Hey guys... This is HOW you can do a "touch" of BARBIECORE, straight from the #BarbieMovie in a way that brings your space to life without feeling trendy! #MCM #MAXIMALISM #JOYTREND
My husband bought our house which sat on the market for a long time because it was light gray with pink trim and had raspberry carpet throughout and pink ceiling fans. He’s in real estate and knew paint and new carpet is all it needed. He said the neighbors came over and thanked him for painting the trim. 😊
This video made me realize that pink and orange pillows on a navy blue or teal sofa are a combination I'd like to see together. Also, avoiding pink appliances is definitely great advice. I can see that happening with most eccentric tastes when it comes to selling a home.
The Barbie movie was really great at portraying all kinds of nods to Americana architecture, pop culture, history, etc. I really enjoyed all the eye candy in the movie! Thanks for these bits of historical info!
This is a fun video to watch that's both entertaining and informational. I didn't expect to learn about design while referencing the Barbie movie and learn about interesting color combos.
Great job, Lisa. There is a lot to learn from Barbie…interior design, fashion. It’s timeless. There was a time when Kate Spade was designing with pink and orange. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see some of those pieces come back.
_(Preface: Sorry about the length. I try to be concise, but I want the reader to understand the concept. If Lisa reads this, perhaps she can boil it down for us with fewer words. But _*_I believe this is a critical colour design principle,_*_ and I think most people don't understand the basics of the concept.)_ What a fun, unusual presentation. Lisa managed to combine a bit of a historical design lesson with a contemporary application. Something that really struck me, due to the crazily bold colours and colour combinations shown, is *how & why colours 'go together'.* I learned, much too late in life, the basics of why colours 'go together' or don't--- *it's the undertone, people!* I don't have the design vocabulary, but it's essentially that the most unlikely colours can 'fit' with each other if some of the dyes they blend to make up each colour (paint, etc.) are the same. Conversely, *if the key dyes that make up each colour are different, even colours that **_should_** seem to go together (say, tan and brown), even to untrained eyes, just won't.* I learned this in a jarring way when I bought a house in which the owners had recently painted with a yellow and a brown or tan shade. It...was.... *_hideous._* They _should_ have coordinated nicely, but it was screamingly obvious that the undertones were completely different from each other. A few years back one of the big paint manufacturers that supplied Home Depot in Canada offered *paint swatches with 'cheat' symbols on each multi paint chip.* If you selected two multi chips, even from drastically different colours, *as long as each one had identical symbols, any of the colours on either chip should 'go together'.* So, any that had a 'moon', or a 'star', or a 'bird' or whatever---all 'moon' paints coordinated, and all 'birds' coordinated. It was frigging brilliant. I played around, trying various chips together, and even weirdly unusual selections all looked 'right' together, _if they had identical symbols._ This has *nothing to do with individual colour preferences!* If you don't like pink and green combinations, that's fine, and entirely not the point. But if you did, this system showed you which ones had been formulated to look 'right' together. 'The Despot' (as I call it) doesn't have these anymore. And I don't know if any manufacturer does. And it's a stupid, stupid regression. Because people like me, who aren't always sure about pleasing colour theory now have to wing it. And the results are hit and miss :(
Interesting! Never thought about the undertone’s relationships. My bedroom was done in green and peach once, and they went together so well. Thank you for the great hack, will definitely use it 👌
Great thoughts, thanks for sharing! It can depend on what effect you’re going for. You’re right that, for example, a blue grey and a creamy white will make the white look dirty and old, so you definitely need to think about undertone, especially you’re going for a neutral look! That said, it can also depend on the design style and type of colour scheme you’re going for. For example, if you want contrast, you can go for a complimentary or triadic colour scheme. One of my favourites, though, is an analogous colour scheme, which is when you choose a colour and deliberately choose the two colours adjacent to it on the colour wheel. For example, if you chose a pure green as a base colour, you could accessorise with a blue-green and a yellow-green. Or a red could really pop with an orange and a magenta. In those cases, you may choose different undertones intentionally and it can work beautifully, which may be why the symbols got taken off the paint chips. Undertone will also depend on the manufacturer, due to the chemical makeup of their untinted paint. As someone who’s familiar with Canadian Home Depots, you may have noticed that Behr tends to have a lot of colours in the warm greens and browns. That’s because their base tint tends to the warmer side, with a slight green-brown nature, so it takes a lot more colour to make it go the opposite direction. I was looking for a cool medium-dark red for an art project, and I had to go to a completely different manufacturer because Behr just can’t get its paint the colour that I wanted (cool red and warm green are as opposite as you can get).
