Outdated Design Trends

[00:00:01] Speaker A: You know, Tony, every house over a course of time becomes dated. [00:00:07] Speaker B: No question. Unless it's updated. Right. [00:00:11] Speaker A: You make a good point. [00:00:12] Speaker B: It's funny, because you and I have been on this earth a while. We've seen some stuff. Here they are. Right. We've been in the building material supply industry that whole time. So they're the things that you see, right. If you're the cap in of a ship, then what you see is you see propellers and rudders and those kinds of things. But you and I, building material supply guys, we see building material supplies. [00:00:34] Speaker A: That's right. We see trends. [00:00:35] Speaker B: Yeah, we see trends. [00:00:36] Speaker A: Housing trends. [00:00:37] Speaker B: I mean, a lot of the things that I remember seeing on homes 20 years ago or 30 years ago, unfortunately, are still out there in some cases. [00:00:55] Speaker A: Absolutely. There are things that have gone out of style and have come back into style. Like brass. I've got brass on my list. But when you look at some of the newer trends that you're seeing now, brushed brass is coming back. [00:01:16] Speaker B: Yeah, it's crazy. [00:01:17] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:01:17] Speaker B: Brush. I mean, it seems like it comes back in some other sort of way. You would see bright brass before, and then it kind of came back something that looks similar to what they called it. Rose gold. Yeah, rose gold. Chrome was popular, and then it was brushed chrome, and then nickel was popular, and then it was brushed nickel. [00:01:40] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:01:40] Speaker A: Kind of weird. [00:01:41] Speaker B: Oil rubbed bronze was popular for a minute, and it was because it was really dark. And then they just decided, let's just come out with black. [00:01:49] Speaker A: Yeah, black. [00:01:50] Speaker B: Matte black. [00:01:50] Speaker A: I think matte black looks pretty cool. [00:01:52] Speaker B: I think matte black is pretty popular right now. It is very popular right now. Matte is cool. I actually saw somebody the other day with their fingernails painted matte black. Really? [00:02:04] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:02:04] Speaker B: They had gone to the fingernail store and got their fingernails painted matte black, and it looked pretty cool. [00:02:13] Speaker A: Don't they call that a salon? A salon. [00:02:18] Speaker B: A salon. I think it's a nail salon. [00:02:20] Speaker A: A manicure. Called a manicure. Sure. That's for your flanges. And then a pedicure is for your other flanges, right? [00:02:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:02:29] Speaker A: For your toesies, your tootsies. [00:02:33] Speaker B: Matt black. [00:02:34] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:02:34] Speaker B: So you're right. There are a lot of things out there that have been done a long time ago that have gone out of style. And they come back, but they come back always a little different. [00:02:47] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:02:48] Speaker B: Like bell bottom jeans. Do you know bell bottom jeans were very popular in the course. And then they went away. [00:02:56] Speaker A: They came back in the 90s. [00:02:58] Speaker B: They came back as boot cut. [00:03:00] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:03:00] Speaker A: In the 90s. [00:03:01] Speaker B: Boot cut. But they were like, well, they're not bell bottoms now. They're boot, boot cut. Right. For westerners, for cowboys. [00:03:10] Speaker A: And now they're kind of back. Like, the whole mom Jean thing is back, I think is weird. [00:03:14] Speaker B: I think now they're not just bell bottoms, they're just bell jeans. Like, they're wide. [00:03:19] Speaker A: Like ginormous. [00:03:20] Speaker B: All the way up. All the way up to the top. Style is a finicky fella. [00:03:27] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:03:28] Speaker A: All right, so that's what we're talking about today. We're going to give you top ten things, probably the most common things, and then one of these will surprise you. But we're going to give you the top ten things of outdated design trends. [00:03:41] Speaker B: That still seem to rear their ugly heads 100%. Right. [00:03:47] Speaker A: We have top ten, but I'm going to throw one more in