Typical nonsense! 🙄 Maybe that's meant to be helpful or something to focus on for the future, although it certainly comes across as opining that nothing one does to that room can possibly make up for the fact that it's carpeted as it is. That's offputting (and just sad), since many if not most people who long to create a lovely home must operate within the confines of what they already have.

On a related note, it always cracks me up when an OP is only looking for exterior trim colors for their pretty brick house. Almost 100% of the time, they’ll be told everything on their house is outdated and:

Limewash or German Schmear the brick.

Replace any arched windows with square ones.

Add a portico, porch, etc.

Patricia’s favorite green color (a custom mix no one knows) with brick.

Tear out all landscaping.

Passionate shutter arguments.

The DD board in general is not good at working within parameters. Everything must be changed inside and out or you can kiss ever being happy goodbye.

The word "schmear" makes me cringe.

Sorry. As you were.

😂

How about a thread I saw a while back — the OP had a two story, two sided brick fireplace. It was actually quite beautiful and striking and fit the house very well. Her decor was also very lovely and tasteful.

Her question was about wall colors to work with it. She wanted lighter paint.

She was advised by many to have it ripped out (!!!). When she said no, she wanted to keep it, she was badgered to limewash it. The brick was lovely and expensive, she didn’t want to deface it.

After being harangued all day, she finally just deleted the thread. It was bizarre how contemptuous a few became because the OP liked her fireplace.

There was one recently where an OP asked for ideas for painting a cute little house he uses as a short-term rental. There was one responder in particular who couldn't seem to understand that this little cottage had nothing whatsoever in common with LA properties that he attempted to draw some correlation to, and after I posted an opinion counter to his, he accused Jilly (who had posted earlier in the thread) and me of being the same person -- somehow in cahoots to denigrate him. It was bizarre! I think the thread is still there, but his comments have been removed. I really haven't seen a good, old-fashioned meltdown like that in some time around here!

4000K bulbs, tons of them, everywhere, even during the day. (close those drapes to save your furniture!)

She never adds that brand / quality of bulb makes a difference, and that you can't really dim that color temp. I think she just assumes that everybody wants their home to be lit like a corporate office all day and evening.

@deegw - How should I pull together my living room? I think her living room looks lovely. Maybe hardwoods would look better, but this looks perfectly fine as is. It's a nice color and I think adding that area rug helps.

Ida, that was wild! He said he reported me/us. 😂

He had some feels that day!

What cracks me up about the 4000K bulbs is she seems to post her space fairly often yet it always looks more like 4K then 4000K in her pics. All her rooms appear too dark to me.

I'm still trying to figure out what the dinning room is.

Regular advice given to multiple posters in different threads, and by different people to Just Remove an entire fireplace and chimney. As if it's a weekend project.

It's a good think the OPs have you, who make $$$$$$$ as designers helping them.

Actually I talked about how Color Rendering Index was more important than the K temperature of bulbs and was told that CRI is too complicated for lay people to understand and remember and that 4000 was all they needed to know. Over 90 CRI is not that hard to remember.

I’ve been on a tear over there for a while about some of the pro trolls blaming everything that goes wrong in their build or remodel on the OP. Always blamed for not knowing the things we hire pros for because we assume a certain level of expertise. Oh, and hire a designer for everything, but when things go awry, well, shoulda hired a different designer.

Oly, that is a pet peeve of mine as well. If something goes wrong after the fact, it's the customer's fault for not asking enough questions. If the customer is having a contentious relationship with a pro during a job, it's the customer's fault for not letting the pro do their job. It's ridiculous.

In response to the person who has opted to post anonymously above... I seriously doubt that some of those who identify as pros have ever turned one thin dime designing professionally.

I honestly don't understand HU's comment. I suspect it's supposed to be snark but it doesn't make any sense. Can someone translate for me?

I don't think the $$$$ suggestions about removing an entire chimney or replacing $15,000 in new countertops because they are too busy are limited to pros.

