COMMENTS OFF. Like, they're just mindlessly copying what they hear other content creators say 🙃
Then put up the definition of bullying on the screen lmfao that genuinely made me chuckle at the irony.
There was this one house flipper that actually restored Victorian houses in America. Instead of gutting them with cheap, new materials, she would usually find actual antique wood and glass etc and use that to replace damaged features. And anything that couldn't be replaced with a contempory original piece, was restored using well crafted, solid pieces made to mimic the time the house was built in. It was really beautiful. And it actually used to be my dream to restore an old Victorian house in that same way, but now that sounds like an absolute money pit to me. I actually like the totally opposite style for myself now, which is midcentury modern. I know it's not as popular as it was a few years ago, but I still love it and it's an easier way to scratch that restoration itch
Yes! Did you ever see the old Rehab Addict show? Not sure if she is who you’re talking about but she renovated homes in Detroit (I think) with such love and care!
@@3ikilee yes! I'm 98% sure now that you said the name! It was killing me, so thank you
Last year, a home a family member built themselves in the 70s got renovated by someone and it was made super modern. It honestly was really sad. Seeing the home I used to go to every Thanksgiving turned into a modern nightmare. They were also using the family member who had died recently at the time’s story of building the house to gain exposure on social media because of his story
You should expose them cuz why are they using your family for clout 😭 wtf
God what a scummy thing for them to do, no respect for his story, just looking to profit. RIP to your family member and I’m so sorry they ruined something he worked so hard on.
@officerdeath you ok, fam?
@@deltasaves No he's doing it up & down the page on a bunch of threads. A few things he's answered as a real comment have been really aggro. He deploys "female" as a slur against someone else who asked if he was a bot or ok our what so compassion might be something you should be wary about with this one. It's usually my first impulse too but sometimes sh-theads will sh-thead.
@@picahudsoniaunflocked5426 thank you for the info. I know what to do with those kind of folks 👍🏿
house flipper was such a popular game franchise that rich people decided to make it in real life
HGTV and its multiple house flipping shows have truly inflated the egos of people that think “I can do that too”
@@Polyeurythanedon't forget inflating the housing costs for working class people who say "Hey, I require a house to live and function in society."
I agree just leave house flipping on the Jerma streams 😢
@@Polyeurythane There were viral 90s Business Motivation people dumdum destructive folk like Oprah pushed that used this as a strategy. She's responsible for some bad sh-t.
its insane what rich people will call a "fixer-upper"
Interior decorators larping as tradies
evil pinely is still stuck in the mirror house. maybe it's his prison for being so evil
Sure is
It's the mirror world from Mighty Boosch
@@Alex-cw3rz see how they shine 🪩🪩
he is the unknown from the willy experience
@@larsworld oh 😰
My dad flipped homes my family lived but he was an actual skilled contractor. It's wild to me that people are doing this without experience
I still hate flippers but I guess it's not totally immoral if you live there during Renos & it's being done by a qualified person.
Not all contractors are skilled/qualified people tho. I mean lots of other people have had to FIX contractor projects.
My good friend is the Green Builder equivalent of the 2nd plastic surgeon someone sees -- the one you go to for brutal honesty & a Fix-It Plan that's detailed + lengthy + well reasoned, & will hold your hand while you tremble with fear reading it, & go thru the pricing, steps, what has to be done when & what can be put off, & how to budget + prep for it. She almost exclusively makes a living off fixing grievous errors another "qualified contractor" made. A fraction is from DIY. A lot of people get mislead by contractors.
Hobbitcore is basically the final stage of cottagecore, what nonsense is this lady saying 😭
That fireplace is already cottage core tho??? Immediately i thought about lining the walls with bookshelves, replacing the flooring with wood slats, putting plants everywhere. Like an actual cottagecore mixed with witchy vibes look, why do flippers have to ruin everything with white...
White paint is so ugly at this point
Why do tiktokers talk like that? Like they've been called on to read in class.
