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Every year smart home tech keeps sliding into kitchen appliances. Each year they make them a little safer and now they are communicating together. We start out hour 1 talking about new appliances and how they are now working together to help your cooking expierance.
Then we dive into design trends for 2022. What is hot? What is not? What style has finally left the building? Sorry Chip and Joanna.... you might not like this episode.
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[00:00:33] Eric Goranson: So. When it thinks it's running out. So it'll re self replenish itself and order it automatically for you when it gets low. So you'd never run out of
[:[00:00:47] Intro: remodeling and renovating your home. There is a lot to
[:[00:00:54] Intro: the house.
[:[00:01:09] Eric Goranson: Better, much better. Love it. Love it. This is good. This is good. Well, last week, you and I were talking design about cabinets, right? We talked to kitchen and bath cabinets. I thought what nada, a better thing to do than to kind of continue that conversation. Like every Saturday, we ran at time in that discussion.
[:[00:01:52] Eric Goranson: The design side of it, of the new things you can do.
[:[00:02:18] Caroline Blazovsky: And then you kind of opened my eyes to the concept that no. You are really going to have to make some changes, regardless because of new technologies, new appliances, the way things fit together. And then we kind of had this discussion about cabinet tree and I brought up, you know, just as a joke, but the lazy Susan, like what's going on with the different types of cabinets now.
[:[00:02:41] Eric Goranson: we can't call her lazy Susan she's unmotivated, Susan politically. And today's snowflake age. We can't call it lazy. What? That would be derogatory. So she's just going to be under motivated Susan, or maybe sleeping on mom's couch in the basement, Susan, but not lazy Susan. [00:03:00]
[:[00:03:02] Caroline Blazovsky: like kind of helped me out or help our audience out to what are the types of things that are hot now?
[:[00:03:11] Eric Goranson: there. Yeah. When we, when we look forward, there are a lot of cool design trends going forward, like into 20, 22 right now, you know, you've got so many different things you can do with drawers because quite frankly, drawers many times are in many cases, much more efficient for stories.
[:[00:03:50] Eric Goranson: Out of that one that has just, you know, it's the one that you always lose things in that back corner. You're like, what are what's back there? Because you have to kind of put stuff in and around the corner. So
[:[00:04:06] Caroline Blazovsky: So I'm always at a loss cause I'm bending down to the lowest shelf possible because. Put them on like a really high shelf. Cause they're so heavy and believe it or not, my pots are so heavy and maybe other people can appreciate this. I actually started to notice the cabinet was coming off the wall because of the consistency.
[:[00:04:35] Eric Goranson: Those usually you're going to put those. And you're going to put them in drawers.
[:[00:04:58] Eric Goranson: There's two doors there. [00:05:00] So you've got to open up one door, although. Open up the other door all the way, and then pull out the rollout shelf. I would much rather when I'm cooking in the kitchen, grabbed the handle, pull it out and get at it. Because if you think about it, you have the same hardware for the drawers that you would have in the pullout shelf.
[:[00:05:38] Caroline Blazovsky: What else do they have now? Like current, current stuff? Like, so what's, I mean, you would know better, but I mean, do they still have. A, I don't wanna even say lazy Susan, but do they have lazy Susans? Do they have like a bread box? I mean, what's hot right now,
[:[00:05:59] Eric Goranson: There's so much more [00:06:00] stuff that you're putting in that kitchen. So right now you've got. The pullout shelves, which are standard, but now you've got stuff like blue motion where you've got the soft clothes. You've even got the stuff where it's got the servo drive, where you touch the drawer front of the door and it actually opens up.
[:[00:06:38] Eric Goranson: I could bump it. It opens up, I throw it down. I throw it away. You're good. Or if you've got that dust pan and ma and in the, in the broom and you're walking over there, you always have those in the same hands. Right? So it's hard to come over there, open up the pull-out for the trash can. If you've got that in the kitchen, you can actually.
