Thank god someone is speaking out against those KAWS dolls. No disrespect to the artist but it's similar to seeing those Funko Pop dolls in gamer rooms. It's really tacky and objectively ugly.
I love those KAWS dolls! Seeing a toy that looks like Grover died brings me so much confused joyfull emotions! No I don't want a giant on in my bedroom! But anywhere else..not in my home...is fun!
Another thing I have about the designer logo tableware, blankets, etc. is that in 90% of the rooms/homes that show it don’t really have the money they’re alluding to. Like, they’re putting a $4K blanket on an IKEA sofa. It’s not high/low in a good way at all!
You had me when you said some people are starving and others are spending $100,000 on a little piece of their home. I will watch you for the rest of my life. 🙏🏼
As somebody from a third world country, I find that saying so stupid and pointless You play with the cards that are given to you. And unless all of people saying that give all their money away to poor people, stop judging others for what they have or don't have and how they chose to spend their money, no matter how stupid it may seem to you. Also, bad taste or being tacky is not exclusive to rich people.
I’ve just bought half a metre of upholstery fabric from Etsy for £6.99 . It’s framed on my wall and the design makes me so happy . I’m on a low income and that makes me more creative I think. Love your videos so much. Love from a skint Brit ❤️
Oooo that's a great idea! We have a giant blank wall in the kitchen and we've been trying to figure out what to do about it. I'd paint it, but we're renting so we can't. I'll run this idea by my roommate. Love the creativity!
That's a great idea! Btw, if you want to seal the edges of things for cheap. Clear nail polish (test on fabric first) will give you a finish that has a natural edge without fraying. Look up fray check to learn how to apply it. Alternatively or of you hate that look, try double sided tape but if that won't work on your fabric, there's iron on hem tape. I forget the name of it. Stitch witchery or something. Also, another great place for fabrics is the clearance section at joanns. You can regularly find really neat prints for 5 or 6 a yard
In the 1960s, Marimekko put itself on the American map by framing it's large-pattern fabrics on stretchers, to be hung on the wall as "art." It was a meeting of design and zeitgeist marketed to baby boomers headed for college. A lot of abstract art for not a lot of money. Sold !
They've been in competition with Louis Vuitton for decades. In the seminal boomer movie, The Graduate, the biggest laugh came from one word: Plastics ! Boomers laughed out loud at that. You had to be one to get it. It was a comment on the plastic world our parents had created. About that same year, another Italian company put down American roots with an entire line of gew-gaws and suitcases, each piece covered soup to nuts in doo doo brown PLASTIC. The taste-challenged middle class have been eating that stuff up ever since. ROTG LMAO. Hee Hee.
I remember looking at Versace furniture items on e-Bay years ago, and they were all so huge and gaudy...it was hard to even imagine the type of home they would suit.
My grandmother, who would be 120 if she was still alive, was an amazing fiber artist and she loved to embroider and monogram everything. However her initials were DAM. So there were DAM towels, DAM bed linens, DAM napkins, DAM table cloths, DAM clothing, and basically DAM everything. Upon her death it was sad that so many of the beautifully embroidered, cutwork lace linen items and bobbin lace items she had made could not really be used by anyone else without having to explain about the grand DAM that made them. While some were kept for sentimental reasons most were sent off to charitable organizations. It was cathartic to hear my mum, the preachers wife, randomly exclaim from another room that she found some more DAM towels or DAM bed linens.
Recently, AD gave an assignment to three designers to remake a garage into a guesthouse. All of them found ways to display a car inside the guesthouse-speaking of bizarre. All I could think of was fumes and oil leaks. AND you had to move furniture around in two of their designs just to drive your car inside.
5:13 Big tubs have another issue. During my house build I pulled in to do a walk through and was greeted by the builder who was grinning ear to ear. He told me there'd been a mistake and the wrong tub had been delivered. It was MUCH more expensive than the one I chose, but I was charged the lesser price. The store said it was more of a hassle to exchange it and, if I was cool, I could keep it. In that moment I had bigger fish to fry so I shrugged it off. Fast forward six months and I get my first real bath in my brand new, beautiful master. Took me about twenty minutes to fully understand how big of a problem I had on my hands. You see, a GIANT tub requires a GIANT hot water heater. We have a big H2O heater, but the tub is the size of a 2-3 person hot tub. In addition, the builder didn't put ANY insulation under the damn thing. It was losing heat almost as fast as it was being filled. I tried to make it work a total of three times. Here I am, seven years later, and I have NEVER had the pleasure of taking a real a bath in my own house. If it were just the tub it would be bad enough, but there are about a hundred other issues with the bathroom. We're planning a total remodel for next year. Kill me.
Recently, AD gave an assignment to three designers to remake a garage into a guesthouse. All of them found ways to display a car inside the guesthouse-speaking of bizarre. All I could think of was fumes and oil leaks. AND you had to move furniture around in two of their designs just to drive your car inside.
AD has lost its cache since Margaret Russell was fired for putting two Kardashians on a cover. That's a funny punchline. Not funny is that Margaret Russell is the most successful shelter editor in America. AD needed her desperately to wipe away all the dust from years of irrelevance and mediocrity. I'm shocked the two Kardashians didn't make the cut, they're shoo-ins.
You’re so good at explaining all these ugly tacky stuff. I am interior designer myself and I was always too shy to tell the clients about their bad choices. Thanks for sharing
a small, tasteful, well displayed crystal that works as part of the decor is always going to be better than just 'the biggest and most expensive you could find'. there are so many cool rocks out there that look amazing but you can tell when its just about the cost. it's just like when people are obsessed with diamonds, like literally anything else is more interesting, they just see the price.
