Reminder that this is just my opinion. Some things I try to justify why I don't like them, sometimes it's just not my taste. You're allowed to like different things and I'm also allowed to make fun of the things you like on the internet. Feel free to make fun of the things I like - start with the clock in my background. It's very controversial and some people hate it as much as I hate live edge tables with resin.
99.9% of us get that. No worries Here's another weirdness for you. Down on the Gulf Coast scoring an old wood cabin door from a boat was The Thing. Clean it, then poor a good six inches of resin on it and Voila😂
You're not alone. I hate live-edged tables (too messy), concrete floors (cheap), animal print (tacky, nouveau riche and reminiscent of animal abuse), cow hide (same as animal print), boucle (scratchy), and pot-fillers (stupid). I wouldn't give up all floral prints but you do have to be careful with them. I don't feel qualified to give an opinion on Home Goods because I've only been in the store once, at Christmas, with a friend. It was okay but... not sure what their focus is.
I'm having an existential crisis because of how much I agree with everything you said. Am I just being influenced by my favorite influencer or am I authentically me and these are reasons why you're my favorite?
They were cool.. 10 years ago. now they're just over done. They're also hard to make, create a ton of waste, (and plastic waste) and you can't sell them for a price that's worth it anymore.
I don’t know how I feel about Floral print myself. As a guy I definitely get turned away by big pieces of floral print such as wall paper and some furniture but then I find other pieces where the floral print is smaller amounts that I actually like. I have the same issue with cottagecore style these days too. There are a lot of elements I like but so much discussion of Cottagecore focuses on the elements that I don’t like, such as the amount of floral print. Not that it matters right now because I am still living with my parents looking for full time work and am currently happy with my coastal style room but I have been imagining trying to incorporate it if I ever get an apartment because I would want plants and plant themes.
"Something that HGTV has convinced everybody that they need..." Bingo! You hit that nail on the head, Nick. So much of ridiculous trendy design lately can be traced back to the lowest common denominator designers of HGTV. Basic cable is ablight on the universe.
I loved HGTV til I learned that a lot of it is fake: ( And there was that one time in the show "Good Bones" where they tore the house completely down. Perhaps not knowing what Good Bones means? What the channel has taught me is that everyone wants a home color scheme of grey, brown, and black. And ladders as wall art WTH?
Social media is really what’s terrible…making this talentless closed minded uncreative middle aged man who only understands mid century modern style famous on the internet for no good reason besides exposing himself as a self hating bitchy guy.
for me personally there's a difference between animal print and print of animals. animal print needs to be kept at a minimum for me but i do like those wallpapers with prints OF zebras and leopards and peacocks in like a powder room or other small space. i think they're fun! florals for me are kind of similar in that i totally get why you don't like them but personally i really like them if they're mixed with some sort of texture. like you showed a picture of what looked like a velvet floral print chair and i thought that was incredible, or like those textured floral print drapes, or maybe a metallic floral print wallpaper in a small space. idk, that's how i think!
Totally with you on the animal print vs print of animals, and when it came to the floral print pictures I started taking screenshots. I was with Nick on most of the rest though.
We should really bring back those little wallpaper strips that would sit halfway down the wall and divide a top and bottom color (do they have a name? It's late here). I remember some lovely floral ones in my aunt's house, and they're more of an accent that the main feature, which helps them not be overwhelming.
I agree. I think a little goes a long way though and the style of the front is important so it doesn’t look too crazy or grandma. I think when you see some of the bad uses of it, it makes it look like all use is bad
Floral prints can be easily hit or miss. Some patterns are really well done and if they fit the aesthetics of the room can be great, but more often patterns are very cheap looking. Or they can be really nice for bed sheets, but again the quality of the design is what matters. Usually chairs/couches give granny vibe.
Or used in small doses--like in throw pillows--rather than in wallpaper. Although, some floral/botanical wallpapers (especially vintage patterns) can be amazing.
Agreed! Or a bold birds of paradise print pillow may look amazing in your purple velvet chair (that sounds amazing tbh) but that floral covered chair from your 80s childhood bedroom is best left in the past. I definitely love a 1930s floral over a 1980s or 90s floral for sure too. I have several 1930s inspired cuts of printed cotton I plan to work into a quilt someday. I could honestly see those same prints as kitchen or breakfast nook curtains in the right vibe of kitchen. And a large botanical or floral print wallpaper with the right vibe in a powder room could be quite the statement. Oh, and floral toile or floral damask provides yet another type of floral that can be incredibly sophisticated in the right setting.
“I like to make fun of them behind their backs, here on the internet. That is classy. That is the gentlemanly thing to do”. Nick, I dig your definition of classy! 😃😃😃 It really is so rude and ungentlemanly to say that in people’s face. Just a smile, a nod, and a nice word is the way to go… in their face.
@@PlanetWaffle Could it depend on what the person actually says? If we stay with the live edge table example someone could say “It fits nicely with the rest of your decor and the color palette you chose” and think to themselves “I really don’t like live edge tables”. Would you still feel like they are liars if what they really think that it works with the color palette but they withheld their dislike for the piece itself as a design style in general?
@sunny8264 I agree with you. I have a friend who loves wearing skorts, for example, and she has some nice ones that look cute on her. When I say "that is so cute," I mean it, but I also mean FOR HER. Personally, I hate them for/on me.
I make cabinets too. I bet your grandfather also disliked the visible 100 extra holes for the shelf pegs! It sure is nice to be able to adjust your shelves, but in a high end home (or any home) it looks just terrible.
Thank you with the pot filler thing! I hate them too and think they are dumb. Dumping hot water out of a large pot is much more difficult ( Meaning dangerous) than moving a pot full of cold water!
Thank you Nick for saying what we've all been thinking about pot fillers. You are definitely on a mission of truth with your channel. It's more than just a design channel. It's making the world a better place. World is better with one less island, bathroom barn door, pot filler, or lumpy, expensive piece of furniture at a time.
The whole pot filler thing is such a weird concept to me. If I'm boiling something in water I boil an electric kettle and then pour it from the kettle to the pan. An electric kettle is the most energy efficient way to boil water and kettles are well designed to carry hot water without risk of spills or scolds. I'd love an instant hot water tap though. We have them at work and they're super convenient and a real time saver.
So now I’m inspired to get floral wallpaper, an animal skin rug, and a large live edge dining table with boucle chairs. Topped off with beaded table mats and gold tableware as well as a lovely chandelier from HomeGoods 😂
I agree with you on everything except floral. I love a flower throw pillow. Not in a granny way. But a pop of color way. Also I’ve never even heard of a pot filler before this video.
Nick, I love my concrete floors. Cold floors work in Texas. Dust doesn’t sink into carpet. No taking off shoes to protect the fragile wood floor. No horrendous stains in tile grout. Simple and clean. Not for everyone but it works great for my lifestyle. Love your channel.
Also in Texas. When it’s 106F the concrete floor is nice🥰. Our property is also several feet deep with sand & covered with burrs-I don’t want anything fluffy on the floor that can’t be removed. We’re building a house & polished concrete is one of the cheapest options.
Completely agree with the pot fillers. They are a “prestige” kitchen tool. Your father is correct, “just another pipe to burst!” Right next to a gas or forbid an electric oven. The repair disaster in the making is too much to contemplate 😮
and nick's other point is strong too, with things like pasta you _still_ have to hike that big heavy pot full of water back to the sink to dump it out so what have you even gained in the first place?
In my last house, I had a good reason to get a pot filler. We had to soften our water, so when we moved in the kitchen sink had two taps - one for washing dishes and the other for drinking water. It looked janky and weird. We got a frig with a water dispenser for drinking water, but it wasn't designed to fill a pot obviously. So I put a counter-mounted pot filler in next to the stove. It was easy to run a pipe there without tearing up the wall. Form and function 🙌
@@paulaclark6290 there are definitely some legitimate reasons to get a pot filler. I used to dream about having a pot filler during a time when I made very large pots of soup and had to fill pots with large amounts of water. I don’t make that kind of soup anymore, and I haven’t wanted a pot filler in a long time.
My mother in law, who is a lovely woman, has a huge floral couch with giant yellow sunflowers all over it that she loves but she also has the same fabric as her curtains! And pillows! And of course a couple of quilts! I love her to death but being in her house is like standing in a herd of zebras. You can’t tell where the sofa ends and the drapes begin! It totally throws off your depth perception. It’s wild.
When some one loves sunflowers, you'll know before they even tell you because EVERYTHING WILL BE COVERED IN SUNFLOWERS (currently living in a house covered in them while having an intense disdain for the color yellow).
I have never understood the cost of the plumbing to run a water line to the back of the stove. And it is a pot full of boiling water that has to be drained.
There’s also the fact that a lot of recipes tell you to measure the amount of water, and it’s kind of hard to do that when it’s going directly from the faucet to the pot. And I’ve been told that you don’t always need to be exact with that measurement, especially when making the kinds of things that I usually make, but as someone who likes to follow specific instructions and doesn’t like having to do too much guesswork in the kitchen, it just seems annoying and unnecessary
The downward eye roll when he says, "This time we're gonna have to go negative. You know we really hate to do that around here." Best, funniest thing I've seen in a while!!
