Tips for How to Achieve a Timeless Look for Your Home | Interior Design That Never Goes Out of Style
Tips for How to Achieve a Timeless Look for Your Home | Interior Design That Never Goes Out of Style
In this video, I explain how you can achieve a timeless interior design for your home that never goes out of style! In a previous video, some of you commented that you like a classic, timeless look for your home. So I got to thinking about timeless style and the ways that you can update your home so that it never looks out of date and that it always looks classic but not too trendy so it looks beautiful for years to come.
This isn’t to say that I won’t cover trends on this channel! I love seeing the trends of interior design come and go as artists push the envelope of good design. However I understand that many of you don’t want to follow trends, or that it can get expensive to constantly keep up with them. So I hope you enjoy this list of timeless design trends! I really try to explain my thought process behind each tip. I hope you enjoy!
⏱ Timestamps:
00:00 – What is timeless interior design?
01:09 – Stick to Natural Design Elements
02:23 – Think of the Room Function First
03:12 – Less is More
03:58 – Use Neutral Colors
05:38 – Be Mindful of Technology
07:40 – Choose Quality (When You Can Afford It)
09:13 – Subtlety
10:12 – Choose Faux Sparingly
11:46 – Parting Words of Wisdom
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I dont like glass showers. I know they look expensive but is a shower ever luxurious? Either get a curtain or go all the way and get a bathtub (unless you can afford staff that will clean the shower glass from water stains daily) it has been in style for some time but i dont think its realistic
If we reused all the perfectly sound granite, marble, plumbing, wood, cabinetry, furniture, toilets, sinks, and bathtubs thrown out or destroyed during demos and remodels, every homeless person would have somewhere to live. Don’t let me get started on wasted food . . .
Anybody over 40 should know there is no “timeless”. There is more likely to return and one off fads, but everything will be brought back at some point, hopefully the current gray-gray-gray fad will come and go forever, like Americana Colonialawful. Although I’ll take the later over the former anyday, at least it’s interesting. And how is wall paint “permanent”?? It’s one of the easiest things to change anytime you like, hardly an investment in a major piece of furniture or kitchen cabinetry.
Hi! Ive been updating my house little by little. Built in 1985… been enjoying your videos. Thank you 🤗❤
Real natural dark wall panels will always be a classic. Something for a man’s library or his smoking room, but women will love as well.
What about windowsill buddah’s?
you: you ever go into a forest and think "man, this place looks dated?" me: yeah
you: "no , of course not!" I wasn’t ready for these trick questions but I guess that explains the phrase evergreen meaning timeless lol
also, pantone color of the year drives me nuts when people hop on a trendy color and then it’s done to death same with patterns and finishes
something classic like a chrome, rather than something that shoots lazers out of it haha
the laser shooting faucet🤣🤣
Totally unrelated to your awesome, informative content, but your facial expressions….especially your eyes and eyebrows….often look like you’re just about to sing a crooner tune to us. lol You think I’m joking, but in many of your videos, your eyes and eyebrows seriously look like you’re about to belt out some Frank Sinatra or Michael Buble. : ) It’s adorable!
I’m a handletterer but personally don’t put up a bunch of kitschy lettered signs with sayings in my own home.
Great video Nick. Nature is never dated – so true. Everything made so much sense after than comment. Love all your videos, thank you for posting them. Stay safe.
Shot answer: YES.
I really appreciate how you are so not pushy with your ideas and opinion, and you cater to a wider budget range and acknowledge that probably the majority of us are your average middle-class peeps who can’t always afford a lot of the things designers and influencers etc. recommend us. Very friendly channel you’ve created. <3
I think real wood is going to stand the test of time and painted wood is already looking dated.
First off: Great video! Second: Timeless design has gotten a whole new level of importance if you implement the environmental aspect in it also. Timeless design and quality is perfect for getting a bit more control over this consumption society we have build for ourselves.
These are incredible tips for being relatable, too
18th and early 19th century antiques are timeless. And hand knotted oriental rugs. I’ve had them for years and they’ve done right by me.
I liked his humble approached not irritating! And mostly it is concise!!
The recent trend for grey makes me cringe & Im glad it’s already loosing favour.
Aiming to reduce clutter? I find that saying to myself "I’d have to dust that" is a really good way to not buy decorative stuff! I would also add green to your list of neutral colors. Green comes in so many shades and looks really calm with natural wood and stone and complements plants.
It always annoys me whem my clients choose the most boring and plain furniture just because "they won’t get bored of it". Yes you will.
Thank you for the wonderful tips! Circle mirrors look cool but I think it’ll looked dated in a few years.
I do not share your design taste always, BUT I LOVE watching your videos. You have a fantastic personality and appreciate the way you explain things!! ❤️😊
LMAO! UGH.this forest is sooo dated! said no one ever. Love it!
Marble 🤮 never liked it
Louis xiv furniture!
I think flatscreens and this fetish people with hanging them above a fireplace will eventually run out of steam. I think in another 10 years, this obsession with touch screens will finally come to blows with the reality that screens and touch screens do not equal high quality. Some of us may in longing for a simpler time, choose to reject the invasiveness of tech/information, others may embrace tech but want it much more hidden into the walls.
