Because there's a huge gap between not wanting to be around kids and also respecting them as their own little people with specific wants and needs according to their age range.
I wonder if it would be a good idea to have a super colourful playroom, but neutral sleeping space for kids? I keep hearing neutral and dark is better to sleep in, lol assuming kids stuff was capable of being contained in one room lol meanwhile I’m trying to figure out how the the craft gems keep ending up in the shoe rack fml lol...
@@lunar686 the background should be a neutral or pale colour. Colour and contrast should be introduced in toys, materials, limited furniture, or wall hangings if you really have to. Clown vomit is not an aesthetic most kids will put up with for longer than a few minutes before becoming overstimulated and either going crazy super hyper or just shutting down.
I wonder how those parents deal with real kids in real life when kids don't care this kind of decorations, love the mess and play with the box instead of the expensive toy!!!
Italian here: those wine “rooms” are not only tacky, but they’re also showing that those people don’t know the first thing about wine! Wine is supposed to be stored in the dark, not exposed to light unless you don’t care about your expensive wine going bad🤦🏻♀️
Yes omg glad I saw this, I was going to make the same comment! I'm Australian and whilst we have a reputation for beer drinking we actually have a well developed wine industry and culture and I can tell you I knew right away only an idiot would store their wines out like that! My uncle even built a little cellar for his wine when they renovated (which cost a fortune, no one has cellars here so builders don't know how to do them). Rich people have more money than good sense, let alone taste.
@@claremiller9979 that's funny, because my father is a bricklayer and he enjoys building wine cellars and arches etc., but nobody wants them anymore. They even have a huge wine cellar under their house, even though they store everything else in it, because they drink like 3 bottles of wine per year :D
7:42 Funny how Nick says "I don't really care for kids", then ends up having a much more respectful and loving take on how to decorate, or let the kids decorate, their rooms compared to a lot of parents who claim to adore their own children
I think he would really like kids that have access to color and nature. Maybe he doesn’t care for the ones who are drowning in beige, lifeless flesh tones and are annoyingly desperate for stimulation 😂 My kids get all their energy out in nature and being able to make whatever the heck they want out of wood and clay whatever and make a mess. Then they are pleasant when I need them to be.
Childless people tend to have a lot more respect for children because that's usually part of the reason they decided against having kids. They see them as fully functional mini humans and understand that to be a ton of work.
As a former art teacher, yes, children’s vision develops with age just like everything else. Red is the first color they can differentiate, then yellow, then blue. Subtleties like mocha, puce, or griege are lost on them until they are almost tweenagers. They don’t even respond to pastels, so such decor is all about the parents and not about the children.
I didn't know that! That explains SO much - my favourite colour when I was young was red, and it's my three-year-old niece's favourite colour now. Having bright colours for kids' spaces makes even more sense to me now!
This is a very hard pill to swallow when it comes to decorating your Childrens’ rooms. I was so excited to decorate my 12 year old’s new room and he kept saying “why does a kid’s room have to look like it’s in a catalogue-it’s so not natural!” I stepped back and realized that it’s the influencers’ influence on us. I decorate the entire house but let my kids’ rooms stay “undecorated” and they love it.
Thanks for listening to your kid and stepping back. My room was a muddy yellow that was popular when French Country was a big thing, and I was not into it. Always wanted more color.
I’m not a kid person either but I totally agree with you on the beige kids rooms. I attribute my love of design today to the fact my mom would let my sister and I redecorate our rooms every summer. It was the highlight of our summer picking out fabrics and making new curtains, coverlets, etc. some worked out better than others ( still sorry about the sponge painted doors). Dad would paint the rooms whatever colors we wanted. The basic furniture stayed white but each summer reflected who we were at that time. I only wish now I had color pictures of some of those rooms from the 60s and 70s. They were great memories.
Oh, that sounds AMAZING! (Speaking as someone who only really got to decorate my own room for the first time in my thirties - for many, many reasons including lack of funds and living in rented accommodation for the vast majority of my life.)
@@Teverell Thanks. It was never very expensive materials.just twin beds and cafe curtains but they were magical to us. My favorite was a pale lavender paint and the fabric was a Laura Ashley-type cotton fabric with bunches of violets and green leaves. We dyed white cotton coverlets to match. With the white furniture it was so pretty.
Same with us my sons room is bright teal blue with Pokémon and minecraft(I painted on the walls) and he loves it. My daughters room has princesses, and floral curtains, and unicorn bedding, and on both their walls are drawing their friends or they made, and and a chalkboard wall. The room is theirs not mine, I get a whole house they get a room. Let them decorate
Okay, this is my favorite Nick Lewis video ever. So relatable. "Rich people won't stop doing weird things, and I will be here to talk about it." Thank you so much for being real, Nick!
""The more I know about people, the more I love my dog"". Truer words have never been spoken. You are right, kids need colour to stimulate creativity. I dislike grey everything, even more than beige.
Yes! Why do the people with the kind of money required to own such homes need to impress other people to the extent of copying these silly trends? Are they so insecure that they are afraid to let their friends and acquaintances see anything real about their personalities? Is this primarily a North American thing?
When my kids (3 boys) were babies, I did a sailboat themed room, a teddybear room, and a Narnia themed room. As they got older, I would ask them what they wanted to do. Results varied, but I have done a sports themed room,a race car one, a spaceship one, and then one that mimicked all the colors of their favorite comforter. I am down to one teenager left now. He's very artistic, so he and I worked on a mural of birch trees in his room. He did most of the work. I was just there for support and buying supplies. I couldn't imagine doing a solid beige room. Where is the creativity or the fun to be had?
I love that Nick said he would start a dog rescue instead of spending exorbitant amounts on gym equipment. Yes, donate the money. I, personally, would help feed the people thar are food insecure.
I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed your wine rant. Good grief, people, it’s the byproduct of rotting fruit that gives you a buzz. That’s all. And FWIW, we have a neighbor who has Money and he gifted us a ridiculously expensive bottle of wine when we moved in and it was completely undrinkable. Like a cross between lighter fluid and prune juice undrinkable. So Nick, lovely to see you in snark mode and I hope everything in your life is going well for you these days.❤
I feel this way about so many "rich people" things....alligator/crocodile bags and wallets for example. As someone who lived in the deep south and regularly encountered these creatures, I can tell you they are a nuisance (but are pretty damn delicious if deep fried in nugget form). Seeing someone with a croc birkin makes about as much sense as wearing a coat made out of rat pelts.
For me, it’s a byproduct of rotting fruit that almost always gives me a headache, even before I finish being buzzed. Don’t drink anymore, but when I did, the only kind of wine that reliably didn’t make me regret my life choices was the shitty kind that people make themselves at like, Wine Kitz.
While wine rooms and pretentious people who blather about wildfire smoke in a particular vintage are pathetic, I do feel sad for you that your baby tastes don't allow you to appreciate good wine. It's the nectar of the Gods.
When my daughter was three, we asked her what color she'd like on her walls, and if she'd like a different color on the woodwork. She said yellow for the walls and orange for the woodwork. Guess which colors are on my Never Use list? Right. But this wasn't my room, and when we got finished she loved that room!
YES. THE BABY ROOMS!!! I have a (grown) daughter and I love kids but even if you hate children, you know that an all beige baby room is the saddest thing ever! It's creepy, it's unnurturing, and yes, babies DO need colors around them for proper development!
That’s… not true. Babies can’t even see color really. They get red when they’re about 4 months old, and then they slowly develop color vision over time after that. What babies need more than anything is contrast. Dark and lights in interesting patterns regardless of color is best for baby. Checkerboard patterns, spirals, pinwheels, high contrast prints… that’s what babies need. As they get older they usually prefer brighter, more saturated colors, however that’s not usually what’s best for them. Much like small child would prefer to eat desserts and only desserts, they would prefer to spend all their time surrounded by the most saturated color imaginable. However, much like eating exclusively dessert would be bad for them, so would a limitless supply of highly saturated color. Developmentally speaking, for toddlers and young children, the color saturation should match the relative importance of the object. Open ended toys that encourage imaginative play and develop key skills such as cognitive and spatial reasoning, gross and fine motor, or social interaction, should be the most brightly colored and highly saturated. While things that are meant to passively entertain children should be more muted. However, this would all be relative. There’s no right amount of saturation or color, so long as the very important toys like magna-tiles or legos are more saturated than the more indulgent toys then it’s really okay. Things like walls, throws, bedspreads… it actually doesn’t matter whether it’s black and white, shades of beige, monochromatic, or highly saturated primary colors. As long as the kid likes being in there, it’s fine. but there’s also good evidence to suggest that a highly color-saturated environment can be distracting or overwhelming for some kids to the point they have difficulty focusing on a task or chowing an activity in the first place. If your kid will sit and come up with millions of different designs and spend hours working with a basic LEGO set in their beige room, then the beige isn’t hurting them. If they don’t want to go in there or play in there because it’s too boring then that’s when it becomes a problem. And you could argue that the problem is as much to do with the overstimulation and oversaturation that they’re receiving elsewhere than the undersaturation and understimulation that they’re receiving in their room. There’s no right way, and I’d argue that calling a kid’s room decorated in neutrals “sad” or saying that it’s bad for them is just as harmful and adult-centric as insisting that your kid’s room be shades of beige to match your scandi living room.
