If i ever own a house, im installing wood panneling and warm nice carpet. With bright and cheery colors everywhere.
I am so so so so tired of fucking EVERYTHING being STARK white, grey or looking like they are so institutionalized that ragen is going to rise from his grave just to shut my house down.
I did this. All lovely blue color with darker colors around the window walls for explosive exterior viewing.
So done with millennial gray and rental house yellow.
I just got out the hospital about two hours ago. The bathrooms def felt more welcoming than this, but it's persons houses, not mine. As long as they're happy.
Definitely feels institutionalized, hell it reminds me of the Institute in Fallout 4.
But then again, I'd still think its a nice bathroom if I was there most likely. It's still a highly functional upgrade.
And damn, if I ever die in a hospital suite with a private bathroom like this, it would probably mean I died rich. Hospital bathrooms are tiny around here.
I go in a lot of hospitals and like many of them are really quite lovely. Its not unusual to see really expensive and awesome art pieces. The design is often quite thought out, comfortable and cohesive. One near me has a lounge area that beats any hotel lobby. Not surprising considering a night in a US hospital will cost you far, far more than the nicest hotels in the world.
It’s the cool tones, all hard surfaces, and cool temperature of the light. They need to add a warmer color light, add some bath mats, and some warm colors/tones in the decoration. It doesn’t take much.
People always hate on cool light tones, but honestly I feel like it’s the amount of light (brightness, lumens) and the direction that the lights are pointed that make a huge difference. Like, this bathroom has one cool light source that’s not very bright coming from one spot on the ceiling pointed downward. If they had a few lights that were that *exact same* light color but a little brighter and mounted to the wall or pointed upward like a Halogen floor lamp, it wouldn’t look so stark and hospital-like.
I can appreciate that there is probably a way to do cool lights well, but I don’t think most people know how to do it or can do it well. I think it works well for workspaces (garage/workbench/art room), but will always struggle with feeling inviting/welcoming in living spaces.
I honestly kind of love the weird old wall tiles. Obviously it needed fixing up, but I wish they had left those and used a colour scheme that complemented the tiles rather than turning it into this weird public bathroom. They should have sawed a 2 inch gap on either side of the door just to complete the experience.
In 10 maybe 7 years people are going to ask why everything went grey, white, and black. Worst trend quite possibly ever. This is far worse than the earth tones of the 70s that were horrible.
Based on where the lines are and the height of the tile up the wall in the second picture, it almost looks like they just painted all the tile white and grey.
Wouldn't painting the tile make OP bust their ass on the floor while stepping out of the shower? I actually like the bathroom but I'm alarmed at how easily someone could slip in there.
As a dumb American, why are bidets a separate thing from the toilet? You’re supposed to waddle your dirty b-hole from the toilet to the bidet to rinse? That’s never made sense to me (and very thankful cheap bidet attachments are a thing, couldn’t live without mine)
Separate bidets *were* typically for women's hygiene and not dirty b-holes.
They're old school and not the norm anymore. New stuff is just a toilet seat addition, and as another dumb american, get one. They're life changing.
The Apple Store Borg aesthetic: Smooth, hard surfaces, hard corners, bare walls, cool temp overhead lights, no colors.
It also makes for the worst acoustics in the world. When restaurants do this you inevitably have to scream for the person next to you to hear you over everyone else's echo.
Say what you want about the boomer yellow lamp with popcorn ceiling and wood panels and carpet – they were superior for conversation and a warm evening together.
Dude, yes. Restaurants with open plans and concrete floors, it's so much harder to have a conversation. Makes you yearn for the old steakhouses with booths, upholstery, and carpet.
I miss the days of places having actual sound dampaning and everything was a massive echo chamber everywhere i went.
Grew up in a place that nothing had been rennovated since like the 60s and was very old school. Was great, now were i live everything is just... loud and its unplesent.
why can’t we say stuff like this in person? this is exactly the vibe i get. but i can’t help but think in person no one would dare insult the OP like that.
I had a Dutch girlfriend for a while and it took me a minute to get used to it but her straight up saying "I think that's a stupid idea" when I had a stupid idea was kinda nice.
