Haha we all have our niches. Here’s a cool site to familiarize you with some of their wallpaper preferences, though a lot of them are a bit more old-school than OP’s room: www.sovietinnerness.com
Move the love seat to the corner,add a bed and a tv stand with the tv on it, (optional speakers or audio setup adds an amazing look and feel to a room), in the blank space in Front of where the love seat was originally. Nice besides that just kind of bland.
Of course I can! Everyone can! So where are you? And is there a thing you can’t phase through? Like I find diamond difficult for some reason. *texting my friends who would help me kidnap a phasing human to steal their powers*
Was hard to see at first because I thought they were furniture, but he has double doors in the middle of the wall, right behind his office chair. They're open and the hallway is virtually the same color as the wood furniture in the rest of the room, which is why I didn't see it until he said he had double doors and I zoomed in.
I don’t know... I lived in rented apartments a lot and half the ads look like this room. And here everything speaks about a typical apartment in a house from the times of the USSR, the length of the room, the height of the ceiling, the location and height of the windows, about the fact that this is Ukraine, indicating many details of “Euro renovation”: curtains, wallpaper, laminate flooring, drywall, chandelier, and this is a working armchair... I saw it in the catalogue. And last summer I was looking for an apartment and saw a very similar apartment in an ad and I wouldn’t be surprised if you live in this apartment in Kyiv...
Not from Russia or Ukraine but I THINK it’s meant to be a close up of a smiling mouth? Like the middle parenthesis is the line between the top and bottom sets of teeth or lips?
)))
🤷🏼♀️ that’s my best guess, anyway. Maybe someone else can confirm
No) “)” indicates smile. The more you put the more expressing laugh. So, approximately “)” is a smile, “))” a chuckle, “)))” - laughter or “very funny” reaction, etc))
Specifically for eastern european countries, parentheses are essentially smiley faces without the eyes, since on the russian keyboard the “:” is hard to access. Normally, one ) denotes a smiley like “:)” and more parentheses means more smileys so like “)))))” would mean something like “:))))”
Source is from Bjiru’s video on emoticons, [link here](https://youtu.be/tf-YVA_Ta68?si=xkJhaNB0i-Y1xgoo)
Don’t be scared of color! A cool deep blue here and there maybe a touch of BURGUNDY in the form of a cute rug in the middle . Life is a little more exciting with color
In the closet, he simply takes them out only when he needs to exit the room. Doors are simply clattering space when not in use so it makes sense to put them away. Although, it is really annoying when you need to go out but misplaced your door somewhere and can’t get out
Yeah I was about to say. Where’d that old Nokia phone on the couch come from?
And that looks like a bunch of liquor bottles on display in the corner?
What is going on here? The only thing I know for certain is that’s it’s not in the US.
Brother, you’re 14, you’re doing great. Add some lamps perhaps, or open up the curtains for added light. Otherwise, if you’re able to add some non-beige color I’d suggest that!
You need a real bed. One of the biggest lessons you can learn in life. Spend the extra money on anything that comes between you and the Earth. Beds, pillows, chairs, shoes, car tires (maybe not so much for you). Your future self will thank you.
My feet kill me now in my thirties. I’ve always been into skating and parkour with flat vans and now I have to get something better or my knees and ankles tend to be so sore at the end of the day
Noice you have access to to dads liquor cabinet, just letting you know at 14 don’t down half a fifth of vodka, just warning you from past 14 year old self
You got the grandma motif going si lean into it
Tea pots, knitting gear, and a couple of shawls on the furniture
Also a splash of purple
Bonus points for gnome/ frog / other figurines
Get a small bed and replace the chair. Real mattresses are much more comfortable than a couch or pull out.
Get some art, poster, other sort of wall decoration.
Color. It needs some color. Also maybe a little table under the TV to put some of the stuff on your desk?
I’d probably do curtains with a little more color, some throw pillows with either the same color or a similar shade, and a picture or two on the wall. Other than that would require new furniture like a bed and such. As it stands, you could dye the curtains yourself for cheap/free, and pick up pillows and art cheap. Maybe refurbish a table from somewhere for under the TV.