I have a friend who is an artist in concrete and his floors are legendary - he uses aniline dyes to create color and patterns and his work is utterly gorgeous. I wouldn't be high on a grey concrete anything but dyed concrete is just stunning.
Some concretes can look nice, but most don't. But having lived with concrete floors I would never again choose it. It's just cold and hard, and unforgiving.
You beat me to it. IIRC Frank Lloyd Wright pioneered dyed concrete floors. I think Wright got powdered dyes and had them sprinkled on the concrete before it fully set up. I also believe he was also one of the first architects to call for radiant heating.
@@md61211 My artist friend does this and also inlaid LEDs as well. He's amazingly creative. He's created a floor that included LEDS that is a star map of 1/4 of the summer sky constellations in the hemisphere the floor was laid. Sounds tacky but is so subtle and stunning you don't even realize where you are until someone points it out.
The restaurant I worked in had poured concrete floors and it was HELL on my hips knees and feet. I was 20 and I felt 50. It also wore down my shoes so fast they barely lasted 6 months. Obviously in a home you aren’t wearing shoes but it really can cause so many health problems over time
I worked on concrete floors in my early 30’s and it messed up my knees (meniscus and ligament) and I bruised my femur bone. It didn’t take long before I was injured either.
As you were talking about floral print, I suddenly thought of a character in a Miss Marple (Agatha Christie) story who was complaining about floral wallpaper because those flowers would never appear together in nature. 😆
That was Dolly Bantry in a short story from the Tuesday Club Murders of Miss Marple. The character was an avid gardener and she was telling the story of a murder. Of course it was Miss Marple who solved the mystery.
@@LKMNOP Yes! The Blue Geranium. I love listening to Joan Hickson read those stories. She's not great at doing other voices but she is Miss Marple to me.
@@gary4760 Not true ... the slab is the full width of the tree, and rarely over 36" wide. Most lumber species grow fairly quickly; the trees aren't that old. I have seen wider slabs ... one guy in my area harvests backyard trees that need to be removed, and mills them for slabs. I have a 125 year old cottonwood in my yard, when it needs to come down I'm calling him. This tree is over 54" across, wider than anyone would use as-is for a table. FYI, I do a little woodworking, and watch a lot of WoodTube. I don't do live edge, though.
Totally agree with the concrete countertop part. I’ve got grey quartz for my kitchen countertops 15 years ago and they are still in perfect condition. If you love the look of concrete countertops get grey quartz!
My nephew created and built his own home and made a concrete kitchen counter. He likes it. He couldn't make his own stone. Personally, I don't like concrete or stone but I understand why many do. I prefer the newest technological products for counters, as well as flooring. Those are never shown by yt designers as far as I can tell. Old fashioned bunch??
Animal prints, flowered anything (I don't want to revisit the 80's) NO! Can't speak to concrete floors, boucle or a pot tap cause I don't know anyone who owns those items.
Granny florals are my jam, but other than that I'm generally into solids or very simple, masculine prints. I think you presented your opinions in a humorous, loving way. Thank you for sharing. 😊
Potfillers...they are super practical. Mine was installed during a kitchen reno where I had pre-existing and beautiful copper pipes from the previous sink location. I use it daily: filling the electric water kettle, filling the coffee machine chamber, cooking soups and homemade dog food, and yes, sometimes pasta. Don't knock it till you've tried it, Nick! In most cases, I am not dumping that water down the sink.
I appreciate your dad's perspective. I'm a technician (industrial printers) and my job is fixing the stuff that the engineers didn't always design well (That's what technical bulletins are for, I suppose). One thing my dad taught me about buying cars is the more bells and whistles, the more to break when it gets old. Even base models now have gadgets that were unheard of a couple of decades back.
I got the same advice from an appliance repairman when the old refrigerator died. You save money by buying a less fancy model both upfront and in the long run when you don't have to replace it as soon.
the car I have been driving for the past 13 years took it's final breath and I had to buy a new one..... I could not avoid buying a car with tech everything. I had the same thought about how all of that is going to die out so much sooner then I will be ready to actually stop driving the car!
You mentioned that you’ll be refreshing your place soon, I’m really hoping to see a floral living room ‘suite’, a leopard rug, a nice big live edge river table and tons of flowering plants. 😊
My brother made my parents a ‘live edge’ table from a burl cut off a tree, leaving the tree standing. I didn’t know they were called live edge tables. It is one of kind, beautiful piece of furniture. My daughter has concrete floors in part of her house, with heating underneath. It doesn’t have to be cold. They have a heat pump to make it economical heating.
Thank you, I thought I was the only one who looked at pot fillers and thought they were only half a convenience and couldn't understand why people seemed to be so amazed by them. If I had one, maybe I'd get the excitement, but it's not something I think of having in my dream kitchen.
I work in a commercial kitchen, 20 gallon pots hold 140 lbs of water. The pot filler we have over the stove saves a ton of time, saves a ton of effort and reduces injuries. I realize that most people don't need them in their home kitchen but for the elderly or disabled it can be an extreme benefit to be able to fill up a heavy pot of water and not have to carry it over to the stove.
@@samgordon8315 Your case sounds very rare to me. I've never seen a 20 gallon pot in a home. Even there is one, I'm not sure what you make daily that needs to fill a 20 gallon pot regularly. And it doesn't seem to help too much because you'll have to move that filled pot when you are done anyway. Plus if you are filling water in a sink, you can adjust it easily by pouring out or adding more to it. But if you are using the pot filler, how are you going to get rid of the extra water? I feel like it introduces more problems than it actually solves.
I don't usually like poured concrete floors but I have come across one house in which I loved it - it was a house the family had built themselves, and had designed really specifically for their climate and location (very cold winter, especially mornings, and pretty hot summer). They had a open plan living room off of their kitchen/dining area, where the living room poked out on the side of the house that got the most winter sun, so that it had windows on three sides; they had wood floors through most of the house, carpet in the bedrooms, but this living room area had a concrete floor, and it really worked to bounce the light and heat into the rest of the house in the winter
I love the notion of avoiding "just one more thing to go wrong". I'm not a minimalist but I think things can easily become excessive in the days of Pinterest and HGTV.
Agree with your dad about ‘another thing to break’, we looked high and low to find a good quality, simple French door fridge without smart/drink&ice on door/extra doors, etc. we have a stripped down washer and an even more (non matching dryer). Simple is better!
I completely agree. Do we have to put a computer in everything? (washers, dryers, cars, refrigerators etc.) On that note, pot fillers are ridiculous and I cook A LOT.
You are so much fun to watch, Nick! I love your channel. I’m of an age where I remember November 1963 and Jackie Kennedy’s beautiful pink boucle suit, so boucle is a hard no for me. Because I am of an age, I can indulge my Granny Chic and my love of florals without guilt. This was a great video. Thanks!🌸
I love how the live edge tables look but they go well with my interior decoration choices. I have ALOT of house plants due to my BF having a green thumb and insists on growing every single vegetable scrap. It doesn’t help that we are both reptile keepers with ALOT of reptiles in bioactive terrariums… so the live edge tables just make sense in our place, it’s like taking a step into a garden.
@@chinemapictures Aw thank you. It really cheers me up. It’s like stepping into an oasis when I come home from work. An oasis with with a lot of reptilian and amphibian buddies.
I’m also not big on floral patterns, but one place all patterns shine in home decor is tiles. I think because we use tiles in smaller spaces like bathrooms and kitchen backsplash it’s fun to see a bold pattern in them.
My grandparents designed and built their house and they did something really cool, instead of live edge tables etc they had banisters and pillars made of branches and trunks where they took off the majority of the bark and coated it in a clear resin. It gave that beautiful nature feel but was super elegant and worked well with traditional, mid century modern and post modern design styles. Gmom was an interior designer so everything was always magazine shoot gorgeous 🥰
We are aligned on every point. I have no thrill of the hunt when it comes to shopping. I know what my aesthetic is, I know Home Goods doesn’t have it, I don’t want my mother to surprise me with decor gifts (she loves that place), & I don’t live a wasteful life. Animal print calls to mind women with Peg Bundy hair, cigarettes, & mimosa enthusiasm as a main personality trait. God bless ‘em; they are fun at brunch.
The funny thing is we ended up with poured concrete because it was an inexpensive durable way to get literally warm floors! It works very well with infloor heating
The visual examples of everything you talk about really MAKE your videos. Well, first would be your personality. But the visuals, we really appreciate it!
I've got to give some love to Home Goods. I know it's only slightly better than a yard sale, but sometimes it has the thing I've been looking for that I didn't find anywhere else. For example, I've been looking for new dishes for years, and I'm super picky. I've looked at many, MANY stores and websites. Where did I finally find some I love? Home Goods! I also love all the cringeworthy items you find there, like rhinestone encrusted toothbrush holders and pink feathered lamp shades.
