Your Home. Your Market. Your Move. Let's Go! · 2026-05-28 · 24 min
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Tina Lynch Designs' approach to 2026 design centers on warmth as the dominant aesthetic principle. Cool grays are out; warm grays, beiges, taupes, and terracotta move in. In kitchens, wood cabinetry - particularly white oak - replaces painted cabinets, paired with warm-toned paint and hardware like polished nickel, gold, and satin black (replacing matte black, which reads as fingerprint-prone to buyers). Bathrooms benefit from tile drenching (same tile on walls and floors) and larger format tiles, which visually expand smaller spaces. For flooring, consistency matters: white oak with wider planks (7-8 inches) throughout open-plan homes, except kitchens can use tile. Luxury vinyl ranges $3.50-$6.75/sq ft versus hardwood at $6.75+/sq ft; hardwood suits high-end neighborhoods, vinyl works in lower-price-point areas. The episode's standout concept is color drenching - painting walls, trim, baseboards, doors, and ceilings the same color in different sheens (flat for ceiling, eggshell for walls, satin for trim) - which eliminates visual divisions and makes rooms feel larger. Fixed elements (flooring, countertops) should follow consistent warm or cool undertones; mixing creates visual discord. White paint selection depends on undertones; matching requires comparing chips or using 100% white poster board. Lighting should be warm white bulbs; recessed lighting is outdated in design circles.
Warm tones are dominant: warm grays, beiges, taupes, terracotta, and warm creamy whites. Cool grays are out. All fixed elements (walls, trim, baseboards, ceilings, doors) should be consistent warm or cool undertones - mixing creates visual discord.
Yes, white oak is 'so on trend' for 2026. Wider planks (7-8 inches) are preferred over narrower ones; wider planks make spaces feel bigger. White oak works for both flooring and interior trim in high-end neighborhoods; luxury vinyl is acceptable in lower-price-point areas.
Color drenching means painting walls, trim, baseboards, doors, and ceilings the same color in different sheens (flat ceiling, eggshell walls, satin trim). It eliminates visual divisions where the eye would stop, making rooms feel larger and cozier, especially with darker colors.
Matte black is out. Polished nickel, gold, satin black, and antique bronze are in. Chrome is a major trend for 2026. Polished nickel sits between gold and chrome in warmth and shininess.
Gather multiple white paint chips together to see undertones (pink, yellow, or green), or bring 100% white poster board next to existing trim in natural light to identify the undertone by comparison.
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The episode covers design trends at surface level with some practical tips (white oak flooring, warm color palettes, color drenching), but much of the content is repetitive and lacks depth. The core insight - warm tones are in, cool tones are out - is stated multiple times without developing it further. Minimal novel ideas for operators beyond basic aesthetic preferences.
Gray, the cool gray is out, but the warm grayish still remain.
The wider the planks, you can get into the space.
The episode recycles well-worn design trends (warm tones, open-concept flooring continuity, wood cabinetry) without contrarian or first-principles thinking. 'Color drenching' is presented as novel but is a standard interior design technique. No counterintuitive arguments or challenging assumptions about design choices.
Gold is still on trend because it's warm.
The same flooring throughout is on trend, except for, of course, the bathrooms.
Tina Lynch appears to be a legitimate interior designer with practical experience, though her credentials and track record are not established in the transcript. Ashley Cookson (mortgage) and Jenna Gulart (real estate) add relevant perspectives on buyer perception and market impact, but are secondary participants. The core expertise is present but not clearly positioned as exceptional or proven at scale.
I have Tina Lynch from Tina Lynch Designs, Ashley Cookson from Movement Mortgage, and Jenna Gulart from Jack Conway.
When they see matte black. When they're looking at a home, buyers tend to see that there's going to be fingerprints.
The episode includes some specific details: white oak flooring, Benjamin Moore Chantilly Lace, Taj Mahal countertop, plank widths (7-8 inches), luxury vinyl pricing ($350-$675/sq ft vs. hardwood $675+). However, many claims lack supporting data, timelines, or named examples of homes. The 'trends' are asserted without citing sources, market data, or quantified evidence of adoption.
vinyl, a good luxury vinyl could go between uh, anywhere between 350 all the way up to 675 a square foot. Where hardwood is 675 and up.
