We have this in our house we moved into 3 years ago and I thought it was so posh. Psh! Dumb Dumb. And! You can’t use bleach products on it, so I have to use special cleaners for around the toilet.

That’s exactly what happened to Bob Sagett.

Engobe ceramic and porcelain is a good price point and will give you the look of genuine marble or granite without being slippery.

I wonder if that's why the place I'm moving to hard carpet on part of the bathroom... It was a fake marble tile that's smaller, but still. It's everywhere, walls, floors, around the tub. the counter top... I can't deal with carpet in the bathroom, so we did replace the floor with the shinier kind of tile (got a good deal), but at least I have bath mats which are both grippy and easy to wash. I think I have three of those rubber backed mats, so I'll definitely be using those. My mom is making me some slippers, and I got the rubber stuff to put on the bottom of those too (I think it's called sock stop, and if you have marble and/or hardwood, I definitely suggest putting dots of it on your socks and slippers for extra grip. I personally have slipped on hardwood a lot as a kid, and it hurts).

Seconded; there was a solid marble seat in my hotel sauna/shower and I slid right off as I sat.

Real marble would probably absorb the blood, and it would stain. 😀

@@aimpat34 I'm sorry the smiley face kills me

@@aimpat34 Do you know this from experience? Just asking😁

We have an old classic hotel(Davenport hotel)in our city. It was built in the early 1900's. It has grand ballrooms, massive chandeliers, ornate hand carved railings on grand staircases, gorgeous old oil paintings, gorgeous leaded glass windows. Massive ceiling height. Gorgeous antique furniture in many of the guest rooms. Oh and marble everywhere. Floors, stairs, bathroom walls and floors, counters. There is an old history to the hotel. People have died in it and I believe someone died on one of the old back stairwells. I swear I have been down that stairwell and their is a stain on one of the landings in the floor. It has a putrid smell. My guess is during the buildings downtime when it was getting restored... A bum died there. And well... They may not have found him/her for a while. The stone is very porous and difficult to keep clean. You need to keep it sealed. So marble everything... Only belongs in a historic building or rich people's homes that can afford it and pay for its upkeep. For the rest of us. Use it as a beautiful accent... Open shelving. Never been a fan. It is a dust collector. Plastic furniture? Doesn't the world already have enough plastic in it? Do we need to fill our landfills with more of this? Because you know eventually it will be out of style and you will have to unload it on someone? Or off to the dump it goes... 😊

@@aimpat34 To have spent all that money and then having to go to the effort to tarp it off 🗡🩸

Europe ? Which part? That is very generic!

@@joenroute9646 Personally I'm from Belgium but my comment stands for Europe. Europe is roughly the size of the US so it would be comparable. Granted there are a lot more cultures and twice the population but Europe as a whole has culturally and stylistically progressed in much the same way, contrary to the US or Australia for example. You can certainly say this style would look good in [insert european country] but since Europe historically and culturally is comparable, from purely a style and design perspective, it is not generic as it is encompassing the countries I believe have the same style. -I mean if you just look at the history of any one country in Europe, you quickly realise they're all mixed together. Belgium for example has been French, spanish and dutch so every step of the way we inherited things from those countries.- Most houses have been built in the first half of the 20th century and have the same style whether in the Benelux, italy or France. Architectural design is very period-based. Baroque, for example, is not just found in France, it's everywhere in Europe. So really it's not about the country (countries are collective imaginations anyway- but that's another discussion) it's about the style of house and the mentality of the people. You can spot an american from a mile away, just like you can spot a european. You can't necessarily know where exactly they're from (just like you can't necessarily guess which state the american is from) but you know from their behaviour/style they are from Europe. It's a thing, I'm not making this up.

@@joenroute9646 you can find lime wash in the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Belgium just off the top of my head so yes it is found in many places in Europe. Mainly in older properties especially in rural areas.

like old cottage....Snow White and 7 Dwarf style. With large wooden beams on the ceiling.

