My thoughts on Lone Fox's new LA Spanish revival home 

I swear I was just about to send this over to you, Drew! Paige has such a good eye and there are SO many decisions to make. Excited to see what happens to this home.

i love his house jsut as is!!!! i'd live in it like that for a bit until i get a better feeling of how i really truly want things to be. especially if you are planning on staying there for a while. you really want to LOVE it and feel like yours. please don't rush!!!! don't rush in designing please!!! take your time!!!

@@Makikylu if I know Drew, he will transform those rooms again and again. I am always so scared to make changes because I know it takes me forever to make a decision, so it feels much more permanent. But I know Drew is fabulous at getting new ideas and completely changing the space, over and over again. It's really inspiring and helps me get out of my head so much.

COLLAB NEEDED OMGG

Congratulations on your new home Lone. It’s a great canvas for you. Have fun with it.

Yes!

Yes

I was thinking the same thing. He could *restore* it to its original glory and it will look amazing.

I would be devastated if he modernized it, the vintage tiles are GORGEOUS

The tile can be painted with a special paint made for tile. The You Tube site of Kylie Flavell demonstrates how she repainted 3 different tile projects. Unless you have a ton of money, it would not be feasible to rip out and replace all that tile.

@@christineberardi4694 I shiver at the words "painted tile"

@@allisonchains__: I’ve seen it done and it wasn’t horrible, but I know what you mean. It was done in smaller bathrooms where there was only tile around the tub/shower combo. I wouldn’t recommend it in Drew’s case.

Thank you I really appreciate little antique details in a home don't get me wrong. The whole time I was thinking about how my grandmother 90 hated how tacky the pink and yellow and green and blue tiled everything was! Every one of these comments are acting like it's some kind of sacred item that shouldn't be disturbed even if it's broken. It's all a bit extreme. It makes me laugh thinking that a hundred years from now somebody won't want to tear out some kind of ugly trend we did because it's old or God forbid original to the home.

I am not a grout tile fan for the very same reason. My family home growing up had them in the kitchen as well and it was a nightmare to keep clean.

@@chelseygarrett4221 Lol I agree, some people are taking it way to literally and saying if you don't like your old pink tiles, don't get rid of it, just move to a different house, as if that's so simple to do these days

I'm a fan of the original cabinets as well since they're solid wood, when the countertop is replaced though they'll look very out of place

@@rz1974: I’d leave the countertops alone too.

the original cabinetry is gorgeous! i feel like i've been seeing a lot of people replicate old cabinets & hardware anyway so it would be a tremendous waste to just rip everything out

I’m not at all saying that this is what’s happening with this home, but it is completely inexplicable why someone would buy something so specific a style, and original, only to take so much of it out. If you need to change so much good quality work, maybe buy something else. Shoddy old work is one thing, but the idea that it’s just not to your taste is like, but why then?

@@thedepthsofrepair: 100%

lol I feel like it's not Paige's style

yess

@@hasnan8793 I agree!

I feel like Paige would be annoyed by xo mcenna in literally 20 seconds

I agree that I love her reno and am learning SO much from her, but the room designs are feeling very redundant and... brown?! But she made me want to build my own cabinets!

So agree! I like updates as much as the next person, but not if there is no good reason to do so. Better to have something original and quirky (and functional) than new for the sake of new.

I know Drew talked a lot about wanting to keep the main floor fairly original and do more work upstairs where renovations have already been done. One issue is that not everything original is in good shape. Also, as much as I love to see things kept the same, we all have to remember it's not our house. Drew gets to decide what works for him :) The amount of hate people like furniture flippers get on RU-vid is insane. Ultimately, reused is better than not, even when it means painting something to make it sellable.

@@Lynsey17 Is anyone commenting on a video under the assumption that a random RU-vidr’s house belongs to them lol?

None of these light fixtures are original the homeowner he bought them from said he liked to collect unique light fixtures.

Living in a 100 year old home with the amount of tiles and they are cemented in from floor to almost the ceiling!!! Nightmare to work around. Love, love our vintage bungalow home and we are keeping the architectural integrity as much as possible but OMG redoing anything presents a problem. Lol the one major love of our home is this is built like a tank!!! We have the old metal cabinets they are small cool looking but precious owners painted wall paint on them in the hot weather it seems like they are me melting😱 we may have them stripped or replaced. ( WHEN WE DO WE WILL ABSOLUTELY DONATE!!) We will be joining the Chicago Bungalow Association Love the vintage big time but really something's have to be upgraded and Uplifted (this house is secretly working against us on some things)

It would be cute in a cabin or something like that! Or an outdoor kitchen. I think the cleaning would annoy me in my day-to-day kitchen. I like the look though!