“ I’m so done with wine rooms and wine snobs, am I alone?” No Nick, you’re not! I have had it with people putting others down because we don’t have a degree in Oenology! We have rich friends with a wine cellar and tasting room. They are such snobs that we don’t visit them anymore.
A wine cellar I can completely understand, but a tasting room!? You've got to be either comically rich or an absolute lunatic to dedicate a room to tasting wine.
My elder family just straight up makes their own wine. They are very knowledgeable, but they are also the sort of folk who tasted the very first watch of wine of people who tried very hard but barely knew what they were doing, amd still found that the first taste tasted like bootleg arse, but had a very lovely aftertaste. Wine specialists are great, wine snobs are not. In the end, much like art, wine is supposed to be a fun, exploratory party for the senses, from the label to the drink itself. It's supposed to make social meetings fun. Wine, like all alcohol, is literally poison, and you're allowed and even expected to have some taste about it, but a whole brightly lit wine room? You know you're not supposed to expose your wine to light over prolonged periods of time, right? Just drink it, weirdos. It's what wine was made for, and sometimes boxed cheap wine can be more fun than your overpriced mediocre hell in a bottle.
Hi Nick, your red wine rant made me smile, the sheep made me laugh out loud, the gym equipment had me horrified….and your sad beige children …… perfect! Greetings from UK 🇬🇧.
Sad beige children's rooms really are about the parents. A lot of parents think their kids are a reflection of them. And over the top parties - PLEASE do a video on that!
Agreed and not even the just the rich. My kids are grown and they had a few parties at a venue, but most were just sleepovers at our house with some simple games/competitions/water fights/video games and movies. Now it seems that all parents feel the need to have parties for 10-12 kids at venues where it starts at $350 and then send home ELABORATE and EXPENSIVE goodie bags for each attendee and the gifts from friends are in the $50 range. Yikes.@@Hecatate
As a early-childhood teacher, I totally agree with you. Blue is a calming color and yellow is a happy color. I can not image my daughter's room, let alone a classroom being beige. Maybe older kids, but not young child. Yikes!
As a mom, i wonder how they archieve holding the colored stuff out .. what do this parents do in a toystore? Do they tell their kids: you can take what you want- as long at it is beige? I wonder about the daily practice a lot.
@@channarubin8267 i'm very convinced that color promotes a child's creativity. A child's room should be a place of wonder, and not look like a room from the W hotel.
@@channarubin8267I have a friend who purchased her clothes only in a certain select color palette (black/white/neutral/denim) and as far as I can tell she has designed her kids rooms/wardrobes/bedding all the same as herself and the rest of the house 😬 I have literally never seen a single photo of her kids less-than-insta-worthy. I'm pretty sure her kids toys are all tucked away in neutral Magnolia-style baskets when they're not being played with.
Every segment was right on point! I’m still laughing at the “Sad Children living in Sad beige rooms”…like really, kids Need Color to spark their lil brains!😂
Yes! Especially babies. Babies can't see that well yet. Using drastically different colors makes it easier to see shapes. I can relate, my vision sucks!😅
When my Eldest Nephew was 3 months old, my brother came to help me with some DIY. He came. Glared at me.Bade we go to my bedroom. Opened the closet. Stuck his head in the middle of the hanging clothes and said "my baby's favorite color is RED. The REDDER the better. I have no idea who he might take after." Gee, I don't know. Are we sure all those red sweaters, coats, jackets, blouses, shoes and boots didn't just... reproduce there? The Niece's room was decorated in pink, because her mother was very happy to get a Little Princess and wanted everything pink.SiL was very confused about why, whenever given a choice between a toy in pink and the same toy in any other color, the other color was it. That bedroom was the pink version of a sad beige room. Yes, it was pink. Pale pink. Everything except the white bed was as close to the same shade of pink as SiL could get it. Kid was DYING for some CONTRAST! Littlest Nephew came attached, I met him when he was two. It was already clear that his favorite color was yellow.
When my nephew was six years old, he painted a charming mural on his bedroom wall. Twenty years later, it's still there for the next generation to admire. Im fact, I don't think my sister can ever move because of that beloved painting!
As a kid I would have probably given a lot for a beige room with ONE wall I could paint and doodle on. Instead, I got the 90’s plasticky colorful toys and no mural real estate 😅 oh well I turned out alright all the same 🤪
My sister did wonderful charcoal picture of a goth fairy in her room during her late teens, and when I moved back into my parents' house and go the chance to decorate how I wanted to, Mum and I decided we weren't going to clean that picture off, we were going to carefully paint over it so it's still there even if we can't see it.
In fact, the original sheep are a work of art by François-Xavier Lalanne. He made them in 1965 for the Salon de la Jeune Peinture. Yves Saint Laurent had them in his home. They were later sold for ten million dollars. What we see everywhere are, of course "inspired by" lol. I've seen them in some homes (here in Europe) and personally, I like them, they can be that final humorous touch in some old mideuropean flat.
There is a 100 y/o Scandinavian meat market down the street from my parent's home back in Minneapolis, and they sell little hand-made Tomte, reindeer, and sheep. And they make perfect sense in a Scandinavian home wanting to highlight that heritage 🤷🏼♀️
I think it's the ubiquity of them in high-end design that's the only complaint. If, for instance, 30 people had them rather than 300,000, all of whom are eager to show off their homes, it would be so much more fun, dreary old castle or not. 😂
Montessori teacher here! We believe that a young child’s space with too many bright/gaudy colors/characters/etc. can actually be overstimulating for children. We advocate for an aesthetically pleasing space that invites creativity but isn’t too bright. That being said, it does NOT have to be all beige and brown!! We love soothing pastel colors in children’s spaces. And just tasteful choices (much like you would make for any other space in your home). Tastefully added bright color can be a wonderful addition to a young child’s space, we just see children respond better when it’s not so bright and gaudy that it’s overstimulating. And of course as children get older, we can respect their choice for adding more or less color to their space :) it’s all about creating the space for the child, not the adult.
I would think that the colours would lose their specialness too, if it's a riot everywhere they look. Like what's the point of picking out a bed spread that the child loves, if the rest of the room is screaming for attention? Also there's less opportunity for children to express themselves via drawing/painting, when there's nowhere to hang their creations. How cool would it be to have frames up that they can put their most favourite art in!
The dumbbells thing is like when Tiffany made that paper clip and sold it for $600 or something. It’s making practical things impractical based on how incredibly expensive they are. To me, you are right, that is absolutely late stage capitalism.
I had a shitty week....until watching this video! Mom of 3 (adult) kids, on the board of directors for a dog rescue, and the owner of an acrylic chair, and I'm loving this and laughing hysterically all the way through. You never fail to disappoint, Nick! I came long ago for the design tips, and stayed for your humor and two cents! ❤
Mmmm, really has that "burnt homes" nose with a "ruined lives" backbone, with slight hints of "millions of dollars of taxpayer money spent" aftertaste! 🍷
This video was great. 😂 I always love your commentary, sass and candidness. And you are 100% correct about kids... You don't gotta love being around them to respect that they are tiny humans who have their own style and interests. I defs would not put a bunch of rainbows and LED sparkle lights all around my house, but my kiddo loves them, so that's what she gets to have in her room.
You are so wise and right-on re: letting kid rooms be kid rooms (not curated by mom for all her Insta photos, etcetera). Let them be kids. Such over-control and superficiality is very unhealthy.
Lol at the wine room. I live in France and actual old school French people, like my grandparents-in-law just have a part of the cellar, and the bottles are covered in cobwebs and god knows what else! No fancy wine room in the foyer!
Yeah well, i couldn’t find it anywhere in Las Vegas for a few months. There is nothing wrong with Franzia. Wine is wine especially Pinot Grigio. If it’s too yellow it’s bad😂
This video was fantastic from start to finish. Story: I went to an architects house once. They had a fabulous custom home that was stunningly beautiful in the way that magazine homes look. There has a full size sheep sculpture in their foyer, plastic legs and heads but like a full sheep skin covering the body. This was at least 10 years ago. That was the only thing in that immaculate house full of gorgeous art that I thought “huh, that’s weird”
You are so hilarious! I'm a Mental health therapist and you'd be surprised how many people in group have said that they don't like other people or children! I guess that was something you use to keep in their head! Love the honesty! 😂
The beige room for the children feels calming but so impractical. Things will be dirty in 3 seconds! I gave my own children the opportunity to decorate their rooms. It is not aesthetically pleasing but they love it so much. I agree with your views on the children's rooms. Also thanks for your opinions and making me laugh. Love your content xx
Nick, you always knock your lack of experience with kids but (so far at least) you've always been quite spot-on with your observations and considerations. (I promise you, my 5 & 6 y/o's have enough personality for an entire chorus line.) We got our kids bunk beds (they have shared a room since they were babies) and they have matching dressers-- but they pick their bedding/blankets, stuffies, pillows, and whatever they want to put on their dressers. They get to hang stuff on the walls adjacent to, or the 'ceilings' above, their sleeping areas. They have sun catchers in the windows, glow in the dark star stickers on the walls and doors, and put posters up above their dressers. They love it all. The only additions I chose are pictures of the kids and family on their walls, the rug on the floor, and storage solutions under the bed for extra bedding/blankets, dress up/make believe toys, etc.
