I moved into a rental with a carpeted bathroom. As a single woman, I didn't know the gravity of the error until a man stayed at my house for a couple of weeks. Had to throw away the rug. Oof.
For me, a lot of these trends that are hated, are not hated because they are necessarily bad, but because they are so done to death. It's like I tell my husband about my first college apartment... I had a favorite print framed and hanging over the fireplace... it was Monet's Waterlilies.... need I say more? I saw that EXACT same art in about 90% of girls aparrtments/dorms around campus. Trends can just end up looking like you have no creativity or individuality.
*#1 Interior design trend to avoid for all of time...* Decorating TO PLEASE OTHERS and NOT yourself! *STOP trying to PLEASE FACELESS OTHERS in every aspect of your life, people.* Chasing trends is simply a MARKETING ploy to get your money! *STOP IT!*
Maybe that's the difference between people who like and dislike open concept. I'm not a "please talk to me while I'm cooking" sort of person. I'm a "don't bother me while I'm cooking" sort of person.
@@barbaraeaton9266 Oh I felt that. Once I was making a birthday cake for my dad. And when the layers were about halfway through baking, I noticed the measuring cup of oil sitting on the counter. Oil that was supposed to be in the cake. 😮💨 I try to stay one step ahead of my ADHD, so I left myself plenty of time to redo it.
The open concept is the only way to go if you live in a very tiny space like I did for many years. You do not want walls, except for the bathroom and closets, in a Manhattan apartment. However, I think open concept in a big home would look more like a furniture showroom than a home. You don’t want to get too carried away with it in a big home. And I DESPISE low furniture. Not only does it look ridiculous but it is impractical and uncomfortable. I am 67 years old and I want furniture that is tall enough to easily get in and out if. I don’t need low chairs like I am in kindergarten. I am a big girl now
Decorate to make you and your family happy and comfortable. When you list your home to sell, that may be the time to stage it in the current fashion trend. Otherwise, your happiness and mental health and comfort is more important than what your neighbor thinks of your decoration.
About twenty years ago, I actually stopped on a deserted road to pick pampas grass and brought it home to the country house we used to have. You have to spray it with hair spray so it doesn't shed. Who knew it would be so popular?
After living in our home for 23 years we are finally updating our kitchen next month. The first contractor we had to give us a bid suggested an open concept... I replaced him immediately!!!! No way do I want an open concept kitchen, I cook far too much for all of that. It would irk my nerves if I'm in the kitchen and I can visibly see my husband doing nothing!!... while I'm doing all the work in the kitchen. The fact that I can be in my kitchen and have him in the living room and or family room relaxing and waiting until I serve the food... I love that for me and him!!
kiva, you crack me up! the thing about farmhouse (which I don’t have) is that it can absorb a lot of different styles of furniture. for young people just starting out with hand-me-downs or crafted or thrifted items, “farmhouse” can pull a lot of things together into a sort of gentle traditional look - something that feels more intentional. it’s comfortable and flexible. after all this time, some people must love it - somebody’s buying all those “eat” signs and huge spoons!
You can do the same with cottage style, but the effect is much more harmonious and colourful. Even shabby chic looks better than farmhouse with those horrible farm doors.
Omg this would end so many arguments!! Besides, we just went through 4 years of swirling disease so why do you want swirling poo water landing on your toothbrush!???
I used to have tons of live plants. Now, I don’t want the hassle! I want to be able to go away and not come back to a bunch of sad plants! I love my fake olive tree!
I LOATHE free-standing tubs, word art, farmhouse (it’s just overdone), vessel sinks, maximalist decor, and tapestry on walls. But that’s just me….I’m a true believer in You Do You. Loved this video!
Thank you Kiva, top hate right now, LOW furniture, low sofas, couches, anything!! What are we, vertically challenged?? Does anyone else think it looks good or is at all comfortable in any universe to sit there with your knees under your chin?? Is there a stylish hoist to haul grandma up cause she can't sit to stand from the stupid low sofa??? 😭😮😢
I agree about the chopped pillows. I don’t like that at all. But I LOVE open concept. I like being able to talk with family and/or friends while I am cooking.
Well, I just have to add that low furniture is great for us shorties. I hate it when my feet can't reach the ground. So if you come to my house and you ain't short, you'll just have to bend those knees. LOL!!!😝
Yep, I hate open concept after living in them almost my whole adult life. Because I don't want people in my kitchen while I cook - they distract me and get in the way and I have to entertain them while Im busy. Go out to the living room that I've made so nice for you! I'll be there in a minute! I don't want the dirty dishes visible. AND if I'm working, it's noisy for the person trying to relax 15 feet away.
saaaammme! my kitchen is big enough for ME. its MY kitchen! Im the hostess and all my secrets and lil messes are there. yes you can grab something from the fridge or the pantry when im NOT cooking or preparing... but when i am.. relax and let me take care of you
This is not on the list and is an outside item usually, and I’ll get attacked for this 😂😂 but if I see one more vertical “HOME” sign, I’m going lose my mind. Why do I hate these things so much? 🤷♀️🤣🤣
As a florist it is a great design tool. Thing is they forget that you are supposed to hide your mechanics when designing.. SO basically it lazy 1/2 done designing
The bathroom carpet thing was big in the 70's. You could buy carpet in a bag like 4 x 6 or 5 x 8, it had kind of a rubber back. You could cut it to size and also take it to the laundry to wash it. Oh lol I so remember this, oh oh it came in shag mostly!
To Each his own, darlin', I am an Interior Designer, and my kitchen floor is silver, from the 80's, the 1 1/2 sq. tiles in my bathroom, are gray....my interior is surrounded by brick and granite walls, my entry walls are Sherwin-Williams "Grayish" Bathroom is RL "Looking Glass Silver", even the ceiling....bedroom is RL "Kerry Coast Sunrise", North facing.....What you got, honey bunch? ....a clue??