And there are so many cool rocks and minerals and crystals that look way better. I've seen a couple in museums that I'm like that is such a cool color I want it to put on a shelf. Like even a cool piece of opal but those geodes always are so tacky
I have a mild disagreement with the full-on objection to Versace. Yes, it is utterly over the top. Still, if you consider a single item in isolation from the rest of the line, it is usually very successful. But ANY Versace item needs a LOT of distance from any other Versace item. I'd say no one needs to own more than ONE item--a pair of shoes, a shirt, a scarf. Go ahead, pull it out from time to time. Style it right, and you look like a million bucks. Two items on your back? That's over the line.
For me, it’s usually the size of those mansions that get me (looking at Drake here again) - why do you need a house the size of a football stadium?! It’s so cold and unwelcoming. I can see some family members or perhaps kitchen help living on premises but those mansions can literally fit a football team and it’s a private residency! 🤯
Marble is my nemesis. It tried to kill me, twice, when I was a kid, and I fear it. If you've ever walked on wet marble, you know. A countertop or an element on a small piece of furniture could be acceptable, but never ever floors.
I saw an apartment in Vancouver, BC, that had a lobby that had both black marble on floor, ceilings and walls AND LED strips on the floors, walls and ceiling. It had several smallish rooms in this lobby and you literally got lost in it. An Amazon delivery guy said to my friend (after he finally found the elevator and could come up), 'please don't make me go back down to that lobby'. It was like being in a hall of mirrors at a fairground.
You are so spot on with this video and I've felt this way with all the designer logos on everything. Tacky tacky tacky. They just scream " I'm trying hard to impress you ".
Almost every item on here screams "look at me!" It's not for me to say how people spend their money, but just one of those pillows could pay for a student's lunch account for a year. The car in the house thing made me think of a show back in the late 70s (don't remember the name), where the detective kept his car in his house. He was super cute and the car was super cute, so that was super cool; i don't think i'd want one hanging from the ceiling, though 😱 As for the LED lighting, yes, you have to be judicious with that, but the vertical strips could be helpful to someone with poor eyesight. Speaking of, do you think you might ever do a vid on lighting? Lots of us out here getting older, plus there are visually impaired folks of all ages; could be a fun and helpful batch of info. Great video, as always, DD (and really, after seeing these things, aren't we just a bit thankful that we don't have the $$$ to showcase such fugly things? 🥳😂😂)
9:50 Oh me and my mum recently started hunting down the beautiful plates from...charity shops! And we decided you know what why not use them for ourselves? Come to the UK and you can have beautiful dinners on beautiful plates! But seriously charity shops are underrated
Only thing marble in my house is a marble rolling pin from IKEA. It's fantastic. Sometimes I need a cool rolling pin and stick it in the fridge or freezer. Other than my rolling pin I don't like marble at all. I don't like it when homes look like every item was planned ahead. I like it when ppl add a little at a time. I'm not buing it, but the only thing I like on your list is the D&G appliances, it's a waste if money, D&G seems awful, but the items sure are pretty. Thanks for a very entertaining video ❤
I think having a nice set of dishes is actually a good thing. It doesn’t have to be Hermes. I have collected over the years antique depression glass place settings in the ballerina pattern. When I entertain sometimes we use them. It makes things a little more special. Sometimes it’s nice to eat on a real plate instead of a paper one. I have a collection of goblets as well.
Yes, there are so many beautiful and famous Porzellan or ceramic brands wich make staple pieces. I would rather buy and cherish something like this as some designer plates covered with initials or characteristic patterns. Also glassware…
Yes, it is edifying to have a nice, quality set of dishes to eat from and for daily use. They don't have to be expensive, just nice looking and durable and in a style you enjoy.
If I made a décor rant vid *THIS* would be it, word for word. Sidebar: I’ve been to plenty of elite/lux parties and nothing changes. There’s someone puking in the bathroom, someone wasted falls into the pool, dudes fighting over goofy shit, something expensive is always broken, the walk of shame girl shoes in hand. Etc. Give wealthy people too much alcohol and their inner tacky comes out. 😂
Everything you said is correct ✅ so so true people that decorate their homes 🏠 in this way are screaming I have a lot of money but 0 taste and absolutely no imagination 😢
I didn’t even watch yet but your algorithms theory is so on point every video I find I am up to in my journey and need to do research on and I go on TH-cam and find you have a new video that day with the exact questions I came for!!!
Over the years I have switched my tableware to Hermès. Use them every day. Best luxury purchase in my opinion. Never regret it for a minute. Always enjoy drinking coffee with these mugs and cups in the morning. expensive? certainly. But can I feel the joy just looking at them? Of course ;)
YES THANK YOU!! Perhaps a lot of people simply have a very limited point of reference? It's like if you know nothing about Babe Paley or other fashion icons, your clothing sense is probably going to be a bit shallow?? Same with decor, copying popular cliches and doing nothing else is lame, or worse.😂😂😂❤
Hilarious! I love giant amethysts, but not because of any crystal voodoo - I'm just a geology nerd. My grandmother gave me her Spode china, which lived in a cabinet, with the statement that she knew I'd actually use it. And I do, mixed with a couple of different patterns. The "good stuff" should be used at least weekly, or it's just taking up space.
I think if you are a geology nerd and you have a collection, it is great. It is your home and your thing. He is mostly saying the random geode in the corner as a design element only.
I'm a geology nerd too like I don't know much about it but I love it and weirdly enough I don't even like geodes give me some opal or tanzanite or something I don't know something unique to look at
Love this video! You’re so funny and right on point about everything. Though everything mentioned here is so over the top ugly or outrageous, the KAWS Dolls and cars in the living rooms have got to be the worst. Thank you for making my stormy California afternoon a little brighter and fun!
