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[@Raven-wq4li]

fake enviromentalists always give me the ick because they're always "lets replace this natural resource for plastic that does not biodegrade 🥰"

[@rexana_rexana]

Yes plastic that doesn't biodegrade and is notoriously difficult to recycle and reuse is better than that stinky heavy WOODEN BEAM. I hate house flippers

[@Raven-wq4li]

@@rexana_rexana and not just with house stuff, i see this a lot with clothing, like "artificial leather". THATS PLASTIC STFU

[@yourshoulderdevil5229]

Same, especially when they destroy things that could have been easily recycled in favor of something worse then use "the environment" as an excuse when we all really know it's just for aesthetic.

[@screamingbanshee1282]

That foam will degrade, but not like degrade forever just degrade into microplastics and the light fixture fall down because of it

[@Imbatmn57]

Yeah feel that way about vegans sometimes too, its ok it buy used leather/fur if you don't want to buy leather/fur that do fast fashion.

[@STAY-dw5zm]

They said the sticker on the window was "tacky" then proceeded to put a FOAM BEAM on the ceiling 💀💀

[@martimarti2428]

the sticker was actually so beautiful 😭😭

[@chereaj7891]

It was too expensive for flipping to fix the pool, so they made it more expensive for the home owner to fix the pool. Gotta be some of the most short-sighted and least empathetic individuals on the planet.

[@bubba99009]

And yet they spent a ton of money on that stupid concrete stage or whatever it is supposed to be now. Concrete work is very expensive. And it wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't done right (which would cost a whole lot more) and will start to crack and delaminate.

[@rustyhowe3907]

@@bubba99009 Oh gosh you're right! Then it becomes a structural health and safety hazard. I swear these people are making instagram set pieces more than renovating a home.

[@ArchIVEDCinema]

​@bubba99009 Yup. The civil engineer in me hates absolutely everything about filling and overflowing an empty pool with concrete and then trying to sell it as a... something, I guess 🤦🏼😅 And you're absolutely correct that it wasn't done right, because there isn't a "right" way to do that (other than actually demolishing the pool)

[@rainey53]

I’m an architect and this stuff drives me bonkers. You’d never see a real light fixture attached to the bottom of a real exposed beam bc where would the wiring go??? Where’s the junction box? If you’re going to fake it at least understand how real construction works bc that’s a dead giveaway! If you’re buying property look out for things like that and def avoid homes sold by house flipper types. Chances are they cheaped out on the reno and you’d be buying a lemon of a house.

[@bubba99009]

To be fair even though its a fake foam beam there probably still isn't any kind of junction box...

[@arferbargel]

Would you see a lot of wooden beams running directly into the updraft of a fireplace?

[@rainey53]

@@arferbargel ‘zactly

[@marsfeathers]

"they're not hurting for garden space they have a half acre" it was a GREENHOUSE THATS OBVIOUSLY FUCKING DIFFERENT??? THAN THE OPEN OUTSIDE??

[@fightshrub8872]

And isn't boiling lava hot!

[@PointsofData]

Why did they even slab it over with concrete???? What is the buyer going to do with that??????? If it was left as dirt the buyer could decide what they wanted to do. Same with the mural. Why do these things that cost extra money??????? You are not the one living in the house, leave some things up to the buyer!!

[@m_here1]

Yeah, a greenhouse in Florida is very different from the outside. It is way hotter here than the rest of the United States, so you can’t grow a lot of things outside because they die. My family’s outdoor garden is limited to what won’t die in the heat here. A greenhouse can be temperature regulated for things that won’t survive outside

[@marsfeathers]

@@PointsofData literally all that thing needed was a rented tiller to un-compact that dirt and a little elbow grease I'm so pissed off lmao. Concrete over a fuckin greenhouse I can't believe these ppl I genuinely HATE flippers. capitalists suck the soul out of everything they touch

[@purplecat4977]

@@m_here1 Yeah, there's a lot about this take that I don't understand. Greenhouses are most useful in climates where you can't grow things outside year round. They let you start seeds indoors early to get them out and planted as soon as it's warm enough. And they usually don't have dirt floors, because you're not planting things in the ground. And big glass houses are hot as heck. I don't actually know WHAT you could do with that space in Florida. I wouldn't want to swim in a pool in there either.

[@Dapper_Warlock]

"Taking this fireplace from Hobbit Core to Cottage Core" is already a weird thing to say where I'm sitting... like, what's the difference? Is Hobbit Core just dirtier? Interior-wise, a Hobbit hole just looks like a very tidy cottage. Hobbits aren't like gremlins, they're not filthy mud-people, they're just tiny people who eat a lot. Their houses happen to be called "holes" because they're built into little hillsides, but Hobbits themselves are basically Irish-coded.

[@rexana_rexana]

There's actually really nothing different, just the only difference I noticed is like cottage core architecture is more centered around more old European styles or like Colonial styles (like Tudor type homes) whereas Hobbit core is more centered around circles. Circle doors, entryways, etc. Like that's it. If you wanna be dirtier that's gremlin/goblin-core or crow-core. There's another 'core' I'm forgetting the name of that's like, in between these two but like in the same vein. You get the idea tho

[@PointsofData]

Shs has no idea what a Hobbit hole looks like that's why. Probably didn't even know it was an aethestic, just wanted a funny "awful" word to use.

[@TheWatchersMeteorite]

not to mention a mix of those would be SO CUTE AAAAAA like a more european style with more circles and aaaaa

[@princekyun]

it is genuinely wild to me that they said that, made the fireplace look hella ugly, and then proceeded to go with a full "70s" theme

[@strayiggytv]

They've never seen the movies and they've never read a book

[@2pacalypsezmbie]

“it’s there house they can design it however they want” STOP RUINING OLD BEAUTIFUL HOUSES AND BUY A MODERN BORING HOUSE LEAVE THE OLDER HOUSES FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WANT THEM. If you want your house modern, beige and boring get a new house designed that way. These people need to flip themselves around and leave.

[@kyuokuo]

So, just don't sell them. Easy peasy. If you let people buy, people will buy. You have no right to complain about what people do with their money, their time, and their property.

[@2pacalypsezmbie]

@@kyuokuo your on a video about bad house renovations and defending how bad they are..? 💀🤦🏻‍♀️

[@_aeris]

​@@kyuokuo you do know one of the main reasons houses are for sale are because the previous owners passed away, right? How are people supposed to prevent that lmao 💀

[@TheTheninjagummybear]

​@@kyuokuo"It's YOUR fault that the grimy rich people are exploiting the housing market, actually."

[@thethe4665]

Gentrification is the new trend

[@acedino535]

the way they used "midcentury" and "1970s" interchangeably told me everything i need to know lmao.

[@ZZ-qy5mv]

As an artist, what they did to that “artist studio” was so frustrating. You got rid of those beautiful and very useful shelves for an artist and replaced it with some commercial looking graphic. It’s like saying “this is the kind of art we think you should have” to an artist. The first thing I do would be to paint over that if I bought that house.

[@VerticalSpectacle]

Shallow people trying to be deep. Reminds me of how some people get into eastern religions because they're in tune with vibes or something

[@halobaby0331]

Yea that was so fucking weird they really think putting that new port richey mural on the wall is going to up the value of the home? I’d paint right over that shit WTF

[@barrothontherocks3325]

"the artist studio is missing the art" is the most braindead thing i've ever heard for sure.

[@corpsenymph4644]

The thing that frustrates me the most about it is that it doesn’t make use of the rest of the wall-space. It’s difficult for me to explain. It’s just such an awkward shape and awkward spot for it to fit. It really does just look like a sticker or something…

[@CowBae-ws3qi]

The painting remind me of a Walmart shirt

[@CoraMayBeanbag]

Love the point about how Floridians want to leave the house darker - it's a great example of how house flippers can completely misunderstand local needs and hurt the housing market. I live in Houston and SO many house flippers neglect flood mitigation, causing more damage because of their misinformation.

[@eminempreg]

man its almost like they just wanna spruce up a house in the cheapest quickest way. considering risks like floods, hurricanes, tornadoes takes too much time!!

[@haleymist09]

So true. Previous homes many times (not every time lol) were built for florida life. Now they're getting flipped for the broadest possible audience and the *feeling* of new but pretty much go against comfort in the local environment.

[@oakleyves]

i’m in coastal mississippi and we have a bunch of people severely injured because of elevators for homes on stilts. the salt degrades them terribly and no one comes around to maintain them.

