this is horrendous- the previous decor is so warm and full of character & the period fireplace is gorgeous. the new set-up is cold & soulless
That’s horrible 😭
Bloody hell that’s bad. I wish CAMRA’s [historic pub interior listings](https://www1.camra.org.uk/heritage-pubs) carried some legal weight so that this sort of thing could be prevented
Where is that?
Where is this?
Ofnadwy…rwy’n teimlo’n sâl
Sorry for your loss.
Someone let his wife redecorate using TikTok
That’s a shame ☹️
Fuck this up the arse sideways.
Death penalty.
oh my god…I don’t even know this place but my face dropped as soon as I saw the second pic
this is tragic
Oh dear. I would be fine chucking someone out to make room in a prison for whoever did this.
Pub gentrification should be a crime.
Tragic
Read what it says on the little slate board on the mantelpiece next to the mirror.
I feel like I just witnessed a homocide
Love, laff, lag
That should be considered a crime
Bye bye soul out of it
It’s literally every episode of Homes Under The Hammer
My granny would call this “a sin and a shame.”
I’m not even Welsh, and this makes me feel bad.
They did NOT get rid of that antique fireplace? Tell me that’s a different part of the room. I’m about to have an aneurysm.
Ah the Tyn-y-Coed.
This is a hotel as well as a pub.
For those unaware, a couple of years ago this pub was bought out by Zip World. They had plans to get glamping pods out the back, and it was believed by many they’d start to offer bundle hotel+adventure packages.
When it was bought out, there was a fair amount of scepticism and unease, though it was hard to point to much specifically apart from a large company taking over a pub favoured by returning hikers and bikers.
I had food at the Tyn-y-Coed plenty before the takeover, and once shortly after. The food when I returned was still excellent, though I’d brought a large group and they really got themselves knotted with the orders and the bill somehow. They still had a great range of Welsh beers, whiskies, etc at the bar, and it still had a homely feeling from the interior and the staff.
I haven’t been in since the interior was redone.
From this photo, the only thing I never really liked in the original décor was the red walls. I think you can make a homely feel without it being garish. I know it’s to match the artefacts out the front of the pub, but still.
Most other changes seem like a tacky downgrade – tacky artwork, painted lanterns which won’t have seen a metre below ground, a much worse fireplace, tacky cheap tables/chairs, and what happened to all the mugs etc from the ceiling?
I get that it’s light and airy now, but is that a good thing for a pub? Isn’t part of the attraction of pubs that you can cosy up somewhere, maybe even feel hidden? We used to have nooks and whisky bars and slightly hidden corners and frosted glass. It felt cosy, and you could find a comfy chair in the corner to sink into and read a book or a couple of you plan a route for the next day.
Ah well, maybe I’m out of touch and this is what people want.
The feature wall and its consequences
Depressing
From warmth, history and character, to bland, cheap and generic.
Is this the Skirrid?
modernism is slowly sucking the soul from our world <3
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this is horrendous- the previous decor is so warm and full of character & the period fireplace is gorgeous. the new set-up is cold & soulless
That’s horrible 😭
Bloody hell that’s bad. I wish CAMRA’s [historic pub interior listings](https://www1.camra.org.uk/heritage-pubs) carried some legal weight so that this sort of thing could be prevented
Where is that?
Where is this?
Ofnadwy…rwy’n teimlo’n sâl
Sorry for your loss.
Someone let his wife redecorate using TikTok
That’s a shame ☹️
Fuck this up the arse sideways.
Death penalty.
oh my god…I don’t even know this place but my face dropped as soon as I saw the second pic
this is tragic
Oh dear. I would be fine chucking someone out to make room in a prison for whoever did this.
Pub gentrification should be a crime.
Tragic
Read what it says on the little slate board on the mantelpiece next to the mirror.
I feel like I just witnessed a homocide
Love, laff, lag
That should be considered a crime
Bye bye soul out of it
It’s literally every episode of Homes Under The Hammer
My granny would call this “a sin and a shame.”
I’m not even Welsh, and this makes me feel bad.
They did NOT get rid of that antique fireplace? Tell me that’s a different part of the room. I’m about to have an aneurysm.
Ah the Tyn-y-Coed.
This is a hotel as well as a pub.
For those unaware, a couple of years ago this pub was bought out by Zip World. They had plans to get glamping pods out the back, and it was believed by many they’d start to offer bundle hotel+adventure packages.
When it was bought out, there was a fair amount of scepticism and unease, though it was hard to point to much specifically apart from a large company taking over a pub favoured by returning hikers and bikers.
I had food at the Tyn-y-Coed plenty before the takeover, and once shortly after. The food when I returned was still excellent, though I’d brought a large group and they really got themselves knotted with the orders and the bill somehow. They still had a great range of Welsh beers, whiskies, etc at the bar, and it still had a homely feeling from the interior and the staff.
I haven’t been in since the interior was redone.
From this photo, the only thing I never really liked in the original décor was the red walls. I think you can make a homely feel without it being garish. I know it’s to match the artefacts out the front of the pub, but still.
Most other changes seem like a tacky downgrade – tacky artwork, painted lanterns which won’t have seen a metre below ground, a much worse fireplace, tacky cheap tables/chairs, and what happened to all the mugs etc from the ceiling?
I get that it’s light and airy now, but is that a good thing for a pub? Isn’t part of the attraction of pubs that you can cosy up somewhere, maybe even feel hidden? We used to have nooks and whisky bars and slightly hidden corners and frosted glass. It felt cosy, and you could find a comfy chair in the corner to sink into and read a book or a couple of you plan a route for the next day.
Ah well, maybe I’m out of touch and this is what people want.
The feature wall and its consequences
Depressing
From warmth, history and character, to bland, cheap and generic.
Is this the Skirrid?
modernism is slowly sucking the soul from our world <3
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