Really nice result, and I enjoyed hearing your process.

What stands out to me in t “ mid century modern design” is that the house blends in with the outside and the windows are big so the outside becomes part of the inside. Love that. But it is very difficult to create that in an urban environment..

This was fun 🤩

I'd like to see you discuss more what you meant by "avoid themes". I've been thinking about how architecture has, as a whole, suffered since WWII. I visited Maine recently and was pleasantly surprised to see no McMansions. All the houses followed a general New England theme of colonial homes with painted wood siding or cedar shakes, 6-over-6 double hung windows, maybe a stone foundation. They didn't look cookie cutter, but they all looked like they belong together. I could feel the overall context. It felt like a place with actual culture and history. It seems to me that homes built after the war have prioritized mass manufacturing, cheap construction, individualization (to the extent allowed by standardized materials), and an ability to brute-force apply an incorrect style to a different environment (sticking an "Italian villa" in the middle of Tennessee). I think people have been "avoiding themes" to the detriment of design. Sticking to a theme forces you to tell a cohesive story. If you want a Georgian house, you have to use the materials and proportions and molding contours and other elements of actual Georgian homes. I got a lot of these ideas from @BrentHull, who has a KZbin channel and runs a millwork shop and a historic architecture consulting company in Texas.

Noah, your analysis is always warm, thoughtful, honest, and actually educational. listening to you while 7 months pregnant, it’s not only calming for me, but also my son seems to find your voice soothing because he moves excitedly when i watch your videos :)

let's normalize falling in love with the apartments we don't have. It's ok to have crushes. I can relate as I go the full nine yards with designing spaces I fall in love with (but also I'm an architect, so maybe that's just a professional deformation lol). Anyway, the more we design, the better we're getting in this, so please never stop yourself ❤

I’m just never gonna ‘do my research’ on live plants sorry

Do you have a Pinterest or Instagram to follow? ❤

I appreciated the history you told about modernism (the architectural movement) and how it is different from the pastiche that is branded as midcentury modern style in interior design and fashion today. However, it's also important to remember that modernism arose, in part, as a backlash to the democratization of design and is in part responsible for the demonization of ornament today. With better technology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries came easier ways to mass produce highly ornamental design and made what was once the favored aesthetic of the rich -- namely highly ornamental design -- accessible to everyone else. When the elite classes figured this out, there was no way to distinguish their taste from those of the ordinary person (and the rich have never been fans of liking the same thing as everyone else. Otherwise how else could they justify their greater social status!). Modernism was elite architecture's response: by reverting to form follows function, stripping away ornament, and making design seem simple, modernism drew a new line between "elite" taste and "common" taste and provided a language with which to moralize about the masses and their "bad" taste. I am personally a big fan of ornamentation. Some of the most welcoming, beautiful spaces in the world are highly ornamental, curvilinear, embellished, and grand. It's also important to remember that ornamentation can be functional, too; the modernists had a very narrow understanding of function: ornamentation soothes, energizes, and connects humans to nature. Now that the ineptly named "midcentury modern" aesthetic has become more popular since the 2010s, the elite classes and designers seem to be swinging back towards ornamentation as a marker of elite taste.

I have been called out for the first time in my life. I have one of the replica busts. I bought it during my “move out of my parents house and discovered home goods “ phase 🤣

Hey Noah, I learn a lot from your unique, stylish and candid vids. Thank you :) You are NOT overly-critical, you are not even being critical! You are offering a 'critique' and it's exactly when you DO speak your mind -that makes you stand out/made me subscribe! Sip your coffee, call out electric candalabras , diss the faux flames and keep INSISTING that we don't corner-position our furniture! If someone objects to YOU 'doing you'? They can go watch some bland, cookie-cutter, tame, dehydrated knob(s) who are too scared of being seen as 'controversial' to even warrant a yawn. Lean into it. Continue being your magnificent, unapologetic, opinionated self. That's why we love you! (Don't turn into a gray, distressed wardrobe) ;)

thanks for sharing this quality <3

I agree. It’s too loud

The Rubber Plant, Ficus Elastica Tineke would love being directly in the window too and you’d get more rapid growth too

Please ignore the hate. I for one love your content. I seem to have very similar opinion on things. Please keep posting great content. Also, love your unique style for making videos.