For example, if your cabinets are already like Chantilly lace, which is a Benjamin Moore white color, which is the whitest of all whites
The host asks follow-up questions and shows genuine curiosity (e.g., black doors in New England, lighting frustrations, smoke detector colors), but rarely pushes back or challenges Tina's claims. Questions are often softball and affirm rather than interrogate. The mortgage and real estate professionals contribute anecdotes but aren't prompted for deeper insights about buyer behavior or market impact.
So what is going on, Tina? Tell us what's happening with 2026?
Um, so what does that look like in a kitchen?
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What are the top home design trends for 2026? Which styles are gaining popularity, and what features are outdated. In Episode 3 of The Cerretani Team Podcast, real estate professionals sit down to discuss the biggest interior design and home trends shaping the 2026 housing market. If you're planning to buy, sell, renovate, or update your home, understanding current design trends can help you make smarter decisions that appeal to today's buyers and improve your home's overall value. In this episode we discuss: • Top 2026 home design trends • Popular interior design styles buyers love • Kitchen and living space trends gaining popularity • Home features that help increase resale value • Design choices that may be going out of style • Tips for homeowners preparing to sell in today's market The Cerretani Team at Jack Conway Real Estate helps buyers and sellers throughout Massachusetts navigate the housing market with confidence. Through this podcast, the team shares expert insights on real estate, homeownership, lifestyle, and the trends shaping today's homes. If you enjoy this episode,
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Speaker A: Welcome to your home, your market, and your move with the Seritani team. And we're going to talk about 2026 design trends. My favorite topic. I know, right? So we have Tina lynch from Tina Lynch Designs, Ashley Cookson from Movement Mortgage, and Jenna Gulart from Jack Conway. Um, I'm Leanne Saratani. So what is going on, Tina? Tell us what's happening with 2026. Because I know that I loved my gray, and everybody did love, loved gray. Um, so what's happening with gray this year?
Speaker B: Gray, the cool gray is out, but the warm grayish still remain. So and if you have cool gray, there's nothing wrong with it. You don't have to get rid of the cool gray. So if you love gray, you love gray. But again, it's. It's leaning towards all of the warmth. So warm gray, um, beiges are in style in on trend. Um, the browns, the taupes, and the warm, creamy whites.
Speaker A: Oh, okay. And that's happy you mentioned white, which we'll talk about in a little bit. So, um, because white is not. White is not always white.
Speaker B: Oh, no, it's not. So if you're at that paint store and you have a paint chip and you're looking at it, it's going to look white. You take another paint chip that looks white, you put them together, and you'll see their undertones. So if you're ever wondering what undertone your white is, take a bunch of the white paint chips, put them together, and you'll see a white undertone or yellow undertone or even a light green undertone. You'll see all the undertones. And that holds true for all colors. If you want to know what their undertones are, just take different colors of the same color, like different grays, pink chips, put them together, you'll see and
Speaker A: you'll see the difference. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's. That's really important.
Speaker C: Very important.
Speaker A: Um, so let's get back to the. What the trends are. So you said warm. Warm is coming in. The cool is out.
Speaker B: Cool is out. Um, like I said, it's the warm terracotta. And the, uh, browns are in, the taupes are in, the beiges are in. The soft, warm, creamy whites are in.
Speaker A: Okay. Um, so what does that look like in a kitchen?
Speaker B: Gorgeous. It looks, um, you do wood cabinetry. You can do maple, you can do mahogany.
Speaker A: So wood is really coming back because we saw a lot of painted cabinetry for a long time.
Speaker D: I.
Speaker B: Okay, you could still have your colored cabinetry. It's still on Trend, but it's not as on trend as the wood tones are this year.
Speaker A: Any particular wood tones?
Speaker B: Um, the white oak is so on trend.
Speaker A: Oh, interesting. Okay.
Speaker B: And also black hardware is out. Matte black.
Speaker A: Oh, no more black.
Speaker B: No more black.
Speaker A: Uh, oh, if you want to do
Speaker B: black, satin black is fine. Or the, um, antique bronze is fine. But the matte black is out. Especially for buyers. When they see matte black. When they're looking at a home, buyers tend to see that there's going to be fingerprints. It's going to be hard to keep clean.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: I would stay away from black matte.
