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!!!
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.
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
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!
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!
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 🇬🇧.
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.
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?
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
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! 🍷
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. 😂
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!
""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?
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😂
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!
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.
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’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.
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.”
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.
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.
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 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.
As an actual certified wine snob who took actual classes to learn about wine and worked in the wine business professionally, boxed wine is f-ing great. If people knew why cork is used and all the downsides of working with cork, they’d understand that modern innovation here is GREAT! Cork is one of the main reasons wine needs to be stored on it’s side. It’s to keep the cork wet and this properly swollen to seal the bottle and yet let in just enough air for the wine to oxidize slowly in order to age. And guess what happens when you store wine upright and it has an actual cork? The wine goes bad. So in order to prevent wine going bad if it’s stored wrong, wine makers add extra sulfites to act as a preservative, which can change the flavor and give some of us horrid headaches. So I am all for screw caps that are designed to let in JUST enough air and synthetic corks that do the same thing. And boxed wine do the same thing plus protect the wine from light! And for those of us who want to enjoy a bottle of wine for more than 2 days, boxed wines are amazing! More good wine needs to be in boxes then we can enjoy a box of wine without the sulfates, without refrigeration, without it going bad for a whole week or a month! Boxed wine is great, wish we had more boxed wine and more sizes. I swear in 30 years, people will have box wine bars with a row of different wines for people to enjoy.
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!
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.
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
Sheeps! My grandma has had stuffed sheep surrounding her fireplace for half a century, just because she loved animals. I can’t wait to tell her she’s en vogue!
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 RU-vid 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 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 :)))
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”
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!!
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
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”
OMG, I live in Napa and we're lightweight wine snobs. We don't have a room mainly because we drink it, we don't save it. We were at a tasting yesterday and the dude went on and on about 2017 ash fall made this wine richer and deeper and more nuanced. It was nice but not $220 nice. LOL, you crack me up.
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.😊👌
I have a one year old. More than anything, I wanted to have the beautiful neutral playroom, but I’m also a teacher with a family and child studies background. Children need color, textures, variety, and everything unattractive. I cringe at the look of my daughter’s playroom, but she has a blast in it!
Totally agree on the wine snobs. I don’t care about fine wine. I have friends that will serve lower quality wine to some of us in a social gathering and better wine to others at the same gathering. We can’t taste the good stuff because it would be wasted on our inferior taste buds. Maybe they’re right!🤣
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.
It has always saddened me that rich people dont do victorian gothic mansions or riccoco palaces. If you have money to pay for Versaille, why are you paying for an ikea showroom?
I have absolutely no interest in home design but I have enjoyed binging your channel. Your humor and content is unmatched. Thanks for sharing your opinions with the world. They are appreciated. ❤
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!!! ❤❤❤❤
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!
If you have sheep in your house because everybody else has sheep in their house, then the real sheep is in your mirror. Too baaaaaad. I even paused the video to say what I said.
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!
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 ❤
Laughing my ass off because I've always felt this pretentiousness with wine drinking, and how people will glom onto it to up their ego/status. Much like walking around with accessories flaunting luxury logos
Worked in daycares and I think the kids room should be a neutral color with bright pops of color. I have found that a lot of color can be overwhelming for some kids. Oh and kids have personality even in the infant stage and they will let you know what they like and dislike!!
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. 😂
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!
Too true Nick... old money buries that wine, commodity, deep in the cellar. Nothing worse than the newly rich. The more money some people have, the less they have to think.
@beverlywesterkamm-wallrauc5808 ... at least the old money snobs know not to flaunt what they've acquired, in your face. Kardashian - trash - attention seekers. Money will consume the weak... right, Trump? There is so much waste!
About the sheep. Seriously?! Over 5000 dollars!?!? I mean... what? And "antique"? Pffff! Right! 😂 Are the sheep the new barn door thingy? We want it to look like a homestead but we go for the animal instead of the door? Reminds me of a store in my town several years ago who had a life sized horse statue in their display. Never got sold. Cant understand why ;)
Those huge wine rooms are like the garges with too many expensive and impractical cars. I bet most of those people don't know so much about wine itself. OMG the 'sheeps' room at 4:15 is ugly and boring. Is it expensive? I mean, they have those fig trees right in front of the framed art photos. A couple of those beige kids' rooms look like they're shot in sepia monochrome. There IS NO color. I agree, Nick, dog rescues. Or some other charity, people. "Give back a tiny amount of all that wealth you have instead of instead of being so self-centered about your personal luxury."
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 :)
Help!!! I’m redecorating (new couch and curtains, maybe a few accessories) everyone is asking me what my “theme” is. I don’t really do themed rooms but I blurted “bee theme” because I was thinking about bees at the time. 😅 how can I incorporate a “bee theme” without it being over the top? I know it’s my home and I can do whatever I want but if I can set out a few items that will placate my family I’ll be much a happier person all around.
I'm totally with you about the wine rooms, they're ridiculous. I find it such a strange hobby but then I also don't drink 'cause wine and beer tastes bad. It's rotten plants, people, calm down! Imagine if people had the same obsession with steak. "This must be a Texas Longhorn, about 2 years old. I taste notes of testosterone so this is definitely a bull. Undertones of fresh grass and Florida soil. Yum!"
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(!)
“ now I need to know what the weather conditions were when the wine was bottled?” 😂😂😂 I agree with everything you said. A beige room for a kid? Boring!!
I disagree on the neutral beige children’s rooms. Most of the rooms Nick showed are clearly baby nurseries. Babies don’t care and having loud colours can actually be very stimutaling for them, which you don’t want if you want them to sleep more than 30mins in their cribs. Nurseries are typically for the parents mainly in the same way baby clothes are mostly for the parents. Once babies become toddlers, I agree though. (My babies’ room is mostly saturated colours so this isn’t about me).
@@Flo-hy3zq My kids didn't even sleep in their rooms until they were toddlers. The eldest **had to** sleep next to me, she would scream bloody murder if she wasn't touching me. She slept in an "outrigger" bed next to me until she was 2. My youngest was more mellow (thank you!), but had medical issues that were easier to manage if they were next to me.
@@soulsticegirl1969 That’s exactly why I said it’s stimulating. You don’t want to be intrigued where you go to bed. It’s the same reason why Nick doesn’t recommend loud colours in bedrooms (for adults). They are overstimulating in a place that should be for rest
$800 for an ab roller? I used to work for one of the top gym equipment manufacturers in the country. If you've been to a professional gym, there's a a good chance you've used some of my handywork. $800 could buy you a full dumbbell rack and all of the weights on it.
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.