I’ve worked in the education world for… longer than I want to admit 😂 but you’re absolutely right about children and color. Kids benefit from having cool tones in their bedrooms as cool tones can bring feelings of calmness, which can help when they’re trying to sleep. Warm tones will excite, which is better for a playroom. And yes, kids should have the right to express themselves in their spaces. Parents pay the mortgage, but how depressing must it be to have your individuality suppressed because Mom insists everything must be beige? Let kid spaces reflect the kids who live in them, even if it doesn’t “match.”
TOTALLY agree about the showy wine rooms. Every time I see one I think, that space could have been used for something much better. And about the sheep 15 years ago I got a beautiful rocking sheep second hand when I was pregnant with my first (Kid decor!), but no one was "doing sheep" back then I believe. Also agree about the sad beige kid rooms! I can't imagine trying to keep all of that clean, and frankly, kids have their own personalities and tastes by the time they're two (in not sooner) and you're going to starting messing up all the beige when you have to add a bright red Elmo or some Paw Patrol stuff. Great video!
i’m 6th generation from Napa and we have a hatch in the foundation of our house where we chuck a few cases in and call it a day. also the smokey year anecdote is such a dog whistle for “i’m a wine snob and i need to feel superior and smart”
As a non drinker, I always get an automatic opt out on the pretension wine talk😊 Agree let the kids have a space of their own. Close the door if it doesn’t match your aesthetic.
Oh, dang! I really *really* wanted my own life-sized sheep! Not because I saw it in a designer’s home, but because I’ve always wanted to own a few living, breathing sheep. I actually collected stuffed animal sheep for years back in the 1990s. When I saw a life-sized sheep standing in some NYC designer’s home recently (her mother gave it to her as a child) I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking, “Okay, maybe it would be okay to make one of these things since I won’t be herding sheep any time soon” - and wouldn’t you just know it? The dang rich people have turned it into some passé, over-done, tongue-in cheek social statement about “following the herd” or what have you. Why do they have to spoil everything?!?!
I have one by Rocking Lamb, which Nick featured in his video. I LOVE my (non rocking) sheep! Originally it was in the foyer to dining room entrance area (large formal house). Now we live at the beach and it's in the bunk room used by my grandson, and my granddaughters love it too. Even the dogs were interested when it arrived. It makes me happy every time I see!
I had SO much fun decorating my baby daughter's room with light blue sky walls...hand painted with wispy clouds...a pink dresser and a white crib...and a neutral color rocking chair...very whimsical but still baby appropriate! And she loves it :) I am the same age as you and I have seen some Berenstain Bears things around...rarely but they are there!
I agree with you on everything, particularly about the dog shelter if you have too much money. Or any kind of needed shelter for that manner (for the beige kids, for example) Yes please ! That would be money so much better spent.
As a former early years teacher I'd say the "dont kids like colour" question is complicated. If you're, say, choosing a set of blocks for a child I'd always choose plain wood blocks. Children need opportunities for flexibility in their play and neutrals can help with this. If decorating a classroom I of course wouldn't go for ALL beige but I'd have a good amount of neutrals and a lot of natural wood if possible, at least for some zones of the room. That would be different to how I'd decorate a soft play area though, where kids are running around, being active, having parties etc, where I'd probably choose more bright colours for the majority. I think both super colourful, unique and busy spaces and calmer, more neutral spaces have a place and ideally kids should have access to both to suit their individual needs. I think a kid having an all bright orange bedroom might be an issue for the same reason it might be an issue for an adult, regardless of how much you like the colour (not a hard and fast rule, just a maybe example - I had an orange and yellow room as a kid and loved it!). The colour of the space does have impacts on our mood etc, and you don't want something in a bedroom that's going to stop you sleeping well, for example. Having said all that I totally agree that allowing your kids to put their stamp on a space in your house, to make choices and to be part of that process is wonderful and something everyone should aim for if they are fortunate enough to have the space and resources. And there are ways to do that and still be mindful of practicalities - restrictions should be about those, not about your personal taste.
Speaking of smoky wine, I had a bartender pull that “it was a smoky year for these grapes” line BUT instead of trying to chat me up about it he was like “we tried it, hated it, so now we only use it to serve as in sangria” the sangria was delicious
Finally someone calls out the wine rooms! These have been a plague in Miami for years…sorry if we are responsible for the contagion 😅. Yes to dog shelters ❤
YES I agree on the wine rooms. I hate alcohol on display. Particularly when it has to be shuttled in on a palette there's so much of it. Much more affordable to just wear a t-shirt that reads "I'm a functioning alcoholic". Don't get me started on the wine tchotchkes with cheesy phases like, "It's wine o'clock" painted on some board, a candle, or some tea towels.
My son (8 year old) and I grab breakfast tacos almost every Saturday and watch your latest video. He thought the children’s part was hilarious, and he totally agrees: “Those kids rooms are sad!” He also now wants a ghost chair in his room. 😂
I loved this video so much. You are delightful, intelligent, respectful even when you are not agreeing with something and you are hilarous. Thank you for making my afternoon! I laughed out loud multiple times and I agree with you on all of this. Only thing I missed was the Ew David sweater :)))
Thanks for having the backbone to be so honest. All you said is 100% true!! How refreshing to hear a Canadian speak his mind!!! Awesome video!! You made my day!!
Ah, Nick. You made a cool, rainy Saturday morning here in Calgary very enjoyable. Thanks for the giggle. And I agree on cherishing dogs over (most) people. Imagine how much local shelters could be supported instead of the money wasted on some of this goofy rich crap.
Our animal Shelter has a thrift shop that helps support it. SO when people waste money on goofy rich "crap" they can donate it (next year of course) 😁to our thrift shop and then it helps support the Mutts! Win-Win!
@@sweetgrasshopperJust Google "Calgary Pronunciation." Click on that and make sure you have your volume on too to hear how it's pronounced. You can do this with any word.😊👌
This is one of your best videos ever.. I love when people are honest and authentic with their opinions and don’t follow the trends and are more practical and realistic with their style and advice ❤🎉
Had to stop right here and say YES!!! If one has that much $$$ to burn on pretty weights, then definitely start an animal rescue!!! A MUCH better use of the funds!!! GO NICK!!! ❤❤❤❤
As always, such a pleasurable video! :) As far as the kids' room decor-I agree with you 100%! I follow the premise that the main floor should be cohesive with regards toe the color palette but the second floor with bedrooms, bathrooms, etc., that's where you can expand on the creativity and color themes, and children's rooms are no exception. Thanks Nick for continuing to provide relevant content but in the most enjoyable manner!! :D
I totally agree with you about beige children’s rooms, Nick. There’s a whole lot of thinking and research about the effect various colours have on people.
LOVE this Nick! I live in the Sonoma ẅine region, its gross how this whole area N of SF has become so over the top wealthy and pretentious over the past 30 yrs . . UGH!! The sheep thing is really silly, thats a new one for me. I aḿ with you on the ghost chairs and beige kids rooms, this must be RH overflow. I used to love it when that catalog arrived in the mail now it just bores me. Are we supposed to be inspired year after year with sepia tones and black and white?? Come on RH, time to change the channel. Thanks for all your good advice and sense of humor!
Omg, yes to all of these. I was not aware of the sheep thing. That's just so weird! That sheep you showed the listing for was over $5,000!! On sale! Hilarious... and confusing. Children's rooms. I watch a fair amount of decor-related RUclips content. And I see some pristine, magazine photo-worthy kid's rooms. I hear the person say I got this to style in my daughter's room. I can't fathom think of "styling" in my daughter's room. It just makes me feel sad for those kids.
Combine the kids room with the wine room and the gym, and you have Cameron's house from Ferris Bueller's day off: "The place is like a museum. It's very beautiful and very cold, and you're not allowed to touch anything. Imagine what it must be like growing up in a place like that"
I use an acrylic chair at my bathroom vanity. Never turning back. When I was ill I sat it in the shower and I could wash my hair and everything, then rest when I got too tired. It was great. I’m grateful for it. Side note- mine doesn’t look like the ghost chair at all. Huh. Also my bathroom is black white and grey. If a child is rambunctious a quiet calm bedroom may be necessary. A play room or the backyard can be bright.
Haha I totally see your point about the kids sad bedroom color. Buuut it is known that in a bedroom it is better to have calming tones and very little stimulation for them to calm down to sleep. But if there is a play room then yes nude tones won’t be the best for developmental. I always loved color, but now I am toning down and trying to find a way to give kids color without being soooo sooo much busy and nauseating so I can enjoy too 🤪
You are a hoot and I enjoyed your rant! My guess for the sheep in the living room is that it replaces having to deal with a real live pet-for example, a dog. Sure, the dog is good for protection, but the sheep will always have your baaaaaack.