When I was growing up, the one time my stepdad let us sleep in on a Saturday was because he got up early, picked up some BRIGHT BLUE paint on sale, found a rug, and then redid the bathroom on his own. Like, painted over the PAPERED WALLS and ALL the trim and wainscoting in said bright blue. And then he put down this very thin, waiting room-style rug to "protect" the linoleum floors (going around the toilet, under the clawfoot tub, and into every corner)... We also had a dark red walls in the dining room and an offbrand Tuscan kitchen because it was the early 2000's, and I haven't recovered.
I come from a family of gardeners. I did not receive that skill set, so I have fake plants and trees all over the house! There's a difference between low and high end fakes!! I love the rustic vessel pots as well!!
Low profile furniture. All of my friends are in their 70’s. When we go to people’s homes with couches practically sitting on the floor none us can get up. It’s a conspiracy to keep us all confined to our seats so we don’t wander around and get lost 😵💫.
Hahaha! I never really liked it because it always felt dusty. I don't even like it in the landscape. However, I certainly understand that other people just loooove it. Variety is the spice of life!
Me rolling my eyes... with my open concept house, my farmhouse kitchen curtains and my laundry room sign... 😂 good thing I threw away my pampas grass and never replaced it!!!
When you said open concept is not good for “having guests” I heard “having gas” and I thought very true!! Then I heard the context and realized it’s not “gas”
I was given a cactus plant because I only do outdoor plants. Indoors, plants have no chance with me. I had the cactus for years before it occurred to me to water the poor thing. I was so appreciative of my thoughtful friend and this green item that didn’t die. And then, she told me that it was meant as a joke! It was fake….😮😊
I agree about farmhouse-I love it, but I think it needs to fit the house style, too. Modern looks great in a modern house, farm style looks great in an older house!
I actually agree with every one of them except the Modern Natural but then I’ve liked Modern/Contemporary design along with natural pieces like wood, high end baskets, large rocks, glass etc, before they were even a thing. I liked that look as a child in the 60’s and it didn’t exist but I loved certain things I came across and my mother would ask me why I’d like such a thing? I was too young to know how to articulate what I liked about it. So all these years later, and now being a widow, I’m finally able to curate my home with Modern Natural things, plus I’m an artist so I can make things.
I get that open concept is popular. But I cook. A lot, and large quantities. I don’t want my whole place smelling like cooking. I also don’t want everyone seeing the chaos that happens during a marathon cooking session from everywhere in the house. It makes the whole place look messy. I also need to be able to concentrate, so I don’t want to deal with everything going on in a main room. It invites commentary from the peanut gallery. The design also achieves the openness usually by sacrificing kitchen storage, and I’ve got a ton of counter top appliances. They can’t just live on the counter. But because I have to cook in the living room, there’s nowhere to put them. But now everyone can chat at me endlessly and drift and get under my feet! I’m in the middle of the action whether I want to be or not. Clearly an idea dreamt up by an extrovert. I’m still looking for a cool old house with a nice kitchen that isn’t in the living room. Unfortunately they all seem to get bought up and “updated,” (read: ruined) so that’s becoming less and less of an option. My frikkin kingdom for a kitchen with a door, or at the very least a decent amount of storage.
I was recently looking for a condo to buy in a high rise building in the city and all I could find were open concept lofts and I realized that fewer walls meant fewer electrical outlets…
I don't love to cook, so my preference for not-open concept is not the same as yours. I thought I would love having an open kitchen/great room after a secluded kitchen, but I don't. I think what I'm looking for is what I grew up in which was an eat-in kitchen... which sounds like what you want as well. No one eats in our too-small "Cafe" or at our counter... they're just too small.
I do not like open concepts either. They are beautiful but not practical for me. We bought a 1962 closed concept ranch on a basement in 2021 and I love it. I needed to add cabinets, and I would not have been able to do that if the wall was gone. When I cook or clean I like my music and peace. Every now and then my hunny may sit at the island and talk with me.
I chop pillows too--by lying on the couch with a pillow under my neck! So I think a chopped pillow just looks like someone was taking a nap on the sofa
My kitchen is semi-open in which I love. It's not totally cut off but provides just enough privacy from the open space to feel like you can have a private conversation in the kitchen.
"Open concept" can make a door-cluttered older home (pre 1950, for instance) suddenly look roomy and bright. Okay, I can embrace that. What worries me is - what’s holding up the house now? I sold my old home, the flipper took it open concept by removing the ground floor central load bearing wall, and when they put it on the market again, I visited. I saw no evidence of new beams or anything. Looked great, if no one had ever taught you about load bearing walls. Scary.
Hey Kiva, here’s a fun one for those of us that love open concept. My great grandmother‘s kitchen was actually in a separate building from the rest of the house. From what I can find out, this was done to keep the heat down in the rest of the house, and if there was a fire, they didn’t lose the entire house. Now imagine having to pack the entire meal across the yard to the table! And I don’t even want to think about what kind of planning would have to go into a midnight snack lol Absolutely loved this video! You are a treat so much fun and energy. Hello from KY!
About cutting branches or flowers from the road side….they are Habitate for critters. Worked with a party planner who thought she could cut wild flowers from the road side only to have her van and the venue over run with gnats and other pests.
Fun video, Kiva! Two thoughts: I first learned the pillow chop from my mother-in-law. This was in 2000. (I know the date for sure because we'd just moved in there.) So my problem is that it was a cute look **25 years ago** and then never seemed to go away. Yeah... a bit dated. About the gray floors: Again, my mother-in-law (can you tell which side of the family fashion & design are coming from?) had a beautiful city apartment done in grays -- with bright color accents, like you suggested! in her case, tiny pops of yellow, bright turquoise, and hot pink -- and recommended gray as a relaxing color to live with. I tried it, but only once, and here's why: Gray doesn't go well with natural wood. And I love wood furniture. So I've gone to warm colors for walls & floors which complement all the natural wood tones. Thanks again for the fun video, Kiva! xox
Hating any design style in its entirety is crazy. You don’t have to do everything in one style. You don’t have to have ship lap or signs or a clock painted on the wall to embrace farmhouse in some way. I’m eclectic. My style, for the most part is “vintage salon”. But I do embrace certain rustic elements. I especially like to do a vintage, rustic Christmas tree sometimes, with tin, plush, and wooden ornaments. I love plaid ribbons and woodland creatures made of wool, pine cones, and coir. I also like the black floor lamp in your farmhouse example photo @2:41.