there. [00:03:50] Speaker B: Oh, eleven. [00:03:52] Speaker A: I'm going to throw eleven. [00:03:53] Speaker B: All right. Eleven is going to be the first one. [00:03:55] Speaker A: It's going to be controversial. [00:03:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:03:58] Speaker A: Let's start with it because I don't want to type it down. [00:04:00] Speaker B: Okay. Start with number eleven. One of the outdated design trends, one. [00:04:05] Speaker A: Of the outdated design trends that I see personally in a lot of the luxury houses that I'm visiting is no more orange peel. [00:04:16] Speaker B: Whoa. [00:04:17] Speaker A: Orange peel wall texture. Which we have on our walls right here. [00:04:21] Speaker C: Right. [00:04:21] Speaker B: You're saying that orange peel is out. Is out and smooth wall is in? [00:04:26] Speaker A: Smooth wall. [00:04:26] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:04:27] Speaker A: Level five smooth. [00:04:28] Speaker B: There you go. And it's not just smooth. You don't just say, I want my walls to be smooth. It's level five smooth wall. Yeah. [00:04:36] Speaker A: There are several steps. They're basically skim coating the entire wall and sanding the entire wall. And I tell you what, it looks amazing. The house I grew up in had smooth walls. [00:04:50] Speaker B: Right. [00:04:51] Speaker A: But nobody's texture back. [00:04:52] Speaker B: Not level five smooth walls. [00:04:54] Speaker A: Well, I mean, for at that, it was laugh and plaster. So the whole wall was plastered and sanded smooth. But all the houses around me when I grew up were all that way. Laugh and plaster and smooth. It just looked super nice. And honestly, the only reason, if you talk to the old timers, they'll say, the only reason that people ever that orange peel is ever a thing is because it hides imperfections. That's why. [00:05:21] Speaker B: Right. That's what I've also heard that. [00:05:25] Speaker A: You have a drywall industry for production houses that people come in, they slap the drywall up, and then they spray the whole thing down to hide all the wavy walls and imperfections. [00:05:37] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:05:38] Speaker B: And it works really good because people love it. [00:05:40] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:05:40] Speaker A: But it's going away. It really is. I've seen not only less orange peel, but I've seen other wall textures. I have several builders that just, that apply wall texture, but it's different. It's not orange peel. [00:05:56] Speaker B: Well, yeah, I've definitely seen a plethora of different ways that ceilings and walls both are textured and not orange peel. [00:06:07] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:06:07] Speaker B: But smooth wall, level five. Smooth wall. [00:06:10] Speaker A: Oh, it's amazing. [00:06:11] Speaker B: Is a beautiful, beautiful thing. [00:06:13] Speaker A: It takes talent, too, because what a lot of these guys are doing is they're going in and planing down walls. So you'll have every stud. You build a house out of lumber. Every stud is not the same. So they got to go in there and plane it down. And then they use little pieces of cardboard and they build it up and they make sure it's completely flat. They run levels across it before they even put the sheet rock up. And then they put the sheet rock up, make sure it's perfectly flat, and then skim coat the whole thing. [00:06:47] Speaker C: Wow. [00:06:47] Speaker A: With several coats in there. It's an art form. [00:06:51] Speaker B: Yeah, it sounds like it. I'll tell you, I had some sheet rock work done at my house. And I'll tell you what, Corey, I did a little remodel at my house and I made a boo boo. I had the floor, the flooring and the decking off upstairs in the bathroom. Upstairs. And I was walking around on the joist edges, and as I was working up there, my foot slipped off onto the sheet rock that was the ceiling in the downstairs bathroom. When I went downstairs into the downstairs bathroom and I saw that I had stepped down, my foot didn't go through it, but it left a big crack. And so when the sheet rockers came to do the finished sheet rock in the master bedroom, I asked them if they could take a look at that downstairs. And he says, oh, yes, I can fix that, no problem. And I was thinking, yeah, you could probably just touch it up a little. Retexture it, maybe little caulk. [00:07:52] Speaker