I genuinely think it’s because most of them write up a script instead of just talking off the cuff in their video. Then, they read the script trying to sound normal but it just sounds like this garbage instead
That voice legit makes me irrationally angry lmao, I actually can't watch these videos bc I start seething
@@rob-tt3hb I also get massively triggered by the Tik Tok voice as well, it just hits the rage button for some reason lol. Same with the ASMR voice that is very popular now and the combination Tik Tok ASMR voice (this is the worst imo).
I don't understand why it is so hard for some people to read from a script and not have the most stilted pacing and flat affect. Kids in school, okay, they're still learning. But grown adults? Influencers need to level up their voice acting and literacy.
It's called the "influencer accent" and it derives from the most annoy accent in the world, the valley girl accent.
It's mean to keep people interested but when I hear it I know the video has nothing of value and swipe.
Listen I'm hurt about the fireplace but I'm INSULTED by a FOAM BEAM!!! Like excuse me????
The room my sister, who is allergic to mold, lives in had mold covered up and she became very ill without any clue of what was causing it. It was only after a lot of severe health issues and bills we found out there was mold. It's a serious issue
Destroying a classic fireplace, adding a foam beam, and hiding mold to sell a cheap but beautiful house for more expensive is just classic flipper. But most do nothing, just sit on it (usually unoccupied), change nothing, & resell it months to a year later for huge profit with NO work. It's depressing. They go for the lowest rung of the price range, which is what poorer people need, so I wish these flippers would stop.
The "our own house" update is imo do what you want. But buying a house to make your kitchshy sh!t is annoying.
Nothing quite gets to me like destroying old natural materials. Wood gets to me because it makes me think of human history and everything that had to go into that tree's life, harvesting, and finishing. But stone gets to me even more because it is often older than we can fully conceptualize and had to have the exact perfect circumstances to look exactly as unique and special as each rock does. You can get a similar vibe with newly purchased stones, but it will never be that same rock again
I'm less attached to some of the man-made materials, especially ones that were low cost and never meant to last, but I still find value in making a conscious and collective effort to save some of those materials. They represent advancements in technology, design, economy, personal/cultural values, and they're such a cool time capsule to see a snapshot of what we were like generations past
This is so beautifully put.
It hurts so much to see all of that energy wasted. Resources used to produce objects, just so they can be discarded while still perfectly fine.
Where did it grow? How old was it? Where from? Did anybody consider the repercussion to nature, of removing said materials? Has that energy returned to the place, to nourish species and provide shelter?
Who has made this? How much effort has been put into it? Do we really think, at this rate, we can do this forever?
I hate our wasteful and careless nature.
that tiktok narration cadence drives me insane
like a freshman reading the slides for their presentation
i'm genuinely concerned about the foam beam having electric wires put through it... like, it will not support that chandelier for very long either, but did they consider how hot wires get when theyre left on for a long time? like they would be if they were the main light source in a public room of the house???
what kind of tiny garbage wires do yall use in the us jesus
cables shouldnt even get warm to the touch, even under 24/7 load unless your wires are undersized
then again i dont trust these people to properly size cables either
our standards are scarily fuckin lax. fiberglass is still allowed as mattress filler... @@LuluTheCorgi
@@LuluTheCorgi Even if you use a specific size of wire, you shouldnt put live wires through foam.
Its just. Asking for a Real Bad Time.
Physics will always win!
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 You're almost deliberately missing the point in order to be pedantic to try and win points. The comment was explicitly replying to "did they consider how hot wires get when theyre left on for a long time" and the CORRECTLY pointed out that NO, your wires should NOT be getting hot REGARDLESS.
But you needed to feel superior and to prove to everyone how intelligent you are didn't you? Unfortunately you've done the opposite.
Remember, better to remain quiet and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
@@kezia8027 ... Did you sleep okay you seem rather tetchy?
This is a sincere question.
Like. You jumped immediately to the worst conclusion and are like. Super aggressive about it?? To a complete stranger online.
So uh. You doing... Okay there??
the fake beam looks like a giant tootsie roll.
In a traditional German schmear, you cover most or all the area and then remove some of the mortar from the rock face (think: splatter paint), so this actually isn’t timeless at all. Took me two minutes to confirm that.
