Do Americans think granite is particularly cool or luxurious? It's generally perceived as being a bit old timey and cheap where I'm from, but I heard someone say that's not universal.
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2025
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Americans have a special channel of propaganda designed specifically to make them buy granite countertops (and similar awful stuff). It's called HGTV.
Also painting everything gray. $2000 electronic toilets. Absurd overpriced faucets.
It's just a gigantic tentacle of mindfuck coming out of the screen and into their credit card.
I mean anything made of real materials that aren't plastics and fiberboard is luxurious to me. So yes I would consider a floor or a countertop made of actual stone luxurious.
We're flooded with propaganda constantly. Some of that propaganda is in the form of short cycles of changing building materials and finishes and repetition of the words modern and outdated. Anything from more than two cycles ago is looked down on. You gotta destroy and throw out perfectly functional and aesthetically intact construction on a certain cycle to not be viewed as poor.
There is a disgusting television network called HGTV that heads up this propaganda wing.
Lol. I remodel houses for wealthy retired people with nothing but money and free time. This is truth.
People in the US kind of lump marble/quartz in with granite as one category. The alternative would be laminate countertops, which are awful.
What's considered cool and luxurious where you're from?
Chilled granite.
I think we need to understand they still haven't discovered bricks to build houses.
It must be nice living in a place with no earthquakes.
Oh good point, from what little I've seen in "extreme makeover", they use wood and/or stiff cardboard, which kinda like the piggies and the wolf story, get blown away when there's a breeze.
For countertops yes, because it replaced cheap I don't even know what it is countertops. But this is the first I heard about flooring.
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