You live in Copenhagen!!! I am so jelly. I cared for an elderly danish lady here in the U.S. and she made me want to live there ❤. She was from Rorvig 30s/40s. I just love the furniture and the ceramics from that country. So much history and beauty in the land, architecture, and craftmanship 😊 If you are ever open to it, I would love to see a home tour and a vlog anywhere in denmark ❤

ok I am OBSESSED with the magenta candelabra/ candle holder at 7:43 does anyone know what it's called??? I cannot find it online no matter what keywords I search (thanks for this video btw, I've referenced it several times while preparing to decorate my new home)

What would have been an interesting watch, ruined by uptalk and vocal fry. You sound like a kardashian.

Now I feel bad for wanting to replace my vinyl with acacia flooring

I could listen to you all day! ❤

Please do more of these! So helpful, I would watch every minute of every video in this series!

This has been very useful. I hate the matching books design, and the backward books design, they could not be more stupid. And I always wondered how to tell real velvet. I want things that will age. Very helpful.

This video reminds me of work and providing constructive feedback😂. Also, it reminds me my college art appreciation class. I wish the professors also show bad examples as well like you😂. Love the honesty from you on a respectful way

I love your videos so much! I'm so glad you decided to create longer contet, it's so informative and inspiring :) I will be designing my own house interior soon, and I just adore the idea behind modernism combined with mid-century. I can't afford an interior architect, so those videos are my learning source :) Do you think you it would be possible to sign up for an interior consulation with you?

A tip for the rice paper lamp! I bought a stark white shade because it was cheaper, and I steeped some black tea and spray dyed it with a spray bottle to make it warmer. Looks great during the day!

My favorite thing is the half eaten banana in the fruit bowl. Comparing this with the overly staged tours of unnecessarily large homes we often find on youtube this is really refreshing and cozy!

please keep talking about theory and history

So obsessed with your channel and your critical and engaging discussions on design and interior/spatial design. I’m a graphic designer so I love seeing when other people are just as geeked out about their craft. I can listen forever ❤

❤ love this content

I wish I had this video when I was living in a very similar apartment. I will ended up with very different layouts and saved tons of money on buying big box furniture

As someone who's building a home, I just wanted to say that your channel has been really helpful!

Where are you located? Can I hire your services?!

now i just have to find a place where i can get nice lamps without having to sell my kidneys to buy them 😢

I watched 5 of your videos! I love the vibe of your videos because they feel like you’re talking to me individually as a friend! I like that you teach the mind set not what to micmic from Pinterest or famous pieces to purchase! Every single videos I watched so far are so good! Please keep doing it!

I love the straightforward approach for lightings you don't like 😅

Been really enjoying watching your videos lately! I just moved into a new place in a new country and it's so fun to be starting from scratch, and you've had some great advice! Around 23:15, I think that empty space is leading to a balcony (you can kinda see the balcony and the handle on the door). Maybe an elevated platform + rug there to create a transition from outside to the inside would be good?

first thing i read was the caption saying "This week I was feeling a bit judgmental" and i hit like. immediately. because yassss

need to know your opinions on stained glass lightbulbs

Thank You ✨

Your zodiac sign? Love the content

Loved this....happy to listen to you talk about design...all day!

I TOTALLY get that. We bought a house recently and I designed the entire garden before we even signed the contract

Do more of this! Emma Chamberlain's house would be fun

Wow, I loved this house, such lovely use of space and shape <3 Are you doing a video anytime soon helping subscribers with their design conundrums? I have a living room layout that seems impossible... ':)

I watched that video a couple days ago and have been trying to figure out if I can track down that blanket ever since! Unfortunately I think it might be vintage but it's such a good pattern

I’m so obsessed with your content!

You need to see Jessica Chastain’s listed apartment! Thought you miggt like it

Interior design is becoming my newest obsession

“thick sea” is 💯 for me. the words you choose to critique help me to find my feelings about the space. surprised this was recommended.

where did you find that cup?! 😍