To me, a chopped pillow looks more informal. If not, let it stand up like a little soldier! I also use faux trees and plants, I love greens in the house, not brown dead ones like I’d have! I agree, if you love it, do it!! It’s yours for heaven sake! I’ve always been a rebel! I live in a neighborhood where everyone decorates traditional, I like modern rustic. I do me
Omgosh, Kiva! Your energy and humor has me just smiling through the whole video! 😂😂 I agree with almost everything you said. I don’t mind fake plants and flowers because I kill most plants and I like the Farmhouse look no matter where you live. If one is consistent throughout the home, I think it looks cozy 😊. I love your videos!! My tiny home is open concept and I love it 😊
In the 70s when dried florals and weeds were in my mom had my dad rent a small Uhaul and drove out to the desert and collected big bunches to make huge arrangements 😂😂
Happy Friday, Kiva ! Adore your channel, Hon ! First time comment from me: I don't like to say hate, but my most fervent "Intense Dislike" is for most of the word signs, also tired of "Farmhouse" as it has been presented. I live in the country, there are farms with Actual Cows right near my place & nobody's house looks like the "designer style" farmhouse & barn doors are where they are meant to be: on the barn! Keep up the great content. 😊
I agree about the Pampas grass! Back in the 1970’s or 1980’s I used Pampas grass as decor. I grew Pampas grass it was a preexisting plant in the garden of my former house. I do love a chopped pillow! No to fake flowers, plants, fruits! No to slatted walls! No to low furniture! I’m 68 years old with a bad back!
Okay I will happily hate on everything on this list (especially the bathroom carpets 😷) except I will never hate on the chopped pillows because how else am I going to punch out my frustration while keeping the pillows from looking flat?
This video had me laughing from the olive tree!!! My daughter has a sign in her bathroom that says "you see me rollin" with a drawing of toilet paper. Makes me laugh every time! I also sing that song for hours after, so there's that... Anyway, love this video! Thank you!
I have a couple of faux plants, first because I don’t have a green thumb, and secondly, because I have cats. They’d use the pot as a litter box and many plants are toxic. I keep them clean and dust free. Tried not having any faux plants, but my home looked very bare.
Kiva, you are too funny! The design style I can't stand and I find, well, rather aggressive, is Maximalism! While I have never taken a hit of acid, I feel like this is what a "trip" must feel like! lol Love your channel! :)
I like it as a visual to see in a magazine, but I feel tired just imagining all the dusting and wiping of objects and surfaces. And to live in that intense color and knick knacks full time would be overstimulating for my brain.
A good Oiive tree in a pot can be beautiful and I love them. I love also LOVE French Country. But absolutely no signs or WORDS on walls or objects and no Chickens or Cows in the house!!
Girl! The most shocking part of this episode was finding out you’re an introvert! I’m always so impressed with the amount of words you can say in one second. You’re amazing, dahling! I love your vids
Open concept - if you actually cook, the kitchen is pretty much in a constant state of disarray to varying degree. Stuff to put away, veggies to wash, dishes from the snack made this afternoon. Cooking, dishwashing, putting dishes away is noisy and others cannot hear their show or music or conversation. I also don’t want to listen to loud dumb tv show someone is watching. Everyone says they want to join their guests oh phooey like how much time in your home is actually spent entertaining? Really - very little as a percentage. No to having the kitchen in separate quarters out back 😂 but no way to everything in one room! And it has NOTHING to do with not knowing how to decorate 😒
I would add a smell from food that spreads through entire open space regardless of quality of range hood. Kitchen is a working place and I personally don’t want to relax next to the place of work. AMD isn’t it bad manners not to be ready to welcome your guests and to cook at their presence instead?
I lived in the UK for years and they’re big offenders for carpets in bathrooms. So many flats I lived in had them and I never felt truly clean. Things are changing, likely in part to modern/contemporary design standards have changed, and also because the mold is as bad as you think it would be.
Scream carpets in the bathroom. Had one in a house loved it when I stepped out of the shower one toilet overflow episode later and I tiled that floor faster than all get out😅😅😅😅
As an spaniard I can represent my whole nation by saying that carpets suck not only in the bathroom but in the whole house. Carpets will always be gross. We prefer rugs
We have carpets in the bedrooms - people who totally get rid of carpets either live in hot areas of can afford to pay for huge heating bills. No cold tootsies for me early in the morning, thanks 😃
@@suekennedy883 in cold areas in Spain we use wood floors and rugs, not carpets. Tiling is also very common in the south. But in fact, i was shocked when i first saw carpets in bathrooms in UK and I remember making laugh of this with my friends - i was a stupid teenager lmao.
@@teresagrowls6836 We took our bedroom carpet out and put a wood floor and rugs down. It looked lovely. After one Winter we put the carpet back 😁 The carpet and underlay are also better sound insulators when people are in the room downstairs and we're in bed trying to sleep!
There are a lot of people saying thins that they dont like, But everyone should understand that you have to decorate for YOUR liking and YOUR personality. There are A lot things I dont like in other peoples homes but that's their home, and I don't have to live in it. Do YOU, to please you not for others to like it ! I could care less. 😉
Kiva I just love your energy! I also truly enjoy your content and the way you always seem to acknowledge that not every trend is for everyone ❤ Also, carpet in the bathroom used to be very common here in the UK, even when I was a child. I think it's that time period between getting indoor plumbing and getting central heating!!