Home Goods is good for the little finishing touches. I’m doing a whole home remodel and I started with a design concept. I’ll go to HG for a bathroom sink soap pump or a spoon rest for the kitchen. But like Target a wander thru HG is a relaxing Saturday shopping experience. A new HG opened near me. I’ve “shopped” it several times. Haven’t bought a thing ☺️
I live near a HomeGoods and target and I do the same. I use them as a place to walk around and get exercise if the sun's down instead of walking a nature trail
The first time my husband and I visited a new Home Goods store that opened in our Texas neighborhood, my husband immediately renamed it Home Bads. It’s been a running joke with us ever since. 😹😹😹 We have since moved to Teton Valley, Idaho where there isn’t a Home Goods within 600 miles. Don’t miss it!
@@merrywalsh2809 OMG! That is too funny! I shy away from Ross and TJ Maxx. They make me hyperventilate. But now, I’ll always call it TJ Min. 😻😹 They actually have one nearby in Jackson, WY.
Fellow Idahoan here. I pretty much get everything second hand and I get really nice stuff. Was looking for a shower curtain a few weeks ago and didn't like anything I saw in Target. I'd rather do without than pay for something I don't like.
Great episode! One thing I like that most don't is that 2-tiered island. My house is a quite open, and I like that little bit of separation the upper tier gives between the living room and kitchen.
I'm a designer as well and live in South West Florida near the beach....1st thing I did in my home 6 yrs ago was rip out all the tile floors and grind & polish the concrete foundation. Absolutely love it would never go back to any other surface. Easiest thing in the world to maintain, completely life proof (dogs, kids, and dropping things makes zero dents)...yes it's cool underfoot but hey in Florida we need all the help we can get! Doesn't scratch with sand and yes I have large rugs here and there defining certain areas. It's the natural color of the aggregate with a soft sheen and my house is done in a moroccan bohemian luxe style. People come over and marvel at it and I've convinced a half dozen other people and they say the same- they'll never go back to anything else- but it does involve a lot of planning and fore thought...if you've already moved in forget it, it MUST be done before due to the incredible dust from grinding and polishing.
Let me start with what I love, ❤ and that is Nick, his channel, his design style and his commentary, spot on and kind. Please like if you agree. Now let’s get into it. Boucle is for Chanel suits period. I prefer texture instead of patterns. Farmhouse signage is SO over. Natural materials when possible or find a suitable man made product dupe. A space should be livable, simple, cleanable and personal to you. Can’t wait for your next episode, Nick, take care. 😊 That’s all I have to say about that.
You really changed my mind on the pot filler and made me think of some serious cons that I'd not thought of before. ... I still love floral print though😅 it reminds me of my Nana in the nicest way possible and her house was always perfect, immaculate and charming in this really classy understated way. This was a good video though. Thank you 👍
Love that you have Lily Allen and David Harbour's home as an example of floral LOL, I love florals but couldn't believe HOW MUCH florals they had in their home tour on AD.
I totally agree with the acrylic mixed with live edge tables. I also agree about the live edge for tables that are more used, like dining tables or desks, but a small end table in the corner of the room could look good with a live edge. Like a live edge plant stand or something I like. I hate animal print too!
In My PERSONAL opinion concrete floors ( including concrete counter tops) give me the feeling, that you didnt have enough money to finish the floors and you did what you could to make it work....🤷♀..Greaat video. 🌸
I mean yeah sometimes that is the case and having a functional surface takes priority over looking fancy. idk this comment comes off as very pretentious and classist.
@@morphinpink I suggest you to think more positive..you reading to much into my words...it is just a personal opinion..I wasn't looking for any approval..it is what it is...concrete looks NOT FINISH!
Okay, but you know what would look great with that cold concrete floor? A warm live edge coffee table with a leather carpet and a boucle chair! Lol (but I’m with you on the acrylic pour over the wood 😵💫)
Agree sooo much! The live edge table, if it's up against a wall it never sits flush against the wall. The pot filler, had one, it leaked. The very few times I used it, it ended up splashing everywhere and I'd end up holding the pot up closer to the faucet to not splash so it basically didn't even serve its purpose.
I like live edge tables, I find them really organic and very interesting to look at... my dining table is live edge, but I am not enamored with the colored epoxy resin ones... I feel that the live edge is enough to bring interest and movement and adding colors resin makes it too busy for my eyes... love love love your videos Nick
I totally agree about the "live edge" tables. They are so dissonant to me. I generally agree about the concrete floors with the exception of desert homes. I lived in Phoenix years ago & everybody had tile floors because they are cooler & easier to maintain in that environment. I think in those type homes, concrete is a good choice.
Agree on the live edge tables! Living and travelling in Africa, I do think concrete floors can work in a very warm climate, where a bit of coolness is welcome
@@diddly_squat7335agree! I built my home in Central FL 26 years ago. I really wanted concrete floors but couldn't find anyone to install them. Went with all tile instead, and now they are so dated and I want to rip it all out. Except the labor alone to remove and replace it all with something else is $14k 😭
Good points on the pot filler. I don't have one but as I age I can see the appeal. I find myself using a spider to get the pasta out of the pot instead of a colander. Back in 1980 when floral couches were the thing I opted for a botanical print instead. It never looked as dated.
Love your channel and your "things I hate" videos Nick! Thankfully as an Artisan who makes live edge furniture for a living, there are enough people who disagree with you on that particular item to keep the orders coming in as fast as I can make them! 😂😂👍🏼
I have a piece of live edge wood that I inherited from my parents' house, which was built approximately in the 1840s. The base of the roofing was done with live edge slabs, and a few of them were thick enough to save for creative reasons! My parents were both artistic & he was a wood worker. I'm an artist too. I haven't settled on how to use it, but the resin seems to be calling to me!
I like how you said that, you know what you want so you don't need to wonder around stores because that's what I do..I'm almost solidified on what paint scheme I want for my house but it's a huge struggle because paint seems so permanent an I'm very indecisive but I have a colorful wardrobe so hopefully I can pull it together 😢
When I go to HomeGoods I almost always go in looking to see if I can find something really specific without having to order it online. I was able to find some decent blankets, pillows, and a cabinet that matched the look I was going for at the time, but I’m a pretty laser-focused shopper overall. I can definitely see it being a dangerous environment for impulse shoppers, and yeah the quality is not always gonna be up there with other stores either.
I'm with you on the acrylic filled live edge tables. I appreciate that they are beautifully and sometimes miraculously executed from a craftsperson's standpoint, but I've never felt drawn to own one. Will watch videos of people making them all day long though, because wow..
I love the concrete floors in the finished basement where I live, precisely because they are cold. I live in the South and I hate being hot! I also love florals and animal prints, but it has to be the right ones used in the right ways. I'm really picky about the scale and style of prints. Like, I love William Morris or other art nouveau style prints, and some bolder modern prints like Marimekko or Matisse, and the "sketch" floral designs that look hand drawn, but I don't like tropical, paisley, or anything too "old" or too "young" feeling. There are lots of other ones I like that don't fall into those categories, but it's really hard to describe. I just know it when I see it.
@Lucycat 241 Yes in my country, which is a tropical island, everything is made out of concrete but obviously floors keep cool inside but not outside. And inside walls also remain cooler.
Thank you for the pot filler! I've never understood them. It makes an empty pot easier to fill, but you then have to carry a heavy pot full of hot water to the sink!
Totally agree on everything -- especially concrete floors, which are SO cold -- except the florals. Florals can range from chintzy ditzy grandma to classic 18th century to art nouveaux to bold graphics, and there's nothing like them for making an armchair pop. I think pattern on pattern is due for a comeback.
Totally agree with you, especially about the pot filler! We were just talking about that the other day. I can see it making much more sense for a coffee pot if you have a dedicated coffee station. Also, I just want to thank you for your comment about not hating on granite from one of your recent past videos. When left to my own devices, I absolutely love our granite, it has so many beautiful colors in gray, taupe, black and every now and again a quartz. But a few years back when we refreshed the kitchen I almost got rid of it in favor of plain white quartz! It would have been 100% because the granite wasn't on trend and the quartz was. I decided to keep the granite, did a new matte black hexagon tile and refaced the maple cabinets - yes, maple in a natural finish. It's amazing and so much better for the environment not to mention I loved my granite. Sometimes it can be really hard to tease out if you actually dislike something or if you are just discontented and being influenced by trends you may actually like less. hmmm...
You are so funny Nick! I have a gorgeous home with concrete floors, a moody floral black bathroom wallpaper, an animal print rug in my living room, and some Home Goods decor pieces. I also think a live edged table is pretty (not for me, but in someone else’s home). One thing you didn’t mention that I have in a niche is a textured velvet wallpaper. I bet you’d hate that too! Still watching because I love snarky humor. 🖤
Hi, Nick. I stumbled on your channel while surfing You Tube and I love it!!! This video took me back to my floral stage in the early 2000s. Floral sofa, floral drapes and a floral area rug. Now I cringe at our family Christmas picture - sitting on the floral sofa with - don't throw up - floral plates on the wall! I really appreciate your honest comments. Wow! Someone who is not afraid to express his point of view.