A: No. [00:07:53] Speaker B: He skim coated the entire ceiling back to smooth and then retextured it. Wow. [00:07:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:08:00] Speaker B: That was a five x nine room. [00:08:04] Speaker A: Probably just a lot easier to do that than this. [00:08:06] Speaker B: Gim coated the entire ceiling and retextured it and it's perfect. [00:08:09] Speaker A: Wow. [00:08:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:10] Speaker A: That's impressive. [00:08:11] Speaker B: I'm sure I paid a pretty penny. [00:08:13] Speaker A: For that one, so I just thought of another one. Sorry. Now we're at twelve. Okay, this will be number twelve base molding. [00:08:24] Speaker B: Base molding? [00:08:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:08:26] Speaker B: Well, we still have base molding. [00:08:27] Speaker A: I know. And I'm not saying this is controversial. I'm not saying it's out of style, but it's one of those trends, or one of the trends that I'm seeing now is no trim around doors and then no base trim. They actually take sheet rock down, and then they put a little gap about four to six inches from the floor, like a half inch wide gap that's made using channel. And it's, like, kind of a contemporary thing. [00:09:02] Speaker B: Modern looks like a base trim, kind. [00:09:04] Speaker A: Of, but it's flush with the wall. Interesting. Does that make sense? [00:09:07] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:09:08] Speaker A: And I've seen the same thing for around doors and windows. They don't put any protruding trim. [00:09:15] Speaker B: If there's no trim, they are installing the doors and then finishing the sheet rock to the edge of the door jam. [00:09:25] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like this whole thing. I'll pull up some pictures. [00:09:29] Speaker B: Very interesting. It looks interesting me a lot. [00:09:31] Speaker A: It sounds weird, but it looks super clean and it looks super cool. And they use this special channel that goes around and then on the edges of the sheet rock, and I think it looks really cool. [00:09:42] Speaker B: That is interesting. I'd like to see that. I haven't seen anything like that. [00:09:45] Speaker A: Anyway, let's move on to the old diehards. [00:09:48] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah. [00:09:49] Speaker B: I'm going to add one, too. [00:09:50] Speaker C: Do it. [00:09:51] Speaker B: Wicker furniture. Yeah, wicker furniture. [00:09:57] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:10:00] Speaker B: It reminds me of something very beachy wicker furniture. Maybe something that you would see on a patio in Hawaii or something. [00:10:10] Speaker A: I was just in Hawaii, and I didn't see any wicker. [00:10:13] Speaker B: There used to be a lot of wicker furniture. [00:10:15] Speaker A: You know, it actually made a comeback recently in the last couple of years, where it's very popular to take that old wicker furniture, prime it, and paint it white. [00:10:26] Speaker B: Interesting. [00:10:28] Speaker A: I still thought it was ugly. [00:10:29] Speaker B: It was just white, and it was ugly white. But now it matched more closely to your whitewashed oak furniture. [00:10:37] Speaker A: I guess it was just one of those things. It was a new trend. [00:10:42] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:10:42] Speaker B: Whitewashed oak is another one we had. Bye bye. [00:10:46] Speaker A: At our family beach house. We remodeled recently, last couple of years, and it was full of wicker furniture, and we just wanted to get rid of it. And then my wife's uncle's daughter was like, no, you got to take that. We could sell it. And she sold it for, like, a pretty penny. [00:11:07] Speaker B: Really? Wow. [00:11:08] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:11:08] Speaker A: Because we had a headboard and a footboard and a dresser and a couple of other pieces, like, in two different bedrooms. [00:11:14] Speaker B: I knew it. [00:11:15] Speaker C: See? It's beachy. [00:11:16] Speaker B: It's a beachy thing. People that have beach homes gravitated to. [00:11:20] Speaker A: It, but they swooped it up, man. We had people begging to hold it. They came and got it. [00:11:25] Speaker B: Interesting. [00:11:26] Speaker A: I mean, we sold it for pretty fair amount of money. [00:11:29] Speaker B: Very interesting. What else you got? [00:11:31] Speaker