[@IanWisher]

when I lived in Florida, my family and I lived in the fuckin dark, we had to or else we'd boil alive, seeing the blockades removed had me spiritually feel the house temp raise a few degrees

[@eudyln]

Yes - I felt that from Texas as well and I live for my dark cavernous home! It's too damn hot for big bright spaces

[@yikes7628]

not to mention like.... you're removing the dedicated storage space from the dedicated art studio? where, y'know, an artist could store a lot of supplies for easy access and it would look cool in the meantime? no, no, put that in the garage to get covered in dust and dirt for things you'll never use....

[@Codiscreams]

My eye started twitching lmao. I could fit ALL of my stuff in that

[@mon4711]

It was such an artsy furniture as well 🥲 It would fit in almost any of the artists' studios, meanwhile the mural is a very personal choice.

[@lizholland6156]

Removing the popcorn ceiling the way they did is insane bc almost all popcorn ceilings from before the 80’s were FILLED with asbestos 💀 Idk if that little respirator would actually help all that much and now there’s asbestos dust everywhere

[@user-sg4ov7ng4h]

hopefully it works fast s/

[@Alex-cw3rz]

As someone who lives in a place with a lot of beautiful victorian town houses I hate flippers, they see original stained glass, sash windows, wood carved fascia boards, elegant fire places and stunning hand made plaster work and rip it all out to be replaced with the cheapest plastic windows and plastic board, they'll paint everything white, then replace a nice garden with asphalt and fake grass, split it into flats and then just sell it for a extra 100,000 and therefore locals can not afford anywehere in the town.

[@1llustrousking]

This is why when you are looking for housing not to buy a flipped one forcing them to reduce the amount they sell for because no one is buying 😂

[@kateherr2893]

I totally agree, there's a lot of really charming craftsman homes where I live and people are ripping them up all the time, they're more and more rare every year. Right now the one across the street is getting gutted and the one two doors down was totally demolished so the owners could have a new build - the old build was in great condition, too. It makes me really sad, mine is the same age, but one of my family members let it go for a while so it's not in good condition. No one values classic things.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

​​@@kateherr2893 I disagree in one way. I think most people value classic things, there is however a minority who have money and sledgehammers and are all too willing to destroy in the pursuit of profit. Or the turkey teeth types with peaky blinders painting on the wall and render the entire house get black windows and put a Fort Knox's gate on the front of a 3 bed semi detached

[@lakenj]

I need them to stop before the housing market crash because i want an old beautiful home with character that i can buy for 100,000 lol 😂

[@danielrivas6243]

WHAT THE FUCK???

[@jennysomething3666]

Wait ...they renovated a 70s house in the 70s theme and changed the 70s house that was already there to make their own wrong version of what the 70s looked like?

[@baoziday5178]

This is the wildest statement I've read today

[@rexana_rexana]

Yes.

[@brown_and_curly_ne_girly4551]

😂😂 I don’t know why anyone cares about this but your comment is really funny actually- good point 🎉❤

[@daftoptimist]

Next you’ll be telling me they are gonna bring me a birthday gift on my birthday to my birthday party on my birthday with a birthday gift‬.

[@thatoneweirddudeinthecorner]

ur actually right. Something abt this whole premise was confusing me and it’s this. The house is from the 70s already, what are they trying to 70ify???

[@OcarinaLink24]

“They won’t have issues finding garden space.” Do they…. Think greenhouses are for plants suited to the natural habitat and only for the specific season they can grow? Do they…. Know what a greenhouse is………….

[@kaipiethescienceguy]

Not only did they ruin the original beauty and character of a cozy 70's home but as Jarvis pointed out they are obviously amateurs if they can't even WEAR PROPER SAFETY EQUIPMENT. Where is the protective eyewear, gloves, masks and even hardhats when it comes to exposing fiberglass and mounting things on the ceiling? If they ever injure themselves one day from inexperience and not wearing safety gear it will be 100% their fault.

[@yakketyyak6414]

There’s something so poetic about a house flipper defending a bad choice by saying “this technique has existed for centuries” and then doing it wrong.

[@kateherr2893]

Making people have to pay additional thousands for renovations after they buy this house is truly an ancient technique - don't question us.

[@shining_valoka]

the medieval people made it better than them lol

[@kitschking]

lol true

[@Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-db2ff]

That is an ancient technique and it just looks like that lol. In Europe (France specifically) that type of wall is very common and it just looks like that, imo it doesn’t even look that bad in the video so I don’t know what everyone is complaining about.

[@Infern0z2]

​@@Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-db2ff But it does look bad... They did a bad job it's just that simple. All that fireplace needed was a little polishing and they just kind of ruined it.

[@aff77141]

i like how the woman is acting like people are sending her death threats when 90% of the comments are just "TIME FOR SOME MORE CEMENT HUH?"

[@arsena5209]

to be fair there are probably people who are harassing them in DMs too which we can't see, but even then most of the anger towards them is justified even if some people likely go too far with it which is pretty much impossible to avoid on the internet now

[@Cloverkitty]

Either way, this destructive ass behavior deserves being bullied off any platform. Flippers and landlords are a cancer upon humanity.

[@cloudism4928]

I’m sorry but there are defo people sending them death threats, especially since people have been sent death threats for waaaay less than what she does with her husband. In this day and age of the internet, people genuinely have no boundaries and will blow up over things like this to the point of death and r word threats.

[@Snartfoodler]

@@arsena5209 I don't think anger is the right word here, because I'm not sure if anger is justified at someone doing something with their own property if nobody is hurt by it...but I would say the piss being taken is justified.

[@Snartfoodler]

@@cloudism4928 I mean, it was true in the old and mid days too, people just cared less and there was substantially less content creators, as well as people that legitimately had no sense of hiding their actual identity / life. I used to play Minecraft when I was 12 and this group of teenage men tried to find my address / phone number to post on 4chan because they were mad at me for a MC build lol. They could not find it, however, as I knew internet safety. At some point you really open yourself up to the entire world and that is unfortunate but I think it sort of goes without saying we should be cautious online and offline.

[@joannamarieart]

As an artist, I'm CRYING at the loss of that incredible storage wall to be replaced with some coffee shop art 😭 And concrete in the greenhouse was just depressing

[@cb034]

Oh that's 100% gonna be an airbnb with that mural. It's giving photo-op, not really something you do in a home you plan to live in long term. Also, I never understood the hatred of popcorn ceilings

[@princessjello]

Its (1) ugly and (2) hides a poorly done ceiling. Additionally it (3) accumulates dust and cobwebs like nothing else and you can barely clean it bc it'll rip up any rags you try to run on it since its texture is akin to rows and rows of lined up saws. On the plus side it dampens echoing....?

[@thethe4665]

Yeah it would be weird to have tourist art with your own town in your own house 😂

[@shugarysubstances]

@@princessjelloty for putting my hatred if popcorn ceilings into words

[@supergalaxysam]

I had personally removed as much of my bedroom's popcorn walls as I could. Like how another mentioned, popcorn ceilings and walls accumulate dust and can't be easily cleaned. If I remember right, their initial purpose was to provide insulation for sound and temperature, and was also a trend for some time. However, the cons outweigh the pros for having them, especially if you're someone who suffers from issues like asthma (me). Tldr: it looks ugly and can be very unhygienic, but did experience some popularity for a while and does have some architectural purpose.

[@thespector2685]

If someone has asthma, having popcorn ceilings would be a death sentence because of the collection of dust/mites.

[@FrootDeMoN]

They really said "we love the 70s vibe" and proceeded to get rid of everything that made it have that 70s vibe

[@ambiarock590]

I liked the old disc-like light fixture that they removed in-place of something horrific.

[@screamthroughdreams]

Idk why she kept saying "mid century" when trying to keep the house 70s. Not the same thing

[@Earthstar_Review]

Also, it went from seventies to cheap, callous eighties.

[@speed0spank]

​@@screamthroughdreamsand not even mid-century half the time. Just saying words!

[@allyrose6437]

​I don't even care what the fixture looks like she took out a CEILING FAN and didn't put a ceiling fan back in. THIS HOUSE IS IN FLORIDA. Jarvis had a good point about the things on the windows. The old owners had that stuff there and a ceiling fan for a reason 😂 I have a feeling the house flippers are not from Florida or don't care about the future buyers at least! @@ambiarock590

[@rexana_rexana]

As an artist myself, that mural in the studio is getting painted over, it infuriates me. Who thought "New Port Richey" was a good idea? Like, just do plants, just do plants. Do some Bird of Paradise flowers, do a hummingbird, do plants, no need for weird ass text. And you moved that BEAUTIFUL SHELVING TO THE GARAGE??? I would fukin DIE to have shelving like that in a studio space!!! These people have no idea what they're actually doing. Like they don't think practically at all

[@emmao6578]

You said exactly what I was thinking on all parts but I'm especially baffled that as people who post on social media so much they seem completely unaware of how cringy people generally find text on interior decoration even if it doesn't say "live, laugh love".