Speaker A: Okay, well, that's great. Yeah, that's great. And then color choices for paint. When you have those wood tones, like, I always think it's hard to find a color. Can any color go?
Speaker B: Pretty much, yeah. Especially with the lighter wood tones and the mid wood tones. Flooring. Yeah, you can really put any color on the wall as long as it's a warm tone color on the wall.
Speaker A: Okay. So. So it's not any color. It has to be warm tone.
Speaker B: It has to be warm.
Speaker C: Okay.
Speaker B: Meaning. I. I guess I was just meaning the depth of the color light or betcha.
Speaker D: Yeah.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker C: All right.
Speaker A: That's great. What about, um, bathrooms? Like, are we seeing anything different with bathrooms?
Speaker B: Yes, we're seeing still the warp, and we're also seeing using the same tile on the floor and on the walls. So tile drenching, if you want to call it. So the ceilings and the baseboard and
Speaker A: the tread tile drenching. Okay.
Speaker B: Yes.
Speaker A: So the carrying the whole, like, floor of the bathroom up. Um, your tile wall.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm not saying everybody has to do it. I'm just saying it's the trend for 20, 26 and.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: Bathroom feel bigger because it's eliminating.
Speaker A: Sure, sure.
Speaker B: That makes sense.
Speaker A: So in terms of bathrooms, um, is it different for your primary bathroom versus, like, your hallway bathroom? Like, if. Are there any trends that they should be different or should they be the same?
Speaker B: Different, I think should be different. But have a color connection.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: At least one color in its connection. You know, like if you're doing the primary, say in Taj Mahal countertop, which is very earthy and very brown, You. You don't necessarily have to do that one in the hallway bathroom. You can do one that's a solid color pulled from the Taj Mahal in the master bathroom countertop. So it's all about a visual color
Speaker A: connection for each bathroom, even though they're in separate rooms.
Speaker B: Exactly.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: And I would never do the same Bathroom in the same material, both bathrooms.
Speaker A: Now, what about flooring? Like, to me, this. This is interesting. And you guys have probably have seen this where you walk into a home and. And they did a renovation, and they renovated the kitchen, and then they renovated the dining room next to it or the Eaton part of the kitchen, all one flooring. But then the living room next to it, they put in a different flooring. Not carpet, but, like a different hardwood flooring. Um, and then the hallway has a different hardwood flooring, like, or vinyl planking. Like, and you have, like, three or four different colors that are running through. Um, I'm assuming that's not on trend.
Speaker B: You are correct.
Speaker A: It's not on trend.
Speaker B: The same flooring throughout is on trend, except for, of course, the bathrooms.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: Uh, and even the kitchens, you can get away with putting tile in the kitchen. Even if it's an open concept. The kitchen to the dining room and living room, you can still do tile on the kitchen floor and then do the hardwood or vinyl or engineered wood throughout the rest of the home.
Speaker A: Okay. Some people do put hardwood floors in their kitchen, and you can. Okay. Yeah. Is it. To me, it was always a strange thing to think about hardwood floors in your kitchen because of water. Right, right. But, um. But I see people do that.
Speaker B: Yep, people do that. And you can do it. But for those that want tile in their kitchen, in an open concept, you can do that. And depending on the kitchen, there's a place where the tile should stop and the hardware can begin. I would have to see the space first before I could tell you where.
Speaker A: Right, right.
Speaker B: Exactly.
Speaker D: Yeah.
Speaker A: Um, and then what about covered flooring itself? Like, are there. Are there colors that are in. On trend in 2026?
Speaker B: The White Oak is so on trend.
Speaker A: Okay. And what about plank size?
Speaker C: Because, like, I always see that go in and out.
Speaker A: The wider the sign of, the better. Oh, the wider the better. Yep.
Speaker B: But on Today's trends, or 2026 trends.
Speaker D: Yeah.
Speaker A: Okay. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, that's. I have seen wire. Yeah, Wire planks. So bigger than 5 inch, right? More like 7 inch, 8 inch.
Speaker B: 7 inches is good.
Speaker A: Yeah. Okay.
Speaker B: And it makes the space feel bigger, too. The wider the planks, you can get into the space.
Speaker A: Yes.
Speaker B: And also, getting back to tile for bathrooms, the bigger the tile you can get into that space, the bigger that bathroom's going to feel.