[:[00:06:58] Intro: So
[:[00:07:17] Caroline Blazovsky: I mean, you don't think about it, but it really makes your life so much easier when you're just doing a lot of heavy duty cooking, especially with raw meat. Eggs and chicken and stuff like that. Yeah.
[:[00:07:32] Eric Goranson: Right. I go regular swing. You can have them. So they bi-fold up. So if you've got like a 36 inch cabinet, that's a 36 by 36 inch cabinet. Instead of having the doors be very horizontal where you have a right and a left. You can make it where that will actually slide and fold up and they'll accordion up.
[:[00:08:14] Eric Goranson: And they make those motorized as well, where you can touch to open and touch to close.
[:[00:08:34] Caroline Blazovsky: And
[:[00:08:52] Caroline Blazovsky: super efficient. So in a smaller kitchen where you don't have as much drawer space, and maybe you need more for cabinets, like, is that [00:09:00] still, was that still an option that you would go with with the microwave and a drawer or would you prefer to put it up somewhere?
[:[00:09:24] Eric Goranson: Those microwave hoods, they suck and not in a good way because you don't want that microwave to be higher than your eyeballs. So really you don't want to have it where you're ever looking up at that microwave. You want to be able to do that. Now when we come back, I want to tell you one of my secrets to that, because it's something that I see where people make some big mistakes on it, and this can be really dangerous.
[:[00:09:49] Intro: be so hot.[00:10:00]
[:[00:10:33] Caroline Blazovsky: Carolyn, we need to ask you questions and you need to answer them for us because there's so much, we need to know when we're designing our kitchens.
[:[00:10:42] Intro: So we
[:[00:11:02] Eric Goranson: And I saw this probably five or six years ago in one of those kind of parade of homes, street of dreams, kind of things. And it doesn't meet code in most areas, but these guys did it anyway. And I was just shocked. They took the double oven and put it in at the normal height. Then put the microwave. And I'm like someone first off, it was like mountain, the F the, the microwave, almost the top of it was at like higher than six feet.
[:[00:11:30] Caroline Blazovsky: I'm five foot three? How the heck would I reach that?
[:[00:11:35] Eric Goranson: never microwave food, even me. Yeah. I mean, it was horrible, but here's the thing. I here's my one rule that tells me how high can you Mount a microwave in a kitchen? I take the shortest. That's kind of ever used the microwave and I have them stand out, put their arms out level.
[:[00:12:16] Eric Goranson: And that means you can burn yourself. Um, so that's why to me, microwave hoods are a no go, unless you're in like a little tiny condo and you have no other choice. Other than that, you gotta, you got to keep them downloads. That's a good rule. I'm holding out my house. There's a
[:[00:12:37] Caroline Blazovsky: A range. So just put your arms out in front of you and think, okay. That's where my, it needs to go. Things
[:[00:12:57] Eric Goranson: This is where you could have your [00:13:00] dishwasher automatically order off. Amazon or a lot of different places out there, new dishwasher, pods, or dishwasher soap when it thinks it's running out. So it'll re self replenish itself and order it automatically for you when it gets slow. So you never run out of dishwasher, detergent.
[:[00:13:48] Eric Goranson: You've got to turn the fan on it. So it starts to understand what's going on. I mean, you could already text message many ranges out there and [00:14:00] turn the oven on remotely. So there's a lot of cool things you can do with that. I mean, they've got refrigerators now that, uh, Text you, this is good for you. You need one of these refrigerators, your house.
[:[00:14:17] Caroline Blazovsky: Yeah. I need that. I've got an issue with the refrigerator door. I'm embarrassed to say. I, you know, I don't know. I don't know if my parents never told me to like shut the refrigerator door, but I just go in there and leave it like wide open. And like, you'll walk in 10 minutes later.
[:[00:14:37] Eric Goranson: food goes bad so much quicker. I mean, it's, it's just stupid, of course, bad on electricity.
[:[00:14:49] Intro: I see nothing. It's just like a habit.