My lived experience of the GREY FLOORS! In my 20s, I saw it as cold and dreary, like you said. I differ in the view of blue hues in nature. Absolutely doesn't make me sad. It's a splash of colour to celebrate 🎉 !! The variety of places the soothing slate blue shows up in nature is astounding- the Merle in a dogs coat or eyes, the divine blue points of the Burmese and other cats 🐈 😻 🐈⬛️ 😺 🐱 and ratties 🐀 🐁 🐭... in the wood of trees- is soothing and fills me with appreciation for the array of colours nature provides. For some years now of my 30s, grey has spoken to solidity, reliability, sturdiness, security AND!!"snuggly warmth with the softest throw blankets, reminding me of being held and provided for, by Baloo the lovable bear 🐻 🐻❄ ♥️ in Jungle Book Grey also communicates sophistication to me, in office/places of productivity, which give WHITE and (I choose) one single other contrast colour (think deep jungle green/lemon yellow/merlot red/pastel or even bright! pink/any blue, but I adore navy blue) the opportunity to absolutely own the stage and show off 🎉
Hi kiva, well, i DON'T really care what ppl say, i love what i got, and that is what matters 🤪😁😁😁. Love your video, it entertained me a lot. ahahahahaha. Ty 🥰🥰🥰
Our very nice house had carpet in the primary bath when we moved in 20 years ago. We were so perplexed and grossed out. Couldn’t wait to replace it with tile.
Carpet in the bathrooms… UGH! My childhood home - built in the 70s - was the LITERAL DEFINITION of “wall-to-wall carpet”. Seriously. Some of what we now would consider“feature walls” were floor-to-ceiling yellow shag carpet, every bathroom floor included beige carpeting, and l the KITCHEN had a black & white patterned carpet (complete with thick, wooden,overlapping shingles on the walls… so I’d get slivers grazing the wall while scrubbing spilled spaghetti out of the kitchen carpet)! Whoever chose the carpets & walls of that 70s monstrosity was clearly a man who believed his aim was impeccable while going #1. That, and he didn’t understand the concept of dirt, germs and basics of cleanliness in general 🤦🏼♀️
Why does design need to represent where you live ? ? ? Your design is yours no matter , ppl. will always have 2cents to put in on someone else's design , do what you enjoy , forget others people's option. I decorate in vintage , who likes it doesn't matter to me, most do like My decorating style. Do what makes you happy if you live in the city and like the farm house style go for it.
Live in the style you love! If you want a purple room and it makes you happy, live in a purple room! For me: I have pampas grass in my back yard, but not in my house. It's itchy, and I scratch just looking at it. I love my fake plants, flowers, and trees! I don't have to water them, and my dog doesn't eat them and puke on the carpet. Carpet in the bathroom...no. Just no. I need to know where I can get the fart, poop, pee sign...I have a frienenemy that would just hate having this on her wall...lol. I can handle low slung sofas if there is someone to pull me out when I need to get something to eat or go to the fart, poop, pee room.
Carpet in the bathroom is not a trend. It's a mistake. A grave grave error.
I moved into a rental with a carpeted bathroom. As a single woman, I didn't know the gravity of the error until a man stayed at my house for a couple of weeks. Had to throw away the rug. Oof.
I experienced soooooo many carpeted bathrooms when I lived in England for 6 months. Why? Why?! It was so gross.
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That is such an OLD design idea. We did it back in the 70’s! I haven’t seen it lately. It’s so disgusting 😝
Preach!
Growing up in rural Kansas I can assure you that "modern farmhouse" means ya'll finally got indoor plumbing.
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Exactly, from Kansas
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Same in Tennessee…
OMG so funny 😅
For me, a lot of these trends that are hated, are not hated because they are necessarily bad, but because they are so done to death. It's like I tell my husband about my first college apartment... I had a favorite print framed and hanging over the fireplace... it was Monet's Waterlilies.... need I say more? I saw that EXACT same art in about 90% of girls aparrtments/dorms around campus. Trends can just end up looking like you have no creativity or individuality.
*#1 Interior design trend to avoid for all of time...*
Decorating TO PLEASE OTHERS and NOT yourself!
*STOP trying to PLEASE FACELESS OTHERS in every aspect of your life, people.* Chasing trends is simply a MARKETING ploy to get your money! *STOP IT!*
Kiva has been serving looks since her surgery. Sis is looking great! 👏🏿
Completely agree on the chopped pillows. I've always thought they look ridiculous. Pillows should look full and fluffy not chopped in half!
Maybe that's the difference between people who like and dislike open concept.
I'm not a "please talk to me while I'm cooking" sort of person. I'm a "don't bother me while I'm cooking" sort of person.
I don't want my guests to have to look at my kitchen mess the entire evening. Cook it, close the door and entertain.
I never looked at it that way because I too hate open layouts. I love that my kitchen is closed off so I can cook and listen to music in peace 😊
When I was a teenager I had a friend that was with me when I made my first cake. I forgot the baking powder. You know how that turned out 😅
I like the looks of slat walls. Oh low furniture Is the pits 😂
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Oh I felt that. Once I was making a birthday cake for my dad. And when the layers were about halfway through baking, I noticed the measuring cup of oil sitting on the counter. Oil that was supposed to be in the cake. 😮💨
I try to stay one step ahead of my ADHD, so I left myself plenty of time to redo it.
Shades of our beloved snark master Nick Lewis. ❤❤
Nick is the best ,these two should do a comedy combo
Yes, We love Nick!
Love me some Nick! He's the best❤
Lol! I just put up a fake olive tree today. I love it!!!
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Me too! Kiva, which tree do you have?
And that fake olive tree is happy to be with you! 🎉
I love them!
I have one in my Amazon cart, and I’m a designer. 😂
The open concept is the only way to go if you live in a very tiny space like I did for many years. You do not want walls, except for the bathroom and closets, in a Manhattan apartment. However, I think open concept in a big home would look more like a furniture showroom than a home. You don’t want to get too carried away with it in a big home. And I DESPISE low furniture. Not only does it look ridiculous but it is impractical and uncomfortable. I am 67 years old and I want furniture that is tall enough to easily get in and out if. I don’t need low chairs like I am in kindergarten. I am a big girl now
I hate "open concept" in my one-story Florida home. Open concept on the main floor of my two-story colonial with a basement was fine.
Decorate to make you and your family happy and comfortable. When you list your home to sell, that may be the time to stage it in the current fashion trend. Otherwise, your happiness and mental health and comfort is more important than what your neighbor thinks of your decoration.
About twenty years ago, I actually stopped on a deserted road to pick pampas grass and brought it home to the country house we used to have. You have to spray it with hair spray so it doesn't shed. Who knew it would be so popular?
