I love the blue! 'course I'm partial. I started reno a couple years ago and tried the gray walls. Hated EVRRY swatch. My kid picked out a green/blue for his room. Out of desperation I tried it and it worked perfectly in the living room. Never looked back.

Wellness rooms and traditional are trends I am happy about. I would also include music rooms, but I think these could be combined with a wellness room and be multifunctional as homes are getting smaller for the average American anyway. Elsewhere I am pretty sure housing costs have skyrocketed too so I believe they have smaller spaces too... Personally I love pulling out the old vinyl records every now and then... They do have wonderful sound and kicking back with some music a few drinks and friends is nice... 😊 Happy for you that your Art Deco is on trend again... Happy New Year's!! 😊🍾🎉

My personal favorite is the trend of stone slabs, particularly . I’ve always preferred it to the tile on the backsplash.

I've always loved arches, nature inspired decor, Art Deco and Art Nouveau! I find they are classics and they've stood the test of time! I loooove your channel and wishing you a Happy New Year filled with blessings and good health.🌟🎄🌟

😂😂😂😂. You just crack me up!!

I sympathise. Been there. Things change in life though, so I hope 2023 brings that change for you!

LOL ain't that the sad truth.

😂😂😂

LOL, maybe you could play some rain sounds. Or to annoy them - play loud Westerns with all the gunfire and violins.

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Thats terrible

Agree! I made many of these changes to my home because of my age. I don’t want my home to be filled w land mines 😂

Counter height toilet?

@@robine6337 I’m thinking she was thinking “chair height”? I’ve put those in myself.

@@robine6337 confused me, too. Probably standard chair height.

I want this stuff built in where you do not notice.

It's interesting, however, how traditional landscape art has been seen as so dated. Even when you see restored vintage homes, the art on the wall is always abstract--not a forest in sight.

"Ugh, pine!? That's sooo primary succession. You need to get yourself some oak in here honey, climax community is IN now!"

I had sweet tea in my mouth when he said that. Damn near spewed it over my keyboard and monitor.

@@karenryder6317 I’m feeling the return to traditional decor, and landscapes would be a natural part of that. At least in an eclectic mix.

I never tire of hearing this from Nick 🤣🤣

I get the thought process behind it. My “rich-rich” fantasy is to have one room in my house that I can throw design to the wind and make a hockey room. Giant TV, team colors, comfy seating, tons of memorabilia… in my minds eye it’s hideously tacky and I’d love every inch of it. But while I live in an apartment, I’ll settle for jerseys in the closet. 😂

I just made a similar comment but I think they're way more than that "one extra room" and instead they're sanity spaces. They're more than the den or rec room or man cave or she shed. They're purpose built and well-appointed within the budget. They may be a whole room but they may also be a niche carved from a larger room. It's all about balance and boundaries in all aspects of life.

@@paigeturner1124 carve out a niche. Display some jerseys like you would kimono and call them art. If it makes you smile and happy to be in the space... go for it!

@@paigeturner1124 that sounds like something they’d do on trading spaces and I ain’t mad at it!

Listening rooms are what people had back in Victorian times and turn of the century, before television was invented, so it is nothing new, and like you said it can be any spare room that you use for any specific activity, that you give its own name.

Eyeball print 😂

And dark cabinets. I loved dark cabinets in the 90s until I had them….. I love CLEAN more

I agree! I impulse bought some satin green curtains with gold leaf print and I good-naturedly bullied my mom outta her latest secondhand shop treasure.. a old, dark red turkish rug. They are going to look amazing and bold together, along with a pair of gold art deco magpie lamps I can't live without.

I feel like it’s because trends come & go so quickly & a kitchen is the most expensive room in our homes. I am redoing mine now. I have always loved a white kitchen & I don’t care if it’s not trending.

There used to be stores where you could go and listen and discover new music 😭

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I also believe there is a LARGE scope to "sneak" art deco into a NON art deco space

Same! I have white cabinets but a lot of darker greys, sage/olive, silvers, but I keep it dark. We never open the curtains so it doesn’t have that same vibe as all of these other bright white rooms. BUT, I have decided to bring in a lot of black- adding in black fixtures, and some other other pieces. I think it’ll be a good mix. We have a few black walls here and there as well, which I’m glad that black walls have been “in”!

I misread “dark deco” and love that moody concept!

I used to have an eggplant painted bedroom. I adored it at the time.

