I can't stop watching the Architectural Digest YouTube channel
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One of my biggest habits is looking at real estate listings in Toronto, dreaming a dream of owning a house in this fair city of mine. Of course, with Toronto housing prices being what they are, and me being a millennial whose day job is essentially “internet bum," that’ll almost certainly remain a dream forever. It certainly says something about our society that “a third bedroom, central air, a dishwasher, and ensuite laundry” seems like an outlandish fantasy to me (and I consider myself very lucky and fortunate to be where I am). Looking at the real estate listings is a weird way to torture myself, but like most of the things I talk about in this newsletter, I just can’t help myself. Houses are pretty! And I like to pretend! (And then look at my bank statements and cry!)
The Architectural Digest YouTube channel is another property-based method of torture I’ve been inflicting upon myself. It scratches so many itches: looking at pretty houses, pretending I could one day live a life of luxury, and, most important, being nosy AND judge-y about how celebrities live. Craig and I will be in our rental apartment, eating Kraft Dinner on our cheap sofa, watching Mandy Moore lead us through her $2.6 million home and be like, “Well, I hate that colour palette.”
The celebrity videos I love the most are when they live in a house that looks like a place I could actually live — not that I could ever pretend to afford a townhouse in Brooklyn or Manhattan, but the house isn’t so gigantic and fancy that it seems unattainable. The Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Saarsgard video’s a good one, as is the Liv Tyler video.
The Lenny Kravitz video is very Lenny Kravitz-y.
I also can’t help but laugh that the Dominic West video isn’t of the house he bought himself; it’s the huge-ass castle that belongs to his wife’s family.
The Cara and Poppy Delevigne video of their jungle-inspired home is charming, but damn I hate the jungle theme.
And hey, any excuse to get closer to Terry Crews, amiright?
The channel doesn’t just feature celebrity homes, though that is a big part of its appeal. It also features sometimes charming, but more often douchey realtors showing off impossibly huge, lavish properties that there’s NO hope of ever owning. But Craig and I still get to scoff and say, “This house is HIDEOUS.” (Our apartment has parquet floors.)
I’ll stop here because I don’t want to just fill this newsletter with YouTube videos, but I think you get the point. Maybe one day I’ll get to experience home ownership (ha!), but for now, I’m gonna keep looking at real estate listings, watching Architectural Digest videos, and dreaming of ensuite laundry.
That’s all for me today, gorgeous! Talk to you soon.
Love,
Kat
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