Pinterest Saturation...

If you haven't noticed, the internet is saturated. One place of saturation is the website Pinterest. What seemed like a good idea to 'pin things of interest' has become never-ending pages of repetition that link to other pages of never-ending repetition.

There is no end to it. Twitter is not far behind where you scroll down and down and down and cannot find the end of whatever you started looking for with the same retweeted BS over & over.

Years ago my customers would email links to a website called houzz. In it were beautiful photos of kitchens and furniture settings. That's where they got ideas... the ones they shouldn't be using. The example is their kitchen 9 feet by 8 feet, barely large enough to put all the requirements of a functioning kitchen and they are looking at the 'wish list' kitchen photos probably 15 feet by 12 feet asking me to design a separate refrigerator and freezer combo that requires 6 feet and a hearth style range that needs 5 feet.
I remember telling a client, the kitchen in the photo is much larger than your kitchen. It's not possible to fit both. Either you get the cooking and no refrigeration or the refrigeration and no cooking. You decide.

This week, I went on a sales call. Townhouse with a really small kitchen and she's on a budget. The customer did her research and showed me pictures from Pinterest. One was a pullout gadget that was all expense and little function.

I'm sure that gadget was pinned a gazillion times and every salesman was asked to incorporate them into a design simply because it looked so good.