Speaker A: Oh, okay. That's interesting.
Speaker B: There's lots of design tricks that you can do to make a space space feel bigger.
Speaker A: Oh, that's great. I. How expensive? Um, like Is vinyl planking versus hardwood floors. Like when you think about affordability, I see, you know, I see people who are flipping homes and they'll put the vinyl planking in versus the hardwood floors. I also see new construction that they're using some vinyl planking, which I thought was strange because I always felt like hardwood floor is really the way to go for quality. Is that still the case?
Speaker B: It depends on, I think, where the house is located.
Speaker D: Okay.
Speaker B: Uh, if this house is in a high end neighborhood, a high end town, hardwood all the way.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: And I feel like if the house is in a lesser neighborhood or a lesser town, you can get away with a good luxury vinyl that looks like,
Speaker A: like a lower price point.
Speaker B: Yeah, vinyl, a good luxury vinyl could go between uh, anywhere between 350 all the way up to 675 a square foot. Where hardwood is 675 and up.
Speaker A: Okay. Okay. Yeah, yeah. So hardwood is still the master, right? It's like the, it's the best, it's the best choice to go with. But you're saying it should be oak. White oak.
Speaker C: White oak.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: In the black.
Speaker A: Okay, great. White oak. That's nice to hear. And the warmer colors.
Speaker B: The warmer colors.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: Yes.
Speaker A: And no. Black matte.
Speaker B: No, matte black.
Speaker A: Okay. Did I say, did I say something funny like black matte or matte black? I said every verse. I do that all the time.
Speaker B: We knew what you meant.
Speaker A: Matte black. Black matte. Okay, so tell me about brush nickel versus gold because I see a lot of gold.
Speaker B: Gold is still on trend because it's warm.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: Chrome is a big, big, big in 2026. And also polished nickel.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Very warm, shiny nickel.
Speaker A: And it's polished nickel versus brushed nickel.
Speaker B: Polished nickel is not as warm as the gold. Polished nickel is warmer than chrome. It's um, uh, it's hard to explain, but it's gorgeous. It's. It's in between.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: It's shiny and it's, it's just beautiful. I didn't go on trend.
Speaker A: Okay. Oh, that's interesting. I'll have the look next time I come into the design store. I'll have to look for the polished nickel.
Speaker B: I don't know if I've seen that.
Speaker A: Mhm.
Speaker B: It's different between gold and chrome. It's right in the middle.
Speaker A: Okay. And it's very warm. Oh, nice. So it's not as flashy as the gold.
Speaker B: No, but it's shiny like the gold and it's shiny like the chrome.
Speaker A: Okay. Oh, interesting. I'll have to go check that one out.
Speaker B: It's great. It's beautiful.
Speaker A: So let's talk about whites, because white, to me is. Is so interesting. I know you talked a little bit about the undertones, which is important. Um, but how do you decide which light to go with? Because I think that is really the ultimate decision maker is, like, how do you decide?
Speaker B: It depends on the fixed elements in the space that you're painting.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: For example, if your cabinets are already like Chantilly lace, which is a Benjamin Moore white color, which is the whitest of all whites, it's the coolest of all whites.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: If your cabinetry in your kitchen is Chantilly lace, then you. And you're going to paint your walls and you want to paint it a white, just carry that Chantilly lace around the walls in the kitchen. It was the room that you're painting that is off the Chantilly base cabinet. And also, it's important if you are going to paint new walls a white. You should also paint the ceiling the same color, the baseboard the same color, all doors in terms of the same color as that white. Because if you start doing different whites on the ceiling, the wall, the baseboards, because most people paint the ceilings a bright white, then the base, the baseboards the same bright white, the trim and the doors the same bright white, and then they paint the walls a warmer white, It's. It's going to look off. So if you are doing it right, color drench the whole space.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: Trust me, it works.
Speaker A: Yeah. I bet that would probably make some room feel really big, too.
Speaker B: Really? But. And you just want to make sure that you do your baseboards, your trim, and your doors in a satin finish, walls in a neck shell, and ceiling in a flat finish.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: And you'll get a little differences between the sheens, and that's what makes it
Speaker A: look so it'll be the same color, but different sheens. Oh, that sounds really cool. I like that. That's a great tip. Yeah.
