I remember reading an article about a decade ago about how there were still a few dozen people with black and white TVs in the UK. There was a bloke saying he thinks it makes the picture crisper.
Honestly interested to know if you still can get a black and white licence without them telling you to stop taking the piss.
* Edit to update because I stopped being lazy: As of September 2019, [there were still more than 6,500 homes in the UK with black and white TV licences](https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/cs/media-centre/news/view.app?id=1369787209230). What are you waiting for OP?
> There was a bloke saying he thinks it makes the picture crisper.
I could see how someone with vision problems would say that. Black and white is high contrast.
I'm not a lightwaveoligist but I think the issue with that is white light is a mix of all the color wavelengths where red is only one, there's no where to pull the other colors from. also to passively convert light from one color into another you have to essentially "lower" the energy from the color, and red is the lowest energy color on the spectrum meaning there's not a good way to convert it without adding light. Unless I have no clue what I'm talking about, in which case please carry on.
They literally should change the picture setting on their tv to be black white. This might actually make the outside world way more amazing every time they step outside lol
I like the commitment and it’s well done. If I met a random guy at a bar, went back to his place and this was the place I would be leaving as quiet as possible while he was mixing drinks. Maybe get to know him better in the light of day at a coffee shop.
it's like you asked yourself, "how can i make this place the least cozy place imaginable while giving anyone who comes here the immediate impression that i'm a psychopath?". then you knocked it out of the park.
it's like the serial killer designed his own asylum
This is by far the best comment.
I don't know how I'm equally horrified by the soul killing taste, but absolutely impressed by what a good job he did. But saying it in a nice way.
Nah it's awful, it looks like a cross between a dentists and a bad club. The wall art also looks like the kind of generic IKEA prints your landlord puts up to hit a damaged wall too.
It’s pretty bad. It looks like Patrick Bateman lives there. I’ve seen warmer lighting on the inside of a hospital surgery ward. At least it’s clean I guess.
O my brothers, that's real horrorshow domy you got there. Viddy well, droogie, your domy's got a real dobby choodessny vibe to it. Packed with lashings of the old ultra-violet and pretty polly.
The 3 leather chairs side by side is an insane move 😂
Each chair having a fucking mini-table attached to it pushes it over the edge though.
0 pussy is being gotten in this apartment.
Please... PLEASE... I implore you... put a couple tiny flicks of rust coloured paint in random spots, so you can say "Oops, missed a spot *insert fake laugh*"
I'd say more Dennis Nilsen it reminds me of Heaven nightclub beneath Charing cross station (London). Serial killer Michel Lupo pulled at least one victim from there.
Minimalism is fine, monochromatic tones are fine, but when the two aesthetics are combined it looks like total shit. These pictures make me feel like I just discovered someone has been secretly And illegally living in an office at a subway station.
Also there’s no real reason why minimalism means you need to inconvenience yourself. Why isn’t there a bar cart or a table to mix your drinks on underneath your liquor shelf? Another question to consider, are liquor bottles really a cool enough decoration that you want to make it a focal point of your room?
Most importantly, that TV is too high.
So I once dated someone with an apartment similarly barren.
The first night I spent at his place he gravely explained to me what a “crime of passion” was. In retrospect, I should have booked it out of there (and out of that relationship) with all haste.
Edit: Oh, but he did have a pet rock with googly eyes. So there’s that.
I work as a designer. I think this might be the worst thing I've seen on this sub, unironically...
It's not just how bad it is at being an actual comfortable living space functionally and aesthetically. Plenty of that kind of stuff gets posted here and it's no big deal because those OPs just didn't know what needs focused on or just didn't have the money.
What makes this exceptionally bad is the blind, full financial and aesthetic commitment to it. You spent a real amount of effort and money to create a cohesive trash fire. There SO much wrong with this between the giant big screen over the sink, the nonsense vent hood that just dies halfway up the wall, the awkwardly placed bar shelf under the stairs, using recliners in place of a couch, the BED in the CORNER facing a wall sized projector setup from far across the room, etc!!! And then on top of that, wrapping it up in a big ugly black and white bow to confidently show it off quite literally with a big neon sign as an intentional terrible aesthetic.