Your dad is so right. And I feel the same about the pot filler. Animal print makes me think of the pedal pushers on the ladies of the night in 50s movies.
I totally get that pot fillers aren’t for everyone, but I can offer a different perspective. My husband and I gutted and renovated our kitchen last year, and the pot filler is one of the things we love the most in our new kitchen. We are both very capable of carrying pots of water to and from the stove, so for only that reason, we would not have put one in. We don’t cook with oil. We use water to sauté vegetables, etc., and it’s so nice to be able to add more water to the pan when it starts to dry up before the veggies are done. Also, we only have one sink, and my husband would be washing produce while I would need to fill a pot with water, and we’d get in each other’s way in the old kitchen. We use our pot filler every time we cook. I think it really just depends on how a person cooks whether a pot filler is useful for someone or not.
and the size of their family, how often they eat at home, etc. if people garden and preserve their food (canning) then the pot filler would also be very helpful.
I really like this point - I can imagine this would also be the case for a family without a dishwasher - if you have a pot-filler you can wash up as you go (or, you know, do the last load so you have plates to eat off because you've inevitably got behind) without it holding up the cooking process
I’m with you on concrete (visions of prison and animal shelters) as well as animal prints (no dead animals in a home please and thank you - no need for a constant reminder of cruelty in the world). I have to take exception to the total florals ban although it can’t go granny). I’ve seen beautiful watercolor florals that were spot on in very small uses. Also onboard with the pot filler (although the plumbing industry must be patting themselves on the back for that sales job). This was a great video. I appreciate you making it.❤
“I’m on a personal crusade”… YOU CRACK ME UP!!! I love your sense of humor. PS… I don’t like live edged tables, have never been in a Home Goods, and I don’t understand pot fillers. The sink is right there!!! ❤️
I agreed with you until the florals. I LOVE florals, especially on wallpaper. Wallpaper that fits with the age of the house. It can be beautiful and if everything else is calm, a floral wallpaper can be really beautiful. My house was built in 1757, it is not a house that you paint the walls, it is not a place you put modern patterns in either. But floral wallpaper? Heck yeah! ;) Let's say my old Scandinavian log timber frame house would not be right without a floral wallpaper. Of topic, i found behind a old wall, really old wallpaper, it was beautiful and at least 200 years old. Floral.. ;)
I think you sold me on why not to get a pot filler! I always thought hey those look neat if we could afford one, but never thought about how you still have to take the pot back to the sink. Lol! I'm going to give myself permission to put on my judgey pants and roll my eyes now anytime I see one.
90 percent aligned with you; we deviate at the concrete FLOORS (countertops, sure). Your characterization couldn't be more Canadian!! I live in a place where 50-60 degree floors are a blessing, and all the pets will sprawl on the kitchen tile instead of the carpeted other rooms for 10 months out of the year!
Omg yes just went to Home Goods and told my husband that I guess I know my style more now and am more specific about what I want for our new home! I’m having better luck adding some things to my Amazon wishlist.
I get what you are saying, but I like the floral patterns and animal prints in limited amounts. Sort of the way you feel about boucle. 😊 I also inherited a beautiful walnut coffee table that has a live edge. I'm not loving the live edge, but the wood is drool worthy
My husband said the same thing on a pot filler. We just finished our new house and he nixed that idea because of the plumbing risk. The juice is not worth the squeeze!
Love concrete floors, they’re indestructable, fully waterproof, they warm in the sun, great with infloor heating, neutral colour with natural tonal variation, very easy to clean
Once again, I agree with the overall view of all your opinions here. For my home, I have two minor exceptions. I have an extra large lazy Susan on my quite large kitchen island that has a live edge, and it adds nicely to the overall look of the piece. And in the guest room I have a sheepskin piece on the floor next to the bed that is heavenly to feel when getting out of bed. It’s a bit of luxury for my guests!
I agree with you on all these items. I had a live edge coffee table for a while, it was a hand me down that was hand made by someone in my family. It took me forever to get rid of it, no one wanted it. Disaster 😅
I love stained concrete floors or countertops. Wood is my favorite, natch, but a polished concrete floor with beautiful antique rugs is especially fun for an office. :)
Hahaha! Good lessons Dad! I’m a female chemical engineer turned stay at home mom. Now I know why I keep watching you for over a year now! We are planning to build our new house where we currently have lived 20yrs. Especially with costs to construct I often think about maintenance and upkeep in its relationship to the total design! Btw I HATE mice and other critters getting in attic spaces and walls walls in addition all the little presents they love leaving behind! I’d love to see something about how to make sure we don’t ever get THAT (again) and what kinds of designs are good from that perspective. I’m thinking going with Fox blocks / concrete forms to help prevent it! Will be zen like quite too as long as we buy the right windows.
Reminder that this is just my opinion. Some things I try to justify why I don't like them, sometimes it's just not my taste. You're allowed to like different things and I'm also allowed to make fun of the things you like on the internet. Feel free to make fun of the things I like - start with the clock in my background. It's very controversial and some people hate it as much as I hate live edge tables with resin.
99.9% of us get that. No worries
Here's another weirdness for you. Down on the Gulf Coast scoring an old wood cabin door from a boat was The Thing. Clean it, then poor a good six inches of resin on it and Voila😂
All house cats dream of the day they get a boucle couch of their own.
You're not alone. I hate live-edged tables (too messy), concrete floors (cheap), animal print (tacky, nouveau riche and reminiscent of animal abuse), cow hide (same as animal print), boucle (scratchy), and pot-fillers (stupid). I wouldn't give up all floral prints but you do have to be careful with them. I don't feel qualified to give an opinion on Home Goods because I've only been in the store once, at Christmas, with a friend. It was okay but... not sure what their focus is.
I'm having an existential crisis because of how much I agree with everything you said. Am I just being influenced by my favorite influencer or am I authentically me and these are reasons why you're my favorite?
Personally, I don’t like your clock and I do like live edge tables, but I still enjoy your videos and hearing your opinion about decor.
The live edge epoxy resin table is the single most controversial furniture trend among woodworkers! 🤣
Hooray! A Steve sighting!
You know you've made it when Steve leaves a comment on your video!
They were cool.. 10 years ago. now they're just over done. They're also hard to make, create a ton of waste, (and plastic waste) and you can't sell them for a price that's worth it anymore.
Resin+wood is the avocado bathroom of this generation.
Part of me likes the resin, like the fucked up part of me that needs therapy. My entire self does love a raw edge table.
Not a super fan of floral print, but I love a good botanical print! To me, there’s a big difference 😊
Yes
I agree! I have also drawn that weird distinction. haha
I don’t know how I feel about Floral print myself. As a guy I definitely get turned away by big pieces of floral print such as wall paper and some furniture but then I find other pieces where the floral print is smaller amounts that I actually like. I have the same issue with cottagecore style these days too. There are a lot of elements I like but so much discussion of Cottagecore focuses on the elements that I don’t like, such as the amount of floral print. Not that it matters right now because I am still living with my parents looking for full time work and am currently happy with my coastal style room but I have been imagining trying to incorporate it if I ever get an apartment because I would want plants and plant themes.
"Something that HGTV has convinced everybody that they need..." Bingo! You hit that nail on the head, Nick. So much of ridiculous trendy design lately can be traced back to the lowest common denominator designers of HGTV. Basic cable is ablight on the universe.
I think of bowling pin shaped lamps whenever I hear HGTV.
😂😂
I loved HGTV til I learned that a lot of it is fake: ( And there was that one time in the show "Good Bones" where they tore the house completely down. Perhaps not knowing what Good Bones means? What the channel has taught me is that everyone wants a home color scheme of grey, brown, and black. And ladders as wall art WTH?
Basic cable and social media.
Social media is really what’s terrible…making this talentless closed minded uncreative middle aged man who only understands mid century modern style famous on the internet for no good reason besides exposing himself as a self hating bitchy guy.
for me personally there's a difference between animal print and print of animals. animal print needs to be kept at a minimum for me but i do like those wallpapers with prints OF zebras and leopards and peacocks in like a powder room or other small space. i think they're fun! florals for me are kind of similar in that i totally get why you don't like them but personally i really like them if they're mixed with some sort of texture. like you showed a picture of what looked like a velvet floral print chair and i thought that was incredible, or like those textured floral print drapes, or maybe a metallic floral print wallpaper in a small space. idk, that's how i think!
Totally with you on the animal print vs print of animals, and when it came to the floral print pictures I started taking screenshots.
I was with Nick on most of the rest though.
We should really bring back those little wallpaper strips that would sit halfway down the wall and divide a top and bottom color (do they have a name? It's late here). I remember some lovely floral ones in my aunt's house, and they're more of an accent that the main feature, which helps them not be overwhelming.