[@phantomfeather518]

I would have liked to have a greenhouse/garden space in my studio as well. That way having plant murals would actually make sense

[@KateMaureen14]

Also that shelving they removed would have been perfect for pottery or glasswork. Or even just vases of flowers or potted plants.

[@FullMoonOctober]

Removing beautifull, functional storage/display space in a studio is a cardinal sin in my book. Now any person that moves in WANTING to use that space as a studio will have to put up some other storage option, likely covering the mural.

[@kristinachanice8374]

I screamed when they moved the shelf to the garage and painted an arch on the wall😭

[@shanetracy4318]

ART is subjective. DESIGN has clearly defined rules and techniques.

[@cinnamonrollypoly]

It's funny to me how it's framed as "harrassment" when they ASKED people what they thought, and then 'surprised Pikachu face' when people absolutely hate it.

[@whimai412]

I'm just heartbroken that house was bought by flippers. Instead of a family that wanted it to be their home, and was able to get it at a deal. Smh

[@Ao-vj9pz]

Agree. Let the people who want to live there decide what their house want to look like. It will make the house a more meaningful home for them. Plus whoever buying the house will know that the interior will be on the Internet for people to see and some people might find that uncomfortable. I cry for the fireplace. Not sure if their decision is reversible.

[@MsSphinx91]

​@@Ao-vj9pzyou could essentially build a new fireplace, but it'll be expensive at today's prices. 😢

[@alexlabs4858]

There are no “deals” in the current housing market. Someone buying the house to fix it up and sell it is completely fine, but that person should be a trained licensed contractor and there should be proper documentation and inspections on all work done.

[@Izzy_Alcazar]

@@alexlabs4858 Yeah, so let's all LET people raise the price of the already expensive houses! YAY! Flippers are fucking over the housing market. Houses that are completely fine should be UNTOUCHED by anyone unless they wanna LIVE IN IT.

[@Capt.Steele]

Everyone loves to rage at house flippers and landlords when you should be raging at your government. It is entirely their fault the western world is in a housing crisis. It is the government's damn job to regulate the market, not random upper middle class people. These house flippers are obviously idiots, but if there were more regulations it wouldn't be profitable, or necessary, to do so.

[@modelmajorpita]

"this technique has existed for centuries" for use ON BRICK! People only use it on brick, and there's an obvious reason why!

[@deltasaves]

She and her HUZZBIND have no idea what they are doing and need to stop.

[@ShieniLicksOnLemons]

Thank you for confirming to me that the reason it looks so wrong is because of the asymmetric shapes of the stones compared to the real German smear works 🥲

[@SomeoneNone123]

I'm living in Germany and I had to google what their "german smear" technique shall be because I have never seen something like their fireplace in new or historic buildings. It looks so completely different!

[@ene66]

@@SomeoneNone123same I was so sure I misheard the name bc I couldn’t remember ever seeing anything like it on a fireplace

[@Kamikazyay]

@@SomeoneNone123ich glaube das ist einfach nur spachteln 😅

[@Lily96x]

The fact the fake beam would’ve matched better with the before renovation fireplace 😭😭😭 LMAO

[@brckh]

I think you missed the main point which is these "flippers" go in and spend $100 on doors, pay a local artist $50 for a mural, spend $500 putting a concrete slab in, spend $1000 on a new kitchen, and $100 on lighting, then try and re-sell the house for $100K more than they bought it for. What they didn't do was spend $10K to replace the water heater, $5K on a roof, $2.5K on a new drainage system for the yard, etc. it's fake "value creation" which as you mentioned is a bunch of stylistic fluff while they hide the actual issues of the home. And your point about "I hope inspection catches these things" is totally MOOT when in many housing markets buyers are WAIVING INSPECTIONS! CA is one the VERY few housing markets where certain inspections are required and taken seriously - not so in many areas of the country. It's totally deplorable and these are people playing interior designer (badly) while they bilk unsuspecting home owners with a new coat of paint and $20K worth of surprise plumbing costs. This has to be said so people understand how serious and morally reprehensible this is.

[@apperusenpai]

The most offensive thing that this couple did was not the German schmear fireplace or the fake foam beam, but that they uncovered BLACK MOLD on the porch of the same home and simply covered it up with new drywall instead of actually fixing it. Which is very dangerous to just cover up like it doesn't exist!!!!

[@zbee3694]

WHAT

[@bethd.6670]

I watched another video about them, and the mold was on their own house, so at least there's that. 🤷‍♀

[@scorchingbread]

It was in their own house. BUT if they're willing to cover up black mold in their own home, I worry about what they would hide in what they intend to sell to others...

[@monarch3495]

The artist studio is the one place that I’d argue for neutral colors to you know… allow the artist to decorate it with their own style

[@ccman322]

So they gave it the landlord special I see .

[@1llustrousking]

Using foam is not recycling. You can literally get recycled wood that would’ve given them the same look that they were going for instead of using foam. The recycling bit it’s such a lie. These people have no idea what they are doing.

[@MichaelJEngelmann]

I do think it’s better for the structure of the house tho

[@CryingPan]

​@@MichaelJEngelmann is wood not more stable than foam Edit: I was wrong on this one. The faux beam makes more sense because it's just decorative, although it does still look weird.

[@sabrinamenges5910]

okay this is frustrating me, she never said it was foam. she said foax… check her captions. it could literally be made of anything

[@Zaido4211]

​@@sabrinamenges5910Granny Kokoro

[@brambletalon230]

​@@CryingPan not in the places they were placing foam... the beam could've put stress on the roof of the house to the degree it could impact the structural integrity of the home.

[@soaphi7069]

Removing the stickers made me so unreasonably mad. I live in a mid century house that my parents restored and furnished with estate sale furniture so it's like a little time capsule. We kept the vintage label maker stickers on the non functioning intercom with the names of the original residents cuz it preserves the history and the charm of the house. It's nice to remember why & for whom it was built while still making it our own and modernizing stuff like the kitchen when necessary. I love the colorful tile bathrooms and even the decrepit & useless integrated vacuum system. I don't understand why flippers take away the option for the ppl who are actually going to live there to keep the things that THEY consider tacky or ugly. IT'S NOT UR HOUSE!!

[@christinepoppy3277]

I agree. Even if a future buyer did think the original design choices are tacky, let them decide what to do, rather than replacing them with less charming, still tacky fixtures that they will probably just remove and throw out.

[@jennastewart7290]

My house has a pet cemetery with actual engraved granite "headstones" (they're actually just human foot markers with clearly pets' names on them). Almost exactly half the people I know were asking why I didn't get rid of the gravestones and use that part of the yard. First of all, it's rude. Buster, Creature and Smoky were obviously very loved. The elderly couple that used to live here believed that was a safe place to put them so I'm not gonna disturb any of it. Secondly, I've got a 14 year old German Shepherd who is also very loved that can go right beside them when the time comes. It's no big deal.

[@HeyItsIDK]

It would be an absolute treasure, if whoever buys this house from them was a watcher of the series, and then started uploading a new series, 'Fixing a house flip gone wrong.' where they just undo everything this couple did, and additionally add other actually meaningful additions/fixes.

[@spookyquill2026]

Our house was “DIY’d” by the previous owners and it was awful. We had to replace the toilets because the lids were glued shut with liquid cement, there were tiles layered on top of other tiles, the electrical box was hidden behind the wall. Y’know, the switch we’d need to flip if there was an electrical fire or something. They put it BEHIND THE WALL! If you can’t do it, don’t. Also, house flippers are ruining the housing market and contributing to the cost of living crisis an insane amount. Literally, house flippers and landlords are killing the economy.

[@MM-jf1me]

Whoa. How exactly were the toilet lids glued shut? (I'm trying to imagine a scenario where this makes sense and I'm coming up empty.)

[@thegreatcanadianlumberjack5307]

In my house i rent right now Its an Illegally converted Duplex (They put up a sheet of drywall in the middle of the hall way to divide the house not only the the Main electrical Panel Partially blocked By the hood fan and Cabients and your literally cooking right next to it but there is Wire ran not even the walls as there 14/3 Lumex wire running in front of my front door covered by a Plastic track and bolted down with Wood screws into the Flooring.

[@breadcrumbhoarder]

To be fair tiles on top of tiles is not that unusual, depending on how the tiles were laid, my house had tiles laid in cement but they were cracked and broken and it was much cheaper to tile over them. The rest of that though, that’s just awful lmao

[@emilywarren676]

My parents old house, had a room extension built over the septic tank, lovely when you need to empty it 💩

[@erikaessel1650]

​@MM-jf1me It's a decorative toilet... obviously 🙄

[@Izzy_Alcazar]

"So, we bought this 70's house to make it more into a 70s house!!" Proceeds to LITERALLY remove all sings of it being a 70s house. Talking about "leaning into the 70s charm" then doing the exact opposite is one of the true reasons why they SHOULD get bullied off of the housing market. They have no idea what they're doing and they are documenting it for proof. They most likely just look all over Pinterest and go "Oh, we could do that one!" then do it in the cheapest way possible. Disgusting.