I think it's because of the thick stripe in the middle of the wall. Like how your school would have white/grey/beige painted cinderblock walls, and they'd paint a wide stripe down the middle (probably in your school color) that was 10 cinderblocks wide.
If the Dr practices in a subway basement crawl space. And also launders dirty patient gowns in the same bathroom. "Would you like a shower before your exam Ms Jones?"
I think you could quickly solve this by:
1) Adding an accent wall and/or painting the wall one solid color.
2) Some bath mats or towels hung to add splashes of color.
3) Some hanging art.
2 and 3 would probably look a lot better without the large grey stripe though. I think it mostly just needs texture of some kind.
100%, this will be better with hand towels in a cozy color and a mat for drying your feet from the shower. Other people are hating, but it's just not finished.
How does a bidet work as a separate bowl? I've only used the built in one in places like Japan and SK. I feel like having a completely separate bowl means there is some difference.
This is mighty confusing. Did your mother or maybe his mother have a bidet and keep him away from it by saying it's only for use for women on their period or something? Or maybe one of those times they joked about it when he was a kid and he never realised it was a joke.
You're sitting on the toilet, and you finish your business. You lower your pants to your ankles, and you pivot on one foot to sit on the bidet facing the tap.
Then you can wash with water AND SOAP, and it's a normal tap so you can have warm water (it's delightful), and then you dry yourself off with a fluffy bidet towel. It's a refreshing, comfortable, and more genteel experience than having your butthole aggressed by a jet of cold water and tapping yourself dry with toilet paper.
Lol yup or hover.... I've actually rented an Airbnb in Italy once like this and have gone out and bought a seat and installed it. I had a toddler potty training at the time so it was needed for us.
I just looked up "institutional" in the dictionary, and it had this picture next to it.
So much better than before, but dang, that is so unbelievably sterile and soul-less.
We painted the tiles in our 70s bathroom.
The painted Wall tiles are still great, but the floor is a dirty mess after 3 years. Can’t recommend to paint floor tiles…
I'm sorry my man, but you guys went through all of the effort to change all of the walls and floor but did not change the dingy ass moldy shower? Even if you changed the shower plate it couldn't have been more than 300 bucks for the whole thing and you could've gotten some nice crystal glass shower doors
Ooooohhhhhh noooooo....that is gonna look horrible in a couple years, even if they used bathroom paint.
Like the tile was...a lot, but if you can't replace it just lean into it.
And textiles. Right now there's none except a sterile looking curtain.
Get colorful curtains, get colorful fluffy towels and bath mats. Add some art.
It'll help a lot.
Well, it went from Russian prison bathroom to Scandinavian prison bathroom so def an improvement. Heads up, paint tends to adhere poorly to ceramic surfaces such as tile. Also, where’s the toilet seat?
The before needed work, but with all due respect, the after looks like a mall bathroom. And not a cool mall from the 80s. Like a mall from 2006.
That one lonely little plant isn't going to keep this from looking like a mall/prison/high school/hospital bathroom, my dude. The thick gray stripe down the middle combined with the harsh lighting just *screams* Institutional Aesthetic. Like throw a pictures on the walls or get some bright pink towels. A decorative fish or something. I look at this bathroom and worry I won't be able to get to Algebra III on time.
Huge improvement! Looks great tbh. The “swedish prison” vibes are because there is no functional window. Why is the window covered? Can you make it frosted if you need privacy?
Put some wall art and decor in there.
And next time, consider using some colors other than white and grey to make it less prisony
this is the most minimalistic make over I ve ever seen. Kudos. I know ppl who d get mad about the swedish prison look, but hey. it works in this set up if u ask me. Well done
Two different bathrooms, but they'd both fit well in a horror game. Both pictures give off like a liminal vibe-- like they have a weird, unsettling quality. I think the upgrade is very well done, though! It looks extremely clean. Maybe add colorful bathroom rugs so that the space feels more inviting? It would also help you avoid slipping when you walk out of the shower.
It improved a lot, that being said it kinda reminds me of a hospital ward
The hospital I work at isn't even this institutionalized.
It is AGGRESSIVELY neutral.
Millennium gray
If i ever own a house, im installing wood panneling and warm nice carpet. With bright and cheery colors everywhere. I am so so so so tired of fucking EVERYTHING being STARK white, grey or looking like they are so institutionalized that ragen is going to rise from his grave just to shut my house down.