@@bookmouse2719 My farmhouse in France has a lot of exposed stone, from entire walls to door and window surrounds. We chose to use a classic limewash paint, mixed on site, with color variations from room to room picking up the dominant tones in the stone, from gray-beiges to off white to a sunny pale ochre. Over a fairly smooth lime render, it's a soothing, unpretentious finish, very different from the variegated effect you get with the Venetian plaster finishes.

Woo! Congrats 🎉. Nothing wrong with loving your space, and nothing wrong with feeling super comfortable with how much you spend/spent 😁

Lol I am neither comfortable nor debt free

I'm with you, DT!! My home is eclectic, and comfy, and every detail is happymaking for me, No interest in "trends" -- who TH cares?!

Definitely.. my home is mostly vintage and thrifted and I love it. When people come over I always get compliments because it’s different

I feel like even of you're following trends, just follow the ones you REALLY REALLY like, not the ones that are trendy. That way, even if it goes out of style, the fact that you love it keeps it in style for you.

I remember thinking in the 70s that brown wall to wall carpet would be my choice forever.

I think in the end, everything is a trend. Neutrals go in and out, bright colors go in and out. The important thing is having a space that feels authentic that you love.

On the list of videos to make!

@@jerrywood4508 • My living room carpet was green shag pile...it looked like a lawn in need of a trim! My kitchen accessories were bright orange, but they did look okay with the white walls and worktops with wooden cabinets. The floor was beige...and boring! 😄

@@monicawarner4091 that sounds like my dream lol

Boucle looks too similar to popcorn ceilings for me to like it!

For some reason it also feels like your fingernails and hangnails would catch on it and rip off! 😂 Gives me microfiber/terrycloth vibes and it makes me shudder.

Especially the boucle slouchy, poofy sofas. In fashion, boucle looks great with sharp tailored, structured pieces. If you're going to do a boucle furniture, I say stick to sharp, tailored pieces.

Totally agree, he’s nailed it, it’s actually really aggravating to look at 😂🪒

I liked boucle on TV. But I hate it in real life. I finally saw it IRL and thought, why is this a thing?

Picking a neutral wall color is key. Nobody wants to repaint every 5 years.

Everyone always thinks their own personal preferred style is the most “practical”. To me, English Country looks cluttered and hard to keep clean.

@@huntercrosby8882I think the key is that everyone settles on the style that it is the most practical for their lifestyle and taste by the time they’re middle aged

I don't even *like* open shelving (aesthetically or because of the dust), but it's been a huge help for me, so I'm finding ways to incorporate it.

Maybe glass doors would help you keep the dust out and allow you to see what you need.

We have an open pantry and the rest of our shelves are closed, and that has been great for ADHD. It's the food that I need to know about anyway!

With open shelving, my object permanence problem clashes with my WHY DOES IT LOOK UNTIDY ALL THE TIME problem, so my own ADHD really doesn’t like open shelving lol. Just goes to show how different we all are in our preferences and how different things work for us in our lives!

This is exactly what I thought. If it’s behind a solid door, it might as well be entombed in sealed walls.

So Canadian 🇨🇦

I always figured those open shelf kitchens were for single people who eat out most of the time, but cook a fancy meal once a month. I make everything, including my mayo. I want doors. The best place for open shelves is a old fashion walk in panty. Designed to be practical, not useless and pretty. I saw a 10 best pantry design thing. All were stunning and all were useless wastes of space.

I like a mix of a few open shelves with mostly cabinets. I put either entirely decorative things on the shelves that I don’t mind getting a bit grimy in between cleanings, or very frequently used things that are washed and used so often that they never have a chance to get dusty and grimy. Nothing in between though.

Yes, yes, yes!

I have cats. They would be up there investigating and knocking stuff over in a NY minute.

@@dawnelder9046 exactly my thought. Open shelving only if I have a pantry room

Agree with most of what you said but I don't think just because people have the money that they should be so wasteful. Yes they can donate/sell off things they're done with, but if it's not trendy anymore and the pieces aren't in demand, they'll just go to landfill. The wealthy shouldn't have a free pass to destroy the earth we all share.

Couldn't agree with you more. I'd also advise people not to watch hours and hours of HGTV.

