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[–] eran_morad 37 points 10 months ago

When u order prince’s kitchen on wish.com

[–] MrJameGumb 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What kind of psychopath puts marble floors in their kitchen? I feel like they could almost pull off the grape skittle colored cabinets if they just had laminate flooring and maybe a wooden countertop lol

[–] grue 36 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The purple cabinets could have worked if they were mid-century-modern steel cabinets or something instead of basic-bitch builder-grade wooden ones.

A quick-and-dirty Gimp hue shift of a random kitchen pic I found online to illustrate:

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's better. But I still hate it.

[–] grue 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I gotta be honest: my version looked a lot better, even with the purple hue, before I turned up the saturation and turned down the value to match OP's picture.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe a different shade to clash less with the rest of the room but yeah I can see where you're going here.

Maybe something more like an Ube shade

[–] grue 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Like this, maybe?

(That's the "changing hue but not saturation or value" version I alluded to in my other reply.)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I kinda dig it, I'd probably look at other colors for the walls still but I think that shade of purple could definitely do some work in the right surroundings

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I 200% agree why is the colour so loud, please destroy that travesty

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Looks like someone edited the colors to me

[–] MrJameGumb 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well that may be, but I stand by my comment about the marble floors. That is the floor of a demented sociopath

[–] Dud 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It looks to be one large slab, so it's not marble and mostly likely a photoshop job or vinyl sheet flooring which tends to be a bit squishy and slip resistant.

[–] MrJameGumb 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Somehow that seems even worse. Especially if he managed to spend $15k on it.

[–] grue 8 points 10 months ago

I'm told (by HGTV and the like) that $15k is on the cheaper end for a kitchen. Still, this guy overpaid by about $30k.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Photo looks washed out/filtered so some details look weird...I mean weird besides Grimmace's moms kitchen weird.

[–] Dud 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well the biggest hint to it being one piece is the pattern. That just doesn't happen naturally in marble tile and you won't find a manufacturer to bother making something like that with porcelain/ceramic.

[–] Cort 2 points 10 months ago

OMG, that's exactly what I was thinking! The curves and swoops of color are WAY too big to be even large format marble tiles. Plus the countertop has the same design. I think this has got to be some sort of diy paint job, but the photo quality is only just above potato so it's hard to tell

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, it looks photoshopped

[–] Skullgrid 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

it aint a flip, it's a flop.

I hope this drives down the cost of the house so that poorer people can own houses and the market starts crashing

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Why do you want poor folks to have to inhabit this lol... They have enough going on

[–] Silvia 17 points 10 months ago

The Third Street Saints the moment they get a new property

[–] dual_sport_dork 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

A recirculating hood over a gas range. What a fucking genius.

[–] RubberElectrons 7 points 10 months ago

I've unfortunately had to live this life in a couple of apartments 😑

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I've had these in my last two rentals. People just don't care.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It's for when I burn the pancakes

[–] CosmoNova 11 points 10 months ago

Seems more like there‘s some absurd color flipping going on here with how purple that marble looks.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Reminds me of when I looked at an apartment (not even a house to buy--a rental apartment) and they had painted the kitchen all in red. I knew I just couldn't live like that.

[–] GamerBoy705 8 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Unique tastes require unique customers.

Basic works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1mbbYKPpHY

[–] RIP_Cheems 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The worst part is I don't even hate that marble, but this kitchen is so ugly.

[–] 6mementomori 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

am I the only one here who actually likes this aren't y'all overreacting

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

The problem with niche tastes is that they're niche

[–] EdibleFriend 3 points 10 months ago
[–] Funkymatt 3 points 10 months ago

They're minerals Marie!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

All that marble yet they left the tile backsplash?!