Sad beige kids, love it. I agree with everything you said. Plus I have several not so rich things that I don't want to see ever again. I know you have probably done videos on these also. Here they are, chunky wood strings of beads with a tassel on the end as decor., Books bought for the color of their bindings, books turned with the spine's facing in, geometric shaped vases, busts of any sort, line drawing faces, where all you see is an eyebrow which connects to a nose which connects to lips. Please, OMG, I can't stand it anymore. Could we have an original idea? I think it's time for an original idea, don't you? Oh, I almost forgot, I love your honesty. It's so refreshing.
wow you just hate decor in general haha most of these, like vases, are pretty innocent imo and as for the books facing the wall, I know it looks lame, but as someone who feels physical pain when there's too much colour in the room, I honestly don't even judge them. Anything to achieve that healing minimalism!
Love these "Rich People Decor That Needs to Go" videos. Married (No Kids), Dog Mom to (5) dachshunds (If you foster, you will end up adopting them) I completely agree with your list and how the money would be better spent. Keep these videos coming...they are the best!! 😄
Kids will take Sharpie markers and use that sad, beige room as a canvas. I work in a church and there is a beige office where a little kids parents were getting a divorce. The kids annointed the office in three colors of Sharpie markers. We LOVE it!!
My mum let me pick my bedroom colours and decor at the grand old age of about 6 years .....Donald duck wallpaper and pink accent walls .... I loved it!!!
"I'm in my box wine era" I adore you!! That's the way I feel whenever I encounter anyone pretentious! Please - Never stop being you!!! P.S. Thank you for pointing out how horrible 'ghost chairs' are! A neighbor has a ghost dining table and ghost chairs. Suffice to say that dining set reflects her personality - or lack thereof, perfectly!
I have a sheep in my living room. My friend was getting rid of it, and I thought it was cute; but it was also very dusty, so it was not going into my bedroom. So now it sits beside my TV, and the handmade Christmas elf that my late aunt made sits triumphantly astride it. All year. It definitely didn’t ever cost $5000, but now that I know rich people have these, I’m totally going to assert that I am bougie and on-trend, in my rent-controlled apartment furnished by IKEA and Craigslist. Also, continuing my longstanding trend of loving the things Nick finds tacky. See: theme rooms(!)
I look forward to Saturday mornings with Nick. I say to my friend “what would Nick do”. You are so down to earth and spot on. Thanks to you… from Kelowna, B.C.
I have to say for someone whose not a fan of kids, you’re doing a good job of advocating for them having they’re own space. I think part of the school of thought on the neutral kids spaces is use of natural materials like wood, and that it limits distraction so children can focus on their play-but I’m not sure how much research supports this, and clearly that has been turned into a trend and taken too far where as you said it’s all about the aesthetic rather than what actually benefits kids (and yes they need colour around for interest, to learn about colours, to mix different materials, act out things from their world etc.) Also, my 5 year old is a big fan of the Berenstain Bears books 📖
You had me at "Wine Rooms" and wine snobs! True story...I was at a dinner party and the host had a Malbec wine. He actually said to me that if I didn't know what Malbec was, he said I shouldn't drink it. BTW - I love your content. Thank you for your honesty.
I was 23 years old when my landlady had my room redecorated with beige wallpaper. And it made me cry. Many times. So yeah. But now i'm an old lady and i love beige:)
Ghost chairs look like the extra plastic chairs you shove in the shed for when unexpected guests come for a BBQ. You hose them off before they sit in them so hopefully the dirt doesn't transfer to their clothes. Oh, and check for spiders in the crevices. I guess being clear would be an advantage for that.
I bought some at an auction (for very little money) and that is exactly what I use them for! They are piled in my garage and make it out only if I need extra seating outside (which doesn't really happen.) I think catering companies and wedding rental companies buy them in bulk
Lol any chair that looks easily ‘stackable’ is perfect for extra seating :), now that I know you can get them super cheap with creepy crawlies made visible advantage, might have to get some :)
The wine rant was everything. 😆 For real, wine knowledge seems like a competition of who knows the most about it. Meanwhile I'm forever in my box wine era. Power to you, Nick!
I hear you on the wine business. There is so much pretension going on with wine. I love the study where they filled expensive wine bottles with cheap wine and served it to wine "experts" and "supertasters," who raved about the wine. And they also dyed white wine to look like a cab and served it to experts, who raved about the tannins and the dark chocolate and cherry taste.
YES to all of this, as usual!! Lol, just tonight, we watched an episode of Tough Love with Hilary Farr and she jokingly pointed out the sheep! 🐑 And I've always thought that about the Ghost chair, too. If they want to sell plastic chairs for $10 a pop at Ikea, fine. But $540 a piece at Design Within Reach (spoiler alert: it's NOT for most of us) is RIDICULOUS.
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For someone who doesn’t like kids, you actually do a pretty good job advocating for kids' rooms to actually be for the kids.
Because there's a huge gap between not wanting to be around kids and also respecting them as their own little people with specific wants and needs according to their age range.
I wonder if it would be a good idea to have a super colourful playroom, but neutral sleeping space for kids? I keep hearing neutral and dark is better to sleep in, lol assuming kids stuff was capable of being contained in one room lol meanwhile I’m trying to figure out how the the craft gems keep ending up in the shoe rack fml lol...
Oh he knows more about children and has a heart for them than he gives himself credit for. Absolutely agree!
@@lunar686 the background should be a neutral or pale colour. Colour and contrast should be introduced in toys, materials, limited furniture, or wall hangings if you really have to. Clown vomit is not an aesthetic most kids will put up with for longer than a few minutes before becoming overstimulated and either going crazy super hyper or just shutting down.
I wonder how those parents deal with real kids in real life when kids don't care this kind of decorations, love the mess and play with the box instead of the expensive toy!!!
Italian here: those wine “rooms” are not only tacky, but they’re also showing that those people don’t know the first thing about wine!
Wine is supposed to be stored in the dark, not exposed to light unless you don’t care about your expensive wine going bad🤦🏻♀️
Yes omg glad I saw this, I was going to make the same comment!
I'm Australian and whilst we have a reputation for beer drinking we actually have a well developed wine industry and culture and I can tell you I knew right away only an idiot would store their wines out like that! My uncle even built a little cellar for his wine when they renovated (which cost a fortune, no one has cellars here so builders don't know how to do them).
Rich people have more money than good sense, let alone taste.
@@claremiller9979 that's funny, because my father is a bricklayer and he enjoys building wine cellars and arches etc., but nobody wants them anymore. They even have a huge wine cellar under their house, even though they store everything else in it, because they drink like 3 bottles of wine per year :D
Thanks for the reminder on how - not - to store wine. 👍
That could be a status symbol in itself. They're so rich it doesn't matter if their wine goes bad quickly.
Yes!! I was coming to the comments to say the same thing!! (an American living in France)
7:42 Funny how Nick says "I don't really care for kids", then ends up having a much more respectful and loving take on how to decorate, or let the kids decorate, their rooms compared to a lot of parents who claim to adore their own children
I think he would really like kids that have access to color and nature. Maybe he doesn’t care for the ones who are drowning in beige, lifeless flesh tones and are annoyingly desperate for stimulation 😂
My kids get all their energy out in nature and being able to make whatever the heck they want out of wood and clay whatever and make a mess. Then they are pleasant when I need them to be.
Yes exactly! I love how he says about “well, however much personality a 7 year old has”. I bet he is secretly a great godparent or uncle to someone!
No disrespect to any childless person whatsoever, but parenting is always easier in theory.
@@JuniperLynn789 sooo Nick says "I don't really care for kids" and your first thought is "he would like mine"?
Childless people tend to have a lot more respect for children because that's usually part of the reason they decided against having kids.
They see them as fully functional mini humans and understand that to be a ton of work.
As a former art teacher, yes, children’s vision develops with age just like everything else. Red is the first color they can differentiate, then yellow, then blue. Subtleties like mocha, puce, or griege are lost on them until they are almost tweenagers. They don’t even respond to pastels, so such decor is all about the parents and not about the children.
What kind of color is puce?
@@elijahculper5522 it’s a combination of purple and brown. It can be dark or mid-tone. Think prunes.
@@loonyTlu oh. Gross. Thanks though. :)
I didn't know that! That explains SO much - my favourite colour when I was young was red, and it's my three-year-old niece's favourite colour now. Having bright colours for kids' spaces makes even more sense to me now!
That’s literally not true, infants have bad vision but by the time they’re 5 they can see a very wide variety of colors and subtleties
This is a very hard pill to swallow when it comes to decorating your Childrens’ rooms. I was so excited to decorate my 12 year old’s new room and he kept saying “why does a kid’s room have to look like it’s in a catalogue-it’s so not natural!” I stepped back and realized that it’s the influencers’ influence on us. I decorate the entire house but let my kids’ rooms stay “undecorated” and they love it.
Good idea. The kids will find stuff they want to hang up soon amyway, may it be bands or TV show paraphenilia.
Smart kid.
Thanks for listening to your kid and stepping back. My room was a muddy yellow that was popular when French Country was a big thing, and I was not into it. Always wanted more color.
I’m not a kid person either but I totally agree with you on the beige kids rooms. I attribute my love of design today to the fact my mom would let my sister and I redecorate our rooms every summer. It was the highlight of our summer picking out fabrics and making new curtains, coverlets, etc. some worked out better than others ( still sorry about the sponge painted doors). Dad would paint the rooms whatever colors we wanted. The basic furniture stayed white but each summer reflected who we were at that time. I only wish now I had color pictures of some of those rooms from the 60s and 70s. They were great memories.