A: All right, the first one on the list, we talked about the new ones that we just added, but the very first one on my list was popcorn ceilings. [00:11:39] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:11:40] Speaker A: I mean, that's one of those things. If you're not going to have smooth wall or textured wall and popcorn ceilings. You can remove the popcorn ceilings. [00:11:53] Speaker B: Yes, absolutely. [00:11:54] Speaker A: A lot of people, they have that combination of orange peel and popcorn from the. Don't even know when they stopped really doing popcorn. But probably one of the most popular ones was knockdown, where they would put spatter it up there and then hit it with a knife and kind of knock it down. [00:12:12] Speaker C: Right. [00:12:12] Speaker B: Knock down is what I have in my house. [00:12:15] Speaker C: Yes. [00:12:16] Speaker B: In my adair home, that's very common. Yeah, very common. [00:12:19] Speaker A: But before that it was popcorn. But there's actually a pretty easy way. [00:12:23] Speaker B: To get rid of that. [00:12:24] Speaker A: You just take a spray bottle of water, you spray it down, and you just take a regular scraper and then just scrape it. [00:12:32] Speaker C: Right. [00:12:32] Speaker A: It falls right off like a long. [00:12:34] Speaker B: Handled tool with a flat blade on it. [00:12:36] Speaker C: Like a space. [00:12:37] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. And it's not terribly hard. But I would tell you I had a friend who did this. Take plastic and cover the entire floor. [00:12:47] Speaker B: With plastic because it's going to turn everything white. [00:12:50] Speaker C: Yes. [00:12:50] Speaker A: And it'll make super easy cleanup. But it looked great. When he was done, he just primed it and painted it. A little bit of sanding. [00:12:57] Speaker B: Is there a disclaimer here if you're thinking about removing popcorn? [00:13:02] Speaker A: Popcorn ceiling. I guess it depends on how old your house is. Maybe it would be worth getting it tested for asbestos. [00:13:09] Speaker B: Be pretty old, probably, yeah. [00:13:12] Speaker A: I don't think a majority of the popcorn ceilings are asbestos, but don't quote me. I don't know. [00:13:17] Speaker B: Yeah. If it were the thing, it would be pretty old, but if you're dealing with an old home, it would be worth it to have it tested. [00:13:26] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:13:27] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:13:28] Speaker A: Lead and asbestos. [00:13:29] Speaker B: And whether it's tested or not tested, when you do this kind of work, you should be wearing a face mask. [00:13:34] Speaker A: Agreed. [00:13:34] Speaker B: And so you don't want to be breathing any of that stuff, whether it's asbestos or not. [00:13:40] Speaker A: I know for a lot of years I used to work out in my garage and I'd be sanding away on whatever project I was working on, and I never wore any sort of mask. It didn't bother me. [00:13:52] Speaker C: Right? [00:13:52] Speaker A: And then sometime about ten years ago, I could not stand sawdust. It absolutely murders me. I have to wear a dust mask. [00:14:02] Speaker B: Start getting a little asthmatic, do you? [00:14:04] Speaker A: Yeah, getting old, I guess. [00:14:06] Speaker B: I guess you get enough sawdust boogers, and you can develop asthma. [00:14:12] Speaker A: You inhale so much, you're just blowing logs out. [00:14:14] Speaker C: Yes. [00:14:15] Speaker B: Toothpicks. [00:14:16] Speaker A: Fire starter. [00:14:17] Speaker B: Number two on the list is wallpaper borders. [00:14:21] Speaker A: Oh, my. [00:14:22] Speaker B: This is awesome. Because when people were using these wallpaper borders, they were about twelve inches tall, nine or six or twelve inch. [00:14:30] Speaker A: Six to twelve inch. [00:14:31] Speaker B: And they would put it up at the ceiling level, right at the top of the wall, under the ceiling. And this got wild. It could be anything. It could be anything from stripes, roosters, to paisley golf themes. I mean, baseball, you name it. It could be sports. It could be animals. It could be little babies faces. [00:14:56] Speaker A: When I was in college, I worked at a place called menards horses. You remember menards? You probably don't know menards, actually. You know, the race car. You're a racing fan. [00:15:04] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:15:04] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:15:04] Speaker