Carpet over wood was before Boomers. As a Boomer, I tore up carpet & linoleum in two houses . I powersanded BOARDS, not veneer, and clear coated them. Gorgeous.
For some reason people think that the oldest generation was boomers! I’m a bummer and it was my grandparents that did that crap to floors. Even my mother, born in 1930, wouldn’t have done that. It was borderline though…
4:17 No, imagine being high on LSD. We'd find you sprawled out in the middle of the room, screaming that you've been falling for 15 minutes and want to know if it ever stops!
@@koryryon4177 Baby boomers were in their twenties in the mid-70s and maybe some of us did that but most of it was done before then. When most of us were buying houses in the 80s, that fad was gone.
Although a Scottish invention it was very much part of the clean 'American kitchen' look. Light colours, efficient, easy to clean. All aimed at easing household chores for the master of the house.
Shag carpet came in the early 70s % I married a man in 1975 with a new house and rust colored shag carpet! Had apart,emts in the early 70s with avocado colored carpet - I know when shag came in!!!
Oh my goodness, I laughed so hard!😂 The thing that really surprised me, was that I had actual physical reactions to many of these. In my mind I was like “Yeah, that’s pretty bad.” No big deal, right? But by the end of the video, I had goosebumps all over. There was even one picture that made me cringe and look away. I think I may have Trypophobia, which means the fear form weird and irregular shapes. Who knew?😅
Even if ine doesn't have any phobia whatsoever, watching this could give you a couple. For example, turns out I have a fear of laughing myself to death 😅
That was not a hardwood floor. It was actually fir, which was a common softwood. And I days gone by lino was a status symbol. You had to have money to have it installed. Likewise carpet. And all those "lovely brick homes?" Meant you were too poor to have siding. Wait until your grandchildren get ahold of YOUR fantastic decorating decisions.
Here in Australia, most wooden floors that ended up covered by carpet or lino, were made from termite-resistant timbers such as cypress-pine, but many floors used knotty & marked timber which were covered immediately due to being deemed aesthetically unappealing!
@@MrWombatty My great grandparents were “The Silent Generation” WW2 they covered up every gorgeous surface with crap. My parents ( Boomers) ripped up the carpets to find gorgeous imported redwood floors, stunning fire places hidden beyond stucco and false ceilings revealing beautiful ceiling relief - and decided not to sell. They’re still living in that beautiful home today. Their parents thought believed it was ugly and old fashioned.
6:25 That's NOT some «minor settling cracks», those are catastrophic shearing cracks that demand that the whole house be demolished, INCLUDING the foundation, then a new one to be built.
6'2"... I can reach the refrigerator cabinets. 😛 Only problem is the family clutters up the top of the fridge, making the cabinets inaccessible. You'd be amazed how many spotless houses have dirty refrigerator tops.
Thee and me both. I hate things not being even, not lined up, and if something is off centre it drives me nuts. Those crazy carpets are mind curling. And as for bad workmanship? Nope. I was brought up on the mantra that 'if a job’s worth doing it’s worth doing well.' Looks like I’m joining you with the OCD 🤣👍 Now to go and lay down in a darkened room 😂. Well it is nearly 1am.
bought a fixer-upper house - after a few months the outlets on half the house quit working & none of the breakers were popped - lived with it for a while until i started tearing out the utt-bugly dark wood paneling in the kitchen (i know, right?) and found another breaker box that the previous guy had just... paneled over for some reason - it was so old that the manufacturer was out of business and the plastic parts were disintegrating - ended up having to get an electrician to replace the whole nine yards.
I think that sink cabinet sticking out in the room at an angle. Was done so they could fit in the dishwasher. Not enough wall to make it all fit. Funny!
Fortunately even the top of that ramp is steep enough that no wheelchair user would try going doen it. Otherwise they might get caught when it gets steeper, unable to turn back. I like the differet colored tiles. They also have the advantage that if one needs replacing, it will be easy to find one that fits.
Some of those carpets are lethal, even on floors, let alone on stairs. I have bad eyesight and am not very steady on my feet due to many injuries and ailments, the worst being a broken neck. I would be stumbling all over the place!!
@ 7:56, the wild thing about that tile job is it looks like they used Kerdi-Board for the backer board. That's expensive material. And then to do a hack job of installing the tiles. 😬 I kind of like the tile mashup @ 8:12, though.
I tore up carpet, replaced faucets, installed a dispenser line for ice, and a bunch of other things. There’s no excuse for most of these heinous screwups! Tons of UA-cam videos that do step by step.
