The most popular aesthetic with these types would be more accurately described as "plantation owner" I'm convinced they choose to buy places that will require reno to meet their expectations, instead of an existing one that matches or building new just so they can cosplay as a slave owner +watch 20 barely paid migrant workers rebuild their property
literally what I was thinking like if you wanted a modern house BUY A MODERN HOUSE leave the pretty vintage ones for the ones who want it instead if just destroying them.
I ADORE vintage houses and this one is absolutely beautiful... However I would also probably remove those padded wallpapers and the carpets. We used to have carpets everywhere and they not only get dirty verry easily, they're a perfect breeding ground for mold and mite. Old houses unfortunately get water damage easily, too, so this is just the worst for astma or alergies. Removing the staircase though is the saddest thing ever.
Remember that farm houses have a lot of color in character, so I don't know where people get the idea that these white, cream and beige colored homes with the personality of a communion wafer or anything similar to a farmhouse
@@AmazingAutist that bothers me a lot actually. Farmhouses are gorgeous and have tons of character, the first thing I picture is a comforting, cosy, welcoming place. Not a bunch of identical white rooms 🤧Whoever decided the name for this kind of building needs to be fired
@@AmazingAutistmaybe it comes from that time interior design was all about massive open spaces and putting barn doors *everywhere* ? (I definitely feel it's less "modern farmhouse" and more "modern sad beige/white barn" at this rate)
@@citruslemonade3326 oh yeah I should have specified. I was being facetious a little bit in my comment because I know it came from a bunch of City designers that likes the """quaintness""" of the country without any of the charm. I was just wondering how people can still look at that and think that's honestly country instead of corporate country.
@@emileek4107 idk its just a house ... i am more worried abt people buying up tons of houses and then renting them out instead of letting people buy them to house their family.. landlords are the problem generally not dumb families who make bad decisions w their own homes lol
WHY WOULD YOU BUY A HOUSE WITH THOSE STAIRS JUST TO RIP THEM OUT 😭 like those older features and the stairs and everything is a reason someone might want to buy that house! Why get it just to destroy all of the character 😭 it's their house and their right but also my right to be pissed off by it lol
I think that's what these reno/flipper drama thing in general is about. Unique homes being at best, robbed of their charm and turning them bland. At worst, just terrible, terrible design. Not trying to be dramatic, but it almost feels like bad art restoration. And most of us can barely dream of owning ANY home, let alone something so beautiful.
Can we go back to annoying realtors that brag about the vintage wood with authentic craftsmanship? Much better than people with, no offense, but absolutely no artistic talent who think a white cube looks comfy and the extreme overconfidence to think they can recreate design styles on their first try.
Full offense to flippers honestly. 99% of the time their “diy renovations” just result in whatever buyer down the line needing to sink $1000s into repairing the damage they caused. And that’s without touching on the purely aesthetic changes they make that strips a home of all its life and charm
Even worse when they're obviously DIY'ing it and the poor quality of their work shows. I don't even know how many houses I've been to that I'm shaking my head at the prospect of having to undue the poor quality DIY of the previous owners (and what's up with people stripping screws??)
@@luvhair255lower tax bracket taxpayers pay a much higher percentage of their overall earnings to the government. it’s the phrase “it’s expensive to be poor”.
@@closuitm Tell me about it. I'm under the poverty line and stuck in it. I can't save money on disability. People that are just over the line can't usually afford anything at all because of food costs and healthcare. At least here in the USA.
In these cases, people are allowed to flip their houses as they please, but posting it on TikTok (as you do what literally EVERY modern flipper does, to a tee) just invites public opinion.
@@iz6028 I agree, people can be so online nowadays that they allow themselves to feel REAL rage over stuff like this. I just mean it's par for the course to hear it's ugly or tacky, that type of comment.