A: They're a Midwest company. Menards and I worked in the paint and wall coverings department during college, and that was one of our things. We had those borders that you could put up around the top or as a wainscoting, you could put it mid level. [00:15:23] Speaker B: Yes, I saw it that way too many times. [00:15:25] Speaker A: And, oh, my goodness, the catalog. Like you said, anything under the sun. Hockey, baseball, football. Oh, you're doing a kids room. You got to put a border up. [00:15:34] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:15:34] Speaker B: Ducks. Ducks was a very popular one. Absolutely. Fortunately, it came off pretty easy. [00:15:44] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:15:46] Speaker A: It's one of those things that definitely dates your house. [00:15:49] Speaker B: Absolutely. Oh, I agree. Definitely not. You think you know, you know. You absolutely know. Especially if it was hearts. [00:15:56] Speaker A: Hearts. [00:15:57] Speaker B: Hearts and ducks. Number three on the list is brass fixtures, shiny brass handle sets, and other types of door poles or drawer pulls. Door hardware, bright, shiny brass. Later, they came out with an antique brass, which is just as bad as bright brass. [00:16:21] Speaker A: I agree. I actually kind of like right now the matte, the satin brass, or whatever they're calling it. The brushed brass. [00:16:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:30] Speaker A: I think it looks kind of cool. [00:16:31] Speaker C: Do you? [00:16:31] Speaker B: I mean, I actually like the brass color, but the bright brass that they were using back then was not brass color. I actually bought. [00:16:40] Speaker A: It was more like yellow. [00:16:42] Speaker B: I bought solid brass handle sets for my house years ago that were anodized, or they had a bronzing over the top of them. But as the bronzing scraped off, it exposed that natural brass color underneath there which is actually pretty cool looking. [00:17:00] Speaker A: I like it. [00:17:01] Speaker B: Yeah, I do, too. [00:17:02] Speaker C: Escape. Good. [00:17:03] Speaker A: All right, next one on the list is. And this one's kind of funny. Tuscan and mediterranean themes. That seemed like all the rage of the 90s, having the really dark granite with the really dark stained wood. Yeah, stained dark. Cherry or brown? Dark brown countertop. [00:17:23] Speaker B: Lots of scroll work in the woodwork. [00:17:26] Speaker A: If you had a tuscan kitchen in the. Made it. [00:17:29] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:17:31] Speaker B: Mediterranean themes. Very interesting, neutral color palettes. [00:17:36] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a little bit more. Today's day and age. You'll see a lot of white cabinets. I feel like that's going to go out of style, though, at some point. [00:17:47] Speaker B: Yeah. I think it's just this big cyclical thing where it's drama and less drama and more drama and less drama. People started using black a lot, and now matte black is very popular. Matte black. But the reason why matte black was not popular or very dark. Dark. Hunter green and dark maroon. Remember a navy blue? Those dark colors were very popular during a time when dramatic coloring was popular, and then that gave way to light, natural, airy, earthy, that kind of thing. And then now people are going back to, like, black and white. Matte black and snowy white. It's a very interesting white on white. [00:18:36] Speaker A: On white. [00:18:36] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a very interesting trend. [00:18:39] Speaker A: We painted our bedroom, and my wife wanted white walls, white trim, white ceiling, and I was a little shocked because I don't care for it, but it turned out. [00:18:50] Speaker B: Yeah, looks all right. [00:18:51] Speaker A: It's not just the same color white, right. [00:18:53] Speaker B: Well, you've got shades of white. You got shades of white. You think you get a little grayish in there. [00:18:57] Speaker C: It is. Yeah. [00:18:58] Speaker B: But it's like a brighter, even gray can look white. [00:19:02] Speaker A: It's got a tinge. [00:19:03] Speaker B: As long as it's not against white. [00:19:05] Speaker A: You don't want it to clash. [00:19:06] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. Just don't get any cream in there, and you'll be