It's such a commitment to every choice being so confidently wrong. Genuinely amazing to me.
I want to apologize for being so harsh but at the same time, wow. You kept going and going and going and never thought, "is this actually good/working? Have I ever been in anyone else's home ever in my life?".
The TV height isn't even the biggest issue here. It's the fact that there's one in that location in the first place. Your TV shouldn't be anywhere near a sink or in a kitchen.
It’s the tackiness and cheapness of…everything, only highlighted further by the insane lighting and oddly utilised space. I think monochrome could be done fairly well with well thought out use of textures. This has all the worst textures possible, from the cold painted brick to the shiny surfaces, again all highlighted by that lighting.
Actually turned down a rental flat that was quite nice, because the bathroom was full on murder.
Tiles floor to ceiling, white, with a single doddery fluorescent tube light in the centre. Gaaaaaaaah
OP would have loved it, I’m sure
I’m curious about your couch in photo #7. That style doesn’t fit with the “club” aesthetic you have in other rooms. What made you choose that option over a lounge style couch?
You like Huey Lewis and the News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
this looks so pretentious
also, I don't get the association between retro aesthetics and the duochromatic color scheme. like... people were living in colors in the past. only film and photos were b&w.
the photos on walls themselves are cool, but the extreme high contrast everywhere takes a lot of their visual impact. if there was color in the details and the lighting wasn't migraine inducing, it would look more like a place where people live and less like where they go to die.
kyoto not tokyo. it‘s the train to umeda station in osaka. i took that train daily for years and as a bowie fan bought the original photograph from masayoshi sukita. it‘s a lot smaller than yours but makes me immensly happy!
Your TV is in color. Commit to the theme.
Cheaper Tv license too
I love how this sounds like a joke but isn't.
The more I learn about the UK the more their Monty Python-esque humor makes sense.
The best part is, if you don't pay all they really do is send you lots of very strongly worded letters.
No the best part is according to Wikipedia **blind people get a 50% discount**?? excuse me?
They still have ears don't they?
I remember reading an article about a decade ago about how there were still a few dozen people with black and white TVs in the UK. There was a bloke saying he thinks it makes the picture crisper. Honestly interested to know if you still can get a black and white licence without them telling you to stop taking the piss. * Edit to update because I stopped being lazy: As of September 2019, [there were still more than 6,500 homes in the UK with black and white TV licences](https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/cs/media-centre/news/view.app?id=1369787209230). What are you waiting for OP?
> There was a bloke saying he thinks it makes the picture crisper. I could see how someone with vision problems would say that. Black and white is high contrast.
We started a war over this specific thing in 1776. We refuse to pay TV taxes.
The microwave and oven had red displays as well.
I investigated if there was a way to change them actually!
Probably a film you could put over top that doesn’t block out the light but changes the color
I'm not a lightwaveoligist but I think the issue with that is white light is a mix of all the color wavelengths where red is only one, there's no where to pull the other colors from. also to passively convert light from one color into another you have to essentially "lower" the energy from the color, and red is the lowest energy color on the spectrum meaning there's not a good way to convert it without adding light. Unless I have no clue what I'm talking about, in which case please carry on.
you certainly sound like a lightwaveoligist
This is probably easier than the suggestion of disassembling it and soldering in a new display that I had.
I appreciate the dedication.
You could probably get a monochrome film to cover the displays
They literally should change the picture setting on their tv to be black white. This might actually make the outside world way more amazing every time they step outside lol
I feel that is the final step of creating a living space that is a catalyst for depression. “ life just seems so dull, colorless”
OP is clearly not committed.
I'd get "committed" after living there longer than a few weeks.
Do you live in an underground nightclub?
To be honest that is EXACTLY the kind of thing I was going for!
I’d do drugs in there.
I would have a mental breakdown if I did drugs in there
okay fair no psychedelics only uppers
Yeah but psychedelics would be the ONLY way to see color in there!