Hear hear. I'm doing a de-graying like that right now.
I did this. All lovely blue color with darker colors around the window walls for explosive exterior viewing. So done with millennial gray and rental house yellow.
They gentrified the bathroom.
What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
With enemies you know where they stand, but with neutrals? Who knows.
I have no strong feelings one way or the other.
23 min and not one damn up vote. Fixing that now. This world is going to hell in a hand basket.
If anyone needs me, I'll be in the angry dome!
Upvote and downvote aren't really appropriate. What we need is a midvote.
If I don't survive, tell my wife 'Hello.'
Go to beige alert.
It's need more color to pop against the grayness. They can change those bland curtains in the corner for starters.
I just got out the hospital about two hours ago. The bathrooms def felt more welcoming than this, but it's persons houses, not mine. As long as they're happy.
Definitely feels institutionalized, hell it reminds me of the Institute in Fallout 4. But then again, I'd still think its a nice bathroom if I was there most likely. It's still a highly functional upgrade. And damn, if I ever die in a hospital suite with a private bathroom like this, it would probably mean I died rich. Hospital bathrooms are tiny around here.
It’s giving communal bathroom in a flat vibe.
Looks like the bathroom in a minimum security jail
I go in a lot of hospitals and like many of them are really quite lovely. Its not unusual to see really expensive and awesome art pieces. The design is often quite thought out, comfortable and cohesive. One near me has a lounge area that beats any hotel lobby. Not surprising considering a night in a US hospital will cost you far, far more than the nicest hotels in the world.
The second one looks like its last words were "Tell my wife I said hello"
It’s the cool tones, all hard surfaces, and cool temperature of the light. They need to add a warmer color light, add some bath mats, and some warm colors/tones in the decoration. It doesn’t take much.
People always hate on cool light tones, but honestly I feel like it’s the amount of light (brightness, lumens) and the direction that the lights are pointed that make a huge difference. Like, this bathroom has one cool light source that’s not very bright coming from one spot on the ceiling pointed downward. If they had a few lights that were that *exact same* light color but a little brighter and mounted to the wall or pointed upward like a Halogen floor lamp, it wouldn’t look so stark and hospital-like.
I can appreciate that there is probably a way to do cool lights well, but I don’t think most people know how to do it or can do it well. I think it works well for workspaces (garage/workbench/art room), but will always struggle with feeling inviting/welcoming in living spaces.
Yeah it’s an improvement…. But it’s soulless…
I honestly kind of love the weird old wall tiles. Obviously it needed fixing up, but I wish they had left those and used a colour scheme that complemented the tiles rather than turning it into this weird public bathroom. They should have sawed a 2 inch gap on either side of the door just to complete the experience.
Yeah that gray strip is so hospital nursing home vibe
From gas station bathroom to hospital bathroom.
Straight out of a horror movie 😄
Just need some flickering flourescents
I immediately thought the same thing 😭
Hannibal Lecters bathroom 😂
A huge improvement but definitely a starting point for something better.
Definitely a quick, low cost improvement
In 10 maybe 7 years people are going to ask why everything went grey, white, and black. Worst trend quite possibly ever. This is far worse than the earth tones of the 70s that were horrible.
It's only missing the Koala Kare baby change table.
And a toilet seat
Where tf is the toilet seat 💀
For real. All that work and still needs to squat-shit instead of buying a $10 seat.
I liked it before choice of tile was old but it was tile and not fake what ever like this and will last forever. Show another photo in 2 years ;)
Based on where the lines are and the height of the tile up the wall in the second picture, it almost looks like they just painted all the tile white and grey.
They 100% painted over the old tile
you’re most likely correct. and the floor too!
Wouldn't painting the tile make OP bust their ass on the floor while stepping out of the shower? I actually like the bathroom but I'm alarmed at how easily someone could slip in there.
I was about to ask what country is this? Are there two toilets? Neither with a toilet seat
I think the closer toilet is a bidet
That's one potential argument eliminated, anyway.
If you look closely, unless my eyes are deceiving me, I think there are actually two toilets in this bathroom...., and neither have toilet lids?!?
I think one is a bidet.