I hate bright surfacing and cold white lighting, I prefer my spaces to feel like a a tastefully lit cave

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Yes, SLC white kitchen shoutout!!! It was everywhere here! Hearing that made me inordinately happy lol

I agree less "theme" and MORE "function" for ONE purpose

I was thinking it was more just a sitting room with out a TV in it lol.

agreed ! I have a space dedicated to my morning routine carved out of my bedroom- my vanity . it now holds a vintage counter sitting hair dryer and a organized makeup and hair stuff so I don't feel stressed by sharing a bathroom with my family of 4 including myself to get ready in

Very well said! 💎

I love the concept of a “sanity space”! I’m currently trying to design my own book-reading sanity space by creating a cozy little cove of bookshelves and beanbag chairs in my living room, and now I know what to call it!

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Art Nouveau with organic curves/nature prints. I’m looking forward to it! ❤

100%

Feel you! I want my desk/office with an industrial vibe but the rest can be cozy :)

I think you make a great point there: trends being responsible for more elements of a certain style being for sale and also available at more affordable prices! I can‘t count the times I wanted to buy a specific piece of clothing but it just wasn‘t available cause it wasn‘t on trend right then 🙄 it‘s really not that different when it comes to interior design at all 🤷🏼‍♀️

I find we go from "solid" trend to "NEUTRAL and BACK again and AM happy to see "modern take on art deco" I personally love the shapes and material choices of the period

Have Art Deco furniture pieces and an MCM piece that I love

For the same reason I'm now crossing my fingers to see more organic-shaped nature-inspired art nouveau in 2024

I adore Sun rooms! Many homes in my area have them...

So what’s in?

I wouldnt be surprised

very sanitary as you NEED TO CLEAN the *** out of them

Totally. My mom and I were just recalling how gross tile counter tops were.

I think it depends on the finish. I have had black counters for about 3 years and have no trouble with them. No more maintenance than any other countertop.

My last home had brown manufactured stone counter tops. I could see crumbs easily so I knew it was clean when I couldn’t see (or feel) them anymore. Somehow the light showed up everything. My present home had dark brown stone patterned laminate counter tops. I could not see crumbs, dirt but I could always feel it. I was constantly wiping down those counter tops. I soon changed it out for quartz look manufactured stone.

We need more of these shows and others like The Block in the USA

Without trends there wouldn't be many interior design videos to watch. I'm interested in the same way I'm interested in any other design vid not in an imma go buy that way

So well stated! I couldn’t agree with you more! Happy New Year to you!

Just think of trends as new ideas. They don’t always work for you, but sometimes there are some fun ones!

@@Nick_Lewismaybe you can do a five year look back or something to see what has stuck? That’s a bit of work, but it would be interesting to see what trends rose to the top.

I think trends are fun to watch to maybe be inspired for new ideas, but I'm a firm believer in creating a space that is right for you. I've personally started watching Nick's channel because my wife and I are hoping to move in the not-so-distant future, and while we'd bring most of our own stuff with us, because we like it, we're not looking to just recreate what we already have. And I would say that people have been interior designing before people were calling it interior design. Much of the time it was more of the, I like what I know and know what I like "trend". Which it still pretty much is for most people. The social "elite" have the money to hire designers to find styles that they like that will also make an impression on those who come to their homes. And in the last 60-70 years there's been a growing trend for the rest of us to try to emulate that. (See Nick when he talks "pricepoints") So much of society is worried about the keeping up with the Jones', and picking apart everyone who isn't up-to-date with design, cars, tech, etc; sometimes it can seem like people are more worried about that than being happy and comfortable with what they have. Sorry this became more of a tirade. But something I've heard Nick speak to often is to make your space about you. You want that mid-century mixed with traditional mixed with farmhouse mixed with glam? Than do it, if others don't like it, too bad for them, you're the one who has to live there!

That was my dream as well. And I put soapstone in my kitchen in 2015 and I have NEVER regretted it. ❤

I like the way you think. I used white quartz with a bit of gray veining on my kitchen and I love it, but I too have fantasized about soapstone on my kitchen. It’s gorgeous and ages very well. 😍

We've been very happy with our honed black granite countertops!

I'm so excited!! This is the style I've been waiting for!! So glad it will be easy to find in stores ❤️✨️

That's exactly what we're trying to achieve. Classic, a bit Victorian / Edwardian but a bit more clean and neutral

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That sounds amazing!!