I have done this before, as well!
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As a florist from Germany I've seen real olive twigs with a very white underside, so it's possible that some fake trees mimick that sort :)
This is true. I have an olive tree in my garden and depending on the light and time of year it has a silver hue on the underside.
After living in our home for 23 years we are finally updating our kitchen next month. The first contractor we had to give us a bid suggested an open concept... I replaced him immediately!!!! No way do I want an open concept kitchen, I cook far too much for all of that. It would irk my nerves if I'm in the kitchen and I can visibly see my husband doing nothing!!... while I'm doing all the work in the kitchen. The fact that I can be in my kitchen and have him in the living room and or family room relaxing and waiting until I serve the food... I love that for me and him!!
kiva, you crack me up! the thing about farmhouse (which I don’t have) is that it can absorb a lot of different styles of furniture. for young people just starting out with hand-me-downs or crafted or thrifted items, “farmhouse” can pull a lot of things together into a sort of gentle traditional look - something that feels more intentional. it’s comfortable and flexible. after all this time, some people must love it - somebody’s buying all those “eat” signs and huge spoons!
You can pull it together without including farm animals, kitschy signs and giant cutlery
You can do the same with cottage style, but the effect is much more harmonious and colourful. Even shabby chic looks better than farmhouse with those horrible farm doors.
I do close the lid every time I flush the toilet. Thank you! 😊
Omg this would end so many arguments!! Besides, we just went through 4 years of swirling disease so why do you want swirling poo water landing on your toothbrush!???
I used to have tons of live plants. Now, I don’t want the hassle! I want to be able to go away and not come back to a bunch of sad plants! I love my fake olive tree!
I LOATHE free-standing tubs, word art, farmhouse (it’s just overdone), vessel sinks, maximalist decor, and tapestry on walls. But that’s just me….I’m a true believer in You Do You. Loved this video!
SAME!!!!
Agree 👍
Thank you Kiva, top hate right now, LOW furniture, low sofas, couches, anything!! What are we, vertically challenged?? Does anyone else think it looks good or is at all comfortable in any universe to sit there with your knees under your chin?? Is there a stylish hoist to haul grandma up cause she can't sit to stand from the stupid low sofa??? 😭😮😢
Thank you!
I was out with my grandson one day and he asked before we left the store if I wanted to buy anymore plants to kill? So yes I buy artificial plants
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I agree about the chopped pillows. I don’t like that at all. But I LOVE open concept. I like being able to talk with family and/or friends while I am cooking.
Well, I just have to add that low furniture is great for us shorties. I hate it when my feet can't reach the ground. So if you come to my house and you ain't short, you'll just have to bend those knees. LOL!!!😝
Yep, I hate open concept after living in them almost my whole adult life. Because I don't want people in my kitchen while I cook - they distract me and get in the way and I have to entertain them while Im busy. Go out to the living room that I've made so nice for you! I'll be there in a minute!
I don't want the dirty dishes visible. AND if I'm working, it's noisy for the person trying to relax 15 feet away.
saaaammme! my kitchen is big enough for ME. its MY kitchen! Im the hostess and all my secrets and lil messes are there. yes you can grab something from the fridge or the pantry when im NOT cooking or preparing... but when i am.. relax and let me take care of you
This is not on the list and is an outside item usually, and I’ll get attacked for this 😂😂 but if I see one more vertical “HOME” sign, I’m going lose my mind. Why do I hate these things so much? 🤷♀️🤣🤣
It's like people are afraid someone will mistake their house for a business office🤣
@@kathleenkalt3852 Hahahahaha! 😂
Every time we see pampas grass next to highway my husband says "Hey we should get that for the house" Just NO! 😂😂😂
I just moved to an area where these are all over the place along with front door wreaths. 🤮 I had to ask what they were called - leaners. 🤷♀️ ???
@@cudjoekey2334 I live an area like that don’t even know what they are called. Thanks for the info ! :)
Spray foam has been a thing?! Never seen it until your video, lol
As a florist it is a great design tool. Thing is they forget that you are supposed to hide your mechanics when designing.. SO basically it lazy 1/2 done designing
The bathroom carpet thing was big in the 70's. You could buy carpet in a bag like 4 x 6 or 5 x 8, it had kind of a rubber back. You could cut it to size and also take it to the laundry to wash it. Oh lol I so remember this, oh oh it came in shag mostly!
Yes, I remember lol
My great grandad legit had that stuff until the lords year of 2023, first thing I threw out after buying that house.
From sears catalogue
Loved my wall to wall carpet in the bathroom ONE toilet overflow later and I was at homedepot picking out tile and did so fast as possible
I’m with you! I am sick to death of grey furniture, grey walls etc. Color is great!
To Each his own, darlin', I am an Interior Designer, and my kitchen floor is silver, from the 80's, the 1 1/2 sq. tiles in my bathroom, are gray....my interior is surrounded by brick and granite walls, my entry walls are Sherwin-Williams "Grayish"
Bathroom is RL "Looking Glass Silver", even the ceiling....bedroom is RL "Kerry Coast Sunrise", North facing.....What you got, honey bunch? ....a clue??
It’s way past time for the grey trend to go. Give me some color!
I like the gray walls but I like some color also so I use accents to add color.
I love open concept. We entertain a lot and we enjoy each other more. No one (me) feels left out. Lol
When I was growing up, the one time my stepdad let us sleep in on a Saturday was because he got up early, picked up some BRIGHT BLUE paint on sale, found a rug, and then redid the bathroom on his own. Like, painted over the PAPERED WALLS and ALL the trim and wainscoting in said bright blue. And then he put down this very thin, waiting room-style rug to "protect" the linoleum floors (going around the toilet, under the clawfoot tub, and into every corner)... We also had a dark red walls in the dining room and an offbrand Tuscan kitchen because it was the early 2000's, and I haven't recovered.
I come from a family of gardeners. I did not receive that skill set, so I have fake plants and trees all over the house! There's a difference between low and high end fakes!! I love the rustic vessel pots as well!!