[@fromloverboy]

Thats what i was thinking! You cannot say that you “just love 70s interior design so much” and then turn around and destroy any trace of funky wallapaper

[@CalmClamFam]

Yeah like they wanted to make the fireplace “cottagecore” which is a MODERN aesthetic trend. Then they put the mural that looks like it belongs in a tourist trap inside the studio room. None of these choices remotely feel 70s inspired

[@Yviene311]

And then installing mid century lighting which is a different vibe entirely

[@witchassbitch3]

@@Yviene311quite literally a different decade

[@Nien10]

It's giving 'landlord special'

[@k8g8s8]

I would never have that in my artists studio... Shelves are useful, wall paint is not.

[@lumina56]

The indoor garden become a slab of concrete really killed me inside, at this point they´re doing it to annoy future buyers

[@NevadaLewis]

I know. It made me so so sad.

[@toriladybird511]

Thought it was originally a pool that was filled in before they ever got the place.

[@emmao6578]

@@toriladybird511 It was originally filled in with soil so you could use it as a greenhouse area for plants

[@alanmacdee]

They have zero imagination and clearly don’t have the skills to do what they are doing. I feel sorry for whoever buys this and to think what they could have had. It’s a 70s house… that pool area could have been a really neat sunken seating area… or anything. They literally paved over potential

[@cr0cpot613]

the way they said homeowners can just use the outdoor space too ... just completely ignoring all the benefits of having a controlled environment to grow plants year-round that would die or just not grow outdoors bc of the local environment

[@M1ckeyB1gBon3s]

IMO the original fireplace was like 1 billion times more “old world” feeling and just overall nicer

[@Caldella]

It looked cozy, and now I agree with Jarvis; it looks like it's still under construction.

[@demetriam2408]

​@@Caldellayeah, it would have looked fine if they had LEFT THE SMALL STONES VISIBLE though

[@haleymist09]

The original fireplace was very 1970s, not a cute 1970s, but the home repair and decor around it would make it less of an eyesore and a more a part of the design scheme. Now with the beam, it's less 1970s nostalgia and more Beowulf banquet hall.

[@artlessthief]

They should've stained the brick darker and warmer would've made the space so homey and instead they made it cold and sterile 😢

[@tacticalmisandrist]

And it’s actually way closer to German schmear, much closer than what they did. Like it was basically already German schmear lmao

[@katopancake]

As an architectural historian, I want to say your commentary was golden! House flipping is trash and it’s making the housing crisis worse.

[@sandcat2383]

"We wanted to add some character to the house." *proceeds to remove all the character*

[@comrade_aoife]

As a former real estate agent, every house flipper deserves to be bullied into finding a real job

[@Unstoppable_Unicorn]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 My brother and SIL are realtors and agree with you. I have heard many rants from them.

[@wartygourd]

i agree

[@Supadawg1000]

Every real estate agent and landlord should be bullied into finding a real job

[@concretemathematics414]

@@Supadawg1000 idk there is a lot of legal stuff that goes with buying a house, so i'm not vehemently opposed to realtors. landlords though? yeah fuck them

[@klowczarski]

Some people do have to rent. Not everyone can buy a house. Especially in this market with interest rates. A good owner and/or management company is important.

[@AliceIsComingForYou]

What frustrates me the most about flippers is that they often do irreparable damage to the house, that looks looks like an upgrade at a first glance but after further inspection it turns out to be just putting makeup on a corpse. Like in the full video about the swimming pool they say that renovating it was too expensive, so they put literal tons of concrete over it and now if the buyer of the house actually wanted a swimming pool they would have to first invest thousands of dollars into removing the concrete. Literally giving the house the opposite of what it needs.

[@ambiarock590]

I would freakin love a swimming pool in my house. Shame they poured concrete all over it, painted a touristy mural on the wall, and moved the artsy shelves into a place where they can get damaged

[@ciherracooper9266]

I think that may be one of the points, make it so $$$ for average individuals that there’s no choice unless it’s sold to a corporation to “do the right thing and make repairs”. So it’s just an unflattering hostile cage that makes people want to sell for what they believe is a lot of $$$.

[@Vok250]

Please tell me if wasn't this same house. Poor house.

[@martiiryven]

its a weird assumption to make "yeah nobody would want a swimming pool, lets clog it up". Something like a pool doesn't need to be flipped or removed, that is an option for the buyer to make

[@NeNoItMe]

The thing is, if they were doing this do their house - I would say no one has the right to critique them taste wise. Someone wants a roofbeam but for any reason don’t want the real wood, it’s suppose to be purely aesthetic? Go off, do the foam one if u like it it’s your home. But if I went in, saw that and thought that it’s a house with a roof beam and then either found out or was told it’s just a foam for esthetics… man I’m walking off and not looking back. It’s unnecessary, unneeded and actually makes more work for new homeowners. The reason ppl buy “neutral” houses is that it’s the easiest to customize to u. If u want to make a house with character just leave the original character in! Fix the real issues for god sake. Again, if they would do it to their home, it would be fine. Do it. U like it u live in it, all good. But renovating something to their tastes, and asking bigger price for home that has fake purely aesthetic fixes is just scummy man… cos u know that in 99% of cases u would be putting more money in that house to change or fix some stuff after u buy it. That’s just off putting.

[@Pnic1193]

The excuse for the foam beam is so funny when youre someone whos actually worked on this kind of thing yourself 😂 you can go to AAA and they should have a thing that you can rent for $50-80 to lift things like this and hold it in place while you secure it, no strength required.

[@ambiarock590]

My dad put an actual beam up in his house and we used some car jacks, some muscles, and some ingenuity to get it up. He put a beam up in a space where he was removing a wall so we lifted the beam with the wood structure of the ex-wall still in place and slowly jacked up the beam using car jacks and ladders and screwing supports to the wall shell until it was up

[@bubba99009]

OTOH I'm glad they didn't use a real beam because there's no way they would have properly supported it and it might have crushed somebody in the future when the 2" drywall screws pulled out.

[@christinepoppy3277]

At least it will be less heavy for the buyers to remove it and throw it in the trash the day they move in

[@ninaradio]

There also is a time tested way of taking beans, which is to use 2x4s or 2x6s to form a sort of hollow beam that is fairly lightweight but still ACTUALLY WOOD.

[@pagelen]

Let's make it more neutral with the perfect shade of beige BUT ALSO a wildly specific mural that would look great in a commercial place.

[@feminissue]

as an artist that "mural" does not belong in the artists studio- maybe a bar or restaurant. she said design is subjective but if the majority of people are hating it, maybe it's objectively bad

[@rexana_rexana]

My thoughts exactly, like if that was my studio that mural is getting a major facelift and fast. Like keep the color palette and plants, but the text has to go.

[@emmao6578]

@@rexana_rexana I just don't get why they or the artist felt the need to put text on it at all when the internets made it clear it's often seen as a cringy millennial trend, what's wrong with a mural of some scenery, plants or a basic sunset?

[@StarrNOM]

I thought it was going to be some kind of plant mural to compliment the many windows in the room. The text makes it look like an advertisement to a cafe.

[@artlessthief]

Why on earth would they put words on a home mural such a weird choice like at least write live laugh love

[@SASQUATCHPRIEST]

its getting immediately painted over when the next person moves into that house lol. What was going on in that artists head?

[@minimonster2319]

Did she...did she call a greenhouse an "extremely private backyard"...?

[@artemiish]

Oh that? That's my little private backyard, only I'm allowed inside

[@Steampunkfox143]

I thought it was a sun room? Either way yes. Yes she did

[@NotKateHepburn]

It's not a greenhouse or a sun room. Florida houses mostly have screened in areas. The bugs would eat you alive otherwise.

[@Spooky_Magooky]

@@NotKateHepburn Why can't it be both, the previous owners where clearly using it as a greenhouse space.

[@dallyinghualian]

​@@artemiishcaroline from stardew valley:

[@petrameyers159]

Best part of this is the fact they've hidden and deleted the video of them covering black mould in the ceiling. Something that could straight up kill people/make them very sick

[@dylandreisbach1986]

That house just needed a good deep clean. Why install random junk? Its not worth your time or money.

[@rexana_rexana]

For the beam, there's tons of ways to get around putting a whole heavy beam up there, including but not limited to hollowing out a beam, using a lighter type of wood and staining it, using veneer over ply, etc. There's so many other options that would look so much more convincing and would be structurally safer than foam. This isn't a theatrical production, this is someone's HOME. They should've put a little more consideration into this.