Hi Lisa!! I really liked your eye make up Today. Gave your eyes a real Lift. As for Barbie I wasn’t a big fan. I liked Dawn dolls. Remember those? they were smaller. But I loved designing their houses in my parents mcm cabinets! I did all the mcm looks with whatever I could find or make. But i never used pink. I still don’t. I’m a New Yorker. I do lots of black. 😂😂😂 but I liked your scarf so maybe I will add a pink scarf to my black wardrobe. Have a nice weekend🙂 🥰🥰👏🏻
1962 first Barbie Dream House was $4.99! I didn't know the original was styled after Richard Neutra's MCM architecture. I had a Barbie Dream House from the 70s so I had a 3-floor Townhouse with an elevator 😉 Your videos are always such a great history lesson! ❤ Thanks!
I have that white teeny tile with random pastels running through in the kitchen back splash. At first, I wanted to do French Country with cobalt blue, but quickly decided I had better not fight the bones. I bought some pink cuisinart coffee pot and toaster, bread box stuff and some Andy Warhol cats and such. I like it.😊😊😊
Livin' the ''Maximum Mid-Century Modern Joy'' already, only here it's Red instead. Lisa, you really do inspire people to live the most beautiful, joyful life they can. Thanks for that, some need reminding. LOL
I'm a hard pass on Barbiecore, but I DO wish I had never given away my Barbie camper set. Oh, and I just had a childhood flashback. I cut the toes off my Barbie so all she could wear after that were her go-go boots. I remember wondering if I cut my own toe off if it would grow back. I wasn't sure so I tried it with Barbie. What a weird kid. And no, I am not now a podiatrist.... or a serial killer. 😉
It's a hard pass for me, too. Back in the day, I painted the skirting board and glass panelled door a red/pink. The walls were were painted a strong shade of pink. I painted another room in shades of yellow, so there was some sort of plan in my head.
I lived through the fifties and it wasn’t as fun as it looks. The furniture was thin and leggy. It looked cold and cheap even when it was high quality. Not a cozy to be found. 😢
I've pondered a lot about decor preferences---I like this and you like that or we don't like either. We also see 'mass preferences' sometimes, like so many people disliking the seventies styles and colours. And *I still haven't figured out why we like what we like.* Sometimes it's not a specific period or style per se, but *that we don't like a characteristic of that period,* like someone else said about mid century, that it looked _"...cold and cheap, even when it was high quality...."_ I'll keep pondering :D
@@be5952Good thought! Subjectivity is a difficult topic to pinpoint the nature of. Often our tastes reflect our personalities. Risk-takers in life may translate that into their design style, using bold palettes or maximalist decoration schemes, while those who value stability may go for something more neutral that more people will appreciate. People can also go to the opposite direction to compensate for the lack of fun or lack of control in the rest of their lives. There’s also the aspect of familiarity. Humans are notorious for doing things that make them comfortable, but often we’re not even aware of why. Spaces often have an ambience that makes us comfortable, curious, or appreciate of beauty, and oftentimes our brains base those feelings on certain criteria, which sometimes we aren’t able to pin down until we develop the terminology. I, for example, don’t resonate with neutral palettes or farmhouse décor. I’ve found out that it’s because I associate those things with the area I was born and raised in, and I feel like I’ve changed so much as a person that that no longer fits me. Since moving away from there, I became a lot more comfortable in my own skin, and it was around that time that I learned of Pantone and more saturated colours. That’s probably why I value them (and Joy Trend) more than other people would. Some find them garish, while I find them freeing and inspiring. I believe taste is a piece of a larger puzzle that is self-discovery. Even people who don’t think of themselves as artistically inclined will usually have instinctive reactions to certain types of spaces, even if they aren’t fussy about design most of the time. I think it helps to have the language to be able to articulate why spaces speak to you, and in doing so, you can get to know yourself a bit more. Note that I’m not a trained psychologist, haha.