Low profile furniture. All of my friends are in their 70’s. When we go to people’s homes with couches practically sitting on the floor none us can get up. It’s a conspiracy to keep us all confined to our seats so we don’t wander around and get lost 😵💫.
I’m old and pampas grass was IN in the 1970’s. It shed all over and people kept it until it turned gray and had spider webs all over it.
Hahaha! I never really liked it because it always felt dusty. I don't even like it in the landscape. However, I certainly understand that other people just loooove it. Variety is the spice of life!
Hairspray fixed that
Me rolling my eyes... with my open concept house, my farmhouse kitchen curtains and my laundry room sign... 😂 good thing I threw away my pampas grass and never replaced it!!!
If you're paying the bills you do you, its good fun xx
When you said open concept is not good for “having guests” I heard “having gas” and I thought very true!! Then I heard the context and realized it’s not “gas”
I was given a cactus plant because I only do outdoor plants. Indoors, plants have no chance with me. I had the cactus for years before it occurred to me to water the poor thing. I was so appreciative of my thoughtful friend and this green item that didn’t die. And then, she told me that it was meant as a joke! It was fake….😮😊
I love the fake plants. My mom gave me a plant to try and take care of. I gave Bartholomew back as soon as he got sick.
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I challenge anyone to be able to tell the Pottery Barn fern plants are fake 😂
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I love fake green plants too! I also love those fake green spheres covered in "moss" to put in a hurricane vase or bowl. Hah!!
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Your glasses - absolutely amazing! A wonderful look for you!
Dinner Options: Take it or leave it. LOVE THIS!!!!!
I agree about farmhouse-I love it, but I think it needs to fit the house style, too. Modern looks great in a modern house, farm style looks great in an older house!
One of your best ever videos! Kiva on farmhouse style: “Honey, where are your cows?” 🤣
I literally just got rid of two cow paintings today 😂
Same! I literally died when she said that!
My grey and black interior is sleek and sophisticated. Nothing sad about it. It says "I am well off, and I am satisfied". 😉
“Honey, where are your cows?!” Sent me😅😅
I actually agree with every one of them except the Modern Natural but then I’ve liked Modern/Contemporary design along with natural pieces like wood, high end baskets, large rocks, glass etc, before they were even a thing. I liked that look as a child in the 60’s and it didn’t exist but I loved certain things I came across and my mother would ask me why I’d like such a thing? I was too young to know how to articulate what I liked about it. So all these years later, and now being a widow, I’m finally able to curate my home with Modern Natural things, plus I’m an artist so I can make things.
Worst sign ive seen is life is short so lick the bowl.... In the bathroom 😂
@ nixi7688 Were you eating at that lovely home? 😝
That would have had me laughing super hard. So inappropriate that it tickles me lol
I get that open concept is popular. But I cook. A lot, and large quantities. I don’t want my whole place smelling like cooking. I also don’t want everyone seeing the chaos that happens during a marathon cooking session from everywhere in the house. It makes the whole place look messy. I also need to be able to concentrate, so I don’t want to deal with everything going on in a main room. It invites commentary from the peanut gallery. The design also achieves the openness usually by sacrificing kitchen storage, and I’ve got a ton of counter top appliances. They can’t just live on the counter. But because I have to cook in the living room, there’s nowhere to put them. But now everyone can chat at me endlessly and drift and get under my feet! I’m in the middle of the action whether I want to be or not.
Clearly an idea dreamt up by an extrovert.
I’m still looking for a cool old house with a nice kitchen that isn’t in the living room. Unfortunately they all seem to get bought up and “updated,” (read: ruined) so that’s becoming less and less of an option. My frikkin kingdom for a kitchen with a door, or at the very least a decent amount of storage.
A-men sister.
I was recently looking for a condo to buy in a high rise building in the city and all I could find were open concept lofts and I realized that fewer walls meant fewer electrical outlets…
I don't love to cook, so my preference for not-open concept is not the same as yours. I thought I would love having an open kitchen/great room after a secluded kitchen, but I don't. I think what I'm looking for is what I grew up in which was an eat-in kitchen... which sounds like what you want as well. No one eats in our too-small "Cafe" or at our counter... they're just too small.
I do not like open concepts either. They are beautiful but not practical for me. We bought a 1962 closed concept ranch on a basement in 2021 and I love it. I needed to add cabinets, and I would not have been able to do that if the wall was gone. When I cook or clean I like my music and peace. Every now and then my hunny may sit at the island and talk with me.
I chop pillows too--by lying on the couch with a pillow under my neck! So I think a chopped pillow just looks like someone was taking a nap on the sofa
Carpeted bathrooms were a thing in the 60's & 70's. My grandparents had a carpeted bathroom & KITCHEN!
Ok so you’re the ONLY other person I’ve ever come across that had a carpeted KITCHEN!!
Texas girl here. Most of us DO NOT live on farms lol
My kitchen is semi-open in which I love. It's not totally cut off but provides just enough privacy from the open space to feel like you can have a private conversation in the kitchen.
I live in a farmhouse….in Pittsburgh! Built in 1890. I’ll decorate as I find appropriate whether others like it or not.
"Open concept" can make a door-cluttered older home (pre 1950, for instance) suddenly look roomy and bright. Okay, I can embrace that. What worries me is - what’s holding up the house now? I sold my old home, the flipper took it open concept by removing the ground floor central load bearing wall, and when they put it on the market again, I visited. I saw no evidence of new beams or anything. Looked great, if no one had ever taught you about load bearing walls. Scary.
This was too funny. That always side eyed the grass. It just gave me dusty and allergy indoors and outdoors. Lol
And cats love to shred them everywhere!
I love colonics!
I live in a far in WA and live the farmhouse design but our style has shifted so much towards modern organic. Everyone needs to do them ❤
Hey Kiva, here’s a fun one for those of us that love open concept. My great grandmother‘s kitchen was actually in a separate building from the rest of the house. From what I can find out, this was done to keep the heat down in the rest of the house, and if there was a fire, they didn’t lose the entire house. Now imagine having to pack the entire meal across the yard to the table! And I don’t even want to think about what kind of planning would have to go into a midnight snack lol
Absolutely loved this video! You are a treat so much fun and energy.