Yep. ALL that stuff lol. At the end of the day, i can’t care too much what anyone else thinks; I’M the one LIVING here! (tangent~ i could NEVER do open shelving in the kitchen. My *EX* husband had that tragic combo of exposed glassware & an aversion to cleaning.. When i moved him in, we threw out ALL his dishes: the parfait of dust-grease- dust-grease!? It was apparently permanent, much like the emotional scars lol! 🤢)

I bet she also has a pantry wall. My friend's pantry wall was amazing.

the plaster is gonna last for ever

That’s how I feel about all that MCM. Called it Modern as a kid. Take the ranch house as well.

Agreed! Russian oligarch comment is spot on. All over stone is definitely too much of a good thing.

The "Russian Oligarch Bathroom" is so perfect, it is how I will describe the all-marble bathroom trend from now until I'm an old lady too far removed from society that I should ever be commenting on design styles 🤣🤣🤣

A stenciling of acanthus leaves in gold paint 🤣

I'm a Russian and I am maximalist... Looking at those photos - more marble then the two walls or a floor and ONE wall looks sick even to me. One should never put marble on a ceiling too, it looks awful. The biggest problem is unlike real Russian luxury interiors of the past, which they don't pair marble with anything much else! It's just white arctic graphic madness that looks like Siberia in November (white snow, black tree trunks, grey clouds in the sky) that is known to drive people mad. I think marble needs different textures around, as well as spaces filled with solid colour. So if you want to feel like you're really the Russian Tzar - you don't just stick to everything marble, you add dark textured wood, solid coloured walls/tiles (e.g. light blue goes well with marble), old gold or brass looks good with marble. One of the best designs with marble walls around ever is a very big hall with hardwood floors, plain ceilings, large golden (not marble!) columns and mirrors. Marble box look is just sick.

@@annasolovyeva1013 agreed

I learned that lesson in middle school. I wanted bright yellow walls in my bedroom. My parents let me have it... but they warned me that whatever I chose, I was going to need to keep it for at least five years, because that's when we could afford the materials to redo it. (Grandpa was a painter/wallpaper hanger, so we did get to redo the walls more often than most people with our income did, but we still covered the cost of materials. He provided the labor as a gift.) I was tired of that yellow before the third year. But I didn't say a word about it -- I knew what was expected of me. Finally, after the fifth year, I got the walls painted plain white, and worked with bedding and furniture to make it look interesting and colorful. I was learning. I do, forty years later, use bright colors in my decorating. Right now, I'm sitting in a pale green bedroom with cream and turquoise accents. But I do think really hard about whether I'm going to want this look in five years now!

You can pretty easily polish the scratches, and you can spray paint them when you're over the neon. I mean i wouldn't buy them, but there's ways to keep them in circulation

Yep. And they have a ridiculous price tag - like the small L-shaped neon acrylic side table on wheels I saw at homegoods for $129!!!

We had a cool clear acrylic office chair that my son broke in short order...ugh!

@@SerenaBS yes, all furniture can be polished and painted. That's not the point though. The point is that not everyone WANTS high maintenance furniture or wants to DIY their old pieces or not everyone (over 150lbs) CAN use furniture with small weight limits. If that were the case, people wouldn't get rid of their old pieces the way they do.

@@darfish1832 I mean, that's not as expensive as other pieces I've seen, $150 is pretty "cheap" compared to other companies, for the same material. DWR has dining chair designs for $500+

@@WinstonSmithGPT Venetian plaster is so beautiful, and unaffordable for mere mortals lol

Wow. Weeks? very persevering. If it makes you feel better: my aunt just changed the sponge look on her living room about 8 years ago in her NYC apartment.

Thankfully in the 90's I only sponge painted one accent wall. I got sick of it within 6 months.

@@wingingitsemiretiredlife2981 I never liked sponge painting. Most people did a bad job and used color that didn't enhance the sponge effect. Good thing you only did one wall. One accent wall is not as bad as a whole room of it.