Hi! New subscriber here! Thank you for another excellent video! You cover a good variety of filthy rich peoples "taste". You are just so spot on! I am a Norwegian and maybe a little bit more down to earth when it comes to excessively interiors. I have moved away from the typical Scandinavian style myself, but I would never buy any of the items you showed us here, even if I maybe could.
8:43 About the glass collection it's a huge trend in my country but its classy glasses for wine or coke tails evevn tea sets in a glass closet for display, they show class and taste that said house wife has.
Those KAWS dolls give me the creeps! If someone gave one to me they could expect to find it in the back of my guest room closet or donated to the local thrift store more likely.
Im a pro chef that works in the SF Bay Area for very wealthy ppl. I have had to contend with my clients Versace/Hermes/etc china DOZENS of times. THEY DO use it but not without letting me know how much it all costs. I WANT them to tell me. Im always careful to not break my clients things and I instruct the wait staff to do them same but I ALWAYS hand wash the china crystal and silver. ALWAYS COUNT the silver before and after (A good habit to have bc utensils get thrown in the trash accidently ALL THE TIME when there is a big busy party going on). I wash the glasses and say to myself "one BMW car payment, two BMW car payments, three and so on bc the glasses are all around my monthly car payment
Question: I am considering adding a sofa/console table to the back of my sofa in my living room space. Specifically one of those acrylic waterfall, continuous one piece furniture . Why acrylic because the space is not very large it will give you the illusion of more space but also serve a purpose to place items on. Thoughts? Please be kind but I can certainly take the criticism lol
I was under the impression that something being out of reach for the average person, was the point of purchasing the ridiculously priced ugly items. Look at me, I’m rich and you’re not. Most of these people are self important NARCISSISTS.
My grandmother had some nice china my mother whose pushing 80 has like 5 or 6 sets and spent a lot of time hunting down missing pieces on some of them. Most of it sits in a sea captains chest and the rest in a cherry display cabinet. I'll keep it when shes gone might even add to some of it. It's not tacky to remember your roots and it its ok for them to display it in the white house its fine for us plebs. I am not the comfortable eating off 100-150 year old dishes or using the real silver serving items but makes for interesting conversations.
I love this! Howeves i am getting an artsy pal to dup the colorful smeg . Just a piece in all white kitchen with some solids in cannisters with my fiesta dinnerware. Cyte!
The more money you have the less you want to draw attention to yourself. I live in western Los Angeles and surprisingly a lot of tremendous wealth is displayed. A lot of people less a car that would be worth a $150,000 and live in a one bedroom condo. I spent 30 year in residential architecture and design and it was 30 years of babysitting adults who are out of touch with the world. It is never enough to buy or own even with the most generous and philanthropic clients. You can be wealthy and enjoy life while spending most of your fortune altruistically. No one needs a $50,000 watch. I worked on a project where the client had about 30 of those watches. Closets that are 16 feet by 20 feet that are the size of large kitchens with islands. There are enough clothes and shoes to never wear the same outfit twice. One of the most joyful things I did was sell a $1,000 Hugo Boss suit for $20 at a used clothing store. Now someone who truly needs a suit can afford to buy one. No one needs a million dollar car. My luxury would be to buy a large black hybrid or electric SUV and have a driver and donate the other $800,000 to charity. The larger the house the more maintenance which requires more people constantly in your home. Less is more.
My parents had black and grey completely marble baths, kitchen, and floors throughout back in the 90s... outrageously expensive and even more outrageously polished. It looked like a giant bathtub Elvis or Liberace would have owned, although I would never say so to them.
The over done bathroom made me giggle. I have a two story home that is built on a barge, so it docked by a pier with water coming in via basically a hose. So on the 2nd floor the bathroom has a jetted tub. I tried it once. It took forever to get the water high enough to use the jets and by then the water wasn’t warm. That was that, and it has been 7 years.
Marble. Marble should either be a statement such as a mirror effect or a mantle or an entryway. Used with other materials, of course or completely discreet, if used in any substantial amount.
Very good! Think about luxurious, sophisticated, high-end places like hotels, restaurants, shops. Are these places full of any of these "luxurious" items? All marble, logo pillows, hyperbeast art, cars - if they were truly luxurious, they would be all over these places. They aren't. Take a hint from them!
"Versace" says the girl sitting on THAT!! NO hate! But that is Ugg with a capitol F. I have my weakness too - i LOVE my UG Glasseare, Blue Willow pieces and Spode Blue Room Collection but in my only defense, I use it all, everyday as everyday pieces. I love your channel and you are absolutely spot on for most things. I subscribed with my first view.
Design Daddy. I'm a new viewer, but I love all your comments you talk about. I have to laugh, because I agree with everything you say that's tacky in people's houses.😂
I love crystals and crystal geods, but I would use them as lamps (having a light inside or under) rather than just chuck a slab somewhere randomly in my home. I don't believe in energies, I just love crystals lol. (Magpie at heart)
I agree with most of your list but I never knew about that smeg range. I wouldn’t say no to one of those appliances in my kitchen. Are they still available? 🤔😁
Is there a partial exemption for use in a bathroom where you're looking for spa-like lighting for a long soak, rather than overhead/make-up light functional lighting?
Agree with you in 90% of topics. Regarding Hermès tableware I am not full on your side. Probably most people who buy their most iconic platinum or gold color H collection use it only for show/ show off. I love the the "Balcon du Guadalquivir". It does not scream Hermès. We use it everyday. We have other plates that are pulled out for those special occasions. There is more precious porcelain than Hermès without the tackiness attached.
