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[00:00:23] Eric Goranson: What is new for the bathroom? This is stuff we haven't really talked about in the past. And it's stuff that you want to know before you go tackle on that next project. That and a little bit of history. If this is the first time of tuning into around the house, I'm going to tell you a little bit about me.

[00:01:11] Eric Goranson: That's 833 239 4144. We'll give that off later in the show here as well. And if you want to find us, head over to aroundthehouseonline. com. We've got all our videos and everything else there. And if you're joining us for the first time, welcome. There are so many on the radio that have been listening to Danny Lippert for the last 25 years.

[00:01:55] Eric Goranson: I've got a big background, about 30 years in interior [00:02:00] design, home improvement, construction, and home technology. So I have had a pretty wide range of stuff over the years. Started out working in home centers in the 90s, a place in the Pacific Northwest that's been gone for decades now, uh, Ernst Home Center, which was a little neighborhood.

[00:02:47] Eric Goranson: It was a pretty information packed place, and there was a lot of great people working in there that knew a lot about home improvement. So, it was a really cool place to learn. I mean, they had a locksmith on staff, and so it was a really cool place to learn, and [00:03:00] that's where I cut my teeth in kitchen and bath design and remodeling.

[00:03:25] Eric Goranson: But around the house here has actually gone on for 36 coming up on 37 years. And, uh, it has been a show in the Pacific Northwest for that long. I'm the fourth host, Eric Gorenson, Certified Kitchen Designer, as well as we expanded here, oh, probably seven, eight years ago, started taking it across the country.

[00:04:05] Eric Goranson: But if you do have questions, I am here to help you. And I will personally answer that question for you. And you can just give me a call at 833 seven. And if I'm not in the studio, don't worry. I can turn around and give you a call back with a message and maybe put you on a future episode of the show. So I wanted to give you a little bit more about my background here and what I did to learn all of this stuff so you can understand what I've got going on and kind of where what perspective I have out there and I have spent a lot of time designing kitchens and baths and it's probably been, you know, I'm in the thousands of projects completed over the years and everything from a a little tiny, um, you know, affordable home to do in high rises with, uh, you know, a hundred plus units in them of luxury condos.

[00:05:22] Eric Goranson: And then when I started getting into a media, I started doing more of this and, uh, started speaking to people all across the country as far as contractors and doing seminars there and teaching. Either home technology, interior design, kitchen design, and how best contractors can actually work with the design community out there.

[00:06:01] Eric Goranson: You know, the good news is if you're a electrician or a plumber or HVAC, whatever you're out there in the trades doing right now, because of that shortage, you're making some pretty good money in many cases, especially if you've got the experience. If you're a licensed plumber, master plumber, master electrician, all of those different things, you're doing okay out there because there's such a shortage.

[00:06:40] Eric Goranson: And so this is something that we always tend to promote here within the show. And so there's a lot of fun that can be had out there. And, uh, hopefully we can help you. Navigate, you know, home improvement and keeping up in your biggest investment, which is typically your home. And so that's what this show is about.

[00:07:17] Eric Goranson: So thanks for tuning in. And like I said earlier, if you want to find out more about us, find us on social media, or just head over to around the house, online. com as well as we've got, uh, boy, over 250 videos now that we have done, uh, that I have done here over the last year that are all part of the around the house Northwest television show that airs here over a network television here in the Portland market on Fox 12, uh, and Fox 12 plus.

[00:08:07] Eric Goranson: What happens when you buy one that looks like a name brand tool but isn't for pennies on the dollar? How well does it work? Well, I test a lot of those over there on the channel so you can see what we do. I do a couple of week usually and we have a lot of fun with that as well. Well, coming up today here, we're going to be talking about, um, design trends for 2024.

[00:08:46] Eric Goranson: Uh, we've designed the show specifically that way. So each hour is independent. And if not, you can catch us on any podcast player out there. If you missed part of this, if you're listening on the radio. And that is just look for the around the house show, and that's us out there. So we'll be able to [00:09:00] help you coming up here.