But dont you know that they are Super Special and their family is just Beautiful and their taste is perfect so they have to show the world how magical and wonderful Kyylynn and Jaden Whitefolk are?? /sarcasm
@@Nasty-sauce Don't worry, they're also clowning themselves when they tried to defend their decisions and overwhelmed by the reactions they gained. :"D
Looks like it was a plantation house and was later renovated in the 60s/70s to be an inn. Tbh I don’t care about the history of this house being destroyed, I just hope they donated the staircase instead of throwing it away 😢
I was wondering if the staircase was a more recent addition. It looked nice but it actually looked like the bottom was very low and maybe you'd have to duck to walk under them on the first floor.
This house was gorgeous. It was giving home library with a rolling ladder vibes. That's gone now. I don't get why people buy these places with so much personality and vintage appeal just to turn it into every basic contemporary house that exists in spades. Just buy the basic house, becky, ffs.
its not even like some really out there style theyd never be able to find unless they made it themselves, realtors are foaming (haha) at the mouth to sell the millennial 1% open concept modern farmhouses. you can also see very briefly in the video that this is not even their main house. they bought ANOTHER HOUSE just to renovate it into mediocrity and at best see it 6 months out of the year. these people arent like evil or anything but god damn, fuck the rich edit: it might be their primary residence? its not their only house in any case. too lazy to do research on staircase drama 5:55
Ok so maybe I’m reaching but I can’t help but think about how wasteful this stuff is. I mean these renovators buy beautiful houses in great condition only to remove a bunch of things, like the stairs in this house, and replacing them with new stairs. Combine that with all the other things they destroy, It’s a bunch of materials that didn’t need to be ripped out and thrown away but they did it anyways and now they’re buying completely new stuff to replace it. They also seem to be really rich so I don’t think it would’ve been too hard for them to find a modern farmhouse in a location they like as much as this older house. At least they seem to be having fun I guess lol
I also wonder how well these new additions will last, compared to the solid wood architecture etc that has already been in place solidly for over 100 years in many cases...
@@kezia8027I was coming here to say exactly this. Old materials were made to last, whereas modern materials deteriorate so fast. Now all of that beautiful wood is most likely going in a landfill 🥲
I guess the issue with this kind of renovation is that, sure, you can't expect every person who buys a house to leave that house exactly as is just in case a future resident will like it, but on the other hand, I'm not aware of any new houses being built in these old styles that some people (like myself) prefer over newer styles, so every old house that gets "updated" is one less place that fits the tastes of people like me. If new houses in old styles were being built to replace places like this, I think people would be a little less mad. (Of course the actual historicity of old houses also plays a part in all this, so that would still create controversy.)
Agreed the amount of work and money you will need to build a vintage home is huge because the materials and even certain crafting techniques are complicated to find nowadays. It feels so silly when there are houses like that that exists already but people are literally spending money to destroy and make them into something else.
My current home is over 100 years old. It has a tall first floor and so many windows and the only thing i desperately want to update is more outlets (imagine vacuuming a room, then 1/4th of a hallway 4 times so you can get the full hallway because there are no outlets near the hallway to be able to do it in one go. Also the stairs are carpeted but the top leads into the hallway with no outlets and the closest one on the main floor needs an extension cord just to reach the bottom step) and the fact that i have to circle my house twice fully to get from where clothes are kept to where clothes are cleaned. A chute to send clothes down or a dumbwaiter to send them back up is preferable to going across the house, down stairs, through the living room, through the dining room, through the kitchen, through the fake half bath, down stairs, and across the house for a single load. Oh, and i guess something to stop the basement walls from crumbling since they're just exposed stone
i get what you mean, but they aren't really decreasing the pool of available houses for people who like this style, because those people were never gonna be able to afford this anyway.
@@amandak.4246 because they overinflate the market. Because the rich people hoard houses like collectibles. This is exactly the criticism, because they have the money to waste and they're actively ruining already nice homes. The affordability of a more "vintage" house is usually better, because it requires more upkeep and maintenance. Regardless of price, it IS still taking away this style of homes from others, you just assume people cant pay for them.