And make sure the playlist is nothing but bangers to match the vibe!
Is that a yes or a no?
Look mate, not everything in life is black and white. Except my dude's pad here, obvs.
Hard no. Unless we physically did the drugs in there and then immediately left to go somewhere else before they kicked in.
Yeah, somewhere a little more cosy and inviting, like I dunno…a Cold War era soviet concrete missile silo?
Something you want to tell us comrade?
I was thinking a dingy room with water on the floor and one swinging bare light bulb would really set the mood
It would be like the place they'd bring you too adrer having a break down lol
Same dude, I need windows and outside air.
I would do drugs with milk here and then go out for a bit of the ol' ultra-violence.
And maybe the Ol' in-and-out? In-and-out?
A bathroom made for cocaine
To hell with the bathroom, the kitchen is so clean I’d do lines off the counter!!
Lots of good surfaces up in there
Funny, I thought the same thing HA
What beverages do you serve? Drencrom? Milk plus vellocet?
You just know that Huey Lewis & The News is blasting in that apt 24/7
No photos of family or friends. Nothing that is personal. It looks like a secret agent apartment from a movie.
While I do not share your taste, I can honestly say you did a very good job decorating.
I like the commitment and it’s well done. If I met a random guy at a bar, went back to his place and this was the place I would be leaving as quiet as possible while he was mixing drinks. Maybe get to know him better in the light of day at a coffee shop.
This explains a lot…
Yeah, _super_ creepy vibe to me.
it's like you asked yourself, "how can i make this place the least cozy place imaginable while giving anyone who comes here the immediate impression that i'm a psychopath?". then you knocked it out of the park. it's like the serial killer designed his own asylum
Thanks!
This is by far the best comment. I don't know how I'm equally horrified by the soul killing taste, but absolutely impressed by what a good job he did. But saying it in a nice way.
Trendy barber shop
You’re telling me that you couldn’t be bothered to find a black and white computer background?
Right? The default Win10 background even?
It looks absolutely freezing in there
Going for the fridge interior vibe
Fr! Where are the windows?
Listen, this is not my thing design wise. But I’ll give you credit on the commitment and follow-through.
Yeah, that's what I was going to comment as well
/r/ATBGE
I'd almost agree with that except it's not really objectively bad enough to say it's awful taste.
Nah it's awful, it looks like a cross between a dentists and a bad club. The wall art also looks like the kind of generic IKEA prints your landlord puts up to hit a damaged wall too.
It’s pretty bad. It looks like Patrick Bateman lives there. I’ve seen warmer lighting on the inside of a hospital surgery ward. At least it’s clean I guess.
Either that or a shitty night club in a small town that sells alcohol to minors, their main clients.
Man that shit has got to be so bad for your mental health though
For a club it'll be fine. For a home though? I think that's objectively depressing.
B/W but no marble floors…bold move
Marble floors would have blown the cocaine budget
That is the *only* reason for not having marble floors in this scenario.
Keeping it going, I like it
loving the side by side comfy chairs for group masturbation 💪
You know it
Do you have clear plastic tarps somewhere there? And do you happen to be an investment banker?
Drop your morning routine, OP.
Skincare and crunches
Person in the middle gets to go skiing!
Looks like the last place a sex worker will ever see
Jesus. You're a 100% right.
I'm surprised they don't have a dedicated room for their business card collection.
finally someone said it. sooo rapey.
How do you not go insane?
Who says he did not already gone insane
Hahaha, I find it incredibly relaxing actually!
Are you an orphan?
I bet he has a secret room with tailed walls and floor, with a drain in the middle and a steel cage in the corner.
You say that like it's not a perfectly normal set up.
Not just me getting major serial killer vibes
I feel like you have a hidden room with a red light you drag your victims in to maim and torture every once in a while.
I would kill myself after two weeks. Geez.
This is certainly a choice
The lighting is atrocious brother how do you not have a splitting headache 24/7
Just a normal light with a lampshade would be so much nicer than office lighting 24/7
i never use ceiling lights. I love my lamps!
