hi everyone it's Nick welcome welcome back to my channnel okay in this video today we are going to be talking about five of the stupidest interior design trends of all time there's a lot of dumb interior design Trends but you know we still love them don't we we just love talk about design because that's what we do here on the Nick Lewis Channel we sit here on a Saturday morning and we just chat about design and there's a lot of stupid things that come and go but I thought why not maybe this is a series
maybe this is a one-off but these are five really stupid trends that I think are worth talking about so that we cannot repeat the sins of yesterday and we can move forward and maybe make better decisions for tomorrow that's the goal anyway so let's get to it okay but before I get to five interior design trends that are really stupid um I want to thank today's sponsor which is going to be delete me now here's the thing I have a confession you guys I totally got scammed out of $5,000 and I only recently got it
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I first started my YouTube channel I had to like move into a place for like 4 months to a like really not great basement Suite which I hated you can still see me in some of my videos the early ones which my favorite comment to this day of all time is when someone said why do I listen to Interior Design advice from this guy when he clearly lives in a Holiday Inn which is still if you're going to make fun of me which I love a club make it Club you know what I mean like
if you're just going to be homophobic it's boring it's like whatever but like hurt it all but like if you're going to be funny like be clever and that's clever so I really enjoyed that comment anyway I had to move out cuz I had a flood in my apartment because they were doing all the pipes well guess what I'm moving out next week and they finally decided to fix the pipes in the building wouldn't you know it didn't fixed it for 3 years but here we are anyway yeah so there's that first thing on my
list though of stupid interior design trends of all time water beds so I wanted to revisit water beds because rarely like people are allow I I love a dissenting opinion I love when people are just like Nick I I I I disagree with how you what you said in this video that's fine people all the time are saying I kind of like this guy sort of but I don't agree with everything he says J I mean like you don't have to agree with everything I say you're wrong but you don't have to but I did
a generational design video where I talked about how gen XTR buy B buy water beds whoa they were like Boomers bought the water beds we didn't buy the listen there were a few gen xers that bought some water beds I I do admit a lot of them were Boomers but there was a lot of gen xers that still bought water beds okay my sisters had water beds they were clearly Gen X your teenagers at the time I'm just saying a lot of y'all bought water beds I know you don't like to deny it you like
to blame it on the Boomers cuz we like to blame the Boomers for everything but they're not the source of everything sometime a few gen xers bought some water beds so I stand by my decision anyway water beds are really stupid water beds are stupid for lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of reasons they're horribly uncomfortable they're loud like when you're on them like they're they're they're swishy they're swishy and swashy and therefore not really great to go to sleep it maybe it's nurturing maybe it's like a white noise thing you know
how people have like beluga whales in the background while they're sleeping maybe it's like the sloshing actually puts you to sleep I don't think so but it's a possibility maybe that's how they sell them I don't know water beds were huge in like the 80s and even into the 9s gen xers 90 they were still popular people had a lot of water beds and they were super popular they're horribly impractical as I said they SOS around they don't make sense for much of anything and um they seem really like difficult to fill they're difficult to
fill up they're if you move you have to like now you got a giant amount of water you got to get you got to pump that thing out I don't know how you do it it's like those '90s entertainment centers to this day I don't know how you got them out of your house you know what I mean they don't fit through the doorway I don't know how you dismantle these things I don't know where they all went cuz I don't think anybody has a water bed like if you told me that the water beds
that still were in circulation was in like single digits I might believe you you know what I mean like no one has these anymore where do they all go unfortunately probably the landfill and that is why they made this list these are not a great Trend they never were and they hopefully will never come back even though I'm sure the genzies will bring the back like they do everything but for now they're dead Okay so we're done with the water beds and they were really stupid and horribly impractical and I'm glad they're dead and gone
okay next up on my list of stupidest interior design trend of all time now this one might hit close to home so I know you probably don't have a water bed but some of you might have this still kicking around and that is really bright accent walls okay so accent walls okay we're still doing them I feel like the the bright accent wall was changed and now has moved into being the geometric accent wall which I have not been a fan of for a while I've made fun of them on this channel before and I
know some of you have them and I feel so bad because you worked so hard you went down to the Home Depot as I said before and you got the plywood and you sat there and your husband got out the little the little miter saw and he just you nailed it on that wall you sketched out on a piece of paper and now you got a jerk like me on the internet telling me that they were really stupid but they were and it was a mistake and I get it we all make mistakes even I
have been known to make a mistake or two and so you know these are not great and they were never great but the bright accent wall is the original sin that's the original that's the that's the older sister and this was you know who I blame I blame HGTV because they managed to convince an entire generation of middleclass suburbanites to pick a random wall in their house and paint it bright pink or orange or yellow or maybe even lime green do you know what I mean and here's the thing if you're going to paint your
a wall something different or you're going to draw attention to it in some sort of make it a focal point in the room it needs to be intentional there needs to be reason behind it could be something like maybe you've got a bed and you want to put something behind the bed right because that's the focal point for the bedroom or maybe you've got a fireplace and you want to make the focal point that wall you want to create these focal points in your room because when you walk in it draws the eye right into
that area and so you build the room around it that's a good thing but these are rarely that intentional they're really just sort of spin the bottle and wherever it lands you just go yep that's going to be my hot pink accent wall you know and that's what I have the problem with it's the randomness of it all that I think is a little bit weird now I specifically said bright accent wall because this is very '90s early 2000s it's always a really really really bright paint I don't know who's behind this was it a