@14:27 i live in an old condo built-in the 1980s and I have those cabibets in my kitchen. I store stuff in there that I haven't even looked at in several years😅😅
14:33 Normal things? Pretty standard to have cupboards over the fridge space. Mine contains all first aid supplies and medicines. High enough to keep out of kids reach but still readily accessible for an adult in an emergency.
I'm a Boomer and I grew up in a house with hardwood floors in all of the rooms except for the kitchen and bathroom. I even had a wall that was hardwood. Since then I have never covered a floor with anything. In some instances I even put down hardwood floors. Dad was a carpenter supervisor at his job, and they laid floors. They even did a skating rink.
I was going to say, it had to be the same designer for the 1st 3 pic's, because of the angles in the roof, the countertop & sink placement.., but after studying the countertop cuts? 😐 I realized the project is strictly an amateur trying to save some money. And the placement of the kitchen sink? Well, clearly it didn't fit after the cabinets were installed so, 😳 we'll pretend that was the plan from the beginning! "Thats our story & we're sticking to it!" 🙄
Well, I don't know if I'm the only one who feels this way (maybe I am), but somehow some of these solutions feel quite eerie, reminding me of liminal spaces.
3:06. Chances that is a Kosher sink. One sink to wash items that touch dairy and a second one to wash items that touch meat. Irony is, the caption calls it an “abomination”. Strictly speaking, an “abomination” is not a sin. It is something that is ritualistically unclean for Jews…like eating pork or using one sink to wash everything. So….that sink is about as far from an abomination as you could get.
Last picture is to take the speed out of the falling water at tall buildings. Would like to see the bottom of that. Open end it would turn into a fire hose over the street instead of going in the road drain. Or might be a grate into sewer, it would splatter and destroy the bottom of the building and street over time. And splatter on the sidewalk. Even directly connected to sewer it would destroy it over time. Water is powerfull.
This is kind of scaring me away from DIY. I'm the type of person who gets things wrong. The last time I changed out a computer graphics card, for instance, it ended up bricking my computer.
The brickwork "falling" took a lot of planning! I love it!!
Is that what it is? I thought it was a man made out of bricks laying bricks on the bottom...🤷🏻♂️ 1:37
I actually kinda liked the paint sample rainbow wall.
10:32
Oh good! Was afraid I might be the only one! 😂
Yeah, that was actually really cool. The rest were pretty horrific, though.
I liked it, too
😂
Carpet over wood was before Boomers. As a Boomer, I tore up carpet & linoleum in two houses . I powersanded BOARDS, not veneer, and clear coated them. Gorgeous.
@@ALittleFree A lit of people like to blame Boomers for a lot of things. 😁
Thank you! That definitely was before boomers!!! Maybe 30s-40s!
For some reason people think that the oldest generation was boomers! I’m a bummer and it was my grandparents that did that crap to floors. Even my mother, born in 1930, wouldn’t have done that. It was borderline though…
Yes, it was the boomers parents. I know.
Just made the same comment it was Boomer‘a parents, the “Silent Generation” who covered everything decent up with crap.
4:17 No, imagine being high on LSD. We'd find you sprawled out in the middle of the room, screaming that you've been falling for 15 minutes and want to know if it ever stops!
😂
*SCREAMS, kisses the floor and does a dramatic hair flip*
I have been falling FOR 30 MINUTES!!
Horrible??? That rubic cube bathroom is genius!!
Duck!!! 00:58
🤣😂🤣
Thanks! _Now_ I get it. 😊
Quack.
HEINOUS ‼️ Need to go rinse my eyes and watch 2 hours of beautiful art ...
😂
The last image is actually correct. That offset in the piping is meant to slow the flow inside the line.
You're saying that's not a vent pipe??
@@railgap Correct. It looks like a roof drain.
And would also function as a syphon, preventing smell for main sewer
What about a clog?
I did wonder - never trust anything until you know for sure.
It wasn't Boomers who covered hardwood floors with linoleum, it was our parents, in the 50s, when we were still kids!
My mom bought a house brand new in 1950 with carpet installed over hardwood floors. We had no idea until the late 60s or so.
@@pegatheetoo1437 yes it was ! My mum covered every last thing with ugly lino and yucky shag carpets
@@koryryon4177 Baby boomers were in their twenties in the mid-70s and maybe some of us did that but most of it was done before then. When most of us were buying houses in the 80s, that fad was gone.
Although a Scottish invention it was very much part of the clean 'American kitchen' look. Light colours, efficient, easy to clean. All aimed at easing household chores for the master of the house.
Nooho!!!!
I'm a boomer.
MY parents did so.