You can kinda confirm it just by looking at the pics in the video - they just dont even look the same
"fixer upper" and it's the most divine, pristine house with no problems whatsoever. The one thing I don't like is the tile flooring, but even then it literally just needs a big rug
The way I sat here like a veteran getting war flashbacks whenever they did ANYTHING to that house. Oh my God, put these people on a list of "Do not let buy interesting houses."
On top of disliking house flipping for it increasing the prices of houses, in a market where a majority of people cannot afford a house, this couple also has 0 idea how to do a good job.
Oh German smear is to be used on small bricks to make them blend together.
If I was a house selling agent or whatever I would definitely bully these guys so they'd sell this house to my client for under 200 dollars due to the renovation ruining most things that were in there
Damn that "schmeared" fireplace reminds me of the time my dad let his apprentice practice pointing on the back of our house. Little did I know this newbie was following centuries of tradition
My partner bought a house where the previous owner did all the renovations himself, and they were very halfassed. The foam beam and the fireplace seems like something that would've been my partners house "before" and what my partner would've had to fix. Ofcourse, his house was so much worse but it's definietely the same genre.
(Example of home reno: a DIY bathtub that was too big for the bathroom so a door couldnt fit. Yeah, there was no door to the bathroom... The bathrub was also in front of the window!! omg)
Ah, this reminds me of how UK houses are built these days. :,)
I live in a house that was built in mid 90s. (I guess it's 30 years old now, but I can assure you such practices, and even more outrageous ones, are happening to this day)
When we decided to get a new bath tub, it turned out the old one was 5cm longer than the space for it. Builders cut out a bit of plaster board and stuck it into the wall. xD
Decommodify housing 💕
We've bought 2 houses in 30 years. My husband refuses to buy any house except newly constructed. He grew up with his parents constantly buying old homes from the 1700's and renovating them. He hated that his house was always having something done. But the homes he lived in were gorgeous. They were in magazines like House Beautiful, Homes & Gardens, etc. We even got married at his parent's home. But he insisted he didn't want to have to do a any renos.
I will say, based on the orangey color, that fireplace might be covered in nicotine. But just thoroughly cleaning it would have been way better than whatever the FUCK that is 😭😭😭
Could have also been rock in a clay-heavy area. Some of the rocks where I live have a cool red-orange color to them
Hobbit houses are optimized for comfort of the homeowner and their guests. It definitely should not be an insult.
It feels like people competely forget the amount of effort and talent that goes into making a house ESPECIALLY with features like stonework. As someone who grew up in homes made by my immigrant family (literally my grandparents house has both a beautiful stonework fireplace and actual wooden beams in the same room) I was able to learn and appreciate the effort that goes into crafting and constructing a house. House flippers and landlords are treating these places as set dressings instead of an actual fucking home that you live in. When my grandparents pass om im NOT letting ANY house flippers or renovaters near it even with a ten foot fucking poll cause I don't even wanna imagine how terribly they would mess up all the hard work my family did to make it. I'll do it my goddamn self cause I actually know what makes the house beautiful and homey.
people who build their own houses from the ground up will always have my utmost respect. that's so impressive
They are making such a terrible experience for the buyers of these homes that could actually ruin lives. Not just the mold thing, but actually giving the impression that something has structural stability that clearly doesn’t. That light installed on the foam beam is definitely going to fall on someone’s head btw
House flippers will always choose the cheapest methods. The foam beam issue is a good example of that. They didn't want to spend money on an actual piece of wood and the labor it would take to put it up. Even if they are just doing it to challenge themselves, they are still doing a sub-par job and are still doing it for a profit. House flippers in general do things for profit.
My parents house was built in the 70s, and it’s got this absolutely beautiful custom wood built in furniture, and my mom has redone a few rooms to make them more “modern” but the wood furniture has stayed because it’s just actually timeless. It looks amazing against the gray that my mom painted the walls, it leaves the room looking a bit more modern, but still makes the wood pop. If someone came into my parent’s house and tore up all of the wood and replaced it with cheap shit like this, I’d lose it.