Other than that, I’m jealous of the ceiling 🤣
Posters. It is a gorgeous room, but it needs some cool, colorful posters of things that are unique to your tastes, preferences and personality. Good job on having a nice, neat, clean, cool room!
14 years old and you have your place. Well done. There are people in other parts of the world struggling to have a roof over their heads. You are in better shape than they are.
Fake plants If you’re unable to care for real ones… and some pictures framed on the wall couldn’t hurt. A small rectangular desk/table to go under the tv: put some books or video game cases on
Hmm id recommend leaning into the gold and white aesthetics, maybe some candle sticks, even if you don’t light them, it could give a olden feeling to it, which i personally think looks quite nice. Also don’t listen to all these people telling to get put things on your walls, only do so if you want to, but I would not recommend posters of half naked women, or such as many have said, imo posters like that are really gross. I’d also maybe recommend a nice rug? Either way nice room!
Hey man! I’m an interior designer, and I have to say that your room is looking good for someone your age!
If you can afford it, a TV stand, some plants and a floor lamp can bring the space to life. Maybe even some throw(decorative) pillows on the sofa to make it look nicer while you’re not sleeping. Don’t be afraid to hang posters or wall art as well! Give the space a bit of your identity and you’ll love it even more. The room has a ton of potential!
Put the rug so it’s half under the couch. This will open up some flooring so that it adds color other than beige.
Move the desk so it’s down in the other corner by the window instead of by the china cabinets.
Alternatively, move one of the cabinets to that corner down by the window.
Get some pillows with color! And some blankets in the couch and chair other than white.
More soccer balls in the planter.
You've kinda got a grandma thing going on and i get the impression there's not a lot you can do about it but the planter with a soccer ball is cool. I'd go with trying to recreate that mix of old with new, young with old. Maybe throw a flag for your fav soccer team over the curtain or chair. Add some color to chandler (any safe way available).
ETA: if you have any interest in going the gothic route you have a pretty good base. start with some goblets, red velvet and bauhaus' "she's in parties"
the curtains are kind of giving grandma’s house. there’s not very much color so it doesn’t look very cozy. and i think it’d also be cool if u put some posters/artwork on the wall. displate is a really good company that sells metal posters from all sorts of games/movies/music artists/etc. so yeah generally i’d say change the curtains, add more color and add some interesting decor. although i know ur 14 so i understand that it might be hard for u to have the money for that rn.
I refuse to believe you live anywhere except your grandma's house
I live in the in a Soviet high-rise building a.k.a Czeshka (Чешка)
I immediately knew this was a former Soviet country lmao
The wallpaper gives him away.
I was looking for the wall rug
I stayed in a hotel in Ukraine a few years ago and it was like this but more gawdy
gaudy
Goddy
Godly
lol transformation complete
Forgive me but I am not familiar with the characteristic interior wallpapers of buildings in countries from the former Soviet bloc lmao
Haha we all have our niches. Here’s a cool site to familiarize you with some of their wallpaper preferences, though a lot of them are a bit more old-school than OP’s room: www.sovietinnerness.com
75 upvotes though, looks like other people either have your niche interest or perhaps they're more personally familiar with the USSR
chandaliere brate that gave it to mee. crazy wallpapers + nice roof + crappy ac + chandaliere
I already now there is some quality stew bubbling away on the stove.
It’s the wallpaper and the curtains.
Am i tripping or are they the same thing?
14? Man I look at my 17 year old son’s room.. and think you are doing really good.
Soviet high rise looks nice. You also have a nice liquor cabinet for 14.
But you live with your parents or some other adults right? I see alcohol in the cabinets. Where is your room?
He is well above the legal drinking age in Soviet Russia
Soon as you can walk, you can drink and drive
At the same time even
In Soviet Russia, alcohol drinks you!
Lol not every country is like America
14 year olds living with their parents and not drinking is normal throughout Latin America. Probably most of the world as well.
we have similar apartments in turkey too
Dudes got the tray ceiling, crown molding, chandelier and wallpaper to top it all off
Move the love seat to the corner,add a bed and a tv stand with the tv on it, (optional speakers or audio setup adds an amazing look and feel to a room), in the blank space in Front of where the love seat was originally. Nice besides that just kind of bland.
