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Considering Wicked, part 1 came in hot at the end of 2024, and Wicked, part 2 will wrap up 2025, pretty sure green will see a resurgence with pink in tow...

I don't think you should reuse old candle jars as new candle jars i am no expert but i heard the glass can explode

My style is green and grey and also considering the architecture and placement of the house. My 70s house has been renovated by previous owners in early 2000s. Tuscan everywhere and that does not fit in a Swedish small town. Now im aiming to take back some of the 70s and mix it whit contemporary and some industrial because industrial is our original style that we had in our first apartment. This may not be trending and may colied but i feel that my house wants to take back some of the 70s and that we still need some of the hard industrial wibe

So satisfying to hear you call out all the trends I've been sick to death of for at least 3 years. The issue seems to be people following trends more than letting the architecture and setting of their home lead their approach to design. You should have seen the houses on "The Block" this year (Australia's biggest home reno show), they were so guilty of all of these trends and in buildings that have a completely different exterior design language (harsh, angular) to what they were trying to achieve inside (organic, curved).

good video, thank you

I love hearing the design perspective because it’s not something I really think about 😅 as a redhead I will still be claiming the color green but I will be keeping the others in mind when I decorate our new apartment 😃

Thanks!!

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you've convinced me to splurge on a new vacuum in 2025

It's hard when buying new furniture, as all you can get is what's currently fashionable. That might not fit your needs or your tastes.

It’s not economical to replace this 8;year old rug with a $2 grand rug 😂

This is an awesome video and message! Just what i needed ro hear! Ive been slowly trying to get my home more updated and decluttered for a couple of years now. I dont even know anything about interior design so its so hard. Thanks for the inspiration and letting people know its ok if everything isnt perfect❤️

Beautiful video.

It drives me crazy that people either decorate - or worse - do home renovations based on resale value and what would do well on the market. ~I'm~ living here so I'm renovating and decorating in the way that ~I~ prefer. If we sell our house one day, the buyers can change what they want. How am I supposed to know, for example, what color bathroom vanity they want? Trends do NOT equal preferences.

There is a lot of overlap. Burnout is chronic workplace stress that can lead to depression. I think finding the right job and having the best systems in place for a person with adhd can make a world of difference. I saw this video by a prof who used to teach a course on time management and he said it's about freeing up time for what you want to do by being aware of how you work and move through the world. There is no point sitting at a desk for 8 hours 9-5 if you are most productive from 5-8 in the morning.

I really needed to hear this today. Thank you

I grew up in Kansas. Style is never a thing. It’s all about function and pass it down! Also, I’ve never freaked out about having a perfect house for guests. If you are my friend, you know I have some clutter and dogs. A girlfriend recently visited and didn’t know I was “a messy girl”. Yeah- I don’t feel shamed. Perfectly clean is not the ADHD way. And honestly, I do pretty good these days for me.

Honestly, the relief I felt after the first sentence is insane! I recently felt incredibly inferior to “others” as a 37 year old because my plates and cutlery are all mismatch and I only have four of everything. I felt inadequate as an adult, as if I was somewhat broken. Until I realised it is a perfect amount of stuff for just me and I actually don’t care. Thank you for this video!! 🤍

thanks for doing this. Content creators are class blind when it comes to how many of us live and to be real, it stirs up my class resentment. I don't have a car, I cant simply buy vintage off FB marketplace or thrift stores. I cant easily sell things I no longer like. Its a sunk cost in a tight budget for me. I live in an sro w 235 sq ft. Clutter irritates me. Its a 100 yrs old bldg its never going to be as clean as a new condo. I would live to color drench but that big a paint job will get expensive. Baseboards and window trim are chipped and painted over so many times. Will I strip, sand prime and paint? I'm not a handy DIY and even if I were, where would I store all of these supplies. Yes, I watch a lot of interior design content, its an interest of mine but aspirational minimalism is in reality quite expensive, and as I said even relatable design ppl can make me angry and sad that a well designed home will always be structurally out of my grasp. thanks again fr.

I mean absolutely no offense or disrespect in any way, but I have to be honest. You are unbelievably beautiful! 😍🥰🌹

I relate

I love your nonchalance during this video! I love my home in its mix of aesthetics ( important for me ) and functional realistic. I learned to embrace it <3 // Edit: and as I realized, that I want an more emptied out flat but I dont do it as I think people think I am cold and uninviting and not social-i emptied it out. Now I feel a tiny bit more messy and creative-chaos-like but did not go for it/ felt inconsequent...after realizing that I trie to be a cohesive person for the outside while not not being true to myself, i started being more experimental, explorative and oppositional. Now I see I more like a laboratory and realistic result of my capacities----and enjoy it! Layers of freedom and structure :)

A couple of kind friends went with me yesterday to window-shop for my planned home makeover. I expressed my anxiousness about mixing and matching the “wrong things” and my friend sent me this clip. Loved it! Thanks 😊

This is such a REAL VIDEO and very needed. Love it!! And very nice home.🥰💃🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

This video is what I needed! We bought our first home and I wanted so much to work it out cozy, aesthetically pleasing, warm, etc. I was looking way to much in interior design. I was comparing my decor non stop with online designers, I couldn't design exactly like them because their decor was so expensive. The other downside is, my home didn't look really like us, it was just "generic" from online copy-cat like. It's your home, it doesn't have to look like a designer showroom! When I understood that and started to design my home more like us, it was already more warmer and pleasing!

We are conditioned from a very young age on to compare ourselves to others to be competitive, because our society is built on competition. That mindset will go nowhere. But we can make the decision to compartmentalize where we want/need to compete with others. I like design very much, so I do put a lot of effort into my interior design but I'd say most people actually don't care that much about interior design aesthetics and just want it to feel homey. I'd say go for it. If I visit another person's home then I appreciate the hospitality over any kind of aesthetic every time.

