The 5 Things Every Masculine Room Gets Right — Transcript

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1. 0:00There's a difference between a room that
2. 0:01has masculine things in it and a room
3. 0:03that achieves the feeling of being
4. 0:05masculine. This room is not just a dark
5. 0:07wall with a leather sofa and a whiskey
6. 0:09glass on a tray. If that's your style,
7. 0:12those will help, but they don't create
8. 0:14the standard. A truly masculine room has
9. 0:16something deeper working beneath the
10. 0:18surface through its weight, its order,
11. 0:21and a bit of restraint. It feels
12. 0:22comfortable, but it's not careless. It
13. 0:25has personality without crossing into
14. 0:27chaos. You can feel its strength, but
15. 0:29that strength isn't forced on you. My
16. 0:32name is Chaudhry, and in this video,
17. 0:34we're going to break down five things
18. 0:36every masculine room gets right. If
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22. 0:44subscriber. Remember that if you would
23. 0:45like our help in designing your room,
24. 0:48you can have that help by clicking the
25. 0:50link in the description below. The first
26. 0:53one is material honesty. A masculine
27. 0:56room gets the materials right. Wood
28. 0:58should look like wood. Leather should
29. 1:00look like leather. Stone, metal, linen,
30. 1:03wool, and brass, they should all feel
31. 1:05real and tactile. That may sound
32. 1:07obvious, but it is one of the biggest
33. 1:09reasons that so many rooms today feel
34. 1:11hollow. We live in a market flooded with
35. 1:14imitations. You see them constantly, and
36. 1:16you'll know exactly what I'm talking
37. 1:18about. Wood has become printed laminate.
38. 1:21Leather is now bonded or vinyl. Stone
39. 1:23tops are plastic composite with a marble
40. 1:26pattern on top, and brass is now cheap
41. 1:28metal painted yellow. When people see
42. 1:31these materials marketed as the real
43. 1:33thing over and over again, the eye
44. 1:36slowly loses its calibration. If a
45. 1:38person 100 years ago were to look at
46. 1:40some of the furniture sold today, it's
47. 1:42almost certain that they would say,
48. 1:44"That's not wood. I don't know what it
49. 1:46is, but it's not wood." And they would
50. 1:49be right. Does every single thing in
51. 1:51your home have to be expensive, 100%
52. 1:53naturally sourced material? No. The
53. 1:56problem is when the room is filled with
54. 1:58materials pretending to be something
55. 2:00they're not. The room will begin to feel
56. 2:02cheap, even if someone can't verbalize
57. 2:05why. Now that we're recognizing the
58. 2:07importance of authentic materials, we'll
59. 2:09need some working knowledge to help
60. 2:11recalibrate our eyes. So next time we're
61. 2:13out, we're searching online, what do we
62. 2:15look for? Real leather has depth. It has
63. 2:18natural creasing. There are pores and
64. 2:21variation. It reflects light in a soft
65. 2:23way. Rather than looking worse as it
66. 2:25ages, it develops a desirable character.
67. 2:29Fake leather often has a plastic sheen.
68. 2:31There's unnatural repeated texture and a
69. 2:34surface that cracks instead of patinas.
70. 2:36Real wood has grain and variation.
71. 2:39There's movement and texture in its
72. 2:41pattern. The grain feels like it comes
73. 2:43from within the material, not like a
74. 2:44picture printed on top of it. Real stone
75. 2:47has mineral variation. Real brass has
76. 2:50warmth and density. Real linen wrinkles
77. 2:52naturally. Real wool has weight and
78. 2:55absorbs sound. Real metal feels cool,
79. 2:59heavy, and substantial. Next time,
80. 3:01rather than asking, "Does this look new
81. 3:03and modern?" ask, "Does this behave like
82. 3:06the real material behaves?" The
83. 3:09strongest masculine interiors usually
84. 3:12contain materials that are comfortable
85. 3:14being exactly what they are. Oak is oak.
