I miss colors. In everything.

How very dystopian.

Tbh we would’ve also replaced the carpet, but to a nice wooden flooring and paint the walls more warm white. Everything else in the original was peak

We have a 1960's greek house and while we have brought chunks of into the 21st century,(electrical, heating, cooling, solar, automation on self hosted HA etc) we are also leaning into the aesthetic. The house demands boldness and we are at our lady's pleasure

The modern obsession with hard flooring (in reality: laminate) is whatever. There is, however, something almost comical about surrounding a central pit with all smooth surfaces, and then choosing a hard, pointy, rectangular table as the centerpiece.

I think this soulless monochrome room could use a splash of red.

The pic on the left looks lived in, just needed an update on the carpet and cushions. Pic on the right looks like the inside of a lich's phylactery.

Better just tap them in back of the head with your foot as they sit in the blandpitTM

They are both ugly. The only thing worth preserving is the stone wall and the beams. The wood paneling on the walls is most likely just veneer. I’m not really a fan of lacquered wood paneled walls unless they have some eye catching feature. The smoothness makes them look like a floor.

Nice dentist's waiting room you've created, you soulless ghouls.

I like the height and thickness of the couch back pillows on the right. End of list of positive changes. Replacing the carpet was probably a good move too, but they did it wrong.

The original version was so peak, though. Now, it looks depressing :(

I thought it was the same picture in black and white

For someone who is not in the usa. How does this structure look like beneath? Is there really space wasted to have some part of the room at a little lower level?

Both designs are wrong. But one of them is bordering on brutalism and depression.

AI slop.

I can't smoke a pipe in my tweeds here! It would look ridiculous.

Apart from the garish turquoise carpet, I think the original looks timelessly vintage.

Whereas the one on the right looks fashionable, but has almost no character of its own - kind of like those rich people houses you see on YouTube listed for millions, but nobody actually ever seems to buy.

White wall at the wood panelling, natural wood color for the exposed beams, leave the fireplace exposed, normal colored oak floors, with a Persian rug... That would probably all work on updated but not sterile bullshit way