Your parents were WONDERFUL to let you and your sister have these great experiences!!
I love that! Will do this with my kids soon
Oh, that sounds AMAZING! (Speaking as someone who only really got to decorate my own room for the first time in my thirties - for many, many reasons including lack of funds and living in rented accommodation for the vast majority of my life.)
@@Teverell Thanks. It was never very expensive materials.just twin beds and cafe curtains but they were magical to us. My favorite was a pale lavender paint and the fabric was a Laura Ashley-type cotton fabric with bunches of violets and green leaves. We dyed white cotton coverlets to match. With the white furniture it was so pretty.
Same with us my sons room is bright teal blue with Pokémon and minecraft(I painted on the walls) and he loves it. My daughters room has princesses, and floral curtains, and unicorn bedding, and on both their walls are drawing their friends or they made, and and a chalkboard wall. The room is theirs not mine, I get a whole house they get a room. Let them decorate
The woman who commented on 2021 being “a really smokey year”… I would be fighting back asking her if she could taste people losing their homes…
IKR??? Ugh. Spare me.
Yes! This is a perfect comeback!
Considering just how toxic wildfire smoke is, the idea of it having a strong enough presence to actually taste is mildly terrifying.
Last homes have a nasty mouth feel.
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The amount of emotions Nick goes through in the first three minutes of this video 😂😂 “I’m in my box wine era” is such a mood
“ if you have the luxury of having your own room” Thank you so much, Nick for pointing out that that’s in the luxury and not always a necessity!
Okay, this is my favorite Nick Lewis video ever. So relatable. "Rich people won't stop doing weird things, and I will be here to talk about it." Thank you so much for being real, Nick!
Mine too!! He killed it!
Fun fact: you can repurpose your wine room to hold your guitar collection. Which is infinitely cooler.
Or your $800.00 dumb bell collection🤣
What about Polish Hussar and Tatar/golden horde sabres?
""The more I know about people, the more I love my dog"".
Truer words have never been spoken.
You are right, kids need colour to stimulate creativity.
I dislike grey everything, even more than beige.
Yes! Why do the people with the kind of money required to own such homes need to impress other people to the extent of copying these silly trends? Are they so insecure that they are afraid to let their friends and acquaintances see anything real about their personalities? Is this primarily a North American thing?
When my kids (3 boys) were babies, I did a sailboat themed room, a teddybear room, and a Narnia themed room. As they got older, I would ask them what they wanted to do. Results varied, but I have done a sports themed room,a race car one, a spaceship one, and then one that mimicked all the colors of their favorite comforter. I am down to one teenager left now. He's very artistic, so he and I worked on a mural of birch trees in his room. He did most of the work. I was just there for support and buying supplies. I couldn't imagine doing a solid beige room. Where is the creativity or the fun to be had?
That kind of thing is so good for kids, I think. When I was a teenager my mom let me paint fish on my blue walls and I loved it at the time
I used to paint murals on my sons walls to he loved it!!
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What a great mom you are!
Nick is in his RANTING era and I am extremely here for it.
I love that Nick said he would start a dog rescue instead of spending exorbitant amounts on gym equipment. Yes, donate the money. I, personally, would help feed the people thar are food insecure.
I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed your wine rant. Good grief, people, it’s the byproduct of rotting fruit that gives you a buzz. That’s all. And FWIW, we have a neighbor who has Money and he gifted us a ridiculously expensive bottle of wine when we moved in and it was completely undrinkable. Like a cross between lighter fluid and prune juice undrinkable. So Nick, lovely to see you in snark mode and I hope everything in your life is going well for you these days.❤
I'm entirely convinced that (most) wine is something people pretend to like. 😩
Wine is an acquired taste, just like many other things.
I feel this way about so many "rich people" things....alligator/crocodile bags and wallets for example. As someone who lived in the deep south and regularly encountered these creatures, I can tell you they are a nuisance (but are pretty damn delicious if deep fried in nugget form). Seeing someone with a croc birkin makes about as much sense as wearing a coat made out of rat pelts.
For me, it’s a byproduct of rotting fruit that almost always gives me a headache, even before I finish being buzzed. Don’t drink anymore, but when I did, the only kind of wine that reliably didn’t make me regret my life choices was the shitty kind that people make themselves at like, Wine Kitz.
While wine rooms and pretentious people who blather about wildfire smoke in a particular vintage are pathetic, I do feel sad for you that your baby tastes don't allow you to appreciate good wine. It's the nectar of the Gods.
As someone who used to clean offices when I was a student, I can tell you, acrilic chairs are a NIGHTMARE to clean.
I so agree with you about the Wine Rooms. Now, a Chocolate Room...that I could get behind.
***leaves to go tell husband about a chocolate room addition*** 🤣
Now I want a Chocolate Room.
...with fountain!
There is an episode of the tv show “psyche” where a rich guy has a candy room in his mansions and yes I want a chocolate room too.
In my flat every room is a chocolate room already - and I am poor by the way.
When my daughter was three, we asked her what color she'd like on her walls, and if she'd like a different color on the woodwork. She said yellow for the walls and orange for the woodwork. Guess which colors are on my Never Use list? Right. But this wasn't my room, and when we got finished she loved that room!
I'd always seen the beige as more of a color you use if the landlord only allows neutral colors...
YES. THE BABY ROOMS!!! I have a (grown) daughter and I love kids but even if you hate children, you know that an all beige baby room is the saddest thing ever! It's creepy, it's unnurturing, and yes, babies DO need colors around them for proper development!
That’s… not true. Babies can’t even see color really. They get red when they’re about 4 months old, and then they slowly develop color vision over time after that.
What babies need more than anything is contrast. Dark and lights in interesting patterns regardless of color is best for baby. Checkerboard patterns, spirals, pinwheels, high contrast prints… that’s what babies need.
As they get older they usually prefer brighter, more saturated colors, however that’s not usually what’s best for them. Much like small child would prefer to eat desserts and only desserts, they would prefer to spend all their time surrounded by the most saturated color imaginable. However, much like eating exclusively dessert would be bad for them, so would a limitless supply of highly saturated color.
Developmentally speaking, for toddlers and young children, the color saturation should match the relative importance of the object. Open ended toys that encourage imaginative play and develop key skills such as cognitive and spatial reasoning, gross and fine motor, or social interaction, should be the most brightly colored and highly saturated. While things that are meant to passively entertain children should be more muted.
However, this would all be relative. There’s no right amount of saturation or color, so long as the very important toys like magna-tiles or legos are more saturated than the more indulgent toys then it’s really okay.
Things like walls, throws, bedspreads… it actually doesn’t matter whether it’s black and white, shades of beige, monochromatic, or highly saturated primary colors. As long as the kid likes being in there, it’s fine. but there’s also good evidence to suggest that a highly color-saturated environment can be distracting or overwhelming for some kids to the point they have difficulty focusing on a task or chowing an activity in the first place. If your kid will sit and come up with millions of different designs and spend hours working with a basic LEGO set in their beige room, then the beige isn’t hurting them.
If they don’t want to go in there or play in there because it’s too boring then that’s when it becomes a problem. And you could argue that the problem is as much to do with the overstimulation and oversaturation that they’re receiving elsewhere than the undersaturation and understimulation that they’re receiving in their room.
There’s no right way, and I’d argue that calling a kid’s room decorated in neutrals “sad” or saying that it’s bad for them is just as harmful and adult-centric as insisting that your kid’s room be shades of beige to match your scandi living room.
“ I’m so done with wine rooms and wine snobs, am I alone?” No Nick, you’re not! I have had it with people putting others down because we don’t have a degree in Oenology! We have rich friends with a wine cellar and tasting room. They are such snobs that we don’t visit them anymore.
They can be snobs in private, but when you're over they should discuss at a level that you're interested in.
You are probably not the only one who doesn’t visit them anymore. I’m sure they will learn to be less snobby when they become lonely, sadly!
A wine cellar I can completely understand, but a tasting room!? You've got to be either comically rich or an absolute lunatic to dedicate a room to tasting wine.
@@harambae7014 There's nothing comical about being that rich. Ridiculous, maybe.
My elder family just straight up makes their own wine. They are very knowledgeable, but they are also the sort of folk who tasted the very first watch of wine of people who tried very hard but barely knew what they were doing, amd still found that the first taste tasted like bootleg arse, but had a very lovely aftertaste. Wine specialists are great, wine snobs are not. In the end, much like art, wine is supposed to be a fun, exploratory party for the senses, from the label to the drink itself. It's supposed to make social meetings fun. Wine, like all alcohol, is literally poison, and you're allowed and even expected to have some taste about it, but a whole brightly lit wine room? You know you're not supposed to expose your wine to light over prolonged periods of time, right? Just drink it, weirdos. It's what wine was made for, and sometimes boxed cheap wine can be more fun than your overpriced mediocre hell in a bottle.
Hi Nick, your red wine rant made me smile, the sheep made me laugh out loud, the gym equipment had me horrified….and your sad beige children …… perfect! Greetings from UK 🇬🇧.
Sad beige children's rooms really are about the parents. A lot of parents think their kids are a reflection of them. And over the top parties - PLEASE do a video on that!