[00:09:23] Eric Goranson: I think times are changing and we're seeing some wild stuff happening. We'll talk about that when we come back. Don't change that dial. We'll be right back round the house of return after these important messages. Don't go anywhere.

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[00:11:14] Eric Goranson: And there is a new one that has come out. It is really, I wasn't sure if this was going to take off, but looking at the trends early on, I was like, it could. And sure enough, it's blowing up out there. You know, over the last couple of years, we have seen design trends start to really circle back. As if you noticed, uh, into some of those, you know, mid century to late mid century into seventies colors that we've been seeing.

[00:12:05] Eric Goranson: The pinks, the yellows, the buttercream yellows, you know, all of those colors were coming back. And it was interesting to see them trying to kind of gauge the Publix or even the designer's influence out there to see what people thought of it. So now the big trend that we're seeing coming out. Is a hybrid of that, and it's a trend coming out in kitchens, and they're calling it kitchens, but it's K.

[00:12:56] Eric Goranson: And it looks like we're getting away from that, you know, [00:13:00] professional stainless steel ranges and all of that stuff with the white cabinets in the, in the, in the marble countertops and this kind of monochromatic. Tone. Now we've gone to the complete other side. And so that's, what's crazy is that we're starting to see this.

[00:13:54] Eric Goranson: And that's what's cool is we're starting to see this stuff. And if you really want to take a look at [00:14:00] this trend, just jump over to Pinterest and take a look at it. But it's fascinating to see what's happening. And so these are kitchens that I've actually done in the past, but what we're seeing now is in 2024 is you're seeing that, that, um, mint green appliances coming from some of the other brands out there, not your traditional brands, but some of the brands like best and And some of these other ones out there, and you're seeing all of these cool colors now.

[00:14:52] Eric Goranson: And this has gone the entirely other route. And so when you start looking at it, it's fun to see these [00:15:00] trends come out, you know, green kitchen paint, retro pink kitchens. Are also really big terms out there that are popping up. So you're starting to see a lot of this. This is a big trend for the year. And it's interesting.

[00:15:34] Eric Goranson: These guys are, are, you know, a, a base of color. And everything from advertising to art and, uh, they are out there, their color of the year for 2024 is peach fuzz, which is 13 dash 10 23 and it is a warm peach color. So you're seeing that, for instance, from Pantone, but then we start looking back at what the changes are here for the different [00:16:00] colors and it's fun, especially when you start looking at paint colors.

[00:16:33] Eric Goranson: It almost has a little purple to it if you look at it, but, um, it is a very cool color that works with like, uh, muted oranges and creamy grays, pewter grays, deep greens, that kind of stuff. And so really a bright color there. Now, another one here, C2, uh, their color is thermal, which is a, it's a mid sky [00:17:00] blue, so, um, just very kind of a wintry sky blue.

[00:17:41] Eric Goranson: Um, it's just a very bright, little more beachy color and then, uh, you go a different direction, which is very much a kind of a turquoise color. From Minwax, which is a bay blue, which is a stain that they have. And so you're seeing a lot of that. Valspar has another [00:18:00] one, Renew blue. So you're seeing a trend when you start looking at this and that Renew is much more of a.

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[00:20:15] Eric Goranson: And it is a bright. Peachy pink neutral pastel. That is really cool. And that's another one there. So you can take a look at that one. Um, that's persimmon by HDTV by Sharon Williams. And then you're seeing stuff as well, which is a little safer as far as a color. And like iron side by Dutch boy, it is very much an army green with a little bit of a metal look to it.

[00:21:06] Eric Goranson: So that is where we're kind of going on the color side of things moving forward. So anything from wallpaper has been very back for a while. And the nice thing with wallpaper is now you can buy wallpaper that is designed to be removable instead of having to go spend weeks and weeks on a steamer and trying to.