Speaker C: Ah.
Speaker B: It's called color drenching, but it's for some people and, uh, not for all. But if you are painting your walls a white, I highly recommend color drenching in the same white.
Speaker A: Okay. How do you know? Like, how do you know what color? Like, what you have? Like, if I like. For example, I. When I first moved into my house, I didn't know what color my woodwork was, and I just assumed it was just a white. And so my mother actually wanted her room to be like her white walls. And we just picked out a White. And I didn't even think to match, and it actually looked ridiculous because we didn't pick the right white. So how do you know? Like, how can you figure out what white you have if it's warm, cool, undertone of pink or green? Like, how rhino.
Speaker B: If it's in your home and you want to know, like, say, if it's a door that's already been painted and you want to match that white, then what you can do is go to the paint store and you can. Or go to any store or get, uh, a white. Like a solid white poster board or something that's 100% white. Bring it to that door, per se, that you're trying to match, and you'll see the undertone of that door because it's next to a solid, bright white
Speaker A: paper. Okay, that's a great idea.
Speaker B: It's all about connecting them together.
Speaker A: Unless you're colorblind, then you might really have a hard time.
Speaker B: Maybe not with white.
Speaker A: I know. All right, well, that's a great recommendation. I love that idea. I was in a house recently for a new listing, and the woman was from Ohio, and she moved here, um, to the Cape, and she painted all her doors black. She wanted, like, that country vibe, um, which I don't see a lot here being in New England. And I was like, it looked amazing. And so I was curious, like, what are your thoughts about that? Would that go here in New England, like. Or is it. I mean, uh, it looked gorgeous in her house, but I was thinking about the upkeep of black doors, like the underwear.
Speaker B: Black's another color that has a lot of undertones that you have to be careful of. So you gotta bring all those black shits that you're interested in, put them together, and you'll see the green, the blue, the burgundy, perhaps, undertone.
Speaker A: How interesting.
Speaker B: So getting back to. Should they be painted black? I think that's a personal preference.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Um, it was definitely so hot and on trend in 2024 and 2025, but we're kind of going away from that.
Speaker A: Oh, interesting. Okay.
Speaker B: And really, the color drenching was. Is what's really taking off the color
Speaker A: drenching to me, when you first mentioned that to me, and I was trying to convince my husband to color drench, um, our living room, um, in Falmouth, and he was not buying in. He's a very traditional kind of guy. A lot of people don't. Right. But when you showed me one of the houses that your client drenched, I was like, oh, my God.
Speaker B: Did I?
Speaker C: Dining room. And I would never go back.
Speaker D: Really?
Speaker B: You loved it.
Speaker A: What color did you drench your dining room?
Speaker C: It's like a colonial navy kind of. Um, and my husband was nervous and the guy at the paint store thought I was crazy. And I was like, no, I want everything the same exact color. And it's so cozy.
Speaker A: Oh my God.
Speaker C: Fireplace in there. It's just like.
Speaker A: That sounds awesome.
Speaker B: Even if the room is small and you color drench with a darker color, it's going to make the room feel bigger because you're eliminating contrast. A lot of people paint their walls a color and then they paint the wall. I mean, the ceiling's white. So where the wall ends and the ceiling begins, there's a division of color.
Speaker A: Even if it's a silo line or
Speaker B: a dramatic line, your eye will stop there as a division of color, making the room feel shorter.
Speaker C: Everything else pops against it.
Speaker A: That too.
Speaker D: That too.
Speaker B: So by drenching it, your eye has no place to stop. So it continues to go visually making it feel bigger.
Speaker A: Oh, that's awesome. That sounds really cool.
Speaker D: Have you seen. So doors. Going back to doors. Wooden. Anything about like wooden doors or is that more of like a country like farmhouse still kind of a model?
Speaker B: I feel like it depends on the condition of the doors whether or not they should be painted or restained. I, um, think wooden doors.
Speaker A: What if they're brand new?
Speaker B: If you love the color, then keep it. It's a personal preference, I feel.
Speaker C: Do you keep the trim wood around it or do you paint the trim when you're doing like a wooden door?
Speaker B: That's another personal preference. You can go either way.
Speaker D: I don't mean like old wooden doors that we see in houses. I mean like like new construction of like a modern like that oak color. Like that white oak in like a m. A door.