My great aunt, grandmother, great grandmother all had monogrammed sterling silver service for 12. My mother had silver plate she got from box tops to Kelloggs. Also monogrammed. I’m sure it’s all been melted down somewhere.
I would normally not even think about what someone wears but criticizing tacky interiors while dressed like a Russian oligarch's mistress is pretty funny...
I so agree with you on the designer pillows... like, i thought i was the only one who dispise them... never really liked those luxury names sitting on couch or bed of every celebrity. They look cheap to me.
Omg thank you. I loathe everything you list. Every single one of these is so ludicrously expensive that each one ends up looking terribly downmarket. Loved the Gwyneth Paltrow plate /earthquake remark. 😂
Chiiiiiillllleeee! I thought that "H' stood for Hilfiger before you explained😂😂😂😂 - showing my tax bracket.. It's a really cute blanket though.. but no
This is the most fun 🤩 I love seeing outrageous things I will never afford. It makes me think about when I was a poor student and the artsy people in my life would paint or decoupage old furniture or appliances. I would think that’s so cool! But then wealthy people do the same thing for ginormous amounts of money 😂 it’s the middle class who are restrained by good taste.
"There's no accounting for taste"; well... yes, but "The money, but not the taste"; YES😂. If you genuinely love these items, go ahead and buy them. I hope they will bring you a lot of joy in your home. I am all for liking what you like and not apologizing for it. But, let's be honest, most of these people just have them for the purpose of having them.
Love this! I have been to many celeb houses (investigations) @ most are minimalistic and plain....Once in a while you do get the strange mannequins and statues of themselves haaaa
100% agree on those tacky dolls and the over the top marble (I also hate those gold, gold, gold everywhere places yuck), I loathe designer labels on pillows, throws etc and if I’m going for a high end plate I’m going traditional with Wedgewood or Royal Doulton and I’m using it everyday. A car in a home Lordy. In Australia we’d call you a wanker for doing that.
"crystals are not going to help you no matter how long they're charged under the moon" had me wheezing LMFAO
Me too! 😂😂😂
I have crystals for no other reason than I find them beyond beautiful. But definitely not giant ones, even if I could afford them.
warm ambient people collect crystals for their own reasons whether it's their personal taste or their personal belief... leave it alone!😢
Personally the chairs that you sit in on your videos are very ugly and impractical too hard to get in and out of....🤔
@@jayemowrey1416 it's not that deep, he made a joke LMAO.
For a long time i didn't know about the Avalon blanket and i wondered why so many people had Harry Potter blankets draped over furniture.
Thank god someone is speaking out against those KAWS dolls. No disrespect to the artist but it's similar to seeing those Funko Pop dolls in gamer rooms. It's really tacky and objectively ugly.
I get that all art is subjective, but you’re buying a plastic mold with a pre set spray on it, it’s a toy. 🫠🫠
I love those KAWS dolls! Seeing a toy that looks like Grover died brings me so much confused joyfull emotions! No I don't want a giant on in my bedroom! But anywhere else..not in my home...is fun!
@legoqueen2445 while they aren't my taste, I'm glad they bring you joy, and also that you don't want it in your house.
Could'nt agree more!
Love his sightfull inputs!
Yea! Yes someone is saying enough! Little ideas help the average home look good,
Another thing I have about the designer logo tableware, blankets, etc. is that in 90% of the rooms/homes that show it don’t really have the money they’re alluding to. Like, they’re putting a $4K blanket on an IKEA sofa. It’s not high/low in a good way at all!
You had me when you said some people are starving and others are spending $100,000 on a little piece of their home. I will watch you for the rest of my life. 🙏🏼
It sums up my feelings too.
As somebody from a third world country, I find that saying so stupid and pointless
You play with the cards that are given to you. And unless all of people saying that give all their money away to poor people, stop judging others for what they have or don't have and how they chose to spend their money, no matter how stupid it may seem to you.
Also, bad taste or being tacky is not exclusive to rich people.
People can spend their own money on whatever they want, why do other people care?
@@daytripperaThis!! Otherwise what are we advocating here communism?! ❤
This thread is ridiculous
I’ve just bought half a metre of upholstery fabric from Etsy for £6.99 . It’s framed on my wall and the design makes me so happy . I’m on a low income and that makes me more creative I think. Love your videos so much. Love from a skint Brit ❤️
That sounds lovely :)
Oooo that's a great idea! We have a giant blank wall in the kitchen and we've been trying to figure out what to do about it. I'd paint it, but we're renting so we can't. I'll run this idea by my roommate. Love the creativity!
That's a great idea! Btw, if you want to seal the edges of things for cheap. Clear nail polish (test on fabric first) will give you a finish that has a natural edge without fraying. Look up fray check to learn how to apply it.
Alternatively or of you hate that look, try double sided tape but if that won't work on your fabric, there's iron on hem tape. I forget the name of it. Stitch witchery or something.
Also, another great place for fabrics is the clearance section at joanns. You can regularly find really neat prints for 5 or 6 a yard
In the 1960s, Marimekko put itself on the American map by framing it's large-pattern fabrics on stretchers, to be hung on the wall as "art." It was a meeting of design and zeitgeist marketed to baby boomers headed for college. A lot of abstract art for not a lot of money. Sold !
@@JackMason-oq8lf "put itself on the American map", they tell a Brit about a Finnish company haha
Has Versace ever not been tacky and vulgar?
