Kiva, Kiva, Kiva, you need to STOP these videos!!! There is not one video I haven’t seen and instead of getting what I have to do done I find myself cracking up and taking design suggestions for my new home. BTW my house is black and white inside and I’m planning on painting the exterior of the house BLACK. Yes I am. Love your sense of humor. Thanks
Congrats on your new home. We’ve also just purchased a new home and I want to paint the exterior blk but my neighborhood is more conservative so I just don’t know how that would go over.
@@kiki-c7819 you can go a nice neutral tines and do black trim and stuff. You don't have to make the whole house look like you should be dropping off dead bodies. Just drive in neighborhoods that you find interesting and get ideas. We had one neighbor down the street whose house had a dark roof and a black house and white trim. It was interesting to say the least. And I don't care what you do with your house, but it always is respectful to make it funky nice but what you love also and your neighborhood vibe will be inclusive to you..
We wanted the pottery barn expandable round wooden table (I forgot the name!) but it was $2,000, then $500 shipping, and wouldn't be available for months. Somehow a few weeks later my mom found one on the local Facebook marketplace for $500. Not the finish we wanted, but it turned out perfectly beautiful in our space. And when our kids and dogs beat it up, I don't worry!
I laughed so hard when you said if you have a marble dining table, you just have to hold your plate of food up to your chest 🤣 so true tho! I had a marble island and I regretted it every day of my life. Within a couple months I already had a few water ring marks 🤦🏻♀️
Wooden dining tables are a definite yes for me, as well as statement lighting. I will say I also have a pewter metal bed frame that I think is pretty timeless, and wonder your thoughts on metal beds. For me, after the major "bed bug" scare several years ago, despite never having had that issue myself ( a friend of mine nearly did- brought back from a major hotel chain when on vacation). It's made me wary of wood beds, though I do like the look of them.
My parents lived in Cambridge, England for several years when first married in the 1950s - my dad was stationed there in the Air Force. They bought a ton of English antiques but also travelled a lot on the continent and brought back a very new very modern Danish dining table in teak. Which is my dining table now. Gen - You - Ine Danish modern from 1950's Denmark. If even you are not into mid century modern, which ii am, I think this table is timeless. Also I have my grandmother's antique cherry corner cupboard from the early 1700s. Love it. It's friggin gorgeous but so understated. I think that's as timeless as it gets. Also Nana's antique solid wood blanket chest. That thing is big and heavy. I think that's the only kind of thing that's really timeless.
I love cane beds! I love cane everything! I’d say they’re pretty timeless, they’ve been around in some form for centuries. I was fortunate to inherit a beautiful Thomasville cane headboard from the ‘70s in a French provincial style that I’ll never part with. My summer projects include making two twin cane headboards for my daughters.
I love wooden dining tables, too. I bought a table too made of reclaimed wood from a tobacco barn. You can see the bandsaw marks in it. I attached black hairpin legs to it and just love it.
It struck me as funny when you said wooden dining tables because I thought, well what else is there. I had no idea people have plastic or marble dining tables. I have never seen that in anyone's home. My redecorating budget is $0 but I am learning so much from you and you are inspiring me to at least tidy up and move some furniture around!
If any table is timeless, its the wooden one imo. To me, plastic looks cheap and young (college dorms and apartments for example), while marble has to be really expensive to not look kitschy. I've had cheap plastic-y furniture as a student myself, nothing wrong with that, but its not exactly timeless. And marble makes sense for immovable objects imo, if you are investing in your counter tops, columns, tiles... But marble tables, with kids doing their art and homework there...I would never lol. Same goes for leather sofas with toddlers, my sister's one has the abc's written all over it with non-washable ink, curtesy of my nephew. 😂
Thanks for sharing Kiva!!!🌹❤️ I have had my beautiful 42” high cane back dining chairs for over 30 years. They are in perfect condition. I have 6 of them. I decided to replace them because I’m refreshing my home and decided to get some larger chairs, my dining room table with the extender allows me to seat 8. I don’t have room for the cane back chairs, so they’re just sitting in my dining room along with my new chairs because I don’t want to get rid of them. It’s a dilemma
I agree so much with the wallpaper, I have wall paper in 2 spaces in my home, my daughter’s room and bathroom, I love love it 😍 also the leather yes! A thousand times yes! 🙌🏼 you have hit all the right points in this vid! Thank you 😊
Fun video! I respectfully disagree about the wallpaper. We put a really timeless designed wallpaper in our powder room and also in a portion of our formal sitting room. I wouldn't put peel and stick because the quality is not as good and it can look bad after a while...