I sincerely don't understand why people buy these houses with these beautiful features just to completely ruin/destroy/remove them. Of course it's not as bad when it's someone's personal home compared to a house flipper but still, why are you ruining these beautiful traditional spaces just to make them into the same 'aesthetic' and 'modern' home. I hate it so, so, so much. Also they have money to buy a house, they have money to buy a beautiful big house and they also have money to renovate it y'know, so why not buy a home that is closer to your vision or at least one that doesn't have those features that aren't built any more that you are destroying!!!
I don’t understand how rich people always seem to have the most godawful taste, yet every poor person domicile I’ve been to growing up is always lovely.
Not to fetishize poverty or income inequality or anything, but I think there really is something to the idea that creative or logistical limitations can improve the creativity or quality of the final product. (Also rich people traditionally like to show off all the big rooms and empty, inefficiently-used space they can afford, which tends to have an effect on their decorative choices.)
@@sholem_bond true. I’m sure a lot of creativity comes from lived experience, and living paycheck to paycheck kind of forces you to experience and live.
I don't know man, rich people have awful taste. But modern farmhouse or glam or any other awful millenial design style is just as accessible to most folks. It's basically all you see at stores like home goods or even dollar tree. And most the homes I have seen have the same bad modern farmhouse crap
being honest all this means is you havent been to enough poor peoples homes and im saying this as a poor person who lives in a tiny, horrible apartment that was cheaply remodeled and has been falling apart since my family moved here years ago
"Modern farmhouse look" is surely an oxymoron seen as non of them are farmers or are doing anything related to modern farming. Modern farmhouse look to me, as someone who grew up near farms is an old but functional cluttered kitchen, a falling apart lean to and a house that is lived in and serviceable because the people living there are constantly working from dawn till after dusk. And some how they just have a collection of things outside, I don't know where they came from or how they got them but it just piles up. Like for some reason an old bathtub, huge long tubes, 50 old pallets will just turn up and some sort of old mechanical thing from the 1800s.
Yeah it's the same phenomenon as rich guys and even celebrities buying pickup trucks even though they never haul anything. The aesthetics of working-class people, co-opted by the rich (who don't do any work).
That's what alway bothered me about Farmhouse. My grandparents were farmers and you keep stuff forever and repair it. Houses with a lot of character and a history of multi generations. It's so stupid to be a metal bucket for $60 just for decoration LOL
God i hope this house is haunted and the ghosts of the previous owners never let this millennial couple sleep for destroying this beautiful historic house
If I lived in a beautiful house like this, just for it to be turned into as basic as it can be, my ghost would beat the shit out of those people with paranormal activity
It looks so much like a plantation home. Maybe they could rent it out for weddings omg that’d be soooOooooOo cuuuUute and like Southern omg 🤪 /sarcasm. i hate rich people
To be fair, while I love the aesthetic of spiral staircases, I do hate going up and down them (I have balance issues and some vertigo; I don't like how the individual steps vary in size & shape as you go down/climb up. It's harder than normal, standard-sized stairs, that are all the same shape, for me). But I would simply choose a house that already doesn't have a spiral staircase, and save homes with that type of staircase for all the people who do like them.
At least it was a wide spiral, and not a completely vertical one! I've also always loved spiral staircases, until I worked in a shop where all the stock was kept upstairs, and it had a narrow iron spiral staircase. Never felt very sturdy to me, especially carrying boxes up and down it, despite how pretty it was XD
13:42 I find the ending funny as if it was state mandated that she has to tik tok her house, like she didn't have to show her renovation in the first place. Which at the moment just seems like they walk around the house with some bro country song, after the workers have torn something down and gone home for the day.
There's a difference between updating an interior, removing some wierd remnants exactly like the....plaid padded walls? And completely destroying the original aesthetic or appeal of an interior/house/building. They totally could have updated it while keeping the spirit of the home.
