2023 Interior Design Trends I Am NOT Excited About! 

All my furniture would be gone in less than a week!

Psssss. 😂

Same!

Oh meow! I have six cats. Man they would have a ball. What a ball... and I would let them go for it.

Remember water beds? 😅🤦‍♀️

I think it goes well with today's clown world.

Perhaps, carnival core could come with a free copy of Stephen King's It?

Carnival core feels like maximalism meets post modern to me! Not my taste either though 😂

I like it, it's really artistic, fun, colorful!

Misread that as carnivore core before he got to it and thought it was an aesthetic for the people who make eating meat their whole identity. Where it's like ok dude, lots of folks eat meat, but can we not have a deer head dead-eyed staring at me when I go to the toilet, it's creepy 😂

That chair sounds awsome

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But we love them anyway!

Or a chew toy, for the cat who thinks he's a puppy and chews furniture if left unsupervised.

I completely agree! 😺

Same here.

😀 haha, funny! I'd have to say Canine Core at my house!

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Omg 🤭😂!

Oh that's hilarious!!!! A great example of form not following function. Maybe not the most practical chair in the world but look at the memories it gave you, and the laugh it gave to so many of us. 🤣🤣

@@sandyfoxx5973 Mom’s a great sport with a great sense of humor.

Inflatable furniture was trend setting when it was released! It was released in 1967

Oh stop! Inflatable furniture can be a totally elevated style choice! Just use helium. 😂🎈🐡🫧😂

I can't imagine spending a non trivial money on inflatable furniture. I have an inflatable queen mattress for guests, which is probably way more puncture resistant than most of the stuff pictured, and the previous one still managed to get a leak in it.

Yeah! I was thinking "i sat in those chairs in a plastic playhouse.."

Same legs and plastic look.

Yes!!

Girl same lol

That's what I thought when I saw them lol, like an oversized kid's chair.

Oml, that's too funny. 🤣

My husband calls it “Assisted Living Pink” 😂

@@Ou_phrontis 🤣🤣🤣

He he, I was tempted to comment on how your shirt matched the Dusty Rose :). I guess that's the internet for you! You knew somebody would comment on it (giggle)

Agree. I laughed out loud.

his sweater is dark mauve. I own a lipstick in the same shade... called deep mauve. 1000%, mauve is a muted purple with a brown undertone that can have a tinge of pink. It can range from a very pale mauve to a deep mauve bordering on a wine color... but a deep wine has a red undertone even if it hues purple where as mauve has a brown undertone.

Love carnival core,

@@Chaotic_Pixieyes to make up but wall no. Plus for some reason it reminds me England, don’t know why😂

Ugh that country blue. Made me hate blue for a long time

Or when hunter green and burgundy was all the rage in the mid-90s.

Exactly, and I hate it. Trying to shopping for clothes, only to find the same two colours with no subtlest experiments in every shop is infuriating. With every season passing, I'm becoming more and more willing to learn clothes making for myself

@@avedurham my parents had EVERYTHING in Hunter green and burgundy

You nailed it: Market saturation is precisely the problem. For apparel I’m a “winter/spring” - as a 70s kid, I was miserable with all the golds, rusts and browns in the stores. It haunts me so badly that to this day I can’t stomach even beige-ish neutral decor...

So many memories, scrubbing grout on a floor with more Comet cleanser than I care or name, at least it was a floor!

We had vintage tile counters in an original 1920’s kitchen, and we loved it! Looked so cute, and worth the little extra cleaning, especially since we aren’t heavy cookers.

We had them(previous owner installed them). Yes, they DID have to go! Nasty!

Currently live in an apartment with tile countertops. They are cute but I would switch for a smooth flat surface in a heartbeat

I have memories (I won't say fond memories) of taking a toothpick and scraping the gunk out of the grout lines in my mom's kitchen. Never again. Back when tiles were first used for kitchen countertops, they were better than the alternative - wood. But we have so many better materials now ... tiles no longer make sense. I suppose if you're a clean freak who doesn't use a kitchen heavily, it would be ok. But for a serious (or messy) cook, or a family with kids ... choose something else and put the tiles on the backsplash.

Sarah Baumler of "restoration island" gave her now teen daughter Charlotte a dusty rose velvet bed. I hated it on sight!

Dusty rose. The color that has a smell. I can't see it without smelling my grandmas old pink furniture. Like dust and old velvet

@@fleurpouvior2967 hahaha I do understand that but I think it can be done tastefully and in a pretty and *clean* way!

All I wanted was a red knit hat. My choices at the mall? Black, grey or dusty rose. I hate that someone up there controls my color choice.

I think it’s beautiful! Feminine, but not overtly so.