@@sheila8730 LOL yes it was repainted shortly there after. I did however use wall paper border in 2 rooms. That was another trend back in the day. Eventually after all of the phases I went to neutral walls opting for color elsewhere. It was much easier to swap curtains and pillows than to change walls. Ya live and ya learn.

Love this idea for a video!

Hate open shelves. Dust collectors and will be out if style soon.

I wouldn't get marble on the floor. It is terribly slippery and you don't want to fall on it.

Well, I believe just a good combo of marble in living areas, and wood on bedroom floors is stunning. I don’t live in a condo. My home hasn’t shifted in 22 years, and has marble floors!

Condos in general are really poorly made and have been for decades. Modern houses are also extremely badly made, especially in suburbs. We want to redo our bathroom and replace the tub with a shower. Old and planning to stay where we are. Iron shower bases have life time warranties and really last. But they are heavy. And thankfully when we looked, which you can do in a house, our house was extremely well made and will hold the weight. And the main support beam will go directly under the shower.

I agree that people don't always take the weight of certain renovations into account when they do them. Marble floors especially should be part of the design from day one if you want them. If there's any differential settling (part of the floor settles farther than another part) it Will Crack the marble slab. Foundations hold up your structure. Not all foundations can hold that kind of weight.

Another problem with wall to wall marble is the maintenance cost. My parents' bathroom (built like 20 years ago) is like this, and their built in bathtub has an internal leak now and the only way they can get it fixed is by destroying a whole block to reach into the problem area, and then replacing it, which will be a nightmare to colour match with the rest of the bathroom. And it's also been quoted in the thousands to fix. It's both expensive and not practical.

So true! The set deco on that show was pure genius. That apartment was 'young' and 'trendy' and 'exciting' and shallow and pointless and doomed to ridiculousness, like the marriage.

You nailed it- loved mad men so much specially bc of what you described!👍❤️👌

@@nineteenfortyeight6762 Really well put!

The meaning the design of clothes and homes had in that show! Absolutely genius! However, I’m 99% sure that Bumby Johnson’s apartment in Godfather of Harlem is that exact set! My partner and I couldn’t stopt noticing it!

Never decorate based on a TV show.

My dad judged me for wanting to keep some old furniture, but the old styles will come back eventually, and frankly, the quality of the old stuff is much nicer, with the exception of velvet on those King Louis style chairs getting worn, but that's easy enough to replace and where they were from my great grandparents, they've held up really well. Quite comfortable too, I might use one at my sewing machine, which is also not new (1975) but it came in its own desk that matches the wood in the chairs. I'd rather have things that are solid and not clashing with each other, than whatever the Instagram trends are because they'll just clash with the next thing. Like those neons. So many things clash with neons, so you either end up with an outdated room, or have to buy all new stuff if you can't paint it or change the fabric.

Just develop your own taste and don't start liking stuff just because it's modern. Sure, people need some changes in their surroundings then and when regardless of outside trends, but it comes off pretty fashion victim-y to hate something you liked before just because social media or magazines or whatever say it's outdated.

If you sacrifice fundamental good looks in service of trends, novelty, or fashion, (or if you're so overwhelmed by the novelty that you loose you esthetic judgment), then when it stops being trendy, you'll have crap that is neither fashionable nor attractive. If you put something together that actually looks good, it will still look good even when it's "dated". [edit: Open storage in kitchens is often as much about usability as it is about looks. Some people might be able to manage both, but I'm not one of them.

I literally just do what I like. The only thing my house has that I can identify as trendy is gray floors, I didn't choose the floors thank god the bathroom is small and the kitchen floors are really light gray.

Isn't open shelving for decor though? A vase of flowers, some aestheticly beautiful books, pottery, etc etc. you'd not want to display your pots and pans, your mail, all the little trinkets and whatnot you have all over your house.

@@zvezdoblyat That doesn't solve dust, and that sort of "minimalism" can look very unnatural in some spaces

@@crazydragy4233 yeah well you're gonna have to dust whether it's open or not lol. I'm just saying the whole open shelf aspect looks like it's for decor and display but not necessarily putting your pots and pans on

I hate open shelving

I never understood open shelving in place of kitchen cabinets. Unless you really enjoy spending countless hours dusting, it makes no sense unless you really are strapped for cash. Even them, I'd put new doors on the old cabinets, or something like that, before going open shelving. Doubly so if you have pets. I don't want to wash the dishes to get dog fur and dust off before every single meal.