I don't get it either Dee. I don't know if they think we're all paid designers and it was a slam on everyone here..? That's what I'm guessing it means but I'm not sure.

I think the one who isn't bold enough to show an identity feels comfortable hiding in anonymity to assert that we aren't the ones earning big bucks as professional designers. Newsflash: Neither are the majority of the "pros" frequently posting on Houzz.

And another Newsflash: You aren't as anonymous as you may think you are.

For whatever reason, it seems Arcy Undercover is taking our lighthearted chatting personally and is offended by this thread. Who knows why.

^^ Well, that explains why the comment doesn't make any sense.

Literally laughed out loud, dee.

I've been wondering for a long time about hu someone is, and there's a fellow poster I won't name hu can vouch for me. Are you saying it's Mr. Darcy?

You guys are so funny! I want to say some things so badly, but I won't. I know I will just cause trouble.

Oakley, I too have been wondering the same. Hu is it? Hu knows?

This reminds me somewhat of Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb, which I watch on DABL. I don't watch it that much because Amanda is a horrible designer, and she tries to force her clients to use wallpaper that they hate. Often the clients will pick wallpaper and/or wall colors that they prefer to the ones that Amanda picks for them, and Amanda always acts offended when they do this. However, her clients generally have better taste than she does.

The Building a House forum is similar. I posted a question about cost of certain structural details vs. an alternative. No one answered the question but by the end someone told me not to build the house I'd posted the plan for as an example related to my question. I didn't even say I was building that house - just posted a plan to better explain my question. If I was planning to build it, do you actually think I'd follow that advice from some anonymous forum yokel? After that I deleted the thread since it was clear I wasn't going to get an answer to my question. Now I just read and learn from other people's posts though sometimes the snark is too much and I move on.

I cracked up at the thread where Ida, Jinx pre Jilly and some other long termers were call spammers. It may have been on the thread Ida mentioned.

BaH forum has jumped the shark. It used to be so good. Now it is just the same handful of the eternally cranky, falling over themselves to be snarky to newcomers.

RN, this is just between you and me …

I am a spammer. I’m trying to sell sofas, pillows, and wine.

I knew it would be hard to hide for long! I had a good 10+ yr run, though.

I usually stay away from the bathroom forum but a few minutes ago something came over me. The OP posted questions about painting the tiles on her shower wall. I suggested she paint the outside of her tub instead. I am assuming my comment will get all sorts of snark but I don't care. LOL

@Ally De

What is BaH?

I think it stands for Bloviating At Houzz. I might be wrong.

(I’m guilty of it myself, that’s how I guessed it.)

Building a Home .

Sorry, martinca is right. 😄 I actually first found GW like 10 years ago when we were building our NY home. I learned so much there and only started looking at other forums after a year or two. But it was filled with helpful people back then. An occasional troll would wander through to spice things up, but in general people were there because they wanted to help.

Now it is down to a small handful of regulars, who treat the newcomers with disdain. I don't know why they even post. They don't seem to enjoy the experience anymore.

I will say that years ago there were some nice houses that went through the Building a Home forum, and now the plans are mostly square overblown houses designed to cover as much space as possible on a small lot, despite the fact that most of the houses seem to be going up in rural areas. There was one plan posted recently that had over 40 corners on the perimeter of the ground floor plan, and a labyrinth of rooms inside. It's hard to come up with anything constructive to say except start over. Which is why I try not to say anything.

I used to spend a lot of time in Home Decor, Kitchens and BaH....but no more. And they thought hot topics was rough???

A good friend from Manhattan warned me about HD in 2006 when she visited me in Venice for my birthday, and so I pretty much stayed away from it, based on her experience there. I think that her assessment was pretty accurate. I had become acquainted with her through the Cooking Forum.

In 2019, I posted in the Bath forum when I was renovating bathrooms in Cathedral City and had a distasteful experience with that. People posted info/suggestions without knowing what they were talking about, and I learned which people to ignore.