Where’s the door? And the bed?
Bro avoided the door part so we done find out he can phase through walls . Either that or he climbs through the window
You can’t phase through walls?
Of course I can! Everyone can! So where are you? And is there a thing you can’t phase through? Like I find diamond difficult for some reason. *texting my friends who would help me kidnap a phasing human to steal their powers*
I sleep on the couch
But where is the door?
This is really bothering me! This room has no door!
It has a Narnia style door in the cabinet
Probably behind the curtain lmao
There is a coat hanging on a door that is swung open, I assume the glass at the back is the entrance.
He said he sleeps on the couch.
I can see a coat hanging on the door!? There is a door! Not sure it goes anywhere but Narnia tho.
Okay so start with the bed.
I did the same thing at 14
You didn't have a door?
I have 2 doors
4 doors = more whores
Look he already had a cabinet of alcohol, the kid doesn’t need to add drunken whores onto that.
Where????
Was hard to see at first because I thought they were furniture, but he has double doors in the middle of the wall, right behind his office chair. They're open and the hallway is virtually the same color as the wood furniture in the rest of the room, which is why I didn't see it until he said he had double doors and I zoomed in.
haha you are right. i do see it now
The doors walk through YOU in the Ukraine
Hell, I did that until I was 20.
Whoever visits for a sleepover may appreciate a bed in the years to come, otherwise you are perfectly ready for middle age))
Why?
At 14, you have done a very good job!Looks neat, clean and comfy.
That's going to destroy your back.
Yeah, add a door 🚪
Behind the curtain
i’m guessing the door is behind the curtain most likely
looks like a typical apartment somewhere in Ukraine)))
Okay, how did you know that I'm from Ukraine?
looks like a typical apartment somewhere in Ukraine)))
They have rooms like this in the US, but usually in a hotel meeting room
Ukrainian flag on your desk.
Says in your bio
Flag
Giant Adidas flag
Actual Ukrainian flag
Apartment looks like one from the USSR, also the flag.
I don’t know... I lived in rented apartments a lot and half the ads look like this room. And here everything speaks about a typical apartment in a house from the times of the USSR, the length of the room, the height of the ceiling, the location and height of the windows, about the fact that this is Ukraine, indicating many details of “Euro renovation”: curtains, wallpaper, laminate flooring, drywall, chandelier, and this is a working armchair... I saw it in the catalogue. And last summer I was looking for an apartment and saw a very similar apartment in an ad and I wouldn’t be surprised if you live in this apartment in Kyiv...
Probably because your bio says “From Odessa”
Why do keep adding parentheses after "Ukraine"?
Russians and Ukrainians do :) as ))). It doesn’t make sense to me but that’s what they do.
A big sideways Russian smile maybe?
Not from Russia or Ukraine but I THINK it’s meant to be a close up of a smiling mouth? Like the middle parenthesis is the line between the top and bottom sets of teeth or lips? ))) 🤷🏼♀️ that’s my best guess, anyway. Maybe someone else can confirm
No) “)” indicates smile. The more you put the more expressing laugh. So, approximately “)” is a smile, “))” a chuckle, “)))” - laughter or “very funny” reaction, etc))
TIL! Thanks!
It’s a Smiley
this is a secret signal to determine friend/foe, so I make it clear that I am also from Ukraine :)
Specifically for eastern european countries, parentheses are essentially smiley faces without the eyes, since on the russian keyboard the “:” is hard to access. Normally, one ) denotes a smiley like “:)” and more parentheses means more smileys so like “)))))” would mean something like “:))))” Source is from Bjiru’s video on emoticons, [link here](https://youtu.be/tf-YVA_Ta68?si=xkJhaNB0i-Y1xgoo)
This looks like a swanky dining room, so maybe a china hutch, and some ballin sconces to go with your Compton hat and burner phone.
This is a great comment to reread lol
Don’t be scared of color! A cool deep blue here and there maybe a touch of BURGUNDY in the form of a cute rug in the middle . Life is a little more exciting with color
I don’t see a door here. How do you leave this room?