As a mom I'm offended. 😂 (As soon as I pick up my 15 year old's slang he stops using it. I'm constantly wishing I have a universal translator from Star Trek.😩)

@@jennimoyer4857 agreed. Totally agreed. I am the m9m in that stork as well.I don't even need to use it. I just want to have a clue what my kud is saying, lol

Yes! It's just like Andrea's cerulean "Casual Corner" sweater referenced in the movie The Devil Wears Prada.

@@jennimoyer4857 LOL. Yes, I soon as I feel comfortable saying slang that I wasn't sure about when I first heard it, I know that I shouldn't say it. Its time has passed. E.g. about a year ago I encountered the word "cheugy--" I think that word lived for about a week. But I think it was discarded for being so negative and judgy.

@@mattrihs1332 It ended up in a sad bargain bin, lol.

Yes! I like boho and industrial pieces. I'm not into farmhouse.

Yes, in my old house I wanted a bit of an industrial/modern look and I often had to look for ‘modern farmhouse’ to find the right things despite farmhouse not being my style at all!

I think that happened with mid mod too a little.

Yes! Especially the industrial look often overlaps with farmhouse now. I've noticed Scandinavian and mid century can overlap a bit with the no handles drawers, and sleek lines , low profile in all wood pieces. As well as MCM and transitional. It's good to know what makes a style, because warehouse furniture can often miss the mark on labels.

Don’t forgo buying something you love for fear it falls under a silly interior design label. That is what is a shame for interior ‘fashion’. If you love a piece you buy it. Eventually your space is cohesive and reflective of things you love. It doesn’t need to fit in a label.

Why would you care, if visitors in your home remember you because of some trend? That sounds like an insane and shallow reason to decorate your place in a particular way. Why care what anybody thinks of your home? Decorate according to your taste and you’ll be happy.

@@haggisa who hurt you? genuinely curious. I wish you all the best. Have a nice week ahead. :)

@@spailpin710 Gonna go on a limb and assume that question is rhetorical, since no-one ever asks “Who hurt you?” in hopes of actually getting an answer. My first reply wasn’t written in anger, or even frustration, even though I think it came off that way to you. I’m just completely flabbergasted, when people base pretty important life decisions (like decorating their sanctum, the place they want to feel the most comfortable in) on opinions of others. I guess I just don’t get it. 🤷🏽‍♀️

@haggisa right. And in order to prove how much you don't care about others' opinion, you made sure to voice how much you "don't get" what I do with my own life and my own freedom in hopes that I would validate you. Fascinating.

@@spailpin710 Lol, I don’t care about how other people feel about my interior design decisions. Expressing my opinion on what is and isn’t important when considering how to decorate your home…is kind of why people comment on interior design videos on KZfaq. According to you I should cease caring about others’ views on everything in life just because I think your living space should be tailored to your personal taste and not other people’s view on trends? Weird. 😊

I couldn't place what it looked like until you said this. Now, I might be odd in that I don't automatically hate a popcorn ceiling in the context of a house from that era, but I don't want to sit on it.

Some things are not awful, just awfully wrongly used, as you pointed out with the lime wash - beautiful in the Mediterranean environment and pretty tacky everywhere else.

Yes to all you've said.

Omg just spent time house hunting and all the homes in the Pacific Northwest from like 2003-2007 are all that fake Tuscan aesthetic and it’s so so so dated that an 80s or 90s house was more appealing! We started calling them Olive Garden houses.