[@luxuscarnage4828]

And veneer is super mid century. It can break down over time but it's on the ceiling so it's not as if it will get chipped from moving around and weather degradation.

[@PointsofData]

Also, yknow...I'm no house engineer but the wood probably will hold the chandelier...at all. As opposed to the foam. Which I would wager will...eventually and very suddenly not.

[@nellier3468]

Yes and the foam is one of the ways to get around putting a heavy piece of wood on your ceiling. They didn’t make it themselves, it’s a product you buy for this purpose. I like it personally. Hopefully there is actual wood or some supports behind the light to give it structural integrity.

[@PointsofData]

@nellier3468 Fam I don't think they put anything but foam up there. They would have said otherwise, or shown us...

[@koolaidman_]

Flippers and consideration are like oil and water

[@jmarshal]

The concrete SLAB in that beautiful sun room is just ridiculous. That one makes me the angriest. I would kill for a beautiful sun room that came with a huge garden bed. If you can’t afford to reinstate the pool because that’s expensive af, then at least leave it with the most useful feature it could have. House flippers are the worst - just as bad as land lords. Usually to fix up the “flip” it costs far more than it would have cost in its original state!

[@jebbyrat]

literally heartbreaking

[@halobaby0331]

Dude SUCH A GOOD POINT

[@dalianatour3514]

Worse is that removing concrete is intensely difficult, time consuming, and expensive to dispose/recycle. Partner and I are still scarred from removing a small sidewalk in our backyard.

[@FiseCraft]

I forgot what video this is and tought that concrete slabs are going to be in minecraft 🤣

[@Goldlucky13]

right???? wtf is even the point of ADDING concrete? if they wanted it to be an open room with more possibilities, i would have understood them taking out the walls of the pool/garden bed. now there is just a narnia looking sacrificial altar in their sunroom :(

[@aluzuka]

21:53 if i was a potential buyer, the first thing i would think while looking at this house is “ok if i buy it, I’m painting over that mural and putting the garage shelving there.”

[@robin.watermelon]

yeah I think what almost fell into their eyes was definitely fiberglass, which is like RAZOR fucking sharp lmao. Bro was not wearing the proper PPE 20:23

[@OcyTaviAh]

Why did they paint a mural on a house flip? That’s a decision you let the person who is living in the home do… because it’s for them… especially if they’re an artist. Like, if you are going to make a blank space for people to project onto, actually make it a blank space? They are absolutely not doing any necessary maintenance. They’re just “updating the aesthetic” to get more money.

[@fightshrub8872]

Also, why would I essentially want a logo with the name of where I live on the wall?

[@vanesamartin6253]

As a designer, white walls are perfect: it is easier to take photos, you have better control of the light, you can distinguish colors better and, of course, you have a wall to paint or use as a display.

[@ona512]

I hate the bougie "I be living in a city I am in" vibe get out of here

[@kamilareeder1493]

Building inspection who ? 🙈🤡 regrouting/recaulking where? 🗺👀 This is rich people's hobby tbh

[@_milkysoup]

They’ve probably realised online rage bait is a better get rich quick technique than house flipping

[@thedestiney88]

Flippers don't fix the structural and important issues with a home, they just do some cute cosmetic changes and call it a day. The ONLY thing they care about is money. If they actually cared about this home, they wouldn't flip it. They'd update it and keep it as an Air BnB, a rental, or their own home. It's so frustrating when thousands of hardworking people can't afford to own a home and then we see stuff like this! That's why they're getting so harassed. I think our collective anger and frustration is just all on them!

[@twitchy_bird]

Honestly using it as a rental or air bnb is bs as well, just not quite as bad as the flipper bs.

[@haleymist09]

Oooooh, that's a good point about why they're getting hate. They really are doing the most and could learn actual DIY and fixing best practices and share THAT online

[@SylverScourge]

@@twitchy_bird well renting it out to people isn't horrible, some people can't afford to buy houses and depend on renting, but air bnb is terrible for the housing market.

[@jermuhh3359]

One of the big backlashes they got which Jarvis didn't include was them literally just covering a moldy roof panel with a new panel... NOT REMOVING THE MOLDY PART OF THE ROOF, JUST COVERING IT UP! Like they hid the fact that the house has a health hazard that can be extremely dangerous if you live in a house with mold.

[@tallemajas]

@@jermuhh3359 i think it came out that this clip was from their own house instead of this one that they're flipping, and they actually fixed the mold problem. not 100% sure but that's what i heard

[@mari_3kyu]

THE SHELF WAS SO COOL NOOO Not the gorgeous shelf for the ikea ring binder ass mural Not even ikea, dollar store notebook

[@emmadj06]

The most infuriating thing is they take old or vintage houses and strip them of all identity. You can renovate a house by uplifting the special features and not rip them down to build new. They all seem to have enough money to buy something new that fits their style, so it is so incredibly disrespectful how they feel the need to destroy a treasure someone else would kill for.

[@sydcaldwell37]

as an artist I wouldn't want someone else's mural in my studio space. it just doesn't make sense to me to have that. it's not even good inspo because it's so basic in style and design

[@dreamweaver444]

uninspiring tbh

[@arshellnut2730]

Imagine everyone visiting your ART STUDIO and asking "did you paint that?" pointing at the wall, and having to say "no" lol.

[@mmmbepis8643]

As a fellow artist the only reason I'd want someone else's mural in my studio would be if it's from someone I look up to and know personally. Not the random people who sold the house to me lmao

[@snudoo607]

literally looks like average coffee shop mural which isnt bad but looks terrible in a house

[@angb3558]

also why would i want it to state the city im in lol. it would be a cute t shirt design or tourist attraction ig but this is my dwelling??

[@drdeathdefying1560]

I think that most people are hating on them because of the flex that is messing up a house. TikTok is full of a generation of people who will likely never own homes, and to watch some random people ruin a beautiful home in the name of marketability to investors and rental companies feels like a personal affront.

[@arsena5209]

I think you nailed the reason why people are hating on this couple, partly because that's also exactly what made me hate this couple and I haven't even used tik tok in like 3 or 4 years

[@BeehiveBoy]

Yes!!! It's like a slap in the face. Like you could afford to buy this house and THIS is what you choose to do with it??

[@newp0rt]

@@BeehiveBoy such a beautiful house too. some houses have that really nasty 70s aesthetic with shag carpets and brown everywhere but this house was almost perfect. it had style while still being somewhat modern. the open space, the white walls and kitchen, beautiful studio, massive backyard. it was a perfect home for a family and they just utterly destroyed it.

[@ambiarock590]

I wonder what could be causing people to not be able to afford a home. [Looks at landlords and house-flippers jacking up house prices]

[@jaksantio1441]

As someone who did contractor work on homes for years I have no respect for this kind of work. If I went to a buy a beautiful turn of the century home and the interior was just Grey-beiged-out that would ruin it for me, as well as making it unaffordable!

[@skyeturnip]

"We're trying to give this home 70's vibes" The difference between decorating your own house and renovation is so clear. My mom loves collecting vintage and antiques, and her house is from the 70's. Genuine 70's vibes I hate house flippers because they don't do anything to fix the house, they just change it. When I buy a house I plan on completely overhauling it to fit my vibes because I plan on living in it.

[@remem95]

"This ceiling was begging for a beam" No it wasnt. If it was, there would have been a beam there to begin with.

[@athena5573]

its like they think structural beams are there like, just for looks? like, they serve an actual architectural purpose, they arent meant to simply look nice. it's just a happy coincidence that exposed wood beams look nice.

[@lemravity4453]

People shouldn't do things such as this if they aren't trained properly, hire someone to renovate the house if you can afford it. I'm saying this because our house is currently being renovated and we know it will not only be nice but it also will be safe to use those areas after it has been finished!

[@scienceface8884]

A wood beam that goes right into the chimney. It's like someone gluing a fuel tank door onto the door of an electric car: no concept of function, only a vague sense of aesthetic.

[@archer4424]

"The art studio was missing something... the art!" My brother in Christ that's because no one lives in the home yet😭 like maybe this is just me but if I can ever afford a place with a studio for myself, I would Not want someone else's art in it. It's My studio for My art yknow? If an artist ever does live there, the mural is probably gonna get covered over with a whole bunch of other shit- materials, planning sketches, inspiration, their own actual art, etc. Idk. It feels like a waste of the muralist's time and skills imo

[@emmao6578]

And if an artist ever does live there, one of the first things they'll do is add a bunch of storage for all their materials, kind of like that beautiful wall of shelving they decided to hide away in the garage 🥲

[@PointsofData]

If I had the money to buy a house with an art studio, and like I was REALLY serious about getting a nice studio set up, I would be so incredibly picky about any murals on the wall. Might very well be the thing that makes me go for a different house on my list. It's something I have to look at everyday afterall, and if it doesn't make me happy then...nah. 😩 I wouldn't have the money, time or skill to redo it myself so if it's not something I like I'm not going for it. And hell no it ain't a studio (yet) if there ISN'T ANY STORAGE THERE LEAVE THE SHELVING JFC.