@@evonnagale3045borders? Want to get rid of mine.
I think your taste and my taste really match in terms of these choices fellow internet stranger 😄
I agree. I think a little goes a long way though and the style of the front is important so it doesn’t look too crazy or grandma. I think when you see some of the bad uses of it, it makes it look like all use is bad
Floral prints can be easily hit or miss. Some patterns are really well done and if they fit the aesthetics of the room can be great, but more often patterns are very cheap looking. Or they can be really nice for bed sheets, but again the quality of the design is what matters. Usually chairs/couches give granny vibe.
Or used in small doses--like in throw pillows--rather than in wallpaper. Although, some floral/botanical wallpapers (especially vintage patterns) can be amazing.
Agreed! Or a bold birds of paradise print pillow may look amazing in your purple velvet chair (that sounds amazing tbh) but that floral covered chair from your 80s childhood bedroom is best left in the past. I definitely love a 1930s floral over a 1980s or 90s floral for sure too. I have several 1930s inspired cuts of printed cotton I plan to work into a quilt someday. I could honestly see those same prints as kitchen or breakfast nook curtains in the right vibe of kitchen. And a large botanical or floral print wallpaper with the right vibe in a powder room could be quite the statement.
Oh, and floral toile or floral damask provides yet another type of floral that can be incredibly sophisticated in the right setting.
For both floral prints and animal prints, I like them in small doses. Throw pillows or other accessories generally, not a sofa.
“I like to make fun of them behind their backs, here on the internet. That is classy. That is the gentlemanly thing to do”.
Nick, I dig your definition of classy! 😃😃😃
It really is so rude and ungentlemanly to say that in people’s face. Just a smile, a nod, and a nice word is the way to go… in their face.
Well said Sunny. 🥰
Lol!
lol i disagree. i rather know what people actually think than be lied to my face. i genuinely can't tolerate liars. 😂
@@PlanetWaffle Could it depend on what the person actually says? If we stay with the live edge table example someone could say “It fits nicely with the rest of your decor and the color palette you chose” and think to themselves “I really don’t like live edge tables”.
Would you still feel like they are liars if what they really think that it works with the color palette but they withheld their dislike for the piece itself as a design style in general?
@sunny8264 I agree with you. I have a friend who loves wearing skorts, for example, and she has some nice ones that look cute on her. When I say "that is so cute," I mean it, but I also mean FOR HER. Personally, I hate them for/on me.
My grandfather was a cabinetmaker. If he were still alive, I'm sure he'd happily saw/sand away that live edge and give you a nice squared-off table!
I make cabinets too. I bet your grandfather also disliked the visible 100 extra holes for the shelf pegs! It sure is nice to be able to adjust your shelves, but in a high end home (or any home) it looks just terrible.
I like even edges particularly on a dining table. I do not like to feel askew at the table.
My grandfather used to say, "When one door closes another opens." Lovely man, but a horrible cabinet maker.
Thank you with the pot filler thing! I hate them too and think they are dumb. Dumping hot water out of a large pot is much more difficult ( Meaning dangerous) than moving a pot full of cold water!
Thank you Nick for saying what we've all been thinking about pot fillers. You are definitely on a mission of truth with your channel. It's more than just a design channel. It's making the world a better place. World is better with one less island, bathroom barn door, pot filler, or lumpy, expensive piece of furniture at a time.
The whole pot filler thing is such a weird concept to me. If I'm boiling something in water I boil an electric kettle and then pour it from the kettle to the pan. An electric kettle is the most energy efficient way to boil water and kettles are well designed to carry hot water without risk of spills or scolds. I'd love an instant hot water tap though. We have them at work and they're super convenient and a real time saver.
So now I’m inspired to get floral wallpaper, an animal skin rug, and a large live edge dining table with boucle chairs. Topped off with beaded table mats and gold tableware as well as a lovely chandelier from HomeGoods 😂
Love it! One can always do with a good laugh first thing in the morning.
I like it all except for the live edge table. I know for sure I'm going to hit myself or snag a sweater
All placed atop your concrete floors! LOL
@@luvzdogz how could I forget??
Too funny!
I agree with you on everything except floral. I love a flower throw pillow. Not in a granny way. But a pop of color way. Also I’ve never even heard of a pot filler before this video.
Nick, I love my concrete floors. Cold floors work in Texas. Dust doesn’t sink into carpet. No taking off shoes to protect the fragile wood floor. No horrendous stains in tile grout. Simple and clean. Not for everyone but it works great for my lifestyle. Love your channel.
Hot climates ask for cooler materials, i agree
Also in Texas. When it’s 106F the concrete floor is nice🥰. Our property is also several feet deep with sand & covered with burrs-I don’t want anything fluffy on the floor that can’t be removed. We’re building a house & polished concrete is one of the cheapest options.
agreed. and concrete doesn't need to be gray.
The love your channel towards the end is it for me 🤣🤣🤣
Yess I was about to comment the same thing I love concrete floors here in South TX.
Completely agree with the pot fillers. They are a “prestige” kitchen tool. Your father is correct, “just another pipe to burst!” Right next to a gas or forbid an electric oven. The repair disaster in the making is too much to contemplate 😮
You made me laugh! Thanks!
and nick's other point is strong too, with things like pasta you _still_ have to hike that big heavy pot full of water back to the sink to dump it out so what have you even gained in the first place?
In my last house, I had a good reason to get a pot filler. We had to soften our water, so when we moved in the kitchen sink had two taps - one for washing dishes and the other for drinking water.
It looked janky and weird. We got a frig with a water dispenser for drinking water, but it wasn't designed to fill a pot obviously. So I put a counter-mounted pot filler in next to the stove. It was easy to run a pipe there without tearing up the wall.
Form and function 🙌
@@walterw2 So right! Splurge on a really great sink! Sinks are very important to food preparation and flow of goods in a kitchen!
@@paulaclark6290 there are definitely some legitimate reasons to get a pot filler. I used to dream about having a pot filler during a time when I made very large pots of soup and had to fill pots with large amounts of water. I don’t make that kind of soup anymore, and I haven’t wanted a pot filler in a long time.
My mother in law, who is a lovely woman, has a huge floral couch with giant yellow sunflowers all over it that she loves but she also has the same fabric as her curtains! And pillows! And of course a couple of quilts! I love her to death but being in her house is like standing in a herd of zebras. You can’t tell where the sofa ends and the drapes begin! It totally throws off your depth perception. It’s wild.
She sounds like she's probably fun to be around!
😂like those ladies that wear matching church dresses and hats for church Sunday. Epic
😂😂😂
When some one loves sunflowers, you'll know before they even tell you because EVERYTHING WILL BE COVERED IN SUNFLOWERS (currently living in a house covered in them while having an intense disdain for the color yellow).
@@today7518 fed
I never heard of Homegoods, boucle, or pot fillers before this episode. Thank you, Nick, for elevating us all.
"It's another plumbing thing to go wrong" and "You're going to have to take that pot over to the sink eventually"....so true! 🤣
I have never understood the cost of the plumbing to run a water line to the back of the stove. And it is a pot full of boiling water that has to be drained.
And it's another thing to clean. And it's not a quick swipe either since it'll get greasy being near the stove.
You r not alone with raw edge table
There’s also the fact that a lot of recipes tell you to measure the amount of water, and it’s kind of hard to do that when it’s going directly from the faucet to the pot. And I’ve been told that you don’t always need to be exact with that measurement, especially when making the kinds of things that I usually make, but as someone who likes to follow specific instructions and doesn’t like having to do too much guesswork in the kitchen, it just seems annoying and unnecessary
The downward eye roll when he says, "This time we're gonna have to go negative. You know we really hate to do that around here."
Best, funniest thing I've seen in a while!!
I know, I love his mannerisms 😂
I have a friend who is an artist in concrete and his floors are legendary - he uses aniline dyes to create color and patterns and his work is utterly gorgeous. I wouldn't be high on a grey concrete anything but dyed concrete is just stunning.
Some concretes can look nice, but most don't. But having lived with concrete floors I would never again choose it. It's just cold and hard, and unforgiving.
@@sarastewart2633
What about radiate floor heating? Would that counter the coldness of the concrete?
Yes, it can look beautiful. My sister also had beautiful chocolate hued concrete counters, that were stunning as well.
You beat me to it. IIRC Frank Lloyd Wright pioneered dyed concrete floors. I think Wright got powdered dyes and had them sprinkled on the concrete before it fully set up. I also believe he was also one of the first architects to call for radiant heating.
@@md61211 My artist friend does this and also inlaid LEDs as well. He's amazingly creative. He's created a floor that included LEDS that is a star map of 1/4 of the summer sky constellations in the hemisphere the floor was laid. Sounds tacky but is so subtle and stunning you don't even realize where you are until someone points it out.