Hello from KY!
About cutting branches or flowers from the road side….they are Habitate for critters. Worked with a party planner who thought she could cut wild flowers from the road side only to have her van and the venue over run with gnats and other pests.
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Griege, beige anything, it is not an accent color it's bleck.
Godspeed
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My daughters couch is so low someone has to help me get back up or I have to rock back and forth to get momentum to get up.😊
Need to start exercising.
Fun video, Kiva! Two thoughts:
I first learned the pillow chop from my mother-in-law. This was in 2000. (I know the date for sure because we'd just moved in there.) So my problem is that it was a cute look **25 years ago** and then never seemed to go away. Yeah... a bit dated.
About the gray floors: Again, my mother-in-law (can you tell which side of the family fashion & design are coming from?) had a beautiful city apartment done in grays -- with bright color accents, like you suggested! in her case, tiny pops of yellow, bright turquoise, and hot pink -- and recommended gray as a relaxing color to live with. I tried it, but only once, and here's why: Gray doesn't go well with natural wood. And I love wood furniture. So I've gone to warm colors for walls & floors which complement all the natural wood tones.
Thanks again for the fun video, Kiva! xox
Thank you for injecting acceptance and especially humor into this subject manner!!!! I love the do you acceptance and love what you love!!!
Hating any design style in its entirety is crazy. You don’t have to do everything in one style. You don’t have to have ship lap or signs or a clock painted on the wall to embrace farmhouse in some way.
I’m eclectic. My style, for the most part is “vintage salon”. But I do embrace certain rustic elements. I especially like to do a vintage, rustic Christmas tree sometimes, with tin, plush, and wooden ornaments. I love plaid ribbons and woodland creatures made of wool, pine cones, and coir. I also like the black floor lamp in your farmhouse example photo @2:41.
To me, a chopped pillow looks more informal. If not, let it stand up like a little soldier! I also use faux trees and plants, I love greens in the house, not brown dead ones like I’d have! I agree, if you love it, do it!! It’s yours for heaven sake! I’ve always been a rebel! I live in a neighborhood where everyone decorates traditional, I like modern rustic. I do me
No it looks like you took the time to chop a pillow 😂
Omgosh, Kiva! Your energy and humor has me just smiling through the whole video! 😂😂 I agree with almost everything you said. I don’t mind fake plants and flowers because I kill most plants and I like the Farmhouse look no matter where you live. If one is consistent throughout the home, I think it looks cozy 😊. I love your videos!! My tiny home is open concept and I love it 😊
In the 70s when dried florals and weeds were in my mom had my dad rent a small Uhaul and drove out to the desert and collected big bunches to make huge arrangements 😂😂
You are HILARIOUS! And, the sign I hate the most is "Gather." It sounds like a cult leader command. It's just me but I hate that!
Spray foam?! 😂 i have not been in a home where this is present lol
Happy Friday, Kiva ! Adore your channel, Hon ! First time comment from me: I don't like to say hate, but my most fervent "Intense Dislike" is for most of the word signs, also tired of "Farmhouse" as it has been presented. I live in the country, there are farms with Actual Cows right near my place & nobody's house looks like the "designer style" farmhouse & barn doors are where they are meant to be: on the barn! Keep up the great content. 😊
Yup, I live near farms and it’s 100 year old houses with janky furniture and floors bc all the money is in the farm.
I don't understand why people like the way chopped pillows look. If your pillows are full enough you aren't even able to chop them.
You can if they are feathers.
I agree about the Pampas grass!
Back in the 1970’s or 1980’s I used Pampas grass as decor.
I grew Pampas grass it was a preexisting plant in the garden of my former house.
I do love a chopped pillow!
No to fake flowers, plants, fruits!
No to slatted walls!
No to low furniture!
I’m 68 years old with a bad back!
Okay I will happily hate on everything on this list (especially the bathroom carpets 😷) except I will never hate on the chopped pillows because how else am I going to punch out my frustration while keeping the pillows from looking flat?
Exactly! It's your house, it's individuality!
This video had me laughing from the olive tree!!! My daughter has a sign in her bathroom that says "you see me rollin" with a drawing of toilet paper. Makes me laugh every time! I also sing that song for hours after, so there's that... Anyway, love this video!
Thank you!
I have a couple of faux plants, first because I don’t have a green thumb, and secondly, because I have cats. They’d use the pot as a litter box and many plants are toxic. I keep them clean and dust free. Tried not having any faux plants, but my home looked very bare.
... I live on a farm. My house is farmhouse. antique, straight lines, I was bored and painted a mural wall design. I say just do what you want
KB, you are so funny girl!!! 😂😂Loved this video!! No shag, no gray, no slates!! Seriously though design is so personal, so in the end you do you boo!!
Have I mentioned…just love your videos. You make me smile with your comments on “hated” interiors. You are usually right on.
Love. You are glowing. I'm so happy for you
Aw thank you so much!!
We all can't be the same. My friend told me house was like a museum & I get it 🥰. I love comfy cozy too to visit 🤣
Kiva, you are too funny! The design style I can't stand and I find, well, rather aggressive, is Maximalism! While I have never taken a hit of acid, I feel like this is what a "trip" must feel like! lol Love your channel! :)
I like it as a visual to see in a magazine, but I feel tired just imagining all the dusting and wiping of objects and surfaces. And to live in that intense color and knick knacks full time would be overstimulating for my brain.
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Happy Friday Kiva & Babe! So happy to be here for the video! Hope you had a great week and that you have a wonderful weekend! 🤗💞💕🥰
Hope you enjoy the video!! Have a great weekend :)
@@KivaBrent You know that I *_always_* enjoy your videos...and even added some things to my shopping list...😉
A good Oiive tree in a pot can be beautiful and I love them. I love also LOVE French Country. But absolutely no signs or WORDS on walls or objects and no Chickens or Cows in the house!!
Girl! The most shocking part of this episode was finding out you’re an introvert! I’m always so impressed with the amount of words you can say in one second. You’re amazing, dahling! I love your vids
I LOVE my open concept living space. I entertain a lot and it's perfect.
