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Could it be that I just have horrible taste? No, it's the market that's wrong!

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Could it be that I just have horrible taste? No, it's the market that's wrong!

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This is why you need a good friend who is not afraid to tell you you have bad taste lol.

Imagine spending 15,000 dollars to not have a dishwasher. That kitchen is trash even if you don't account for the color scheme. I don't even see a way to plug in appliances.
- There's a single double-socket outlet a little to the left of the sink! Good luck :3
  
  Probably not even GFCI lol
- Am I wrong or are the cabinets way too low? How would you even fit a dish rack with dishes on the counter?
  
  I was wondering the same thing. Maybe it's perspective or the picture was taken with a weird lens but I'm pretty sure the cabinets are practically touching the counter.

Pretty sure the text in the image is satire
- Perhaps. I'm honestly not sure how this kitchen could have cost anywhere near 15 grand. The cabinets are all just repainted and the stove doesn't look particularly extravagant.
  Maybe if the floor is real marble/granite?
  
  Pretty sure it's poured resin or the like...
  
  Lmfao oh fuck, I thought the floor was a countertop, like they were taking a pic from behind an island
  
  I don't think you can get purple marble? If you could, I can't imagine youd use it in a floor for a kitchen like this. It'd be for a counter used as an accent piece for a millionaire's mansion's 2nd kitchen.
- Yeah no house would stay on the market for over a year with the reason being something a buyer could fix with a few grand.

Ok but it’s hideous and I love it. I’m the one they’re trying to sell to apparently.
- Fr, was super confused/surprised to see all the comments agreeing that it sucked. I saw it and immediately wanted it.
  
  Ah, I understood immediately how ugly it was. It’s my kind of ugly and I’d never tire of it, but I understand. Purple is a lot, especially such a bold purple.
- For marketability, it's horrendous. While I'm open to dramatic, unique, and off the wall stuff it's still not my taste.
  BUT! I would absolutely take advantage of the discount I'd get on the property after it's spent over a year on the market. I also wouldn't be in a rush to remodel, but would look for ways to highlight it till the novelty wore off.
  
  Yeah, everyone has an ugly that speaks to us, purple veined marble is apparently one of mine. And that’s part of the beauty of people. Seeing this makes me more sympathetic to the people who love neon animal prints because I too have terrible taste in my own way.

I love purple but I would hate this kitchen.
My living room walls are purple but less intense than this and offset with blues and off-white. You have to be careful with purple. It gets overwhelming quick.
lol what a waste of money.
- Like it's kid's bubblegum grapetastic flavor purple. It's "look what it's done to the camera's white balance" purple.

Someone was really into Saints Row 2.
- or Milka chocolate
  
  That's entirely the wrong kind of purple for that
- Rip idol ninja

Well they can always take solace in the fact that kitchen would be an interesting place to do mushrooms.
- They were probably on some when they made the decision and maybe just coping now

Okay this is sick as fuck, though. I wouldn't pay for it but it's sweet.

Could have worked if the purple was SO MUCH DARKER but they went with probably the worst shade imaginable.
- A pastel purple would have worked well too.
  
  I was thinking a more toned down lavender would be good
  
  Pastel might have been too washed out with the purple in the (marble/quartz) rock but anything would be an improvement from this. It looks like the color you'd find at a McDonald's indoor slide.
- fucken barney the dinosaur purple
- That or Baja Blast color. Hell coulda gone for the 90's taco bell color scheme and it'd be fine

I like it tho. Purple is a rare color.
- I kind of like it too. When I was 12 my parents asked what colour I wanted my bedroom painted. "Purple." They painted it off-white. I'm over 70 now and still have never had a purple room. My kitchen is pale grey ffs.
  Off to look at paint charts ....
  
  Do it. Do it now.
  
  Bro you’re 70, paint that shit whatever you want and when you die in that house it’s the next owners problem not yours. It’s not an investment at your stage like it is people in their 30s painting everything white or grey so they don’t offend future buyers.
  
  We need pictures when it's done
  
  I helped a lady your age pick out a color for a room in her house, and she ended up going for a very bright peach. She loved it so much she put it in every room in her house where she didn't have a color picked out.
  If you aren't planning to sell in a year or two, I say pick something that makes you happy when you see it. Realtors might have a different favorite color in 5 years.

Honestly if the color would be less vibrant and more washed out, it'd look great. I love to the floor has purple accents as well that match the furniture
- Color corrected to the best of my abilities by eyeball with my phone. It still looks out of place but the original picture taken certainly didn't help
  
  I like it. Fill it with plants and it could be really cozy.
- For me the biggest problem is the floor Like replace it with something more traditional and it might be alright

pimp my ride ass kitchen
- Bro I heard you like purple...
- We replaced your oven with a subwoofer.
- Needs more underglow and LCD screens on the cabinets

I like the purple but that's some cheap ass tile on the backsplash
- Yeah, like I said here, the problem isn't that they went too far, it's that they didn't go far enough.
  If you're gonna go extravagant, don't stop halfway.
  