[:[00:15:11] Eric Goranson: Online and be going out, I guess I do have milk, but I have milk. That is cool. So you can do that. That's kind of cool. So there's a lot of cool new things out there. There's also steam ovens built in coffee makers. There are some movies, there's a lot of different. Appliances double
[:[00:15:32] Caroline Blazovsky: I love this thing. I mean, I still question, you have to have a lot of seal barn doors on an oven. Yeah. And, and when you look at it, there's a lot of seal technology. And I have to think that there may be a problem with that consistently if you keep opening it, I don't know. It just looks like it's something that could potentially
[:[00:15:51] Eric Goranson: If you've got a, if you've got. You know, uh, upper double door fridge. It's got a seal up,
[:[00:16:12] Caroline Blazovsky: It just seems like the potential for something to go wrong. But I don't know. It looks cool. I mean,
[:[00:16:30] Eric Goranson: So there's a lot of cool little things out there that are coming out, you know, when it comes to appliances, uh, of course you've got, you know, convection ovens have been around for a long time, but now you've got the, the speed ovens. You've got steam ovens, you've got all these different appliances out there that will do a lot of different things for you.
[:[00:16:54] Caroline Blazovsky: How about cooktops? We didn't really talk about, I have a, I have a glass, you know, like a cooktop. I don't have [00:17:00] a gas stove range. So you do, but I haven't, I got a big
[:[00:17:13] Eric Goranson: So if you want to put the most energy to cooking, what we'll cook, what we'll boil water faster. A big burner on a gas cooktop or an induction cooktop.
[:[00:17:27] Caroline Blazovsky: think there could guess I would say the induction you're right. But that's only because I know that I'm cheating.
[:[00:17:35] Eric Goranson: Yeah. The induction cooktop we'll we'll we'll boil water so much faster and people go, what do you mean induction? What looks like a regular glass top cooktop. But it's so much easier to clean because you don't get stuff at Shauna because that surface really doesn't get hot, except for just wear the pants, touching it.
[:[00:18:11] Eric Goranson: So induction, I'll be honest people these days ago, I want to put a gas cooktop in. I have electric. I go, well, if you really like to cook, you'll probably like the induction better because you'll have more control and to be able to put more heat faster into things. Let's go out to break here, Caroline, since we're going over, we'll be right back after these important
[:[00:19:03] Intro: Hey, this is
[:[00:19:06] Caroline Blazovsky: listening to around the house
[:[00:19:18] Intro: golden, this. Cause that color red never looks
[:[00:19:47] Eric Goranson: Talk about where design trends are going for 2022 since we're sheesh week before Christmas. Crazy.
[:[00:20:10] Caroline Blazovsky: You know, the cutting edge stuff, and people need to realize that you need to go out to these design centers and even shows, you know, that are open to the public to kind of take a look at where you want to go with designing because you don't want to design something and say, oh haha. You know, it's already out of date by the time it goes in
[:[00:20:44] Eric Goranson: It has, it has gone its course. So with that, that is about over now. The cool thing is, is that there's a lot of cool things that are really in now to where we're going. You know, you think about [00:21:00] it. Vintage things like, you know, 1960s and seventies stuff, 50 stuff. Tell him about his super in.
[:[00:21:13] Caroline Blazovsky: I mean, this thing is like, so super cool. Tell them about that first.
[:[00:21:36] Eric Goranson: I'd wake up in the middle of the night. I'm like, what the freaking hell time is it? Right. Well, I grabbed my phone. Well, then all of a sudden I'm like, huh, I've got an email.
[:[00:21:48] Eric Goranson: awful. I, you know what I mean? And I'm like, oh, The podcast numbers, looking at whatever it is, right. Whatever it is.
[:[00:22:17] Eric Goranson: And so I bought a vintage 1960. Clock radio, but it's kinda got a little Sputnik look to it or it's styles for the radio. And then it has a oval, like mid century old fashioned style clock with the glowing hands on it. That's all. And that's how you adjust it there. And then it has this very mid-century light that comes off the top of that.
