Let's Talk About AD Celebrity Home Tours...

Me: This video isn't about anyone in particular... Also Me: Clearly has it in for Tan France's Tudor mansion in Utah.... For the record he seems lovely, I just I filmed this 20 minutes after watching the AD video... Oh! Check out my newsletter here! ➡ bitly.ws/3dpKu

What we need to have is an AD celebrity house tour bingo card. Sustainability, wood history, humble beginnings. What else? We could turn it into a drinking game!

“Just be honest, you don’t care about sustainability” 😂 I’m dead! Yes 👏🏼 yes 👏🏼 yes 👏🏼

My philosophy (as a professional who makes reaction content about their profession) is that it's ok to react when you are punching up and not down. Celebrities who hire professional designers/architects and open their house to show the world are absolutely fair game. Also, another weird thing about Tan France's out-of-place home is that it wasn't built using the state-of-the-art construction materials/infrastructure. For example, he used loose Tyvek for the WRB; that's going to be a leaky, inefficient house. If you spend that kind of money -- in a climate like SLC -- with a really out-of-place style, you'd think you'd design it to be completely bulletproof. Weird. Not my style but arguably well-designed; just not well-engineered.

I’m glad u spoke about celebrities and sustainability bc I’m quite frankly sick of them acting like they don’t do anything wrong and rest of us r huge polluters.

“Own that you do not care, because we are not stupid.” Perfectly said! ❤

I agree with all of your points! I would like to add one of my pet peeves about these celebrity home tours: it seems like every single kitchen is equipped with a $100k French stove which the homeowner has absolutely no idea how to turn on because of course they don’t cook! 🙄

“Just own it. We’re not stupid.” Yes! Great episode Nick

Can we all start a petition for Nick to be on Queer Eye? I would watch every episode.

I don't give a rat's tutu about how celebrities live. I prefer seeing regular people's homes, and the possible transformations with a modest budget. In essence, people living in the "real world". Nick, thanks for keeping it REAL.

Omg THANK you for the sustainability conversation! Don't ever be convinced that anyone making millions of dollars and is flying around the planet constantly gives any kind of damn about you, the planet, or anything other than making more money and maintaining that wealth.

"I talk for 25 minutes, But I keep it moving. " Love you Nick!

I completely agree. I have 20 year old AD mags at home and there were so many interesting homes featuring the designers or the architects’s perspective on why they built what they built and their use of materials. It was so much more inspiring then a celebrity telling us that they got that cool thing that once belonged to someone cooler than themselves.

“This guitar was crafted from Jimi Hendrix’s grandma’s old bungalow” 🤣🤣🤣. I am going to think of this and laugh every time I watch one of those videos from now on.

I love Tan and I don’t have an issue with his chosen house style but yes it REALLY bugged me when they talked about travelling the country to source out the brick and had the gall to say it was a “sustainable” choice

Holy crap Nick you knocked it out of the park with this one, especially the sustainability and privilege sections. Thank you for making your videos with such intelligent considerations and integrity.

May I say I LOVED the sustainability rant . I enjoy your honesty, perspective and style!

Yes to all of this! Especially the sustainability stuff. There's nothing sustainable about gigantic houses. Also, it's not sustainable to reuse materials if you have to ship them across the country.

You're telling me that a few LED lights and some reclaimed wood won't make up for a 9000 sq ft home and 2 Land Rovers?

Thank you thank you thank you, Nick, for calling out the UNsustainability of giant homes for a family of three or four people. I will never forget when I had a young woman as a guest in my house. She was from Calgary and I live in Toronto in a post-war four bedroom house (that we tacked a fifth bedroom onto when I unexpectedly became pregnant again). I am also very privileged to have hooked my wagon to a star in the accounting (yes a star!) industry who made buckets more money than he felt he deserved. We were (are) not poor. And not that everyone who lives in Calgary lives in a giant mansion, but she was an only child and she had expectations about how people were supposed to live and she expressed alarm and disgust at the fact that five of us shared one bathroom on the second floor. I just shook my head. We never had any problems living in our smaller house. We were lucky enough to have a finished basement and we all were able to carve out our own space whenever we needed it and, contrary to the Hollywood trope of a family with three girls always banging on the bathroom door and screaming at one another to get out, our second floor was quite civilized and tidy. Although my husband made buckets of money (I was paid minimum wage), we didn't feel the need to throw it around on increasing our carbon footprint. I think I have a somewhat stylish and well appointed home and I am proud that we don't have a giant house (less to clean, amiright?) and I raised daughters who are grateful for what they have, are not spoiled and know how valuable it is to live within a smallish footprint. I suppose this rant was a little off topic, but just your inference that "just because you have a lot of money doesn't mean you shouldn't care about actual sustainability and carbon footprints" reminded me that we live that motto.