[@reedsylvier5250]

Man if I had a giant art studio space with white walls perfect for painting my own thing only for the best wall to paint on to have it's own thing on with words on it that's clearly someone's work idk if I'd feel too bad to paint over it and allow myself the enjoyment of doing my own thing, even if it would be worse it would be my own thing tho. I don't get them saying in general putting their own 'personality' in a home they don't intend to keep and not allowing the actual owners to develop their own personality in it, even if their personality wasn't cement gardens and poop coloured doors

[@mycenaeangal9312]

if an artist lives there, I would hope the first thing they'd do is fucking repaint it lol.

[@Bunny_GirlYT]

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[@kiwipalace]

i feel like theyre missing the point of flipping a house. they just want to attempt to be interior designers without having a clients opinion

[@PinkApocalypse]

My family renovated a second home many years ago, and it was to FIX the home. It was rotted and structurally messed up. My favourite part of that was this antique furnace in the living room that was in an awkward spot, so instead my parents moved it to a nicer spot in the room without damaging or changing it. I’m so thankful they did that

[@spOOkytimes]

When smart, safe, and respectful people flip the house versus when stupid people who know nothing about construction, other than youtube videos made to help homeowners fix something that is broken within their own homes, "flip" already move in ready home

[@hells_shells]

Not using PPE and letting insulation fall right onto your face is wild. I'm gonna guess they didn't test for lead paint or asbestos either

[@peiithos]

its genuinely so dangerous for them and others 💀

[@peiithos]

okay different comment but i was watchinf it anr they NO PPE WENT AFTER A POPCORN CEILINF??? THATS STRUAGHT ASBESTOS WHAT THE FUCK ok edit he wore a mask. nothing else. and WENT STRAIGHT INTO ASSSBESSTOOOSSSS.

[@FullMoonOctober]

Hate to say it, but they won't be flipping for much longer with this lack of basic safety.

[@Batzilla69420]

iirc they also painted over dark coloured mold in the "indoor porch" ceiling without even batting an eye or considering getting it tested 🥴🥴

[@juliashirokova8374]

it’s natural selection at this point

[@anonview]

I grew up around architects, civil engineers, and carpenters. They're making disastrous decisions here. Edit: They exposed the wood... _only to paint it beige._ Have they never heard of varnish before?

[@avaferris8906]

20:39 is me when I put random lights in my sims houses because I won't see them anyway

[@ShellyDM57]

Anytime you purchase a flipped house assume they did NOT use quality products and that the house is probably not worth the money.

[@SayaCeline]

Some do and some don't. It depends on the flipper and the house they started with. There are a lot of new constructions that are absolute garbage too. More than anything you need to make sure you have the house inspected by a quality house inspector.

[@YujiUedaFan]

They spend all their money on the right shade of beige and polyester "wood" beams.

[@zpdrsn6315]

@@SayaCeline this as-well develop an eye for tacky work and finishes as-well as do ur research of the property. And as a framer who has built over 15 houses for major home developers new builds can have the same issues.

[@Ttlore]

As someone who lives in a flipped house (I didn’t know it was a flip. The owners that lived here hired flippers before they put it on the market) I fucking HATE IT. My house looked so nice for the first two months, but I have to turn off the water to my kitchen sink every night so it doesn’t leak, I can’t open my microwave without unplugging it because it trips a breaker, the wiring is all the rope wrapped wiring, corners are cracking bc they were painted over and there’s no hot water to my bathroom sink. First house I’ve ever bought and am currently in the process of suing the home inspector and the company they work for due to them not reporting the aspestos the outdated wiring and the lack of hot water to the bathroom.

[@mariya_tortilla]

asbestos???? Jesus christ sue the hell out of them!!

[@arsena5209]

I really, really, really, REALLY! hope you sue the shit out of them and win, because holy shit?!?! that's fucking criminal, what the fuck

[@edmundjimenez9136]

I wish you the best with the lawsuit. Some inspectors are great in some don't care. Am so sorry you didn't get a good one. These kind of things are nothing to just not care about.

[@barrothontherocks3325]

it's really sad that we live in a world where house value is based on how it looks and not how it functions...as a house

[@corpsenymph4644]

Damn. Best of luck to you, you deserve the money 100%, the repairs needed for that house is going to be one pain in the ass that you shouldn’t have to deal with in the first place.

[@ravengrant2293]

i live in a flipped house. the only thing that they focus on is looks. they patched over the ethernet cord, the most minute things that would have taken 12 seconds to secure aren't secured, they ignored the sewage issues, there's paint on the carpets, the living room doesn't have a single light in it.. i could go on.

[@drunkhyena]

19:26 made me jump oh my GOD also as someone who paints and draws, having a fucking mural in your studio space instead of shelving sounds like absolute hell

[@lema9509]

I get having different tastes but filling that old indoor swimming-pool-turned-garden with concrete is just objectively depressing

[@m_here1]

That likely hurts the resale value as well. It’s hot in Florida, and now they have this huge slab of concrete that is going to heat up like crazy and become unusable in the summer. They would’ve gotten more money out of the house if they had restored the pool. Private pools are huge feature of a Florida home that can really increase the price because you have a way to be outside in the summer without dying in a pool of sweat. Plus, it’s fun.

[@nospoonfulofmayonnaiseforme]

it would've been a stunning greenhouse type thing

[@OakNuggins]

@@m_here1 Holy shit, I didn't even think of how hot that concrete is going to get.... That's going to cost so much to cool down that house.

[@newp0rt]

yeah this house is the opposite of a flip. they WILL NOT get their money back. the house will 100% NOT SELL. anyone seeing that backyard as a giant slab of concrete inside a now useless greenhouse with a giant turd on the ceiling is going to walk away.

[@ambiarock590]

Same. To me the worst thing they did was fill in the pool. A pool is a great way to relax and/or get some exercise in. I'd love a pool and/or a hot tub in my house

[@bellaruesing2490]

"Were taking this old fireplace from hobbit hole to cottage core" as if they're not literally the exact same thing... also the light fixture running through a foam board just SCREAMS electrical fire to me. And yes if it's all done correctly it should be safe but look at these two objectively and tell me if you think either of them is a certified electrician, for Christ's sake she's working in sandals.

[@Cloverkitty]

Honestly, I would t even trust these two to watch a child. The stubborn incompetence is insane.

[@corpsenymph4644]

And without safety goggles… yikes

[@johnaverill6308]

It's less of an electrical fire hazard and more of a structural hazard --electrician apprentice

[@thegreatcanadianlumberjack5307]

Trust me when you Go and do Service calls for houses you know right way is something is a Homeowner job or done by a Professional. These Flippers are just DIYers and nothing more. No professional would ever butcher the Fireplace like that.

[@arshellnut2730]

It's funny because Tolkien spends the first several paragraphs of Book 1 saying a Hobbit Hole is homey as fuck.

[@thoopsy]

This is stressing me out too much, I cannot keep watching this. Godspeed to those stronger than me.

[@MrsStormtrooper]

M8 in my city locusts like those have destroyed about 80% of our historical center, it completely breaks my heart :(((

[@thebest12123]

I’m so mad they removed that shelf from the studio/art room. That would be perfect to put paint, extra canvas, paint brush, and probably a lot of other stuff. That is so frustrating! The shelf is massive and fits in the room perfectly! Even if it wasn’t an art studio and it was a camera studio. It still would have been perfect. You could have all of your camera equipment and it could fit perfectly! Or you could put cubbies on the shelf but no. You just had to ruin the perfect studio. Im sure a lot of artists don’t want something someone else painted (not be rude or anything) because they would probably want to have something they could paint on the wall and not someone else. Sure the art is beautiful but I definitely wouldn’t want it. I would have the shelf there and maybe some pretty flowers around it!

[@nilanjl]

I was there when this happened and I can confirm that the "harassment" were people asking why they would ruin the fire place, why didn't they get someone who actually knew how to do the German smear, and qualified inspectors and folk in real estate saying "Hey, that's a fire hazard." Nor to mention everyone rightfully pointing out that nothing about what they're doing is related to the 70s, at all. Literally everything you said they would have considered harassment. Oh, the comments also mentioned another flip they did where they covered up mold in a ceiling to hide it and make it look new instead of just fettingrid of the mold and cleaning what was there.