The best tip I can suggest is buy furniture from a charity for the blind. We furnished most of our house for €400, and bought expensive coffee and side tables with what we saved. The reason I suggest a charity for the blind is that people who lose their sight through macular degeneration are often very grateful for the help they have got, and often leave their house contents to the charity in their will. (We narrowly missed out on an entire set of original art deco dining chairs). Also, some sight loss charities have furniture workshops where blind and partially sighted people make furniture.
This was a great video. Classic and timeless is the way to go
The white walls are trendy but won’t be for ever.
On the topic of technology, what about curved t.v.’s? Would that become dated?
I love your videos, this one is perfect for me… I bought a house that I’m getting in a month, and there so much I want to change, and the design I have in my current apartment doesn’t completely fit my tastes anymore… so with my new home, I just don’t know where to start, and I want to stay on budget… I love elements of a variety of design styles… I’m a little overwhelmed and feel like I’m all over the place… anyways, would love if you made a video about small things you can do initially to make a new home yours, and where to start with redecorating it!
As lean to shelving brackets with a practical a friend’s got one in the her wardrobe which looks practical but I think the walk dated and you can we put so many things on them
Love your videos
Just came across your channel and noticed that in your home you favour the mid century modern look which is what I love as well. I also absolutely love Art Deco (the real thing though) and I have one unique piece that I have incorporated in my home.
Wow! I did not expect I will be doing a marathon on your vlogs. Hahaha! Lovin’ all of your vids. So I subscribed❤
Please don’t come after me for my Avril Lavigne playlist
Please tell us about that red lighting in your background! I’ve had a lot of trouble understanding floor lighting/ low down lighting and how to use it properly
I love neutrality. Love white. Grey & mushroom taupe.
i’m an audio engineer, and in addition to product design itself, we do have some tips to make technology look less dated or out-of-place. it’s not as difficult as it may seem to make your own custom speaker cabinets to match your space. you can make enclosures for things like tuners or smart devices, as long as they have the proper ventilation (guidelines are available in user manuals). if you’re really savvy, you can gut an antique or replica radio or tv and replace the innards with modern devices, which i think looks pretty cool. also, discreet sliding keyboard drawers go a long way for things like laptops or drawing tablets. you can add them to most desks as long as you have the legroom. also, i avoid long-term installations for one type of technology, like cd towers or dvd-sized shelves. there are plenty of cloth, rattan, or wicker baskets that will hold those just fine and not be an awkwardly specific size and shape once the tech is obsolete. love your videos, thanks for the tips!
I enjoy these videos and I agree. Side note I’m an audiophile and my sound system consisting of a tube amp and record player on a walnut sideboard and a pair of real walnut veneer speakers is very prominent in my place and kind of a central part of my room. But I’m an odd case lol
Most valuable video. Thank you
I occasionally work trends in for inexpensive things. Larger more costly pieces, like a sofa, I lean toward a more simple and timeless form.
Is there a modern equivalent to Gothic Revival or Arts and Crafts Movement of the 1920s?
I want to base my home on the Hobbit house from the movie, it’s so cozy! But I’m worried that it’s going to look medieval and costumey.
I will never use the tiles that are currently in EVERY hgtv show … they are large-patterned blue and white or black/grey and white. Too trendy which means they will look so dated in less than ten years.
The Lindy Effect is a good thing to mention here, the longer something has been around the longer it’s expected to continue.
Potted plants existed for hundreds of years, probably still gonna be a thing in the next few hundred. A fad invented yesterday, probably won’t exist tomorrow.
I’ve been a decorative painter and muralist for over 25 years. I’ve painted so much faux marble (where it worked). However, many times I would literally refuse to do it in area’s of homes or businesses where it wasn’t warranted, even if the client really really wanted it and even it it meant more money in my pocket. My polite approach to explaining why is much like yours. I’d always explain that painting faux marble should only ever be painted where one would expect to see real marble.
(My not so polite answer in my head was… Ummmmm, No Miss Kelly Green Travertine! …I ain’t marbleing your early American Federal-style 5 piece bedroom set! LOL)
Love your channel,love your content,love your insights. I’ve worked with many decorators and designers in my time and you know more then them! I think you’re sensational…:)
Many thanks! Brian
Here’s one: don’t make your interior black or grey! That is a definite trend nowadays and in 20 years, everybody’s going to be repainting all those grey walls because they look so 2020. I really hate those black and light wood spaces. You know, the wooden table against the black wall. It is dark and dungy, nothing sunny about it and it is so standardized these days that it really is like an ikea showroom in my opinion.
I remember my friend’s mother’s dining room in CT. She was an interior designer and it had the most lucious apricot color on the walls with a large floral with black background for the window treatments and seat cushions. She had a Chippendale dining room set. It looked fresh and contemporary and she said the design was 10 years old at that time.
I always though "less is more" was a mantra but in my new appartement I came to the realization that it’s not always true. It just made it look like a corporate space, boring and empty and i ended up adding a lot of stuff and it gave it "life".