Design Mistakes Making Your Kitchen Look GROSS🤢

Are you unknowingly making your kitchen look gross? 😱 Join me in this video as I dish out the top kitchen design mistakes that are turning your culinary haven into a cleaning nightmare! From impractical brick backsplashes and dusty cabinet tops to high-maintenance grout lines and scuff-prone drywall islands, we cover it all. Discover savvy solutions and design tips to keep your kitchen looking sleek, stylish, and spotless. Say goodbye to grime and hello to a kitchen you’ll love to show off! 🌟✨ Don’t miss out – watch now and transform your space! #InteriorDesign #KitchenDesign #HomeImprovement #CleanKitchen #DesignTips #garrettlechic

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[elderlypoodle]

Yes! When I would clean my mothers light fixtures I would find many a Silverfish carcass!
And why don’t I eat potluck? Because I know that Maryanne’s casserole has a thin sheet of dust from her top cabinets that wafted down and camouflaged itself in the panko. ❤️🐩

[draselee]

I like a bit of open shelving when it’s simply used to display beautiful items like pottery, vases, art and cookbooks. Dishes on open shelves is a no go for me.

[csmtcqueen]

Interesting. Dusting on top of your kitchen cabinets ... ALSO that means you should be dusting on top of your refrigerator.

[JuliaARubin]

Epoxy-based grout is my solution to grout line maintenance. It looks good, doesn’t need sealing, comes in a lot of different colors and is a game changer.

[SarahRenz]

I love that you consider the pragmatic aspects of decor like day to day maintenance. Too many designers seem to think, "Oooh, let's make this a trend because it looks cool, " with no regard for whether it's practical. You acknowledge that not all of us want to be cleaning all day every day, or have medical issues that necessitate decorating with low upkeep in mind. By chance, did you grow up in the Midwest? We're very sensible people here. 😁

[nailguncrouch]

I guess I'll be cleaning the kitchen this afternoon, please don't come to my house anytime soon.

[zhywlqc]

Wax paper works better than news paper

[marleybedford]

I’m listening to you, and at this very moment, I’m up the wall and cleaning the top of my cabinets. Holy Moses, love the idea of putting paper up there so I can remove it and replace it when it gets dirty. Don’t know why I never thought of that myself. You’re a clever darling. Thank you. Be well, cheers from Australia.❤

[alittlebitofthisandthatwit]

Hello 👋 just clean your house people not that difficult. Love these kitchen videos 😊

[MLayne-xqwo]

The tops of cupboards comment resonated with me. I used to live in a Victorian that had 9 foot ceilings in the kitchen. The cupboards were a few feet from the ceiling and I used to climb up on a ladder every few months to lay paper towels along the tops! Never thought of newspapers!

[l.obrien]

I used "grout paint" on our bathroom floor and it still looks great now 20 yrs later. I painted our splotchy white grout a light brown, even inside the shower. Wish i could remember the exact product.

[lizhoward]

Sorry but open shelving in a kitchen looks awful. In my opinion, regardless of how “well styled” the open shelves are, it looks cluttered. It looks like you just couldn’t afford upper cabinets so you just tossed up some shelves. There is too much going on in a kitchen with appliances, sinks, faucet, tile, etc. that the last thing you need are those “styled” open shelves. Just scrape together the extra money and splurge on upper cabinets.

[hikingwiththedog]

Hi, Garret the Adorable. I recently moved to a place not too far from Vegas, (Saint George), and although I love my space, it's a builder grade tract house. I love it when you give advice for those of us in these ordinary spaces!! Thank you so much!! Also, I have a fan over my dining room table, and in this climate, the ceiling fans save a lot of energy. I'm sure you know about that. So if you ever have advice about fans, I'm all ears. It's not beautiful, but it's a good idea in my locale. Love you Garrett!! And Cornelius, too :)

[adhc]

Try and get spaghetti sauce spatter off of brick! "If you like to have roaches, this is for you!" 😆 You know what else gets filthy and gunked up? The underside of the countertop edges. When you wipe down the countertops, make sure to swipe just under them too. How I love your sensible, practical advice paired with hilarious snark!😍

[janices]

I will be moving soon into a trailer that my kids bought and renovated for me and my husband - God bless them! - which sadly turned into a huge money pit! I wanted a pantry but am getting more of an open pantry shelving area about 3'W x 7'H x10"D. We live on an extremely tight and limited budget so adding a door isn't an option. My plan to deal with dust, given that I live in the desert, is to reserve the top shelves for a few display items and the rest will be made up largely of bins and large decanted items that can be easily moved and dusted. Or, in a worst case scenario, I'll probably put up a light-weight curtain on a tension rod. Not ideal, I know, but there are always things you can do to make problem areas at least a little more manageable. --Thanks for the great video, as always! 💛

[RosemaryAmey]

Excellent video, as usual you are right about everything. Thank you in particular for mentioning crappy builders' paint that is flat and impossible to clean. Now if there was only a way to force landlords to watch your videos. My rental's kitchen, not just walls but the cabinets, window sills, and baseboard heater are painted with this horrible dirt magnet. It is especially bad on the drawers because they do not have pulls, so there's no way to open them without touching the painted surface making them constantly grimy. A friend of mine recently repainted her kitchen, covering over the easy-to-clean satin paint with horrible flat paint. When she tried to wash it, the new flat white paint started coming off, revealing the bright red satin paint. Ugh!

[debbyalder]

Dear Garrett, All of your advice is so true! My old kitchen had grooved wooden cabinets and tiny, tiny little tiles with hundreds of grout lines! Ugh! It would get really filthy and grease ends up where you never expect it to get to! Scraping grease out of grooves is so not fun!! My new kitchen has flat cabinets to the ceiling, stone bench and splash back and the cupboards under the island are a dark colour!! I have so been listening to your advice!! Many thanks!

[katrinacool]

I definitely agree about glass lighting but also linen shades- they collect everything and never look good. Cabinets to the ceiling. Solid backsplash so no grout lines. Especially colored grout. I hate tile countertops and those awful textured or glass tiles on a backsplash- so dated. Simple, clean lines and classic design is always best. Builders don't think about how a space will be used - so always upgrade!! Thank you Garrett for another great video. ☀️🌴🦩😍😊❤️☺️🥰❤️❤️❤️❤️

[wendykornfein]

Covering the top of a higher service with newspaper or the like, a great idea!!

[nitamccall]

Hahaha….. what’s up with the 50’s curl….. coincidence or subliminal messages…..grease in the hair…. Grease in the kitchen….i love how all your videos coexist within each other…. Maybe I just bored but your videos definitely are binge worthy!!!! Thanks for sharing 🥰🥰🥰