@@LisaHoltDesign ok, then there should be things we can learn from Sound of Freedom as well. Looking forward to your episode on what can be learned from that movie
In researching about MCM Ive realized my late 50s "Franciscan" line by McBean of California, "dishes" must be also sought after. It seems to me that people like you who decorate like it's EXACTLY the 1950s would need matching dinnerware, and other Oasis patterned stuff like cannisters, butter dishes and snacking plates, etc, etc! Im looking to sell, people! Google "oasis by McBean/Franciscan" and see what I mean. Like the furniture, they were inspired by the space race that ws raging during those times.
Hey guys... This is HOW you can do a "touch" of BARBIECORE, straight from the #BarbieMovie in a way that brings your space to life without feeling trendy! #MCM #MAXIMALISM #JOYTREND
My husband bought our house which sat on the market for a long time because it was light gray with pink trim and had raspberry carpet throughout and pink ceiling fans. He’s in real estate and knew paint and new carpet is all it needed. He said the neighbors came over and thanked him for painting the trim. 😊
Pink and orange was everywhere in the 1960s! My Barbie camper van circa 1968 approx was primarily orange with pink and yellow highlights.
This video made me realize that pink and orange pillows on a navy blue or teal sofa are a combination I'd like to see together. Also, avoiding pink appliances is definitely great advice. I can see that happening with most eccentric tastes when it comes to selling a home.
Navy and pink are beautiful together!
I love MCM. It reminds me of the best years of my childhood.
That color scarf looks great on you. Your face is glowing.
Oh thank you!
I love Palm Springs atomic.
The Barbie movie was really great at portraying all kinds of nods to Americana architecture, pop culture, history, etc. I really enjoyed all the eye candy in the movie! Thanks for these bits of historical info!
Totally agree!
This is a fun video to watch that's both entertaining and informational. I didn't expect to learn about design while referencing the Barbie movie and learn about interesting color combos.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great job, Lisa. There is a lot to learn from Barbie…interior design, fashion. It’s timeless. There was a time when Kate Spade was designing with pink and orange. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see some of those pieces come back.
I totally agree!
Love the scarf!
_(Preface: Sorry about the length. I try to be concise, but I want the reader to understand the concept. If Lisa reads this, perhaps she can boil it down for us with fewer words. But _*_I believe this is a critical colour design principle,_*_ and I think most people don't understand the basics of the concept.)_
What a fun, unusual presentation. Lisa managed to combine a bit of a historical design lesson with a contemporary application.
Something that really struck me, due to the crazily bold colours and colour combinations shown, is *how & why colours 'go together'.*
I learned, much too late in life, the basics of why colours 'go together' or don't--- *it's the undertone, people!* I don't have the design vocabulary, but it's essentially that the most unlikely colours can 'fit' with each other if some of the dyes they blend to make up each colour (paint, etc.) are the same.
Conversely, *if the key dyes that make up each colour are different, even colours that **_should_** seem to go together (say, tan and brown), even to untrained eyes, just won't.*
I learned this in a jarring way when I bought a house in which the owners had recently painted with a yellow and a brown or tan shade. It...was.... *_hideous._* They _should_ have coordinated nicely, but it was screamingly obvious that the undertones were completely different from each other.
A few years back one of the big paint manufacturers that supplied Home Depot in Canada offered *paint swatches with 'cheat' symbols on each multi paint chip.* If you selected two multi chips, even from drastically different colours, *as long as each one had identical symbols, any of the colours on either chip should 'go together'.* So, any that had a 'moon', or a 'star', or a 'bird' or whatever---all 'moon' paints coordinated, and all 'birds' coordinated.
It was frigging brilliant.
I played around, trying various chips together, and even weirdly unusual selections all looked 'right' together, _if they had identical symbols._
This has *nothing to do with individual colour preferences!* If you don't like pink and green combinations, that's fine, and entirely not the point. But if you did, this system showed you which ones had been formulated to look 'right' together.