I have no problem removing curtains, wallpaper, and carpet, but when you destroy beautiful staircases, hardwood floors, wooden joists, interesting structures, etc I draw the line.
this!! especially when there was NOTHING wrong with the wood. just ripping out a perfectly fine staircase because it doesnt match an aesthetic is so infuriating. even worse, its most likely going to just get thrown into a landfill. its so wasteful and the finished results never look good 😭
Do people realize when they tear these homes apart that we dont get more? Like, houses are not built that way anymore, it's too expensive to be so precious about the craftsmenship. When you tear it appart, it's gone.
I really think that in 100 years we will look back at these house "renovations" with the same horror and sadness that we have now for victorians eating mummies
a little bit insensitive to compare the disgusting racism and dehumanization that allowed ppl to think eating human remains was good to a house being made ugly
At this point there has to be some people spotting a gap in the market where they buy open-concept farmhouses and turn them into faux-vintage glamour homes. I'd watch it! For the drama that would ensue
I think these people genuinely want ppl to praise them to “modernizing” these homes but lack the awareness that these are historic homes with character that ppl actually like. It’s literally was easier to just buy a lot for them but then they can’t get TikTok views that way
@@AlexDown1 me personally yeah cuz I’m anti-capitalist. If I was rich I’d make sure me and my family was comfortable and then I’d donate to causes I care abt as much as possible, at least that’s what I’d want to do
Not that uncommon unfortunately. I live in the north so there’s none here I don’t think but I couldn’t imagine living somewhere where all that stuff happened.
Yeah. It’s a nice house and property, but I’m not sure I could ever live in that, even if I did have the means. Same way I couldn’t ever imagine living in a refurbished concentration camp (ok those things don’t exit and were also pretty ugly in general, but I live in Germany and that’s what came to mind). Just bad vibes all around.
I feel like most of the "weird quirks" the house had that they showed were the stairs (huh?) and fabrics everywhere. For the wall fabrics and carpets, yeah remove them asap for sure. But maybe replace with wood or something that fits with the house's style? Also, changing curtains is not a renovation thing. That's just decoration lol As for the stairs, I think it's a shame to have lost it, but if it made the naviguation weird, well, ok I guess. But they should have replaced with something that represented better the age/style of the house. Like a new spiral staircase, but better fitted for them) I understand the want/need to modernize a space, but you can (read "should" I think) emulate a modern take on the original style of the home since it's historic. For my taste, that would have been the best ideas.
It would have been significantly cheaper to buy a home of their preference too but, that's affluence for ya. This house is about 40 years old and built with the intentions of having a "vintage" aesthetic and with the square footage of the house alone probably cost minimum $1.5 mil probably, not even with the adjustment from inflation. They could of bought a modern lake house and/or tailor made themselves a home with the money they spent to purchase, gut and renovate the place. It just comes off as entirely wasteful when I break it down myself. To top it off, they just flexed it on tiktok to make profit back
@@arima_song could've. When you say it, it sounds like could of, so they probably just typed that without thinking or something similar. "Could have" is what they meant. I hope you are merely confused with the wording and hoping to understand better, and not mocking a very minor mistake.
@@blakewhite3131 no, I'm not mocking, of course. I'm not a native English speaker and I see this mistake _so much_ and _no one_ answers me ever, so I stopped asking the full question eventually😞 But thank you so much for answering! No one does that and you did! :))
@@arima_song Sorry for accusing you! Theres a lot of people who are strict about grammar to be mean, but English is a very complex language! I felt the need to cover my bases because in the past ive explained nicely, and it turns out they just want to feel superior by pointing out a flaw. I'm glad it was just you trying to understand! A lot of people don't even notice mistakes like this, because most talk more than they write, and their brain just substitutes it with the same sounding word. English is hard enough when everyone follows the rules! :))
I bet they knew exactly what they were doing. I feel like people aren't taking into account the fact that this family CHOSE to show their renovations to the internet. no one asked for this. They decided to share and I bet they knew that the internet would be upset. call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think they were doing their personal renovations and thought, 'hey, if we share this online, there will surely be a lot of engagement out of emotion.'