I removed that carpet and linoleum-staff, grinded and oiled and am a happy DIY-carpenter. 😁😁😁
14:32…when I was a kid, those were the “childproof” liquor cabinet in everyone’s home. 😂😂
The tap definitely looks like the animal from ice age. All very funny and unusual 🤣🤣👍
And, it was a common fixture, too.
5:07 they have honey bees in their wall
the generation before boomers covered up hardwood floors with linoleum and shag carpet.
Shag carpet came in the early 70s % I married a man in 1975 with a new house and rust colored shag carpet! Had apart,emts in the early 70s with avocado colored carpet - I know when shag came in!!!
@@sandybruce9092 I'm a boomer, and I was a teenager in the 70's. Clearly I wasn't buying a house and redoing any floors. That was my parents.
Yes, all that was done by our parents.
My thought too
Okay, the sink tap for shower head is amazingly bad, I love it!🤣
I thought the Rubik's cube bathroom floor 3D paint was actually really cool, but I'm not sure I'd want to live with it. As for the rest of these, WTF?
Oh my goodness, I laughed so hard!😂 The thing that really surprised me, was that I had actual physical reactions to many of these. In my mind I was like “Yeah, that’s pretty bad.” No big deal, right? But by the end of the video, I had goosebumps all over. There was even one picture that made me cringe and look away. I think I may have Trypophobia, which means the fear form weird and irregular shapes. Who knew?😅
Even if ine doesn't have any phobia whatsoever, watching this could give you a couple. For example, turns out I have a fear of laughing myself to death 😅
@@lmb1962 Yikes😅
That's true. I guess some of these are a form of present-ism.
That was not a hardwood floor. It was actually fir, which was a common softwood. And I days gone by lino was a status symbol. You had to have money to have it installed. Likewise carpet. And all those "lovely brick homes?" Meant you were too poor to have siding. Wait until your grandchildren get ahold of YOUR fantastic decorating decisions.
Here in Australia, most wooden floors that ended up covered by carpet or lino, were made from termite-resistant timbers such as cypress-pine, but many floors used knotty & marked timber which were covered immediately due to being deemed aesthetically unappealing!
Come on!!! These are AWFUL design decisions, hard to repeat for any generation 😮
Already happening. My daughter is so minimalist her bedroom is a bed and rails along one small wall. That's it.
@@M5TABBYCATahhhh! Prison chic.
@@MrWombatty
My great grandparents were “The Silent Generation” WW2 they covered up every gorgeous surface with crap. My parents ( Boomers) ripped up the carpets to find gorgeous imported redwood floors, stunning fire places hidden beyond stucco and false ceilings revealing beautiful ceiling relief - and decided not to sell. They’re still living in that beautiful home today.
Their parents thought believed it was ugly and old fashioned.
6:25 That's NOT some «minor settling cracks», those are catastrophic shearing cracks that demand that the whole house be demolished, INCLUDING the foundation, then a new one to be built.
Thank you, Captain Obvious!
Aaww, come on! Some filler and a lick of paint and it is good as new. 👷
@@_PJW_ How many tones of filler count as some ?
@@Kualinar Half a truckload will do. And since you are gonna paint it surely the tone is irrelevant. .......... And don't call me Shirley!!
Besides the horrendous crack,the concave wall about to collapse inward was a definite hint that all was not peachy keen in that abode.😅
Some of these are actually nauseating to look at.
6'2"... I can reach the refrigerator cabinets. 😛 Only problem is the family clutters up the top of the fridge, making the cabinets inaccessible.
You'd be amazed how many spotless houses have dirty refrigerator tops.
My husband threatens to toss my keys on top of the fridge when he's mad at me🤣🤣🤣🤣
90% of these gave me anxiety. Ohhh my OCD.
Thee and me both. I hate things not being even, not lined up, and if something is off centre it drives me nuts. Those crazy carpets are mind curling. And as for bad workmanship? Nope. I was brought up on the mantra that 'if a job’s worth doing it’s worth doing well.' Looks like I’m joining you with the OCD 🤣👍
Now to go and lay down in a darkened room 😂. Well it is nearly 1am.
I kept imagining how TV detective Monk would handle visiting these houses, with his OCD.
3:48 pawn move from stove to fridge.
Oh my lord. Those stairs and 3D carpets. Yuk!
3:29 I've always hated "text art" -- so I nearly bust a gut over this one.
I really like those cow counters ! I would love that !