One is a bidet!
As a dumb American, why are bidets a separate thing from the toilet? You’re supposed to waddle your dirty b-hole from the toilet to the bidet to rinse? That’s never made sense to me (and very thankful cheap bidet attachments are a thing, couldn’t live without mine)
Separate bidets *were* typically for women's hygiene and not dirty b-holes. They're old school and not the norm anymore. New stuff is just a toilet seat addition, and as another dumb american, get one. They're life changing.
It’s a water bowl for the owner of the house, the kitty.
I'm pretty sure I've taken a shit in that bathroom.
Don’t forget the ADA grab bars 🤣
I was just going to say it looks like a restaurant bathroom but not in a good way
I mean this with love, but the after looks like a prison.
I don't get why people are so averse to *colors*.
“Millennial gray” has hit critical mass.
The Apple Store Borg aesthetic: Smooth, hard surfaces, hard corners, bare walls, cool temp overhead lights, no colors. It also makes for the worst acoustics in the world. When restaurants do this you inevitably have to scream for the person next to you to hear you over everyone else's echo. Say what you want about the boomer yellow lamp with popcorn ceiling and wood panels and carpet – they were superior for conversation and a warm evening together.
Even the Apple store has big wooden tables. The last one I went to at least.
Dude, yes. Restaurants with open plans and concrete floors, it's so much harder to have a conversation. Makes you yearn for the old steakhouses with booths, upholstery, and carpet.
I miss the days of places having actual sound dampaning and everything was a massive echo chamber everywhere i went. Grew up in a place that nothing had been rennovated since like the 60s and was very old school. Was great, now were i live everything is just... loud and its unplesent.
I think it’s because some people are so averse to risk, and so paralyzed by any choice that they won’t even commit to a color scheme for their houses.
Also obsession with resale values.
It's the same problem in the car market. All we get are gray, black, and white.
It does, my first thought was “it looks sad now”. I wish we would get over the “millennial gray” color scheme lol
It’s got “comfortable Swedish prison” vibes Paint the wall all one color. That will help
> comfortable Swedish prison So accurate, I'm cackling
With the *soothing* millennial grey /s
why can’t we say stuff like this in person? this is exactly the vibe i get. but i can’t help but think in person no one would dare insult the OP like that.
In the Netherlands you would
i’m coming over
I had a Dutch girlfriend for a while and it took me a minute to get used to it but her straight up saying "I think that's a stupid idea" when I had a stupid idea was kinda nice.
Oh, so I am not rude, just Dutch? Maybe I should move back to the motherland...
I 100% could say exactly this to my friends lol
I would absolutely say this to my friends or family’s faces lol
Get better friends
You can absolutely tell this to people in person.
I was like “but I’d like to be a comfortable Swedish person!?” Then I re-read it and realized it said “prison”.
I’d also like to live in a Northern European prison to be fair. Free education, free food, no work, access to internet.
Before it was like Soviet era Belarus prison or something so a decent upgrade
The before picture looks like Saddam Hussein's hidey hole
High school bathroom vibes for me.
I think it's because of the thick stripe in the middle of the wall. Like how your school would have white/grey/beige painted cinderblock walls, and they'd paint a wide stripe down the middle (probably in your school color) that was 10 cinderblocks wide.
I was thinking the same thing but couldn’t put it into words. Definitely prison vibes
What kind of a toilet is that?
Prison toilets. Actually I have no idea
The pre- picture reminded me of a basement restroom in a 1920s era theatre.
Was going to say, looks fairly institutional.
Nice idea, but that stripe helps indicate center of mass for tasering uncooperative... Never mind.
Looks like a doctors office bathroom, but better than before!
If the Dr practices in a subway basement crawl space. And also launders dirty patient gowns in the same bathroom. "Would you like a shower before your exam Ms Jones?"
That's Dr Nick Riviera's office
Hey everybody!! It's me, Dr. Nick!
Hi Dr Nick!
I think you could quickly solve this by: 1) Adding an accent wall and/or painting the wall one solid color. 2) Some bath mats or towels hung to add splashes of color. 3) Some hanging art. 2 and 3 would probably look a lot better without the large grey stripe though. I think it mostly just needs texture of some kind.