I realized it was dusty rose adjacent. haha

Moosh colors are my favorite.

OMG Totally!! 🤣🤣🤣

Looool trueeee

Oh gosh! That sounds like a nightmare.

I thought HomeGoods always WAS Carnival Core. Heck, they always WILL be.....

I call it Pepto too! Tho in fairness i guess it’s a bit more aged & muted.. 🤔

@@andalistark5416 Haha. Or dirty and faded.

I know unreservedly that someday, when I am Dead and gone, some irritated Soul is going to have to paint over all of the multiple rooms of Lilac throughout my home. For some of us, we find our Soulmate in color form and MUST have it as much as possible in our periphery.

Now you just dated yourself referencing Trading Spaces (hey, I’m there, too!). I remember one room in which the owner said “NO BROWN!!!” So, of course, (I think it was) Ty who had the other couple paint the (living room or den) brown. The homeowner was so furious, I think she attacked the other couple! Should have attacked Ty.

@@HeronCoyote1234 Ty was an interior design sadist😂

@@riverAmazonNZ 😆

Ditto on animal prints. I think I’m the only one of my peers who avoids them like the plague.

Animal prints are tacky. Period.

Yesss. Animal print is a perfect example! So awful. So gaudy. So friggin’ popular 🤢

I could qualify for any of those three and hell no to this trend

Gamers are not generally into home design... or carnivals

I dress like a clown on a daily basis, so this seems like something i should do gotta look into it

Carnival core looks like a living nightmare.

As a gamer… hell no, keep that garish shit outta my home

Yes! Lol the argument of raw meat getting on the grout… who puts raw meat on their countertops anyways? 😂

I hate them when baking I refuse to have anything but a solid smooth surface for that.

Teal hair since 1999 here, that trend improved the quality, lastability, and accessibility of my hair dye and I'll never be mad at seeing a fellow blue! I say "HI FRIEND!, love the hair!"

@@Cole_Cross Mine's red. :) Has been since the mid 90s. The kids are doing it now. I'm timeless. LOL.

Mauve so popular in the 80s. I do have a mauve chair in storage lol. I do have a mauve Hallmark Christmas ornament, dated 1983, which I just hung on my Christmas tree, always makes me smile when I pull it out.

I like mauve but in small doses because I over did it in the '90s

Hahaha I have teal streaks right now. But I’m also Gen X and extremely uncool

Wow, the last time I heard this was on the Thorn birds, roughly a million years ago haha

@@Coatilex Ashes of Roses goes way back - 1920s or before.

Very metal! 🤣🤣🤣 never heard ashes of roses but I love it. It's so kuch more indicative of the morose feeling dusty rose has. Also reminds me of bridesmaids dresses.

"Ashes of Roses" is also the title of a book about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire disaster. Great book. Sad but helped bring about fire codes for buildings.

@@johnvonundzu2170 my grandmother’s wedding dress in the 1920’s was ashes of rose

We had a short term rental when we moved across country and crumbs do not wipe cleanly from a tile countertop. They just don’t. Who needs another part-time job wiping them.

And it was always paired with that godawful country blue and knotty pine, 1988 was a cultural black hole in the US.

yes although I've never had anything in dusty rose/pink I think it's a pretty color and quite calming and relaxing.

I recently moved to a new house and found I was craving a soft pink in my bedroom- I have some antique family rugs in that color and got new velvet curtains to tone with them

Yes. Looks great on Victorian furniture

Spot on about the distinction between dusty rose and mauve. And I like dusty rose too! Looks gorgeous with gold/brass accents too.

This! We’re currently looking at redoing our kitchen and my plan is to go very neutral and the only pops of color will be my pink stand mixer and I’m going to try to find so dish ware that is similar to that pink. As for commuting to furniture or a whole space being dusty rose/mauve I agree it’ll feel dated over time

I do agree about that. Most of the things I dislike in home decor stem from practicality and usefulness, not "datedness".

Yes! When I was a kid (around 1985) my mom let me pick out my bedding and I chose a dusty rose floral comforter with lots of ruffles 😂

@@AChickandaDuck Yes - it is very Laura Ashley floral print 1980s. There's a particular powdery blue you need to pair it with for full effect.

@@kathiemihindukulasuriya1538 yep I had some dusty rose pillows witj ruffles on couch and some powder blue and dusty rose flowers on the black coffee table.

@@AChickandaDuck that was the thing back then. 😁

Yes, Dusty rose and slate blue was big. Bought a very expensive (for the times) handmade comforter in the Ozarks for my bed back then. Matching watercolor prints of flowers and English cottages.

But be prepared for no one enjoying sitting in the thing. Function drives me.

But the chairs...! Lol!

Can confirm. Own tile countertop and it's one of the top items on my list to replace in myu home.