[:[00:23:01] Caroline Blazovsky: That stuff was like, probably back then. It was legal now. But that
[:[00:23:25] Eric Goranson: That's, I'm like, that's exactly what I wanted, which is, which is cool, you know, but that's really in, um, another thing that's in too is a lot of natural looking materials. So you think about it. You've got. Lot of the nice, you're doing a lot of texture now with, with different fabrics and things like that.
[:[00:24:04] Eric Goranson: So we're kind of going to a more natural look, but, uh, uh, Kind of going for a more timeless look. If I was going to put a, if I was going to put a word to it, they're going for much more of a timeless natural look, which I think is cool. It's something fun when it comes to designing stuff. I've
[:[00:24:27] Caroline Blazovsky: Turned off or have had an effect. You know, I like a very clean look. So obviously I'm a healthy home expert, right. So I like everything to look really clean and bright. I love a lot of natural light and tones that really kind of. Offensive though. I, for some reason have this draw towards going towards a darker kitchen and I don't know why it's just something I've always kind of wanted to have that dark kind of funky looking kitchen.
[:[00:25:08] Caroline Blazovsky: That just appeals to me for some reason.
[:[00:25:26] Intro: some cool black basils black
[:[00:25:30] Eric Goranson: Well, and you know, I'm, uh, I, my faucet, for instance, it's brushed, it's got that brushed gold with black, with the flat black. So those are all really cool accents that you're seeing now. And that's, we've got a few years of that, you know, where you can take and swap out, you know, maybe you get a, I mean, I'd have some fun with fridges.
[:[00:26:03] Caroline Blazovsky: I'm sick of stainless steel appliances. Like I'm just sick of it.
[:[00:26:07] Eric Goranson: I'll be honest. You're not going to see anything different with that for awhile.
[:[00:26:18] Intro: Blackstone's good.
[:[00:26:28] Eric Goranson: And what makes people nervous is okay, so you buy all these new appliances, right? And maybe it's a brand new collar. That's going to be the next in in four years. When your dishwasher quits under warranty, you have to go buy another one and you can't find a matching color to that. That sucks. You're screwed.
[:[00:27:00] Intro: Yeah. I remember when everybody, you know, that's what the bone
[:[00:27:06] Eric Goranson: oh no, it's not almond.
[:[00:27:34] Eric Goranson: Hot. Cause they were like, oh, I didn't know. I had Bo I thought it was just dirty. Oh, brutal. I hate that. It's just brutal. Uh, it's like, come on. Oh, what's up? Did that get yellowed from the sun? Nope. Nope.
[:[00:28:17] Eric Goranson: And they'd put like the, the hunter green or the mob colored. Yup.
[:[00:28:27] Intro: you had the,
[:[00:28:44] Eric Goranson: Let's get you ahead of the game on this year's project. We'll do that just as soon as around the house
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[:[00:30:25] Eric Goranson: I'm through next week here, which is December 15th, 20, 21, for all you people that are listening later, earlier than later, whatever you're doing. And this thing is super cool. You can put it in your house. If somebody comes over and they get COVID in your air, what's it.
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[:[00:31:38] Eric Goranson: Yeah. So, Hey, let's get back to our. Kind of our little impromptu list here of some of the cool things that are hot. One of my favorites that are coming back, the living room bar now, because I've been on trend for a while, cause I've had my living room bar for years, but that kind of [00:32:00] sixties feel of a remake of a living room bar is definitely in, which is great because.
[:[00:32:11] Caroline Blazovsky: remember the for Mica bar. So they had the Formica bar and then they had the metal, like the foot plate that went around the brass. Yeah,
[:[00:32:27] Eric Goranson: I'll do that in the springtime when the weather gets better, but I'm going to be doing that out there as well. It's cool. So what's the trend now, what's it. But these are more kind of formal, you know what I mean? It's more built in, you know, maybe it's a cabinet or, you know, piece of furniture, but living room bars are way in, which is awesome.