  “I say your purple kitchen goes too far!”
  “And I say your purple kitchen doesn’t go too far enough!”

Flippers are scum.

Not sure about others but I like this color scheme
- It's a definite no from me. The color scheme and that floor, just no. The stove sticking out, also a definite no.
  All the cupboards also seem abnormally shallow to me, as if large plates would not be able to fit in the hanging cupboards. But maybe my perspective is confused because of a larger stove than I'm used to.
  For me, that entire kitchen would have to be replaced after buying. We don't know what corners this house flipper cut though, I would not trust this place to be done well.
- I could... survive this layout.
  But when selling a house, you want to appeal to as many as possible. And this kitchen does not have wide appeal.
  
  And that need for wide appeal makes every house boring.
- The colour scheme is ok and is even used a lot by brands, but it doesn't work at all for this kitchen. I can't believe the kitchen company even agreed to it. As in, I would imagine they'd warn them it's gonna be f*ing ugly and only go through with it when they insist.
- I kind of like it but I get exhausted looking at it for more than 5 minutes

Lol I could probably get that kitchen for like $8000. Who the fuck did they hire?

It was the highlight of the flip. Just not for the reasons you thought.
- I think OP meant to say "highlight marker".

I honestly like it

Aubergine... the perfect color for a kitchen. Who doesn't like eggplants?
- Yo dawg, I heard you like eggplants...

I'm always curious whether or not these posts are true and it looks like the purple kitchen is real, but the content of the text is not.

The house from the cat in the hat movie

I LOVE IT! -The Joker
- Sold!

Someone call 911, Grimace has been murdered!

I wish I could do original things with my gaff but you gotta be conservative because housing is a commodity.
- If you're gonna go for the unusual, you have to fully commit to it. Don't stop halfway, because it's gonna be cringe. But if you go all the way, they will call it art, and they'll pay you multiple times over what you paid for it.
  
  With art, there is an inverse relationship between the number of people who will buy it and how much they'll pay for it. Art everyone wants is cheap, niche art is expensive.
  If you go full send, you can charge more if the stars align and you can find a buyer.

Plot twist: the dude is colourblind and thinks that's brown.
- My guess, assuming this is real, is that the person is colorblind or something and doesn’t realize these badly lit pics make their place look purple.

Mojo Dojo Casa House.

One more for team purple!
- There are dozens of us!

I initially saw this post while wearing blue blocking glasses and it looked completely normal
As a survival strategy I therefore propose

Dude is trying to sell a kitchen that only the protagonist from saints row would buy

Honestly I love that kitchen.
- Silence is violets

It's hideous.
My SO would love it.

I would 100% splash some teal accents up in there and go full 1994 jazz ass kitchen

Thanos Kitchen
- Like Thanos and Grimmace had a three way with Barney

Honestly, the interior decor of a house probably seldom matters.
It always depends on geography.
If you have a outrageously painted kitchen inside a house in a prime area, no one is going to care about the colors of the cupboards.
- Well, if you have a house to sell in a prime area, there's no need to put in an outrageous kitchen like that in order to attract buyers. The only reason you'd need to do that is if your house ISN'T.

I love it... unfortunately I can't buy a house.

I like it.

Cool AF for a place to visit.
Would not want to live there permanently. Is OP a wizard or something? Lol

My eyes hurt. But suddenly I want cherry swirl ice cream.

Would probably change the cabinets to a lighter color but I love it.

im sure this is fake but, would

POV: you're on your kitchen while your husband keep looking at his rocks.
- The rocks

Nice fuckin' model, lmao....

I guess I have bad taste sign me up

Living in a Ribena commerical
- This must be a British joke I'm too freedumb to understand.

this shit is only safe in Houston, do your research folks 💅

If I were rich, yeah I'd want purple on this level

Send the listing to Marie Schrader.

It's probably just that the oven doesn't match

Soul Kitchen

I love purple or other weird colors/ features in houses. It means I can get the property with less competition as most buyers are afraid of basic renovations.
My house had shitty purple walls and weird space age looking chrome light fixtures everywhere. Took me a while two days after closing to paint and replace it all. I was the only person who had put an offer in.

There's no such thing as bad or good taste, when it's limited to one's choices.
When you are calling your own taste good, or some other person's taste good just because, and make it something social - that'll always be bad taste.
Yeah, and market doesn't have anything to do with taste.
About the photo - if not for that horrible floor, I'd like it. Should have made it solid dark gray.
EDIT: LOL, I see a few people strongly disagree with the fact that it's really bad taste to pretend that taste is not subjective.
That's actually the only thing determining "bad" and "good" taste - when the thing's appearance clearly shows that the author thought their taste is "good" by association alone, like Disney Star Wars or maybe by imitating a style which is "good".
There are, of course, things like laws of composition and colors chosen etc, but these are still not objective and differ for various kinds of art.

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