YES YES, Please do the over the top parties!....(begging here)
Agreed and not even the just the rich. My kids are grown and they had a few parties at a venue, but most were just sleepovers at our house with some simple games/competitions/water fights/video games and movies. Now it seems that all parents feel the need to have parties for 10-12 kids at venues where it starts at $350 and then send home ELABORATE and EXPENSIVE goodie bags for each attendee and the gifts from friends are in the $50 range. Yikes.@@Hecatate
Yes yes please these kid parties even in middle class America are over the top ,anyone else remember pin the tail on the donkey and cake ?
Eww acrylic chairs are so cheap looking
Not in his wheelhouse. This channel is about decor.
As a early-childhood teacher, I totally agree with you. Blue is a calming color and yellow is a happy color. I can not image my daughter's room, let alone a classroom being beige. Maybe older kids, but not young child. Yikes!
Also remember that the brain can get too stimulated with blue light (reflecting from blue walls) and many will find it harder to sleep.
“Because I like dogs better than people’”, I am with you Nick.
As a designer, I totally agree with the sad children's room. Kids need color, color inspires.
As a mom, i wonder how they archieve holding the colored stuff out .. what do this parents do in a toystore?
Do they tell their kids: you can take what you want- as long at it is beige? I wonder about the daily practice a lot.
@@channarubin8267 there are brands specialized in bland looking toys, their advertisment looks depressing
@@channarubin8267 i'm very convinced that color promotes a child's creativity. A child's room should be a place of wonder, and not look like a room from the W hotel.
@@channarubin8267I have a friend who purchased her clothes only in a certain select color palette (black/white/neutral/denim) and as far as I can tell she has designed her kids rooms/wardrobes/bedding all the same as herself and the rest of the house 😬 I have literally never seen a single photo of her kids less-than-insta-worthy. I'm pretty sure her kids toys are all tucked away in neutral Magnolia-style baskets when they're not being played with.
Yeah, by that age you may even be able to ask them what their favorite color is.
Every segment was right on point! I’m still laughing at the “Sad Children living in Sad beige rooms”…like really, kids Need Color to spark their lil brains!😂
Sad grownups forcing pap on sad children?!
Yes! Especially babies. Babies can't see that well yet. Using drastically different colors makes it easier to see shapes. I can relate, my vision sucks!😅
Before my son began crawling, he used to talk to the bright green squares of his primary colored baby quilt.
Some colour, too much and especially too bright brings its own problems.
When my Eldest Nephew was 3 months old, my brother came to help me with some DIY. He came. Glared at me.Bade we go to my bedroom. Opened the closet. Stuck his head in the middle of the hanging clothes and said "my baby's favorite color is RED. The REDDER the better. I have no idea who he might take after." Gee, I don't know. Are we sure all those red sweaters, coats, jackets, blouses, shoes and boots didn't just... reproduce there?
The Niece's room was decorated in pink, because her mother was very happy to get a Little Princess and wanted everything pink.SiL was very confused about why, whenever given a choice between a toy in pink and the same toy in any other color, the other color was it. That bedroom was the pink version of a sad beige room. Yes, it was pink. Pale pink. Everything except the white bed was as close to the same shade of pink as SiL could get it. Kid was DYING for some CONTRAST!
Littlest Nephew came attached, I met him when he was two. It was already clear that his favorite color was yellow.
When my nephew was six years old, he painted a charming mural on his bedroom wall. Twenty years later, it's still there for the next generation to admire. Im fact, I don't think my sister can ever move because of that beloved painting!
I'll bet *that* family have more fond memories than the ones forcing beige on their children.
As a kid I would have probably given a lot for a beige room with ONE wall I could paint and doodle on. Instead, I got the 90’s plasticky colorful toys and no mural real estate 😅 oh well I turned out alright all the same 🤪
My sister did wonderful charcoal picture of a goth fairy in her room during her late teens, and when I moved back into my parents' house and go the chance to decorate how I wanted to, Mum and I decided we weren't going to clean that picture off, we were going to carefully paint over it so it's still there even if we can't see it.
In fact, the original sheep are a work of art by François-Xavier Lalanne. He made them in 1965 for the Salon de la Jeune Peinture. Yves Saint Laurent had them in his home. They were later sold for ten million dollars. What we see everywhere are, of course "inspired by" lol. I've seen them in some homes (here in Europe) and personally, I like them, they can be that final humorous touch in some old mideuropean flat.
There is a 100 y/o Scandinavian meat market down the street from my parent's home back in Minneapolis, and they sell little hand-made Tomte, reindeer, and sheep. And they make perfect sense in a Scandinavian home wanting to highlight that heritage 🤷🏼♀️
Wait til people find out that sheep toys and decor are found in other cultures as well. Nice devil wears prada style story though
Interesting. My husband has a tiny one that is a tourist souvenir from New Zealand. Pretty sure it didn't cost $3000
yes! first thing came to mind was lalanne!
I think it's the ubiquity of them in high-end design that's the only complaint. If, for instance, 30 people had them rather than 300,000, all of whom are eager to show off their homes, it would be so much more fun, dreary old castle or not. 😂
Montessori teacher here! We believe that a young child’s space with too many bright/gaudy colors/characters/etc. can actually be overstimulating for children. We advocate for an aesthetically pleasing space that invites creativity but isn’t too bright. That being said, it does NOT have to be all beige and brown!! We love soothing pastel colors in children’s spaces. And just tasteful choices (much like you would make for any other space in your home). Tastefully added bright color can be a wonderful addition to a young child’s space, we just see children respond better when it’s not so bright and gaudy that it’s overstimulating. And of course as children get older, we can respect their choice for adding more or less color to their space :) it’s all about creating the space for the child, not the adult.
I would think that the colours would lose their specialness too, if it's a riot everywhere they look. Like what's the point of picking out a bed spread that the child loves, if the rest of the room is screaming for attention? Also there's less opportunity for children to express themselves via drawing/painting, when there's nowhere to hang their creations. How cool would it be to have frames up that they can put their most favourite art in!
The dumbbells thing is like when Tiffany made that paper clip and sold it for $600 or something. It’s making practical things impractical based on how incredibly expensive they are. To me, you are right, that is absolutely late stage capitalism.
I raised seven children and they definitely have huge personalities! I do agree with you about the sad beige rooms!
Haha yeah I was thinking like sir my 3 year old has the biggest personality.
Yeah I was about to say the same thing. Both my kids have massive - and distinct - personalities and it’s both beautiful and totally maddening…!
I had a shitty week....until watching this video!
Mom of 3 (adult) kids, on the board of directors for a dog rescue, and the owner of an acrylic chair, and I'm loving this and laughing hysterically all the way through.
You never fail to disappoint, Nick! I came long ago for the design tips, and stayed for your humor and two cents! ❤
If you're a mom of three I'm thinking acrylic furniture you can take outside and hose off isn't a bad thing! 🤣 I remember having littles!
AB-so-lutely!! This video needed to come with a warning: PUT DOWN YOUR TEA...I snorted my tea laughing!
Love this!
Mmmm, really has that "burnt homes" nose with a "ruined lives" backbone, with slight hints of "millions of dollars of taxpayer money spent" aftertaste! 🍷
You are hilarious,you are so right😂
I love it when he says something hat might be offensive, he kind of regrets it for a second, and then double downs in the fact immediately
This video was great. 😂 I always love your commentary, sass and candidness. And you are 100% correct about kids... You don't gotta love being around them to respect that they are tiny humans who have their own style and interests. I defs would not put a bunch of rainbows and LED sparkle lights all around my house, but my kiddo loves them, so that's what she gets to have in her room.
You are so wise and right-on re: letting kid rooms be kid rooms (not curated by mom for all her Insta photos, etcetera). Let them be kids. Such over-control and superficiality is very unhealthy.
Yes, do a video on the expensive over the top children’s parties.
Lol at the wine room. I live in France and actual old school French people, like my grandparents-in-law just have a part of the cellar, and the bottles are covered in cobwebs and god knows what else! No fancy wine room in the foyer!
Different ideas of how to impress with wine.
“Boxed wine era.” 😂 I freaking love it when an influencer is advertising for Franzia.
Yeah well, i couldn’t find it anywhere in Las Vegas for a few months. There is nothing wrong with Franzia. Wine is wine especially Pinot Grigio. If it’s too yellow it’s bad😂
There are also tons of other boxed wine brands besides Franzia. My personal fave is Bota!
This video was fantastic from start to finish. Story: I went to an architects house once. They had a fabulous custom home that was stunningly beautiful in the way that magazine homes look. There has a full size sheep sculpture in their foyer, plastic legs and heads but like a full sheep skin covering the body. This was at least 10 years ago. That was the only thing in that immaculate house full of gorgeous art that I thought “huh, that’s weird”
You are so hilarious! I'm a Mental health therapist and you'd be surprised how many people in group have said that they don't like other people or children! I guess that was something you use to keep in their head!
Love the honesty! 😂
OMG Those sheep look exactly like a craft project I made out of cotton balls in elementary school 😂
Right! I'm going to make a bunch and see if I can sell them in the rich neighborhoods around here. I'll make sure to wear bizzare "artist" clothes.