I live in a neighborhood with historical homes. Theres a law here that the outside of historical homes have to be preserved. Because of that, I live in a really awesome home that is hundreds of years old and has a lot of its original design and i am SO grateful. Seeing these kinds of videos make me kinda sad, but I'm glad laws like these exist in places that matter. You can't replace the charm of an old home and old design. And they literally dont make things as good as they used to.
The house is southern colonial style, but looking closely at what details I could it doesn’t appear to be historic. (I could be wrong) If it is a genuine historic home (and not just antebellum style) then it was already radically remodeled. The floating spiral stairs were a nice feature for sure. I do hope they at least sold them for reuse rather than destroying them.
This is exactly what wealthy people have done for centuries... "I love this place! Let me change it to feel just like the place I came from! Oh no! This place is nothing like it used to be!" Rinse. Repeat.
I read a horror novel where an old house murdered all the owners that did crappy renovations and put itself back the way it was. I see this crap and I would agree with the house fighting back.
10:03 you know what? No one is saying that you shouldn't renovate at all. No one is saying that you shouldn't change out the *_wallpaper_* or the *_curtains._* What we are saying is that you shouldn't rip out a beautiful staircase and all of the structural character of the house in order to make a fucking beige "open-concept" FARMHOUSE!! Like how they put up these two vary wildly different comparisons to try to justify one with the other. "Oh you guys look we had to remove the staircase that's beautiful, we have to renovate of course we had to do it I mean look at this wallpaper and these curtains"
idk if i missed something in the beginning of the video showing the exterior of the house but istg i was Not expecting it to literally be a plantation house 🧍
I mean if you don't want opinions don't post it on the internet. We've had the internet for a while now there's only like 3 reactions you could get. None cause no one sees it, happy people like it, angry you've messed up in the eyes of the people. Everyone in renovation internet knows the community has fallen out of love with these modern flippers. I keep seeing plumbers and electricians fixing botch jobs. I totally agree with the white paint. Are we in a sanitarium? Cause it's driving me crazy 🤪
“This would be really inconvenient for my tall husband (or whoever he is) to walk under every day. It isn’t somewhere we’ll be every day though” is a hilarious pairing of ideas
Before my comment I'll say: yikes a plantation house Ultimately why buy a home if the only thing you like about it is the view? She literally said after calling it their dream house that it didn't even feel like home to them. I don't blame them for wanting to remove fabric walls, those are definitely hazards. But knowing that its all going to turn into plain white walls is killing me. The beautiful paneling and those walls just scream for wall paper! Also with the stairs... Why act like he has to Walk so close to the underside of it, when its perfectly high enough on the side. Just take off the runner and restain it.
tbh even if that's a place with very grim history its much nicer when these places are kept as is and just given their rightful context, instead of being torn apart and their history erased so someone can ignore what happened there. that couldve been a gorgeous home for a new family and a source of history lessons for the kids growing up.
@@isadora6092 I agree. I don't think they should be torn down just because of their grim history. It's much more important to preserve them to teach the bad history behind them, to see where these things took place. I actually think that they should be preserved as historical sites rather than being homes. I think living in them creates a dissonance.
As someone who has renovated a grand sum of fuck all houses, even I know that curtains/wallpapers are simply decorations and nothing to do with renovations. Doesn't seem like anything in the house was in a state of disrepair so, at best, they're simply just refurbishing the place. So aye, you should definitely trust her opinion. She's clearly an _expert_ on renovations...
For those of you who don't know, the house she bought is called a "plantation house" in America because that is where the people who owned the plantations lived, aka the people who enslaved black people
In the case, the "before" decor with the staircase was not the original interior, either. It's solidly 20th century style, English country style. The outside was 100% plantation house, I did not care for the exterior one bit.
for anyone looking to see a lovely renovation that respects the history of the house, i really recommend The 2nd Empire Strikes Back!! he uses old original techniques, original fixtures and talks about the history and story of the house too
No. They said it IS their primary residence, so they decided to remove the staircase, but if it wasn’t where they were living full time they would have left the staircase as is.