fine. [00:19:09] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Cream. Next on the list. [00:19:13] Speaker B: I love this one. This is my favorite one. [00:19:15] Speaker C: Go ahead. [00:19:16] Speaker B: Overly formal dining rooms. Overly formal. Where do you have one of those? Growing up, we did have an overly formal dining room, but it was in an addition to the house that was on the back, so that the original house stopped, and then you walked onto what was an addition to the house. And so it was always a little cooler in that room, a little damper in that room. All of the things inside that room were more flimsy. You know, the finishes inside the room were flimsy because it was. It was an added on room. [00:19:51] Speaker A: Funny. [00:19:52] Speaker B: And this house was built in 1970 or late 60s, early seventy s. And so, yeah, it was an interesting room, but that was our formal, overly formal dining room. Mom and dad always wanted to eat in there, but nobody else wanted to be in there. We'd rather be in front of the tv or wherever, but we would end up back in that back room. It was all windows on one wall overlooking the back yard. [00:20:20] Speaker A: There was a home design trend when they design homes, they had a specific room as the dining room. And now you don't see that. You don't see like, this is the dining room. [00:20:33] Speaker C: No. [00:20:33] Speaker B: Right. [00:20:34] Speaker C: Anymore. [00:20:34] Speaker B: I mean, you almost don't see this is the kitchen anymore. [00:20:37] Speaker C: Yeah, basically. [00:20:37] Speaker B: I mean, you walk in and you say, this is the great room. There's the bathroom, the bedroom, the kitchen, the living room, the family room, the dining room. It's all right there in one room. That's the open concept scenario. [00:20:51] Speaker A: I'm going to shake your world here. [00:20:52] Speaker B: Are you? [00:20:53] Speaker C: Tell me. [00:20:53] Speaker A: I'm going to jump ahead because I've got this on here and it is controversial, but open floor plans are going. [00:21:01] Speaker B: Away, going the way of the dodo bird, are they? [00:21:04] Speaker A: Yeah, not the dodo bird, but Covid changed a lot of things, I think. [00:21:10] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:21:12] Speaker A: There was all these houses at this time, back in the houses were very compartmentalized. [00:21:19] Speaker C: Yes. [00:21:19] Speaker A: In the 1920s, and was like every door, every room had two doors. It was like a door into a door and then it was closed and there was all these doors, hallways and doors for everything. And then in what was it? Probably the 2000s, everybody wanted to remove walls, they wanted to tear it down. [00:21:40] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:21:40] Speaker A: And just open it up. Open concept. [00:21:43] Speaker C: Yes. [00:21:43] Speaker B: Can we open this up? [00:21:45] Speaker A: Who's tired of hearing that word? Oh, yeah, open concept, for sure. But you walk in. Yeah, you walk in to the main house and it's like kitchen, living room, dining area, everything. [00:21:59] Speaker B: Where's my personal space? [00:22:00] Speaker A: Everything is just, bam, right there. [00:22:02] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:22:03] Speaker A: And I recently noticed this because one of our friends just bought a new house and we all went over there for a party and they brought in catering and they had this kitchen with this huge island and they put all the catering on the island. And then 10ft to the left was all the couches, and then 10ft to the left was the dining area, and then 10ft to the left of that was another area and there's not a wall in sight. [00:22:30] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:22:31] Speaker A: And there was probably 20, I don't know, 20 people in that whole house. And you couldn't hear yourself think. Like, it was so loud. Tall ceilings, nine or ten foot ceilings in the house, and it was just echo. Everything you heard. Everything. [00:22:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:22:51] Speaker B: I mean, look, I have walked into open concept floor plans and they didn't put the toilet and the sink behind a wall. Corey. They built a screen and they stood a screen up in front of the toilet. The toilet and the sink and the shower were all in the main room. [00:23:11] Speaker A: Like in a loft, like in a. [00:23:14] Speaker