I have tile counters in the kitchen and the bathroom. Kitchen counters are the bane of my existence, especially since I do a lot of pastry and breadmaking and its impossible to keep the grout clean.I don't mind the bathroom ones, you're right on wear and tear (and I'm also not making food in the bathroom)

It's weird cause in Spain we never had tiles as countertops... The one's i've seen weren't in Spain, and they were all cracked and the grout was dirty. I don't think tiles as countertops is something you want to have in your home, it's not functional.

There’s a lot better products now that has a lot more durability and elasticity than the grout they used just 10 years ago. Some additives can make grout super strong. I made my own countertop and it’s fantastic.

came here to say this!! no to tile countertops!!

My house was completed in 1930. The cabinets and ceramic tile are all original. The walls are tiled floor-to-ceiling including between the bayed windows and in the refrigerator and range niches. I wouldn’t remove them for anything. They actually make the kitchen incredibly easy to keep clean. The tile is a very soft buttery yellow that’s almost a creamy beige. The trim is a sky blue that sometimes almost looks periwinkle. There is also a thin strip of accent tile that goes all around the room that’s blue, yellow, and black. I don’t really like the sky blue that much and would have preferred black trim, but I play off it with my decor by using blue, black, white, turquoise, and green decor pieces. The bayed windows above the sink give me a nice tiled shelf for plants. 🪴

LOL! They do the same with French farmhouse, etc. It is a little strange...

as a fellow european I agree. There are some "spanish inspired" houses where I went to school in germany and they where called casas and that was already where the inspiration stopped imo. Every material that was used was german and the houses just looked like someone tried to copy something with what he had at hand but not what the source material was made out off? Just makes it look uncanny and off. Plus the house needs to function in german climate which also impacted the overall design.

@Stephanie Tinsley said it perfectly!

They are not saying it is Spanish. The style is Spanish Revival (I think?) An architectural style from around the 1920's.

This is definitely an L.A. and Old Hollywood interpretation of “Spanish”.

No

@@moonbeeps: 😂 White would be a boring mistake here. We can agree to disagree.

@@hereforit2347 Spanish homes are white to reflect the sunlight. I'm Spanish.

@@moonbeeps: The Spanish Colonial and Spanish Revival architecture in L.A. is really a unique hodgepodge of Spanish, Mexican, Mediterranean, and Indigenous styles. The homes were built in the late 1920s and 1930s and have discernible Art Deco and Arts and Crafts elements. They are quite different from what’s found in Spain. Some Spanish home exteriors here look good in white, but most don’t, in my opinion. Color often accentuates their unique architectural features. Many have colorful Mexican tile on the outer steps and patios, large picture windows with stained glass accents, ornate ironwork inside and out, hardwood flooring, and glossy, colorful ceramic tile in the kitchens and bathrooms. All of them have terracotta roofing tile. In my neighborhood we have a mix of Tudor Revival, Spanish Revival, Mediterranean, Colonial, and a Queen Anne here and there. The houses being of different colors is part of the L.A. vibe. The interior walls, however, usually have a “cake-icing” plaster finish which usually *does* look best in a matte white. Nevertheless, if I were Lone Fox, I would definitely not paint that duplex exterior white.

I don’t think she’d be that into her style

@@ccap3211 I know. They have completely different styles. However, Paige reviews a wide range of different people that do interior design. She doesn't just review people's style she likes, she also reviews interior that she thinks is god awful. That's one thing great about her channel, she doesn't sugarcoat anything.

I agree they are all insane in the best way

Keep that bedroom chandelier and put it in another room, or in the hall.

They are worth thousands and thousands. He had them appraised

@@coastaldiva: I am not surprised at all. 😃

Edit: Personally, I would try to keep as much of the original tiling as possible!! I would probably replace the kitchen countertops with something a little more practical like a stone countertop, and keep the green tiling which is gorgeous. I really adore that pink and yellow bathroom. I think if he does go ahead and renovate, I would probably replace the yellow and the flooring with a white tile, which would also help the pink pop more. The combo of the thin green trim at the top of the walls, the pink, and a white would pair so nicely together.

There's a fine line between having some vintage touches and just over the top old. The current state of Drew's house has crossed that line.

@@moonbeeps respectfully, no ✌🏽

Yea the pink bathroom is soo cute and feels very Breakfast at Tiffany's 💜

She would get rid of a $15 THOUSAND DOLLAR chandelier. A professional opinion is more helpful.

A dark dusty green would look good.

it'll make the green look grey

Holy moly the bathroom tiles are also amazing

Right it’s sooooo beautiful now especially the lobby

Yeah, someone really messed up on the window replacements and exterior paint color. They make the house look generic and soulless 😢

Ah, Paige, have you seen a channel called Homeworthy?!