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for mentioning the negatives of the fabric bed!! I will never understand why we have this fabric bed trend going on. Gross!! How do you clean it after someone’s oily hair touches it while sitting in bed reading. Ugh! Ick! What happens when the cat claws it? Fabric head boards makes no sense! And yay to peel-and-stick wallpaper and no to paste wall paper. You don’t know what work is until you take down pasted wall paper.
I'm thanking the YT algorithm Gods, having your videos suggested to me. Binge watching your videos, now. Buying a condo and need all the help I can get.
I agree with the cane but the biggest problem I have is when it breaks it’s too expensive to repair. Cane will break over time bc it gets brittle. Even the prefab cane is expensive to replace. I have even tried diy caning. Very difficult to work with cane. Jute rugs are easy to clean and vacuum. Wood tables are a yes. A nice light fixture in the house is a yes. Big trees are nice but most of us don’t have that space to waste and you need to dust them a lot. A real one is too heavy to move around. I am a wallpaper fan. Tech is great but I would like to see you introduce cheaper ways to bring it in. Ie tech light bulbs which ones hubs worth buying type of security you think is good for apartment or home ? See you soon.
I love real trees but no matter they die on me 🙄. Oh gosh the marble dining table is beautiful but not practical, maybe if you live alone with no traffic. Great advice 🥰. Thanks for the inspiration 💕
I think a cane headboard would be very chic & cozy for a guest bed! Especially since I feel like these spare rooms are not ones we update as frequently as the others.
I LOVE the cane bed that I've had for over 10 years! Ballard Designs - not a ton of $$ - it's white and she's a keeper! Will be getting on the tree train as soon as my sunroom is built - and maybe a funky light fixture as well! Great video!
My dark color love versus all black is "Urbane Bronze" which was the Sherman Williams color in 2021. It is an 8 on the L RV. But I have it on my entry wall and when the light comes in it is stunning. And I use it with the Sherman Williams evergreen fog (3022 color.). I love my Behr paint from Home Depot but there's so many good colors from different places. Because I am not a white wall person anymore I never have been but you know how that goes. So there are colors that are not black black black black. And suck all the light out of the room....
If using peel and stick wallpaper, make sure the paint it's being applied over isn't flat/matte paint. It will still destroy the walls. What I've heard as an alternative is using fabric and clothes starch. Now, this being said, I can only find a few, quite old RU-vid videos on the subject and nearly everyone I've seen has white walls and I can't always tell the texture of their walls. Even if they actually did rip some paint, you wouldn't be able to tell because it's still white. So, take this suggestion with a grain of salt. If anyone has experience using fabric as wallpaper on non-white, matte walls, please let me know. My living room and bedrooms are painted like that. My living room has some old water trails down one side and there's flat out nothing I can do about them as I can't paint or use wallpaper of any kind. The fabric trick is all I have left .
You mentioned Ethan Allen! No one ever does. I love Ethan Allen, lol. The living room in my previous home was all Ethan Allen...the chairs were to die for comfy and the softest, most beautiful leather. Btw, I just bought a large faux tree for a dark corner. It really brightens up the space with that pop of color!
Oh I’m glam and I love my wooden dining table from Macys and it was black. I do alot of Tablescape on it. Thanks Kiva I love this kind of video I subscribe to you along time ago and if I wasn’t busy I have to comment but mostly I watch you in my screen all the time you drop a video.
I brought rattan placemats into my home. (Ikea, brand new) Within a week I noticed these tiny bugs crawling into the rattan. I threw them out. I wonder if cane beds would also attract those tiny bugs?
I wish I had some empty space. I look around and feel like I am a borderline hoarder. I love everything I have but I really need to be ruthless get rid of some stuff.
I've had a cane bed for 7 years now and fellow interior design students have expressed how much they hate it. I actually have an eclectic, artsy style (I actually stopped taking interior design classes to take art classes and I hope to be an illustratot one day) and the cane works really well with my lots of art and sculptures especially cause I painted the legs of the bed black
You are awesome. I'm going with the peal and stick stone pattern wall by my fire place. I have to tell you, I wish I could talk as fast as you!!!! I have an art piece made of plaster in my living room. I'm painting it, because it has a beautiful seascape design that I just can't let it be without color
Fun Story: The guy who mounted my frame TV got pricked in his foot by my jute rug, lol. (I never asked him to take his shoes off) He said it ok to be pricked by something natural once in a while. My rug has white stripes in it, which gives off a coastal look.