I think this is a really important message. I worked with an interior designer a couple of years ago. I ended up realizing that I was making my decisions based on what I thought everyone else would think. It took me until recently to get that all out of my head and just consider our own life.

but it does have to be cozy ☺

i'm very emotional right now. i'm just hearing out loud what i've been thinking for so long.

i'm figuring this out rn. thanks for sharing.

This is a very helpful video. I will bring binoculars as well. For facial sunscreen I use Haruharu Wonder Black Rice SPF 50+/PA++++ and Austrailian Gold Mineral Botanical 50 because others have burned my sensitive eyes. Happy travels!

Finally a real life video

This is soo refreshing!! Thank you, Jean pierre is cute!

Im trying to balancing functional with aesthetic. Your home is a home not a display home and it’s ok for it to look like people actually live there. Growing up my home was cluttered and barely functional with cheap ugly secondhand stuff. My parents particularly my father didn’t like spending money to the detriment of our health. So having a balance is key especially investing where you spend the most time ie. bed, bedding, mattress and couch. I don’t care what others think as I’m the one who lives in my space and I have a life with a child in a small space so it has to work.

Now that was refreshingly honest! I have what I call my "pandemic couch". Its all i could find, 7' long, horribly grey, and was immediately shredded by my cat. Oh and its uncomfortable.😅

Athletically pleasing used to be term that was used. But it didn’t need to be a specific thing we needed to have. Just a way things were curated. I love watching interior designers home tours. Often they are very eclectic homes and have functional qualities you don’t see in aesthetically pleasing homes. My idea is decorate the walls, have minimal flat surfaces, and get nice decorative things you use like shower curtains and trash cans. All of my bathroom/ bedroom trash cans are baskets I’ve collected over 22 years. Before getting them I had Dollar Tree garbage cans. My garbage cans is a cheep close top from Walmart. Being white allows it to blend in. It’s also white so I can see where the dirt is and can clean it.

one thing i see a lot of youtubers stress like it's a cardinal sin to not have is matching light bulb temperature. aesthetically i like it more mixed. i guess things are mono temperature during the day maybe? but in a room it feels too matchy and artificialish? and there are far more instances of varying light temperatures in the world that doesn't "stress us out": like the cool moonlight behind a hot campfire, a cloudy sunset, etc. but i nearly felt the need to replace my cool bulbs for warm ones despite them still working

one style of video i loath to see are the "how to make your home look expensive" videos and just those kind of videos in general in other categories like fashion ("how to look like youre rich") i almost wanna watch it to make sure im not doing anything in those videos 😭

Late in life adhd diagnosis here too. My therapist says to focus on the benefits, rather than the deficits. We tend to be creative, friendly and prone to problem solving. We get burnt out because we put a lot of energy into things we're passionate about, which can distract from obligations. We chase stimulus, but we can create systems to harness our energy and focus. It might sound counterintuitive, but my life got easier without lists and being overly planned. I work in education and set up the learning management systems to maintain the front facing appearance of being organized and just check in as needed. I am aware of how to best make use of my time. Like, I mark assignments first thing without really thinking about it, just to clear the pile that might weigh heavily on my mind. I use scheduled emails to deal with administrative tasks. My memory has improved as I find ways to improve confidence and reduce stress. I wonder if it has to do with traumatic brain fog.

Your home is still pretty nice all things considered. The rabbit enclosure is stylish too.

Love the message and love you have a house bunny!

Baudrillard writes about objects being detatched from function in his book The System of Objects. It kind of turns your home into a designer theme park. Having personal style takes years to cultivate and leading with function doesn't mean you don't enjoy fashion. It just means you're less susceptible to the trend cycle.

i am perpetually stumped by the misuse of the word 'aesthetic'. It is NOT an adjective, it is a noun. "The room had a traditional aesthetic." or "A modern aesthetic." Not "The room was aesthetic". It's so... DOH!!

Thank God someone said it!

I’m considerably older and was diagnosed two years ago. This all sounds very familiar. (I also have a new song in my head every morning.) I’m still trying to cope and figure it all out. Outwardly, I am not hyperactive but the thoughts in my head are bouncing around hyperactively. I saw a comedian say having ADHD is like making toast then suddenly wanting to know how people figured out how to make toast and when they first made toast.😂 It sucks. There is no help or guidance whatsoever. I could not clean and tidy up, the mental load of trying to clean things up was so overwhelming. I had just moved and could not organize my appointment. There was no help, to get the organizational plan I needed. My health plan at work keeps calling trying to help me see specialists to fix high blood pressure, etc., but no support to physically help me get to a better head space. I had to wait until the medication took effect to begin to try. I’m still trying to catch up. So congrats on the diagnosis. You still have a long way to go, learn to surf the waves and be fine with not being “normal.” Good luck!

I love this video! I would say, I lived without curtains my first year out of college, I hung curtains just to add some interest in a boring white bedroom. Hanging curtains at the windows instantly made the room feel more cozy. Ever since I have hung curtains, for light blocking and aesthetics. (Except, I’ve lived in my current place 7 years now and still don’t have curtains there. Usually, when I moved into a space, I a design would “come to me;” not this place. I was dried up. Even seven years later, I’m struggling with a design.

It’s VERY important for me to have a beautiful home for ME.

Yes definitly I feel so ashamed when people apologies for the mess when their appartement is in the same state my appartement is when he is clean. I think they will collapse if they say my version of "messy appartement". 😢

Love this video! Also, you might want to get your landlord to address that kitchen faucet slow leak.