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@@trickycoolj Jumping on trends is generally - stupidity. People should go after the specifics of each house and use them as an advantage of uniqueness. Use every inch of the house wisely. Do not clutter the house with unnecessary things. Keep it clean and airy. Decorate with meaningful elements, not store-bought items to fill the shelves. Every family has stories, and some are worth showing. Basically, every style can be potentially beautiful if it is not (over)used dogmatically. In short - a clean, airy, tidy, and organized space almost always has the potential to be beautiful, no matter the label of its style. P.S. The American Tuscan houses you probably have in mind (I'm not even talking about why bring Tuscany to say Montana or Texas(...?) are a textbook example of the miserable design. The style itself is innocent; only it doesn't belong in America. And if someone likes it that much, moderate use of some elements should be enough. However, they are mostly cluttered with furniture, crowded with meaningless decor, dark, messy, illogical, etc. ... Kitchy and awkward.

Yup. And, when it comes to kitchen (where the trend is most predominant) - we are not talking feathery, dry, fluffy dust that you can get rid off in seconds. Nope. We are talking sticky, heavy, greasy working kitchen dust that needs to be properly washed or even scrubbed. No, thanks. It's for people who either don't mind dirt, don't use kitchen, or don't do cleaning themselves.

Very good point. I was forced to have open shelving in the place I just moved out of due to it being a rental and having no upper cabinets, but the dust was insane! I love my cabinets in my new place and will never take them for granted again! lol

And they look.cluttered always. I want cabinets not shelves in my kitchen. Open shelves only make sense in very small odd spaces where a cabinet is not practical. And then it has to.be curated. Neon is hideous furniture or clothes. Looks cheap, tacky, and juvenile. I actually love marble but it js very expensive and is not always feasible.

A kitchen with all open shelving is highly impractical. The dust in a kitchen that is used also gets greasy. If you have pets add pet fur all over. Beautiful kitchen cabinets with either some glass doors or a few open shelves for displaying some lovely items you use often will give the airy look and keep most of your kitchen items CLEAN inside cabinets. LOVE opening a cabinet or drawer and seeing well organized clean items.

Totally agree! And not to mention if you really cook in the kitchen... You are forced to keep those really organized and clean to make them look good. Not at all ptactical

I love a wall to wall marble bathroom. I've always considered it timeless, classic style rather than trendy so I'm really surprised by your and Nick's take.

@@HassanZargari For lot of people it can seam to much at one place. I like marble but when it's wall to wall + floors it gives cold and sterile vibe. It's ok for hotels but at home I want to feel cozy and comfortable.

Yeah, after almost slipping and falling in an all marble bathroom, I will take a tile floor any time.

I have a similar feeling about wall to floor marble. To me it seems parochial because I always saw it in catholic school bathrooms and lockerrooms growing up.

OMG. That's very, very sad. I have also wondered about installing marble in an upstairs place that wasn't originally engineered for marble. It's the first thing that comes to mind, "What if it breaks the floor or God forbid fails so badly that it injures someone in the bottom floor?" That being said, I absolutely love 1920's houses - they were all designed for living - solid wood shelves, great staircases, large entertaining and dining rooms. I am so sad to see what people are told are "great houses" when their house shelves are built of fiberboard that warps when steam from cooking infiltrates the kitchen, or summer humidity. I feel it's just a real shame when people rip out the beautiful wood to install cheap crap that over all damages the whole personality of the house.

I'm moving out for the first time to a place built in the 70s with a lot of my family's old furniture. My dad's a fan of modern stuff, and my mom's always liked whatever was comfy regardless of style, so I'm blending both aspects and updating a few things, but keeping a lot of the old stuff. I love the old couch there with the rounded back that slopes into arm rests, and the matching chairs, while not as comfy, make the fabric not stand out as much. I'm trying to get a sense of my own style while using the furniture that's there (from all sorts of time periods) and mixing it with my newer things. I might end up making new curtains and cushions, but those are relatively cheap and easy to do. I think the fabric I got for a bay window cushion was only $25. Foam is more expensive, but lasts a while and can easily be covered with new fabric. Small things like that I don't mind trends with, but whole pieces of furniture that cost hundreds or thousands, that's not worth it.

@@joylox I completely agree. Most of my furniture was hand-me-down and I'm only replacing it as it breaks. I'm refinishing the dining table to match my style more, but, as you said, curtains and other decor can really make new and old look cohesive.

Don't keep crappy old shabby furniture. Your place will look like old people live there.