'The Despot' (as I call it) doesn't have these anymore. And I don't know if any manufacturer does. And it's a stupid, stupid regression. Because people like me, who aren't always sure about pleasing colour theory now have to wing it. And the results are hit and miss :(
If you want to deep dive more into colour theory and other design aspects, join me at DezignSpace.com ☺️
Interesting! Never thought about the undertone’s relationships. My bedroom was done in green and peach once, and they went together so well. Thank you for the great hack, will definitely use it 👌
Great thoughts, thanks for sharing!
It can depend on what effect you’re going for. You’re right that, for example, a blue grey and a creamy white will make the white look dirty and old, so you definitely need to think about undertone, especially you’re going for a neutral look!
That said, it can also depend on the design style and type of colour scheme you’re going for. For example, if you want contrast, you can go for a complimentary or triadic colour scheme. One of my favourites, though, is an analogous colour scheme, which is when you choose a colour and deliberately choose the two colours adjacent to it on the colour wheel. For example, if you chose a pure green as a base colour, you could accessorise with a blue-green and a yellow-green. Or a red could really pop with an orange and a magenta. In those cases, you may choose different undertones intentionally and it can work beautifully, which may be why the symbols got taken off the paint chips.
Undertone will also depend on the manufacturer, due to the chemical makeup of their untinted paint. As someone who’s familiar with Canadian Home Depots, you may have noticed that Behr tends to have a lot of colours in the warm greens and browns. That’s because their base tint tends to the warmer side, with a slight green-brown nature, so it takes a lot more colour to make it go the opposite direction. I was looking for a cool medium-dark red for an art project, and I had to go to a completely different manufacturer because Behr just can’t get its paint the colour that I wanted (cool red and warm green are as opposite as you can get).
This was so great........I loved the comparisons and history lesson............more would be cool!
I prefered to focus on your eyes and brows which look fabulous and that pink scarf is best recommendation you made today about hot pink. :)
Oh thank you!
Lisa! With those white sunglasses, you look like Barbie!💖
Hi Lisa!!
I really liked your eye make up Today. Gave your eyes a real Lift. As for Barbie I wasn’t a big fan. I liked Dawn dolls. Remember those? they were smaller. But I loved designing their houses in my parents mcm cabinets! I did all the mcm looks with whatever I could find or make. But i never used pink. I still don’t. I’m a New Yorker. I do lots of black. 😂😂😂 but I liked your scarf so maybe I will add a pink scarf to my black wardrobe. Have a nice weekend🙂 🥰🥰👏🏻
Hey Barbie 😊👋 Looking fabulous.
Thank you! 🤗
You've GOT to watch Ghost Writer and cover that house. It's like the masculine version of mid century modern.
1962 first Barbie Dream House was $4.99!
I didn't know the original was styled after Richard Neutra's MCM architecture.
I had a Barbie Dream House from the 70s so I had a 3-floor Townhouse with an elevator 😉 Your videos are always such a great history lesson! ❤ Thanks!
So cool!
Love that scarf on you😍!
Thanks. Me too!!
Hi Lisa. Even though I've never been into the whole Barbie thing,(I know...gasp!)this was totally fun. I surprised myself by loving the pink tub !😄
So cool!
Oh my gosh , now I need my own Barbie house . So cute and happy !
Right?!
Awesome Lisa ❤🎉
Having lived in LA and living Palm Springs, I loved the movie. Neutra is one of my all time favorite architects. I found the barbie world fun. 😊
Very cool!
Love this so much! Thanks for sharing!!
Thanks for watching!
Loved the Barbie movie!
LOVELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Super enjoyed this evaluation! TY much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have that white teeny tile with random pastels running through in the kitchen back splash. At first, I wanted to do French Country with cobalt blue, but quickly decided I had better not fight the bones. I bought some pink cuisinart coffee pot and toaster, bread box stuff and some Andy Warhol cats and such. I like it.😊😊😊
🥰Perfect!
Post a picture... Sounds really interesting but I can't imagine the look!