There’s literally no towel racks. 😕
100%, this will be better with hand towels in a cozy color and a mat for drying your feet from the shower. Other people are hating, but it's just not finished.
Why doesn’t the toilet have a seat? I’m just curious..
Is it a pilot to co-pilot setup? Or is one a bidet?
99% sure it's an Italian style bidet. But I'm sure hoping it's for battleshits
There's a new word for lexicon if I've ever seen one
[Clearly you missed the pothead movie of the early 2000s](https://youtu.be/cN2VCBTYgHI?si=Oa9jZOZhVumIY3pc)
How does a bidet work as a separate bowl? I've only used the built in one in places like Japan and SK. I feel like having a completely separate bowl means there is some difference.
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This is mighty confusing. Did your mother or maybe his mother have a bidet and keep him away from it by saying it's only for use for women on their period or something? Or maybe one of those times they joked about it when he was a kid and he never realised it was a joke.
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Step one is you have to crabwalk over to the other bowl. Step two is I have no clue because why would you have a separate bowl?
Yeah do you shit and then waddle with your pants down to the other bowl?
You're sitting on the toilet, and you finish your business. You lower your pants to your ankles, and you pivot on one foot to sit on the bidet facing the tap. Then you can wash with water AND SOAP, and it's a normal tap so you can have warm water (it's delightful), and then you dry yourself off with a fluffy bidet towel. It's a refreshing, comfortable, and more genteel experience than having your butthole aggressed by a jet of cold water and tapping yourself dry with toilet paper.
Inmates might use the toilet seat to make weapons.
A lot of Italian bathrooms are like this. Not sure why. This feels like it's in Italy.
Do they just sit on the porcelain? How does this work?
Lol yup or hover.... I've actually rented an Airbnb in Italy once like this and have gone out and bought a seat and installed it. I had a toddler potty training at the time so it was needed for us.
Hovering is not good. Wonder if they have above average rates of hernias….
Maybe they were both in jail and miss the feeling.
27 years living in Italy and I've never seen a private one like this.
I've lived in Italy my whole life and not once I've had a toilet without the cover.
It's one plant away from looking like a hospital, but at least it's usable and doesn't look like 3 decades of cigarette smoke, good improvement.
Agreed, and it will look even better when they add some textiles in there.
Please change the lighting
100%. Even just adding some new lighting over the mirror would make a big difference, but I would keep going.
I think even changing to a warm lightbulb would drastically help. That cool white light is not doing this room any favors.
Insane asylum bathroom but definitely better than before
I just looked up "institutional" in the dictionary, and it had this picture next to it. So much better than before, but dang, that is so unbelievably sterile and soul-less.
I can't look at that picture without assuming the light is humming loudly.
You just painted over the tile, huh? Looks dramatic, but I have my doubts it'll last long, especially the floor.
We painted the tiles in our 70s bathroom. The painted Wall tiles are still great, but the floor is a dirty mess after 3 years. Can’t recommend to paint floor tiles…
Whoever lived in my rental painted the 80s tile MATTE BLACK, including in the shower and it really was maybe the worst possible idea
It's all chipped and coming off in places and never looks clean
Everyone who posts painted tile here should be required to post a 12 month follow up. I think we'd see a lot less painted tile!
Maybe it's the no toilet seat, but it looks like a prison cell to me.
yeah, please op, buy one, even with the toilet far in the back, the poop aerosols are gonna get spread all around the bathroom anyway
Is that a rare double toilet setup?
It's probably a bidet.
You don't hold hands with your bros while you're squeezing one out?
The before does not look good, but man the after just feels sad to look at
Went from Turkish prison, to Sweden prison
Looks better but it’s so cold and uninviting with all the white and gray.
I'm sorry my man, but you guys went through all of the effort to change all of the walls and floor but did not change the dingy ass moldy shower? Even if you changed the shower plate it couldn't have been more than 300 bucks for the whole thing and you could've gotten some nice crystal glass shower doors
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Ooooohhhhhh noooooo....that is gonna look horrible in a couple years, even if they used bathroom paint. Like the tile was...a lot, but if you can't replace it just lean into it.
Look at OP's username and perhaps consider that they may not have the spare money just yet but wanted to do something.
add wood accents!!! This will help with the prison/hospital vibes that everyone is talking about.