The restaurant I worked in had poured concrete floors and it was HELL on my hips knees and feet. I was 20 and I felt 50. It also wore down my shoes so fast they barely lasted 6 months. Obviously in a home you aren’t wearing shoes but it really can cause so many health problems over time
I worked on concrete floors in my early 30’s and it messed up my knees (meniscus and ligament) and I bruised my femur bone. It didn’t take long before I was injured either.
Totally agree! My feet , my legs overall felt so sore at the end of the day when I lived in a previous rental.
Same. Had to get special shoes
As you were talking about floral print, I suddenly thought of a character in a Miss Marple (Agatha Christie) story who was complaining about floral wallpaper because those flowers would never appear together in nature. 😆
That was Dolly Bantry in a short story from the Tuesday Club Murders of Miss Marple. The character was an avid gardener and she was telling the story of a murder. Of course it was Miss Marple who solved the mystery.
@@LKMNOP Yes! The Blue Geranium. I love listening to Joan Hickson read those stories. She's not great at doing other voices but she is Miss Marple to me.
I love Joan Hicks too! You might want to check out Midsomer Murders with John Nettles, if you like that genre. @@jennie9
Is that the poppy and cornflower wallpaper? I’ve been looking for some of that for years haha (I love Marple)
I love it when you reference things with the juice is not worth the squeeze 😂
I love expressions used almost exclusively by 90 year olds.
I loved that too 🤣🤣
Lol
@@Nick_Lewis I confess I use the phrase "Holy Dinah" (no idea what the origin or it is) and I have definitely used the word "courting" before. LOL
I literally laughed out loud at this line!
A million times agree on live edge. You are so not alone!
@@gary4760 Huh. It didn't know that. Why do they have to only come from old growth forests?
@@brendanconlon8292 Because they're huge. The come from one giant piece of wood from big ass old ass trees.
@@gary4760 Not true ... the slab is the full width of the tree, and rarely over 36" wide. Most lumber species grow fairly quickly; the trees aren't that old.
I have seen wider slabs ... one guy in my area harvests backyard trees that need to be removed, and mills them for slabs. I have a 125 year old cottonwood in my yard, when it needs to come down I'm calling him. This tree is over 54" across, wider than anyone would use as-is for a table.
FYI, I do a little woodworking, and watch a lot of WoodTube. I don't do live edge, though.
Once I pierced a hole in my fave shirt while sitting at breakfast bar with a live edge ...so I don't love those.
Totally agree with the concrete countertop part. I’ve got grey quartz for my kitchen countertops 15 years ago and they are still in perfect condition. If you love the look of concrete countertops get grey quartz!
My nephew created and built his own home and made a concrete kitchen counter. He likes it. He couldn't make his own stone. Personally, I don't like concrete or stone but I understand why many do. I prefer the newest technological products for counters, as well as flooring. Those are never shown by yt designers as far as I can tell. Old fashioned bunch??
Animal prints, flowered anything (I don't want to revisit the 80's) NO! Can't speak to concrete floors, boucle or a pot tap cause I don't know anyone who owns those items.
Granny florals are my jam, but other than that I'm generally into solids or very simple, masculine prints. I think you presented your opinions in a humorous, loving way. Thank you for sharing. 😊
Potfillers...they are super practical. Mine was installed during a kitchen reno where I had pre-existing and beautiful copper pipes from the previous sink location. I use it daily: filling the electric water kettle, filling the coffee machine chamber, cooking soups and homemade dog food, and yes, sometimes pasta. Don't knock it till you've tried it, Nick! In most cases, I am not dumping that water down the sink.
I also live my pot filler. When we rented a house during our build, I missed it so much!
I appreciate your dad's perspective. I'm a technician (industrial printers) and my job is fixing the stuff that the engineers didn't always design well (That's what technical bulletins are for, I suppose). One thing my dad taught me about buying cars is the more bells and whistles, the more to break when it gets old. Even base models now have gadgets that were unheard of a couple of decades back.
Like all the sensors
I got the same advice from an appliance repairman when the old refrigerator died. You save money by buying a less fancy model both upfront and in the long run when you don't have to replace it as soon.
@@nelliekampmann9354 Mostly no icemaker with a dispenser through the door.
the car I have been driving for the past 13 years took it's final breath and I had to buy a new one..... I could not avoid buying a car with tech everything. I had the same thought about how all of that is going to die out so much sooner then I will be ready to actually stop driving the car!
My car is really basic. No power windows, locks or hatchback, no camera, no GPS. The only thing I really miss is cruise control.
You mentioned that you’ll be refreshing your place soon, I’m really hoping to see a floral living room ‘suite’, a leopard rug, a nice big live edge river table and tons of flowering plants. 😊
😂
Not just a river table, but a *pearlescent* river table!!!
And bouclé everything.
I’ll take the leopard rug!
My brother made my parents a ‘live edge’ table from a burl cut off a tree, leaving the tree standing. I didn’t know they were called live edge tables. It is one of kind, beautiful piece of furniture. My daughter has concrete floors in part of her house, with heating underneath. It doesn’t have to be cold. They have a heat pump to make it economical heating.
I want a heated concrete floor because I love the industrial look.
Thank you, I thought I was the only one who looked at pot fillers and thought they were only half a convenience and couldn't understand why people seemed to be so amazed by them. If I had one, maybe I'd get the excitement, but it's not something I think of having in my dream kitchen.
I work in a commercial kitchen, 20 gallon pots hold 140 lbs of water. The pot filler we have over the stove saves a ton of time, saves a ton of effort and reduces injuries. I realize that most people don't need them in their home kitchen but for the elderly or disabled it can be an extreme benefit to be able to fill up a heavy pot of water and not have to carry it over to the stove.
@@samgordon8315 Your case sounds very rare to me. I've never seen a 20 gallon pot in a home. Even there is one, I'm not sure what you make daily that needs to fill a 20 gallon pot regularly. And it doesn't seem to help too much because you'll have to move that filled pot when you are done anyway. Plus if you are filling water in a sink, you can adjust it easily by pouring out or adding more to it. But if you are using the pot filler, how are you going to get rid of the extra water? I feel like it introduces more problems than it actually solves.
I don't usually like poured concrete floors but I have come across one house in which I loved it - it was a house the family had built themselves, and had designed really specifically for their climate and location (very cold winter, especially mornings, and pretty hot summer). They had a open plan living room off of their kitchen/dining area, where the living room poked out on the side of the house that got the most winter sun, so that it had windows on three sides; they had wood floors through most of the house, carpet in the bedrooms, but this living room area had a concrete floor, and it really worked to bounce the light and heat into the rest of the house in the winter
Yes concrete makes sense for storing passive solar heat.
I love the notion of avoiding "just one more thing to go wrong". I'm not a minimalist but I think things can easily become excessive in the days of Pinterest and HGTV.
Agree with your dad about ‘another thing to break’, we looked high and low to find a good quality, simple French door fridge without smart/drink&ice on door/extra doors, etc. we have a stripped down washer and an even more (non matching dryer). Simple is better!
I completely agree. Do we have to put a computer in everything? (washers, dryers, cars, refrigerators etc.) On that note, pot fillers are ridiculous and I cook A LOT.
There has been a demand for fridges without icemakers for precisely that reason!
You are so much fun to watch, Nick! I love your channel. I’m of an age where I remember November 1963 and Jackie Kennedy’s beautiful pink boucle suit, so boucle is a hard no for me. Because I am of an age, I can indulge my Granny Chic and my love of florals without guilt. This was a great video. Thanks!🌸
Yes on the pot filler! I think the people who have gotten them are trying to convince themselves AND us that they are worth it
I love how the live edge tables look but they go well with my interior decoration choices. I have ALOT of house plants due to my BF having a green thumb and insists on growing every single vegetable scrap. It doesn’t help that we are both reptile keepers with ALOT of reptiles in bioactive terrariums… so the live edge tables just make sense in our place, it’s like taking a step into a garden.
I love that
@@chinemapictures Aw thank you. It really cheers me up. It’s like stepping into an oasis when I come home from work. An oasis with with a lot of reptilian and amphibian buddies.
I love houseplants! I think houseplants show a caring person lives in that home. I don’t want to live in a magazine cover. Enjoy!
"I dont believe the juice is worth the squeeze" is an amazing quote. Great video! I cant wait to see how your new design come out.
Apart from having impeccable taste, you are hysterical, which is great: interior design channel and comedy channel rolled up in one!!😄👏🏻👏🏻
I ADORE flower prints! But variety is the spice of life and I’m glad that others have different opinions.
I’m also not big on floral patterns, but one place all patterns shine in home decor is tiles. I think because we use tiles in smaller spaces like bathrooms and kitchen backsplash it’s fun to see a bold pattern in them.