Yep. Get what you love.

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Ah finally someone SAID IT.

Me too!

I will never be able to get past the 80’s brass/gold. Ever. I spent a fortune getting it all out of one the houses I owned and here it comes back to life 😝

It’s why I stick to classic chrome in my 1930s house! The 80s-90s brass was so cheaply made too.

@@Dani-blue But the brass then and the brass we're seeing now are completely different. The pale shiny gold brass of the 80's needs to stay dead. But deep, warm, aged brass? Always timeless.

I’m so glad!

Don't paint your walls in bright colors. Stick to neutral walls. Put the color into rugs, cushions, drapes, art.

Yeah I feel the same way about the open shelving. I wouldn’t even consider this a design trend just one of the ways storage exists. For some of us it’s just a much more practical option. I also live in a house that has an especially small kitchen and I have every intention of taking out one of the sections of cabinets in place of shelving. Cabinetry can be smothering in a smaller space like mine. Anywho, happy cheffing friend, from one person who loves to cook to another!

Yup, same here. I like to cook regularly; and when I remodel my kitchen I will choose the practicality of open shelving over 'stylish' cabinets and drawers that actually reduce storage space and hinder working efficiently. For those worried about dust and cleaning, a powerful range hood that expels to the outdoors is the key. This is how commercial kitchens are designed and don't have such problems. To me a kitchen is a work area, just like how home mechanics feel about their garage. I can save the interior design for the dining room and elsewhere!

@@GaryBonaducci I don't think commercial kitchen practises are very applicable to most homes...

How can it be timeless when it's only in the last year and a half that we've seen almost every mid to low range furniture brand come out with a bouclé version or their furniture pieces? Even if you think it's timeless from an artistic perspective (which it can be), commercially, it's a fad..

@@cdr3986 Timeless and classic fabric for clothing, yes. It is simply impractical for funishings that get regular use.

@@cdr3986 Whatever hems your skirt. I'm betting that you don't have pets in your home, at least not in your bedroom.

@@cdr3986 Declawed or extremely well trained?

My Grandmother had a green boucle couch in the 1950s Its not a new thing .

I’m renovating my kitchen and steered clear from gold hardware because I remember that shiny, brass builder grade hardware like it was yesterday!

The 80's-90's brass was very shiny and is not the same as the matte-finished brass products currently in use. Brass is timeless and has been around in homes since colonial times.

@@wisteria808 I think Nick has talked about the shiny faux brass finish vs. real brass before.

@@wisteria808 Agreed!

@@JamieM470 Agreed!

Grant this request!

OMG PLEASE

Oh yes! This is what we need now! :)

YES!

Yes so true 👏🏻

Well, as with fashion, things that look, feel and fit well are almost always more expensive. Furniture and decor is certainly the same. It’s built to last, and it’s built with more detail and thought than cheap, mass produced low end items

Building Integrity is awesome!

What’s faux finish? Can anyone describe an example? I’ve resisted tearing my cabinets down and simply painted them instead. My cookware simple isn’t pretty, lol.

I think I have those chairs… but you know what, I very dearly love them lol

@@TheKaurK I still love them as well!! We don’t always agree on the home decor items so I need to pick my battles but mostly I win! Lol!

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Being surrounded by slick, reflective, heavy surfaces would make me collapse and curl up into fetal position, sobbing.

The marble floors and walls in the bathrooms that he shows, he's right, they're ugly. Overdone and almost - well, I see faux marble in the box-stores and it's way overdone. My ultimate wish is to have a mosaic marble floor with some Pompeii-like decorations (like fish, octopi, Kraken). I realize a lot of people might not like that, but I have lived in cheap houses my whole life, some of them had carpet in the bathrooms when we moved in, and crappy everything from sinks to walls. So sick of it. I want something that would be mildew resistant, something that says quality. So sick of how ALL new houses have cheap fiberboard cupboards and shelves. I went to Chicago and got shown around my friend's cozy house. Her upstairs bathroom had this beautiful tile floor, it hearkened to the 1920's in a way, maybe had a European look. She is the most conservative person I know, but that bathroom was so gorgeous. I do think it's weird how the multi-million dollar houses on the market have marble and granite kitchens, and then the cupboards of said houses have fiberboard instead of real wood. It really does lend to the "McMansion" nickname people give them.