The one that got me about the fireplace was there was even a more before than this, where there was some faux stained glass on the windows above the fireplace that made the whole thing look like a tree. I was so devestated once i saw the sterile white aftermath.
I've seen enough Flip or Flop to know these guys are flops.
I literally cried when they ruined the stunning fireplace like that 😭😭😭
I'll come across these kinds of videos occasionally and as an Older Millenial I have to say I HATE all this painting over of natural stone and brick, I hate the painting of natural wood, I hate everything being WHITE and GRAY and BEIGE! In ten years' time, everyone will be kicking themselves for ruining all these perfectly lovely natural fixtures in their homes!!
Yes agreed. I utterly hate it with every fibre of my being.
That poor fireplace... Also there's nothing wrong with hobbitcore! It's so cute!
'That's the kinda beams they use at... Disney World'
😂😂😂
Splash Mountain type fake wood 🪵
Oh let me guess, beautiful mid century house gets turned into a clinical millennial mcmansion.
Goody.
Edit: Oh my god this was so much worse than I anticipated.
Clinical millenial mcmansion sounds like something eminem would say😭😭
@@goobertron9099 living like Kim Kardashian,
Millennial McMansion.
@@goobertron9099LMAOOOO
@@goobertron9099 He'd say the tone different tho lol
Yeah, clinical would have been tolerable. That dust trapping plaster, and you know MOLD is anything but clinical 😂
Ive watched this multiple times already and the AAAAAAA to the toothpaste fireplace feels like an "I think you should leave" bit
Man, I just now found out that by removing the hearth around the fire place is a downright horrendous idea because the hearth is there to protect your home from fire hazards caused by the fireplace.
FOAM WITH LIVE WIRING RUNNING THROUGH IT??? ARE THEY INSANE??
Edit: I saw them covering up the mold. Nevermind. They are insane. You dont just cover up mold and hope it goes away
The mold drama reminds me of the opposite happening with Brazilian house flippers painting fake mold to give old house vibes to your mass produced apartment
We used to fix up uninhabitable homes, make them into homes and sell them for dirt cheap because the goal wasnt to make a ton of money it was to get people who needed homes into homes
She shit on hobbit core even tho the original german castles with smear technique are the coziest, most charming real life equivalent to hobbit core in historical architecture. The hobbits would be so impressed at by the sight of that craftsmanship & natural stonework!!
this is why you are one of my favorite youtubers when it comes to weighing in on “drama” bc lots of people just react to the public reaction as is and don’t do like, any research or look for proper context whatsoever
Hobbitcore slander will not be tolerated on this channel
watching that fireplace video made me feel such sorrow. i was watching a tragedy and could do nothing about it
"this house obviously needed a lot of work" meanwhile it's just a normal house that hasn't been updated to fit every single trend of the last 5 years
That fireplace is considered a hate crime in at least 50 countries
hobbitcore is the original cottagecore! this is Bilbo Baggins slander
The "smeared" fireplace just looks like they attempted to try and regrout the tiles and then just.... Gave up before they wiped away the excess. I honestly thought they were just regrouting it when I first saw that video. It'd have looked better than the actual result.
Maybe it’s because I’m a hardcore Sims 3 simmer and a millennial but I love the 70s houses and if I was ever lucky enough to move into one I would only refresh it and bring it back to its glory. I could never destroy its charm. 😭
I’m glad they posted how shoddy and tasteless they are! Always get a house inspected before buying!
I'd be livid if i decided to buy a place and then during inspection found out that parts of the house were made out of foam. This is maybe something you do if you plan on renting it out, since in that case the tennant shouldn't be messing with beams anyways and just having something for the sake if aesthetic makes sense. But to sell? Absolutely not
I am German and have never heard of the "German Schmear" technique. If anything it should be German Schmier. I´d like to see some actual historical examples of that on a German castle.
It gives Italian or Portoguese barn. In very specific areas of Italy or Portugal.
I thought farm outbuilding or Windmill,NOT castle
Schmear is Yiddish.