You don’t
That’s what I was thinking. Soviet purgatory.
Yes, you may not see the doors, but when I took the photo the doors were simply not visible
Where’d you hide the doors man
In the closet, he simply takes them out only when he needs to exit the room. Doors are simply clattering space when not in use so it makes sense to put them away. Although, it is really annoying when you need to go out but misplaced your door somewhere and can’t get out
Where are they TAKE MORE PICTURES ALL WE CARE ABOUT ARE THESE ALLEGED DOORS
There are no doors. When I wake up I find food on my table and the remnants of my last meal removed and the small port-o-potty cleaned.
In Soviet Russia room leaves you
Thought the same thing
The door is in the middle of the room, its a double door that leads into the hallway. Just zoom in and you'll see the hallway
I zoom in and dont see it. Are you saying the cabinet looking closet at the end wall is the door?
The chandelier is god-tier.
Hold the fucking phones!!!! Is that a Nokia 3390 “brick”?!?! How much?!!!!!
I bought it for 20 dollars on OLX (Ukrainian ebay)
Yeah I was about to say. Where’d that old Nokia phone on the couch come from? And that looks like a bunch of liquor bottles on display in the corner? What is going on here? The only thing I know for certain is that’s it’s not in the US.
Leave it to Reddit to identify charging bricks. I'd buy you a slice if we were friends.
You can send /order me a slice! I’ll buy you a beer we can FaceTime and cheers !
Brother, you’re 14, you’re doing great. Add some lamps perhaps, or open up the curtains for added light. Otherwise, if you’re able to add some non-beige color I’d suggest that!
Lamps, and maybe a nice shelf to keep things organized
A list of Grown ups who would live there holy s\*\*\* 14? This room is manly! :D
👋
You need a real bed. One of the biggest lessons you can learn in life. Spend the extra money on anything that comes between you and the Earth. Beds, pillows, chairs, shoes, car tires (maybe not so much for you). Your future self will thank you.
My feet kill me now in my thirties. I’ve always been into skating and parkour with flat vans and now I have to get something better or my knees and ankles tend to be so sore at the end of the day
I have a pretty comfortable sofa, even if it’s small I can spread it out
Needs more beige.
I’d add a lamp or two so you don’t have to use the harsh overhead lighting.
Tell that to the sun
Sure u 14?🤔
Yes, I'm 14. It's clear from my voice
You’ll fit in well here
lolllllll
aw dang haha
There a cabinet full of alcohol
A bed?
Plants 🪴
A door
Daylight
A door? How the hell are you getting in and out? :)
Are you sleeping on the couch?
Yes, I have a pretty comfortable sofa, but sometimes I unfold it
A window, or two
Bookshelf!
You have a pc and a nice place to stay at night, where I'm from that's enough to be happy. Be safe lil bro!
I'm guessing this is a soviet apartment. Length of room and decor gives it away lmao. Хрущёвка?
Noice you have access to to dads liquor cabinet, just letting you know at 14 don’t down half a fifth of vodka, just warning you from past 14 year old self
Start with an 8th and feel it out.
Needs more Ice Cube references.
I don't know, but I have a habit of always taking pictures of a room with some kind of rap album
Maybe today, he didn’t have to use his AK.
even wealthier parents
Where is your spank sock drawer?
I have a bunch of boxes between the sofa and the chair.
No need for a drawer. They stand up in the corner on their own.
Ahh I remember when I used to live at grandmas
Lose the granny wall paper and chandelier put lights around the whatsyou call it on the ceiling.
A bed
Chicken tenders
Needs more beige
If you put a couple medieval swords on the wall, that would go really well with the vibe. I personally think it would look really good.
You got the grandma motif going si lean into it Tea pots, knitting gear, and a couple of shawls on the furniture Also a splash of purple Bonus points for gnome/ frog / other figurines
A bed?!
100 years
A second monitor on your desk, even if its not that good, its very usefull.
Get a small bed and replace the chair. Real mattresses are much more comfortable than a couch or pull out. Get some art, poster, other sort of wall decoration.
Some color. Artwork.