B: Studio type room, open concept studio. And we're not talking about 700 square foot. This was huge. Crazy. You walk in there and I think, I was watching this little show on tv and there was an echo in the room. You walk into the room and it echoes because there's nothing to knock down. The reverberation. [00:23:39] Speaker A: Well, like I said, since COVID a lot of people went home and worked from home and it just changed. People, they want more privacy now. So when you're looking at newer, the newest house plans that are coming out from my customers that are getting built have more rooms. They really do. You still have these larger great rooms because people like those. But there's also family rooms and areas that you can go and tuck away and get away from all that noise and all those people, which honestly, I prefer. I don't love that huge open concept. Yeah. Anyway, very interesting. Next one on the list, Tony. This was one of my favorite things, actually. Accent walls. [00:24:28] Speaker B: Accent walls. [00:24:29] Speaker A: That was such a huge thing in the mid two thousand s. Like two thousand and five, six, seven trading spaces. Do you remember that show? [00:24:38] Speaker C: I do. [00:24:39] Speaker B: Oh, I loved that show. That actually was a very cool. I knew people that were on that show. Really? Yeah. It was a very cool show. They did things on there that did not make good sense for resale value of your home. [00:24:51] Speaker A: Oh, 100%. [00:24:52] Speaker B: No, I mean, they covered the walls with sheets. I saw it happen. It was some wild stuff, but I definitely remember accent walls. As a matter of fact, we definitely painted some accent walls in our last couple of houses. [00:25:08] Speaker C: Absolutely. [00:25:08] Speaker A: You remember the sponge painting accent walls or even the leather? You remember the leather? Look where you'd take that special paint and then plaster or whatever and you'd put it on the wall in a certain pattern and then you'd paint it, like, brown and it looked like leather. [00:25:23] Speaker B: I don't remember the leather. I definitely remember taking a sponge. [00:25:27] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:25:27] Speaker B: And dabbed it. [00:25:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:25:30] Speaker B: Sponging the wall to put a special kind of texture, faux texture on there. [00:25:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:25:35] Speaker B: That was very interesting. [00:25:36] Speaker A: That is so far out of style. [00:25:38] Speaker C: Gone. [00:25:38] Speaker B: Absolutely gone. [00:25:40] Speaker A: She gone. Next one on the list, Tony. Matched furniture sets. [00:25:45] Speaker B: Been there. We've both probably been there. Yeah, I remember. [00:25:49] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:25:49] Speaker A: My wife uses that term, matchy matchy. [00:25:52] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:25:52] Speaker A: She doesn't like things that are matchy matchy. [00:25:54] Speaker B: People don't like to matchy matchy these days. But we definitely did buy matched furniture sets. It was a very common thing. Here's the thing. Back then, if you had mixed matched furniture, well, it's because you couldn't afford it. [00:26:08] Speaker A: Right? One of them pores. [00:26:10] Speaker B: Yeah. You were getting handmedowns or whatever, but you couldn't afford it. If you wanted to be a status symbol, you needed to have matching furniture. Chair, love seat, couch, ottoman. That's how it was done. [00:26:31] Speaker A: Bedroom set, everything matched. [00:26:33] Speaker C: Yep. [00:26:34] Speaker B: Absolutely matchy matchy. Gone are the days. [00:26:38] Speaker A: How about this one, Tony? This one is. I still see this one a lot. Not in new houses. It's gone, but I still see it a lot in houses for sale. [00:26:49] Speaker B: Older homes. [00:26:49] Speaker A: Older homes that are probably more like the late eighty s, ninety s. But huge jacuzzi tubs. [00:26:57] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:26:58] Speaker A: You know the ones that are on the platform. [00:27:00] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:27:00] Speaker B: Where you have to, like with the. [00:27:01] Speaker A: Little two x two tiles every walk. [00:27:03] Speaker B: Up to it to climb up on this giant box. Absolutely took up a ton of space in the bathroom. [00:27:09] Speaker