[00:21:42] Eric Goranson: We're seeing a lot of trends in the bathroom that are changing. And, um, some of this happened because of covid. Some of it happened because of our tastes and styles and some of it has changed and how we look at our home, you know, with the pandemic, uh, is bad as [00:22:00] it was for everyone and it was worse for others.

[00:22:26] Eric Goranson: That brought people home, you know, the, the inclusion now of things like a steam shower, you're seeing it used to be that only very high end luxury things that you would see in a bathroom, like a steam shower. Now they're getting brought in by companies like Brizo, which have been making a more affordable and you're seeing a lot more of these things that are coming into your home.

[00:23:10] Eric Goranson: And here's another trend that I've been writing about a little bit from time to time, and it's a big one out there. We're seeing people. That are Gen X and above planning ahead for their retirement and living in their home as long as they can. And I think some of this has really happened because of what we saw with COVID and things like that, that we saw, you know, our loved ones trapped in retirement communities that when COVID went through, there was a very high mortality rate in certain areas.

[00:24:07] Eric Goranson: So you're seeing people plan ahead decades earlier than they used to. It used to be people would get into their 70s and go, wow, I need to really design out something that's going to work long term for me. And now you're seeing people in their 40s and 50s going, I can't afford to move because I can't buy another house.

[00:24:40] Eric Goranson: If you're ever in a walker, you need to roll in there as an older adult, or maybe you got hurt on the ski slope or whatever. You're giving yourself that access. You're seeing people add that power outlet when they do their remodel, even though they're not putting a bidet and they're adding that in and you're seeing things like the [00:25:00] total new arrest and those kind of things being included in bathrooms and they're becoming, you know, I mean, look at last week's show is an example.

[00:25:34] Eric Goranson: But it's very real too. So we're seeing these trends and luxury in the bathroom is a big thing paired with health and wellness. So you're seeing the steam showers, you're seeing the chromotherapy, the aromatherapy. But here's the one thing that I want to talk about with steam showers that you really have to pay attention to.

[00:26:21] Eric Goranson: So steam won't go through it. You can't just go in there and put a coat of red guard on it. And expect that the steam is not going to come through there because what you can cause is a bunch of different problems. If you don't build that steam shower correctly. So if you're paying someone to build the steam shower, pay attention to the specifications that, um, that they're building it with, because you want to make sure that waterproof is waterproof, steam proof is steam proof.

[00:27:07] Eric Goranson: So little tricks that you can do, like in my shower, I wanted to make sure that I kept it warm. So I put rockwool insulation in behind the system, even though none of it's exterior wall. I insulated that to keep it quieter, and to keep that heat into the system as best as I could. So the other thing we always have to worry about too when we're designing these out, Uh, is to make sure that you have the best bath fan available with the shortest run.

[00:27:50] Eric Goranson: And then my trick was putting in a, uh, Air modest system. That is a drying system for your shower, which is really cool. And you just hit a timer button and it [00:28:00] blows 100 CFM into the shower of dry air and it dries out that shower. So you don't have to have it with a sealed up steam shower. You can get mold and gunk and an unhealthy environment in there really quickly if you don't clean it all the time and that really reduces your cleaning and that's a big one right there.

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[00:29:37] Eric Goranson: So there's going to be a lot more for you to check out over there. Well, we've been talking about design trends here for 2024 in this episode, and we're just going to kind of wrap up my thoughts on the bathroom. Other things that we're seeing in the bathroom that are, that are hot right now are things that save energy.

[00:30:17] Eric Goranson: By using a heated towel rack and I tell you what, first off in the wintertime, there's nothing like grabbing a warm towel off the rack when you jump out of the shower and, uh, or a bath and having that right there ready to go. But the cool thing is that you can have a towel that has been used every day for 5 or 6 days and when you grab it and it's warm, it smells fresh because it didn't have a time to sit there and get all kind of funky on you.

[00:31:01] Eric Goranson: And anytime that you're not doing having to do it, a load of laundry where you're having to wash it and dry it, you're not using the hot water. You're not using the dryer. That's a lot of energy saved. And so, uh, one, you can add luxury too. You just have a comfortable situation with a little warmer towel warmer in there.

