Future Vision: Construction Sins of Today

Hello everyone,

I have wondered several times what will be considered typical "architectural mistakes" of the 2010s/2020s in a few decades. Would you like to speculate about that?

I mean, in the 70s it was also considered stylish and modern to put brown bathroom tiles up to the ceiling and combine them with sunny yellow sanitary ceramics. Back then, people certainly could not have imagined that this might ever be seen as ugly.

Will vinyl flooring and washing machine/dryer connections on the first floor be seen as typical but already outdated achievements of the current time? Floor-to-ceiling windows? "Smokey Eyes"? Which things will the next generation bang their heads against the wall over and wonder what taste aberrations we suffered?

Green bathroom tiles. Just saw them recently

Definitely the shiny roof tiles. I find them really embarrassing.

We had this quite often here, still joining in:

-House in Ral9016, dark grisly pavement
-white (too) plain kitchens
-oak overdose in the form of floors, doors, furniture
-wood paneling

Green bathroom tiles.

Wow, were they "in" again in the meantime? I still know the "moss green" from the 70s all too well; just a few weeks ago, my grandfather's old bathroom was remodeled in that shade. Currently beige. One of the first pictures in the Google search shows not only the tile color but the actual ceramic. Was there really so little choice back then?

- The currently trendy retro tiles with ornaments; almost boring by now, feels like every second person has them
- Very dark clinker... I think this will be just as much a sin as the terrible yellow or white clinker of earlier years, which nobody uses anymore today (and obviously nobody replaces clinker either)
- Gable roof without eaves

For things where I am quite sure they will not end up as fashion sins:
- Floor-to-ceiling windows, as they offer several advantages (more light, great for children, room looks bigger, ...); especially with regard to energy efficiency, window areas facing south certainly won’t get smaller.
- Even though we didn’t choose it, I believe that this typical grey (besides white) will remain a fairly timeless standard color. It’s just boring, but I don’t think it will end up as a fashion sin