The white on white on white (walls/ceilings, cabinets, countertops) is too much, honestly.
jacoob_john
The blend of hues and textures feels incredibly perfect, just like it was meant to be.
feedzone_specialist
For my personal tastes the use of all-hard surfaces with no softening, combined with the use of a fairly cool harsh white on the walls, ceilings and cabinets, leaves the overall impression a little cold and hard and unwelcoming for me. Its not helped by the fact that even the light fixtures and several of the shelf ornaments are all white too. Even the relatively thin countertops tabletops add to the general impression – just thickening the countertops and tabletops and shelves would have given a more welcoming aspect without changing anything else.
I can see that they’re going for a fresh clean look somewhere on a scandi-meditteranean-colonial interaction/axis but I really feel it would benefit from some slight softening with furnishings at least, it just feels a little flat and unrelenting and not somewhere personally that draws me in or makes me want to spend time there.
The rest of the rooms aren’t much better. It takes some considerable skill to take this much money and make a home that looks, frankly, deliberately uncomfortable. Some aspects are almost puritanically spartan, there’s very few chairs I’d want to actually sit in, or spaces that feel truly relaxing.
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The mix of colors and materials is super fitting.
The white on white on white (walls/ceilings, cabinets, countertops) is too much, honestly.
The blend of hues and textures feels incredibly perfect, just like it was meant to be.
For my personal tastes the use of all-hard surfaces with no softening, combined with the use of a fairly cool harsh white on the walls, ceilings and cabinets, leaves the overall impression a little cold and hard and unwelcoming for me. Its not helped by the fact that even the light fixtures and several of the shelf ornaments are all white too. Even the relatively thin countertops tabletops add to the general impression – just thickening the countertops and tabletops and shelves would have given a more welcoming aspect without changing anything else.
I can see that they’re going for a fresh clean look somewhere on a scandi-meditteranean-colonial interaction/axis but I really feel it would benefit from some slight softening with furnishings at least, it just feels a little flat and unrelenting and not somewhere personally that draws me in or makes me want to spend time there.
The rest of the rooms aren’t much better. It takes some considerable skill to take this much money and make a home that looks, frankly, deliberately uncomfortable. Some aspects are almost puritanically spartan, there’s very few chairs I’d want to actually sit in, or spaces that feel truly relaxing.