I love how honest and blunt you are here! And that’s okay! My fave video of yours that I’ve seen. 👍
My grandparents designed and built their house and they did something really cool, instead of live edge tables etc they had banisters and pillars made of branches and trunks where they took off the majority of the bark and coated it in a clear resin. It gave that beautiful nature feel but was super elegant and worked well with traditional, mid century modern and post modern design styles. Gmom was an interior designer so everything was always magazine shoot gorgeous 🥰
We are aligned on every point. I have no thrill of the hunt when it comes to shopping. I know what my aesthetic is, I know Home Goods doesn’t have it, I don’t want my mother to surprise me with decor gifts (she loves that place), & I don’t live a wasteful life.
Animal print calls to mind women with Peg Bundy hair, cigarettes, & mimosa enthusiasm as a main personality trait. God bless ‘em; they are fun at brunch.
Agree on the animal print!
I love wearing animal print when I’m feeling wild, but I keep it out of my house because I don’t *always* wanna channel Peg, lol.
The funny thing is we ended up with poured concrete because it was an inexpensive durable way to get literally warm floors! It works very well with infloor heating
The visual examples of everything you talk about really MAKE your videos. Well, first would be your personality. But the visuals, we really appreciate it!
I've got to give some love to Home Goods. I know it's only slightly better than a yard sale, but sometimes it has the thing I've been looking for that I didn't find anywhere else. For example, I've been looking for new dishes for years, and I'm super picky. I've looked at many, MANY stores and websites. Where did I finally find some I love? Home Goods! I also love all the cringeworthy items you find there, like rhinestone encrusted toothbrush holders and pink feathered lamp shades.
Yes!!
Home Goods is good for the little finishing touches. I’m doing a whole home remodel and I started with a design concept. I’ll go to HG for a bathroom sink soap pump or a spoon rest for the kitchen. But like Target a wander thru HG is a relaxing Saturday shopping experience. A new HG opened near me. I’ve “shopped” it several times. Haven’t bought a thing ☺️
I live near a HomeGoods and target and I do the same. I use them as a place to walk around and get exercise if the sun's down instead of walking a nature trail
Full list, on what leopard looks good:
- leopards
The first time my husband and I visited a new Home Goods store that opened in our Texas neighborhood, my husband immediately renamed it Home Bads. It’s been a running joke with us ever since. 😹😹😹 We have since moved to Teton Valley, Idaho where there isn’t a Home Goods within 600 miles. Don’t miss it!
What would your husband call TJ Maxx? TJ Min?
@@merrywalsh2809 OMG! That is too funny! I shy away from Ross and TJ Maxx. They make me hyperventilate. But now, I’ll always call it TJ Min. 😻😹 They actually have one nearby in Jackson, WY.
Hilarious😂
This is totally off topic but I gotta say “Hey!!” everytime I see someone who spells their name like I do!!
Fellow Idahoan here. I pretty much get everything second hand and I get really nice stuff. Was looking for a shower curtain a few weeks ago and didn't like anything I saw in Target. I'd rather do without than pay for something I don't like.
Great episode! One thing I like that most don't is that 2-tiered island. My house is a quite open, and I like that little bit of separation the upper tier gives between the living room and kitchen.
It also hides the dirty pots and pans for a spell until you can get to them.
Animal print is glorious and exotic if used in great restraint!
I'm a designer as well and live in South West Florida near the beach....1st thing I did in my home 6 yrs ago was rip out all the tile floors and grind & polish the concrete foundation. Absolutely love it would never go back to any other surface. Easiest thing in the world to maintain, completely life proof (dogs, kids, and dropping things makes zero dents)...yes it's cool underfoot but hey in Florida we need all the help we can get! Doesn't scratch with sand and yes I have large rugs here and there defining certain areas. It's the natural color of the aggregate with a soft sheen and my house is done in a moroccan bohemian luxe style. People come over and marvel at it and I've convinced a half dozen other people and they say the same- they'll never go back to anything else- but it does involve a lot of planning and fore thought...if you've already moved in forget it, it MUST be done before due to the incredible dust from grinding and polishing.
How is this guy a designer? He literally hates and lacks understanding of any other decor style besides neutral mid century modern. 😂😂😂
And what about the inevitable cracks?
Let me start with what I love, ❤ and that is Nick, his channel, his design style and his commentary, spot on and kind. Please like if you agree. Now let’s get into it. Boucle is for Chanel suits period. I prefer texture instead of patterns. Farmhouse signage is SO over. Natural materials when possible or find a suitable man made product dupe. A space should be livable, simple, cleanable and personal to you. Can’t wait for your next episode, Nick, take care. 😊 That’s all I have to say about that.
You really changed my mind on the pot filler and made me think of some serious cons that I'd not thought of before.
... I still love floral print though😅 it reminds me of my Nana in the nicest way possible and her house was always perfect, immaculate and charming in this really classy understated way. This was a good video though. Thank you 👍
Love that you have Lily Allen and David Harbour's home as an example of floral LOL, I love florals but couldn't believe HOW MUCH florals they had in their home tour on AD.
Boucle is going to be one of the most dates styles in a few short years.
I just saw it for the first time. I think it is dated already.
I totally agree with the acrylic mixed with live edge tables. I also agree about the live edge for tables that are more used, like dining tables or desks, but a small end table in the corner of the room could look good with a live edge. Like a live edge plant stand or something I like.
I hate animal print too!
I'm with you on everything....ESPECIALLY live edge, with the exception of floral. I have a soft spot for florals, but never on upholstery.
Not the live edge!😭
In My PERSONAL opinion concrete floors ( including concrete counter tops) give me the feeling, that you didnt have enough money to finish the floors and you did what you could to make it work....🤷♀..Greaat video. 🌸
I mean yeah sometimes that is the case and having a functional surface takes priority over looking fancy. idk this comment comes off as very pretentious and classist.
@@morphinpink not sure why you got offended...I just gave my personal opinion...it looks unfinished!
@@mayangirl3757 I'm not offended, I'm just pointing out that the way you worded the comment comes off as judgemental and classist.
@@morphinpink I suggest you to think more positive..you reading to much into my words...it is just a personal opinion..I wasn't looking for any approval..it is what it is...concrete looks NOT FINISH!
Okay, but you know what would look great with that cold concrete floor? A warm live edge coffee table with a leather carpet and a boucle chair! Lol (but I’m with you on the acrylic pour over the wood 😵💫)
Agree sooo much! The live edge table, if it's up against a wall it never sits flush against the wall. The pot filler, had one, it leaked. The very few times I used it, it ended up splashing everywhere and I'd end up holding the pot up closer to the faucet to not splash so it basically didn't even serve its purpose.
I like live edge tables, I find them really organic and very interesting to look at... my dining table is live edge, but I am not enamored with the colored epoxy resin ones... I feel that the live edge is enough to bring interest and movement and adding colors resin makes it too busy for my eyes... love love love your videos Nick
I totally agree about the "live edge" tables. They are so dissonant to me. I generally agree about the concrete floors with the exception of desert homes. I lived in Phoenix years ago & everybody had tile floors because they are cooler & easier to maintain in that environment. I think in those type homes, concrete is a good choice.
Agree on the live edge tables! Living and travelling in Africa, I do think concrete floors can work in a very warm climate, where a bit of coolness is welcome
@@diddly_squat7335agree! I built my home in Central FL 26 years ago. I really wanted concrete floors but couldn't find anyone to install them. Went with all tile instead, and now they are so dated and I want to rip it all out. Except the labor alone to remove and replace it all with something else is $14k 😭
I think floral can work great as a highlight, like pillows or event bedsheets on a basic color and the bedroom in basic colors as well.
I love Homegoods during the holidays. There are some interesting little gifts and holiday serve ware. But at the same time it's overwhelming.
Good points on the pot filler. I don't have one but as I age I can see the appeal. I find myself using a spider to get the pasta out of the pot instead of a colander. Back in 1980 when floral couches were the thing I opted for a botanical print instead. It never looked as dated.
I had one in 1980 as well and I loved it.
I felt personally attacked with “we’ll get to the [maximalists] in a second” 🤣🤣 Love your videos!
Same! I love a good, bold floral and I’m not mad at animal print if done well 😂🤷🏼♀️
I don't. The world can deal with my Maximalist choices while I get to enjoy them.
I think it takes more skills to style a maximalist house
Love your channel and your "things I hate" videos Nick! Thankfully as an Artisan who makes live edge furniture for a living, there are enough people who disagree with you on that particular item to keep the orders coming in as fast as I can make them! 😂😂👍🏼
I have a piece of live edge wood that I inherited from my parents' house, which was built approximately in the 1840s. The base of the roofing was done with live edge slabs, and a few of them were thick enough to save for creative reasons! My parents were both artistic & he was a wood worker. I'm an artist too. I haven't settled on how to use it, but the resin seems to be calling to me!
Man I love you. So spot on and the best delivery 😅
I like how you said that, you know what you want so you don't need to wonder around stores because that's what I do..I'm almost solidified on what paint scheme I want for my house but it's a huge struggle because paint seems so permanent an I'm very indecisive but I have a colorful wardrobe so hopefully I can pull it together 😢
When I go to HomeGoods I almost always go in looking to see if I can find something really specific without having to order it online. I was able to find some decent blankets, pillows, and a cabinet that matched the look I was going for at the time, but I’m a pretty laser-focused shopper overall. I can definitely see it being a dangerous environment for impulse shoppers, and yeah the quality is not always gonna be up there with other stores either.