Hahah! You’re not wrong 🤣
They've been in competition with Louis Vuitton for decades. In the seminal boomer movie, The Graduate, the biggest laugh came from one word: Plastics ! Boomers laughed out loud at that. You had to be one to get it. It was a comment on the plastic world our parents had created. About that same year, another Italian company put down American roots with an entire line of gew-gaws and suitcases, each piece covered soup to nuts in doo doo brown PLASTIC. The taste-challenged middle class have been eating that stuff up ever since. ROTG LMAO. Hee Hee.
I remember looking at Versace furniture items on e-Bay years ago, and they were all so huge and gaudy...it was hard to even imagine the type of home they would suit.
kaws dolls being the straight male equivalent to 'live laugh love' makes so much sense
It's like the white dudes that love kid Cudi
Yep. “Hypebeast aesthetic” is spot on. What aesthetic even. It’s ugly as hell. 😂
My grandmother, who would be 120 if she was still alive, was an amazing fiber artist and she loved to embroider and monogram everything. However her initials were DAM. So there were DAM towels, DAM bed linens, DAM napkins, DAM table cloths, DAM clothing, and basically DAM everything. Upon her death it was sad that so many of the beautifully embroidered, cutwork lace linen items and bobbin lace items she had made could not really be used by anyone else without having to explain about the grand DAM that made them. While some were kept for sentimental reasons most were sent off to charitable organizations. It was cathartic to hear my mum, the preachers wife, randomly exclaim from another room that she found some more DAM towels or DAM bed linens.
I agree with all the items you mentioned, especially displaying a car in a home. The only place a car should be displayed is in a garage.
Exactly! You can only truly enjoy something by using it in that essence, just starting at a car in a living room is just bizzzare to me
Recently, AD gave an assignment to three designers to remake a garage into a guesthouse. All of them found ways to display a car inside the guesthouse-speaking of bizarre. All I could think of was fumes and oil leaks. AND you had to move furniture around in two of their designs just to drive your car inside.
@Eloiseat6 yeah breathing exhaust in an enclosed space is notoriously bad for you.
It feels so unhinged. Like, I love my kitchenaids, but I'm not putting it in the bathroom
5:13 Big tubs have another issue. During my house build I pulled in to do a walk through and was greeted by the builder who was grinning ear to ear. He told me there'd been a mistake and the wrong tub had been delivered. It was MUCH more expensive than the one I chose, but I was charged the lesser price. The store said it was more of a hassle to exchange it and, if I was cool, I could keep it. In that moment I had bigger fish to fry so I shrugged it off.
Fast forward six months and I get my first real bath in my brand new, beautiful master.
Took me about twenty minutes to fully understand how big of a problem I had on my hands. You see, a GIANT tub requires a GIANT hot water heater. We have a big H2O heater, but the tub is the size of a 2-3 person hot tub. In addition, the builder didn't put ANY insulation under the damn thing. It was losing heat almost as fast as it was being filled.
I tried to make it work a total of three times. Here I am, seven years later, and I have NEVER had the pleasure of taking a real a bath in my own house.
If it were just the tub it would be bad enough, but there are about a hundred other issues with the bathroom. We're planning a total remodel for next year.
Kill me.
Recently, AD gave an assignment to three designers to remake a garage into a guesthouse. All of them found ways to display a car inside the guesthouse-speaking of bizarre. All I could think of was fumes and oil leaks. AND you had to move furniture around in two of their designs just to drive your car inside.
lol I didn’t finish that episode once they mentioned having a car in there
AD has lost its cache since Margaret Russell was fired for putting two Kardashians on a cover. That's a funny punchline. Not funny is that Margaret Russell is the most successful shelter editor in America. AD needed her desperately to wipe away all the dust from years of irrelevance and mediocrity. I'm shocked the two Kardashians didn't make the cut, they're shoo-ins.
You’re so good at explaining all these ugly tacky stuff. I am interior designer myself and I was always too shy to tell the clients about their bad choices.
Thanks for sharing
Yessss. Somebody needed to say it all!!!
I know I’m gunna get some heat for this one 🤣
a small, tasteful, well displayed crystal that works as part of the decor is always going to be better than just 'the biggest and most expensive you could find'. there are so many cool rocks out there that look amazing but you can tell when its just about the cost. it's just like when people are obsessed with diamonds, like literally anything else is more interesting, they just see the price.
Yes. Those large crystals are very beautiful but a very niche item that only looks good on certain decor styles and settings.
And there are so many cool rocks and minerals and crystals that look way better. I've seen a couple in museums that I'm like that is such a cool color I want it to put on a shelf. Like even a cool piece of opal but those geodes always are so tacky
I got a mid century oak standing cabinet that folds out into a writing desk for 15 bucks from a thrift store a couple of months ago.
Completely agree on Versaci it always looked tacky to me and i never understood the thing behind it:)))
I have a mild disagreement with the full-on objection to Versace. Yes, it is utterly over the top. Still, if you consider a single item in isolation from the rest of the line, it is usually very successful. But ANY Versace item needs a LOT of distance from any other Versace item. I'd say no one needs to own more than ONE item--a pair of shoes, a shirt, a scarf. Go ahead, pull it out from time to time. Style it right, and you look like a million bucks. Two items on your back? That's over the line.
For me, it’s usually the size of those mansions that get me (looking at Drake here again) - why do you need a house the size of a football stadium?! It’s so cold and unwelcoming. I can see some family members or perhaps kitchen help living on premises but those mansions can literally fit a football team and it’s a private residency! 🤯
I've always thought that when someone buys a house that big, it's more about making sure to NOT see anyone in your family.
Marble is my nemesis. It tried to kill me, twice, when I was a kid, and I fear it.
If you've ever walked on wet marble, you know.