Benjamin more conspiracy theory or bare paint where they decided the paint cartels got together and thought you know what we're just selling white gray and beige maybe we need to sell some of these lime green paints that no one buys and they were like let's contact HTV and like let's httv and let's like get these things rolling maybe I don't know who to blame maybe it's what's what's her name um from Trading Spaces Hildy maybe we can blame her okay next next up on my list is going to be stencil quotes on walls so many
times I have talked about The Farmhouse signs and the you're you're sick of it you're sick of talking about it I'm sick of talking about it but however they're still everywhere in the world which means I have to keep talking about them so I'm not pleased about that either but you know what I talk about less and you know what we don't draw enough attention to and I know some of you have some of these okay is the stencils the stencils they're always this vinyl stencil and they're always say like friendship in a very curvy
font and I know the font okay we all get it from canva it's called playlist go look it up that's the font they love to use that font in all these signs and they're vinyl stickers that are really glossy and then you just stick them on the wall and you do that in your laundry room they're usually very inspirational and that's kind of their sole purpose and I think these are a mistake because not only are they cheesy and overdone they're also like semi-permanent like at least a sign you can put that up and then
take a look back and go I made an error and hold on to that HomeGoods receipt and maybe just take it back and then uh take it back where it belongs give it back there and then move on with your life because you made a good decision and and now you can move forward from it and you've learned but the stencil now you're stuck with it and removing those stencils is like really annoying and painstaking and probably going to like you're going to probably have to repaint like it's going to rip off some of your
drywall or something like you know what I mean like if they're not they're not really that removable friendly these are not really your stencil and stick situations you're going to have to take them off and uh some of the paints come in with it and I think that that's what makes them really irritating you're not going to paint over it because again it's vinyl that's not happening yeah these are these are are quite irritating and probably need to go okay next up on my list is going to be round beds so no that's not how
humans really are like really sort of shaped and so therefore it's impractical and doesn't make sense at all round things are great for some reasons okay so round coffee table or a dining table I sometimes prefer over a square or rectangle and the reason for that is largely because for circulation right so it's sometimes if you're dealing with a really small space and it's kind of difficult to get around a round table can sort of soften the edges and therefore make it really easy for circulation so maybe if you have a smaller coffee table in
the middle and you don't want those sharp edges a curved one just gives you that little bit of extra space so that people are able to sort of navate and CC you can see by the way by my dining table back there I think a rectangle one wouldn't have worked as well the sharp Corners wouldn't have made sense considering it's kind of a little bit almost into a hallway right so it can be really great for circulation love round objects the exception is the bed the bed never makes sense okay unless you're Austin Powers then
that's you're the only person that is allowed a round bed everybody else is just not allowed one anymore these were really popular in the' 70s I guess there was a lot of weird things that were happening in the' 70s and uh these were not a good Trend because it never makes sense because that's not how humans sleep that's the real answer there so that's why it doesn't make sense if if you are a couple and you have one of these that's not that's not that's not good that's not a good idea and if you're a
single person well I hope you enjoy staying single because no one's joining you in that bed because it's stupidly and stupidly circular so don't do that okay and then last next up on my list is going to be inflatable Furniture oh this one this one keeps coming back is it cheap some of these are not cheap some of these are designery and I'm like M Workshop that again because that's not a good one inflatable Furniture is not struct air isn't great way to fill Furniture right like there are other materials that make more sense like
different you know foam and what that are better suited to actually for for sitting for sitting on right like upholstery is great and there are things that you can uh make a construct a sofa or a side chair out of that are not inflatable that are going to be much better choices than this these are like at best pool floaty devices and at worst some sort of super design piece that is very very expensive and stupidly so and doesn't even make sense and they're just horribly uncomfortable and impractical and then you know what they're just
going to pop one day I mean it horrible to get in and out of squeaky as hell do I need to go on I mean just uncomfortable again you're just sitting on an air mattress why would you sit on an air mattress unless you have to I don't even like camping CU I don't want to sit on an air mattress camping sucks I just I want humans spend long time thousands and thousands of years trying to get indoors why would I want to go outdoors and sit on an air mattress and then worse why would
I take my indoors that I've worked really hard for that I quite enjoy by the way and then bring in like camping equipment essentially or pool equipment or pool the floaties into my own home and pretend like it's a style this is one of the worst this is one of the worst Trends ever does not make for indoor it does not make sense for indoor it does not make sense for outdoor you might be like but what if you're a teenager listen I don't like teenagers but I give them a lot of Grace when it
comes to choosing weird interior design things because we're learning and we're stupid we're 15 and we don't know what we're doing and that makes sense I was stupid too do you know what I mean I had a I had black light bulbs in my bedroom because it was the '90s and we didn't know anything and we got them from Hot Topic right like who knew we didn't know we were 15 we were stupid so I give a lot of Grace to teenagers but this one I draw the line this one I draw the line and
just say so if you have a teenager and they're like I want to get an inflatable thing be like no I'm going to show you Nick Lewis and we're going to have to correct that but you know there's other stupid things you can do there's lots of things I'm sure there's scrolling on Tik Tok finding all sorts of crap this one isn't it though so let's let's stop the designer versions let's stop the real the teenage ver versions just all around and furnit Furniture should not be made of air how about we just say that
stop there no air no plastic so that's it for me for today guys I hope really enjoyed this video is this a series I don't know I mean to be honest with you like I put topics on these videos but really this just should be called five things Nick hates this week um and that's that's generally my channel so if you like that feel free to subscribe but uh till then I'll see you on the next video thanks bye