86. 3:17Iron is iron. Leather is leather. This
87. 3:20isn't cloak and dagger. It's honesty
88. 3:22that provides depth. The second thing
89. 3:25every masculine room gets right is art
90. 3:27with character. This does not
91. 3:29automatically mean old paintings. It
92. 3:31doesn't mean the subject has to be
93. 3:33landscapes or portraits. Those can be
94. 3:36excellent in a traditional room, but art
95. 3:38is subjective. People are going to like
96. 3:40what they like. So the goal is not to
97. 3:42force every man into the same category
98. 3:44of art. The goal is to choose art in a
99. 3:46thoughtful way. For a traditional room,
100. 3:49that may be an old world painting, a
101. 3:51naval scene, or something with animals
102. 3:53as the subject matter. But for a modern
103. 3:55industrial loft, it could be black and
104. 3:57white photography. In a luxury
105. 3:59penthouse, it may be a large, colorful,
106. 4:02abstract piece. The subject matter can
107. 4:04change. The standard does not. The art
108. 4:07should support the mood of the room. It
109. 4:09should have scale and feel as though it
110. 4:11was chosen, not random. When art is
111. 4:14purchased just to fill a wall, it
112. 4:15communicates emptiness because it was
113. 4:17chosen out of emptiness. The art is
114. 4:20technically there, but it has no
115. 4:22conviction. What we want is art that
116. 4:24strengthens the room. Something that
117. 4:26looks like it was chosen by a person
118. 4:28with taste, direction, and a point of
119. 4:31view. The third thing every masculine
120. 4:33room gets right is the balance between
121. 4:35comfort and discipline. This usually
122. 4:37proves to be difficult for people. They
123. 4:39try to make the room comfortable, and it
124. 4:41ends up looking sloppy. Or they aim for
125. 4:44it to be disciplined, and then it feels
126. 4:46cold and off-putting. The best masculine
127. 4:49rooms are right in the middle. The room
128. 4:51invites you in. The sofa is deep enough
129. 4:54to actually sit in. The chairs feel
130. 4:56usable. The lighting is warm. The rug
131. 4:58softens the floor. It's not stiff,
132. 5:01staged, or untouchable. It's
133. 5:03comfortable. But discipline still exists
134. 5:05through the room's control. The pillows
135. 5:07are not exploding everywhere. The coffee
136. 5:09table is not covered in random objects.
137. 5:12The room has shape and spacing. The
138. 5:14colors are not fighting each other. Too
139. 5:16much comfort without discipline becomes
140. 5:19messy. But too much discipline without
141. 5:21comfort becomes rigid. When both are
142. 5:24present, the room feels livable and
143. 5:26composed. You can pour a drink there,
144. 5:29read a book, watch a film, have a
145. 5:30conversation, and when no one is using
146. 5:32the room, it still holds itself
147. 5:35together. That is the balance. Relaxed,
148. 5:38but not careless. The fourth thing every
149. 5:41masculine room gets right is a sense of
150. 5:43order. Now, order does not mean minimal.
151. 5:46It does not mean empty. A masculine room
152. 5:48can be layered with books and lamps,
153. 5:51art, trays, leather chairs, rugs,
154. 5:53plants, and personal objects. But, the
155. 5:56eye should still understand what is
156. 5:58happening. The seating area should make
157. 6:00sense, and the coffee table should not
158. 6:02feel like a dumping ground. If shelving
159. 6:04is used, it should be orderly and
160. 6:06shapely, not stuffed and cluttered. Art
161. 6:08should be well-placed and proportionate.
162. 6:11You want colors of the room to work
163. 6:12together instead of competing for
164. 6:14attention. We've all seen rooms that are
165. 6:17filled with nice pieces, but because
166. 6:19there is no rhythm, hierarchy, or
167. 6:21breathing room, they feel nothing more
168. 6:23than messy. A room with order has a
169. 6:25clear focal point. It has space around
170. 6:28important pieces. Objects are grouped
171. 6:30with purpose. The furniture is arranged
172. 6:32for conversation and comfort, but also
173. 6:35for walking flow. This is what we mean
174. 6:37when we say everything has a place. The
175. 6:40fifth thing every masculine room gets
176. 6:42right is proper scale. This is one of
177. 6:44the fastest ways to make a room
178. 6:46confident or to make it weak. Proper
179. 6:49scale means the furniture feels
180. 6:51appropriately sized for the room and
181. 6:53strong enough to hold the space. If the
182. 6:55furniture is too small, too thin, or too
183. 6:57delicate, you'll find the room never
184. 6:59comes together. You may technically have
185. 7:01all the right pieces, a bed, dresser,
186. 7:04rug, bench, and chair, but if those
187. 7:06pieces don't have enough presence, it's
188. 7:08hard to salvage. I want you to picture a
189. 7:11large living room with a small sofa,
190. 7:14skinny accent chairs, a little rug, and
191. 7:16a tiny coffee table floating in the
192. 7:18middle. If there were a window cracked
193. 7:20open on a breezy day, it feels like
194. 7:22everything would just blow away. A
195. 7:25better version would be a deeper sofa, a
196. 7:27larger rug that connects with the
197. 7:29seating area, a substantial coffee
198. 7:31table, and chairs with enough structure
199. 7:34to balance the room. But, scale isn't
200. 7:37just size. It's also appearance and
201. 7:39posture. A chair can be physically large
202. 7:42and still look weak if the legs are too
203. 7:44thin or the arms are too narrow. A
204. 7:46coffee table can be simple, but it
205. 7:48shouldn't look like it was pulled from a
206. 7:50closet to have a quick meal on. A lamp
207. 7:53should have enough authority to feel
208. 7:55acceptable next to the sofa, chair, or
209. 7:58side table it's paired with. The pieces
210. 8:00don't need to be oversized, but they do
211. 8:02need to feel appropriately sized. That's
212. 8:05proper scale. When you put these five
213. 8:08things together, the room begins to
214. 8:09develop and mature. The material honesty
215. 8:12gives depth. The art provides character.
216. 8:15Comfort and discipline make it balanced.
217. 8:17Order gives it control and scale offers
218. 8:21presence.
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