A countertop or an element on a small piece of furniture could be acceptable, but never ever floors.
Hahahah, "when is the good dinners?"I heard that😂😂😂
Right?? I’m so glad I’m not the only one that’s thought this 🤣🤣
I would use more marble too, but not in a 3D way. Now I can enjoy my beautiful marble pieces triffted on e-bay
I saw an apartment in Vancouver, BC, that had a lobby that had both black marble on floor, ceilings and walls AND LED strips on the floors, walls and ceiling. It had several smallish rooms in this lobby and you literally got lost in it. An Amazon delivery guy said to my friend (after he finally found the elevator and could come up), 'please don't make me go back down to that lobby'. It was like being in a hall of mirrors at a fairground.
You are so spot on with this video and I've felt this way with all the designer logos on everything. Tacky tacky tacky. They just scream " I'm trying hard to impress you ".
Yes, no real, wealthy, old money people will ever display something with a tacky logo on it.
That video made me laugh so hard. "It's giving Russian Mob" hahahha SO TRUE!
Haha! Thanks for watching 🤍🤍
I am SO far out of the loop and tax bracket that I have never even seen most of these trends. I would do the shower though 😂
The shower would be cool to use, I’ll give them that much. 😂 imagine the water bill though
I love marble but totally agree with you that less is more.
I’m a marble fiend myself 🤫
OK I'm not mad at the car on the ceiling. It actually tickled my sense of humor.
Almost every item on here screams "look at me!" It's not for me to say how people spend their money, but just one of those pillows could pay for a student's lunch account for a year. The car in the house thing made me think of a show back in the late 70s (don't remember the name), where the detective kept his car in his house. He was super cute and the car was super cute, so that was super cool; i don't think i'd want one hanging from the ceiling, though 😱 As for the LED lighting, yes, you have to be judicious with that, but the vertical strips could be helpful to someone with poor eyesight. Speaking of, do you think you might ever do a vid on lighting? Lots of us out here getting older, plus there are visually impaired folks of all ages; could be a fun and helpful batch of info. Great video, as always, DD (and really, after seeing these things, aren't we just a bit thankful that we don't have the $$$ to showcase such fugly things? 🥳😂😂)
For me, it reminds me of late 19th Century pharmacies that used to mount crocodiles on their ceilings for the glamour of it
@@lsamoa Ha! i've never heard of that; must investigate now 😁🐊
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My fridge is so jam packed with colorful magnets, that I guess it counts as one of the "Amalfi coast" fridges. Saved a good lot of money that way.
11:03 absolute game changer I love the juxtaposition between the nonsensical car in the house with the traditional French furniture ♡♡♡♡
Every single piece on this video I’ve seen at some point here in Miami! 😂
“luxury” logos are tacky AF - I don’t care what it’s on. It screams “insecure.” they’re just tacky. period.
9:50 Oh me and my mum recently started hunting down the beautiful plates from...charity shops! And we decided you know what why not use them for ourselves? Come to the UK and you can have beautiful dinners on beautiful plates! But seriously charity shops are underrated
Agree with all. Drake’s house is unbelievably garish and tacky.
Only thing marble in my house is a marble rolling pin from IKEA. It's fantastic. Sometimes I need a cool rolling pin and stick it in the fridge or freezer. Other than my rolling pin I don't like marble at all. I don't like it when homes look like every item was planned ahead. I like it when ppl add a little at a time. I'm not buing it, but the only thing I like on your list is the D&G appliances, it's a waste if money, D&G seems awful, but the items sure are pretty. Thanks for a very entertaining video ❤
Thanks for watching 🤍🤍
Yes!
Love my Avalon blanket 🩵
And my cc cushions 😉…Oh and my (black) smeg refrigerator…goes fab with my black smeg range! But agree on the D&G collab 😵💫
The irony of covering this subject, while sitting in that chair…
I was just thinking that and then saw your comment. 💯
Lol....😊
yah, It look like a fun chair for a kids room or something, but beyond that I’m not a fan.
Getting the reclined woman with huge boobs and spread legs chair in a kids room would be a choice
I think having a nice set of dishes is actually a good thing. It doesn’t have to be Hermes. I have collected over the years antique depression glass place settings in the ballerina pattern. When I entertain sometimes we use them. It makes things a little more special. Sometimes it’s nice to eat on a real plate instead of a paper one. I have a collection of goblets as well.
It just doesn't have to have a designer name in the design to make it beautiful.
Yes, there are so many beautiful and famous Porzellan or ceramic brands wich make staple pieces. I would rather buy and cherish something like this as some designer plates covered with initials or characteristic patterns.
Also glassware…
Yes, it is edifying to have a nice, quality set of dishes to eat from and for daily use. They don't have to be expensive, just nice looking and durable and in a style you enjoy.
If I made a décor rant vid *THIS* would be it, word for word. Sidebar: I’ve been to plenty of elite/lux parties and nothing changes. There’s someone puking in the bathroom, someone wasted falls into the pool, dudes fighting over goofy shit, something expensive is always broken, the walk of shame girl shoes in hand. Etc. Give wealthy people too much alcohol and their inner tacky comes out. 😂
Everything you said is correct ✅ so so true people that decorate their homes 🏠 in this way are screaming I have a lot of money but 0 taste and absolutely no imagination 😢
I didn’t even watch yet but your algorithms theory is so on point every video I find I am up to in my journey and need to do research on and I go on TH-cam and find you have a new video that day with the exact questions I came for!!!
I couldn't agree more re designer logos on home decor. But let's extend the veto to ALL items!
My mother said that if you want me to wear your advertising pay me. Same goes for house stuff.
