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Or, why everything is greige now
🕑 Added 2023-03-13 16:19:18 +0000 UTCHi everyone. Some exciting news. There will be a lot more Criticism Content from me in the coming weeks as I am doing a stint as critic-in-residence at The Nation. I'll be publishing there two times a week and cross posting the articles here as well. (Don't worry, there will still be the usual content as well.)
Enjoy!
Kate
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Emily McDaniel
Thank you for calling out "Realtor HDR" and the uncanny valley in which these rooms apparently reside. I quit taking my metro area's local home & garden magazine a few years ago, and one reason was because the photography went to heck with over-the-top HDR on all the images.
Pascal Golay
Kate, you say that a neutral decor allows the potiential buyer to imagine thier own life -( and presumably, decor?) in a space, but immediately afterwards say "The home is no longer seen as a space of personal expression or comfort," That does not seem to jibe with the first bit, to me, if I understand. The neutralizing to sell (as distinct from to live in) , for better or for worse, would seem to be a way of acknowleging that the buyer is indeed entitled to make it as wacky as they like, and not depend on someone else's wackiness.