German Schmear is something you'd get from Einstein Bros Bagels
I been doing my bachelor for interior design and I heard one of my teacher say something that has stuck to me. "everyone these days want to be a designer. What will set you apart from them is that you will focus on sustainability". A lot of diyers with no educational experience will utilise the cheapest option on the market. The foam beams just showed that 😭 they look like chocolate bars 😂
i think the worst part about this is that this is a house from, like, the past. it was built in a certain way 50 years ago and seeing someone destroy it like this feels the same as when a company tries to put a road through Stonehenge. it completely ruins history and stamps over it with shoddy, fake... everything
That fireplace was in fact FULL COTTAGECORE, like, it was the pop of dark tone that balances the whole room out, and they made it look like a sick jirafe. I literaly teared up when I saw it 😭
i guess binging evil pinely videos 24/7 means it's about time i'm too early to a new one
They dont require licenses to renovate houses as a flipper because they count as HOME OWNERS not real estate or contracting or some such. Basically, because the flippers are actually the people who buy and own the houses while the renovations are occurring, there is no required regulations (other than whatever the place they build in is required, like zoning and such permits if the location requires for anyone). This is because there's nothing that says "WE ARE GOING TO FLIP AND RESELL" when they buy and no way to tell the flippers from the genuine home owners (not on paper and not as far as the gov't is concerned until a resale happens).
Basically, the gist of it is this: *_They cannot regulate the flippers without also regulating what you do with your own home as a regular home owner... because flippers are not required to either give notice when they buy a property that they intend to flip and resell, nor are they required to stick to such a declaration if they DO make it._* Meaning that they are indistinguishable from any other home owner who renovates FOR THEMSELVES and then like 10 years down the line or whatever ends up selling the house they renovated (for whatever reason).
It's a loophole the flippers use, I mean. They exist as "home owners" not business people or building contractors etc. So they are not governed by the same safety regulations and licensing. *_THIS IS WHY, IF YOU BUY A HOME, YOU ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS HAVE YOUR OWN HIRED GUYS GO THROUGH FOR INSPECTIONS BEFORE YOU FINALIZE ANYTHING._* Because THAT is the only way to protect yourself from bad renovation jobs and people covering up mold.
you can flip my house any time, evil pinely
something rly gets me abt "from hobbitcore to cottagecore" like... lol. i also can't believe ppl r still using "triggered" like that in 2024. anyway yeah that fireplace is... Tragic
Dude i wish i had that house just as it was.. I love the 70s house design
The idea that they can actually make money is mind blowing. Arent surveyors a requirement before buying a house in the US?
The German smear is shoddy but the faux beam could be super dangerous!
I used to work at Lowe’s and the amount of people asking about lime washes was unforeseen
Bro isn’t hobbit core and cottage core the same thing?
The couple is clueless. Their confidence is coming from ignorance.
I thought they were just gonna regrout and I was devastated by the end
the way im SO TIRED of every nyc apartment being this way. it’s all shiny and new until a year in where the whole building just starts crumbling:’))))
At least one of the dogs showed up in the video where they were dealing with the popcorn ceilings in the 70’s house. I thought it was wild to see them in full PPE working, while their dogs were free to run across the room.
I'm most concerned about the fact that they said the fireplace "grout" was impossible to clean, so they covered it in a layer of cement. What was going on there? Was it a problem they needed to properly address, or an aesthetic that wasn't to their liking? What were they unable to clean off?
I dont like the idea that theres much difference between hobbit core and cottage core. Hobbits live in a serene green wooded area with a small tight knit community with relatively 0 societal pressures bearing down on them. If anything hobbit core is everything cottage core is AND MORE.... and better ... And cooler also....
My neighbor is a contractor. He bought his house around the corner from me and spent years fixing it up and then sold it for over twice what he paid. They got a deal!!
4:18 IM SUCH A HOBBIT LOVER. YES BEING A HOBBIT SEEMS SO FUN little farmers living in holes
I knew a lady who slept in a tent because she had such a horrible reaction to mold and no way to afford a move. People have a right to be upset if they think flippers are intentionally hiding it.
the AAAaAH reminded me of a crab stuck on its back yelling in frustration
Mold needs a home too.