I agreee with you in all execpt for the funtastic fridge design
Over the years I have switched my tableware to Hermès. Use them every day. Best luxury purchase in my opinion. Never regret it for a minute. Always enjoy drinking coffee with these mugs and cups in the morning. expensive? certainly. But can I feel the joy just looking at them? Of course ;)
YES THANK YOU!! Perhaps a lot of people simply have a very limited point of reference? It's like if you know nothing about Babe Paley or other fashion icons, your clothing sense is probably going to be a bit shallow?? Same with decor, copying popular cliches and doing nothing else is lame, or worse.😂😂😂❤
Hilarious! I love giant amethysts, but not because of any crystal voodoo - I'm just a geology nerd. My grandmother gave me her Spode china, which lived in a cabinet, with the statement that she knew I'd actually use it. And I do, mixed with a couple of different patterns. The "good stuff" should be used at least weekly, or it's just taking up space.
Oooh, which Spode pattern? ❤
I have a cathedral Amethyst in my dark academia room along with a few other geodes. I love nature and geology.
I think if you are a geology nerd and you have a collection, it is great. It is your home and your thing. He is mostly saying the random geode in the corner as a design element only.
I'm a geology nerd too like I don't know much about it but I love it and weirdly enough I don't even like geodes give me some opal or tanzanite or something I don't know something unique to look at
OMG I love you for speaking the truth ❤Preach Daddy!
Love this video! You’re so funny and right on point about everything. Though everything mentioned here is so over the top ugly or outrageous, the KAWS Dolls and cars in the living rooms have got to be the worst. Thank you for making my stormy California afternoon a little brighter and fun!
Hi! New subscriber here! Thank you for another excellent video! You cover a good variety of filthy rich peoples "taste". You are just so spot on! I am a Norwegian and maybe a little bit more down to earth when it comes to excessively interiors. I have moved away from the typical Scandinavian style myself, but I would never buy any of the items you showed us here, even if I maybe could.
And this is only a portion of the oddly expensive things that are so far out of reach 🫣🫣
And that Tom Ford book, so sick of seeing it 😩
I’m guilty of this 😭😭 I got it because the black goes with everything but I stack others on top of it so you don’t see it 🤫
@@mrphoenixgrey I thought you might 😅
As long as youve looked inside the book then that okay😁😂
You know what would make a funny design video? Rooms with the most over used rugs, plants, etc etc/
8:43 About the glass collection it's a huge trend in my country but its classy glasses for wine or coke tails evevn tea sets in a glass closet for display, they show class and taste that said house wife has.
Those KAWS dolls give me the creeps! If someone gave one to me they could expect to find it in the back of my guest room closet or donated to the local thrift store more likely.
I am about eating off Versace plates! Display them sure, but also use them for the intended purpose!
Im a pro chef that works in the SF Bay Area for very wealthy ppl. I have had to contend with my clients Versace/Hermes/etc china DOZENS of times. THEY DO use it but not without letting me know how much it all costs. I WANT them to tell me. Im always careful to not break my clients things and I instruct the wait staff to do them same but I ALWAYS hand wash the china crystal and silver. ALWAYS COUNT the silver before and after (A good habit to have bc utensils get thrown in the trash accidently ALL THE TIME when there is a big busy party going on). I wash the glasses and say to myself "one BMW car payment, two BMW car payments, three and so on bc the glasses are all around my monthly car payment
You are so on point... 👍☺️ . And I can't keep my eyes off of that chair. ☺️
When it comes to branded anything, remember: quality advertises itself.
I'm with this guy on most all his suggestions!
i hate the kaws sculptures so much thank you
"All fur coat and no knickas"
Enjoyed this show and your opinions! I seem to agree with you all the time.
I agree with everything! Only thing you missed was mirrored furniture
YES! - Over marbled and over LED are a couple of my pet peeves.
Question: I am considering adding a sofa/console table to the back of my sofa in my living room space. Specifically one of those acrylic waterfall, continuous one piece furniture . Why acrylic because the space is not very large it will give you the illusion of more space but also serve a purpose to place items on. Thoughts? Please be kind but I can certainly take the criticism lol
Those mable bath are stunning and also the same cost of my next overseas holiday. I know which one I’d rather have.
I was under the impression that something being out of reach for the average person, was the point of purchasing the ridiculously priced ugly items. Look at me, I’m rich and you’re not. Most of these people are self important NARCISSISTS.
The "Family" bit had me cackling! I loved you instantly 😂❤😂
My grandmother had some nice china my mother whose pushing 80 has like 5 or 6 sets and spent a lot of time hunting down missing pieces on some of them. Most of it sits in a sea captains chest and the rest in a cherry display cabinet. I'll keep it when shes gone might even add to some of it. It's not tacky to remember your roots and it its ok for them to display it in the white house its fine for us plebs. I am not the comfortable eating off 100-150 year old dishes or using the real silver serving items but makes for interesting conversations.
That marble bathroom, geez. You could have had something nice!
I love this! Howeves i am getting an artsy pal to dup the colorful smeg . Just a piece in all white kitchen with some solids in cannisters with my fiesta dinnerware. Cyte!
The more money you have the less you want to draw attention to yourself. I live in western Los Angeles and surprisingly a lot of tremendous wealth is displayed. A lot of people less a car that would be worth a $150,000 and live in a one bedroom condo. I spent 30 year in residential architecture and design and it was 30 years of babysitting adults who are out of touch with the world. It is never enough to buy or own even with the most generous and philanthropic clients. You can be wealthy and enjoy life while spending most of your fortune altruistically. No one needs a $50,000 watch. I worked on a project where the client had about 30 of those watches. Closets that are 16 feet by 20 feet that are the size of large kitchens with islands. There are enough clothes and shoes to never wear the same outfit twice. One of the most joyful things I did was sell a $1,000 Hugo Boss suit for $20 at a used clothing store. Now someone who truly needs a suit can afford to buy one. No one needs a million dollar car. My luxury would be to buy a large black hybrid or electric SUV and have a driver and donate the other $800,000 to charity. The larger the house the more maintenance which requires more people constantly in your home. Less is more.