[@athena5573]

it gives taylor swift complaining about "haters" when talking about people who find her music to be mediocre

[@jaysonthompson1215]

Especially because they asked. I just stumbled upon their video of the fireplace and when they asked so I shared my thoughts. Then all of a sudden everything was harassment? What the he'll guys, talk about fragile ego

[@Plsrateeight]

@@athena5573 When did she do that?

[@mysticbarkingcow]

The mold renovation was on their own home, not one they were flipping. Though that does make you question the quality of their flips if that is what they think is ok for themselves.

[@dallyinghualian]

​​@@athena5573 taylor swift doesn't gaf about people thinking her music is mediocre lol. the "haters" she talked about were people slutshaming her for her dating history.

[@daftoptimist]

IMO, some of the rage about this flip comes from us Millennials and Gen Zers who have largely been priced out of the housing market. It enrages us to see houses stripped of character for profit - character we would have developed if we’d been given the chance. If I recall, OP also mentioned that the house was purchased explicitly as an investment property. It was never going to be sold to an actual homebuyer. And I will be shocked if it doesn’t end up as a rental or an AirBnB. People are mad because this is symptomatic of the housing market now. Homes aren’t made for people anymore, they’re made for investment corporations.

[@ashrowan2143]

Flippers taking a potentially affordable home renovating it and it's now unaffordable for the people who used to be able to afford a liveable home makes me just a little bit feral. Between the housing market and my disabilities I've basically accepted that I'm never owning my own home and it's going to be a miracle if I can ever afford to live alone

[@verybarebones]

You speak true and this us a worldwide problem. Im in europe and every second hand home is an absurd price and obviously meant as an investment and not a living place. Everyone seems to have 5 houses they dont use and dont care about selling, theyd rather let them rot than lose some imagined profit

[@dcornect53]

Fun fact: lots of older popcorn ceilings actually contain asbestos, which is why a lot of them can't or shouldn't be taken down without professional equipment.

[@alexaburks]

You could definitely embrace the '70s style of the original house and just make it better, they did not do this. As someone who loves '70s and '80s style houses this hurts my soul so bad.

[@emmapeers4846]

As a full time artist I can say that I’d paint over that straight the way. The point of having white walls in a studio is so we can see how are art looks with out interference from other colours from the surrounding space. It also mimics a gallery space plus all white walls allows the space to be as bright as possible for working in natural light.

[@NoSaysJo]

no one cares 🫵🤡

[@pomegranate594]

@@NoSaysJo who asked you?? 💀💀

[@athena5573]

@@NoSaysJo clown emoji users refusing to give up on their tired, boring insult

[@chickenanon]

​@@NoSaysJo 325 people disagree!

[@shjilz]

​@@NoSaysJoI actually hate you

[@Alex-cw3rz]

On the fireplace they also removed the outer hearth which is there for a reason it's so burning embers drop onto it which is made of non combustible material and not carpet or something that is flamable. Edit : the outer hearth also acts as a demarcation to show do not put anything flammable past this point, getting rid of that means there is no physical warning.

[@rexana_rexana]

I mean having seen the video, the stones were like coming up out of the ground, not flush to the floor, which can become a tripping hazard, so as long as it gets replaced with something equally fire resistant, like flat stone tile, there nothing inherently wrong with removing those; however, I don't have much faith in this couple to know what fire safety code even is

[@Alex-cw3rz]

​@@rexana_rexana I think they could have made it slightly smaller as it was large, but not got rid of it entirely it is important as you say they may have put something non computable as the flooring, but the outer hearth also acts as a demarcation to show do not put anything flammable past this point, getting rid of that means there is no physical warning.

[@bluebirds_and_bees]

I read the comments on the original video and they said it was a gas fireplace so embers weren’t a problem.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

@@bluebirds_and_bees are good that was lucky, although wouldn't but it past these two to try and use it as an actual fireplace

[@rexana_rexana]

The outer hearth being raised up is not necessary, it's actually often not in many homes. I've lived in a couple homes where the inner and outer hearth were level with the floor. Whether that is fire code now, I don't know, that's just what I've lived in, and I've never had a house fire. As long as the outer hearth is expansive enough and is fire proof enough, that is minimum requirement. If fire code nowadays requires an elevated outer hearth then that just goes to show how these house flippers shouldn't be doing what they're doing (and I also don't, but I don't build houses). If they're not following fire code they need to be shut down immediately

[@gingertea3778]

The artist who painted on the wall is definitely talented but i feel like the best choice was probably keeping the shelf and letting the artist who is gonna move in decorate themselves. As an artist myself, I would much prefer having that beautiful shelf for all my supplies and other trinkets than having a mural. And if one day I wanted a mural, I would eitrer paint it myself or hire someone and guide them through it so what they paint matches my own aesthetic

[@herroyalawkwardness954]

That art mural was my last straw 😩 Those shelves look fine! They're there for a reason. So you can put art in it because it's an art studio.

[@CrystallisCrafts134]

The most heart breaking thing to me is that indoor garden. I was imagining putting a koi pond in there and how magical that'd be. And then she points to a teeny tiny pond that couldn't even hold 1 full grown koi and says it'd be perfect 🥲 please no.

[@fightshrub8872]

Plus, you wouldn't have to be outside in the crazy heat to enjoy it.

[@Kr.m.h.]

Wow, this comment unlocked some random info I didn't even know I knew, lol. Koi fish are not small, some fish can get sunburned, and I believe there are some reported cases of fish developing melanoma actually. I don't think that's a good location for a fish pond in general. I would be worried about the effect of run off on the water quality. Apparently it rains a lot in southern Florida, so maybe it could be a cute, shallow little decorative pond instead.

[@emilyjohn2034]

And that fact that they seem to think that indoor garden space and outdoor garden space are equal “it’s okay that we destroyed a perfect greenhouse look how much dirt is outside”

[@MM-jf1me]

I was thinking how amazing it was to have a garden space that was mosquito-free! I agree with the person whose comment was screenshot for the video that fixing the pool would've been a better investment than a concrete slab -- there's a reason screened-in pools are so common in Florida and it's because people want pools they can actually enjoy.

[@lizb2637]

I don’t understand why so many people are calling it a greenhouse or thinking that space is indoors/not in the heat? Maybe this is just a Florida thing, but it is 100% outside. It is a concrete pool deck that has a screen around it. We call it a lanai. The only thing that’s maybe throwing people off is there is no pool because it was filled in with dirt, which is very strange. It must have got a crack in the foundation and was too expensive to fix and too dangerous to leave a giant empty hole so they filled it in.

[@anonymousopinion228]

As an artist, I can 100 percent say that in the "art studio," I would've wanted the shelves, not the artwork. Don't get me wrong I love that they paid an artist for her work but if I was going to have a studio I'd want storage space and probably art on the walls that was created by me or gave me inspiration to my specific style of art. I feel as if that choice was limiting or pointless. I can see it being painted over for a normal family or having potential buyers turn away from it because it's not their personal style. If it wasn't a studio space it could be a family game room or beautiful sun room. Which I see happening if it's bought for an air bnb or for a family home.

[@raven_moonshine39]

(I know they're not 100% real, but) just look at shows like House Hunters. Potential buyers will turn down a house because the walls are a "weird" color let alone a mural that doesn't fit their style

[@CutiePatootiest]

@raven_moonshine39 the issue is there's a difference between people doing things for a tv show and practical marketing stuff. The type of people you would market the initial house to would probably prefer to fix it themselves, prefer an 70s aesthetic, and are the type to enjoy an artist studio and garden. The practical and cheaper option is testing for and removing asbestos & lead, cleaning grout and replacing caulking and treating/removing any mold hazards. The things they replaced it with are basically death traps or just drawing attention to the issues in the home. By doing all the uneeded things they can bump up the price and tack on a higher price tag on the listing thats going to be much more expensive for the buyer on top of the house issues that may already be there they're going to have to fix

[@shedevil6034]

As a fellow artist I completely agree, storage for art supplies and old artworks/sketchbooks would be so much more useful. Also, artists usually like to have art they aspire to or their own art in their studios and it differs so much person to person, I have no idea how they thought that having a canva looking mural was going to add to the value of the space....

[@StudioHannah]

100% this

[@ragdollrose2687]

Yeah I'm an artist and this mural in my studio would be a pain to deal with. You either feel guilty for covering it up cause it's precious wall space for storage or work (or cause it's just distracting if it's not your vibe) or it ends up getting worse with time because of paint splatters and stuff. Y'all, pretty art studios aren't realistic, it WILL get messy!