I'm with you on the acrylic filled live edge tables. I appreciate that they are beautifully and sometimes miraculously executed from a craftsperson's standpoint, but I've never felt drawn to own one. Will watch videos of people making them all day long though, because wow..
I love the concrete floors in the finished basement where I live, precisely because they are cold. I live in the South and I hate being hot! I also love florals and animal prints, but it has to be the right ones used in the right ways. I'm really picky about the scale and style of prints. Like, I love William Morris or other art nouveau style prints, and some bolder modern prints like Marimekko or Matisse, and the "sketch" floral designs that look hand drawn, but I don't like tropical, paisley, or anything too "old" or too "young" feeling. There are lots of other ones I like that don't fall into those categories, but it's really hard to describe. I just know it when I see it.
Concrete floors are popular here in Las Vegas, too
@Lucycat 241 Yes in my country, which is a tropical island, everything is made out of concrete but obviously floors keep cool inside but not outside. And inside walls also remain cooler.
pot filler perspective is gold! forever watching these videos to see what else I need to learn about things I can hate too!
Thank you for the pot filler! I've never understood them. It makes an empty pot easier to fill, but you then have to carry a heavy pot full of hot water to the sink!
Totally agree on everything -- especially concrete floors, which are SO cold -- except the florals. Florals can range from chintzy ditzy grandma to classic 18th century to art nouveaux to bold graphics, and there's nothing like them for making an armchair pop. I think pattern on pattern is due for a comeback.
Totally agree with you, especially about the pot filler! We were just talking about that the other day. I can see it making much more sense for a coffee pot if you have a dedicated coffee station. Also, I just want to thank you for your comment about not hating on granite from one of your recent past videos. When left to my own devices, I absolutely love our granite, it has so many beautiful colors in gray, taupe, black and every now and again a quartz. But a few years back when we refreshed the kitchen I almost got rid of it in favor of plain white quartz! It would have been 100% because the granite wasn't on trend and the quartz was. I decided to keep the granite, did a new matte black hexagon tile and refaced the maple cabinets - yes, maple in a natural finish. It's amazing and so much better for the environment not to mention I loved my granite. Sometimes it can be really hard to tease out if you actually dislike something or if you are just discontented and being influenced by trends you may actually like less. hmmm...
You are so funny Nick! I have a gorgeous home with concrete floors, a moody floral black bathroom wallpaper, an animal print rug in my living room, and some Home Goods decor pieces. I also think a live edged table is pretty (not for me, but in someone else’s home). One thing you didn’t mention that I have in a niche is a textured velvet wallpaper. I bet you’d hate that too! Still watching because I love snarky humor. 🖤
Hi, Nick. I stumbled on your channel while surfing You Tube and I love it!!! This video took me back to my floral stage in the early 2000s. Floral sofa, floral drapes and a floral area rug. Now I cringe at our family Christmas picture - sitting on the floral sofa with - don't throw up - floral plates on the wall!
I really appreciate your honest comments. Wow! Someone who is not afraid to express his point of view.
disconnected our pot filler when we moved in. Can't wait to get rid of it when I renovate.
Your dad is so right. And I feel the same about the pot filler. Animal print makes me think of the pedal pushers on the ladies of the night in 50s movies.
Animal print always reminds me of Peggy Bundy
@@heyitssherri175 I was about to write the same thing!
@@heyitssherri175 Yes.
I totally get that pot fillers aren’t for everyone, but I can offer a different perspective. My husband and I gutted and renovated our kitchen last year, and the pot filler is one of the things we love the most in our new kitchen. We are both very capable of carrying pots of water to and from the stove, so for only that reason, we would not have put one in. We don’t cook with oil. We use water to sauté vegetables, etc., and it’s so nice to be able to add more water to the pan when it starts to dry up before the veggies are done. Also, we only have one sink, and my husband would be washing produce while I would need to fill a pot with water, and we’d get in each other’s way in the old kitchen. We use our pot filler every time we cook. I think it really just depends on how a person cooks whether a pot filler is useful for someone or not.
and the size of their family, how often they eat at home, etc. if people garden and preserve their food (canning) then the pot filler would also be very helpful.
You also kind of made the case to have two sinks, one of which closer to the cooktop.
Another smaller work sink seems like a more practical and reasonable choice to me. That I would love.
I really like this point - I can imagine this would also be the case for a family without a dishwasher - if you have a pot-filler you can wash up as you go (or, you know, do the last load so you have plates to eat off because you've inevitably got behind) without it holding up the cooking process
Oh that would be nice!
My friends have a pot filler as part of their coffee bar. I want it…
You make me laugh out loud every week. I just love your opinions --even if I do love florals ❤
I’m with you on concrete (visions of prison and animal shelters) as well as animal prints (no dead animals in a home please and thank you - no need for a constant reminder of cruelty in the world). I have to take exception to the total florals ban although it can’t go granny). I’ve seen beautiful watercolor florals that were spot on in very small uses. Also onboard with the pot filler (although the plumbing industry must be patting themselves on the back for that sales job). This was a great video. I appreciate you making it.❤
“I’m on a personal crusade”…
YOU CRACK ME UP!!! I love your sense of humor.
PS… I don’t like live edged tables, have never been in a Home Goods, and I don’t understand pot fillers. The sink is right there!!! ❤️
Nick, I’m with you in EVERY SINGLE ONE of them!!! You’re so not alone! 🤜🏻🤛🏻❤️
I agreed with you until the florals. I LOVE florals, especially on wallpaper. Wallpaper that fits with the age of the house. It can be beautiful and if everything else is calm, a floral wallpaper can be really beautiful. My house was built in 1757, it is not a house that you paint the walls, it is not a place you put modern patterns in either. But floral wallpaper? Heck yeah! ;) Let's say my old Scandinavian log timber frame house would not be right without a floral wallpaper. Of topic, i found behind a old wall, really old wallpaper, it was beautiful and at least 200 years old. Floral.. ;)
I think you sold me on why not to get a pot filler! I always thought hey those look neat if we could afford one, but never thought about how you still have to take the pot back to the sink. Lol! I'm going to give myself permission to put on my judgey pants and roll my eyes now anytime I see one.
90 percent aligned with you; we deviate at the concrete FLOORS (countertops, sure). Your characterization couldn't be more Canadian!! I live in a place where 50-60 degree floors are a blessing, and all the pets will sprawl on the kitchen tile instead of the carpeted other rooms for 10 months out of the year!
Omg yes just went to Home Goods and told my husband that I guess I know my style more now and am more specific about what I want for our new home! I’m having better luck adding some things to my Amazon wishlist.
I get what you are saying, but I like the floral patterns and animal prints in limited amounts. Sort of the way you feel about boucle. 😊 I also inherited a beautiful walnut coffee table that has a live edge. I'm not loving the live edge, but the wood is drool worthy
“Bouclefied!” 😂 Also, cages as lamp shades. Glad to hear about that dining area refresh. 😉 ☮️
My husband said the same thing on a pot filler. We just finished our new house and he nixed that idea because of the plumbing risk. The juice is not worth the squeeze!
Love concrete floors, they’re indestructable, fully waterproof, they warm in the sun, great with infloor heating, neutral colour with natural tonal variation, very easy to clean
Oh I love a floral!!! As a garden enthusiast I can’t love it enough
Once again, I agree with the overall view of all your opinions here. For my home, I have two minor exceptions. I have an extra large lazy Susan on my quite large kitchen island that has a live edge, and it adds nicely to the overall look of the piece. And in the guest room I have a sheepskin piece on the floor next to the bed that is heavenly to feel when getting out of bed. It’s a bit of luxury for my guests!
I don’t think he included sheepskin with his hides comment. I know he has included the ikea ones as good buys before so think he likes a sheepskin 😊
Yes! You are the only person in the world I would let in my home and say: Do whatever you want. 🙂
I agree with you on all these items. I had a live edge coffee table for a while, it was a hand me down that was hand made by someone in my family. It took me forever to get rid of it, no one wanted it. Disaster 😅
I love stained concrete floors or countertops. Wood is my favorite, natch, but a polished concrete floor with beautiful antique rugs is especially fun for an office. :)
Hahaha! Good lessons Dad! I’m a female chemical engineer turned stay at home mom. Now I know why I keep watching you for over a year now!
We are planning to build our new house where we currently have lived 20yrs. Especially with costs to construct I often think about maintenance and upkeep in its relationship to the total design!
Btw I HATE mice and other critters getting in attic spaces and walls walls in addition all the little presents they love leaving behind! I’d love to see something about how to make sure we don’t ever get THAT (again) and what kinds of designs are good from that perspective.
I’m thinking going with Fox blocks / concrete forms to help prevent it! Will be zen like quite too as long as we buy the right windows.