Livin' the ''Maximum Mid-Century Modern Joy'' already, only here it's Red instead.
Lisa, you really do inspire people to live the most beautiful, joyful life they can. Thanks for that, some need reminding. LOL
Hey RIX, you're the BEST! xo L 😍
I love Neutra's work ❤
Thank you!
You bet!
Hi
What is the pink set of crockery called that u found at Etsy?
Thanks…
Interesting
This too shall pass.
I'm a hard pass on Barbiecore, but I DO wish I had never given away my Barbie camper set. Oh, and I just had a childhood flashback. I cut the toes off my Barbie so all she could wear after that were her go-go boots. I remember wondering if I cut my own toe off if it would grow back. I wasn't sure so I tried it with Barbie. What a weird kid. And no, I am not now a podiatrist.... or a serial killer. 😉
Glad you didn’t mutilate your feet. Glad that you had a weird Barbie to take care of that lesson for you. ☺️
It's a hard pass for me, too. Back in the day, I painted the skirting board and glass panelled door a red/pink. The walls were were painted a strong shade of pink. I painted another room in shades of yellow, so there was some sort of plan in my head.
I lived through the fifties and it wasn’t as fun as it looks. The furniture was thin and leggy. It looked cold and cheap even when it was high quality. Not a cozy to be found. 😢
That's why this is so fun, it re-interprets it to be so much better!
You hit the nail on the head!
I hated the decor in the 50’s and I still hate it now.
Not every style suits everyone. It’s just a fun video. ☺️
I've pondered a lot about decor preferences---I like this and you like that or we don't like either.
We also see 'mass preferences' sometimes, like so many people disliking the seventies styles and colours.
And *I still haven't figured out why we like what we like.* Sometimes it's not a specific period or style per se, but *that we don't like a characteristic of that period,* like someone else said about mid century, that it looked _"...cold and cheap, even when it was high quality...."_
I'll keep pondering :D
@@be5952Good thought! Subjectivity is a difficult topic to pinpoint the nature of.
Often our tastes reflect our personalities. Risk-takers in life may translate that into their design style, using bold palettes or maximalist decoration schemes, while those who value stability may go for something more neutral that more people will appreciate. People can also go to the opposite direction to compensate for the lack of fun or lack of control in the rest of their lives.
There’s also the aspect of familiarity. Humans are notorious for doing things that make them comfortable, but often we’re not even aware of why. Spaces often have an ambience that makes us comfortable, curious, or appreciate of beauty, and oftentimes our brains base those feelings on certain criteria, which sometimes we aren’t able to pin down until we develop the terminology.
I, for example, don’t resonate with neutral palettes or farmhouse décor. I’ve found out that it’s because I associate those things with the area I was born and raised in, and I feel like I’ve changed so much as a person that that no longer fits me. Since moving away from there, I became a lot more comfortable in my own skin, and it was around that time that I learned of Pantone and more saturated colours. That’s probably why I value them (and Joy Trend) more than other people would. Some find them garish, while I find them freeing and inspiring.
I believe taste is a piece of a larger puzzle that is self-discovery. Even people who don’t think of themselves as artistically inclined will usually have instinctive reactions to certain types of spaces, even if they aren’t fussy about design most of the time. I think it helps to have the language to be able to articulate why spaces speak to you, and in doing so, you can get to know yourself a bit more.
Note that I’m not a trained psychologist, haha.
Totally agree! The current mid-century modern furniture is going to look really dated one day. I’m just trying to wait it out.
You lost me at Barbie movie
There’s always things to learn, even from Barbie. 😊
@@LisaHoltDesign ok, then there should be things we can learn from Sound of Freedom as well. Looking forward to your episode on what can be learned from that movie
In researching about MCM Ive realized my late 50s "Franciscan" line by McBean of California, "dishes" must be also sought after. It seems to me that people like you who decorate like it's EXACTLY the 1950s would need matching dinnerware, and other Oasis patterned stuff like cannisters, butter dishes and snacking plates, etc, etc! Im looking to sell, people! Google "oasis by McBean/Franciscan" and see what I mean. Like the furniture, they were inspired by the space race that ws raging during those times.