[@jonashelmke2564]

I love how the bizarre choice of installing a foam beam is highlighted by the most nonsensical placement they could have ever come up with for a fake structural beam as it goes straight through the center of the goddamn chimney. In reality I reckon this would have meant that someone decided to put a fireplace with a straight up chimney in the only available location that would require them to circumvent this load-bearing beam by installing a new one so they could then cut this one to make room for the chimney, at which point you might as well just build a new house. It's neatly consistent with needing an exposed beam so fucking badly, you glue a foam one to the ceiling. Bizarre, surreal.

[@christinepoppy3277]

All of these “upgrades” are probably just things that future buyers will trash or cover up immediately.

[@caeli.p1330]

As an artist, I agree with the other artists in these comments. They did that studio space dirty. HOW DARE YOU PUT THAT BEAUTIFUL SHELF IN THE GARAGE OF ALL PLACES. and the phrase "new port richey" makes my skin want to crawl off my body.

[@cruztastrophe]

New Port Richey is the name of the town.

[@athena5573]

@@cruztastrophe yeah, but who wants to live in a house that has the name of their town painted on the wall? the only people i could think that is for are tourists, airb&b patrons. no person is going to want to live in a house permanently that has text they didnt choose painted on the wall itself. guaranteed, if they somehow manage to sell this home, it will be promptly painted over

[@MoonLogickal]

@@cruztastropheI know where I live, I don’t need my house to tell me!

[@FlexibleToast]

@@MoonLogickal some people are proud of where they live and like the references to it. I can see this one going either way. I wouldn't use it as an art studio and I would probably keep the mural up.

[@Nikki-cy5ll]

I was born in new port richey 🥹

[@NickC_222]

The 70's Florida house is so cool. As someone who lives in New York, I absolutely love how people in Florida have these giant lanai things on their houses, the big open room with basically screens for walls, since it's never truly winter in Florida. It's awesome at night. Sadly, they did turn it into a parking lot with that giant concrete slab. But lanai aside, the house is cool in its own right. It seems like the house has more interesting shapes, like a big living room with a peak roof as opposed to just being a big boxed rectangle room. I do think it's really funny, in a cosmic sense, that they "flipped" this house into something that they'll probably sell to another house flipper who will undo much of what they did lmao.

[@soshiangel90]

honestly one of my biggest issues with something like this is that not only do they do it wrong and ruin the character of the house, but they also spend SO much money to do it and that money could be spent on a much better project with better real materials instead of crap flip

[@Suileron]

Obviously people shouldn't threaten/harass them, but if they choose to put this project onto a public forum, they are openly inviting discussions into their decisions. Just because those discussions are ripping them to shreds doesn't mean everyone is just a hater. You've presented work, and it's being judged. That's how that works.

[@fightshrub8872]

You're 100% correct. The internet can be ruthless, but putting things out on a public platform is inviting criticism - which people attempting to sell a home should listen to if they are trying to appeal to buyers.

[@orsikocs]

Also houseflippers do this work to be able to charge more. Ppl i guess are mad they pay 100k more for turd styrofoam on the ceiling 😂😂

[@ButterflyScarlet]

I agree and disagree, because something being online doesn't justify cruelty. However, something being online, you requesting other people's thoughts, and then wanting to also sell the thing for a profit? Yeah. You're gonna get some spicy responses

[@sarahissom260]

Yeah… this. Don’t say “what do you think?” And then get upset when people tell you what they think. Obviously bullying isn’t cool but none of the comments shown here are bullying, just roasting their choices and taste.

[@Cloverkitty]

I say amateur flippers deserve every criticism they get. That goes for all of them. They don't add value to homes, they cause or cover up potentially life threatening issues within homes all the time, and frankly these people have no business trying to ruin more houses for profit. These types should be bullied off of public forums because the last fucking thing we need is more of these idiots running around playing contractor.

[@ashlynb991]

I am an interior designer and yes, faux beams are used often when budget does not allow for a real/box beam, but typically they 1. look better 2. are on higher ceilings so you can't see the snickers bar thing. Also, they should NOT have mounted a light to that. Those poor renters. Also landlords suck

[@mjjjermaine]

+1

[@sophiagonzales8974]

The beam doesn’t look good honestly

[@sup8668]

they honestly could have made a hollow beam with wood, but no they used foam...

[@sophiagonzales8974]

@@sup8668 not to mention the beam looks so thick

[@yeeturmcbeetur8197]

That whole rant you went on around the 13 minute mark really hits different. Why buy a house if you’re gonna destroy all of its properties? At the end of the day, the floor design, the wall placement, and the outside still screams 70’s. So, why not build onto that instead of half assed destroying it?

[@akallstrom2034]

If I bought a house and found out later that it had a swimming pool, but the previous owner filled it with concrete, I’d be so upset.

[@justinabean94]

they did not in fact lean into the 1970. 😭 the garden was a purposeful punishment . Nobody is gonna bake themselves alive in a fucking greenhouse in the Florida heat but the plants would’ve loved it 😭😭😭😭

[@tarettime9392]

Not to mention the dirt and plants would’ve helped to cool the area whereas the concrete is a literal heat sink.

[@justinabean94]

@@tarettime9392 yes . I do not understand why people buy old homes and gut the parts that make them valuable or special just to opt for the most bland not up to code garbage

[@jayjayjayjay5605]

it’s infuriating that amateur house flippers with no construction or contracting experience buy perfectly liveable houses to make a profit when there are families who genuinely wants the house and can’t afford them because everyone thinks their foam beams and amazon stick on tiles are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in markup

[@aydensullivan9846]

FOR REAL As a Floridian myself, it pisses me off seeing this happen in todays housing market, everything’s so god damn expensive and here this bitch is sticking fake wood on a roof that doesn’t need it, and you know damn well she’s gonna sell that house as if that wood was real

[@halobaby0331]

That’s why it’s always worth while to send the sellers a letter! My bestie got her home over higher offers simply because she wrote a letter to the seller her intentions and how much she adored the home.

[@DustyMusician]

The fact that they're flipping houses in Florida which was ground zero for the 2007 housing market crash and is ground zero for the current-day housing crisis in part due to houseflippers like them who never went away makes me livid!! It is not the 1920s anymore! There is no more Florida land boom! Even in the early 2000s Florida real estate was expensive and this is only making it worse!! Go away!!

[@sennataylor592]

The problem is when social media gives incompetent people the audacity and false confidence to think they’re experts in something or can do something. These flippers have no clue what they’re doing (and frankly have awful aesthetic taste). They’re just creating problems for the unfortunate future owners. Sometimes you need a healthy dose of internet harassment to humble yourself.

[@ungarischfsikurs743]

As an artist myself, my soul bled when they decided to get rid of the much needed shelf to replace it with a useless mural. They could have chosen any other room for that mural and it would have been better. As an artist, you need storage room for a lot of stuff: paintings, drawings, canvases, paper, brushes, pencils, water cups ... There can't be enough storage room in a studio. So sad.

[@d.rabbitwhite]

put it in the garage. Leave the shelves where they were, maybe add more

[@Laylia_]

Yes, I would have loved having that shelving unit to decorate and placing my art supplies on!

[@sommerscott4299]

Those shelves are a dreammmmm i audibly gasped at how sick they r and how much stuff I could fit in so annoyed

[@chickennuggcorgi]

Add on top of that: most artists wouldn't be pleased having someone else's art take up an entire wall in their personal studio -- especially if it's someone's they don't know, and especially if it's a tacky mural with words

[@MollyMargolisBillCipherIsBae]

RIGHT! An art studio is meant for MAKING art, not VIEWING art. I would have loved to have a studio!

[@robinfinch314]

This has me remember that buying property in my country, Austria, has very specific conditions to prevent house flipping and I'm starting to think that's a good thing.

[@ambiarock590]

I think we need that here in the States too. There are quite a few house flipping shows on TV and I'm starting to hate house flippers

[@jazzmyn5804]

Limiting housing as a commodity? Le gasp

[@spOOkytimes]

Your country is right. If you are not planning on living in the house at all then don't touch all this stuff. Or at least fix actually meaningful things like roofs, get an electrician to make sure wiring is good, redo plumbing, etc. But that actually takes skill and money so why not just ruin everything and move on.

[@radnairenegat]

@@ambiarock590 In my country (Hungary) if you resell your house within 5 years after getting it (regarless from it being given to you as an inheritance, a gift or you bought it), you have to pay an INSANE amount of taxes from the price that you sell it for. I assume this is to prevent house flipping. I knew one couple who were doing this house flipping but they actually knew very well what they were doing and did an actual fix to the problems. But also, house flipping would be pretty hard and risky to do in Hungary because house prices in general are going up so fast (with renovarion and construction supply prices also skyrocketing) that you cannot work fast and cheap enough to make any profit on a house you try to flip

[@suemccashland]

maybe ill move to hungary or austria. at least i wouldnt end up with plastic countertops and foam beams