The carpet in the bathroom!!! Yuck
bought a fixer-upper house - after a few months the outlets on half the house quit working & none of the breakers were popped - lived with it for a while until i started tearing out the utt-bugly dark wood paneling in the kitchen (i know, right?) and found another breaker box that the previous guy had just... paneled over for some reason - it was so old that the manufacturer was out of business and the plastic parts were disintegrating - ended up having to get an electrician to replace the whole nine yards.
If the last guy did something that stupid, the best course of action is replacing everything for your safety and peace of mind!
Glad you noticed before a fire broke out.
I think that sink cabinet sticking out in the room at an angle. Was done so they could fit in the dishwasher. Not enough wall to make it all fit. Funny!
The tiny room- a time out or reading room. Good for kids.
I was guessing a baby room, just enough room for a crib and that's it.
@@anonygent Not in the center of the house. Yikes!
I thought it looked like a phone booth. Before mobile phones, it could be used as a phone nook.
Dining closet. Seriously.
Closet
Redo the walls
Put a door on
Fortunately even the top of that ramp is steep enough that no wheelchair user would try going doen it. Otherwise they might get caught when it gets steeper, unable to turn back.
I like the differet colored tiles. They also have the advantage that if one needs replacing, it will be easy to find one that fits.
Is nobody going to talk about the washable and reusable toilet paper???😲😱😵💫🤢🤮
...too scary...
😁 😬😐😑😒😓😨🤢🤮
I don't understand how it works: how do the torn off pieces become one roll again? And where do you store them between using and washing them?
@@yurenchu🤯
The wheel chair ramp next to the stairs was hilarious. I could not stop laughing.
Would work better as a sliding board if not for the splinters.
Yes, a very effective way to create future wheelchair-users ;-P
Grandma on the porch 😆😆😆
There is a real point to the last picture of an outside pipe. The curve is a water trap to stop foul odours from the sewer rising up the pipe.
If it freezes in winter you can't use the bathroom. I have to pour antifreeze for cars down the sink every night in a cold winter
@@VMM34 Good point. Not a suitable design for freezing climate.
Some of those carpets are lethal, even on floors, let alone on stairs.
I have bad eyesight and am not very steady on my feet due to many injuries and ailments, the worst being a broken neck.
I would be stumbling all over the place!!
15:17 Where is the toilet? Shitting in the shower 💀
My thoughts aswell lol
I cannot stop imagining this room is for guests to enjoy watching the owner shower.
Maybe there is a shared toilet outside, in the hallway.
2:11 and a Bidet too! 🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉
4:19 That is awesome. And0:40is actually a very clever way to conceal an enormous garage. I don't see why that's a fail at all
@ 7:56, the wild thing about that tile job is it looks like they used Kerdi-Board for the backer board. That's expensive material. And then to do a hack job of installing the tiles. 😬 I kind of like the tile mashup @ 8:12, though.
I tore up carpet, replaced faucets, installed a dispenser line for ice, and a bunch of other things. There’s no excuse for most of these heinous screwups! Tons of UA-cam videos that do step by step.
@14:27 i live in an old condo built-in the 1980s and I have those cabibets in my kitchen. I store stuff in there that I haven't even looked at in several years😅😅
The bathroom with the fall away floor is priceless! I also like the nook in the high ceiling I'll hang out there. I just need my Tarzan rope
14:33 Normal things? Pretty standard to have cupboards over the fridge space. Mine contains all first aid supplies and medicines. High enough to keep out of kids reach but still readily accessible for an adult in an emergency.
The sinks at the beginning of the video! The brick “cladding” over the wall seemed like a good idea if it hadn’t peeled.
OMG! Now I have a headache 😂😂
Hey, I've never seen such different mouldings match up on the grooves that good! 😂😂😂
Some of these reminded me of the old Canadian TV show, "The Red Green Show.' "If the women don't find you handsome they'll at least find you handy."
15:21 this room gives “shit, shower, and shave” a whole new meaning.
This reminds me of the “Seinfeld” episode where Kramer washes the salad fixings while showering. I could see that going on here.
but the porch garage door is genius 😂
This video gave me a great sense of satisfaction...I mean that I most certainly could do much better myself if i put my mind to it.
I'm a Boomer and I grew up in a house with hardwood floors in all of the rooms except for the kitchen and bathroom. I even had a wall that was hardwood. Since then I have never covered a floor with anything. In some instances I even put down hardwood floors. Dad was a carpenter supervisor at his job, and they laid floors. They even did a skating rink.
Some of these should be condemned. Accidents waiting to happen.
I was going to say, it had to be the same designer for the 1st 3 pic's, because of the angles in the roof, the countertop & sink placement.., but after studying the countertop cuts? 😐 I realized the project is strictly an amateur trying to save some money.