I get what you mean but have you tried ? it’s a nightmare, if you let a little (clean) water dry on it, you can see it, everything shows up, you basically have to clean with a fiber cloth ever time you use the sink 😭

Fine, you can do that. However, I don't always have time to clean off every crumb the minute it hits a black countertop and dust a dark wood floor every day of the week.

I recently moved into a house with black granite counters that have a glittery/sparkly effect, which is the worst of both worlds. The glitter disguises crumbs and bits of food so it's hard to know where to clean, but it also sometimes looks like crumbs itself. So it's either messy and you don't know it, or not messy but feels like it is.

Called it!

@@Nick_Lewis If you get the chance to venture south, check out downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma. Gorgeous art deco everywhere built by the oil barons in the 1920's & '30's.

SAME

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I come from an Indian household and as much as I wanted to get a white countertop for my recent kitchen reno, I finally chose a jet black granite..why..cuz we use turmeric, curry powder, lots of spices in our food and chances of them staining a light colored countertop no matter what the material is really high..sure black shows dust n crumbs more easily but it's just a matter of cleaning more and it's clean again versus a light colored countertop that overtime starts looking dingy and dull and stained and spotted and discolored, there's no amount of frequent cleaning that will remedy that

@@user07-awubt01 makes a lot of sense, we cook a lot too, with those spices as well, and I hadn’t thought of the staining.

Agree

Well said & I'm totally in agreement ( & age ) w/ you !

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Oh good point!

Oh yes! Also, people are socializing and playing online games where they are talking and laughing. The other housemates don’t necessarily want to hear that.

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My condo has very little natural light.. so while my husband would LOVE the entire place to be a combination of white, black and grey, I can't have it, because of SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder). I want to hibernate through winter badly enough as it is, but with a dark surrounding, I would be hibernating, because of all the darkness.

😅😂That's one way to call out a trend.....can't do anything about it then let's make it so! Love it!

Plaster is timeless. What might not be is the application method used in that case, but even that can be made to look beautiful with the correct styling of the space.

Plastered walls are not the same as Venetian plaster.

@@karenryder6317 Yes Venetian is another technique. I mean regular walls done by hand with plaster decorative applications. Those can look good too. My walls have texture applied on them and some are thick plaster and they look fabulous with the paint and sheen I chose. They don't look dated at all.

@@karenryder6317 I have a variety of different Venetian plaster treatments throughout my home. The previous owner is a Venetian plaster artists.

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WIERD as a LOT of Listening rooms AND HIGH END equipment is IN EUROPE BUT do agree that likely it will be America OR ASIA where it becomes for the "common person"

also the apartment in Germany HAD a "loft" space that was intended for storage BUT could be a SMALL listening space and I have NEVER seen a loft be included in an AMERICAN apartment

I agree with you! So many people buy cheap crap "decor" because it's on trend while tossing out all the precious things they inherited from family, and their homes end up like hotel rooms: bland, colorless, and boring.

@@idalily3810 you're so right and it drives me crazy too! On top of that everybody has a home that looks the same. Well, a lot of people. For example this Farmhouse BS is gone crazy simply because of Chip and Joanna Gaines! Nobody even knew what shiplap was before she started yapping about how much she loved it. At least she was interested in authentic items however now she sells fake chippy paint items to the masses. I don't mean to sound critical I just see these transitional homes full of Farmhouse items and signage. Drives me nuts but if that's what people like they should have it and enjoy it. You and I can go to the Goodwill and get there families heirlooms lol!

@@vlrissolo The signage! OMG. Who needs a sign that says "Gather" in the dining room? Or a sign in the bathroom that tells you to wash your hands and brush your teeth? Or--the worst of all-- a sign in the laundry room that says, "Laundry." Well, no kidding. The big huge washer and dryer were a pretty good clue. LOL.

@@idalily3810 cracking me up!... how about the seasonal signs??? NO MORE, PLEASE! LOL

I think it is all about how you keep your kitchen. I have a customer with a black granite countertop and it is never really that dirty or even looks dirty.

@@vaderladyl Yes, that's true. I was raised in a house (and worked in restaurants) where the saying was "If you have time to lean, you have time to clean." :) Once I discovered those sponge cloth things I never looked back. They keep any type of surface sparkling.

I like! Vogue/Vouge. Color/Colour

Is it really spelled this way in Canada/Britain?

No.