Marble would also be so cold

Serena, I agree with you 100%. And it’s not like you can just dust the items on the open shelves & the shelf itself, you have to use a scrub sponge & degreaser to get that tar-like goo off from the grease & dust & possibly pet hair mixing together. Yuck. That’s what happens to basket lights in the kitchen & rough stone backsplashes too. I also would rather spend time with my family or even do gardening work. Everything in cabinets, I say, lol.

Nick's metal cage light fixture in the back 👁️👄👁️

@@telkinia Oh lordy be! I didn't notice it. Oh oh. lol

@@telkinia Literally what I was just thinking. But also, Edison bulbs are beautiful to look at. And my cage light fixtures cast interesting shadows and relief into the room. It changes the mood entirely from having a bare bulb.

My trapezoid “cage” fixture is glassed in, but I love the simple look of the Edison bulb in it, and how I can see through the clear glass out the window behind it.

@@K3r0411 I find nothing attractive about seeing a bare lightbulb. It is your home of course and yours to decorate.

Yes. It sounds like my former husband. Perfect way to describe him.

Agreed. Personally, I love a fully tiled or marble bathroom. After living overseas for years, I got used to "wet bathrooms" that had tiled walls/floors and open showers. You don't have to worry about accidentally splashing anything and fairly easy to clean, just spray and then squeegee.

Guilty! I did it too. I blame it on watching too many episodes of Trading Spaces

I like real vintage neon signs in a family room, garage "cave", or built-in bar, but not in the rest of the house. Some really old neon can be repaired or at least made stable enough that it's a little slice of history in your home, but let's face it, putting "EAT" up in your dining room, in hot-pink neon script, is not a look that will be timeless. Right? Anyway, the reproduction vintage signs can be thousands of dollars -- the real ones can be even more expensive. That's a big investment in something that is more nostalgic then truly beautiful. I think I'd invest in real art instead.

I was seriously looking for the neon signs that said "Gather" and "Live Laugh Love."

Acrylic neon furniture & neon word signs look to me like something in a teenager's room. I think the word Nick used was "juvenile". He was so right. I agree with everything you said. Jean Vignes commented real vintage neon signs are ok in a cave room or bar area, & I could understand that. I wouldn't do it myself, but at least it would make sense....unlike the neon word signs in kitchens & living rooms. I've even seen them in bedrooms.

@@JamieM470 Yep, that neon will go the way of black lights-back in the day.

The Togo is timeless 😌

Real design is never outdated:) I think in the US you buy something for maybe 5 years. In Europe we are told that real design will stay for generations in your family.

Did the same with my kitchen.

I don't care for open shelving in a kitchen because it will undoubtedly become greasy and that will hold dust if it's not cleaned almost daily. I often see designers put it next to the stove which is the worst possible place for it. Very few people keep it neat enough to look attractive. If you use windows rather than cabinets for your uppers, it looks great but those who like open shelving often aren't the people cleaning it!

Trust me, anything in a house will look outdated, give it 20 years. To avoid it, go to very old decors (19th century, some 20th century, colonial, English or countryside, and so on and so forth ), or ignore trends by creating your style.

I'd love to see pictures of that bathroom. Is it possible to post pictures in the comments 🤔

@@Tirana1111 I made a short slideshow - kzfaq.infoqszE2mYVt00 :)

I agree with u I think the subtle and other items like the white and teak soften it further so will not date. Wish we could see sounds amazing!

@ellenw391 - thanks for saying what I was thinking!

Exactly. Do what you like.

Same. I've seen some interesting decor choices by my neighbours that really, really don't fit in with the age of the house. Antique fireplaces and aged wood paneling look lovely, but don't fit in with your mid 2010s suburban semi.

One can create whatever one wants in one’s home. Even a year 2000 home remodeled with stone columns and marble floors will look very European with Venetian plastered walls lol 😂