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I happen to like the look. But certainly one's tastes, should they deviate from the AirSpace aesthetic, could be incorporated into the search parameters. Havin
by squozzer 10y ago
I happen to like the look. But certainly one's tastes, should they deviate from the AirSpace aesthetic, could be incorporated into the search parameters.
Having stayed at BnBs before AirBnb was cool, the usual style I encountered was one of the following: 1) Antique-y, i.e. an attempt to decorate the property in period-correct furniture, usually unsuccessfully; 2) Unapologetically kitschy.
Both "styles" require lots of loud wallpaper.
- smacktoward 10y agoIt would be interesting to see a demographic comparison between the people who frequent "conventional" bed-and-breakfasts and people who frequently use AirBnB. My (completely uneducated) guess is that the regular-B-and-B crowd skews considerably older, hence the predominance of the Thomas Kinkade-wannabe aesthetic in that segment instead of the more millennial-oriented "AirSpace" aesthetic the article describes.
- zeveb 10y ago> But certainly one's tastes, should they deviate from the AirSpace aesthetic, could be incorporated into the search parameters. That would be awesome! Me, I'd love to stay in some cozy Collegiate Gothic, pseudo-Oxonian place with layers of paint on the plaster, a lush garden, musty books, the lingering odour of pipe smoke — that's my idea of pleasant. Spare & bare, by comparison, is … sterile. I want to live someplace made for living, not for performing surgery.