Lately on a lot of design/architecture sites I've seen, and especially the Minimalist-type blogs I frequent, I've been seeing lots of white. White kitchens. White living rooms. White bedrooms. Homes with white everything. It's starting to make me see red. Now, I know white is supposed to make rooms seem more airy and spacious, and white stands for cleanliness and simplicity, which I've been trying to embrace in my life, but I think that painting your walls, floors and everything else is going just a little too far.
Besides being terribly hard to keep clean, white is just...boring. As I just said, I know it represents cleanliness and simplicity, but to me it just seems like the person sho was in charge of painting couldn't quite decide what color to paint the room, so they just went with nice, neutral, boring white. It's not a warm color, it's not a cool color, it's not really anything.
White is the color of hospitals. Think about it....the floors and ceilings are white, or, at best, beige. The doctors and nurses wear white, the sheets are white, even the food is usually off-white. Maybe it's just me, but white reminds me of hospitals, and the last time I was in the hospital was not exactly a pleasant experience.
In some cultures, white is the color of death! For example, in Chinese culture, when they attend funerals, they traditionally wear white. So if you have an all white decor in your home, if you happen to have Chinese friends, the first time they come over you're gonna scare the hell out of them.
Now far be it from me to tell you how to decorate your own home. If you want to have it all white, go ahead, but I think I'll stick with this thing called color.
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