[:[00:33:10] Eric Goranson: The one that. A child named Mary G was not allowed to sit in very often. We all,
[:[00:33:17] Eric Goranson: that. Get your dirty hands out of that only clean clothes can be worn inside the formal living
[:[00:33:34] Caroline Blazovsky: It's gotta be, you know, 47 years old. And it's a chef, a chef Alara I think it's called. And it's huge. I mean, this thing I've named it, tree beer. It's a giant tree. I mean, it, literally we treat it like a person and so we put Christmas lights on it and it's giant. I mean, it's eight feet tall and kind of bushy, but he's getting old.
[:[00:34:03] Eric Goranson: Nice. Nice. Oh, one more thing too. And that's super cool. See, you're already on that. You've been on that for 50 years almost at time.
[:[00:34:10] Caroline Blazovsky: I'm like, I can't like he gets sick and I get all worried about him. I'm like, oh my God, he needs new soil. He needs new pot. He needs, he's treated. I mean, we talked to him, he's treated like a person. That's his name? Tree beer. He's Joe, as my friends, like to call him three beers, but
[:[00:34:27] Eric Goranson: okay.
[:[00:34:35] Eric Goranson: that's awesome. Well, another one that's been big. That's really still coming back even more is marble, marble, marble, and marble. You know, when you go out to the parade of homes like I did this year, there was marble everywhere. Just that look of. So now there's a lot of different countertops. We can talk about that for a minute or two here.
[:[00:35:23] Eric Goranson: It is a butcher block it's going to get used. It's going to get scratched. That's your butcher block, right? They treat countertops in Europe the same way, us crazy Americans over here. Want it to always look like it's brand new box. Yeah. So what did I do when I wanted to put marble in my bathroom and knew that hair products and all that stuff, soaps were going to discolor it.
[:[00:35:56] Caroline Blazovsky: And I'm, I mean, I like the CA like I'm [00:36:00] Cambridge, like, so I put Cambridge in my bathroom and I fell in love with it. And then there's other brands too. I'm just using that as an example, but I went with a black, so it looks, you know, like a, I call like a black marbley looking design and I just, I, it, I tripped out over it.
[:[00:36:22] Eric Goranson: Yeah, they do. Now, the, the, this is a different material that I use because it's a porcelain slab porcelain. So it's what they call a centered stone. So the camera is a quartz product.
[:[00:36:59] Eric Goranson: And you know, [00:37:00] you're still seeing granted out there, there's some beautiful slabs of material out there, you know, there's court site, which is a slab stone. There's lots of different things. Just make sure you get the right stone for the right application, you know, because. That's one mistake that I saw out there at the parade of homes, a slasher we talked about earlier in the show months ago, but they actually put a polished tile down in the bathroom on the floor, which I thought was going to be super dangerous for a stone flip
[:[00:37:28] Eric Goranson: slide.
[:[00:37:46] Eric Goranson: Just be careful. There's a big trend of going out and getting butcher block countertops and using them. Um, they get to be a real health hazard around the sink. So be careful because those will, the liquids will soaking. And, [00:38:00] um, it's just going to be a maintenance nightmare and a warp. So just be really careful.
[:[00:38:20] Caroline Blazovsky: like for my clients too, people often ask me like, you know, what should I do for a countertop?
[:[00:38:42] Caroline Blazovsky: And then you start getting mold and. I mean, even a mine like kitchens and bathroom sinks, you've got so many water sources. It just starts coming over the sides. And then it's, it's just a source where you're constantly going to have moisture control. So anything you can put in there to kind of keep all that down or to help you keep a drier [00:39:00] surface and something less porous is I think so much
[:[00:39:05] Eric Goranson: For the last part of this, and we get into some cybersecurity stuff here, which is going to be fun. And the next hour coming on, you're going to love this.
[:[00:39:15] Caroline Blazovsky: going to open your eyes. People like to realize how vulnerable we are to any kind of attack at our homes.
[:[00:39:25] Eric Goranson: That means we got to go. So quick, I'm Eric G and I'm Caroline B and you've been listening to Around the House! .