Here's your chance to provide for your retirement!
Sheep Things are souvenirs here in New Zealand. Why would rich people have a huge tacky NZ souvenir in their living room?
@@TheDenisedrake And then share your wealth with us! LOL!!!
LMAO!! And $5000???😮
I love how Nick is not only done with the wine, hes done with the world
The beige room for the children feels calming but so impractical. Things will be dirty in 3 seconds! I gave my own children the opportunity to decorate their rooms. It is not aesthetically pleasing but they love it so much. I agree with your views on the children's rooms. Also thanks for your opinions and making me laugh. Love your content xx
Nick, you always knock your lack of experience with kids but (so far at least) you've always been quite spot-on with your observations and considerations. (I promise you, my 5 & 6 y/o's have enough personality for an entire chorus line.)
We got our kids bunk beds (they have shared a room since they were babies) and they have matching dressers-- but they pick their bedding/blankets, stuffies, pillows, and whatever they want to put on their dressers. They get to hang stuff on the walls adjacent to, or the 'ceilings' above, their sleeping areas. They have sun catchers in the windows, glow in the dark star stickers on the walls and doors, and put posters up above their dressers. They love it all. The only additions I chose are pictures of the kids and family on their walls, the rug on the floor, and storage solutions under the bed for extra bedding/blankets, dress up/make believe toys, etc.
Hilarious. Especially the portion about children. The blunt honesty made me laugh out loud.
Totally agree... the "sad beige" also made me laugh
I’m still laughing…and I love kids!🤣🤣🤣
I've never liked kids or ghost furniture lol
Ditto...he knew Montessori though. 😂
Only bots everywhere.. 🥴
I do love when Nick is in a mood! Needed this video today.
I’ve worked in the education world for… longer than I want to admit 😂 but you’re absolutely right about children and color. Kids benefit from having cool tones in their bedrooms as cool tones can bring feelings of calmness, which can help when they’re trying to sleep. Warm tones will excite, which is better for a playroom. And yes, kids should have the right to express themselves in their spaces. Parents pay the mortgage, but how depressing must it be to have your individuality suppressed because Mom insists everything must be beige? Let kid spaces reflect the kids who live in them, even if it doesn’t “match.”
TOTALLY agree about the showy wine rooms. Every time I see one I think, that space could have been used for something much better. And about the sheep 15 years ago I got a beautiful rocking sheep second hand when I was pregnant with my first (Kid decor!), but no one was "doing sheep" back then I believe. Also agree about the sad beige kid rooms! I can't imagine trying to keep all of that clean, and frankly, kids have their own personalities and tastes by the time they're two (in not sooner) and you're going to starting messing up all the beige when you have to add a bright red Elmo or some Paw Patrol stuff. Great video!
I loved the wine rant, I agree completely 😂 I pick based on if it’s a cute label or not
i’m 6th generation from Napa and we have a hatch in the foundation of our house where we chuck a few cases in and call it a day. also the smokey year anecdote is such a dog whistle for “i’m a wine snob and i need to feel superior and smart”
A blind taste test would be interesting to see a wine snob take part in. "Identify the smokey year."
Thoroughly enjoy your comment & dry wit !
Right? You wouldn’t taste that in the wine I would think…
@@EH23831some people definitely can, like sommeliers for example, but any normal person who tells you they can taste a difference is full of crap lol.
I love sassy Nick. Going off on wine cellars is the kind of content i can get behind.
As a non drinker, I always get an automatic opt out on the pretension wine talk😊 Agree let the kids have a space of their own. Close the door if it doesn’t match your aesthetic.
Oh, dang! I really *really* wanted my own life-sized sheep! Not because I saw it in a designer’s home, but because I’ve always wanted to own a few living, breathing sheep. I actually collected stuffed animal sheep for years back in the 1990s.
When I saw a life-sized sheep standing in some NYC designer’s home recently (her mother gave it to her as a child) I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking, “Okay, maybe it would be okay to make one of these things since I won’t be herding sheep any time soon” - and wouldn’t you just know it? The dang rich people have turned it into some passé, over-done, tongue-in cheek social statement about “following the herd” or what have you.
Why do they have to spoil everything?!?!
If you want your life sized sheep then buy it dang it, trends be damned! Don't let fashion dictate your happiness!
I have one by Rocking Lamb, which Nick featured in his video. I LOVE my (non rocking) sheep! Originally it was in the foyer to dining room entrance area (large formal house). Now we live at the beach and it's in the bunk room used by my grandson, and my granddaughters love it too. Even the dogs were interested when it arrived. It makes me happy every time I see!
I had SO much fun decorating my baby daughter's room with light blue sky walls...hand painted with wispy clouds...a pink dresser and a white crib...and a neutral color rocking chair...very whimsical but still baby appropriate! And she loves it :) I am the same age as you and I have seen some Berenstain Bears things around...rarely but they are there!
Sad beige 🤣 I would also add sad grey! I dislike colorless rooms especially for children! You are right on!
I agree with you on everything, particularly about the dog shelter if you have too much money. Or any kind of needed shelter for that manner (for the beige kids, for example) Yes please ! That would be money so much better spent.
As the mother of 3 girls, I can honestly say I can’t stand other people’s children, and yes, children need bright, colorful rooms !
As a former early years teacher I'd say the "dont kids like colour" question is complicated. If you're, say, choosing a set of blocks for a child I'd always choose plain wood blocks. Children need opportunities for flexibility in their play and neutrals can help with this. If decorating a classroom I of course wouldn't go for ALL beige but I'd have a good amount of neutrals and a lot of natural wood if possible, at least for some zones of the room. That would be different to how I'd decorate a soft play area though, where kids are running around, being active, having parties etc, where I'd probably choose more bright colours for the majority. I think both super colourful, unique and busy spaces and calmer, more neutral spaces have a place and ideally kids should have access to both to suit their individual needs. I think a kid having an all bright orange bedroom might be an issue for the same reason it might be an issue for an adult, regardless of how much you like the colour (not a hard and fast rule, just a maybe example - I had an orange and yellow room as a kid and loved it!). The colour of the space does have impacts on our mood etc, and you don't want something in a bedroom that's going to stop you sleeping well, for example. Having said all that I totally agree that allowing your kids to put their stamp on a space in your house, to make choices and to be part of that process is wonderful and something everyone should aim for if they are fortunate enough to have the space and resources. And there are ways to do that and still be mindful of practicalities - restrictions should be about those, not about your personal taste.
Speaking of smoky wine, I had a bartender pull that “it was a smoky year for these grapes” line BUT instead of trying to chat me up about it he was like “we tried it, hated it, so now we only use it to serve as in sangria” the sangria was delicious
Ironically one of my fave wines has a smokey taste
Finally someone calls out the wine rooms! These have been a plague in Miami for years…sorry if we are responsible for the contagion 😅. Yes to dog shelters ❤
Nick is in his box wine and gym bro era. Here for it, dude!
YES I agree on the wine rooms. I hate alcohol on display. Particularly when it has to be shuttled in on a palette there's so much of it. Much more affordable to just wear a t-shirt that reads "I'm a functioning alcoholic". Don't get me started on the wine tchotchkes with cheesy phases like, "It's wine o'clock" painted on some board, a candle, or some tea towels.
Love this. Did you see his bar cart rant? Your comment reminded me of this treasure.😊😅
Right? Nothing says “we’re alcoholics” more than a wine room!
My son (8 year old) and I grab breakfast tacos almost every Saturday and watch your latest video. He thought the children’s part was hilarious, and he totally agrees: “Those kids rooms are sad!” He also now wants a ghost chair in his room. 😂
I loved this video so much. You are delightful, intelligent, respectful even when you are not agreeing with something and you are hilarous. Thank you for making my afternoon! I laughed out loud multiple times and I agree with you on all of this. Only thing I missed was the Ew David sweater :)))
Thanks for having the backbone to be so honest. All you said is 100% true!! How refreshing to hear a Canadian speak his mind!!! Awesome video!! You made my day!!
I always enjoy listening to Nick speak his mind. If nothing else he is honest.
I admit I haven't really looked into rich people decor much but this one was really fun to watch. The sheep?! Crazy!
Ah, Nick. You made a cool, rainy Saturday morning here in Calgary very enjoyable. Thanks for the giggle. And I agree on cherishing dogs over (most) people. Imagine how much local shelters could be supported instead of the money wasted on some of this goofy rich crap.
Our animal Shelter has a thrift shop that helps support it. SO when people waste money on goofy rich "crap" they can donate it (next year of course) 😁to our thrift shop and then it helps support the Mutts! Win-Win!
Calgary?! Can you help me with correct pronunciation? I am someone who needs to refer to a so-called Calgary-Cambridge Guide.
@@sweetgrasshopperJust Google "Calgary Pronunciation." Click on that and make sure you have your volume on too to hear how it's pronounced. You can do this with any word.😊👌
@@sweetgrasshopper It's CAL-gury or more casually, CAL-gry. Avoid CAL-garry which is WRONG!!
@@fiddlersthree8463 Perfect! Thank you 🙏
This is one of your best videos ever.. I love when people are honest and authentic with their opinions and don’t follow the trends and are more practical and realistic with their style and advice ❤🎉
Again just wanted to say love your personality and laughter when presenting design. Thanks for keeping it upbeat and enjoyable.