Speaker B: That's a personal preference. I mean the what?
Speaker D: The oak.
Speaker B: The white oak is so on trend, even indoors and even in trims. But that's a personal preference as far
Speaker A: as you would keep. So I'm just thinking if I were putting in a white oak door to all my bedrooms, I think I would keep the trim. White oak too.
Speaker B: Yeah, you would, but it's a personal preference. A lot of people just like to have the doors, just the wood.
Speaker A: True, right.
Speaker B: And then the trim, um, when you
Speaker C: have a different color. I can see that too.
Speaker A: Mhm. Yeah.
Speaker B: And of course the wood is warm. So you want your trim to be warm.
Speaker A: What should you not do?
Speaker B: You should not.
Speaker A: When you're when you're remodeling, say any room, what should you not do?
Speaker B: Well, as far as painting, you should not mix cool and warm paints together.
Speaker A: Mhm.
Speaker B: You can mix warm and cool decorating together, but not paint.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: Um, as far as renovating, just make sure you stick with the big ticket items, the fixed elements. Just make sure you stick with the warmth of the warmth and the cools of the cools. If you want the cools.
Speaker A: Okay. Okay. So the fixed elements.
Speaker D: I think that's a big key of painting a house that you just said that to, you know, clients that potentially are looking at a home or they could not feel that home. And it might be the paint color on the wall and we don't know that. So that, that's uh, a great, you know, thing that you just brought up to us that we could bring up to our clients. Because it might feel. Something feels off and it could be color. And we didn't think about the warm versus the cool of colors.
Speaker A: And with the, with the use of AI like you had just mentioned. ChatGPT Chang room. I wonder if we just took our phone, snapped a picture of that room while the clients are looking around. Plug that into ChatGPT and just give it a couple of instructions and ask them, what do you think of this room now?
Speaker C: Uh, that's a great idea. Ah.
Speaker A: When we're showing buyers. Because honestly we do this every day and we're in so many houses and we talk to clients all the time that we have really learned to look past, like what's right in front of us. We have a vision. The average person does not have a vision to think about that. Um, so maybe that's a good thing that maybe we should start doing with our clients and helping them out. It's a good use of AI. It's a proper use of AI um, to do that. I might even do it in my own house. So you mentioned make sure you keep your cools and your warm separate when it comes to permanent fixtures. Right.
Speaker B: For the fixed elements. But again, you can decorate with warm and cool.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker B: But fixed elements stick with the cools if that's what you like. Stick with the ones if that's what you like.
Speaker A: Okay. And what would be another do not do
Speaker B: as far as painting anything, I think decorating.
Speaker A: Decorating, whether um, anything like floors and cat like anything you shouldn't mix. It's just all about color.
Speaker B: If you have, uh, warm wood floors with most of them are. I would definitely not put a cold or cool paint color on the walls, because that's just gonna clash and look garish.
Speaker A: Oh, that's interesting. Because when I. A lot of our homes that were built like, have that. They're not white oak, but they're an oak floor. Right. Um, and so people just put whatever color they want up and it. But it really makes a difference if those floors are warm, which they all are.
Speaker B: You got that gray trend. Remember the gray trend?
Speaker A: Right, right. So make sure that. I know. Because you. We had warm floors and people put up gray. You have to make sure it's a warm gray.
Speaker B: Right.
Speaker A: Okay. Because floors aren't typically cool.
Speaker B: No. Except for when we were installing gray carpet. Well, yeah, gray carpet.
Speaker A: And also remember the, um, vinyl planking?
Speaker B: That gray.
Speaker A: Remember when the gray.
Speaker B: Ten years ago.
Speaker D: Yeah. Ah.
Speaker B: So a lot of people were putting the gray flooring down and that had cool gray. Cool gray could go up.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Or a cool color can go up on the walls.
Speaker A: When else would you use a cool color? It seems like to me mostly you would warm. Use warm colors in your home.
Speaker B: But if you have Carrara marble.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: Or a cool marble color top, then I would definitely see. Stick with the cools for your cabinetry and your walls.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: That's a fixed element.
Speaker A: Is marble a good thing to use on your kitchen countertops?
Speaker B: If you want to upkeep it, sure.
Speaker A: I know, right?