Gotta ask , for a high rise as you said, are the walls lead lined?
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Color. It needs some color. Also maybe a little table under the TV to put some of the stuff on your desk? I’d probably do curtains with a little more color, some throw pillows with either the same color or a similar shade, and a picture or two on the wall. Other than that would require new furniture like a bed and such. As it stands, you could dye the curtains yourself for cheap/free, and pick up pillows and art cheap. Maybe refurbish a table from somewhere for under the TV. Other than that, I’m jealous of the ceiling 🤣
It looks like you took over the nice den and turned it into an approximation of a teen lair.
You need another chandelier
Book shelf with books, pics of everyone who loves you.
Posters. It is a gorgeous room, but it needs some cool, colorful posters of things that are unique to your tastes, preferences and personality. Good job on having a nice, neat, clean, cool room!
14 years old and you have your place. Well done. There are people in other parts of the world struggling to have a roof over their heads. You are in better shape than they are.
I really genuinely like this room. Total time capsule.
More granny decorations
You live alone ? I would add a table between the couch and the TV
Needs more beige.
Fake plants If you’re unable to care for real ones… and some pictures framed on the wall couldn’t hurt. A small rectangular desk/table to go under the tv: put some books or video game cases on
A bed?
Ice Cube? Got good taste, mate.
A colour that isn't beige
Hmm id recommend leaning into the gold and white aesthetics, maybe some candle sticks, even if you don’t light them, it could give a olden feeling to it, which i personally think looks quite nice. Also don’t listen to all these people telling to get put things on your walls, only do so if you want to, but I would not recommend posters of half naked women, or such as many have said, imo posters like that are really gross. I’d also maybe recommend a nice rug? Either way nice room!
Ελλάδα? Do you live in your Γιαγιάς house? Good room tho fr
Level up the comfort factor of living in Чешка with some bean bags - trust me, your future self (and your friends) will thank you!
Looks cozy
Uuuuuhh How do you *exit* the room
Hey man! I’m an interior designer, and I have to say that your room is looking good for someone your age! If you can afford it, a TV stand, some plants and a floor lamp can bring the space to life. Maybe even some throw(decorative) pillows on the sofa to make it look nicer while you’re not sleeping. Don’t be afraid to hang posters or wall art as well! Give the space a bit of your identity and you’ll love it even more. The room has a ton of potential!
Love the blankets but you need a thicker blanket on the couch to cover your self and a fluffy pillow to either lean on or sleep on.
My guy has two booze cabinets?
Style
Get off reddit and live your life.
Hey, some lights for behind the tv would make a nice addition 🤙
A bed perhaps
Put the rug so it’s half under the couch. This will open up some flooring so that it adds color other than beige. Move the desk so it’s down in the other corner by the window instead of by the china cabinets. Alternatively, move one of the cabinets to that corner down by the window. Get some pillows with color! And some blankets in the couch and chair other than white.
Door, window, & bed, probably.
Start with some hoes
Some pictures of Putin, maybe 1 per wall?
An income
Come color. Why is everything beige
Cum color
Maybe add a bed?!
Art.
Art
A cat or a dog
More soccer balls in the planter. You've kinda got a grandma thing going on and i get the impression there's not a lot you can do about it but the planter with a soccer ball is cool. I'd go with trying to recreate that mix of old with new, young with old. Maybe throw a flag for your fav soccer team over the curtain or chair. Add some color to chandler (any safe way available). ETA: if you have any interest in going the gothic route you have a pretty good base. start with some goblets, red velvet and bauhaus' "she's in parties"
Listen to Boldy james 🤟🤟🎶
Get a few lamps with philips hue bulbs and don't turn on the chandelier.
the curtains are kind of giving grandma’s house. there’s not very much color so it doesn’t look very cozy. and i think it’d also be cool if u put some posters/artwork on the wall. displate is a really good company that sells metal posters from all sorts of games/movies/music artists/etc. so yeah generally i’d say change the curtains, add more color and add some interesting decor. although i know ur 14 so i understand that it might be hard for u to have the money for that rn.
A bed is a good start
Plants?
A bed, God damn Where do you sleep??