That staircase was so pretty 😢. Just buy something with with demo already done. I got a 1910 home with the inside burned out because 💫 price in this economy 💫. I wish I could have had the chance to see some of the vintage charm. Atleast I will try and save the outside to the best of my ability ❤.
Unless that staircase was a safety hazard (who knows maybe it was too old) it’s a crime to destroy it. It’s not like it occupies too much space and adds a nice vibe to the entrance. But people like to live in non-original looking all the same sad beige bricks.
I could put up with ducking under the staircase, probably by adding furniture under it to encourage you not to take that path, a la feng sui but I would not abide by the carpet. I would remove every ounce of fabric from that house.
"We were buying a unique vintage house and took away everything that made it unique and vintage!" It's not like the house or the designs looked cluttered or outdated, it had really beautiful wooden details.
Probably could have taken the staircase and opened it up instead of keeping that closed around it. But as somone who has nailed his head on a staircase like that, it only takes one before you're like "we need to get this out of here" But there's so much they could have done with it. Minimalism kills creativity lol. Embrace maximalism.
for practicalities sake, i understand not wanting to use the staircase but if i had money and a big house, i’d probably just add a staircase somewhere else and keep the spiral just cause it’s pretty 😭😭
I have chronic pain that makes stairs an enemy for me at least half the time but I love a pretty staircase. I get not wanting spiral stairs (hell, my vertigo probably would hate it) but that's such a unique feature that it's obvious going to upset people to remove it! It's there choice, but the house would've better served someone that loves that unique feature. Seeing houses become less unique because of flippers and renovators is upsetting in a way I have trouble describing. It feels like a loss of culture in a way. Doesn't help that affording a house is more and more rare so it's just bland people with more money than creativity ruining unique homes than anything else. It's their house but I get people's feelings about it. Also they're sharing it, so people are going to share there thoughts in response. (Disclaimer: if anyone's going too far with those thoughts that's not cool and I don't condone that.)
I keep seeing these people buy vintage clothes or houses and ruin them by turning them modern and they think they did a good job but they just ruined something. If you want something modern, buy modern and change that, and of regards to housing, if there was no other house you could get then add modern furniture and decorations instead of covering up the house. Some people dream of vintage homes like that .
I keep getting these RU-vid shorts from a woman who cuts up handmade vintage quilts to make clothes and it makes me sad. I'm a fan of up cycling but I also am a fan of preserving historical art pieces. I would happily take the time to restore those.
I genuinely like the open concept modern farmhouse look for the shared spaces in a home. I like how light and airy it is and how the natural materials work with that (please not fake wooden beams, though TT). But I completely agree that taking out that spiral staircase is criminal. If don't know if this is a thing, but there genuinely need to be protected historical homes with certain features that have to be kept or replaced with something similar. That home needed a renovation badly, but not to get rid of the gorgeous staircase. If it were me, I'd start by tearing out that green carpet and hoping for wooden floors underneath. If there's not wood underneath, I'd put in wood and decorate with rugs that match the vibe. I'm short, so going under the stairs wouldn't' be an issue, but if I had someone living with me who was tall, I would find a way to move or add another entry to the kitchen to keep the stairs intact. I'd obviously get rid of the weird fabric walls all over the house. I'd look for vintage furniture to match the home. I'd also want to decorate a room as a library or study if possible because a house like that obviously needs a library or study.
One, the staircase was gorgeous. Secondly, my house is only one story, so it would be hilarious and confusing to install a staircase. Holding you to this, Evil Pinely
I’ve liked the modern, open, contemporary style since a kid (only 24) the open farmhouse is a cool design but also these hundred + year old homes are gorgeous. Aunt lived in a mansion farmhouse in Maryland when I was a kid, driveway was like a half mile or something. It had a spiral staircase. A small metal one but still. It’s a cool unique design.
Not only was that staircase gorgeous, but so was every wooden piece in that house, and the carpet was beautiful! As someone who will be unlikely to afford a house before thirty, let alone somewhere that has character features such as that staircase, this kills my soul.
