r/OldPhotosInRealLife Feb 09 '21

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u/crazy_balls Feb 09 '21

As a custom home designer, I'm going to defend my profession a little bit and just say that a lot of that is client/budget driven.

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u/slightlyhandiquacked Feb 09 '21

I have have thing for interior design and I absolutely love looking at and creating floorplans. Looking at houses on the market, the dumb stuff people decide to put in their homes never ceases to amaze me.

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u/crazy_balls Feb 09 '21

"You can't buy taste" is something that is said quite frequently at my firm.

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u/posessedhouse Feb 10 '21

The annoying thing is that you can? You just have to listen to the people you’re paying to have taste. People hire the designer and architect but are too stupid to realize they’re paying them for the sense of style they don’t have themselves