Open concept - if you actually cook, the kitchen is pretty much in a constant state of disarray to varying degree. Stuff to put away, veggies to wash, dishes from the snack made this afternoon. Cooking, dishwashing, putting dishes away is noisy and others cannot hear their show or music or conversation. I also don’t want to listen to loud dumb tv show someone is watching. Everyone says they want to join their guests oh phooey like how much time in your home is actually spent entertaining? Really - very little as a percentage. No to having the kitchen in separate quarters out back 😂 but no way to everything in one room! And it has NOTHING to do with not knowing how to decorate 😒
I would add a smell from food that spreads through entire open space regardless of quality of range hood. Kitchen is a working place and I personally don’t want to relax next to the place of work.
AMD isn’t it bad manners not to be ready to welcome your guests and to cook at their presence instead?
I can’t imagine anything other than an open concept home with small kids. I need to be able to keep tabs on them while doing what I need to do
I lived in the UK for years and they’re big offenders for carpets in bathrooms. So many flats I lived in had them and I never felt truly clean. Things are changing, likely in part to modern/contemporary design standards have changed, and also because the mold is as bad as you think it would be.
Scream carpets in the bathroom. Had one in a house loved it when I stepped out of the shower one toilet overflow episode later and I tiled that floor faster than all get out😅😅😅😅
Your video was amusing and entertaining. Thank you for being real. Loved it❤
As an spaniard I can represent my whole nation by saying that carpets suck not only in the bathroom but in the whole house. Carpets will always be gross. We prefer rugs
We took out all of our carpeting years ago. We installed porcelain tile in the entire house and have area rugs.
We have carpets in the bedrooms - people who totally get rid of carpets either live in hot areas of can afford to pay for huge heating bills. No cold tootsies for me early in the morning, thanks 😃
@@suekennedy883 in cold areas in Spain we use wood floors and rugs, not carpets. Tiling is also very common in the south. But in fact, i was shocked when i first saw carpets in bathrooms in UK and I remember making laugh of this with my friends - i was a stupid teenager lmao.
@@teresagrowls6836 We took our bedroom carpet out and put a wood floor and rugs down. It looked lovely. After one Winter we put the carpet back 😁 The carpet and underlay are also better sound insulators when people are in the room downstairs and we're in bed trying to sleep!
There are a lot of people saying thins that they dont like, But everyone should understand that you have to decorate for YOUR liking and YOUR personality. There are A lot things I dont like in other peoples homes but that's their home, and I don't have to live in it. Do YOU, to please you not for others to like it ! I could care less. 😉
Kiva I just love your energy! I also truly enjoy your content and the way you always seem to acknowledge that not every trend is for everyone ❤
Also, carpet in the bathroom used to be very common here in the UK, even when I was a child. I think it's that time period between getting indoor plumbing and getting central heating!!
My lived experience of the GREY FLOORS! In my 20s, I saw it as cold and dreary, like you said.
I differ in the view of blue hues in nature. Absolutely doesn't make me sad. It's a splash of colour to celebrate 🎉 !! The variety of places the soothing slate blue shows up in nature is astounding- the Merle in a dogs coat or eyes, the divine blue points of the Burmese and other cats 🐈 😻 🐈⬛️ 😺 🐱 and ratties 🐀 🐁 🐭... in the wood of trees- is soothing and fills me with appreciation for the array of colours nature provides.
For some years now of my 30s, grey has spoken to solidity, reliability, sturdiness, security AND!!"snuggly warmth with the softest throw blankets, reminding me of being held and provided for, by Baloo the lovable bear 🐻 🐻❄ ♥️ in Jungle Book
Grey also communicates sophistication to me, in office/places of productivity, which give WHITE and (I choose) one single other contrast colour (think deep jungle green/lemon yellow/merlot red/pastel or even bright! pink/any blue, but I adore navy blue) the opportunity to absolutely own the stage and show off 🎉
I want to add to the list "The sad beige baby room."
Hi kiva, well, i DON'T really care what ppl say, i love what i got, and that is what matters 🤪😁😁😁. Love your video, it entertained me a lot. ahahahahaha. Ty 🥰🥰🥰
Our very nice house had carpet in the primary bath when we moved in 20 years ago. We were so perplexed and grossed out. Couldn’t wait to replace it with tile.
Carpet in the bathrooms… UGH! My childhood home - built in the 70s - was the LITERAL DEFINITION of “wall-to-wall carpet”. Seriously. Some of what we now would consider“feature walls” were floor-to-ceiling yellow shag carpet, every bathroom floor included beige carpeting, and l the KITCHEN had a black & white patterned carpet (complete with thick, wooden,overlapping shingles on the walls… so I’d get slivers grazing the wall while scrubbing spilled spaghetti out of the kitchen carpet)! Whoever chose the carpets & walls of that 70s monstrosity was clearly a man who believed his aim was impeccable while going #1. That, and he didn’t understand the concept of dirt, germs and basics of cleanliness in general 🤦🏼♀️
Why does design need to represent where you live ? ? ? Your design is yours no matter , ppl. will always have 2cents to put in on someone else's design , do what you enjoy , forget others people's option. I decorate in vintage , who likes it doesn't matter to me, most do like My decorating style. Do what makes you happy if you live in the city and like the farm house style go for it.
Can't please all of the people, all of the time...to each their own ❤
I love fake foliage! It's necessary when you have little sunlight options.
Love the tree behind you! I’m behind you! Some trees, nah. But yours, yup🖤
Live in the style you love! If you want a purple room and it makes you happy, live in a purple room! For me: I have pampas grass in my back yard, but not in my house. It's itchy, and I scratch just looking at it. I love my fake plants, flowers, and trees! I don't have to water them, and my dog doesn't eat them and puke on the carpet. Carpet in the bathroom...no. Just no. I need to know where I can get the fart, poop, pee sign...I have a frienenemy that would just hate having this on her wall...lol. I can handle low slung sofas if there is someone to pull me out when I need to get something to eat or go to the fart, poop, pee room.