💯 rugs are overrated. Except nice Persians but that gets to be impractical.
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i hate them all
i just want a smooth flat, black, heat absorbing surface
black surfaces are kinda cool, they remind you to mop more often, every mark is visible
there's a lot of things about the way people build shit that is just pure mindless repetition of what daddy did, even though we have far better options now
some things are good tho... kiln fired bricks are very practical, but cinderblocks are a shitcoin, so is cement based renders, so ugly after 5-10 years, and half of europe is built of this shit now, it's pathetic
The modern home can be an absolute marvel or total junk. I suppose it's always been that way.