Finally, someone who says it like it is. Money definitely does NOT buy taste!
My parents had black and grey completely marble baths, kitchen, and floors throughout back in the 90s... outrageously expensive and even more outrageously polished. It looked like a giant bathtub Elvis or Liberace would have owned, although I would never say so to them.
Delightful! Thank you!
The over done bathroom made me giggle. I have a two story home that is built on a barge, so it docked by a pier with water coming in via basically a hose. So on the 2nd floor the bathroom has a jetted tub. I tried it once. It took forever to get the water high enough to use the jets and by then the water wasn’t warm. That was that, and it has been 7 years.
Marble. Marble should either be a statement such as a mirror effect or a mantle or an entryway. Used with other materials, of course or completely discreet, if used in any substantial amount.
Just because someone is rich doesn’t mean they have taste or class. You just proved it. Cheers
A version of the shower scene you talk of was in the movie The Girl Most Lively.
Very good!
Think about luxurious, sophisticated, high-end places like hotels, restaurants, shops. Are these places full of any of these "luxurious" items? All marble, logo pillows, hyperbeast art, cars - if they were truly luxurious, they would be all over these places. They aren't. Take a hint from them!
"Versace" says the girl sitting on THAT!!
NO hate! But that is Ugg with a capitol F.
I have my weakness too - i LOVE my UG Glasseare, Blue Willow pieces and Spode Blue Room Collection but in my only defense, I use it all, everyday as everyday pieces.
I love your channel and you are absolutely spot on for most things. I subscribed with my first view.
Design Daddy. I'm a new viewer, but I love all your comments you talk about. I have to laugh, because I agree with everything you say that's tacky in people's houses.😂
PART II. However, I did agree with every one of your critiques in this episode.
Agree with the Kaws sculptures. They are hideous
I love crystals and crystal geods, but I would use them as lamps (having a light inside or under) rather than just chuck a slab somewhere randomly in my home. I don't believe in energies, I just love crystals lol. (Magpie at heart)
I agree with most of your list but I never knew about that smeg range. I wouldn’t say no to one of those appliances in my kitchen. Are they still available? 🤔😁
Is there a partial exemption for use in a bathroom where you're looking for spa-like lighting for a long soak, rather than overhead/make-up light functional lighting?
Agree with you in 90% of topics. Regarding Hermès tableware I am not full on your side. Probably most people who buy their most iconic platinum or gold color H collection use it only for show/ show off. I love the the "Balcon du Guadalquivir". It does not scream Hermès. We use it everyday. We have other plates that are pulled out for those special occasions. There is more precious porcelain than Hermès without the tackiness attached.
My great aunt, grandmother, great grandmother all had monogrammed sterling silver service for 12. My mother had silver plate she got from box tops to Kelloggs. Also monogrammed. I’m sure it’s all been melted down somewhere.
It’s interesting coming out from a sweat pants and a floral sheer top talking about tacky and taste!!!! lol
😂. And sitting on that chair.
I would normally not even think about what someone wears but criticizing tacky interiors while dressed like a Russian oligarch's mistress is pretty funny...
@@g.970 lol…. I know right!!! 🤣
I so agree with you on the designer pillows... like, i thought i was the only one who dispise them... never really liked those luxury names sitting on couch or bed of every celebrity. They look cheap to me.
I´m curious: What is your opinion of Meissen porcelain and home decor? I like the porcelain and I use it everyday even my special collection items.
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Loved your opinion on everything. But can you give alternatives to items like the Hermes blanket.
aksdjhal the final destination bathroom rant made me laugh so hard but it could be so true lmao 🤣🤣🤣
love your videos
Thanks for watching 🤍
This video was hilarious but extremely on point!
Omg thank you. I loathe everything you list. Every single one of these is so ludicrously expensive that each one ends up looking terribly downmarket. Loved the Gwyneth Paltrow plate /earthquake remark. 😂
Chiiiiiillllleeee! I thought that "H' stood for Hilfiger before you explained😂😂😂😂 - showing my tax bracket.. It's a really cute blanket though.. but no
This is the most fun 🤩 I love seeing outrageous things I will never afford. It makes me think about when I was a poor student and the artsy people in my life would paint or decoupage old furniture or appliances. I would think that’s so cool! But then wealthy people do the same thing for ginormous amounts of money 😂 it’s the middle class who are restrained by good taste.
I liked how your outfit reflects the topic 😅
"There's no accounting for taste"; well... yes, but "The money, but not the taste"; YES😂. If you genuinely love these items, go ahead and buy them. I hope they will bring you a lot of joy in your home. I am all for liking what you like and not apologizing for it. But, let's be honest, most of these people just have them for the purpose of having them.
Love this! I have been to many celeb houses (investigations) @ most are minimalistic and plain....Once in a while you do get the strange mannequins and statues of themselves haaaa
100% agree on those tacky dolls and the over the top marble (I also hate those gold, gold, gold everywhere places yuck), I loathe designer labels on pillows, throws etc and if I’m going for a high end plate I’m going traditional with Wedgewood or Royal Doulton and I’m using it everyday. A car in a home Lordy. In Australia we’d call you a wanker for doing that.