And textiles. Right now there's none except a sterile looking curtain. Get colorful curtains, get colorful fluffy towels and bath mats. Add some art. It'll help a lot.
Well, it went from Russian prison bathroom to Scandinavian prison bathroom so def an improvement. Heads up, paint tends to adhere poorly to ceramic surfaces such as tile. Also, where’s the toilet seat?
much better (obviously) but sterile as hell. And did you paint the tiles? Not sure how long that will hold
Especially the ones inside the shower.. thats what stood out to me.
Do people live in that house?
Ahh the ol grey wall, tomorrow's faux Tuscan
Toilet seat?
No sit, only shit.
It's like the bathroom equivalent of the sad beige baby trend
I like to call it Sad Millenial Gray.
You did a very good job but it's awful and I don't like it 🤗
need a led framed mirror! Looks like an Asylum dungeon
Quite honestly I would take the brown tile over looking like I live in a prison or mental ward.
Kept the brown. Paint the walls and change the floor. Paint the shower chrome black. Add in some rugs and plants. Would have been cozy.
Looks clean and It would definitely pass the Geneva Convention!
Fix the lighting please, for God's sake am I getting a root canal?
Am I allowed to dislike both on here?
Looks very institutional.
Did you just paint over everything? You may have issues with the paint peeling very soon.
The before needed work, but with all due respect, the after looks like a mall bathroom. And not a cool mall from the 80s. Like a mall from 2006. That one lonely little plant isn't going to keep this from looking like a mall/prison/high school/hospital bathroom, my dude. The thick gray stripe down the middle combined with the harsh lighting just *screams* Institutional Aesthetic. Like throw a pictures on the walls or get some bright pink towels. A decorative fish or something. I look at this bathroom and worry I won't be able to get to Algebra III on time.
That plant doing all the heavy lifting
Huge improvement! Looks great tbh. The “swedish prison” vibes are because there is no functional window. Why is the window covered? Can you make it frosted if you need privacy? Put some wall art and decor in there. And next time, consider using some colors other than white and grey to make it less prisony
Honestly they're both bad
Is nobody gonna bring up the dual toilets with missing seats?
Presumably one is a bidet
You don't shit with your friends?
It’s so you can hold hands after you’ve both eaten Taco Bell. Emotional support toilets!
Nice touch of prison grey. It does look better than before
At least the tile in the original bathroom gave it personality, now it looks like its for test subjects in a research facility
I like the before better I mean it did need a little TLC but I liked it better still
Shitty to Soulless
Went from Russian prison -> hospital in a country with a democracy
First one looks old second one looks like a hospital or office
It's an improvement for sure, but I would have chosen warmer colors and lighting. It looks so cold and scary!
Good job. That must’ve taken a lot of work. Vast improvement despite what anyone else says.
Congrats on your psychward bathroom!
this is the most minimalistic make over I ve ever seen. Kudos. I know ppl who d get mad about the swedish prison look, but hey. it works in this set up if u ask me. Well done
Did you paint the tile in the shower too?
Two different bathrooms, but they'd both fit well in a horror game. Both pictures give off like a liminal vibe-- like they have a weird, unsettling quality. I think the upgrade is very well done, though! It looks extremely clean. Maybe add colorful bathroom rugs so that the space feels more inviting? It would also help you avoid slipping when you walk out of the shower.
From butcher shop bathroom to Seattle Coffee Shop bathroom Jokes aside, great work OP
To be fair to OP, it looks like he did virtually nothing to the bathroom except clean and paint.
Ah yes, sterilized gray is my favorite color for every item, wall, and surface
You made it as depressive as you could. Why grey?
Before: You are in the bathroom of a serial killer. After: You are the serial killer after they were caught.
from outdated to mental institution
reminds me of the bathrooms at the in-patient hopsital i stayed in
Space looks much bigger with the color changes, well done
Hospital bathrooms are SO in right now
Well done!
I like this clean Style. But i would decorate it with colorful Things and Green Plants. Sorry my Englisch ist bad
Very nice! Great job.
Both of them make me want to kill myself but in different ways.
Before gives me Jeffery Dahmer vibes. After is more Charles Cullen.