C: Yes. [00:27:10] Speaker A: They have been replaced. You know this because you just put one in. [00:27:14] Speaker C: Yes. [00:27:15] Speaker B: Soaker tub. [00:27:15] Speaker A: Soaker tubs. That's really popular right now. And big, spacious walk in showers. I would much rather have a shower that is a little bit bigger than to have this 200 gallon tub. You know what I mean? That you're never going to use. [00:27:31] Speaker B: Right. [00:27:32] Speaker A: Who uses those things? [00:27:34] Speaker B: Well, I mean, if I'm being honest with you, I rented a beach house that is an older, older beach house, probably, I would say early two thousand. [00:27:46] Speaker A: S. Twenty years old. [00:27:48] Speaker B: And there was a jacuzzi tub in the master bathroom. I ran a hot bath. A hot bath is nice. The fact that it has jets or doesn't have jets doesn't really matter. Soaking in a hot tub is nice. I just said hot tub. I mean, it really is what it is, right? [00:28:07] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:28:08] Speaker B: I mean, hot tubs were hot tubs. [00:28:10] Speaker A: But man, you waste a lot of water. You got to fill them up and then you drain it. [00:28:14] Speaker B: Yeah, that's absolutely true. That is true. It is wasteful. It's crazy. [00:28:20] Speaker A: All right, last one on the list, Tony. And this actually probably makes number 13. We went from ten things to 13, but we kind of touched on this one. But faux finishes, sponge painting rag, rolling rag rolling. That's one. [00:28:35] Speaker B: Yes, I do remember rag rolling. [00:28:39] Speaker A: I saw one one time years ago when I worked at Menards. They had paint rollers with those textured foam things that you just picked out which one you wanted and you'd slide it on there and then you'd make the really coral reef roll right on. [00:28:57] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Well, painting walls, look, it doesn't matter what you're painting the walls with. Here's the bottom line. If you own the home, you can have whatever you want on those walls because the people that you sell it to are going to paint over it. [00:29:12] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:29:12] Speaker A: That is the nice thing about paint, right? [00:29:14] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:29:14] Speaker B: Paint is an easy thing to do. Everybody's capable and everybody has an opinion. And whatever it is that's on there, even if you just put it on brand new, it's probably going to get painted over. I agree, because everybody's opinion is different. And there's 1001 colors of paint out there and it's really not that expensive, not that difficult, not that expensive. So, yeah, I wouldn't worry too much about what kind of paint you've got on the walls. [00:29:42] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:29:44] Speaker B: Everything can get painted over. That's a great list. That takes me back. It makes me think about a lot. [00:29:48] Speaker A: Of, I mean, there's a lot more than this, right. [00:29:50] Speaker B: Come to pass over shag carpet. I had shag carpet in my house growing up. Lime green shag carpet, actually. [00:29:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:29:59] Speaker A: Colored appliances. Was it avocado appliance? [00:30:03] Speaker B: Avocado sink? [00:30:04] Speaker A: Those things are kind of making a comeback, too. [00:30:07] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:30:07] Speaker A: The old timey looking. [00:30:09] Speaker B: Yeah, they're new. They're appliances, but they look old. [00:30:13] Speaker C: Right. [00:30:13] Speaker B: They have that sort of vintagey, vintage look to them. Yeah, it's pretty cool. I like the look. [00:30:18] Speaker A: I do, too. But there you go. I mean, if you have any on your mind, if you're listening to this and you say, oh, those guys totally forgot this one. [00:30:27] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:30:27] Speaker A: Send it to us. Email it to us. [email protected] yeah, we'll definitely talk about it. [00:30:33] Speaker B: On our next podcast. [00:30:35] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:30:35] Speaker B: [email protected] parr.com. [00:30:39] Speaker A: Make sure you go subscribe to our YouTube channel. It's YouTube.com wwomeshow and at www. [00:30:47] Speaker B: Homeshow on Instagram and Facebook. 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