Interior design

[Tahiya]

Some spaces are calming and feel esthetically pleasing. Then there is Worldmark. While the interior spaces are often large enough, the colors and designs can be questionable.

I tried to attach some photos from WM Indio but failed. Two pics show competing colors and designs in the carpet and drapes. One photo shows a living room wall painted in a deep blue contrast color, with a sofa of not-quite-the-same deep blue color sofa in front of it. Why?

When I mentioned the lack of color and design harmony the whole extended family agreed and added their own observations--and some are teens who I wouldn't have expected to have noticed.

Does anyone have insight into why WM seems to put things together like this? (I know it seems like a trivial issue--just why have disharmony when it shouldn't have to cost more to do better?)

 

[zentraveler]

I posted something like this in my review of WM Moab. It wasn’t that it was discord, but everything was a shade of gray, no rugs where they were needed, no throat pillows, nothing at all warm about the place (except the wacky heating system, but that’s another issue). Simplicity is fine, but I also don’t see why they can’t hire decorating companies that know how to provide a sense of warmth and relaxation for people who are staying a week or more.

 

[easyrider]

I like the paint colors at Indio but would rather everything be the color Swiss Coffee. When they paint different walls different colors it makes me think they are just using up paint.

Bill

 

[Passepartout]

I haven't been to this TS, so am speaking from a profound lack of knowledge. We have some, however brief, relationship with the area. Indio is sort-of shirt-tail related to Palm Springs, and the area has it's own aesthetic vibe. 'Mid-Century Modern' seems to be a 'thing there. Is it possible that the decorators and designers of this property are trying to tie this property into the local aesthetic?

I'd love to see tome photos and examples of what has been done in order to more accurately place the feel of the place.

My wife's #2 son has recently bought a semi-famous mid-century house on Salton Sea in teens of miles from Indio. He is a activist ultra-marathoner who annually runs the ~100 miles around the ever-evaporating Salton Sea to bring attention to it's plight.

Here's the Salton Sea house

 

[DaveNV]

WM Moab isn't the only "new" place with zero warmth in the color scheme. That grey-on-grey color is pervasive these days. Designers everywhere seem to think those are the most generic colors available, because heaven forbid they should provide some degree of warmth to things. Even the model homes here in my development are the same. Everything is white, grey, and black, without a shred of warmth to anythng. It's icy cold in it intolerable coolness. I am not a fan.

Dave