A solarium, aka sunroom, is the perfect interior space for nature-loving homeowners. Sometimes you want to take in all the natural beauty surrounding your home without exposing yourself to the elements, and a glass-walled solarium achieves this balance by blending the outdoors and the indoors in perfect harmony.
It seems, then, like it would be hard to laugh at a solarium's design alone, right? It'd be one thing if an owner filled one with crazy stuff, but by design, solariums themselves are usually pretty minimalist. Unfortunately, Ruby Benson's otherwise-stunning solarium ended up getting roasted online due to its unfortunate resemblance to... well, you'll see.
Sorry, did I say the room got roasted? I meant grilled. Ruby Benson's (aka @rxr.home 's) home had an absolutely stunning mid-century modern solarium, tastefully decorated beneath its tall, sloping glass walls. But there was just no getting around the unfortunate truth, a truth Ruby even owned up to herself: her sunroom really did look like a retro Wendy's.
To be fair, it really should be the other way around. Ruby's stylish solarium wasn't designed to look like a Wendy's; Wendy's restaurants were designed to look like stylish homes. No, really. According to MentalFloss , Wendy's started building their restaurants with solariums in the early 1980s with the intent of evoking a mature, "upscale living" chic, in contrast to the louder, more colorful family-friendly aesthetic most fast food restaurants had adopted at the time.
The solariums did give Wendy's restaurants a very stylish, recognizable aesthetic, one that may have helped influence evolving architectural trends in other fast food and fast casual chain restaurants. Unfortunately, most of Wendy's nostalgic solariums have since been phased out, because while they're beautiful, they're also energy-inefficient. However, folks who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s (myself included) still remember Wendy's iconic sloping solarium walls - which, unfortunately, Ruby's room is a dead ringer for.
Flame-Roasted Sunroom
Fortunately, Ruby has a great sense of humor about her ironically nostalgic sunroom, though there was one misconception she had to set right. Her solarium doesn't look like a retro Wendy's: "It looks like a retro Wendy's, Dairy Queen, and Burger King !"
Of course, the internet happily joined in on flame-roasting her burger joint-esque sunroom, but from an affectionate, nostalgic standpoint.
"I love how it even has the authentic, permanently water damaged glass pane look," said @neuroinsurgency.
"All you need is a table with old newspaper print on it to complete the vibe," added @shatteredstarscape.
"Oh, to eat a baked potato and chili under it during the snow," mused @octoquake. Wait, no, that actually sounds totally dreamy. I think Ruby is proving that the Wendy's aesthetic is lowkey goals!
Ruby has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever if she can manage to wrangle up enough vintage Wendy's furniture... buuuuut something tells me she probably doesn't want to lean into the bit that hard. If nothing else, though, I hope she at least knows how to whip up a mean batch of chili!
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