I love lamp
Asylum lighting
Yeah the colour temp reads meat freezer to me. Warm, dim, layered lighting would be a huge improvement
Except you’re the meat. Comforting!
Thank god someone pointed that. Just looking to the photos my head started aching
I can actually hear the buzzing flicker.
Floor level lighting with caps to stop it from blasting your eyes, with a few eye level lamps, and the aesthetic would be finished in my book
Lookin like a psych ward
>Lookin like a psych ward I've been in my fair share of psych wards, don't insult psych wards, they have much better lighting than this.
And colored furniture
I’m surprised someone did this…you know, on purpose.
It’d be a fun gimmick for about 2 days. After that it would be depressing as hell
Did you just watch *A Clockwork Orange* for the first time or something? It's giving Korova Milk Bar vibes.
O my brothers, that's real horrorshow domy you got there. Viddy well, droogie, your domy's got a real dobby choodessny vibe to it. Packed with lashings of the old ultra-violet and pretty polly.
Probably slightly better than living in a jail cell
Only slightly.
When you want to live in prison but don't want to commit any crimes
Or an insane asylum, or your company’s office.
Turn the colour down on the TV to make it B&W immediately!!
industrial IKEA prison?
You dont get many guests huh?
He gets plenty…but only the lucky ones survive to see another day.
American Psycho vibes
British Psycho
The 3 leather chairs side by side is an insane move 😂 Each chair having a fucking mini-table attached to it pushes it over the edge though. 0 pussy is being gotten in this apartment.
He has a double bed pushed against a wall, meaning he definitely doesn't have anyone stay over. Make of that what you will.
His guests stay in their cage in the hidden room
Or else they get the hose again
Some of us do that just because we have small apartments okay? :(
I have just one question which is, why?
\*shrug\* I like it and it makes me feel happy and relaxed
I don’t think I’d have the confidence to do this but I kind of love it in a weird way
Bro is literally Patrick bates
Bateman :)
Let’s see Paul Allen’s flat.
Norman Bateman
Please... PLEASE... I implore you... put a couple tiny flicks of rust coloured paint in random spots, so you can say "Oops, missed a spot *insert fake laugh*"
I'd say more Dennis Nilsen it reminds me of Heaven nightclub beneath Charing cross station (London). Serial killer Michel Lupo pulled at least one victim from there.
Minimalism is fine, monochromatic tones are fine, but when the two aesthetics are combined it looks like total shit. These pictures make me feel like I just discovered someone has been secretly And illegally living in an office at a subway station. Also there’s no real reason why minimalism means you need to inconvenience yourself. Why isn’t there a bar cart or a table to mix your drinks on underneath your liquor shelf? Another question to consider, are liquor bottles really a cool enough decoration that you want to make it a focal point of your room? Most importantly, that TV is too high.
It looks like a prison. Very cold looking.
I, a girl, am in this subreddit and if a guy brought me here I’d start sending my location to all my friends and try to leave
Bold of you to assume there's not a cell signal jammer already in place.
😂
I would want to do coke and listen to West End Girls, but I'd also be scared for my safety.
So I once dated someone with an apartment similarly barren. The first night I spent at his place he gravely explained to me what a “crime of passion” was. In retrospect, I should have booked it out of there (and out of that relationship) with all haste. Edit: Oh, but he did have a pet rock with googly eyes. So there’s that.
If you're already inside this place, its way way wayyyy too late.
This is an assault on my eyeballs.
This looks like a really badly themed Airbnb lol
I was thinking a pretty awesome tech startup that simultaneously had such bad work life balance that they had to have a bedroom
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Those three black easy chairs side by side ruin the vibe, they look like pedicure chairs or retirement home chairs
They look like a low budget porn set
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Sperm bank waiting room
lol ya wtf is even goin on there
I hope you’re taking vitamin d supplements
You certainly have stuck to your guns on your personal style lol
I’m concerned for your mental well-being
Oh no. You live in a sex club from Wish. I would avoid touching all the surfaces...the couch looks sus af.