Agreed. Had them in an apartment and I COULD NOT get/keep them clean. Hated them.

I’ve always seen them as the cheap option, and yes, they can’t be fully cleaned. Reminds me of the tiled table trend that I didn’t understand that was so popular this year (or last year, don’t care enough to remember when it was “hot”).

My mom had this with 4-inch tiles and soft white grout; bad choice. The only way I would consider is with large tougher tiles and a nonporous dark colored grout.

I'm so glad! Enjoy your coffee! ☕

Those chairs make me think of Wallace & Gromit.

"Pretending to be homeless," oh my goodness, that's a spicy take and I love it! 😂😂😂

Nick is a winter, so cooler colors suit him.

Good designers don't use weird impractical stuff.

Especially if you had a cat!

Probably because what were teens a few years ago are now adults decorating their own spaces and flooding social media with photos.

I happen to live in the second house I have no say on design of which is pink everything, and while I don't really mind the colour itself, after living surrounded by it I can definitely say it's mentally tiring

i'm kinda the same. pink is actually one of my favourite colours but for some reason i don't like it in my home decor. mauve is a bit more ok. my bedroom walls are a mauve but it's more of the purple variety. it doesn't look pink at all. i love pink when it comes to clothes but i don't want it in my house. it's a little too Barbie Dreamhouse for me.

Maybe Nick should do a video on countertops? Granite is always popular in the U.S. but it is expensive, and the market is really fickle about color. Gold granite was extremely in, then it was out. Similar situations with marble. Quartz is a popular composite material. It is mostly silica (stone or maybe glass), ground up and mixed with some cement or resin binder. It is expensive but getting more affordable as production scales up. By plastic, do you mean Formica (trademark) laminate over particle board? That is extremely common. Nobody loves it but it costs a mere fraction of stone. It is common in rentals and in the affordable housing market. It comes in near-unlimited colors and patterns. Not that the patterns ever look very good - the solid colors are better, with white or beige being standard. It isn't heat resistant and knives will scratch it, but it is smooth and resists spills. Corian (trademeark) is a more attractive and more expensive man-made surface compared to Formica. There is something called "cultured marble" that was used on bathroom.vanities but not in kitchens (that I know of). It was really obvious plastic that some colorants swirled through it. It seems to be gone now - I hope. Btw, Nick is Canadian but Canada seems to be the same design issues in the U.S. and Canada, for the most part.

Our childhood landlord had a massive doll collection of them as well, and THEY LAUGHED. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡Talk about creepy.

Timeless fabrics are difficult to find, they’re very trend-centric. Especially on MCM, which is no longer trending for 2023. Burnt orange and green, or starburst pattern will fit the era for purists.

Similar story: Heywood Wakefield tub chair, when I was a child, it was baby blue with a chocolate slub. Always loved the curvy lines. As a teenager, it was reupholstered in scratchy gold stuff--hated it. But the last choice my mom made was a burgundy; the dark color just made it a blob. After she died, I asked for it, but it took me years to decide what to do. I finally had it reupholstered in ivory linen, and wowy zowy, it looks like something out of a 1930s movie--celebrates those curves, with decorative tacks running down the backside like the seam on a starlet's silk stocking. To me it doesn't look MCM, but art deco, a period I prefer.

I just painted my new bathroom walls in kinda like mauve/dusty rose and its so pretty against the gray tiles

Yeah, I think tile countertops are playing into a homey/nostalgic aesthetic. Kind of similar to why Cottage Core became popular and the resurgence of dusty rose.

I can see the nostalgia but how do you keep the grout from getting dirty patches?

I obviously can’t speak for everyone but the kitchen in our office has a tiled countertop (built in 1986) and even though is has been used almost daily this supposed „porous grout problem“ is literally a non-issue. As long as you wipe off the counter with a wet towel/soapy water after each use there will be no stains or dirt or bad smell/bacteria/whatever horror scenario you’re imagining.

@@rizzopat9892 Right, I don't get this argument. First, white grout isn't the only option. Second, people use white grout in bathroom. A place that is teaming with bacteria and fluids that can stain and yet many people manage to keep that while.

I worked in a rehab center that had the dusty colors everywhere... Dusty rose, dusty blue ...yuk

Someone besides me remembers the Thorn Birds! ❤️

Thank you! I was racking my brain trying to remember the name of that book. I can sleep easy now😅

I’m so sorry..lol.. did a quick scan of your comment, saw “b-room,” “first light,” & “BM..” Immediate thought: WHY wd they be telling Nick about their early morning poo!?!

Hmm, usually people cut their meat on a cutting board, not countertop.

@@Lotna True, but there are spills and drips from store bought meat packages.