I do regret not putting in more of statement light fixtures or at least or substantial ones in my bedrooms. I just wanted something simple but I think I went too simple. 10 foot ceilings really do deserve more elaborate light fixtures. One of these days I will change them out but I just can't make myself do it now considering they're less than a year old.
What are some of your favorite options for cane beds? I believe I saw something from Studio MacGee with a king cane headboard. Thanks ahead of time of your advice! Love your channel!!
After my mom died and I'm sitting here in this house that is now mine it looks like a walked out of the 60s, I bought a full-size cream Pottery Barn iron bed. I wanted one of those forever. Yes I paid $1000 for it and I love it. And I will leave it in my will to someone. It just goes with dark and light and all that good stuff and it's just me in the bed. (Sad to say 🤬) So full size was plenty. I do have six cats but only 4 like to sleep with me. So we snuggle and it's all good.
I love faux trees but always had the very fake looking fiscus with burgundy leaves. LOL. Any suggestions for more realistic faux trees that won't break the bank?
Greenery is such an important design detail, that is often overlooked! I discovered Artiplanto, as they have all kinds of faux greenery of all sizes, and I think they have some other decor pieces such as mirrors also! Great video!!
I have a metal air intake vent in one corner of my living room for my central air system. So I'm going to get a fake tree and put it on that great to help fill in that space with something that is easily movable for when I need to change out the filters. It won't block much air so it won't affect the system at all. And I have 10 foot ceilings so a nice tall tree should look good in the room A real one would be way too heavy and in removable and I can barely keep a cactus or aloe vera alive let alone at real tree indoors.
Kiva these jute rugs are killing me in all the best ways!!! Do you have any links for where these rugs are with the black accents? I’ve seen some at Crate and Barrel 😍
What are the “right” brands of peel & stick wallpaper…I’m a renter and don’t want to destroy my walls with peel and stick that ends up not actually peeling off easily and not ruining the walls…
Right up there with your usual high standards for content and editing. There are two coffee side tables at 12:05. Any idea where the ovoid shaped table is sourced? Not able to find anything that is small(ish) with the interesting legs on line. Help, anyone?
Can anyone recommend a great retailer for peel and stick wallpaper? I rent and I don't want to have to clean alot of sticky residue once I leave. Thanks in advance ☺️
I do love jute rugs. How do you feel about layering jute rugs over pattern rugs? I just sold my home and moving to a different space and l want to keep my neutral aesthetic but bringing in more texture.
I hate hate *hate* jute rugs. They are so incredibly uncomfortable to walk on. I am a "no shoes in the house" kind of person, and jute would literally hurt my bare feet to walk on. And no one could comfortably sit on the floor on a jute rug, especially in shorts. I know I have sensitive skin because of a medical condition, but I seriously don't get how other people like it.
Hi kiva 💕 I’m currently looking for a new couch ( i have two kids and a messy husband lol so white is out) …I want fabric and the hubby wants leather… is there a style or company you recommend ? My style is PB meets CB2 but on a budget lol! Thanks 😘
No friggin faux trees. I look at fake trees like I look at people. I don't like fake people. I don't have them in my home. By choice. And I do not buy fake trees. Or fake flowers. If I can't afford a real one, I won't have it. That's where you and I and a lot of the decorators totally divide. I would rather have an empty space than a fake anything in that corner. I'm from Florida. But when I got married in 1970 and went to Connecticut, everybody had brown furniture and fake flowers. I would rather have nothing. I went back to Philly. Same thing. And even with succulents. You go to Trader Joe's. You buy a succulent for $3.99. It's cute. You do the best you can if it dies. You give it a nice funeral when you replace it with another real succulent. It's the cost of having real in your life versus fake anything. Ugh.. and I have never had a cat take a bite out of a poinsettia at Christmas time and die. Yes they can poison a cat. But according to my vet, they would have to sauté a whole plant and eat it to get sick. So you have to use logic. But go for it. I think that picture of the big palm that's not real just looks stupid as crap. But that's my two cents worth. But it's like you say it's my channel I can say what I want. And I say you go gurl .. Because we do love you
She definitely had a video on this, can't remember which one. There's a website that is like an online marketplace for artists, you can search the art and then reach out to the artists directly. It's on the same video she mentions her favorite places to get things, including a pillow website. Good luck!
