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There seems to be a big trend for bare concrete in interiors 🧐 Sadly I’m not feeling it 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’d like to think it’s easier to make heated floors with it but I’m not actually sure. However, what I am sure is that the local roach motel has concrete floors and a trash chute in their rooms. I can’t see a million+ dollar house with concrete floors and not think of a jail cell or a roach motel.

😳 oh no! And now I’m thinking of that! 😂 It’s not so much the floors that bother me. It’s the walls. Polished concrete can look very nice but this is just completely bare, so I keep thinking (hoping) maybe it’s not finished yet.

Plain concrete walls are part of the minimalist style, I think. I think they make for really awesome photos, but they just don’t look lived-in. Unless you’re a roomba or something. It’s funny because you see these pictures where someone has a house the size of a Walmart and apparently they manage to decorate their entire living room with one plant, three books, a lamp, and a sofa. Cmon folks, cut the crap. I know homeless people that have more stuff than that.

it works well with some interior design, but yeah, definitely not for everyone!

These photos are usually taken immediately after construction or renovation. The objects you see in the house are usually staged by the company doing the work. It's not what people typically have... they eventually load all their garbage in and it looks nothing like the photos.

This is all part of the marketing flywheel for the construction company. They don't want cluttered looking houses, so they stage them minimally. That goes into their portfolio to get future work.

Thank you for clarifying. I guessed as much re the furniture staging but wasn’t across that the houses were definitely unfinished. I was hoping that was the case! So this is good to know. Also this makes complete sense now that this is architects/construction groups promotion to other businesses rather than purely domestic clients. I will now view the bare walls/floors etc as showing the build structure rather than as any aesthetic 👍