To the editor: The tone-deaf complaints of the potential tenants bemoaning their boring, albeit practical, new grey flooring completely embody the entitlement and conceitedness of the better L.A. area. (“‘Soulless’ grey vinyl flooring have infested L.A.’s rental market — and tenants hate them,” Aug. 9)
Whereas these tenants had been going rental procuring, they in all probability handed one of many quite a few homeless encampments and the working poor commuting to their second or third job of the day. The truth that no person within the article took the time for a bit introspection speaks volumes about their head area.
Right here’s a tip: Save your tuppence for flooring that your delicate sensibilities can deal with, test your privilege, and deal with some actual issues in your life.
Alex Lemus, Anaheim
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To the editor: You assume grey vinyl flooring is the one soulless pattern in actual property? Strive the paint jobs. Each flipped home on the market or lease in my neighborhood is white with black trim and shiplap siding. You possibly can blame “Fixer Higher” couple Chip and Joanna Gaines for that.
There are in all probability black counter tops and white subway tiles within the kitchen. Perhaps a wall has chalkboard paint. No, wait: Chalkboard paint was the 2010s.
It’s at all times been soulless. Within the 2000s, it was an extra of beige with black accents. Within the Nineteen Nineties, it was peach stucco, faux arched home windows and Kokopelli. The 80s? Patrick Nagel prints riveted to the partitions, black metallic futons and, the bottom circle of hell, carpet.
Stay in a carpeted condominium for a yr, and you can be begging for grey vinyl.
And that firm GLB Properties touted in your article for going towards the grey pattern? Test its web site. It’s grey.
Susan Isaacs, Sierra Madre
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To the editor: The one who wrote this text both hates grey or is conceding to the trendy want of as we speak’s younger adults and professionals to make one thing distinctive relatively than cookie-cutter. In both case, bias is clear.
I moved into a brand new dwelling eight years in the past, gutted it and put in grey flooring as a result of I occur to like grey as a base shade, in addition to white partitions. Clearly it is a matter of style and shade, which cycle out and in of recognition.
I can perceive eager to make your abode distinctive as a substitute of boring or frequent. However that may be completed with furnishings, photos on the partitions and different decor.
Simply as a white canvas gives a base for an artist to make use of, any neutral-color flooring in a home is a base for creating a novel area. Nobody would stroll into my home with the grey flooring and say that it isn’t distinctive.
Chele Marmet, Los Angeles