And the placement of the kitchen sink? Well, clearly it didn't fit after the cabinets were installed so, 😳 we'll pretend that was the plan from the beginning! "Thats our story & we're sticking to it!" 🙄
Reason people covered wood floor was the cost of heating & cooling. Flooring adds insulation.
1:53 : looks like a crapper that Colonel Nathan R. Jessep would have loved.
13:19 : perfect floor for the Department of Theoretical Physics.
7:04 : "That’s not going anywhere!"
4:15 ME ME ME even the cat couldn’t find me there (maybe)😊
Well, I don't know if I'm the only one who feels this way (maybe I am), but somehow some of these solutions feel quite eerie, reminding me of liminal spaces.
That tetris floor though I would feel like I am falling.😮
*Rubik's Cube
Some of these made my laugh out loud, lol.
😂
I think the kitty corner sink looks weird, but I bet its funktional. 😊
😂😂
OMG
Watching while walking on treadmill….not a good idea….lol
Vraiment drôle 😂😂😂
3:55 covering hardwood was not stupid, we got out of redoing it! 😂😂😂
Oh my God, are my eyes hurt 'en !!!!
Is that "let's all go to the lobby to buy ourselves some snacks" as your background music?
Love the skull loo
Kind of like the skull toilet.
The bathroom with artistic prints were made by people sitting in paint then sitting on the canvas
OMG 😱,you should have a warning about this video as after watching it I need to make an appointment with a therapist.😅
I have a set of those stupid refrigerator cabinets. When my refrigerator goes, they’re also going so I can put a bigger fridge in there.
We had one growing up. It was perfect for keeping serving dishes we only used for fancy parties. It kept the good stuff out of the hands of the kids.
0:33 : seems to me the dish washer was a later addition.
0:43 : "Thunderbirds are GO!!"
Tolerable on MUTE
Had to stop watching after the landlord fixed the shower 😂 and it was generation X who covered up the hardwood flooring!! Lol
Never! Imo it was even the generation before the boomers who did that, but maybe it was different here in Germany
It definitely was not gen X. It was the generation before the boomers.
@@dcon4762 Silent Generation.
The mind boggles.
Wow!
11:49 Let me answer your question. Someone misspelled floor.
More likely the last sign is missing on the right that said "house" and "/room" or something similar.
I visited my old house, and they put full exposed galvanized airducting on the ceiling through the whole house, like an industrial warehouse. Ugly.
😅😅😅😅😅
Can you even imagine the germs in the carpeting in the totally carpeted bathroom???? I can't even think about it. EWWWWW!!!
12:02 That looks utterly disgusting. It looks like some cats walked in different colours of $#!+ and then prowled around on the surface…just eeewww!!!
Thought it looked like squashed bugs 😂
3:06. Chances that is a Kosher sink. One sink to wash items that touch dairy and a second one to wash items that touch meat.
Irony is, the caption calls it an “abomination”. Strictly speaking, an “abomination” is not a sin. It is something that is ritualistically unclean for Jews…like eating pork or using one sink to wash everything. So….that sink is about as far from an abomination as you could get.
🤣🤣🤣
@15:37: That kitchen looks like a mausoleum. All that’s missing are the nameplates for the deceased.
@ 0:28: Actually a pretty clever way to get several more inches of countertop space.
The kitchen at 0:35 not that bad -- you can have 2 people doing the washing up, or one washing , one drying at the same time ...
I think the house in the air is a disused water tank.
0:35 um that is actually smart. You can have 2 people at the sink without issues.
9:32 I love the 70ties
@ 15:05: Did you mean STOOPING over? Or did you mean you just don't go there anymore?
2:07 Mike Holmes Sr. and Bryan Baeumler would have a fit… (any Canadians seeing this comment will know whom I’m talking about 😁😁)
Californian (until recently), but I'm a huge fan. And you're right.
"Whom? Whom?? What is a Northern ......." (any movie buffs seeing this comment will know whom I’m talking about 😁😁)
After the skull toilet it looks like skeleton hands
Last picture is to take the speed out of the falling water at tall buildings. Would like to see the bottom of that. Open end it would turn into a fire hose over the street instead of going in the road drain. Or might be a grate into sewer, it would splatter and destroy the bottom of the building and street over time. And splatter on the sidewalk. Even directly connected to sewer it would destroy it over time. Water is powerfull.
What is a ZIMs?😊
High rise ..
…
Trailor…
Um ok
This is kind of scaring me away from DIY. I'm the type of person who gets things wrong. The last time I changed out a computer graphics card, for instance, it ended up bricking my computer.
3:29 😭😭
No music works for me!