Had to stop right here and say YES!!! If one has that much $$$ to burn on pretty weights, then definitely start an animal rescue!!! A MUCH better use of the funds!!! GO NICK!!! ❤❤❤❤
Sometimes I m frightened when a designer forgets the beads or color blocked books. It means there's a hole in the matrix.
🤣😂🙃😅
Best comment ever!!!!
As long as the Tom Ford book is there..we are save.
@@channarubin8267 In a pinch, Chanel will do but you're right, Tom Ford is prefererred.
Oh my I hate those stupid beads. Awhile back it was the unpainted antelope heads or just the unpainted antlers Just why?
The children part of this episode had me DYING with giggles. I love you! ❤
As always, such a pleasurable video! :) As far as the kids' room decor-I agree with you 100%! I follow the premise that the main floor should be cohesive with regards toe the color palette but the second floor with bedrooms, bathrooms, etc., that's where you can expand on the creativity and color themes, and children's rooms are no exception. Thanks Nick for continuing to provide relevant content but in the most enjoyable manner!! :D
I totally agree with you about beige children’s rooms, Nick. There’s a whole lot of thinking and research about the effect various colours have on people.
LOVE this Nick! I live in the Sonoma ẅine region, its gross how this whole area N of SF has become so over the top wealthy and pretentious over the past 30 yrs . . UGH!! The sheep thing is really silly, thats a new one for me. I aḿ with you on the ghost chairs and beige kids rooms, this must be RH overflow. I used to love it when that catalog arrived in the mail now it just bores me. Are we supposed to be inspired year after year with sepia tones and black and white?? Come on RH, time to change the channel. Thanks for all your good advice and sense of humor!
Omg, yes to all of these. I was not aware of the sheep thing. That's just so weird! That sheep you showed the listing for was over $5,000!! On sale! Hilarious... and confusing.
Children's rooms. I watch a fair amount of decor-related RUclips content. And I see some pristine, magazine photo-worthy kid's rooms. I hear the person say I got this to style in my daughter's room. I can't fathom think of "styling" in my daughter's room. It just makes me feel sad for those kids.
Combine the kids room with the wine room and the gym, and you have Cameron's house from Ferris Bueller's day off: "The place is like a museum. It's very beautiful and very cold, and you're not allowed to touch anything. Imagine what it must be like growing up in a place like that"
DYING with laughter over the sad beige kids rooms 🤣
I use an acrylic chair at my bathroom vanity. Never turning back. When I was ill I sat it in the shower and I could wash my hair and everything, then rest when I got too tired. It was great. I’m grateful for it. Side note- mine doesn’t look like the ghost chair at all. Huh. Also my bathroom is black white and grey.
If a child is rambunctious a quiet calm bedroom may be necessary. A play room or the backyard can be bright.
Haha I totally see your point about the kids sad bedroom color. Buuut it is known that in a bedroom it is better to have calming tones and very little stimulation for them to calm down to sleep. But if there is a play room then yes nude tones won’t be the best for developmental. I always loved color, but now I am toning down and trying to find a way to give kids color without being soooo sooo much busy and nauseating so I can enjoy too 🤪
You are a hoot and I enjoyed your rant! My guess for the sheep in the living room is that it replaces having to deal with a real live pet-for example, a dog. Sure, the dog is good for protection, but the sheep will always have your baaaaaack.
Very punny !! 🐑 😂
Sad beige kids, love it.
I agree with everything you said. Plus I have several not so rich things that I don't want to see ever again. I know you have probably done videos on these also. Here they are, chunky wood strings of beads with a tassel on the end as decor., Books bought for the color of their bindings, books turned with the spine's facing in, geometric shaped vases, busts of any sort, line drawing faces, where all you see is an eyebrow which connects to a nose which connects to lips. Please, OMG, I can't stand it anymore. Could we have an original idea? I think it's time for an original idea, don't you? Oh, I almost forgot, I love your honesty. It's so refreshing.
Ditto.
wow you just hate decor in general haha
most of these, like vases, are pretty innocent imo
and as for the books facing the wall, I know it looks lame, but as someone who feels physical pain when there's too much colour in the room, I honestly don't even judge them. Anything to achieve that healing minimalism!
Love these "Rich People Decor That Needs to Go" videos. Married (No Kids), Dog Mom to (5) dachshunds (If you foster, you will end up adopting them)
I completely agree with your list and how the money would be better spent. Keep these videos coming...they are the best!! 😄
You have 5 wiener dogs!? That’s amazing!!
Kids will take Sharpie markers and use that sad, beige room as a canvas. I work in a church and there is a beige office where a little kids parents were getting a divorce. The kids annointed the office in three colors of Sharpie markers. We LOVE it!!
My mum let me pick my bedroom colours and decor at the grand old age of about 6 years .....Donald duck wallpaper and pink accent walls .... I loved it!!!
"I'm in my box wine era" I adore you!! That's the way I feel whenever I encounter anyone pretentious!
Please - Never stop being you!!!
P.S.
Thank you for pointing out how horrible 'ghost chairs' are! A neighbor has a ghost dining table and ghost chairs.
Suffice to say that dining set reflects her personality - or lack thereof, perfectly!
The sheep are so funny! My aunt collects sheep but that’s because she spins yarn and likes sheep. I didn’t know they were a fashionable thing!
Especially at $5K!
Your aunt's sheep will be effortlessly cool forever because she has an actual connection to the sheep.
Auntie is a trend setter.
I have a sheep in my living room. My friend was getting rid of it, and I thought it was cute; but it was also very dusty, so it was not going into my bedroom.
So now it sits beside my TV, and the handmade Christmas elf that my late aunt made sits triumphantly astride it. All year.
It definitely didn’t ever cost $5000, but now that I know rich people have these, I’m totally going to assert that I am bougie and on-trend, in my rent-controlled apartment furnished by IKEA and Craigslist.
Also, continuing my longstanding trend of loving the things Nick finds tacky. See: theme rooms(!)
And what are they gonna do with them once they’re out of fashion??
I look forward to Saturday mornings with Nick. I say to my friend “what would Nick do”. You are so down to earth and spot on. Thanks to you… from Kelowna, B.C.
I really believe this your BEST and most frank video by far. EVERYTHING was spot on. Really felt your energy! You said everything we all feel 😂
I have to say for someone whose not a fan of kids, you’re doing a good job of advocating for them having they’re own space. I think part of the school of thought on the neutral kids spaces is use of natural materials like wood, and that it limits distraction so children can focus on their play-but I’m not sure how much research supports this, and clearly that has been turned into a trend and taken too far where as you said it’s all about the aesthetic rather than what actually benefits kids (and yes they need colour around for interest, to learn about colours, to mix different materials, act out things from their world etc.) Also, my 5 year old is a big fan of the Berenstain Bears books 📖
Love love love the wine rant! Thank you for another great video!
Your rants always make me laugh. Thanks for brightening my day 🤣
You had me at "Wine Rooms" and wine snobs! True story...I was at a dinner party and the host had a Malbec wine. He actually said to me that if I didn't know what Malbec was, he said I shouldn't drink it. BTW - I love your content. Thank you for your honesty.
Gotta love the pretentiousness! 🙄
Right then and there I would have said buh-bye to that Malbec party!
I was 23 years old when my landlady had my room redecorated with beige wallpaper. And it made me cry. Many times. So yeah.
But now i'm an old lady and i love beige:)
I think if I every had a house that came with a showy Wine room, I would use it to hold ships in bottles, just for giggles😂
That would honestly look way cooler! At least ships in a bottle are interesting.
Yes that would be super neat! A perfect use!
The wine! The kids! Oh my goodness your so right. I’m in total agreement.
What a great giggle this video provides!
Ghost chairs look like the extra plastic chairs you shove in the shed for when unexpected guests come for a BBQ. You hose them off before they sit in them so hopefully the dirt doesn't transfer to their clothes. Oh, and check for spiders in the crevices. I guess being clear would be an advantage for that.
I bought some at an auction (for very little money) and that is exactly what I use them for! They are piled in my garage and make it out only if I need extra seating outside (which doesn't really happen.) I think catering companies and wedding rental companies buy them in bulk
Lol any chair that looks easily ‘stackable’ is perfect for extra seating :), now that I know you can get them super cheap with creepy crawlies made visible advantage, might have to get some :)
The wine rant was everything. 😆
For real, wine knowledge seems like a competition of who knows the most about it. Meanwhile I'm forever in my box wine era. Power to you, Nick!
I hear you on the wine business. There is so much pretension going on with wine. I love the study where they filled expensive wine bottles with cheap wine and served it to wine "experts" and "supertasters," who raved about the wine. And they also dyed white wine to look like a cab and served it to experts, who raved about the tannins and the dark chocolate and cherry taste.
YES to all of this, as usual!! Lol, just tonight, we watched an episode of Tough Love with Hilary Farr and she jokingly pointed out the sheep! 🐑 And I've always thought that about the Ghost chair, too. If they want to sell plastic chairs for $10 a pop at Ikea, fine. But $540 a piece at Design Within Reach (spoiler alert: it's NOT for most of us) is RIDICULOUS.