[00:31:37] Eric Goranson: So you can take a look at that AMBA products, good stuff out there. That's who I've worked a lot with. Well, let's get into the kitchen here. And, uh, as we move from the bathroom into the kitchen in design trends and styles, you know, we were talking about the, uh, kitschy kitchens earlier, but other things that we're seeing in kitchens and baths that are hot and we [00:32:00] get into kitchens, one of the biggest pieces is getting into, um, Appliances.

[00:32:27] Eric Goranson: One is they have really got into their own styles on their handles and their colors and tones. So maybe One company has a different grade of stainless steels, the other or the handles different. We're matching those styles. But more importantly, we're matching the operating systems that these things work on because so many now are starting to talk to each other.

[00:33:08] Eric Goranson: So these are things that you're seeing and people don't want to have four different appliances and four different apps on their phone just to run them. And so you're seeing it where you can, uh, you know, maybe you're. Your range is now turning into the air fryer as well. And those are some of the things that we're seeing as well as we're seeing these appliances, some of them have over the air updates, so they will have a.

[00:33:45] Eric Goranson: So these are really cool things that we're starting to see with over the air updates and sharing of information in between things. So we're going to see here. That's the next thing coming into trends on them. The smart home stuff is we're starting to see more [00:34:00] interoperability between let's say like a Samsung and an LG that is around the corner.

[00:34:20] Eric Goranson: And I don't understand why and they should be. We have the technology to Make it so if you had a kitchen fire, let's say on the stovetop that You know, we, we turn the stove off. If the hood caught a fire, that technology exists and I'm just surprised we're not doing it yet, but we could easily make it where there's an overheat sensor in that cooktop that the ranges, you know, the range hood is talking to, and that's an important one.

[00:35:07] Eric Goranson: And speaking of that, that is one thing that we're seeing a lot now. And that's something that, um, health and wellness has been big in the kitchen and making sure that you have a large enough vent fan that goes to the exterior. Um, and I'll say this now and in my state where I live here, I live in the Pacific Northwest.

[00:35:46] Eric Goranson: And if you go to remodel it, you have to put in a hood. That fence to the exterior, which is great for your, you know, for your air quality in the home is amazing. How many chemicals just naturally cooking food end up in the air [00:36:00] just through the process of cooking. And so we want to make sure we get that moisture and bad air out of the house.

[00:36:32] Eric Goranson: And then of course the microwaves are mounted too high. So you're putting it over the outstretched arms of most people, which means now you're pulling liquid out over your head, over your line of sight that you could easily spill on yourself. So microwave hoods are something that I always recommend as a last resort.

[00:37:04] Eric Goranson: We're seeing basically I'm seeing the elimination design trend wise of using the luxury vinyl plank unless you're doing something as a basement or something like that. Luxury vinyl plank is out, but the large format tiles are in and these tiles could be 3 ft by 2 ft, 4 ft by 3 These are massive tiles that we're seeing coming in and they work better in larger kitchens They can be goofy in a small kitchen just because of you'll have this one big offset line That is where you know, the seam is between the the the tightly fit grout joints on this So be careful don't go all in on a tiny kitchen with these large format tiles Unless you plan out your seams correctly on the tile, this is where tile layout really comes in and that's an important one.

[00:38:18] Eric Goranson: There's a appliance brand called tulip cooking out there and they now put You can actually put in a induction cooktop or a gas cooktop instead of dropping in the cooktop you're actually machining it out for the knob and for the burner, so if you've got a slab marble counter or stone counter you actually are machining out or even porcelain You're machining that out and putting the burner up through that.

[00:39:06] Eric Goranson: But, uh, with porcelain and stone, that's not an issue, but that's some of the cool things that you can do with that is to go through and make those work. And it gives you a really sleek, um, look without having that. Big cooktop dropping in it's a brand new look out there. So check out tulip cooking. That is not Not a typical one, but it's a hot new design trend for 2024.