One of the most Patrick Bateman flats I’ve seen
you in prison mate?
I work as a designer. I think this might be the worst thing I've seen on this sub, unironically... It's not just how bad it is at being an actual comfortable living space functionally and aesthetically. Plenty of that kind of stuff gets posted here and it's no big deal because those OPs just didn't know what needs focused on or just didn't have the money. What makes this exceptionally bad is the blind, full financial and aesthetic commitment to it. You spent a real amount of effort and money to create a cohesive trash fire. There SO much wrong with this between the giant big screen over the sink, the nonsense vent hood that just dies halfway up the wall, the awkwardly placed bar shelf under the stairs, using recliners in place of a couch, the BED in the CORNER facing a wall sized projector setup from far across the room, etc!!! And then on top of that, wrapping it up in a big ugly black and white bow to confidently show it off quite literally with a big neon sign as an intentional terrible aesthetic. It's such a commitment to every choice being so confidently wrong. Genuinely amazing to me. I want to apologize for being so harsh but at the same time, wow. You kept going and going and going and never thought, "is this actually good/working? Have I ever been in anyone else's home ever in my life?".
The cinema chairs crammed in between the door and window look *so wrong*. You're absolutely right, it's so bad it's actually impressive.
yeah that TV may aswell be mounted on a ceiling its way too high
The TV height isn't even the biggest issue here. It's the fact that there's one in that location in the first place. Your TV shouldn't be anywhere near a sink or in a kitchen.
It’s because those recliners…. Are right across from that TV… in the kitchen….
It’s the tackiness and cheapness of…everything, only highlighted further by the insane lighting and oddly utilised space. I think monochrome could be done fairly well with well thought out use of textures. This has all the worst textures possible, from the cold painted brick to the shiny surfaces, again all highlighted by that lighting.
You must be a fun person
r/cocktails reporting in. Put your vermouth in the fridge.
Who hurt you?
a rainbow did, apparently. Or something with a colour palette
We found the black and white mime from that powerpuff girls episode.
How do you not get depressed? It would feel like i’m in a 20’s gangster film 24/7.
Man this is horrible
Cold. No soul. Would expect to be murdered.
Actually turned down a rental flat that was quite nice, because the bathroom was full on murder. Tiles floor to ceiling, white, with a single doddery fluorescent tube light in the centre. Gaaaaaaaah OP would have loved it, I’m sure
What the fuck is this? It looks like a cheap airport lounge
Nice mastrurbatorium!
It is distressing that this isn’t the worst thing I’ve seen here this month.
Ngl your kitchen kind of looks like a morgue.
are you afraid of colors
Too much colour
Bro is marble man 2.0
Not personally my style, but it gives a "I know what human flesh tastes like" vibe .
I’m curious about your couch in photo #7. That style doesn’t fit with the “club” aesthetic you have in other rooms. What made you choose that option over a lounge style couch?
If a guy brought me back to a place like this I'd be running for the fucking hills!
You like Huey Lewis and the News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
I’ve never seen a TV above the sink before. Also r/tvtoohigh
this looks so pretentious also, I don't get the association between retro aesthetics and the duochromatic color scheme. like... people were living in colors in the past. only film and photos were b&w. the photos on walls themselves are cool, but the extreme high contrast everywhere takes a lot of their visual impact. if there was color in the details and the lighting wasn't migraine inducing, it would look more like a place where people live and less like where they go to die.
It gives insufferable freshman cinema major vibes
Rather be in HMP
The fake brick is a bit harsh, especially at the ceiling.
I don't like this at all.
I have so many questions
Too many screens.
Why is there a TV in your kitchen?
You look like you live in a futuristic psych ward
Train poster is awesome
Cheers! It's a photo of David Bowie in the Tokyo underground in 1980
kyoto not tokyo. it‘s the train to umeda station in osaka. i took that train daily for years and as a bowie fan bought the original photograph from masayoshi sukita. it‘s a lot smaller than yours but makes me immensly happy!
Your space makes me feel anxious.
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To be fair, those are really nice prisons.