Speaker C: What about lighting, though? Because, like, I don't know about you guys, but light bulbs drive me nuts. You love the way your room looks. You have it the way you want. You know, whether it be cool or warm. And then you go to the store and you have to replace a light bulb. And now I feel like the paint looks completely different and it's not what I wanted. And I just get so caught up. I don't know what to get for label.
Speaker A: Well, they have too many choices. It's crazy, isn't it?
Speaker B: Stick with the warm white bulbs.
Speaker C: Oh.
Speaker B: You'll be fine.
Speaker C: Okay.
Speaker D: Mhm.
Speaker A: Um, and you know I have issues with recessed lighting.
Speaker D: Right.
Speaker B: So they're outdated, by the way.
Speaker A: Recessed lighting?
Speaker D: Yes.
Speaker A: Then what are you doing for all your new construction?
Speaker B: Well, new constructions are still using them, but for the design world, they're very outdated. They're all using the lamps, the floor lamps, task lighting, ambiance lighting. And it works actually better than a
Speaker A: recessed lighting, unless you're getting old like me and you really need extra light to see everything.
Speaker C: I want them to get on trend with smoke detectors and things like that because I do love the color drenching. And I get so frustrated because.
Speaker D: Mhm.
Speaker C: Then you have to put a white smoke detector on a colored ceiling. And I know that seems so silly and it's there for safety, but I just.
Speaker A: And you're not allowed to paint. You really should have painted this in the market.
Speaker C: That there's a mess.
Speaker A: I know they need to like up there, like smoke detectors. That's a good. All right. Did everybody hear that?
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Give us some colored smoke detectors. Because you can't when you paint them, you can damage. Well, like the sensors.
Speaker C: Well, you have the light switches now that are like you uh, can, you know, get it what like a graphite or like a black. So you could get close to the color so it doesn't, you know, like you were saying with the trim sticking out. So it doesn't stick out. Right. I feel like that is the only problem I've personally had, color drenching is trying to not get those other elements that you really don't want to draw your eye to.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker C: That are necessity from sticking out.
Speaker A: That's a good point. Yeah.
Speaker B: So when it comes to painting your walls, I believe every room comes from an inspiration. So if it's the kitchen, you're going to take your inspiration from the fifth element, which could be the flooring, it could be the cabinet color. It could also be the countertop that you pick. So painting is always last in my books. But because it's coming from the sixth element, if it's a living room or a bedroom, paint can come. Inspiration, uh, can come anywhere.
Speaker A: Like a piece of art.
Speaker B: A piece of art, A rug, your favorite blouse, for example. I mean it could come from anywhere and you just pull colors from that. So it all comes from the fixed elements. If it's a kitchen or bathroom, if it's another room in the house, it comes from a piece of art or rug or anything that you really love. And just start pulling colors from there and you before you know it, you'll have a design room. Oh wow.
Speaker C: That's great.
Speaker A: That's great. Thank you so much. That was so helpful. Um, I do know about the warm light, but the recessed lighting is really a little bit of annoyance because before now they have the new light bulbs that they come with every single color light.
Speaker C: Yes, they do.
Speaker A: Right. So you can do bright, you can do warm. But honestly I just want warm light. I really don't like the bright light you feel like you're in.
Speaker D: I don't either.
Speaker A: A hospital, you really feel like you're in a hospital. Um, and this is great. This is so helpful. I, um, think I'm going to be bringing you with me to my buyer's, uh, home searches. You can help them, uh, see the vision. See the vision, right? Yeah. That's great. Anything else that we could talk about for 2026?
Speaker B: Uh, no. Just stick with the warms. Painting, um, your walls from a fixed element or inspiration piece. Color drenching is wonderful.
Speaker A: Right?
Speaker C: Right.
Speaker B: If you want to make your space feel bigger with color, less contrast is key.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker B: It's always the paint color that gets blamed for making a space feel big or small. But it's not the paint color, it's.
Speaker A: It's how it's used.
Speaker B: It's contrast.
Speaker A: Yeah. Okay.
Speaker B: The more contrast you add in a room, the more it's going to feel smaller.
Speaker A: Great.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: All right, well that's a wrap.
Speaker D: Mhm.
Speaker A: Awesome.
Speaker D: Thank you so much.
Speaker B: You're welcome.
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